By LILLIAN G. KIMBALL Formerly Head of English Department, State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin Book One, 40 Cents-Book Two, 60 Cents Kimball's Elementary English in two volumes is designed for use in grades four to eight inclusive. It is superior in the following important respects: 1. It is in complete accord with the present strong tendency in education toward what is practical and useful rather than what is merely disciplinary. 2. It recognizes the child-his natural interests, his needs, and his development-as the controlling factor in the teaching of grammar and composition. 3. It makes a continual demand upon the child's powers. It requires him to take the initiative, thus helping him to become self-reliant and free. 4. It is inductive throughout. The pupil is led to a discovery of forms and principles, and then re quired to make conscious application of them in his own writing and speech. 5. 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N° JUST ISSUED A Three Volume Edition of Selections for Memorizing By AVERY WARNER SKINNER Inspector of Schools, Education Department of New York State JOT to know-and know well-every poem in these three attractive volumes is to miss much of beauty and much of inspiration. Ignorance of these poems is a handicap to all intelligent reading. The 1910 Syllabus of the New York State Education Department authorizes a list of poems for memorization. They are all included in these books. In addition, there are poems which illuminate the study of history and, in Book Three, there are also some of the most wonderful poems in our language that are too long for the pupil to memorize but are richly remunerative in their study. "BOOK ONE” gives all the Selections for Memorizing required "BOOK THREE" gives all the Selections for Memorizing, all the Poems for Appreciative Reading, the shorter of the History Poems for Collateral Reading, short Biographical Sketches and suggestions for composition topics. This covers the work for the seventh and eighth years. Price, 35 cents. COMPLETE BOOK. Price, 70 cents. SILVER, BURDETT & COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK |