which plan is the so-called "long-short course." All seniors take the subject for one semester and those who elect may take it the second half year of work, or the long course. The object of this is to meet the needs of those who wish to take manual training or domestic science, and at the same time to give every graduate a course in elementary physics. Sanitary fountains have been placed in the building where water is received. from a drilled well on the grounds. The air used for ventilation is humidified by blowing steam into it after it passes the warm coils. Iron working machinery electrically operated has been installed in the manual training department. Two physical instructors are now employed in this school, one for the boys and one for the girls. A part of their work is medical inspection and physical examination. BOOKS RECEIVED. Wider Use of the School Plant. By Clarence Arthur Perry. Introduction by Luther Halsey Gulick, M. D. Russel Sage Foundation. 404 pages. Price, postpaid, $1.25. 1910. New York, Charities Publication Committee. Three Crimson Days. By Harrison Patten. 1910. New York and Washington, The Neale Publishing Co. Literature In the School. Aims, Methods and Interpretations. By John S. Welch, formerly Supervisor of Grammar Grades, Salt Lake City Public Schools. 236 pages. $1.25. New York, Boston, Chicago, Silver Burdett & Co. Pilgrim Stories. By Margaret B. Pumphrey. Illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins. Chicago, New York, London, Rand McNally & Co. Plutarch on Education. Embracing the Three Treatises, The Education of Boys, How a Young Man Should Hear Lectures on Poetry, The Right Way to Hear. By Charles William Super, Ph. D., LL. D. Cloth, 16mo, pp. 200, $1.00. Syracuse, N. Y., C. W. Bardeen, Publisher Physical Training In and Out of School. By William Torrey Harris, LL. D., Late Commissioner of Education, Washington, D. C. 1910. Syracuse, N. Y., C. W. Bardeen, Publisher. New Geographies. Second Book. By Ralph S. Tarr, B. S., F. G. S. A., Prof. of Physical Geography at Cornell University, and Frank M. McMurray, Ph. D., Prof. of Elementary Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. With many colored maps and numerous illustrations chiefly photographs of actual scenes. Price, $1.10 net. 1910. All rights reserved. New York, The MacMillan Co. Elements of Business Arithmetic. By Anson H. Bigelow, Supt. City Schools, Lead, S. D., and net. 1911. All rights reserved. New York, The MacMillan Co. Report of the Commissioner of Education for the year ended June 30, 1910. Volume 1. 1910. Washington, Government Printing Office. The Biological Stations of Europe. By Charles Atwood Kofoid, Professor of Zoology, University of California. United States Bureau of 4. Education, Bulletin, 1910, No. 1910. Washington, Government Printing Office. Statistics of State Universities and Other Institutions of Higher Education Partially Supported By the State. For the year ended June 30, 1910. United States Bureau of Education, Bulletin, 1910, No. 6. Washington, Government Printing Office. Sociology and Modern Social Problems. By Charles A. Ellwood, Ph. D., Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri. Cloth, 12mo, 331 pages. Price, $1.00. New York, Cincinnati and Chicago, American Book Co. The Mastersinger. A Collection of Choruses and Part Songs arranged and adapted for the Classroom and for Large and Small Assemblies. By Frank R. Rix, A. B., M. D., Director of Music, Public Schools, New York City. Cloth, large 8vo, 192 pages. Price, 65 cents. New York, Cincinnati and Chicago, American Book Co. Art Songs For High Schools. By Will Earhart, Supervisor of Music, Richmond, Indiana. Cloth, large 8vo, 283 pages. Price, 80 cents. New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, American Book Co. Shakespeare's A Midsummer-Night's Dream. For use in Schools and Classes. With introduction and notes explanatory and critical by the Rev. Henry N. Hudson, LL. D. Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Ginn & Co. Ginn First Book in Geography. By Alexis Everett Frye. First Superintendent of Schools in Cuba. The most elementary geography ever written by this author. Square 12 mo, cloth viii. 156 pages, maps and illustrations. List price, 50c. & Co. Boston, New York, Chicago, London. Wentworth's Plane Geometery. Revised. By George Wentworth and David Eugene Smith. 12 mo, cloth, 287 pages, illustrated. 80 cents. Ginn & Co. Boston, New York, Chicago, London. Macaulay's Essays on Lord Clive and Warren Hastings. By Charles Robert Gaston, Chairman of the English Department, Richmond Hill High School, New York City. 16mo, cloth, 268 pages, price 35 cents. Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Ginn & Co. Rosalynde, or Euphues Golden Legacy. By Thomas Lodge. Edited, with Introduction, Notes and Questions for Study, by Edward Chauncey Baldwin, Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Illinois. 16mo, cloth, 133 pages, price 35 cents. Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Ginn & Co. Industrial Studies United States. By Nellie B. Allen, Head of the Department of Geography, State Normal School, Fitchburg, Mass. 12mo, cloth, 335 pages, illustrated, price, 65 cents. Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Ginn & Co. HUNDREDS OF TEACHERS. There are hundreds of readers of this magazine who would be interested in the free literature of The Colorado Chautauqua and Summer School at Boulder, Colorado. The fourteenth annual session will open July 4, 1911, and continue six weeks. The secretary, F. A. Boggess will be glad to furnish full information. WHY WOMEN PREFER IT. When the newsboy comes through the train with the Chicago papers, watch the married couple across the aisle. If the man is a well-regulated husband he will ask his wife which paper she prefers, and then you may lay odds that the one chosen will be THE KECORD-HERALD. There is no mystery about it. The man knows that he will find all the news in THE RECORD-HERALD, to be sure, but the woman knows it is the only paper that also gives adequate attention to the things in which women are especially interested. In every daily issue she can find a bill of fare for the day's three meals, reliable society news, good book reviews, bright verses and jokes without vulgarity, a cartoon that anybody can enjoy and a fair share of the news of the day relating to women. Every Monday there is "Martha's Management,' a very helpful column of culinary topics. In the Sunday edition a whole section is devoted to women, including Marion Harland's famous page, Jeanette Hope's fashions direct from Paris, Dame Curtsey's "Novelties in Entertainment" and many special articles of timely interest. Then there is the Sunday Magazine of THE RECORD-HERALD, a real magazine, full of good love stories and beautiful pictures. Do you wonder that women prefer THE RECORD-HERALD? 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In his message to the legislature, Governor McGovern gave prominence to the work of education. His recommendations are of tremendous importance at this time. Most vital of all is the suggestion that rural schools should be consolidated. It may be said without qualification that rural schools can not be greatly improved until the principle of consolidation is recognized, and carried into effect so far as practicable. The isolated schools struggling along with few pupils, inadequate equipment, and outrageous hygienic conditions, can not do work of a grade required at this stage of social and educational development. Those who glorify the little red schoolhouse, standing apart by its lonesome self, are thinking of it under the social and educational conditions of fifty years ago. Doubtless it was adapted to the situation in those days; but it is altogether out of place in these times, and we ought to move on to something better adapted to the needs of the hour. A COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. The Governor recommended that there should be in every county a board of education elected by the people, and this board should have general charge of the schools of the county. Further, it should appoint the county superintendent and as many assistants as he may need in order to make supervision effective. The question of consolidation too should be left to this county board. To us it seems that this is one way to secure some of the reforms imperatively demanded in rural schools. These schools have not been properly supervised. It has been impossible to keep them up to date, because no one has been sufficiently interested in them for a sufficiently long period to keep them progressing with the rest of the educational system. It is all nonsense to talk about No. 3 the people not being willing to support good rural schools. Of course, they won't do it unless they are kept enlightened and constantly stimulated by people whose life business it is to look after the interests of these schools. If there were no better provisions for supervision in the city schools. than there is in the country schools, the former would be where the latter now are. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. The Governor also recommended that there should be, supplementary to the common schools, a system of vocational training in this state. He endorsed night schools, continuation schools, and trade schools. In these columns we have been pounding away month after month on the necessity of establishing these educational agencies, in extension of the regular work of the elementary and the high school. The Governor's suggestions meet with our heartiest approval. The needs of society are constantly becoming more complex, and this means that the schools must keep on modifying and enlarging their field of activities. The thing required now more than anything else is specific training for definite occupations for those who can not go through a high school; or if through a high school, then not through the university. Here is a work which ought to arouse the enthusiasm of any man who believes that the function of education is so to train the rising generation that boys and girls can understand the world around them, can adapt themselvevs to the situations presented in their environment, and can meet the industrial and the social needs of the times. A LESSON FROM GERMANY. To give added force to the principle urged in the preceding note, we would like to quote from an address of Emperor William to the school |