The posies have come and the birds are all here, Taken from "A Little Folks' Calendar for 1897," SCHOOL FESTIVAL NUMBER. BOOKS FOR PRIMARY GRADES WARREN COLBURN'S FIRST LESSONS: Intellectual Arithmetic UPON THE INDUCTIVE METHOD OF INSTRUCTION. A Carefully Revised and Enlarged Edition (1884), with a portrait of the author, and an Appendix containing a Sketch of the Author's Life, and his Original Preface. 16m0, 230 pages, 35 cents, net, postpaid. A recent canvass of the School Superintendents of the United States shows this to be the most popular Mental Arithmetic. THE RIVERSIDE PRIMER AND READER. A STEPPING-STONE TO THE RIVERSIDE LITERATURE SERIES. A new edition, with the written exercises in vertical script. 16mo, 205 pages, in strong paper covers, with cloth back, 25 cents; in strong cloth binding, 30 cents. This book is based on the fundamental ideas that: (1) The child must think intelligently before he can read intelligently: (2) The end of learning to read is to read great books. Already in successful use in such cities as Brooklyn, Chicago, Philadelphia, Jersey City, etc. The use of the Riverside Primer and Reader leads naturally to SCUDDER'S FABLES AND FOLK STORies. (Riverside Literature Series, Nos. 47, 48. Each, paper, 15 cents, net, postpaid.) GRIMM'S GERMAN HOUSEHOLD TALES. (Riverside Literature Series, Nos. 107, 108. Each, paper, 15 cents, net, postpaid.) VERSE AND PROSE FOR BEGINNERS IN READING. These books contain many of the best stories for young children which the world has chosen to remember. They have been edited with great care, and retold in language suitable for the easy understanding of pupils of the second grade. Descriptive circulars sent on application. For par- STORY'S 378-388 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. FOR GIRLS AND BOYS Classical, Scientific, and English courses. Non-sectarian. Location on a farm, healthful and beautiful, removed from the distractions of the city. Buildings large and commodious; excellent sanitary conditions; waterworks and steam heat. School rooms and laboratory well equipped. A large corps of efficient teachers. Circulars sent on application. The MISSES LLOYD JONES, Hillside, Wis. Principals. HILLSIDE HOME SCHOOL Fits for any college. NEW THE WAY BETTER THE $100 worth for 10c. Send 10 cents for illustrated book telling how Jenner Medical College New York. N. Y. (Formerly Harvard.) (School recognized by State Board.) Spring and Summer Session of 1897 begins March 2, and continues six months. Announcements containing requirements for admission and COLLEGE OF COMMERCE obtaining degree, sent upon application. Address AND NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL (Organized 1892; Incorporated 1896.) Five Schools in one: Teachers' Preparatory, Pen Art, Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Typewriting, Telegraphy. Good board and furnished room with private family, $2.50 to $2.75 a week; self-board, including room, about $1.50 per week. Books rented. An able faculty. Students may enter at any time No entrance examinations Graduates of this school are called to the highest positions. A beautiful and cultured city. Write for circulars. Address H. A. STORY, President, JENNER MEDICAL COLLEGE 385-397 Washington Boulevard, Chicago, III. TEACHERS: Have you a position for next year? If not, send stamp for May list of vacancies. INDEPENDENT TEACHERS' AGENCY, Waterloo, Iowa. Wisconsin Academy. Accredited to all courses of the University. Gives thorough preparation in all lines of Academic work. University students can here make up deficiencies in their preparatory courses. Special classes in Latin, German and Greek. For catalogue address Charlotte E. Richmond, Madison, Wis. A Progressive State No other State in the Union offers greater inducements for the location of Industries and Manufacturing Plants than Wisconsin, with its limitless Iron Ore deposits, abundance of Hardwood Timber, numerous Clay, Kaolin and Marl Beds, and other advantages. The Wisconsin Central Lines penetrate the Center of the State, and Manufacturers can find excellent locations for Plants, with facilities for reaching markets everywhere. Reliable information will be cheerfully furnished upon application to W. H. Killen, Industrial Commissioner, Milwaukee, Wis. Home-Seekers will find the lands in Northern Wisconsin desirable, and splendid Hardwood Farming Lands adjacent to the Wisconsin Central Lines can now be purchased at a very low figure and on easy terms. Write for free illustrated pamphlet with maps to Fred'k Abbot, Land Commissioner, Milwaukee, Wis. MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. 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 preeminently fi 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, NORTH WESTERN Courses in Psychology and Pedagogy, History, English Literature, Library Science, Mathe matics, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Physiology, Zoology, Histology, The best Teachers, Superintendents and Boards patronize this Agency and recommend it. 732-4 Boston Block. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT The school world will be interested to learn of the prospective publication of A New Series of Readers Projected upon an entirely new plan, original with the authors, Sarah Louise Arnold, Supervisor of Schools, Boston, Mass., and Charles B. Gilbert, Superintendent of Schools, Newark, N. J. STEPPING STONES TO LITERATURE is the generic title of this new series, the fundamental ideas of which are (1) A separate reading book for each of the eight distinct reading grades in our public schools. (2) Good literature from the First Grade to the Eighth Grade These readers will be furnished either in five numbers, to adapt them to ungraded schools, or in eight numbers, corresponding with the successive grades of city schools. They will be exceptionally attractive and interesting in ubject matter, beautiful in typography and illustration, Sand will signalize a new era in school Reading Books. T Circulars Free. READY IN SEPTEMBER The Prang Course in Art Education FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS In SIX BOOKS, furnishing one book a year for Third to Eighth Grades, inclusive. In TWELVE BOOKS, furnishing two books a year for Third to Eighth Grades, Inclusive. A complete revision of the Prang Series of Text Books, putting into practical form the most progressive ideas on elementary Art teaching so that they can be successfully worked out under ordinary school conditions. They will be the newest, the best and the most attractive books in the schools. For detailed information concerning these Books, and other new publications, address most part in a series of short sentences which become somewhat wearisome. Its scope may be seen by the separation into six parts, treating of school hygiene, school facilities, school government, class management, school organization and methods. In practical suggestions the chapter on rural schools is perhaps the most valuable. The plan of organizing a township as an educational unit with one central school whose teacher is principal of all the schools may or may not be generally feasible, but the plans for classification, course of study, program and general management of rural schools are certainly deserving of careful study. As a whole the book may be commended as worthy to rank with similar treatises by White, Straub and Langdon. Harper & Brothers. -AN EXPERIMENT IN EDUCATION, by Mary R. AltingAber, (244 pp.; $1.25) possesses unusual interest, interest like that awakened by Mrs. Aiken's Methods of Mind Training. Both deal with experiments in education and deal with them thoughtfully and helpfully. Mrs. Aikens experiments were directed towards formal training, devising means for developing certain types of mental action, certain aptitudes, while this book is concerned with a larger and more far reaching thesis. This is substantially that from the beginning the children should be occupied with real knowledge which will feed their minds and call out genuine interest and independent effort; while the learning to read and to write, to form sentences correctly and to calculate should be made wholly incidental to the other purpose. This is directly opposite to prevalent practice, which puts the beginners upon the study of symbols, meaningless to them, and concerns itself little about the realities. The experiments described, one of which was made in a private school in Boston and the other in a public school in Englewood, Illinois, seems to show clearly the superiority of the new plan. The pupils learn to read, write and cipher even more quickly than by the usual plan, and instead of dreary drills over forms and symbols are always absorbed in studying things, and thinking about things, which have a genuine interest for them. To record their thoughts they learn to read and write, and to grasp accurately what they study they have number and calculation, a sense of the need and use of these acquirements greatly hastening their acquisition. If these results are made out, and they seem to us made out, the work of our elementary schools ought to be entirely recast, so as to embody in them the ideas presented in this volume. This statement alone will be sufficient to justify the plea, with which the volume concludes, for the establishment of educational experiment stations. This volume, though small in size, seems to us one of the most valuable and stimulating which has appeared in a long time. -THEORY OF PHYSICS, by Joseph S. Ames (513 pp.; $1.60), begins with mechanics as affording the basis of modern scientific explanations. The fundamental properties of matter disposed of thro the study of energy and wave motion, the discussion passes to the main themes of modern physics, sound, heat, electricity and magnetism, and light, which Occupy more than two-thirds of the volume. The book is called "Theory of Physics" because its main aim is the explanation of experiments thro the fewest possible fundamental principles. The book is adapted to junior classes in colleges or technical schools, making freer use of mathematics than is common in elementary texts, and affording abundant material for a year's work of this grade. It is a text-book to be accompanied with experimental demonstrations, lectures and recitations on the one hand, and by laboratory work, mainly quantitative, performed by the students, on the other. Its author is associate professor of physics in Johns Hopkins university and sub-director of the physical laboratory. -A SMALLER HISTORY OF GREECE, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest, by William Smith, revised, enlarged and in part re-written by Carleton L. Brownson, (423 pp.) restores to usefulness an approved manual which was becoming obsolescent by reason of the contributions to the more perfect knowledge of the period made by modern scholars. These the reviser has used freely, correcting errors and supplying omissions in the original book, re-writ |