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NOW USED IN ALL PROGRESSIVE SCHOOLS.

Order by number. Each number contains about 32 pages of choice Illustrated Literature, bound in strong manilla covers. Price, 5 cents a copy, 60 cents a dozen, postpaid.

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Cyr's Fourth Reader

By ELLEN M. CYR.

Cloth. 388 Pages. Fully Illustrated. For Introduction 60 cents.

THE

HE CHILDREN'S FOURTH READER has been prepared on the same lines as the Second and Third Readers. 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, Tennyson and Irving are introduced, amply illustrated with portraits and pictures of the homes of these authors. Choice selections have also been made from the good writers, like Bayard Taylor, Mrs. Spofford, Eugene Field, Thomas Nelson Page, Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, R. L. Stevenson, C. D. Warner, Mrs. Ewing, and other authors whose writings are especially interesting, and instructive to pupils in Fourth Reader grade. The book is fully illustrated with vignette portraits of the authors chosen, besides many original illustrations, based upon the text and and designed especially for this book.

Descriptive circulars of the Cyr Readers sent postpaid to any address. Correspondence cordially invited.

GINN & COMPANY, Publishers,

BOSTON. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ATLANTA. DALLAS.

TEACHERS' BOOKS FOR THE SPRING

FAIRYLAND OF FLOWERS.

I believe teachers will find the Fairyland of Flowers very helpful. I know from my experience with teachers, that it is just what most teachers need. Plant study is the easiest and most promising division of nature study and such a book will help teachers who know nothing about plants, if they will study the plants and not merely the books. The illustrations are unusually good. Busy teachers who want to correlate nature study with literature will find the poems and stories interwoven with the plant descriptions, very helpful. They help teachers to realize that plants are more than mere structures to be picked apart or analyzed and described. CHARLES B. SCOTT, Oswego Normal School.

Fully Illus., qto. Boards, 1.00; Cloth, $1.25.

A Year With the Birds.

A
YEAR
AMONG
THE

TREES

FLAGG

Birds of winter, birds of the night, birds of the moor, sea and shore, birds of the pasture and forest and farm o', and barn-yard, are all treated and hundreds of species receive a detailed review.

Silk Cloth. Illus Price, $1.00.

A Year Among the
Trees.

Every tree and shrub is described here in a popular common-sense manner. In fact, it just such a book as a lover of Nature wishes.-Gameland. Illus. Cloth. 320 pp. Price, $1.00.

Our Spring Offer

By answering this advertisement this month you will get

PRIMARY SCHOOL LEAFLET and THE HELPER FOR THE PRICE OF ONE. PRIMARY SCHOOL LEAFLET has four pages of choice sight reading for first and second grades, prepared by successful primary teachers. It is published monthly. 12 single Leaflets, 6c. 100 single copies, 35c. 12 copies a month, ten months, September to June, for 50c. 100 copies monthly, 10 months, $2.50. Ask prices for larger quantities.

Contents of Volume 1. Price 10c.

No. 1--The Sun, Phaeton, The Snow. No. 2-Our
Flag, The Boy Washington, The Man Washington,
Joan of Arc. No. 3-Winds. No. 4-Spring, Pussy-
Willow, Rain, Dandelion, Little Brown Seed. No. 5
-Little Dandelion, What the Flowers Wished, The
Violet, Anemone. No. 6-The Frog, Snail, Crayfish.
No. 7-September Aster, Goldenrod. No. 8-Milk-
weed, Thistle, Ants, October. No. 9-The Mayflower.
New Land, Fruit, Thanksgiving, Squirrel. No. 10-
The Madonna, The Stars and the Child, The Christ-
mas Story.

Contents of Volume 2. Price 10c.

No. 1-The Snowflake Fairies, The Snow, A Trip to
Cloudland, The Star. No. 2-Abraham Lincoln. No.
3-The Little Hiawatha. No. 4-Hiawatha's Canoe,
The Cary Tree. No. 5-More about the Cary Tree, The
Young Soldier, Take Care, The Drummer-Boy's Burial,
The Red and White Roses, No. 6-Story of Little
Caterpillar, Caterpillar and Robin Redbreast, Sleepy
Little Caterpillar, Little Butterfly. No. 7-The Ants
and the Grasshopper, The Pea Blossom. No. 8-The
Three Bears, The Pea Blossom concluded. No. 9-
The Lion and the Mouse, Why Chipmunks Have
Stripes, No. 10-The Christmas Bells.

Contents of Volume 2%1⁄2:

Half Number. Price only 5c.
1-Little Red Riding Hood and picture.
2-Little Cedric, adapted from Story Land
(illustrated). 3-King Æolus and the
Bag of Winds. 4.-The Easter Hare.
5. A Little Morning Glory Seed. 6-
Clytie (illustrated); The First Dandelion.

Volumes 1, 2 and 2% were edited by Mary L. Gilman, principal of the Clay school, Minneapolis, a most successful primary teacher and supervisor. Each volume is bound in manila covers. Volume 3 begins with September, 1897, and ends with June, 1898. It is edited by Bertha V. Taylor, of the Minneapolis public schools. Several of Miss Taylor's stories appear in Volumes 1 and 2. A sample dozen of different numbers of the Leaflet will be mailed to any teacher for 5c. We do not sell less than one dozen copies or enter subscriptions for less than one dozen monthly.

The Helper

IS: 1st. Just what its name implies, The Helper. It is a beautifully illustrated
series of articles, poems, programs for special days, drawings and aids, conveni-
ently and appropriately grouped for use in the successive months of the school
year beginning with September and ending with June.
It has 136 pages 9x12
inches, more than 150 line drawings, most of them suitable for blackboard work,
music and words of the national songs of leading nations.

Next it contains Special Day Exercises for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Decoration Day, Arbor Day, Washington's Birthday, Lincoln Day; 25 patriotic poems, 17 poems on birds and insects, 24, poems on plants and flowers, 34 poems of nature, 12 poems and exercises for the seasons, over 50 miscellaneous poems and 30 pieces of music suitable for school.

Next, it is an emergency helper, ever ready. Every teacher needs it and can use it every day. The trite saying "a long felt want" means all it ever meant when applied to The Helper. Those who have it recommend it, and it is seldom loaned, because each wants her own all the time. Our offer is a year's subscription to Primary School Leaflet and a copy of The Helper both for 50c. To any who prefer it we will send bound Volumes 1, 2 and 2% of Primary School Leaflet and a copy of The Helper for 50c.

If you do no find the Leaflet and the Helper all we represent them to be we will refund the money. If we please you, you will tell your friends; hence this special offer. Do not make a mistake in our address: Mention this paper.

SCHOOL EDUCATION COMPANY, 26 and 28 Washington avenue south, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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A new feature, which will render them much more valuable than ever before, is now provided for our Souvenirs. It consists in copying and transferring to the title card of the Souvenir the teacher's photograph. Those ordering Souvenirs with photograph should send a cabinet photograph from which to copy, and make extra remittance of 25 per cent of the regular price for the number of Souvenirs required. There will be no change in the photograph, and the picture on the Souvenir will be an exact copy of the original, but reduced in size. We can, of course, furnish them with or without photograph, as desired. Photographs have always been considered a most appropriate gift for close of school, but they could not often be used on account of the great expense, especially where the school is large. Now that you can procure good photographs in connection with the most appropriate gifts ever devised for presentation to pupils (our Souvenirs) for a mere trifle, none should fail to take advantage of the opportunity. A sample free to any address.

Number to Order. Order at least as many as there are officers, teachers and pupils to be printed
upon them, and as many more as you wish. State definitely the number you
wish, and send, plainly written, the matter you desire printed on the face of first card, together
with the name of each pupil. Be sure that names are correctly spelled and plainly written.
When to Order. Orders can be filled the day they are received, but should be sent a couple
of weeks in advance, if possible, to avoid delay.
free to any address.

One sample Souvenir

TEACHERS IMPROVEMENT CO., Box 2003, Dansville, N. Y.

1.25 25: Additional o es 3c. each. In ordering quantities in excess of

25 send $1.45 for first 25 and 3c each for all over that number. Number of Souvenirs ordered must equal number of names

printed Sent postpaid on receipt of price. When ordering Photograph Souvenirs remit 25 per cent in addition to the prices above quoted.

Gentlemen:

I am very glad to see this

reinforcement of Supplementary Read-
ing in our schools.

W. J. Harris,

A. S. Commissioner of Education.

For further information see following pages, also our SAMPLE PAGE and Complete Catalogue for 1898.

EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY,