The following opinions of the peculiar plan and execution of this werk are from the most respectable sources, and principally from gentlemen whose lives are devoted to the interests and advancement of education. From the Journal of Science and Arts, by BENJAMIN SILLIMAN of Yale College. The principal object of the author, was, to give Geography that scientific arrangement which has been so successfully applied to other branches of study. Little or no use has hitherto been made, by the greater number of writers, of the important principles of classification, in reducing geography to the form of a science, and thus increasing the facility of acquiring and retaining its details. The work is accompanied by an Atlas on a new and ingenious plan. We think Mr. Woodbridge has succeeded well in his design, and deserves the thanks and the patronage of the community. Rev. ASHBEL GREEN, D. D. late President of Princeton College. The plan is ingenious and quite original. It is admirably adapted to the capacities of the young, and cannot fail to arrest and fix their attention. The study of geography will no longer prove an irksome task, to perplex the mind and burden the memory; but will become a delightful exercise, a sort of mental recreation, which will continually cheer and enliven the pupil's exertions, and prompt him forward, almost unconsciously, to the attainment of one of the most difficult, useful, and ornamental branches of education. Rev. ZEPHANIAH SWIFT MOORE, D. D., late President of Amherst College. The plan is new, ingenious, and interesting. The author has formed his plan with a due respect to the laws of mind. A correct classification and arrangement of the objects of knowledge, comprised in any of the sciences, is of primary importance. The work is, in my opinion, the best fitted of any thing I have seen, to excite in the learner an interest in attending to the science of Geography, to facilitate his progress, and to discipline his mind. Rev. CHAUNCEY A. GOODRICH, Professor in Yale College. Mr. Woodbridge's Geographical Works are, in my view, distinguished by a rich variety of matter, a felicity of classification, and an accuracy of detail, which render them peculiarly valuable as text books in the instruction of young persons of both sexes. Rev. THOMAS H. GALLAUDET, Principal of the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. I have no doubt, one month's trial of it will satisfy the father of a family, or the intelligent master of a school, that it combines advantages, which render it superior to any book of the kind, for a similar purpose, now extant. Twelve editions of this work, consisting of more than 150,000 copies, have been disposed of since its first publication, and the demand is still increasing. It is claimed that more intelligence, and a greater amount of knowledge can be drawn from this work and retained in the mind, than can be procured from any similar work for schools extant.-An elegant edition has recently been published in England under favourable prospects of a general introduction in that kingdom. OF GEOGRAPHY, ON A NEW PLAN, DESIGNED TO ASSIST THE MEMORY BY Comparison and Classification; WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS OF MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CURIOSITIES. ACCOMPANIED WITH AN ATLAS, EXHIBITING THE PREVAILING RELIGIONS, FORMS OF GOVERNMENT, DEGREES OF CIVILIZATION, AND THE COMPARATIVE SIZE OF TOWNS, RIVERS, AND MOUNTAINS. BY WILLIAM C. WOODBRIDGE, A. M. THIRTEENTH EDITION, FROM THE THIRD IMPROVED EDITION, HARTFORD: OLIVER D. COOKE AND CO. ........ |