In the early editions of this Second Reader this page was occupied with a diagram of twenty different colors, which is now omitted, for the following reasons: It was found difficult to represent these colors accurately on so small a surface; and the ends in view have since been attained far more successfully in Charts Nos. XIII. and XIV. of the Series of "School and Family Charts," prepared by Marcius Willson and N. A. Calkins, and published by us. As these two Charts, with accompanying Hand ColorCard, will answer for an entire school, the expense will be small, and by their aid the whole subject of Colors will be presented in a most attractive manner. We give below a description of the entire series of Charts, and of the accompanying "Manual." A Series of School and Family Charts: Twenty-two in Number; designed for a Course of Elementary Instruction in Schools and Families. By MARCIUS WILLSON and N. A. CALKINS. These splendid Charts, twenty-two in number, size of each about 22 by 30 inches, and containing more than 600 colored illustrations, will be furnished either separately or in full sets, either mounted or in sheets, and also, for family use, in atlas form. When mounted, two are on a card. They are sent by mail, in sheets, at the prices named in TradeList. The first six are Reading Charts; 7th, Elementary Sounds; 8th, Phonic Spelling; 9th, Writing; 10th, Drawing and Perspective; 11th, Lines and Measures; 12th, Forms and Solids. No. 13 contains thirty-five Familiar Colors, accompanied by seventy Hand Color-Cards; No. 14, Chromatic Scale of Colors. Nos. 15 and 16, Quadrupeds; 17, Birds; 18, Reptiles and Fishes; and 19, 20, 21, and 22, Plants. For prices in the different styles, see Harper & Brothers' Trade-List. Manual of Instruction in Object Lessons. By MARCIUS WILL SON. This work is designed, not merely to accompany and explain the Charts, and to furnish the directions, suggestions, and information which the teacher requires for their use, but also to set forth the principles on which a true system of "development" or object teaching should be based. HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS. This "SECOND READER" is, properly, the third book in the "School and Family Series," as it is preceded by the Primer and the First Reader (the first of 48 and the second of 84 pages), which initiate the system here pursued. The Series is believed to be more gradually progressive than Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. |