SCHOOL JOURNAL BALDWIN AND BENDER'S Five Book or Eight Book Series The chief design of this series is to help pupils to acquire the art and the habit of reading so well as to give pleasure both to themselves and to those who listen to them. The readers are both teachable and readable; they are unusually interesting, both in selections and illustrations. The selections are of a very high literary quality. Besides the choicest schoolbook classics there are a large number which have never before appeared in school readers. STEADMAN'S GRADED LESSONS IN WRITING 8 Pads. Each, 15 cents. Charts, $1.50 This system teaches an easy, graceful style of muscular movement writing. Each pad comprises the work for a year, each page representing a central idea, around which the lesson is constructed. The drills constitute a series of graded and specialized physical culture exercises. Any teacher can teach this system with ease without further assistance, and any child will have no difficulty in performing it successfully. HICKS'S CHAMPION SPELLING BOOK Complete, 25 cents. In two parts, each 18 cents This book teaches intensively two words each day; reviews these systematically and effectively four times in later work; teaches in its six-year course, beginning with the third school year, over 7,000 words; and simplifies and improves the work in spelling, so that the child learns to spell correctly with but little effort. NEW NATURAL GEOGRAPHIES Two Book or Four Book Edition In this new series of these sterling geographies emphasis is laid on industrial, commercial and political geography, with just enough physiography to bring out the causal relations. The text is clear, simple, interesting, and explicit. The pictures are distinguished for their aptness and perfect illustrative character. Two sets of maps are provided, one for reference and the other for study. DAVISON'S HUMAN BODY AND HEALTH Two Book or Three Book Series These books present the subject of personal and public health in such a way as to appeal to the interest of boys and girls and fix in their minds the essentials of right living. They furnish information which everyone ought to know, and are both practical in application and interesting in presentation. They are profusely illustrated with graphic diagrams and pictures. HAMILTON'S ARITHMETICS Two Book or Three Book Series Conservative, yet wisely progressive. They make each new step easy and interesting to the child, and breathe the spirit of the teacher on each page. The problems deal with the business life of to-day, with conditions which are true, and are stated in such a way as to interest the child. A definite course is marked out for each year, and each year's work is topical within the year. Oral and written work are well correlated. STEPS IN ENGLISH Book One, $0.40. Book Two, $0.60 At once sensible, practical, and modern. They teach the child how to express his thoughts in his own language, and mark out the work for the teacher in a clearly defined manner. From the start, lessons in writing language are employed simultaneously with those in conversation; and picture study, study of literary selections and letter writing are presented at frequent intervals. EGGLESTON'S NEW CENTURY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES $1.00 The author's purpose was to tell the story of our country so briefly that it might be mastered within the usual time allotted to the study, and yet to preserve its interest unimpaired by condensation. He has been especially successful in presenting those facts of the home life of the people, and their progress in civilization, which are essential to history. One novel feature of the book is a collection of brief biographies of the most important men. AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATI HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY BY EXCHANer (N. Y. PUBLIC LIBRANT CHICAGO (Established in 1870) Copyright, 1912, by Ives-Butler Co. The subscription price of The School Journal is $1.25 a year in advance, postage free in the United the Postal Union, thirty cents should be added for postage. When a change of address is ordered, both the new and the old address must be given. No change for the next issue can be made after the fifteenth day of each month. Remit by draft, express-order, or money-order, or check, payable to the order of Ives-Butler Co. A teacher was hearing the class in civics and asked this : question: "If the President, Vice-President, and all the members of the Cabinet died, who would officiate?" The class thought for some time, trying in vain to recall who came next in succession. James at last had a happy inspiration, and he answered: "The undertaker."-Harper's Magazine. Two country youths were on a visit to London. They went into the British Museum and saw a mummy, over which hung a card on which was printed "B.C. 87." They were mystified, and one said: "What do you make of that, Sam?" "Well," said Sam, "I should say it was the number of the motor car that killed him."Harper's Bazar. Two men were hotly discussing the merits of a book. Finally one of them, himself an author, said to the other: "No, John, you can't appreciate it. You never wrote a book yourself." "No," retorted John, "and I never laid an egg, but I'm a better judge of an omelet than any hen in the state."-Publisher and Retailer. November 28-30: National Council of Teachers of English, Chicago. November 28-30: Southern Educational Association, Louisville, Ky. November 29: Massachusetts Teachers' Association, Boston. December 5, 6, 7: Minnesota State Teachers' Association, St. Paul. December 21-24: Southern California Teachers' Association, Los Angeles. December 26, 27, 28: Montana State Teachers' Association, Missoula. 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