PARLEY'S HISTORIES FOR COMMON SCHOOLS.

THE FIRST BOOK OF HISTORY, OR HISTORY ON THE BASIS OF GEOGRAPHY, comprehending the Western Hemisphere, with sixty Engravings, and sixteen Maps of the different sections of the United States and countries of the Western Hemisphere, from steel plates; revised edition.

THE SECOND BOOK OF HISTORY; comprehending the Modern History of Europe, Asia, Africa, &c., illustrated with fifty Engravings and sixteen Maps, (from steel plates,) of the different countries; revised edition.

THE THIRD BOOK OF HISTORY; by the same author, and on the same plan; comprehending Ancient History, in connexion with Ancient Geography; with Maps: and Engravings.

In preparing this series of Histories, two prominent things have been kept constantly in view,-in the first place to make it useful-and in the second, to make it entertaining. A familiar style has been adopted and great care taken to introduce precise dates. Engravings have been inserted for illustration and for fixing certain ideas in the pupil's memory. Each book is furnished with questions on both the History and Geography of the countries described, and a chronological table is added recapitulating the principal events, noticed in the work.

The first edition of this (First Book) work was published several years ago, since which time, it has run through nearly two hundred editions, and acquired a very extensive circulation. The maps have been redrawn and newly engraved, and this edition may be considered as adapted to the existing condition of the political Geography of North and South America, the general views having been enlarged so as to embrace the leading events of interest, not before noticed.

The Second Book, has recently been newly stereotyped, and carefully revised, by a judicious practical teacher, bringing the work down to the present time, and it is believed to be the only School History of the Eastern Hemisphere brought down to so late a date.

The revised edition of these books, it is hoped, may be found still more worthy of the unexampled encouragement heretofore extended to the series.

EMERSON'S ARITHMETIC, IN THREE

PARTS.

PART I. is a small book, designed for children from five to eight years of age. The lessons are illustrated with cuts and unit marks.

PART II. contains a complete system of Mental and Written Arithmetic, sufficiently extensive for all the common purposes of business, and is a standard book for Common Schools.

PART III. is designed for advanced scholars. It comprises a synthetic view of the science of numbers, a copious development of the higher operations, and an extensive range of commercial information. Scholars who are to be educated for the business of the counting-room, or the duties of any public office, as well as those who are to pursue a full course of liberal education, will find this book suited to their purpose. QUESTIONS On this work, and a KEY, for teachers, are published separately.

BAILEY'S ALGEBRA.

FIRST LESSONS IN ALGEBRA, designed for the use of Academies and Common Schools. By E. BAILEY, Late Principal of the Young Ladies' High School, Boston. A KEY TO THE FIRST LESSONS IN ALGEBRA, containing the Answers to the Questions and Solutions of all the difficult Problems.

This is an elementary treatise on the inductive plan. It is especially intended for the use of Common Schools, and Teachers not acquainted with the science. This ALGEBRA is used in the Public Schools of Boston, and is highly approved.

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EMERSON'S SPELLING BOOKS.

THE NATIONAL SPELLING BOOK, and Pronouncing Tutor, on an improved plan with progressive Reading Lessons. By B. D. EMERSON. Revised Edition. THE INTRODUCTION TO THE NATIONAL SPELLING BOOK, on the plan of the above Work, for the use of the Youngest Classes, and for Primary Schools; by the same author.

These works are highly recommended by several distinguished Clergymen, by Presidents and Professors of some of our Colleges, and by various Teachers.

MUSIC BOOKS FOR COMMON SCHOOLS.

THE LITTLE SONGSTER: An Elementary Singing Book for scholars of 6 to 9 years of age. By GEORGE J. WEBB, Professor in the Boston Academy of Music. THE COMMON SCHOOL SONGSTER, intended as a Sequel to the above, for scholars from 9 to 15 years of age. By the same. Just published under the sanction of the Boston Academy of Music. Fourth edition. Price reduced.

THE VOCAL CLASS BOOK, designed for Young Ladies' Schools and Music Classes. By the same. Just published, under the sanction of the B. A. of Music. The above form a progressive series for the use of Schools and Families. Teachers and others interested are requested to examine the above works.

SCHOOL COMMITTEES, MERCHANTS, and COUNTRY TRADERS, generally, can be supplied with the various SCHOOL and other Books and STATIONERY, on satis factory terms, by JENKS & PALMER, Boston.

SSSSS NUMBER FIFTY-SIX. SSSS

THE

(OLD)

FARMER'S ALMANACK, ALMANACK,

CALCULATED ON A NEW AND IMPROVED PLAN,

FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD

1848;

Being Bissextile or Leap Year, and (until July 4th) 72d of Am. Independence. Fitted to the city of Boston, but will answer for all the New England States. Containing, besides the large number of Astronomical Calculations, and the Farmer's Calendar for every month in the year, as great a variety as any other Almanack of

NEW, USEFUL, AND ENTERTAINING MATTER. ESTABLISHED IN 1793,

BY ROBERT B. THOMAS.

Behold thyself reflected here!

The Spring proclaims thy infant year,
Gay life, the Summer's bloom,

Mild Autumn speaks maturer age,

Proves thee unwise, or hails thee sage,

While Winter shows the tomb.-Cunningham.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY JENKS, PALMER & CO.
Sold, also, by most Booksellers and Traders throughout New England.
[Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1847, by J. H. Jenks and G. W. Palmer, in the
Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.]

We have the satisfaction of appearing before our friends with the Fifty-sixth Number of our favored Annual, in which such improvements in type, &c., have been made, without alteration of its character, as we trust will add to its popularity and usefulness, and cause it to continue to receive the hearty welcome at quiet and pleasant homes and happy firesides that it has for so many years enjoy ed.

We have endeavored, where new information is furnished, to have the work correct, and believe that the Courts in New England, with the statistical and other matters, in our pages, will be found so, and brought down to the most recent dates.

Our thanks are rendered to Hon. Chief Justice Shaw, of Massachusetts, for infor mation in regard to the Supreme Judicial Court in this state; to J. W., Esq., of Rhode Island, to C. W., Esq., of Connecticut, to W. R. C., Esq., of Maine, for valuable information courteously furnished by them in regard to the Courts in the several States in which they reside; and also to our old friends B. B. and J. W. D., for the.r favors.

We are obliged to several correspondents for Problems and Enigmas, but they are too long for our use, or unaccompanied by solutions, which render them inadmissi ble. Will those sending future favors please bear this in mind? All communications addressed to the Editor, care of the Publishers, will reach us. It will be seen that the time of Full Sea is calculated for Boston. At page 33 will be found a valuable Tide Table, by which the time of high tide may be readily ascer tained for all the New England coast, and for various other parts.

We trust that the new Stylographic Map at page 42, as well as the Synopsis of Railroads in New England at page 35 will be found interesting to our readers. In addition to the Probate Courts, established by law, in Norfolk Co., others are held by adjournment, at the house of the Judge, at Roxbury, every Sat., at 2 P. M. Our thanks are due and most cordially rendered to the gentlemen connected with the newspaper press of New England, for the uniformly courteous manner in which they have noticed our annual, many of them for a period of near half a century; and to all other friends, we do not know how we may more appropriately express our feelings than in the language of the editor fifty years ago.

"The pleasing reception which the Farmer's Almanack has hitherto received, is highly gratifying to the editor, and encourages him to make fresh attempts to please and improve.

"Gratitude is not to be confined to the narrow limits of acknowledgment, but should influence to actions which show that favors are not ill bestowed, and that approbation is the stimulus to exertion.

"Though the best way of proving an appreciation of favors is to persevere in deserving them, still he would be apparently wanting in respect, if he did not cordially tender to his friends and patrons his most grateful acknowledgments for their kind

ness.

"He repeats his solicitations, that persons of ability who make experiments in husbandry," (or have other information adapted to our pages, and interesting to the people of New England,) "to disseminate, would make this work the depository of their communications.

Phomas."

EXPLANATION OF THE CALENDAR PAGES.

On each page, at the LEFT HAND, under Astronomical Calculations, stands the true place of the Sun in the ecliptic for every day in the month. Under this may be found the Changes of the Moon.

Column FIRST shows the days of the month; SECOND, the days of the week; THIRD, the rising of the sun; FOURTH, setting of the same; FIFTH, the day's length in hours and minutes; SIXTH, the day's increase or decrease in hours and minutes; SEVENTH, clock equations in minutes, (S., sun too slow, F., too fast ;) EIGHTH, the moon's age, in days; NINTH, high water in Boston in hours and minutes, adapted to other parts by the Tide Table at page 33; TENTH, the moon's place in the signs; ELEVENTH, time of moon's rising and setting; TWELFTH, Moon's southing.

On the RIGHT HAND page, column FIRST shows the days of the month; SECOND, the days of the week; THIRD, Massachusetts Courts-Supreme Judicial Court, (S. J. Č.,) Do. law terms, (S. J. C. L.,) Court of Common Pleas, (C. P.,) and County Commissioners' Meetings, (C. C.,) with Observable Days, Interesting Events, Aspects, Weather, &c.; FOURTH, Farmer's Calendar, &c., &c.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, 1848.

By a recent act of Congress, the day fixed for the choice of Electors to vote for President of the U. S. in all the states simultaneously, is the Tues. following the first Mond. in Novem. For the number of Electors each state is entitled to, see page 45.