MITCHELL'S AMERICAN SYSTEM
OF
STANDARD SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY,
IN A SERIES,
ADAPTED TO THE PROGRESSIVELY DEVELOPING CAPACITIES OF YOUTH.
The series comprise the following works, viz.
MITCHELL'S PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY.
MITCHELL'S INTERMEDIATE GEOGRAPHY.
MITCHELL'S SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY AND ATLAS.
MITCHELL'S ATLAS OF OUTLINE MAPS.
MITCHELL'S KEY TO THE STUDY OF THE MAPS.
MITCHELL'S ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY AND ATLAS.
MITCHELL'S ANCIENT ATLAS.
MITCHELL'S BIBLICAL AND SABBATH-SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY.
MITCHELL'S HIGH-SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. (Preparing.)
MITCHELL'S VIEW OF THE HEAVENS.
ONE VOLUME QUARTO, HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED. (Preparing.)
There are no works published in this country that are more in demand, or that have a wider circulation than those of Mr. Mitchell. There are upwards of 350,000 copies of his geographical works sold annually, and more than 250 workmen are constantly employed upon them. The arrangements of the publishers are such, that they are enabled to give the most correct and latest geographical discoveries and improvements of any firm in the United States. They publish the only full series of geographics in the country, and having in constant employ a strong geographical force of map engravers, &c., and being very largely engaged in the publication of the various State and other maps, they are enabled to present the school series correct, both in maps and matter, up to the date of publication.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SERIES
MITCHELL'S PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY.
SECOND REVISED EDITION.
AN EASY INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY.
DESIGNED FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN
IN SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES.
Illustrated by 120 Engravings and 14 coloured Maps.
BY S. AUGUSTUS MITCHELL.
The publishers have embraced the opportunity of a new revision of the work to augment its size, so that the book is now a third larger than any of the preceding editions.
The Maps for the present edition have all been redrawn and re-engraved. They are on a much larger scale, more distinct, and fuller in information than those of the previous editions, or any similar work extant. The true boundaries of all the Western States and Territories are exhibited, California, Utah, &c., and proper attention given to all political changes up to the present time.
MITCHELL'S GEOGRAPHICAL SERIES.
MITCHELL'S INTERMEDIATE OR SECONDARY GEOGRAPHY.
A SYSTEM OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY;
Comprising a Description of the present state of the World, and its five great Divisions,
AMERICA, EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AND OCEANICA,
WITH THEIR SEVERAL EMPIRES, KINGDOMS, STATES, TERRITORIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY FORTY MAPS AND NUMEROUS WOOD-CUT ENGRAVINGS.
Designed for the instruction of Youth in Schools and Families.
BY S. AUGUSTUS MITCHELL.
Mitchell's Intermediate Geography, the last published book of the series, has been before the public but a short time, yet it has been extensively introduced and is now largely used in public and private schools throughout the Union. It has been adopted independently, or in connection with other numbers of the series, by the Public School Directors of the cities of
| New York, | Philadelphia, | Baltimore, |
| Washington, | St. Louis, | Albany, |
| Rochester, | Cleveland, | Syracuse, |
| Utica, | Schenectady, | Oswego, &c. &c. |
By numerous county boards in the various States, and a great number of the towns and villages of the whole country.
MITCHELL'S GEOGRAPHICAL SERIES.
This work is designed to occupy a medium place between the Author's Primary, and the well known School Geography and Atlas, of which last book it contains about two-thirds of the amount of matter.
Like the Primary Geography, the Map Questions are upon the same or opposite page to the map itself, so that in no case have the leaves to be turned to find an answer to the question.
Superior excellence is claimed for this book, on account of the natural and progressive order of the lessons,—of the conciseness and truthfulnes of the descriptive matter,—of the number, correctness, and uniform excellence of the Maps,—from the fact that the book is faithfully revised as often as political changes in our own or other countries require it,—that the pronunciations of the difficult geographical names are given,—and finally, on account of the superior mechanical execution of the work.
As a specimen of numerous recommendations the publishers have received, they submit the following:
Copy of a petition of the Public School Teachers of the City of Troy, New York, addressed to the Board of Education of said city.
GENTLEMEN,—Having examined Mitchell's Intermediate and Primary Geographies, and faithfully compared them with Smith's, in regard to accuracy of definitions, reliability of topography, and faithfulness of the descriptive part, we, the undersigned, teachers, are respectively of opinion that the interests of your public schools require that the former geographies be substituted, to be used in our schools in the room of the latter, and we respectfully request that this change may be made.
Signed,
EDWARD WILSON, JR.
HENRY ROBBINS,
HORACE BACON,
P.W. ROBERTSON,
N.H. BENSON,
P.S. CRANDALL,
JNO. PRENTICE,
J.A. PETERS,
ROXANA CARMICHAEL,
RICHARD DAVIDSON.
Principals of the Public Schools of the City of Troy.
HISTORICAL SERIES.
PINNOCK'S HISTORICAL SERIES.
PINNOCK'S ENGLAND.
REVISED EDITION.
PINNOCK'S IMPROVED EDITION OF DR. GOLDSMITH'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND,
FROM THE INVASION OF JULIUS CÆSAR
TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE THE II.
WITH A CONTINUATION TO THE YEAR 1845:
WITH QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION AT THE END OF EACH SECTION;
BESIDES A VARIETY OF VALUABLE INFORMATION ADDED THROUGHOUT THE WORK,
Consisting of Tables of Contemporary Sovereigns and eminent Persons, copious Explanatory Notes, Remarks on the Politics, Manners and Literature of the Age, and an Outline of the Constitution.
ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.
FORTY-FIFTH AMERICAN, CORRECTED AND REVISED FROM THE THIRTY-FIFTH ENGLISH EDITION.
By W.C. TAYLOR, LL.D.,
OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN,
Author of a Manual of Ancient and Modern History, &c. &c.
PINNOCK'S FRANCE,
HISTORY OF FRANCE AND NORMANDY, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO
THE REVOLUTION OF 1848,
WITH QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION AT THE END OF EACH SECTION,
BY W.C. TAYLOR, LL.D., OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN,
Author of a Manual of Ancient and Modern History, &c. &c., and Editor of Pinnock's Improved editions of Goldsmith's Greece, Rome, and England.
ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.
FIRST AMERICAN FROM THE THIRD ENGLISH EDITION.
PINNOCK'S ROME,
REVISED EDITION,
PINNOCK'S IMPROVED EDITION OF DR. GOLDSMITH'S HISTORY OF ROME,
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ROMAN HISTORY,
AND A GREAT VARIETY OF INFORMATION THROUGHOUT THE WORK,
ON THE MANNERS, INSTITUTIONS, AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE ROMANS;
WITH QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION AT THE END OF EACH SECTION.
TWENTY-FIFTH AMERICAN, FROM THE NINETEENTH LONDON EDITION, IMPROVED
BY W.C. TAYLOR, LL.D.,
WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS BY ATHERTON AND OTHERS.
PINNOCK'S GREECE,
REVISED EDITION,
PINNOCK'S IMPROVED EDITION OF DR. GOLDSMITH'S HISTORY OF GREECE,
REVISED, CORRECTED, AND VERY CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED,
BY THE ADDITION OF SEVERAL NEW CHAPTERS, AND NUMEROUS
USEFUL NOTES.
WITH QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION AT THE END OF EACH SECTION.
TWENTY-FIFTH AMERICAN, FROM THE NINETEENTH LONDON EDITION, IMPROVED
BY W.C. TAYLOR, LL.D.,
WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS, BY ATHERTON AND OTHERS.
Pinnock's England, Greece, Rome, and France, have become school classics. In order to make this series more complete, the volumes have been revised by that well-known historian, W.C. Taylor, LL.D., of Trinity College, Dublin.
The popularity of these books is almost without a parallel. Teachers unacquainted with them, will on examination give them a decided preference to any other historical series published.
From the Pennsylvania Inquirer, Philadelphia.
PINNOCK'S GOLDSMITH'S GREECE, ROME, AND ENGLAND.—The popularity of these histories is almost without a parallel among our school books. Their use is co-extensive with the English language, and their names are familiar to all who have received an English education. But if permitted to remain as they came from the hands of the author, they would soon be antiquated; for not only is the stream of modern history flowing onward, but numerous scholars are constantly making researches into that of ancient times. These works are therefore frequently revised, and thus the labours of successive individuals are added to those of the gifted man who wrote them. The present edition is quite an improvement on the former ones. Several important matters which had before been omitted, have been introduced into the text, numerous notes and several new cuts have been added, and every chapter commences with one or more well selected poetical lines, which express the subject of the chapter, and will assist the memory as well as improve the taste of the student. We feel assured that these additions will increase the reputation which these works have hitherto so deservedly sustained.
From JOHN M. KEAGY, Friends' Academy, Philadelphia.
I consider Pinnock's edition of Goldsmith's History of England as the best edition of that work which has as yet been published for the use of schools. The tables of contemporary sovereigns and eminent persons, at the end of each chapter, afford the means of many useful remarks and comparisons with the history of other nations. With these views, I cheerfully recommend it as a book well adapted to school purposes.
From MR. J.F. GOULD, Teacher, Baltimore.
Having examined Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome, I unhesitatingly say, that the style and elegance of the language, the arrangement of the chapters, and the questions for examination, render it, in my estimation, a most valuable school book:—I therefore most cheerfully recommend it to teachers, and do confidently trust that it will find an extensive introduction into the schools of our country.
From the New York Evening Post.
A well written and authentic History of France possesses unusual interest at the present time. It becomes especially valuable when, as in the present case, it has been prepared with questions as a text-book for common schools and seminaries, by a scholar so accomplished as Dr. Taylor. The work has passed through three editions in England. The American editor has added one chapter on the late revolutions, bringing the history down to 1848, and has added to its value by illustrations throughout, portraying the costume and the principal events of the reigns of which it treats.
This treatise goes back to the origin of the Celtic race, or the Cimbrians, as the offspring of Gomer, peopling the north and east of Europe on the one hand, and to the descendants of Cush—under the names of Scythians, Tartars, Goths, and Scots, warlike, wandering tribes, on the other, tracing the migrations of the latter till they drove the Celts westward, and the Rhine forms the boundary between the two nations. From the Gauls it goes on to the reign of the Franks, Charlemagne, the Carlovingian race, the history of Normandy, and the history of France from the first crusade through its lines of monarchies and its revolutions, to 1848. The style is clear and forcible, and from the compactness of the work, forming, as it does, a complete chain of events in a most important part of the history of Europe, it will be found interesting and valuable for general readers, or as a text-book in our schools. It is comprised in 444 pages, 12mo., and contains a chronological index and genealogy of the kings of France.
Want of space prevents us from inserting all the recommendations received: we however present the names of the following gentlemen, who have given their recommendations to the Histories:
SIMEON HART, Jr., Farmington, Conn.
REV. D.R. AUSTIN, Principal of Monmouth Academy, Monson, Mass.
T.L. WRIGHT, A.M., Prin. E. Hartford Classical and English School.
REV. N.W. FISKE, A.M., Professor Amherst College, Mass.
E.S. SNELL, A.M., Professor Amherst College, Mass.
REV. S. NORTH, Professor Languages, Hamilton College, N.Y.
W.H. SCRAM, A.M., Prin. Classical and English Academy, Troy, N.Y.
JAMES F. GOULD, Principal of Classical School, Baltimore.
A.B. MYERS, Principal of Whitehall, Academy, New York.
HORACE WEBSTER, Professor Geneva College, N.Y.
W.C. FOWLER, Professor Middlebury College, Vermont.
B.S. NOBLE, Bridgeport, Conn.
REV. S.B. HOWE, Late President of Dickenson College.
B.F. JOSLIN, Professor Union College, N.Y.