JUNE, 1900. EDUCATION is not issued in July and August. We wish all our readers a very enjoyable and profitable vacation. Do you wish extra copies of this number? We will send them for 25 cents a copy. Some friend might be glad to read these articles by the College Presidents. You can send stamps, if preferred. Are you planning to go to Nova Scotia the coming summer? If so, it would be well to correspond with the Associate Editor of EDUCATION. We have had six years' experience in conducting parties of teachers and others to the beautiful land of EVANGELINE, and to other parts of the Maritime Provinces. This is a natural vacation ground for tired brain-workers. Cool weather, charming scenery, interesting historical associations, a short, health-giving sea voyage, plenty of out-door life and pure ozone are among the attractions. We shall be glad to hear from you. In EDUCATION for September the Problems Confronting the Normal School will be discussed by quite a number of the strongest normal school men in the country. Among those who are expected to take part will be A. G. Boyden, E. O. Lyte, R. G. Boone, J. W. Cook, A. R. Taylor, E. T. Pierce and others. Supt. C. H. Gordon, Lincoln, Neb., will consider the " Re-organization of the Grammar School and a Rational System of Grading"; Dr. Franklin B. Sawvel, Greenville, Pa., will criticise Dante's Dream and Captive Andromache "; Edmund J. Vert, Yankton, So. Dak., will give his views on "Text-Books and Public Schools"; and Supervisor R. V. Winterburn, Stockton, Cal., will examine "Some Studies of Children in Teaching History." These with other articles and the editorial and other departments will make up a number which ought to interest and instruct. UNUSUALLY GOOD BOOKS. Try Them. NEW CENTURY READERS. (Third and Fourth Books in preparation.) 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Mention EDUCATION. 195 WABASH AVE., CHICAGO iv OUR BULLETIN BOARD. Yale University is to have a Yale Forest School "for instruction and research in Forestry." This is made possible by a gift of $150,000 from James W. Pinchot and family. We trust such schools will arise in different parts of the land. There is need of them and they can do great good. A committee from the council of the National Educational Association offers prizes of $200 each for the best essays, and $100 each for the second best, on Seating, Lighting, Heating and Ventilating of School Buildings. These essays must not exceed 10,000 words in length, and must be mailed not later than Feb. 1, 1901, to Pres. A. R. Taylor, State Normal School, Emporia, Kan. The great meeting of the National Educational Association will be held at Charleston, S. C., July 10-13. All teachers who are able to go down will undoubtedly have a very delightful and profitable time. Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago, is now a little over eighty; a hale, happy man. He has given, and is giving away, millions to educational institutions. Just now he has $50,000 for Berea waiting till President Frost secures three times as much. He is doing incalculable good, and setting a splendid example for other rich men to follow. TO TEACHERS ATTENDING NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION, CHARLESTON, S. C.Take a side trip to the mountains of Western North Carolina, the "Land of the Sky," on your return from the Charleston Convention. The route of the Southern Railway, New York to Charleston, carries you in close touch with the mountain region of North Carolina; in its entirety makes one of the choicest summer resorts of the world. The peak of the "Land of the Sky," Mount Mitchell, is by far the highest mountain of the East. It rises 6,711 feet. Those going to Charleston by the Southern Railway pass through the historic battlefield section of Virginia, where Union and Confederate blood was spilled. Interesting literature of the trip will be furnished upon application. The round trip rate to Charleston for the occasion of National Educational Association is one fare for the round trip, plus $2 membership fee. For full particulars apply to Geo. C. Daniels, N. E. P. A., 228 Washington Street, Boston. The NEW CENTURY LIBRARY is a radical departure in the art of bookmaking. Each novel is published unabridged in a single volume which is so small that it is equally suitable for the pocket or satchel, and consequently invaluable for summer reading and traveling. As a library edition it is handsome in the extreme. The size is only 41 x 61 inches, and not thicker than a monthly magazine. India paper, the thinnest printing paper in the world, is used in making these books. Notwithstanding this the paper is very strong and remarkably opaque. The type is as large and as easily read as that you are now reading. The volumes are published monthly in three bindings: Cloth, $1.00 per vol.; Leather, limp, $1.25; Leather, boards, $1.50. Already published: Dickens-"The Pickwick Papers," "Nicholas Nickleby," "Oliver Twist" and "Sketches by Boz," "Old Curiosity Shop," "Martin Chuzzlewit." "Barnaby Rudge." Thackeray-"Vanity Fair," "The Newcomes," "Pendennis," "Henry Esmond." Sample page and prospectus mailed free on request. BOOKS SENT POSTPAID ON RECEIPT OF PRICE. THOMAS NELSON & SONS, Publishers, 37 East 18th Street, New York. OUR BULLETIN BOARD. The Publishers of EDUCATION offer for sale some very choice pictures for schoolroom decoration. We have a large variety of the famous Witter Wall-Pictures, the Helman-Taylor collection, and the pictures of ancient and modern statuary selected by order of the Austrian Government for the schoolrooms of Austria. We invite correspondence. The Library Section of the National Educational Association will have a place in the coming meeting of the N. E. A. at Charleston in July. The relation between the work of the school and the work of the library is now fully recognized by the most progressive educators of the country, and an opportunity for a discussion of this relation should be utilized. Two addresses on the subject will be offered; one by Miss Mae E. Schreiber, of Madison, Wis., on "How to Direct Children's Reading"; the other by H. L. Elmendorf, of the Buffalo Public Library, on "The Greater School, or the Library Plus the School, Greater than Either." The International Year Book, published last year by the Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, in uniform binding with their well-known International Cyclopædia, proved so deservedly popular that it is followed this year by another volume covering the world's history for the year 1899, one of the most important in the century now drawing to its close. It is surprising how intense is the life of these later years. One realizes the rapid gait of civilization as the pages of such a volume are rapidly scanned. Here is the record of such subjects as: War in the Transvaal, Colonies and Colonial Problems, The Hague Conference, Archæological Discoveries, Astronomical Progress, Aerial Navigation, Currency Legislation, Trusts, Progress of Forestry in United States, Experimental Psychology, Track Athletics, International Yachting, Boating, Education, Paris Exposition, Liquid Air, Wireless Telegraphy, Automobiles, Psychology in 1899, Psychical Research, Astronomical Photography, Woman's Work in Astronomy, Insects and the Propagation of Disease, Reconstruction in Cuba, Military Rule in Porto Rico, Hawaii since Annexation, Golf, Football, Comets of the Year, Dark Stars, Ocean Tides, Osteopathy, Bubonic Plague. Here may be found almost every subject under the sun. The editorial work has been well done. The book is indispensable to any well-equipped library. It puts within quick reach the marvelous happenings of a pregnant year. Send to the publishers for circulars and price list. For Preparatory Schools, For High Schools, Bradbury & Emery's Academic Algebra, Bradbury's Academic Geometry. These books are commended by DYSPEPSIA teachers who have used them as HORSFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE unequaled for use in the preparation of students for the colleges and scientific schools. It relieves nervous and sick headache; the sense of fullness, distress and pain in the stomach after meals; prevents acidity of the stomach and offensive belching of wind. It makes the process of digestion natural and easy, and creates a good appetite. Taken before retiring, quiets the nerves and induces refreshing sleep. Sold by Druggists. |