"Pupils will gain in individual expression and application by seeing beautiful things, just as they gain along similar lines by hearing and reading fine examples in literature. Therefore, in order that the children may develop in a natural manner, it is hoped that the teacher will accept even very crude results when these express the best efforts of the pupils."

2. PICTURES SUITABLE FOR SCHOOLS are to be found in the local and all good Art stores. The following aids to the selection of a picture are suggested:

Catalogues of "Art Material for Public Schools."

By the Prang Educational Co., Boston, Chicago, New York; By the Witter Company, Art Publishers, New York. Illustrative Prints, 1 cent each (all types of subjects for schools). By the Perry Picture Company, Malden, Mass.

Books:-" Art and the Formation of Taste," by Lucy Crane. How to Enjoy Pictures," by Mabel S. Emery. Any bookstore.

The ground to cover for Entrance or Third Class examinations, is the Public School Course, Books 1 to 5, inclusive. Where preparation has to be confined to the study of one book, Book 3 is advised.

The subject matter of the present edition is treated in the extended manuals of the Prang Elementary Course, in each of which manuals the introductory chapter is almost the same. and is the best temporary help that can be recommended. It is, however, considered that the teacher who has any recent Prang manual, and has taken advantage. of the short series of Normal School Lessons, should be able to conduct the shorter course of work in any drawing book below No. 5. This "shorter course" is presented in each drawing book by the pages 2, 4, 6, 8, etc., or a series of twelve exercises as a basis of study for the school year.

References at present used in the city schools for work above Grade III are:

Part I, and three succeeding. parts called, respectively, 4th, 5th and 6th year books-Elementary Course Manuals, Prang.

(Part I being perhaps best adapted to the present drawing books under No. 4).

with a few special art books, pamphlets, art journals, are in a few separate libraries.

OF THE

ADVISORY BOARD

AS TO

TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES.

REVISED JULY 30th, 1902.

The following regulations have been adopted by the Advisory Board in regard to the examination of teachers and granting of certifi

cates:

TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES.

1. The certificates hereafter granted by the Advisory Board of Education for the public schools of the Province of Manitoba shall rank as first, second or third class. Those of the first class shall be subdivided into grades A and B; those of the second and third classes shall be each of one grade. The first and second shall be valid during the pleasure of the Board; the third class certificate shall be valid for three years.

2. There shall be two parts in the examination for granting certi ficates one for testing the literary acquirements of the candidates, to be known as the non-professional examination; the other for testing their knowledge of the theory and practice of education, to be known as the professional examination.

3. After July, 1901, candidates will be required to take Third Class Non-Professional Certificates before being allowed to write on the Second Class Non-Professional examination, and Second Class Non-Professional Certificates before being allowed to write on the First Class Non-Professional examination; the Board, however, reserving to itself the power of admitting to any examination candidates having special qualifications.

NON-PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION.-THIRD CLASS.

PART I.

1. Reading and Orthoepy:-Oral reading with proper pronunciation and expression. [Value, 100; minimum, 60.]

Writing and Spelling:-On all papers.

2. Composition and Rhetoric:-As outlined in Quackenbos. Chapters I to XXX inclusive.

Co.

Text Book.-Practical Rhetoric. Quackenbos'. American. Book

3. Geography:-The general geography of the world. Geography of the British Empire more particularly.

Text Book.-The New Canadian Geography.

4. Euclid:-Book I, with exercises.

Euclid's definitions will be required,and no axioms or postulates except Euclid's may be assumed unless in the case of the 12th axiom.

The actual proof of propositions as given in Euclid will not be required, but no proof of any proposition occurring in Euclid will be admitted in which use is made of any proposition, which, in Euclid's order, occurs subsequently. The enunciations will be set according to Euclid. Abbreviations for words may be used, but not the algebraical symbols and -, or indices.

(The definitions, axioms, postulates, enunciations as required will be found in Todhunter's Euclid).

5. Agriculture:

Text Books:-James' Agriculture. Manitoba Course of Agriculture, Series 2.

NOTE. At the examination for third class teachers thirty per cent. of the paper will be practical.

Inasmuch as the teaching of agriculture in the public schools generally is necessarily confined to the chemical and physical apparatus provided by the Department, teachers preparing candidates for the examination are reminded of the importance of having the candidates instructed in the use of the apparatus provided by the Department, on which the examination will be conducted.

6. Physiology: ·

Text Book.—The Human Body. Martin. (W. J. Gage & Co.)

7. Book-keeping:

Text Book.-High School Book-keeping, chapters 1 to 6 inclusive, chapters 8 to 10 inclusive.

PART II.

1. Reading:-As in Part I.

2. Spelling:-As in Part I.

3. Composition:-As in Part I, with more difficult tests.

4. Grammar:

Text Book.-West's Grammar.

5. History: The leading events of Canadian and English History.

Text Books.-Arabella B. Buckley's History of England; Clement's History of Canada.

6. Literature:-Prescribed Selections.

Text Book.-Literature Selections, McIntyre & Saul (Copp, Clark Co.)

7. Arithmetic:

Text Books.-Hamblin Smith's Arithmetic (20th Cent. Ed.), High School Arithmetic.

8. Algebra: Fundamental laws of Algebra; elementary rules; simple equations of one, two and three unknown quantities; factoring; H.C.F.; L.C.M.; problems.

Text Book.-C. Smith's Elementary Algebra, chapters I to XI. inclusive.

Supplementary for schools requiring additional exercises: Robertson & Birchard's High School Algebra.

9. Botany: Elements of Structural Botany (two papers).

Plants will be submitted to the candidates for examination and identification.

Text Books.-Spotton's High School Botany (Manitoba edition), and Manitoba Course of Agriculture, Series I.

Book of reference for Teachers.-Bergen's Elements of Botany (Ginn & Co.)

NOTE. At the examination for third class teachers fifty per cent. of the paper will be practical.

The attention of inspectors and teachers is called to the requirements of the Department as to submitting botanical note-books for inspection, and also as to the formation of a Herbarium in every Collegiate and Intermediate School.

10. Drawing:-Prang's New Graded Course in Drawing for Canadian Schools (5 Drawing Books, 1 Complete Manual.) W. J. Gage & Co.

(a) Sight Drawing.-Freehand sketches from nature-forms, from common objects, from models, or types of form; ideas of good grouping, and of simplicity in rendering. Theory-the ability to define and illustrate general principles of foreshortening and of convergence.

(b) An understanding of the kind of work implied by the term Constructive Drawing; accurate knowledge of the "Conventions" commonly used in making a working drawing; simple applications of these conventions, either freehand or instrumental.

(c) Study of one or two styles in historic ornament and of typical forms of arrangement-from copies, readings, etc.; similarly a notice of elementary steps in design and in uses of color; decorative treatment of a flower form, or of simple lines and spaces-e.g., a square of plaid, a book-panel, a rosette, etc.

11. Music:-Up to the standard of the Third Reader in the Normal Music Course; this covers Music in Bass and Treble clefs in all keys and rythms; the Chromatic scale, Minor scales and Modulation. Candidates will be required to read at sight Music up to this grade and may be required to write out a tune from memory. The examination is both written and oral.

SECOND CLASS.

ENGLISH.

1. Reading and Orthoepy:-Oral reading, with proper pronunciation and expression. (Value, 10fi; minimum, 60).

2. Writing and Spelling:-On all papers.

3. Rhetoric and Composition:-(One paper).

(a) The investigation of rhetorical principles, based on Barrett Wendell's English Composition.

(b) The writing of an essay on one of a number of subjects, some of which shall be based on the selections prescribed for prose literature. Text Book.-English Composition, Barrett Wendell.