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Ainsworth & Company, Chicago, publish STUDIES IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE, by G. H. Bell, author of Bell's Language Series, etc. It is a closely and carefully packed volume of about six hundred pages. He divides the book into two parts. In the first he gives a comprehensive survey of the general subject of literature as seen in English and American authors, with quite a little biographical matter. In the second part we find carefully classified selections from representative authors from the beginning of English literature down to the living authors of to-day. For those who would study literature this will prove a useful compendium. Price, $1.50.

FIRST BOOK, HOME GEOGRAPHY, AND THE EARTH AS A WHOLE. By Ralph S. Tarr and Frank M. McMurry. This is the first of three books, the second dealing with North America and the third with Europe. The young student is given an accurate idea of hills, mountains, ponds, lakes, rivers, the ocean, the air, industry and commerce, government, etc. He is taught to think and to know about his own home land and immediate environment. The Tarr and McMurry geographies are made on an original and excellent plan and deserve the marked success which they are winning. New York: The Macmillan Co. Price, 60 cents.

THE ARTS OF LIFE. By Richard Rogers Bowker. This choice little volume is made up of suggestive discourses on Education, Business, Politics and Religion. The author has something to say and knows how to say it and how to stop when he has said it. The last feature is not less important than the others. The chapters are crisp and fresh. The reader's mind is stimulated and new view-points are given. It is a good book for the more serious moods of the summer vacation. It will accompany many an earnest person to the mountains and the shore, and add to his zeal and ambition to count for more in the work of the year which shall follow the season of rest and recuperation. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Price, $1.25.

POLITICS FOR YOUNG AMERICANS. By Charles Nordhoff. This book puts in simple language the main principles of our Government, making the American conception of liberty, law, government, and human rights clear and easily comprehensible to the young reader. We wish it could be studied by every scholar in our public schools and read by old and young alike. This would contribute to the formation of intelligent citizenship and ultimately remedy many evils that threaten the body-politic. New York: The American Book Co. Price, 75 cents.

A MANUAL OF ENGLISH HISTORY, by Edward M. Lancaster, principal of the Gilbert Stuart School, Boston, is a revised edition of the author's book issued some years ago and a favorite in schools. The book has be n brought up to date, the additions treating of the Far Eastern Question, the Venezuelan Question, the Spanish-American War and the Boer War. Mr. Lancaster has the pen of a ready writer and the mind of a historian. He knows the needs of the student and appreciates his tastes. His book is interesting, graphic, informing and stimulating. It makes history palatable, and the student an independent searcher after more facts and wider knowledge. New York: American Book Company.

To the Teachers' Professional Library has been added THE TEACHING OF ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICs, by David Eugene Smith, principal of the State Normal School at Brockport, N. Y. It is a carefully prepared philosophical study of the subject of Elementary Mathematics, designed to aid the teacher in appreciating the value of his work in this branch of the curriculum and of comprehending its underlying philosophy. The author has delved deeply into the subject and has made a practical work that must have immediate and warm recognition from all teachers. The titles of some of the chapters will serve to indicate the scope of the work; historical reasons for teaching arithmetic; why arithmetic is taught at present; how arithmetic has developed; how it has been taught, and the present teaching of arithmetic; the growth of algebra, what and why taught; typical parts of algebra; and similar headings for the treatment of geometry. It is one of the most practical of the books in the Professional Library. New York: Macmillan Co.

From D. C. Heath & Co. (Boston) we have received the following additions to Heath's Modern Language Series: JETTATURA, by Theophile Gautier, edited with introduction and notes by A. Schinz, Ph.D.; L'AVARE, by Molière, edited by M. Levi; CONTES BLEUS, by Edouard Laboulaye, edited with notes and vocabulary by C. Fontaine; SIGWALT UND SIGRIDH, by Felix Dahn, edited by F. G. G. Schmidt, Ph.D.; AUS MEINEM KOENIGREICH, by "Carmen Sylva," edited for early reading with introduction, notes and vocabulary, by Dr. Wilhelm Bernhardt; José, by Armando Palacio Valdes, edited by F. J. A. Davidson. Each of these little books is edited with greatest care and with due regard to their use in class rooms. They are models of annotated text-books.

A TERM OF OVID, by Clarence W. Gleason, of the Roxbury Latin School, consists of ten stories from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, edited with extreme care and marked ability. Some novel features are noted: the first hundred lines are divided into feet for scansion, with accents and cæsuras; the ordinary Latin prose order is given for the first three selections; the notes contain a short introductory sketch and summary of each chapter, tables of genealogy of the principal persons, and copious references. The book is designed for boys and girls that have not studied Vergil, but have taken a course in Cæsar. A full vocabulary enriches the work. New York: American Book Company.

A NEW FRENCH COURSE, by Edwin F. Bacon, is a unique book, inasmuch as it is designed for use by those who may be planning to take in the French Exposition this summer. The first part of the book is a grammar, with all the essentials for acquiring a technical knowledge of the language; the latter part of the book includes a series of conversations for use of those who are sightseeing in Paris. There are also included in the book a map of Paris, pictures of the most prominent buildings and places in the city, and at the end very full and convenient English-French and French-English vocabularies. New York: American Book Company.

JOURNALISTIC GERMAN, edited by August Prehm, Ph.D., of Columbia Grammar School, New York, is a volume of selections taken from the current German periodicals of the highest class, providing reading material treating of many sides of life and illustrating the present use of the language. As a relief

from the namby-pamby stuff that is served up in the ordinary book of German selections given the student to mellow over, this collection of excerpts from the best German papers is accorded a grateful reception. A special vocabulary is added. New York: American Book Company.

PRACTICAL SPELLER, by William C. Jacobs, Ph.D., Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Philadelphia, is designed to present as nearly as possible in the natural order of acquisition the words required in the work of the grammar and high school, and to lead the pupil to a clear understanding of the common usage of capital letters and of punctuation marks. It is compact, handy, logical, practical and usable. Boston: Ginn & Co.

HISTORY OF English LITERATURE, by Reuben Post Halleck, aims to furnish a concise and interesting text-book of the history and development of English literature from the earliest times to the present. It is a thoroughly graded work with a definite purpose running through it, the subject being treated as a related whole and not as a series of detached and unrelated topics. The unity has been faithfully preserved, and the student will discover that he will have a carefully surveyed field of English literature from Beowulf to Tennyson. The author is profoundly philosophic, yet his work is simple and stimulating, and suggestive and intensely interesting. It directly aids in original thinking. It is a study of the literature of a nation and not the study of the lives of those who have made the literature of that nation. Biographical data are meager yet sufficient, stress being placed on the author's productions, their relations to the age, and the reasons why they hold a position in literature. With every

chapter are given summaries embracing the chief characteristics of each writer and the most important facts in each age. The book is profusely illustrated. Dr. Post's work is an incomparable one, and is destined to mark an era in teaching English literature. New York: American Book Company.

INDUCTIVE Course in EnglISH, by Larkin Dunton, LL.D., and Augustus H. Kelley, is the first book in a new series of text-books in the study of English, and is designed for use in primary and lower grammar grades. The work is based upon the firmly established principle that the powers of the child are developed by self-activity, and every lesson is one which appeals directly to the knowledge of the pupil and sets him at work at once. Every lesson is a distinct growth, and is a stimulus to independent thinking and acting. The inductive method is consistently carried out, making the work logical and progressive. It is a model for language books, and will questionless secure prompt indorsement from all primary teachers. Boston: Thompson, Brown & Co.

PERIODICALS.

The table of contents of The Atlantic Monthly for June is very attractive. Ex-President Grover Cleveland contributes the first part of his discussion of The Independence of the Execu tive. Gentleman and Scholar, by Charles A. Conant, has the right ring and will be interesting to educators. The Delineator is deservedly popular with the ladies, and is one of the best of the Fashion journals. It has many readable articles. We note one especially timely paper in the June number, on American Women at the Paris Exposition.-In The North American Review for May there is an exceedingly interesting sketch of The Great Siberian Railway, by M. Mikhailoff. The May number of The Dial commemorates the twentieth anniversary of that bright Chicago publication. In Scribner's for June A. Maurice Low, a Washington correspondent, describes "How a President is Elected."

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