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We concur in the foregoing recommendation.

MARTIN KELLOGG,

WILLARD B. RISING,

ROBERT E. OGILBY, Professors.

P. PIODA,

WILLIAM SWINTON,

PETITION.

To the Honorable The State Board of Education, and the Boards of Education of the cities of San Francisco and Oakland:

This memorial of citizens of San Francisco and Oakland, and friends of the common school system of education in said State, respectfully shows:

That the permanence and security of American political institutions depend wholly upon the intelligent attachment of the masses of the people to that system of ideas which finds expression in the Constitution and Laws.

That the study of American principles, though indispensable to good citizenship, has never been introduced in the public schools of this State.

That the introduction of this study is peculiarly necessary in those parts of our country where, as in California, the population is largely of foreign birth and education.

That the American States seem to be everywhere retrograding in public virtue. Corruption is gaining ground upon honesty and integrity in public office; and its spread can only be checked by educating public sentiment, through the schools, back to the old principles on which our Government was founded.

That the lack of a text-book prepared for the purpose of instructing youth in American principles has been supplied by C. T. Hopkins, of San Francisco, whose "Manual of American Ideas" has been examined and approved by many eminent scholars and patriotic citizens.

That said Manual is wholly free from all partisan or sectarian bias, and tends solely to the culture of intelligent patriotism in the mind of the learner.

Wherefore your petitioners respectfully but earnestly pray that your Honorable Boards will require the study of the American political system to be pursued in the public schools under your several juris

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dictions; and that Mr. Hopkins' " Manual of American Ideas" may be adopted as a text-book in such schools.

And your memorialists will ever pray.

Office of A. S. BARNES & Co., Publishers, N. Y., Sept. 1, 1873.

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From Louis Agassiz, LL.D, Professor of Zoology and Geology, Har

CAMBRIDGE, January 1, 1873. MY DEAR SIRS,-I welcome " Our World," No. II. as a valuable contribution to the modern method of teaching geography. It is a very commendable and successful effort to add to the daily improving means of making geography more attractive in the school-room. Respectfully yours, LOUIS AGASSIZ.

From Hon. Geo. S. Hillard, LL.D.

I think Miss Hall's work one of great merit. It invests the study of Geography with the attractions that properly belongs to it. It gives prominence to the facts, distinctions, and attributes which are permanent, and the work of nature, and does not burden the memory with those dry details of political geography which are variable and accidental.

From PROFESSOR W. D. WHITNEY, Yale College.

I have no hesitation in saying that Allen & Greenough's Grammar has impressed me more favorably than any other I have seen that is published in this country. Though brief, it is very comprehensive, clear in its statements, founded on an adequate basis of philological knowledge, and cast in the proper tone of describing the facts of the language rather than prescribing laws for it.

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From W. C. COLLAR, Latin School, Roxbury, Mass.

I have looked through your Latin Grammar, examining parts of it with a good deal care, and my opinion of its merits is so decided that I shall substitute it at once for the work which I have been using with my classes for many years.

From M. KELLOGG, Professor of Latin, University of California.

I thank you for the copy of Allen & Greenough's Latin Grammar which you recently sent me. I like it very much, and have already recommended it to teachers in High Schools and Academies. It will be placed in our next catalogue.