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JAS. C. POND, G. P. A. MILWAUKEE, WIS.

VACATION DAYS.

In the Lake Regions of Wisconsin, Northern Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota, along the lines of the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, are hundreds of charming localities preeminentlyfi tted for summer homes, nearly all of which are located on or near lakes which have not been fished out. These resorts range in variety from the "full dress for dinner' to the flannel shirt costume for every meal. Among the list are names familiar to many of our readers as the perfection of Northern summer resorts Nearly all of the Wisconsin points of interest are within a short distance from Chicago or Milwaukee, and none of them are so far away from the "busy marts of civilization" that they cannot be reached in a few hours of travel, by frequent trains, over the finest road in the Northwest-the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Send a two cent stamp for a copy of "Vacation Days" giving a description of the principal resorts, and a list of summer hotels and boarding houses, and rates for board, to Geo. H. Heafford, G. P. A., Chicago, Ill.

"Work with Words"

A Practical Etymology and Word Analysis.

This book has an extensive use in the best schools of the country.

It teaches word analysis by a pactical method.

It gives the root words only, requiring the pupil to make his own derivations and to go to the dtctionary for his etymology.

If you are teaching this subject, do not continue in the old way, but mention this paper, your school, and enclose forty-five cents for a sample copy for examination with a view to its introduction.

Box 705.

J. N. HUMPHREY, Publishers,

Whitewater, Wis.

CREAMERIES IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

During the past two years the creamery industry has grown from a small beginning until at the present time there are one hundred and ninteen (119) creameries and cheese factories scattered over the State, and all doing well.

Four times as many creemeries are needed in South Dakota, and farmers or dairymen desiring free list showing where creameries are now located, together with other information of value to live stock growers and farmers generally, will please address GEO. H. HEAFFORD, General Passenger Agent, C., M. & St P. R'y, Old Colony Bldg., Chicago Ill.

stamp for May list of vacancies.

H. R. MCCULLOUGH

INDEPENDENT TEACHERS' AGENCY, Waterloo, Iowa.

W. B. KNISKERN

Gen'l Traffic Manager. Gen'l Pass. and Tkt. Agt.

$1.00), is not a dry, historical outline, although it does give the reader a general knowledge of the main events in the history of this interesting people. Legends and tales from old Japan, stories of the Dutch, the Russians and the Americans in Japan, give vivid pictures of the manners and customs of different periods and make the book full of interest. The numerous excellent illustrations add to its value, and a double map of Japan and Corea prefaces the volume. For school and home reading it will be found entertaining and instructive.

-THE AMERICAN WORD Book, by Calvin Patterson, (192 pp.; 25cts.), offers graded lessons on different classes and uses of words, literary selections for dictation exercises, synonyms, derivations, exercises in punctuation and capitalization-in fact a variety of interesting subjects and devices for the teaching of spelling and the enlarging of the pupil's vocabulary.

C. W. Bardeen, Syracuse, N. Y.

-A WORKING SYSTEM OF CHILD STUDY FOR SCHOOLS, by Maximilian P. E. Groszmann, (70 pp.; 50c.), discusses briefly the value and relations of child study, and then passes to a condensed account of the manner of conducting it and the topics investigated in the schools of ethical culture, of which the author has been superintendent. The little manual will be found helpful and suggestive.

-THE COMMON SCHOOL AND THE NEW EDUCATION, by M. P. E. Groszmann, (46 pp.; paper; 25c.), urges that the work of each grade ought to be a whole in itself, that in the higher grades the course should branch towards common school work only and towards college, that the needs of boys and girls should be distinguished and that the teachers should be both men and women. It is a thoughtful essay and will well repay reading.

-THE CREED OF LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA, by Virginia Beauchamp, (39 pp.; paper; 25c.), examines the philosophical, religious and social teachings of Seneca in his writings and his relations to the Stoics. It is a useful and satisfactory discussion.

Miscellaneous.

-Stepping Stones to LiteRATURE, a second reader, by Sarah Louise Arnold and Charles B. Gilbert (Silver, Burdett & Co.; 160 pp.), is a fascinating product of the bookmakers art. The colored prints, of which there are several, are among the best we have seen, and the numerous black and white pictures are excellent. The paper and print also are all that could be desired. The matter of the little book commends itself because of a literary quality quite superior to what is usually found in second readers. Many of the poems are by our best writers, and the prose pieces are familiar fables and stories, with nature sketches, etc. Helps for learners are furnished as needed. The book is altogether delightful.

-SELECTIONS FROM VIRI ROMAE AND CORNelius Nepos, edited by John T. Buchanan and R. A. Minckwitz (Maynard, Merrill & Co.; 198 pp.), provides easy, interesting and profitable reading for beginners in Latin. Here are five biographies from The Viri Romae and six from Nepos, with notes and a vocabulary, in an attractive and convenient volume. It is one of the very best first Latin books we know of. We have only one criticism to make-that the editors furnish no information regarding the writers, and the pupil is more apt to think them contemporaries than to imagine that L'Hammond, the writer of the first, was a French schoolmaster of the last century. It is a little difficult to get information about him, and the ordinary pupil will not find it.

-SCHOOL GYMNASTICS, by Jessie H. Bancroft (E. L. Kellogg & Co.; 298 pp.), provides systematic exercises for high school grades in free hand gymnastics or calisthenics as generally understood. The exercises are fully described, illustrated by cuts, and systematically arranged. It seems to us a practical and useful manual.

--A GLANCE at the Difficulties of GERMAN GRAMMAR, by Charles F. Cutting (Wm. R. Jenkins, N. Y.; 30c.), arranges in three folding charts the different forms of German etymology, so that comparisons are easy, and the uniformities are readily detected. The device greatly facilitates the acquisition of these puzzling forms. LE VERBE EN QUATRE

TABLEAUX, par H. Marion, by the same publisher, does the same service for the complex verb forms of the French language.

-THE FOURTH ANNUAL REPort of the Western DrawING TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION (119 pp.; Francis E. Remsen, Sec., Saginaw, Mich.), is an attractive pamphlet containing the papers read at the meeting in St. Louis last spring.

-Report of THE LAKE MOHONK CONFERENCE on international arbitration, contains stenographic reports of the papers, and is interesting reading to all who favor the promotion of peace among nations. We are indebted to Mr. Albert K. Smiley, Lake Mohonk House, N. Y., for a copy, and from whom they may be obtained.

-A HANDBOOK ON THE ANNEXATION OF HAWAII, is an interesting pamphlet giving arguments pro and con, a description of the islands, and official documents relating to the annexation, issued by Lorrin A. Thurston, special commissioner from Hawaii to Washington, to whom we are indebted for a copy.

-UN DRAMA NUEVO, drama en tres actos de Don Manuel, Tamayo y Baus, edited with introduction and notes by John E. Matzke, (William R. Jenkins, New York, 107 pp.; 35c.) places before English students one of the strongest plays of the modern Spanish stage. Its author is one of the precocious and prolific geniuses of the Spanish race, but must be awarded the title of genius for his dramatic insight and power. This is one of his most attractive productions.

-Outlines for KindergaRTEN AND PRIMARY Classes in the study of nature and related subjects, arranged by months, by E. Maud Cannell and Margaret E. Wise, (E. L. Kellogg & Co., 162 pp.; 75c.) comes from the practice department of the Michigan state normal school at Ypsilanti, in which the authors are employed. They tell us in the preface: "The spirit of unification for which Froebel stood demands one thing, however, and this essentially, that the ideas introduced from month to month bear essential relations to the life of the child and to each other, and that the child see more and more fully his own nature and his place in the world." This is the spirit of the book which combines kindergarten occupations, nature study, story and songs into a unity for each week of the school year. The book commends itself as likely to be very helpful to the teachers of small children.

-THE HELPER, (130 folio pp.; 25c.) CHILD Study, (48 folio pp.; 25c.) and ELEMENTARY SCIENCE, (58 folio pp. ; 25c.) are issued by the School Educational Company, Minneapolis, Minn. The first is a miscellany of school material, lesson outlines, selections for recitations, songs, programs for special days, etc., such as will be welcome to any common school teacher. The second is a collection of papers, suggestions, applications and discussions on child study; the third contains directions, hints and outlines for nature study, and special studies in trees, batrachians, molluses, mamals, fishes, etc., by Minnesota teachers.

LITERARY ITEMS.

-The October number of The Library Journal contains nearly two hundred pages, being chiefly reports of the addresses and proceedings of the Philadelphia library conference. One feels in reading these papers something of the spirit which has led to the great development of library methods in the last few years.

-Sup't W. H. Maxwell of Brooklyn, N. Y., advises that Evangeline be read at least three times. First, for the sake of becoming acquainted with the narrative; second, to obtain clearer conceptions of the characters, etc., and for the purpose of dividing the poem into parts for closer study; and, third, for a careful analysis of the poem and a study of the words contained in it. Mr. Maxwell's advice is given in full on page 3 of the new Catalogue of the Riverside Literature Series, which will be sent free to any address on application to the publishers, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., New York, Boston and Chicago. They have issued a new illustrated edition of the poem, with interesting introductory

matter.