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Blackboard stencils, recitation and dialogue books, method books on all subjects, the best books on peda. gogy-in fact, everything for the teacher, Try us. Large catalog free. Also five Teachers' Libraries, sold on installments. Own one of these. E. L. KELLOGG & CO, Educational Publishers, 61 E. Ninth Street, New York. PRIMARY READING COURSE FROM THE Riverside literature SERIES No. K-The Riverside Primer and Reader. Paper, 25 cents; cloth, 30 cents. No. P-The Hiawatha Primer. With beautiful colored illustrations. Nos. 47, 48-Scudder's Fables and Folk Stories. Cloth, 40 cents.* Cloth, 40 cents. No. 59-Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading. Paper, 15 cents; cloth, 25 cents. Nos. 49, 50-Hans Andersen's Stories. Cloth, 40 cents." Nos. 107, 108-Grimm's Household Tales. Cloth, 40 cents.* No. 126-Ruskin's King of the Golden River, and Other Wonder Stories. Paper, 15 cents: cloth, 25 cents. 1 THE HIAWATHA PRIMER, by Florence Holbrook, Principal of the Forestville School at Chicago, is the latest addition to this course. It is a most remarkable book. Miss Holbrook's work attracted over 2000 visitors last year. Her methods are simple, sensible, and sound. SPECIAL ADVERTISING OFFER FOR 30 DAYS. 8 Cloth-Bound Books for the Price of 4. Cut out this advertisement and send with it $1.35, the price of the first four books, and with them the last four will be sent Free. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co. BOSTON, NEW YORK, and CHICAGO DELIGHTFUL NEW Kindergarten Training School GRAND RAPIDS TEXT-BOOKS First Steps in the History of Our Country. By W. " Poetry of the Seasons. Compiled by MARY I. LOVEJOY,, compiler of "Nature in Verse.' A beautiful Nature Reader for Grammar Grades, exquisitely illustrated. 336 pp., 60 cents. Braided Straws. By ELIZABETH E. FOULKE, author of "Twilight Stories." 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Central Music Hall Building, Chicago Largest and best known Agency in the West. C. J. ALBERT, Manager forces and tendencies which have made the present empire. It is also a guide to more detailed studies. There are lists of libraries of twenty-five, fifty, and a hundred volumes of aids to the study of English history; a list of sources easily accessible; a list of special topics for study; brief bibliographies at the beginning of each chapter; abundant marginal references; summaries of important events; geneological tables, and tables of chief contemporaries. There are also sixteen maps, and a very large number of excellent illustrative engravings. The book is beautifully printed and substantially bound. The work provided is ample for a course of a year by a wise use of the references, but this period may be lengthened or shortened with the same text as the conditions of instruction may demand. The book seems to us likely to prove very valuable in secondary schools. -OLD ENGLISH IDYLS, by John Leslie Hall, (Ginn & Co.; 108 pp.; 45c.), comes from the hand of the best poetic translator of Beowulf. It is a series of eight short po ms which together make up a picture of the heroic period of old English, or Anglo Saxon history. It is not only the tales of this period and its spirit, but the very meters and alliteration of gleemen which are reproduced in the little volume before us. There has been of late not a little tendency in our foremost poets to return to these old measures, showing that feeling for the forms which delighted our forefathers has not yet wholly died out. The reader will enjoy the poems, and more than once turn back to some of the passages drawn by the subtle charm of this unusual versification. -EXERCISES OF MIND TRAINING, in quickness of perception, concentrated attention, and memory, by Catherine Aiken, (Harper & Brothers; 122 pp.; $1.08), recalls the remarkable results obtained by the author in training children as detailed in her book Methods of Mind Training. Here are the exercises formulated and used by her in attaining her results, now placed at the disposal of any teacher who chooses to try them. She says that enthusiasm must be added to achieve success, but enthusiasm can be shown by many a teacher who has not time or ingenuity to work out for herself such carefully planned exercises as these. -SCIENTIFIC SEWING AND GARMENT CUTTING, by Antoinette von Hoesen Wakeman and Louise M. Heller, (Silver, Burdette & Co.; 155 pp; 50c.), contains a complete practical system of training which any teacher can put in practice, as the work is thoroughly graded, abundantly illustrated, and provided with full directions. The system has been in use in the schools of Chicago, and develops the pupil along natural lines, teaching garment cutting without a chart, and containing much general information as to materials and their manufacture. -AN OUTLINE Sketch of PSYCHOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS, by Hiram M. Stanley, (Open Court Publishing Co., Chicago; 44 pp.), makes fundamental with the beginner the acquisition of psychic insight and familiarity with method. As little as possible is to be told, but the pupil must observe and conclude for himself. Hence, with brief introductory explanations original exercises are provided to be written out in blank pages, provided at the end of the book. The work is of course elementary, but is connected into an organic whole which prepares for the appreciative and real study of more advanced psychology. -We are indebted to State Superintendent J. E. Hammond, of Michigan, for a copy of his last annual report, an extract from which we publish elsewhere. In addition to the statistical matter and reports of co inty commissioners, it contains reports and papers of the Michigan Library Association and of the State Teachers' Association, and a valuable study of Text-book Legislation. -Supt. Gove, of Denver, sends us a copy of the "Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Board of Education of School District No. 1, Arapahoe County, Colorado," which shows the schools under his charge to be progressive and prosperous. -Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have added two new volumes to the Riverside Literature Series: THE KNIGHTS' TALE AND NUN'S PRIEST'S TALE, from Chaucer, with an introduction, containing a sketch of Chaucer's life, his liter ary development, his genius, the pronunciation and meter. The first of these numbers contains the introductory matter and the prologue, the second contains the two tales. Both have excellent glossaries and sufficient notes. -FRENCH MODAL AUXILIARIES, by Alfred Hennequin (D. C. Heath & Co.; 72 pp.; 50c.), is probably the only treatise on the subject, which is strangely neglected in the grammars. It is a clear and practical presentation of principles, with drill exercises to make them thoroughly familiar. LITERARY ITEMS. -D. C. Heath & Co. announce Phunptre's translation of Dante in five small duodecimo volumes, containing, besides the Divina Commedia, the Minor Poems and Studies. -American readers will have an opportunity to become familiar with the most striking work which M. Rene Bazin, one of the most gifted of the younger French writers, has thus far done, in the translation of "The Perishing Land,” which is to be published serially in The Living Age, beginning in the number of November 4th. This story attracted wide attention on its publication in France, early this year. It is full of incident and of local color, and shows rare skill in the delineation of character. -Teaching in this country is so largely dependent upon the text-books used, that publishers have an important place in all efforts for the improvement of education. Fortunately, American publishers of school books are the most enterprising in the world. A notable instance of this enterprise is the Announcement of the Twentieth Century TextBooks just issued by D. Appleton & Company. Nearly one hundred volumes are in preparation, and they will cover the entire field of instruction in high schools, academies, and the lower college classes, embodying the latest results of pedagogical and scientific investigations. The books are prepared by eminent American scholars and teachers, who represent over forty of the foremost educational institutions in all parts of the country. A unique feature of the plan is a complete series of texts for commercial schools, the first of the kind ever presented in this country. -In the selection of a choice Christmas gift, or an addition to one's own library, both elegance and usefulness will be found combined in Webster's International Dictionary, which is the best of the various revisions and enlargements of the original "Webster." The International represents fifty times the amount of literary labor that was expended upon the earliest edition, and is, without question, the most complete and reliable work of the kind ever published in a single volume. It is warmly endorsed by eminent scholars throughout the English-speaking world, and is a most useful book for the library, the school, the family, the student, and in fact for all who use the English language. LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO, One of the beauty spots of Chicago, is described in a most beautifully illustrated book of 96 pages, now being distributed by the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company. It is full of the finest half-tone pictures of one of Creation's most charming places of resort for citizens of the Great Republic. Everyone who has ever visited the park will appreciate the souvenir, and for those who have not it will be a revelation of what is to be seen in Chicago. It can only be procured by enclosing twenty-five (25) cents, in coin or postage stamps, to Geo. H. Heafford, general passenger agent, 410 Old Colony Building, Chicago Ill. CREAMERIES IN SOUTH DAKOTA. During the past two years the creamery industry has grown from a small beginning until at the present time there are one hundred and ninteen (119) creameries and cheese factories scattered over the State, and all doing well. Four times as many creemeries are needed in South Dakota, and farmers or dairymen desiring free list showing where creameries are now located, together with other information of value to live stock growers and farmers generally, will please address GEO. H. HEAFFORD, General Passenger Agent, C., M. & St P. R'y, Old Colony Bldg., Chicago Ill. JOURNAL OF EDUcation VOL. XXIX. MADISON, WIS., DECEMBER, 1899. ASSOCIATION SUPPLEMENT. WISCONSIN TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. The forty-seventh annual session of the Wisconsin Teachers' Association will be held in Milwaukee, December 27-29, 1899. The forenoons of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be devoted to sessions of the general association, at the Grand Avenue Congregational Church, the afternoons to sectional meetings at the Normal School building. The General Program. Arnold Tompkins, President of Illinois State Normal University, will address the association at the Grand Ave. Congregational Church Thursday evening at eight o'clock on "The Religion of Education." President Tompkins is one of the most helpful and entertaining speakers on educational philosophy in this country. He has the rare ability to discuss philosophical questions in language not technical. His style is simple and entertaining; he will both inspire and please. He will not read a dry-asdust paper, but will speak without manuscript, drawing his illustrations from a rich store of experience. This address will be free to members of the association, but certificates must positively be presented at the door. To all others the admission will be fifty cents. The Plankinton House Reception. On Wednesday evening, Mr. King, manager of the Plankinton House, will give a reception to members and No. 12. invited guests. This hospitable cour- The New Demands in Education. Marked changes are taking place in the social and industrial world. The concentration of capital and combination in labor, together with the application of machinery to all industries have wrought a revolution in the social and home life. This increases enormously the burdens and responsibilities of the school, giving it more significance as a social institution. The school is to aid in the solution of the problems of society. It becomes the chief function of the school to socialize the child, utilizing all possible opportunities for leading individual purpose into channels of social service, thereby developing a spirit of co-operation in work for common ends. The development of the arts and sciences has turned loose a wealth of material available in the education of children, and the school is seeking to utilize these sources in cultivating a |