studied therein. Anyone who has to do with the text-books used in the present age cannot help being frequently impressed with the marvelous improvement of such books in every respect over those of a former day. This thought has often been expressed, but never before have we seen it fully set forth by the gathering together into one volume of the verbal and pictorial illustrations of the various styles of books used by different generations. It is almost an education in itself to read these fascinating chapters, and one cannot help feeling glad that his lot was cast in this late day of the world's civilization as he notes the crudities and absurdities, literary and artistic, which were imposed on his ancestors in the name of learning. It is a happy thought to work out this subject in such a thorough way, and the book makes an original contribution to the subject of our country's history. The Macmillan Company. Price, $2 net. Dona Perfecta and El Nino de la Bola. These two fine novels have been prepared for students in Spanish. The first by B. Perez Galdos, edited with introduction, notes, and vocabulary by Edwin Seelye Lewis; the second by Pedro A. de Alarcon, edited with notes and special vocabulary by Rudolph Schwill. Each of these stories has achieved marked popularity among Spanishspeaking people, and their editors have done wisely in preparing them for use in schools. Published by the American Book Company. An Elementary American History. By D. H. Montgomery. Mr. Montgomery is a well known writer of schoolbooks of history. The present volume has been prepared to meet the demand for a short narrative history of our country, suited to the needs of beginners. Nothing of importance seems to have been left out. The arrangement is all that could be desired. The brief paragraphs and face type headings greatly assist in finding and memorizing the leading events described. There are a large number of excellent illustrations. Ginn & Co. Price, 75 cents. Language Lessons: A First Book in English; Grammar Lessons: A Second Book in English; each by Wilbur Fiske Gordy and William Edward Mead. These books have been written in response to the oft-repeated complaints that our public schools are not teaching pupils how to write and speak good English. They are nicely printed, attractively arranged, and fully illustrated. The child of to-day is indeed fortunate in having the best qualified authors and teachers to prepare for him such text-books as these. If now the child mind and conscience can be appealed to to induce him to use at recess and on the playground that which he is so well taught in the schoolroom, there is hope of rapid improvement in the written and spoken language. Charles Scribner's Sons. Forms of English Poetry. By Charles F. Johnson, L.H.D. This book contains a full explanation of the forms of poetry; namely, the Foot, the Line, and the Stanza; the Ballad, Sonnet, Ode, Dirges and Memorial Verse, the Lyric and Song, Society Verse and the Verse of Culture, the French Forms, the Epic, and the Romance. Everyone should be posted on these subjects. It will greatly help the student and general reader to appreciate the charms of English poetry to have such a practical knowledge of how it is written. We are sure that teachers of English will welcome this attractive little volume. American Book Company. Price, $1. The Gateway Series of English Texts, edited by Henry Van Dyke, covers the field of college English. We have received from the publishers the volumes containing "Silas Marner," price, 40 cents; Carlyle's Essay on Burns," price, 35 cents; "Burke's Speech on Conciliation,” price, 35 cents. The whole series is neatly printed and bound, and stands high among the large number of similar series of English classics. American Book Company. In The Eclectic School Readings Series we have an attractive little book called "Stories from Life," by Orison Swett Marden, price 45 cents, which gives in the well known style of the author of Architects of Fate, Pushing to the Front, etc., many interesting instances in the lives of men who have achieved great success. In the same series another volume gives us "Twelve Christmas Stories," by Charles Dickens, edited by Jane Gordon. Price, 50 cents. Others are "Self-Help," by Samuel Smiles, edited by Ralph Lytton Bower, price, 60 cents; and "Lives and Stories Worth Remembering," by Grace H. Kupfer, price, 45 cents. American Book Company. An attractive and handy series of Shakespeare's Plays, edited by William J. Rolfe, is being issued by The American Book Company. We have the following titles: Macbeth; Hamlet; Midsummer Night's Dream; The Tempest; Twelfth Night. There are full, helpful notes, and an introduction, giving the history of the play, source of the plot, general comments on the play, etc. Attractive illustrations abound, and the text is the result of the labors of the latest scholarship. The volumes are all of handy size for school use. Price, 50 cents each. The Lighting of Schoolrooms. By Stuart H. Rowe, Ph.D. Supervising Principal Rowe is an authority on this subjcct. This is a condensed little book, and brings the whole matter fully up to date. Great progress in inventions has been made in the past four or five years relating to sashes, curtain shades, prism glass, etc Also the whole subject of children's eyesight has been reconsidered, and architecture has kept pace with the progress in other lines. All is summed up in this volume, which is a useful and valuable manual for school boards, architects, superintendents, and teachers. Longmans, Green & Co. Price, $1 net. Wisconsin Arbor and Bird Day Annual for 1904, and The Memorial Day Annual. We have received from State Superintendent C. P. Cary these two elaborate and beautifully illustrated pamphlets. The latter has as an attractive cover a draped United States flag with an American eagle perched in its folds. Teachers who wish the latest and most attractive literature for Memorial Day, Arbor Day, and Bird Day celebrations will find them ready at hand in these interesting and beautiful documents. The Ship of State. By Those at the Helm. The chapters of this little book describe the Presidency, by Theodore Roosevelt; The Life of a Senator, by Henry Cabot Lodge; The Life of Congressman, by Thomas B. Reed; The Supreme Court of the United States, by David J. Brewer; How Jack Lives, by John D. Long; The Naval War College, by John D. Long; How Our Soldiers are Fed, by William Cary Sanger; How the Army is Clothed, by General Ludington; Good Manners and Diplomacy, by William R. Day; How Foreign Treaties are Made, by Henry Cabot Lodge; Uncle Sam's Law Business, by John K. Richards; and The American Postoffice, by A. L. Wilson. Ginn & Co. List price, 40 cents. Poetry of the People. By Charles Mills Gayley and Martin C. Flaherty, of the University of California. We have in this handy little volume a convenient collection of poems illustrative of the history and national spirit of England, Scotland, Ireland and America. The poems selected are those most characteristic of the people, showing their traditions, history and spirit. It is intended chiefly for use in the schools, and we know of its adoption and appreciation by several discriminating teachers, whose pupils are committing to memory the choice verses which it presents. Ginn & Co. Price, 50 cents. New Century History of the United States. By Edward Eggleston. This is Edward Eggleston's last work, left by him in manuscript, and revised for publication at his request by George Cary Eggleston. It embraces the history of our country from the Norsemen legends of the year 1000 to the present day. It gives more space than is usual in such text-books to other public interests than war and politics. One interesting chapter is on water travel on rivers, another on roads, canals, and railroads; and the last two chapters deal with inventions and industry in the last half of the nineteenth century. The work is made very complete by maps, numerous illustrations, the Constitution of the United States, and a list of biographies of prominent men. American Book Company. Civil Government. By John Fiske; new edition, with additions, by D. S. Sanford. There is no need of reminding any reader of the worth of this well known book in its original edition. It is familiar to all lovers of history. The changes which have been made in the new edition are recounted in the reviser's preface as: "Minor inaccuracies, the result of changed conditions, have been corrected. Some omissions have been made good. A fuller treatment of the federal executive departments and an account of new island dependencies have been added." These changes have added much valuable matter to the justly appreciated original work. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Folk Tales from the Russian is a collection of fairy tales retold in English by Verra de Blumenthal. The fairy lore and the myths of all nations have many characteristics in common, and the same underlying symbolic soul-life in its struggle and triumphs. These Russian tales are another welcome confirmation of the unity of the race in its human experiences. They are told in simple and charming language. The artistic features of the book, color, cover design, decorative pieces and illustrations are exceedingly satisfying to one's sense of fitness of outer dress to mental pictures. Rand, McNally & Co. Common Sense Didactics is a work for teachers of common schools by Henry Sabin. It is an excellent contribution to the literature of didactics. It opens by pointing out the aim a teacher should have of constant growth toward the highest selfhood, and the need of a full understanding of the individual child. Based on these two high principles all that follows concerning every phase of the school life becomes of the greatest value. The closing chapter on Books and Their Uses" is a fitting conclusion and worthily treated. Rand, McNally & Co. The Being With the Upturned Face. By Clarence Lathbury. The Being is man, and the book is a prose poem. It tells of the soul's "touch of the Infinite," which makes no human aspiration audacious; of its wandering in its little self-made by paths, only to return at last to its "Father's house augmented and glorified"; of "the human superscription" on all nature; that "the animal dies upward into the angel." And for the final word it sings of woman and of man in the wondrous marriage union, "To find the womanheart is to find God's heart, to taste of immortality." Nunc Licet Press, Philadelphia. In addition to the books reviewed in this number of EDUCATION the following have been received : Ginn & Co. In the Standard English Classic Series: Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, and The Passing of Arthur, edited by Willis Boughton, Ph.D.; Irving's Oliver Goldsmith, edited by Charles Robert Gaston. The Educational Music Course: Teachers' Edition for Elementary Grades, by James M. McLaughlin and W. W. Gilchrist. Mailing price, $1.40. In the Modern International Language Series: Dippold's Scientific German Reader, Lessing's Minna Von Barnhelm, edited by Richard Alexander von Minckwitz and Anne Crombie Wilder, B.A.; Gerstäcker's Germelshausen, edited by Griffin M. Lovelace. Primary Arithmetic. By David Eugene Smith, Ph.D. D. C. Heath & Co.: Advanced Course in Algebra. By Webster Wells, B.S. Elements of Plane Surveying. By Samuel Marx Barton, Ph.D. In the Modern Language Series: Storm's Pole Poppenspäler, by Dr. Wilhelm Bernhardt; Labiche and Delacour's La Cagnotte, edited by W. O. Farnsworth; Exercises in German Conversation and Composition, by E. C. Wesselhoeft, A.M.; Hoffman's Das Gymnasium zu Stolpenburg, edited by Valentin Buehner. American Book Company: Moratin's El Sí De Las Niñas. By J. Geddes, Jr., Ph.D., and F. M. Josselyn, Jr., Ph.D. Shakespeare's Tragedy of Othello. Edited by William J. Rolfe, Litt.D. Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris. Edited by William Nickerson Bates, Ph.D. Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. By W. P. Bigelow. Elementary Algebra. By J. H. Tanner, Ph.D. Elements of Algebra. By George W. Hull, M A., Ph.D. A. Flanagan Company: Basketry and Weaving in the School. By Katharine Pasch. Price, 20 cents. Development Lessons in Mensuration. By Wm. F. Sell. Price, 25 cents. Library of Travel: A Little Journey to Russia. Edited by Marian M. George. Price, 15 cents. The Story of Akimakoo, an African Boy. By Mary Muller. Price, 35 cents. Defects of Vision and Hearing in the Public Schools. By J. Whitefield Smith, B.S., M D. Price, 50 cents. D. Appleton & Co.: Practical Exercises in Astronomy. By Goodwin D. Swezey. Price, $1. Adolescence: Its Psychology. By G. Stanley Hall, Ph.D., LL.D. Vols. I. and II. Kosmos Publishing Company: Diagnosis From the Eye. By Henry Edward Lane, M.D. The Foundation of All Reform. By Otto Carqué. The Hayfield Mower Publishing Company: The Hayfield Mower and Scythe of Progress. By the Mower-Man. Price, $1.25 net. American Antiquarian Publishing Company: Prehistoric America; Ancient Monuments and Ruined Cities, or The Beginnings of Architecture. By Stephen D. Peet, Ph.D. University Publishing Company: Standard Literature Series: Sir Roger De Coverley Papers, from The Spectator. Edited by Edward Everett Hale, Jr., Ph.D. Government Printing Office: Report of the Librarian of Congress for 1903; Biblioteca Filipina; Select List of References on Chinese Immigration. Report of the Public Schools of Jamestown, N. Y., for the years 1901-1903 inclusive, with Courses of Study. Calendar of the University of Michigan 1903-1904. Also Catalogues of State Normal School, Salem, Mass., and Norwich University, Vermont. Periodical Notes A group of American College Presidents in The Booklovers Magazine for June gives full page portraits of Benjamin Ide Wheeler, John Huston Finley, Edmund J. James, Henry Smith Pritchett, William DeWitt Hyde, Charles Franklin Thwing, William H. P. Faunce and Charles William Dabney. Two articles in Everybody's for June will exceptionally interest our readers-one entitled "Is America Developing an Aristocracy?" and the other "Consumption, the Great White Plague." Some excellent suggestions on "Up-to-date Discipline" are given to parents and teachers by Mrs. Theodore W. Birney in the current Delineator.-" Mothers' Higher Education " is the title of a valuable article in the Designer for June.-The Youth's Companion believes that the time most full of promise is the time we are living in, and every weekly issue reflects this spirit of looking forward and not back.-Success for June claims to be "the best number yet issued." It is certainly attractive. A most interesting photograph of President Roosevelt and his sons is one feature of this number.-In the June Atlantic Monthly Winthrop M. Daniels discusses "The Ethics of Taxation," severely criticising indirect taxation and our present methods of taxing, and hoping for a coming reform in taxation methods in the near future.- James H. Can. field has a splendid article in the current Columbia University Quarterly on "The Library; Everybody's Workshop."-The literary and artistic features of Harper's Monthly, Scribner's, Century and McClure's are fully up to the high average of former numbers. Myers' Ancient History Revised Edition JUST PUBLISHED For many years Myers' "Ancient History" has been used in by far the great majority of the schools of the country. To make this superior work still more adequate, the author has undertaken a thorough revision, which involves many important changes in the text itself, in its arrangement, and in the appearance of the book. An illustrated announcement will be sent to any address on request. GINN AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS Address, 29 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. 15,081 REMINGTON TYPEWRITERS are used for instruction purposes in the schools of the United States and Canada3,499 MORE THAN ALL OTHER MAKES OF WRITING MACHINES COMBINED. This condition is created by the demand for Remington operators; therefore it clearly reflects THE CHOICE OF THE BUSINESS WORLD. Remington Typewriter Company 327 Broadway, New York TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS It gives us great pleasure to announce that we have purchased the entire pub- After May 1, 1904, the publications of The Morse Company will be in ample stock at all of our branches and agencies, and orders and inquiries may be sent to our nearest office. We solicit for ourselves the continued support of all friends and patrons of The Morse Company, and commend these publications to the considerate attention of the educators of the country. SILVER, BURDETT & COMPANY New York Boston Chicago Atlanta San Francisco Philadelphia Dallas |