APPENDIX "No. 1."

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, MD.,

Baltimore, September 1, 1865.

CIRCULAR No. 3.

To the Board of School Commissioners

of ——— County:

You herewith receive the complete list of Text Books,
adopted by the State Board of Education, for use in the
Public Schools.

These books have been carefully examined by the members
ot the Board, and compared with a large variety of publica-
tions submitted to their inspection. After mature and some-
what protracted deliberation, a decision was reached, which,
I think, will meet with general approbation. From the
many valuable series of books in every department of School
and High School literature submitted to us, it was, in most
cases, very difficult to decide which were the best; and now
that the selection is made, it is proper to say that, while we
deem those which hare been adopted to be the best for our
purposes, yet there are other series of great and perhaps equal
value.

The cause of Education owes much of its present successful
advancement to the energy and enterprise of our publishers,
and to the intelligent agents whom they employ to set forth
the peculiar advantages of their books, and to explain to
teachers the proper methods of using them in the class-room.

The Text Books are arranged in three divisions:

1. Whose for use in Primary and Grammar Schools.

2. The High School Series.

3. The Classical Series.

In the larger portion of the Schools of the counties, there
will be children pursuing a course of study extending from
the elements up through a Grammar School curriculum.
This may render it necessary at times to deviate from the list
as printed. It is therefore proper to state, that the books
have been classified, not for the purpose of requiring them to
be strictly used as designated, but lather to indicate an opi-
nion as to which are adapted to Primary and Grammar