Boys' First Lessons in Record and Business Penmanship

              DEAE YOUNG FKIEND;
Y/hile others train the mind to think—indite; 'Tis ours to guide your pow'rs aright—to write:
And we wish to introduce yon into a Business SyRtem et once—because hnsiness will soon be yours, "as surely as grass grows and water runs,'" and you
continue to live and improve.    Our design is, in tliis work, to assist the teacher, in school, to a suitable commercial system—from which to teach whole ^
1 classes by black-board illustrations and otherwise—and the school boy to a system he can study; that by the united efforts of teacher and pupil, (the same |i
as in other branches of learning,) a knowledge of the Art of Chirography may be the more certainly and rapidly secured. |
Making the Art of Writing a studj'-, (the same as Orthography, Arithmetic, Geography, &c.) isfound to be the most efficient aiid certain, and is rapidly II
becoming a Rule of Instruction in our schools. . fi
The Authors also desire .to aid those who have not the advantage of school—with instructions that will serve them in place of the living teacher—and i
J secure the enlightened impulse of mind to guide the muscle into polished imagery! |J
We sincerely hope you will carefully study the Instructions, and Rules of Application—-using your best,.endeavors to understand the structure of, asi well as to ^m^M6, the Copies before you. Your Friends, P.R.SPENCER,
v. M. RICE. REMEMBER—This Work will call out the copies in succession—explain and apply the rules to them—Read on I