nessey of Black River Falls, are this year members of the faculty of the Berkeley, Calif., high school. Mr. Fuller is handling the subject of physics, and Mr. Hennessey takes the English work.

The endowment fund of Milwaukee-Downer College is now $210,000. More students have applied for admission this coming year than the buildings will accommodate. This institution familiarly called the "Vassar of the West" is gaining in popularity and efficiency every year of its existence.

The Stevens Point normal school has recently issued two important bulletins, one relating to domestic science and domestic art by Miss Flora C. Studley, the instructor in these subjects, the other on arithmetic for the seventh and eighth grades by Prin. Frank S. Hyer of the training department.

The establishment of a course in athletics in the state university leading to an A. B. degree has attracted considerable attention throughout the state. The degree is not conferred upon those pursuing athletics only. A strong academic course is prescribed in connection with the practical work.

Durand has again defeated the proposition to erect a new school building by a close vote of 235 to 218. At the third meeting held in July, all appropriations for improvements were voted down and it is now up to the local board of education to provide the necessities for carrying on the schools the coming year.

The west division high school of Milwaukee, issues a monthly publication called The Comet. The commencement number for 1911 is well illustrated, has a good advertising patronage, and its editorship indicates that the largest high school in Wisconsin has great journalistic ability in its large student body.

From La Crosse comes most flattering reports of results obtained in the physical training of public school children. This department was established last February through the generosity of Mrs. G. C. Hixon. Many deformities have been corrected, and young women have been given intelligent direction in the development of deficient parts.

During the summer, Dr. E. C. Elliot of the University in connection with Elmer E. Brown, United States Commissioner of Education, gave a series of lectures in Chicago University. The month of August found Dr. Elliot busy in New York City on a special committee selected to investigate the general efficiency of the New York City schools.

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Mr. Ira C. Painter of Zanesville, comes to the principalship of the Wausau high school for next year, is a graduate of Denison University and has done some post-graduate work at Harvard and Michigan University. For the last five years he has been principal of the high school at Zanesville. His initial salary at Wausau is $2,000.

The Wisconsin Academy at Madison, of which Miss Charlette Richmond has been principal for the last twenty years, has been taken over by the University of Wisconsin and will be used this year for the practice department of the school of education. It is under the supervision of Dr. E. C. Elliott. It is hoped that by another fall the new university high school building will be ready for occupancy.

From outside the state this year come four principals: Ira C. Painter from Zanesville, Ohio, to Wausau; J. E. Roberts from Chariton, Iowa, to Stevens Point; F. E. Ballard to Sun Prairie, and John S. Henesey to Poynette. Several minor positions are also filled by outsiders, not to mention Mr. Crabtree who comes from Nebraska to the presidency of the River Falls normal. Of late years, the Wisconsin educational imports seem to have largely exceeded the exports!

The most successful city in the state in the maintaining of night schools last year was West Allis. These schools were well attended not only throughout the winter but late into the spring. West Allis now has a force of thirty-two teachers, four school buildings and a fifth building is being erected at a cost of $35,000. Supt. T. J. Jones receives $1,900 this year. He is advanced to $2,000 next year on a three year contract. This is the fifth year Mr. Jones has presided over the West Allis schools.

Theodore Kronshage is now president of the board of regents of normal schools. C. H. Crown

hart, former president, still maintains his membership on the board and likewise as one of the three industrial commissioners of the state. Lieutenant Governor Thomas Morris of LaCrosse is a regent, as is also John Harrington of Oshkosh, who has recently accepted the position of special attorney with the state tax commission at Madison. Colonel Duncan McGregor, the local Platteville regent, is private secretary to Governor McGovern.

The mayor of Beloit refused to sign an ordinance passed by the common council which penalized parents of children who were sent to school afflicted with body lice. In the judgment of the mayor, it was too drastic a measure for the few families who might come under its provisions,

and the board of health already has full power to act in such cases. The Beloit high school opens this year with a strong commercial course of study. Supt. Converse's salary has been increased by $100, and for the present school year he will receive $2,400.

The board of regents of the normal schools has prepared in printed form an announcement of the two years of college work outlined for these institutions. Only the first year's work will be offered for 1911-12. This document also includes announcements of the school of fine and applied arts in the Milwaukee normal; the departments of manual training at Oshkosh and Platteville; the department of domestic science at Stevens Point; and the kindergarten training courses at Milwaukee and Superior. It may be obtained free by addressing the Secretary of the Normal Board of Regents, Madison, Wis.

School events in Milwaukee during the summer: Supt. Pearse is being congratulated from all sides upon his election to the presidency of the National Education Association at the San Francisco meeting last July. Miss Helen Pool of La Porte, Ind., is to be the new supervisor of music to succeed Mrs. Clark. E. L. Richardson is president of the school board. W. L. Pieplow has returned to the membership of the board, being 'elected to succeed Mrs. C. B. Whitnall. The building committee of the school board has recommended the opening of a fifth high school at 38th and Clark streets. For the present this will probably be housed in barracks. The school cen

sus shows a gain of 967 over last year, the total school population being 116,733. The big school field meet on June 10th was an immense success, there being nearly 17,000 in attendance; two thousand four hundred children participated in the athletic events; the sum of $800 was cleared for the penny lunch fund. The contract for the publication of a special spelling book for the Milwaukee schools has been let to Row, Peterson & Co; the price of the book will be sixteen cents. The death of Edward Rissman, formely principal of the south division high school, occurred at his home on the morning of June 29th; Mr. Rissman was a cultured gentleman, a successful teacher, and his early death is regretted by a host of friends in and out of the educational field.

BOOK REVIEWS.

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A History of the United States for Schools. Andrew C. McLaughlin, A. M., LL.B., Head of Dept. of Hist., University of Chicago, and Claude Halstead Van Tyne, PhD., Head of Dept. of Am. Hist., University of Michigan. With maps and illustrations. New York, Chicago, D. Appleton & Co.

First Reader. Adapted and Graded by Harriette Taylor Treadwell, Prin. W. Pullman School, Chicago, and Margaret Free, Primary Teacher, Forestville School, Chicago, 1898-1908. Illustrated by Frederick Richardson. Chicago, Row, Peterson, & Co.

Paper and Cardboard Construction. By George Fred Buxton, Director Manual Training Dept., Stout Institute, Menomonie, Wis., and Fred L. Curran, Supervisor of Elem. Manual Training, Stout Institute. Book, Box, Card, and Envelope Problem. 42" X 7" bound in cloth. $1.50. Menomonie, Wis., The Menomonie Press.

Industrial Geography of Wisconsin. By James A. Merrill, S.B., Teacher of Geography and Geology, State Normal School, Superior, Wis. Chicago, Des Moines, The Laurel Book Co., Educational Publishers.

Our Country and Its People. An introductory Geographic Reader for the fourth school year. By Prof. Will S. Monroe, State Normal School, Montclair, New Jersey, and Anna Buckbee, State Normal School, California, Pa. Illustrated. 10 mo, cloth, 40 cents, school. New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers.

The Standard American Drawing and Lettering Book. Drawn and arranged by Peter Idarius, Expert Letterer. Album shaped, size 10 x 14 inches, $1.25. Chicago, Press of Laird & Lee.

Second-Year Mathematics For Secondary Schools. By George William Meyers, Prof. of the teaching of Mathematics and Astronomy, College of Education of the University of Chicago, and William R. Wickes, Ernst R. Breslich, Ernest A. Wreidt, Arnold Dresden, Assisted by Ernest L. Caldwell and Robert

M. Mathews, Instructors in Mathematics in the University High School of the University of Chicago. Price, postpaid, $1.63. Chicago, Ill., The Uiversity of Chicago Press. First Reader. By James H. Van Sickle, Supt. of Public Instruction, Baltimore, and Wilhelmina Seegmiller, Director of Art, Indianapolis Public Schools. Assisted by Frances Jenkins, Supervisor Elem. Grades, Decatur, Ill. Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright. Price, $.35. Boston, New York, Chicago, Houghton Mifflin Co.

Primer. By same authors.

Illustrated by Ruth Mary Hallock. Price, $.30. Boston, New York, Chicago, Houghton Mifflin Co. Teaching Poetry In the Grades. By Margaret W. Haliburton, Primary Supervisor, and Agnes G. Smith, Dept. of Literature and Reading, State Normal, Farmville, Virginia. Price, $.60. Boston, New York, Chicago, The Riverside Press Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Co.

Primer. By Kate F. Oswell, B. A., and C. B. Gilbert, Formerly Supt. of Schools, St. Paul, Newark, Rochester. Price, $.30. New York, The MacMillan Co.

American History For Grammar Schools. I. From the Old World to the New. II. The Birth of the Nation. III. The Nation's Life and Progress. By Marguerite Stockman Dickson. Price, $1.00 net. New York, The MacMillan Co.

North America.

A Supplementary Geography. By James Franklin Chamberlain, Ed.B., S. B. Dept. of Geography, State Normal, Los Angeles, Calif., and Arthur Henry Chamberlain B.S., A.M., Formerly Prof. of Education, Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, Calif. Price, $.55 net. New York, The MacMillan Co.

Pitman's Commercial French Grammar. By F. W. M. Draper, B.A. (Cantab.) Licencie es Lettres, University of Paris; Formerly Classical Scholar of Queens' College, Cambridge. Cloth, gilt, $1.00. London, Bath, and New York, 1 Amen Corner, E.C., Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.

Talks With Shorthand Students. By James Hynes, Ex-Pres. Incorporated Society of Shorthand Teachers, etc. Price, $.40. London, Bath, and New York, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, LTD., 1 Amen Corner, E. C. Miscellaneous Readings in Isaac Pitman Shorthand. No. 1. A series of shorthand dictation exercises. With printed key, and the matter counted for testing of speed in shorthand and typewriting. Price, $.35. 2-6 West 45th St., New York, Isaac Pitman & Sons, The Phonographic Depot.

A Practical Course in Touch Typewriting. By Charles E. Smith, Author of "Cumulative Speller." Ninth Edition, Revised. Price, $.50. 31 Union Square, New York City, Isaac Pitman & Sons.

Washington's Farewell Address and Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration. Edited by Frank W. Pine, M.A., English Master, The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. Cloth, 16mo, 117 pages, with portrait. Price, 30 cents. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago, American Book Co.

A Latin Primer. By H. C. Nutting, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Latin, University of California. Cloth, 12mo, 240 pages. Price, 50 cents. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago, American Book Co.

Reading With Expression. A series of Readers by James Baldwin, Author of Baldwin's Readers, Harper's Readers, etc., and Ida C. Bender, Supt. of Primary Grades, Buffalo, N. Y. Cloth, 12mo, illustrated. First Reader, 144 pages. Price, 30 cents. Second Reader, 176 pages. Price, 35 cents. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago, American Book Co. Two Latin Plays For High-School Students. A Roman school and a Roman wedding. By Susan Paxson, Instructor in Latin, Omaha High School. 12mo, cloth, xii+39 pages. Price of single copies sent postpaid, 45 cents. Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Ginn & Co.

Selections From the Letters, Speeches, and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln. Edited with introduction and notes, by Ida M. Tarbell. 16mo, cloth, xxvii+124 pages, with frontispiece, 30 cents. Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Ginn & Co.

Barbarian and Noble. By Marion Florence Lansing, M.A. Illustrated by reproductions of 183 pages, drawings from old engravings. price, 40 cents. Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Ginn & Co.

By CLARENCE F. CARROLL, Superintendent of Schools, Rochester, N. Y., and SARAH C. BROOKS, formerly Principal of the Teachers' Training School, Baltimore, Md. Are the work of authors of experience and well-earned standing.

Teach reading by making a direct appeal to the child's instincts and enlisting his interests.

Present a wide variety of good reading, carefully balanced in amount. Introduce new words gradually, repeat them systematically, and review them carefully. Are artistically and pertinently illustrated in color and black-and-white.