JANUARY · 1903 EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO AND SAN FRANCISCO •COPYRIGHTED. Secure A Library for Your for Your School at Pecuniary Cost to You BY SENDING NOW no For our "Hawthorne Library Certificates" (free), to be placed in the hands of your pupils, each one acting as a representative in obtaining subscriptions for his school library. Our Special $10 Forty Volume Library for Little Ones The following list of children's books, has been carefully arranged in accordance with modern pedagogical ideas concerning the proper selection of literature for children. All the books are printed on good paper, large type, and beautifully illustrated. To take up this offer now is to give your pupils the benefit of a full year's use of a valuable School Library. THE MORSE READERS By THOMAS M. BALLIET, Supt. of Schools, Springfield, Mass., and ELLA M. POWERS, Primary Educator. PRACTICAL GRADED TEXT-BOOK SERIES Five Books These books contain all the features which are required for the Best Modern Readers, with Reproductions from Masterpieces, Pen Drawings and Color Sketches. Many say - THE BEST IN PRINT. MORSE'S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM and the NATURAL MOVEMENT Thoroughly unique but practical, with many original features. The right slant for best results. Round letters and round turns. Correlated copy material Carefully Graded and artistically illustrated. Movement exercises from practical work of pupils. System and method combined. 20 TO 28 ADJUSTABLE COPY SLIPS IN BACK OF EACH BOOK, for elementary work, giving double the copy material in other books without increase in cost. ECONOMY ONE HALF. THE QUINCY GRAPHIC ARITHMETIC By W. D. MACKINTOSH and FRANK E. PARLIN. A New Departure in Teaching Arithmetic. Correlation of reading, writing, number, form, drawing and arrangement. A thorough, practical test for a year in Quincy Schools has given results which call forth the greatest enthusiasm of teachers. RED LETTER DAYS AND RED LETTER FACTS 3rd and 4th Grades By I. FREEMAN HALL, Supt., North Adams, Mass., and E. D. Lennox. Remarkably attractive treatment of all Holidays, with Facts on NATURE, LITERATURE AND ART, etc. Beautifully illustrated. Also these successful books and many others: THE MORSE SPELLER. DUTTON. Dictation and Correlation. CHICAGO 195 Wabash Avenue THE THE QUINCY WORD LIST. PARLIN. NEW CENTURY DEVELOPMENT MAPS. DUTTON'S HISTORICAL SERIES. HIGHER, STANDARD, GRAMMAR SCHOOL, AND EXERCISES. MORSE COMPANY 96 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK Literature in the School-room EACHERS, especially those in country schools, do not always realize how much they might do, not only to give children a knowledge of the world's literature, but even to help them to collect a little library for themselves. The classics published by the Educational Publishing Company are uniform in size and binding, and are so cheap that any school should be able to read a few masterpieces during the year. SEWELL BLACK BEAUTY. Illustrated. The thousands of children all over the land who love this story are a sufficient witness of its qualities as a story, and the teacher who has not yet discovered the power for good which this book exercises, has missed a valuable help in teaching lessons of kindness, gentleness and courtesy. No more wholesome or inspiring story could be put into the hands of children, and it will appeal to them all, if for no other reason than because it is about a .horse. RUSKIN THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER. This story of Ruskin's will always remain one of the most charming fairy tales that ever was written, but, like so many of our best stories, the language is too difficult to be read easily by the younger children. There is plenty of good literature for the older pupils and for the very little ones, but these intermediate classes have hardly their share of this intellectual feast. It is especially for their benefit, therefore, that this edition of Ruskin's classic has been prepared, and the changes in the text have been so carefully made, that the charm of style and the beautiful descriptive passages of the original have not been harmed in the process of simplification. SWIFT GULLIVER AMONG THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF LILLIPUT. Edited by E. O. CHAPMAN. Edited by E O. CHAPMAN. Some of us remember the delightful hours Full Cloth, heavy paper (for school use), 25c. Educational Publishing Co. 63 Fifth Avenue, New York 228 Wabash Avenue, Chicago 50 Bromfield Street, Boston 80g Market Street, San Francisco BOSTON 8 Beacon Street DICKENS CHRISTMAS CAROL. There is scarcely anything in literature that will arouse in young or old the true Christian spirit so quickly as this story, and for that reason, if for no other, it should be read in every grammar school some time during the course. Children of these grades, however, will encounter some difficulties in reading such a story, owing to their general lack of acquaintance with the author and certain peculiar English allusions and phrases. For this reason, this edition of the story has been prepared which fully meets these obstacles. It contains an introduction that will, in short space, give the student an excellent conception of Dickens's life and work as an author, and the text has been carefully annotated. The notes, however, have been made as few as possible, in order that, while all real difficulties are removed, the children may be hampered as little as possiblc in their enjoyment of the story as a story. CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. The "Cricket on the Hearth" is a story which always appeals with peculiar force to children. "Stories with a moral," even fairy stories, are almost always resented by young readers, but this story is one of the very few which children will love, not in spite of, but because of its lessons of self-sacrifice and kindness. Teachers, in their desire to give children an acquaintance with good literature, sometimes forget that what children demand first of all in a book is that it shall be a good story, whether it be history, biography, or fiction, and no graces of style, or wealth of magnetism, will suffice in their eyes if this fundamental element is lacking. The "Cricket on the Hearth" is, before all things, a good story, and the boys will say so as well as the girls. MULOCK'S LITTLE LAME PRINCE. Edited for children of America by E NORRIS. HIAWATHA. EVANGELINE. COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH. With notes, illustrated. |