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Title: The Illinois teacher
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Illinois Education Association
Subjects: Education Education
Publisher: Peoria, Ill., N. C. Nason (formerly Nason & Hill)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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. $2.00. lY. I.ESSOWS AND MABfUAI. IVITH GAROEX BOTANY. The three bound in one. 980 pages, containing all the Illustrations in theLessons (360) and Drawings in the Manual, oti tinted paper. $2.50. V. THE MANUAL, ILEUSTRATEB. Containing the Mosses and Liverworts, with beautiful Lithographic Drawings. $2.75. VI. STRCCTIIRAL AND SYSTEMATIC BOTANY. A revised edition cf Botanical Text-Book. 1300 cuts. $2.50. The simple and perspicuous descriptions in the text are happily sup-plemented by numerous illustrations exquisitely engraved bySprague. Prof. John Torrey, of the U. S. Assay Office, who may be regard-ed as the father of American Botany, writes Grays Manual, withthe new Lessons in Botany and Botanical Text-Book, are all thatcan be desired by teachers of this branch of science in our schools,academies, and colleges. Favorable terms for first supplies for introduction, on applica-tion to the publishers. IVIlSOIV, PHIIVJVEY & CO., )¥ew York.S €. ORIGG8 & CO., Chicago, 111. ^K.^t
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ILLINOIS TEACHER. Volume IX. APRIL, 1H(33. Number 4. P E N M A N S H I P . * — N u M n E R II. BY PATSON, DUSTOy AND SCRIBSER. In our previous article we sought to show that Penmanship, thougha humble sister in the Fine-Arts family, was a very importantmember of society, owing to her usefulness for record, correspond-ence, and tradition. We noticed the three features which shouldcharacterize her — Facility of execution, Legibility, and Beauty. Westated that as our system had been the pioneer in printing the copieson dry paper at the head of the page, and in arranging the letters ac-cording to the natural laws of form, by which so much has been doneto advance the public taste and improve the general execution, sonow, in furtherance of the same object, we had published a Manualfor Teachers, by the faithful study of which the instructor might befully furnished for his work in this department of education. Wethen proceeded to the analysis of the two alphabets, and showed thatan exhaus

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