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THE MACMILLAN CO., NEW YORK CITY. SINGING VERSES FOR CHILDREN. Words by Lydia Avery Coonley. Illustrations by Alice Kellogg Tyler, music by Frederic W. Root and others. Price, $2.00.

One pauses before attempting to speak of such a book as this. When a verse-writer like Lydia Avery Coonley who finds a way to the heart with happy touch in simplest metre, writes the songs of a book for the children, and Frederic Root, Eleanor Smith, and other good composers set them to music, and Alice Kellogg Tyler makes the pictures, and the Macmillan Company brings it all out in warm, rich colors and elegant binding,- when this rare combination appears before us in book form there is not much to do but enjoy this thing of beauty which must be a joy forever.

It is always to be regretted that beautiful things cannot be put at a price low enough for the masses to possess them. This rare book ought to be in every school-room for the inspiration of the teachers and the æsthetic training of the children. One can imagine the big eyes of the little folks who might be allowed to turn these beautiful leaves when their lessons were early learned and when their hands were very clean. The children of poorest districts need such beauty-training far more than they need "rules" and discipline.

The following is a table of contents: Good Morning, Pussy Willows, Sunshine Song, After the Rain, Come, My Dolly, Wind Song My Pegasus, Cradle Song, Baby Moon, Clouds, The Child and the T.ee, Flag Song, Silver Night, Dancing Song, Snow-Balls, Bed-Time, The Little Stars, Christmas Song. Every selection is full of the poetry and pathos of simple child life and will go straight to the childheart. A happy arrangement places the words and music of each song on opposite pages, thus allowing the artistic ornamentation of each page to complement the other in color and design.

D. APPLETON COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. By E. Schuyler Matthews.

"The borders of the road are like the em

broidered margin of a fine garment, full of beautiful and elaborate detail." So says the author in his opening sentence, and it is this 'elaborate detail" of the wayside as he sees it that makes up the contents of this volume. Early wild flowers, shrubs belonging to the rose and heath families, meadow singers and common. birds, beetles, butter-flies, bees weeds, mountain and woodland coloring, are treated in these pages with a delightful informality. As he walks by the roadside he sees with the sharp eyes of a nature lover, and tells what he sees as easily and musically as a brook flows. There are twenty-six full page half-tone illustrations, besides a wealth of pen and ink drawings of the commonest weeds and flowers. It is a joy of anticipation to imagine the teacher's sense of richness as she really owns this book and can turn to it a

dozen times a day for facts, for suggestion, for

its resource of illustration, and for the inspira

tion between the lines, to teach the children

how to see.

The type, paper and illustrations are of an order to make one wish to preserve the book for these alone. The contents are a collection of delightful out door essays with the true spirit of nature in every line. It is a spring and summer companion that will soothe, cheer, and suggest at the same time.

LEE & SHEPARD, BOSTON, MASS. ON PLYMOUTH ROCK. By Samuel Adams Drake. Price, 60 cents.

The story of the Pilgrim Fathers is told over again by this well known author with simplicity and without too much of history. It is a transcript of their daily life and will give to children the true spirit of the times. Its illus. trations are taken from the Plymouth settlement and many are choice works of art. Teachers will be glad of this little book for supplementary reading and the early history of the colonies.

HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK CITY. EYE SPY. Afield with Nature among Flowers and Animate Things. By William Hamilton Gibson. Price, $2.50.

It is hard to speak of any of Hamilton Gib. son's books with moderation. Every one is a treasure that increases in worth when we realize that the marvellous eye that saw so much and the hand that could execute what the eye perceived will never do more for the uplifting of humanity. For the books of Hamilton Gibson are an uplift of the most wholesome character. The world worn men and women can find recuperation in the fresh. ness of nature they present, and the scholar in books can learn bumility as he sees a world of nature opened to him which he has never noted or studied. But most of all do the children and the teachers of children need the spirit which animates this author's works the spirit of reverence for nature as the handiwork of the Creator. "Eye Spy" has an autobiographical interest in its opening chapter containing the naturalist's recollections of his boyhood, his first impressions of nature, his studies and favorite books, and the beginning of his professional career. There are chapters on beetles, the housefly, wasps, splders, snakes, grasshoppers, pansies, cocoons, clo. vers, mushrooms, primroses and other insects and flowers. It is all worth careful study, and the boys and girls are fortunate who can get their eyes and hands on this book.

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY.

AMERICAN COMPREHENSIVE ARITHMETIC. By M. A. Bailey, Professor of Mathematics in the Kansas State Normal School.

GRAMMAR SCHOOL ARITHMETIC BY GRADES. By E. H. Moore, Ph. D, Head Professor of Mathematics, University of Chicago.

The Comprehensive Arithmetic possesses many new and striking features in its application to business and everyday affairs of life It devotes separate sections to the "Lumber Dealer," ," "The Carpet Dealer," "The Paper Hanger," "The Mason," "The Farmer," etc. Pupils trained in this book will be prepared to go from the class-room to the counting-room.

Grammar School Arithmetic covers the work of fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades of public schools. No rules are given in this book, but the inductive or laboratory method is followed throughout. In the selection of problems attention has been given to correlation with other subjects in the grammar school

AURORA, N. Y.

UPLAND PASTURES. 63 pages. Price, $2.00. This dainty work of art is issued in an edition of six hundred copies, each numbered and signed. Everythil about this ook is unique.

are those used in the schools of Germany and never before put into English words. They are topically arranged. Morning, 10 pieces; Evening and Night, 17; Lullabies, 3; Spring, 27; Summer, 15; Autumn and Winter, 11; Forest and Stream, 15; Flowers, 10; Birds and Other

Creatures, 19; Home, 30; the Hunter, 6; the Soldier, 5; Pleasure, 19.

NATURAL ELEMENTARY GEOGRAPHY. By Price, 60 cents. Jacques W. Redway, F. R. G. S. 144 pages.

This claims to be the latest geography pub. lished, and to follow the recommendations of the Committee of Fifteen. The central idea of its treatment is Man-his history, customs, industries and geographic relations. The discussion of the countries into which man has divided the earth includes the human and descriptive. The divisions of the United States are according to elevation, climate and industries rather than location. In Europe the divisions are according to racial lines. The book has a series of plain and distinct mapsphysical and political-drawn so as to give pupils a correct idea of the comparative areas of countries, population and products. It also presents topical outlines for oral and written work, and suggests independent work by its arrangement of toptcs. The illustrations are drawn largely from nature, and are meant for use rather than ornament. The national reputation of the author of this book will guarantee its accuracy and originality in geographical presentation.

THE WHITAKER & RAY COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

MATKA AND KOTIF. A Tale of the Mist Islands. By David Starr Jordan, President of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, and United States Commissioner in charge of the Seal Investigation.

This allegory of the fur seal is written with a beneficent purpose-a protest against the slaughter of the mother seals. As a story it is full of vivid interest and takes the reader into the atmosphere of the far-away islands with the skill of a true story-teller. But underneath the interest in the seal life, action and habits, there is always the consciousness that the end will be tragic, and this casts a half melancholy on the brightest pages. Such a book from such a man as President Jordan cannot fail to do good. Much of the commercial traffic in seals and the use of them by just, kind-hearted people have been through ignorance and thoughtlessness. The illustrations are numer ous, most of them full page, and all of them show the life, habits and haunts of the seal with great vividness. The sooner our children understand this seal question in its humane aspect, the better for the future of our country.

NEW ENGLAND PUBLISHING CO, BOSTON. OUR INDUSTRIES. FABRICS. By Albert E. Winship.

Every teacher will find something in this book that she will be glad to appropriate. The teachers of smallest children may feel that it has not much for them, but that depends on the kind of teacher she is. If she is searching for solid facts that she can give to her children verbatim, she will fail to find it here, but if she is broad enough to draw constatistics, and has skill enough to adapt this clusions from facts, gather fresh truth from knowledge to childish comprehension, she will find help in this book about fabrics. The contents are Sheep, Wool and Woolens, Car. pets, Cotton, Silk and Linens. Illustrated.

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PUPILS' OUTLINE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. By Francis H. White, A.M. Paper. Square octavo. 123 pages. Price, 30 cents. New York: American Book Co.

This is a book of Outline Studies, Maps and Blanks, intended for use in connection with the study of United States History. It contains an original and systematic combination of devices consisting of outline maps, graphic charts, and blanks for historical tables and summaries, for the reproduction of pictures, for biographical sketches, for studies in civil government, etc. It also contains valuable suggestions to teachers and pupils, and carefully selected lists of historical books and authorities for collateral reading and refer

ence.

Its use will encourage the pupil to observe closely, to select the leading and salient facts of history, to classify his knowledge, to inves tigate for himself, and to carry his investigations up to recognized authorities and even to original sources. It also furnishes opportunity and material for the best exercises and training in English composition.

The book is conveniently arranged for either class or individual instuction and may be used in connection with any text-book on United States History.

THE CHILDREN'S FOURTH READER By Ellen M. Cyr. Square, 12mo. Cloth. 372 pages. Fully illustrated. Boston: Ginn & Co.

The "Children's Fourth Reader" has been prepared on the same lines as the Second and Third Readers of this series. The plan adopted in the previous Readers of making boys and girls acquainted with a few of our great authors is continued in this book.

Sketches of Hawthorne, Dickens, Scott, Ten nyson, and Irving are introduced, amply illus. trated with portraits and pictures of the homes of these autors. Choice selections have also been made from well-known writ. ers, like Bayard Taylor, Mrs. Spofford, George MacDonald, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Thackeray, Eugene Field, Thomas Nelson Page, Helen Hunt Jackson, R. L. Stevenson, Charles Dudley Warner, Mrs. Ewing and other authors whose writings are especially interesting and instructive to pupils of Fourth Reader grade.

The book is illustrated with vignette portraits of many of the authors, in addition to a large number of original illustrations based upon the text and designed especially for this reader.

NEW FACTS ABOUT SOUTH
DAKOTA.

To enable the farmers in the Eastern States to pass the long winter evenings in an entertaining and instructive manner, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company has recently published for free distribution, a new pamphlet, finely illustrated with pictures which will delight the eyes of Eastern farmers, and containing letters from their brethren in South Dakota descriptive of their experience while tilling the soil and raising cattle, sheep and hogs in the "Sunshine State "

This pamphlet is well worth reading through from cover to cover. It will be sent free if you will send your address to either H. F. Hunter, Immigration Agent, 291 Dearborn Street, Chicago, or to Geo. H. Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Old Colony Building, Chicago,

TRYING ORDEALS FOR WOMEN.

Mrs. Pinkham Tells How Women May Avoid Painful Examinations.

To a modest, sensitive, highstrung young woman, especially an unmarried woman, there is no more trying or painful ordeal than the "examinations," which are now so common in hospitals and private practice.

An examination by speculum, or otherwise, is sometimes a positive necessity in certain stages of many diseases peculiar to women, so at least it is declared by the profession. This would not be the case if patients heeded their symptoms in time.

If a young girl's blood is watery, her skin pale and waxy looking, her lips colorless, bowels torpid, digestion poor, her ears and temples throb and she is subject to headache, begin at once to build up her system with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Do not allow her to undergo a physical examination. Here is a letter from a young lady who requests that her name should not be used, but gives her initials and street number so that any inquiry addressed to her I will be received. She says:

"Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-It affords me great pleasure to be able to say a few words in regard to the merits of your Vegetable Compound. I was tempted to try it after seeing the effects of it upon my mother, and now I feel like a new person. I am a stenographer and was troubled with falling of the womb and female weakness in general. I continued to work until I was so weak I could no longer walk, and the last day I was forced to stop and rest.

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