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This is an admirable way for teachers to get music in a cheap form. when they desire special selections for entertainments. The publishers will furnish a list of the songs and prices upon application. De THE LINCOLN LITERARY COLLECTION. signed for school-room and family circle. By J. P. McCaskey, Editor of the Pennsylvania School Journal. Cloth, 12mo, 576 pp. Price, $1.00. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago: American Book Company. This volume is a collection of choice literary selections for reading in schools or in the family circle, and for memory work. The book is designed particularly to aid and encourage the young in forming the habit of committing to memory choice selections of poetry and prose. It contains, for this purpose, a wide range of material from the best literature in the language. It includes the great masterpieces of literature from the Bible and Homer, from Shakespeare, Milton, Bacon, and from their long line of literary successors; together with the choicest gems of poetry from Burns, Moore, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Arnold, Bryant, Halleck, Lowell, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, and a host of other favorites. 1898 CALENDARS. A very handsome calendar for 1898, made to represent a government mail pouch, has been issued by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. It is printed in a rich brown and gold on heavy enameled card, size 8x15 inches. The calendar will be sent free anywhere, on receipt of eight cents in postage to cover cost of mailing, by applying to A. J. Smith, G. P. & T. A., Cleveland, O. 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THE MACMILLAN CO., NEW YORK CITY. of each month is outlined, and is the outgrowth of experience with child nature and the child's Trees" has been unusually successful in this. She has been simple in her language, lively in her style; and her comparisons have been drawn from the domestic experience of the child. Best of all, she has avoided the common mistake of twisting natural relationships in order to express herself in the ordinary words of children. Her material is good throughout, the trees are carefully described, with drawings of the leaf and flowers; they are associated with interesting historical them are noted. Altogether it is a book valuevents, and the common insects frequenting able to both teacher and student. D. APPLETON & CO., NEW YORK. UNCLE ROBERT'S GEOGRAPHY SERIES. Edited by Francis W. Parker. UNCLE ROBERT'S VISIT. III. By Francis W. Parker and Nellie Lathrop Helm. The revolution in the mode of studying and This is a new spelling book on an improved not afford to buy for school helps, this is a help teaching geography is one of the marked indi plan, for teaching the forms and values of common words. It begins with words illus. trating the primary sounds, these being printed both in Roman letters and in vertical script. Then follow graded lessons on differ ent classes and uses of words, accompanied with brief selections from well-known writers for dictation exercises, exercises in punctuation, and in word-building. In the hands of skilful teachers, the book, which is apparently intended for use through all the grades of the intermediate and grammar schools, may be made a language book as well as a speller. HISTORY OF JAPAN. By R. M. Van Bergen M.A. This story is written to tell children more, about the Japanese Empire than they can get from books. It is therefore clothed in simple language to attract the American children to learn more of "our nearest neighbor across the Pacific." The overpowering influence of the "samurai" of old, who have always been the rulers of the nation, is dwelt upon as a key to the modern changes in Japan which have had for their single object the acquisition of greater power to vanquish foreigners. There are into the many interesting stories woven national history, and abundant illustrations of fine quality of every phase of life in Japan. Every foreign word is simply pronounced (in parenthesis) and there is every reason that American children should take kindly to these interesting stories of the Japanese people. The teacher who uses this as a supplementary reoder will find no difficulty in interesting the children in the geography of Japan. ROUND THE WORLD IN MYTH AND SONG. Florence Holbrook. The year thus made beautiful is the school year from September till June. It is intended as a reading book for the third and fourth grades in school and at the home. The myths and songs are suited to each season, and the illustrations are also in keeping with the sentiment of the various seasons. These illustra tions are very beautiful; nearly all are engravings from photographs of famous works in painting and sculpture. The influ. ence of this book upon young people cannot but be highly beneficial It is a training in beauty and imagination that is too much neglected in the education of our American children. she cannot afford to do without. LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN INSECTS. By The author begins these life histories with PUBLIC SCHOOL PUBLISHING CO., cure THE STORY OF ULYSSES. By Agnes Spofford cations of educational progress. No man has done so much to bring about this revolution as Col. Parker. He seems to have been endowed with a second sight in discovering the hidden secrets of Nature's handiwork. No pupil of the Cook County Normal School can ever go out and teach geography in the old mechanical way of text-book questions and answers. It was a happy thought for Col. Parker to embody his ideas of the beginnings in geogra phy in a series of supplementary readers, written by one of the most accomplished of his normal pupils. No better selection could have been made for this work. Nellie Lathrop Helm, with her rare grasp of Col. Parker's theory of early geography teaching, has, with her facile pen, instructive knowledge of children, and fine woman's sense of the fitness of things, written a most enjoy. able story of farm-life, into which nature study and scientific fact are ingeniously interwovenThis combination of an inspiring, directive force to plan a book and point out the goal to be reached, and of a woman's tact and conversational talent to put the work in attractive shape, is becoming popular, and deservedly so. There is a complement in mental ability as well as in colors. It seems odd to publish the third of the series first, but the first two are in press and will soon be before the public and in the hands of the children, who will be among the best judges of their adaptability to the needs of the public schools. SPRING IS COMING Your Blood Take Hood's Sarsaparilla and Guard Against Danger. During the winter, owing to close confinement, diminished perspiration and other causes, the blood has become impoverished and impure. In the spring the millions purify, enrich and vitalize their blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla. This is the greatest and best Spring medicine, because it is the greatest and best blood purifier that medical science has ever produced. Miss Cook has written this book in much of the spirit of a labor of love. If the story was to be written at all it was to be written well, and the result is plainly discernible in every line. It has been a painstaking task to give the adventures of this hero By in the order of time in which they occurred to eliminate every indelicate phrase in the Now is the Time to Purify original, to keep the language strong, and to preserve through it all the spirit of the arcient days when Ulysses wandered and But of the successful Penelope waited. accomplishment of this self-imposed task there can be but one opinion. The book is worthy to give into the hands of the children of the nineteenth century. And will these children understand its meaning? There has been no attempt to carry a double meaning in this narration; but the skilful, thinking teacher will find it not difficult to invite the children to a spirit of inquiry as they read the pages together. Suggestive "notes" at the close of the volume will aid teachers in further descriptions and interpretations. The illustrations are simple, classic, and remarkably effective. The book is designed as a supplementary reader for third and fourth grades. THOMAS NELSON & SONS, NEW YORK CITY. STORIES OF THE TREES. By Mrs. Dyson. It requires art to write a good book for nature study. Writers who have themselves studied nature, usually outgrow those primitive qualities of mind which most appeal to children. These children are repeating race history, it is natural and right that their literature should be suited to that stage of development, that it should be emotional, enthusiastic and imaginative. How to adapt the serious facts of nature, its giant correlations, to such minds and to such a vocabulary is quite a problem. Mrs. Dyson in her "Stories of the THE MORSE CO., NEW YORK CITY. AROUND THE WORLD. By Stella W. Carroll. Edited by Clarence F. Carroll. Now and then a book appears that everybody seems to have been waiting for. "Around the World" is such a book. The wonderful success of "Seven Little Sisters" is well-known to all publishers and teachers. 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