THE

NATIONAL SCHOOL MANUAL:

A

REGULAR AND CONNECTED COURSE OF ELEMENTARY STUDIES,

EMBRACING

THE NECESSARY AND USEFUL BRANCHES OF A COMMON EDUCATION.

IN FOUR PARTS, WITH A QUARTO ATLAS.

COMPILED FROM THE LATEST AND MOST APPROVED AUTHORS,
BY M. R. BARTLETT.

The plan of this work was the suggestion of the late] be put into the hands of a pupil, he will lose his time, Governor CLINTON, whose zeal and efforts in the cause and what is worse, he will probably contract a disgust of our Public Schools, will be cherished with grateful for learning. The great art of teaching consists in remembrance to the latest posterity; and this work, so beginning with the simplest elements, and advancing far as it had advanced, up to the time of his lamented death, received his favorable regard and patronage. The object of the NATIONAL SCHOOL MANUAL, is to furnish a System of instruction, for a thorough English education, in a plain, practical, and progressive Series of Lessons, collaterally arranged.

It is believed that the plan of this work is sufficiently wide and comprehensive for all the purposes of a good English Education, and that it is capable of advancing the pupil much faster in his studies, and to much higher attainments in the useful sciences, than is possible in the present mode, with the help of the best teachers. The practical results of a general adoption of the National School Manual will be:

gradually to things more difficult as the capacity of ac quiring knowledge expands, presenting something new to arrest the attention and to exercise the ingenuity of the pupil. To answer these ends, the work of Mr. Bartlett seems to me well suited. If these small volumes be thoroughly studied, I am persuaded that the pupil will be better prepared to transact the business of life, and by his own exertions to improve himself after he leaves school, than if he had spent twice the time under an ill-arranged system of instruction.

It will, doubtless, be difficult to introduce a uniform system of instruction into our common schools; yet the object is so desirable, that it deserves a vigorous and persevering effort; and I indulge the hope that the 1st. To introduce system, uniformity and order into day is not far distant, when the "National School Manour Schools. 2d. To define and regulate the duties of ual," improved and enlarged by its able and experienced teachers, and give them the means of being more tho-author, will be very generally adopted.

rough, precise, and useful. 3d. To present to the opening minds of pupils, the various subjects of human science, in a clear and lucid manner, and with all the advantages of natural order, and philosophical arrangement, adapted to the progress of knowledge: and, 4th. To Parents and Guardians, exemption from the vexation and expense of changing the whole catalogue of School Books, and the whole course of studies, with every change of School or Teacher-a thing of very frequent Occurrence in our Country Schools. As to the saving of expense in the article of School Books, the entire cost of the Common School Manual, embracing the Primer and the Four Parts, of upwards of 1500 pages, for the whole course of a good English education, and an Atlas of 20 maps, is between three and four dollars.

From the Teachers of Public Schools in the city of New
York.

We have examined the National School Manual, and are pleased with the plan. From our knowledge of the various systems pursued in the country schools, many of which, upon the change of teachers, serve rather to retard, than advance, the pupil, we do not hesitate to recommend the Manual, as having not only a tendency to uniformity and order, but also to save expense, the complaint of which is without parallel.

LOYD D. WINDSOR,
Teacher of Public School, No. 1.
JOSEPH BELDEN,
Teacher of Public School, No. 11.
A. DE MONTFREDY,
Teacher of Public School, No. 10.

February 8, 1830.
From the Rev. James Carnahan, President of Princeton

College.

Nassau Hall, April 27, 1832.

JAMES CARNAHAN.

From the Rev. Charles S. Stewart, Chaplain in the United
States Navy-Author of a Journal of Voyages to the
Pacific, &c. &c.

I have examined with much care, and great satisfac tion, the "NATIONAL SCHOOL MANUAL," compiled by M. R. Bartlett. The opinion I have formed of its merits, is of little importance, after the numerous and highly respectable testimonials to its value already in your possession.

A work of this kind has long been a desideratum in the economy of our public schools, and I am persuaded that the advantages which this compilation is calculated to secure to pupils, teachers, and parents, need only to be appreciated to secure its introduction throughout our country. It will be found on trial, I think, greatly to aid the instructor in his arduous service, while the pupil cannot fail, in the use of it, if I am not mistaken, to make a more rapid and understanding progress than by the method now generally pursued. To teacher and scholar the importance and value of the system, I doubt not, would be fully shown after a very brief trial, while the parent and guardian would soon learn its advantage in an exemption from the heavy tax now imposed on them by a constant change of books.

I should be happy to see the Manual in every common school in the Union, from the conviction that the best interests of education would be promoted by it. (Signed) CHAS. SAML. STEWART, Chaplain U. S. Navy. New-York, March 30, 1832.

by Mr. M. R. Bartlett, and am so well satisfied with its merits, and that it will eventually be adopted in all our common schools, to the exclusion of every other work of the kind now in use, that I feel authorized to exert my influence to have the work introduced forthwith into my school.

I have examined with care and a high degree of inHaving examined the general plan of the 1st, 2d, and 3d parts of the "NATIONAL SCHOOL MANUAL," and hav-terest the work called the "NATIONAL SCHOOL MANUAL," ing also taken a cursory view of some of the details, I am satisfied that it is a work of no common merit. The evils which this work proposes to remedy are great and generally felt by parents and instructors. The expense of books, according to the course hereto fore pursued, is a very serious inconvenience; and the loss of time and labor arising from the want of a connected series of instruction adapted to the capacities of children and youth, is a consideration of vast mo

ment.

JAS. W. FAIRCHILD, Principal of the Hudson Academy.

Hudson, Jan. 23, 1832.

Comparatively few instructors are competent to select,
from the great number of books now used in common
schools, those adapted to the improving capacities of
their pupils. If a book, which he cannot understand, sixty Teachers of the highest respectability.

The Publishers have similar letters from fifty or

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CHEMICAL MANIPULATION. Instruction to Students on the Methods of perform= ing Experiments of Demonstration Research, with accuracy and success. By Gentlemen who possess Wilson, and are de MICHAEL FARADAY, F. R. S. First sirous of rendering the work complete, are informed American, from the second London edi-that the edition of this work is very small, and that tion, with Additions by J. K. MITCHELL, Vol. IV. in the Press. but a very limited number of copies remain unsold.

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HISTORY OF CHRONIC PHLEGMASIÆ, OR INFLAMMATIONS, founded on Clinical Experience and Pathological Anatomy, exhibiting a View of the different Varieties and Complications of these Diseases, with their various Methods of Treatment. By F. J. V. BROUSSAIS, M. D. Translated from the French of the fourth edition, by ISAAC A TREATISE ON PATHOLOGICAL HAYS, M. D. and R. EGLESFELD GRIFFITH, M. D. Members of the American Philosophical Society, of the Academy of Natural Science, Honorary Members of the Philadelphia Medical Society, &c. &c. In 2 vols. 8vo.

(DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING ANATOMICAL PREPARATIONS, formed on the basis of Pole, Marjolin and Breschet, and including the new method of Mr. Swan, by USHER PARSONS, M. D. Professor of Anatomy and Surgery. In 1 Vol. 8vo. with plates.

EXAMINATION OF MEDICAL DOCTRINES AND SYSTEMS OF NOSOLOGY, preceded by Propositions containing the Substance of Physiological Medicine, A TREATISE ON SPECIAL AND GENERAL by F. J. V. BROUSSAIS, Officer of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honor; Chief Physician and First Professor in the Military! Hospital for Instruction at Paris, &c. Third edition. Translated from the French, by ISAAC HAYS, M. D. and R. E. GRIFFITH, M. D. In 2 vols. 8vo. In the press.

THE PRACTICE OF PHYSIC. By W. P. DEWEES, M. D. Adjunct Professor of Midwifery, in the University of Pennsylvania, 2 Vols. 8vo.

"We have no hesitation in recommending it as decidedly one of the best systems of medicine extant. The tenor of the work in general reflects the highest honor on Dr. Dewees's talents, industry, and capacity for the exe. cution of the arduous task which he had undertaken. It is one of the most able and satisfactory works which mod. ern times have produced, and will be a standard authori ty."-London Med. and Surg. Journal, Aug. 1830. DEWEES ON THE DISEASES OF DREN. 4th ed. In 8vo.

THE ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND DIS EASES OF THE TEETH. By THOMAS BELL F.R.S., F.L.S. &c. In 1 vol. 8vo. With Plates. "Mr. Bell has evidently endeavored to construct a for the student, containing a plain and practical digest work of reference for the practitioner, and a text-book of the information at present possessed on the subject, and results of the author's own investigations and expe rience.'"***"We must now take leave of Mr Bell whose work we have no doubt will become a class-book on the important subject of dental surgery."-Medico-Chirurgical Review.

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"We have no hesitation in pronouncing it to be the CHIL-best treatise in the English language."—North Americas Medical and Surgical Journal, No. 19. AMERICAN DISPENSATORY. Edition, improved and greatly enlarged. By JOHN REDMAN COXE, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the University of Pennsylvania. In 1 vol. Svo.

The objects of this work are, 1st, to teach those who have the charge of children, either as parent or guardian, the most approved methods of securing and improving their physical powers. This is attempted by pointing out the duties which the parent or the guardian owes for this purpose, to this interesting, but helpless class of beings, and the manner by which their duties shall be fulfilled. And 24, to render cial available a long experience to these objects of our in Philadelphia and New-York. affection when they become diseased. In attempting this, the author has avoided as much as possible, "technicality;" and has given, if he does not flatter himself too much, to each disease of which he treats, its appropriate and designating characters, with a fidelity that will prevent any two being confounded together, with the best mode of treating them, that either his own experience or that of others has suggested.

This new edition has been arranged with spe reference to the recent Pharmacopoeias, published

DEWEES ON THE DISEASES OF FEMALES.
3d edition, with Additions. In Svo.
A COMPENDIOUS SYSTEM OF MID-
WIFERY; chiefly designed to facilitate the
Inquiries of those who may be pursuing this
Branch of Study. In 8vo. with 13 Plates. 5th
edition, corrected and enlarged. By W. P.
DEWEES, M. D.

THE ELEMENTS OF THERAPEUTICS
AND MATERIA MEDICA. By N. CHAP-
MAN, M. D. 2 vols. 8vo. 5th edition, cor-
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MANUAL OF PATHOLOGY: containing
the Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Morbid Char-
acter of Diseases, &c. By L. MARTINET.
Translated, with Notes and Additions, by
JONES QUAIN. Second American Edition,
12mo.

"We strongly recommend M. Martinet's Manual to the profession, and especially to students; if the latter wish to study diseases to advantage, they should always have it at hand, both when at the bedside of the patient, and when making post mortem examinations."-American Journal of the Medical Sciences, No. I. CLINICAL ILLUSTRATIONS or FEVER, comprising a Report of the Cases treated at the London Fever Hospital in 1828-29, by Alexander Tweedie, M. D., Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London, &c. 1 vol. 8vo.

"In short, the present work, concise, unostentatious as it is, would have led us to think that Dr. Tweedie was a man of clear judgment, unfettered by attachment to any fashionable hypothesis, that he was an energetic but judicious practitioner, and that, if he did not dazzle his. readers with the brilliancy of theoretical speculations, he would command their assent to the solidity of his didac tic precepts."-Med. Chir. Journal.

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A TREATISE ON FEVER. BY SOUTHWOOD AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL
SMITH, M. D., Physician to the London
Fever Hospital.

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AN ESSAY ON REMITTENT AND INTERMITTENT DISEASES, including generically Marsh Fever and Neuralgia-comprising under the former, various Anomalies, Obscurities, and Consequences, and under a new systematic View of the latter, treating of Tic Douloureux, Sciatica, Headache, Ophthalmia, Toothache, Palsy, and many other Modes and Consequences of this generic Disease; by JOHN MACCULLOCH, M. D., F. R. S. &c. &c.

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Published Quarterly.

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"Several of the American Journals are before us. *** Of these the American Journal of the Medical Sciences is by far the better periodical; it is, indeed, the best of the trans-atlantic medical publications; and, to make a comparison nearer nome, is in most respects superior to the great majority of European works of the same description."-The Lancet, Jan. 1831.

"We most strongly recommend Dr. Macculloch's treatise to the attention of our médical brethren, as present- "We need scarcely refer our esteemed and highly emiing a most valuable mass of information, on a most im-nent cotemporary. [The American Journal of the Medical portant subject.”—N. A. Med. and Surg. Journal. Sciences, from whom we quote, to our critical remarks A PRACTICAL SYNOPSIS OF CUTANE- on the opinions of our own countrymen, or to the princiOUS DISEASES, from the most celebrated ples which influence us in the discharge of our editorial duties." "Our copious extracts from his unequalled pubAuthors, and particularly from Documents lication, unnoticing multitudes of others which come beafforded by the Clinical Lectures of Dr.fore us, are the best proof of the esteem which we enter

Biett, Physician to the Hospital of St. Louis,
Paris. By A. CAZENAVE, M. D. and II. E.
SCHEDEL, M. D. Second edition.

"We can safely recommend this work to the attention
of practitioners as containing much practical informa-
tion, not only on the treatment, but also on the causes
of cutaneous affections, as being in fact the best treatise
on diseases of the skin that has ever appeared."-Ameri·
can Journal of the Medical Sciences, No. 5.
SURGICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RUSSIAN
CAMPAIGN. Translated from the French
of Baron LARREY.

LECTURES ON INFLAMMATION, exhibiting a view of the General Doctrines, Pathological and Practical, of Medical Surgery. By JOHN THOMPSON, M. D., F. R. S. E. Second American edition.

tain for his talents and abilities."-London Medical and

Surgical Journal, March, 1830.

"The American Journal of the Medical Sciences is one of the most complete and best edited of the numerous periodical publications of the United States."-Bulletin des Sciences Medicales, Tom. XIV.

PATHOLOGICAL AND PRACTICAL RE-
SEARCHES ON DISEASES OF THE BRAIN
AND SPINAL CORD. By JOHN ABERCROM-
BIE, M. D.

"We have here a work of authority, and one which does credit to the author and his country."-North Amer. Med. and Surg. Journal.

By the same Author. PATHOLOGICAL AND PRACTICAL RESEARCHES ON DISEASES OF THE STOMACH, THE INTESTINAL CANAL, THE LIVER, AND OTHER VISCERA OF THE ABDOMEN.

"We have now closed a very long review of a very

THE INSTITUTES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY; being the Outlines of a Course of Lectures. By W. GIBSON, M. D. Profes- valuable work, and although we have endeavored to consor of Surgery in the University of Pennsyl-dense into our pages a great mass of important matter, vania. 3d edition, revised, corrected, and we feel that our author has not yet received justice.”— enlarged. In 2 vols. 8vo. PRINCIPLES OF MILITARY SURGERY, A RATIONAL EXPOSITION

Medico-Chirurgical Review.

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PHYSICAL SIGNS OF DISEASES OF THE LUNGS AND PLEURA; Illustrating their Pathology and facilitating their Diagnosis. By CHARLES J. WILLIAMS, M. D. In 8vo. with plates.

comprising Observations on the Arrangements, Police, and Practice of Hospitals, and on the History, Treatment, and Anomalies of Variola and Syphilis; illustrated with cases and dissections. By JOHN HENNEN, M. D., F. R. S. E. Inspector of Military understanding, and a more correct estimate of the value Hospitals-first American from the third of auscultation, than any thing that has yet appeared." London edition, with the Life of the Author,-Am. Med. Journal. by his son, DR. JOHN HENNEN.

"The value of Dr. Hennen's work is too well appreciated to need any praise of ours. We were only required then, to bring the third edition before the notice of our readers; and having done this, we shall merely add, that the volume merits a place in every library, and that no military surgeon ought to be without it."-Medical Gar

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MANUAL OF THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MAN; or a concise Description of the Phenomena of his Organization. By P. HUTIN. Translated from the French, with Notes, by J. TOGNO. In 12mo.