ing entirely a few of the chapters, but in general preserving the characteristics of the original manual. The illustrations have been entirely changed, and, while fewer than formerly they are fresher in interest and more instructive. Dr. Smith's manual is clear, well arranged and scholarly, a trustworthy and valuable guide for those beginning the study of Greek history.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

-A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF OUR CIVIL WAR, by Theodore A. Dodge, new and revised edition (348 pp.; $1.00), published at one-third the original price, puts in the reach of students the most spirited and trustworthy brief sketch of our great struggle which has yet appeared. There are criticisms to be made upon Colonel Dodge's style, which occasionally becomes choppy and uses the historical present quite too freely, but these are mere blemishes upon a re markably clear, spirited and accurate narrative. It was written for his son when he became old enough to understand such things, and therefore appeals to young readers. The publishers have furnished several excellent maps and abundant plans of battles and movements. The book has been revised with great care, and is therefore even more desirable than the high priced edition.

-To the Riverside LiteRATURE SERIES several interesting volumes have been recently added. Grimm's GERMAN HOUSEHOLD TALES (241 pp.; cloth, 40c.) has never failing charms for young readers, and interest of another kind for those who are older and can recognize the tales as decayed mythology. Bunyan's PILGRIMS PROGRESS (196 pp.; cloth, 40c.), with an introductory biography and critical appreciation, still holds its own with young readers. Carlyle's ESSAY ON BURNS, edited by George R. Noyes (86 pp.; cloth, 25c.), contains an interesting biographical and critical introduction, a sketch of the life of Burns, and a useful bibliographical note. Shakespeare's MACBETH, edited by Helen Gray Cone (110 pp.; cloth, 25c.), follows White's text and supplies some very useful suggestions for the special study of the play.

-AUTHORS' Portraits for SCHOOL USE, is a set of thirtyseven pictures, portraits of English and American authors and views of their homes, which will be found exceedingly useful in every literature class. The reputation of the publishing house gives sufficient assurance that they are thoroughly good. They cost about two cents each, and thus pupils can afford to buy such as they wish for their literary note books, and they will be found to contribute very much to the interest and profit of the note book. It is very desirable that pupils should have such pictures, and certainly no teacher of literature can afford to be without them. Ginn & Co.

-EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS, by William Abbott Stone (378 pp.; $1.10), comes from an instructor in the Phillips Exeter Academy, and represents not only of twelve years experience as a teacher but also the most advanced eastern ideals of the experimental teaching of this branch. The experiments are mostly quantitative, tho qualitative ones are introduced to introduce new topics and stimulate interest. Each experiment is preceded by a concise statement of its object, and followed by questions designed to lead the pupil to draw proper conclusions from it. The effort to make the student work independently, draw his own inferences, carefully distinguish between facts and inferences, and avoid hasty and unwarranted generalizations, deserves hearty commendation. The book is admirably lucid in its directions, and thoroughly well organized and thought out in all its parts, and seems to us one of the most practicable laboratory manuals which we have seen.

-LIGHT AND SHADE, with chapters on charcoal, pencil and brush drawing, by Anson K. Cross (183 pp.; $1.10), supplements the author's Free Hand Drawing. It is written to assist students to study by themselves from nature, and gives the essentials in its topics in a clear and interesting manner, with abundance of illustrations. Besides the subjects indicated in the title we note chapters on values and their tests, aims of student and artist, technique and methods, drawing in public schools, etc. The author's thorough mastery of his subjects wins the complete confidence of the learner, who cannot find a better guide.

-THE HAPPY METHOD IN NUMBERS, by Emily E. Benton (96 pp.), contains work for two years. It is thoroughly systematized, following Froebel's law of contrast; is objective, calling out spontaneous activity in the learner, and especially strong in its adaptations for seat work. It seems to furnish the kind of help primary teachers are always eager to get.

-ART EDUCATION THE TRUE INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION, by Wm. T. Harris (27 pp.; 50c.), was read as a paper before the National Educational Association in 1889, and is now for the second time reissued in book form.

-TOPICS AND REFERENCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY, by George A. Williams (180 pp.; $1.00), has been thoroughly revised and much enlarged in this new edition. It is provided with alternate blank pages for notes, and the introduction gives excellent suggestions for school library books on United States history. The text is noteworthy for its extensive references to authorities relating to each topic, and for the range, variety and value of the search questions with which each chapter concludes. As a guide to topical study it will be found very useful.

Werner School Book Co.

—The First Year Nature READER, by Katharine Beebe and Nellie F. Kingsley (154 pp.), is a charming child's reader. The matter has been chosen so as to accord with the season, from September to June, dwelling upon activi

ties, processes, flowers, birds, fruits, history stories, animals. Suggestions for seat work, tracing, writing, sewing, etc., are given in the introduction, and an admirable list of ninety four stories to be read to the children precedes the text, and a table of seat work follows it. The book is beautifully printed, with numerous illustrations, some of them colored, and in fact is altogether captivating.

-LEGENDS OF THE RED CHILDREN, a supplementary reader for fourth and fifth grade pupils, by Mara L. Pratt (128 pp.), gives twenty-four Indian stories or myths very attractively told and illustrated with interesting and artistic pictures.

-LANGUAGE LESSONS, by Charles De Garmo, (book 1, 145 pp.; book 2, 188 pp.; Werner School Book Co., Chicago and New York,) are designed for pupils from the third to the sixth grades. They aim to develop a mastery of English composition and also to lead up inductively to grammar. For compositions they not only teach the form of correct writing but also furnish suggestions of material valuable as history and observation study, so that the pupil all the time strives to express his own thot in the form he is mastering. The stimulating character of these books can only be appreciated by one who takes time to run through them carefully and he will recognize the wealth of material, its concrete character, skillful arrangement and admirrable adaptation to the purpose in view.

American Book Co.

-HIGH SCHOOL CLASS BOOK OF DRAWING, (board, 121 pp. 50 cents), and NORMAL CLASS BOOK OF DRAWING, (boards, 84 pp.; 50 cents), by Christine Gordon Sullivan are valuable accessory books for teaching drawing. The first, intended for high school pupils, includes outlines for study and practice in mechanical drawing, geometrical construction, perspective, designing, modeling, historic ornament, and the application of various forms to decorative designs, besides studies in charcoal, crayon, and water colors. The second book is designed for normal school students and for teachers who, without any special preparation, are required to teach drawing.

-OUR LITTLE BOOK FOR LITTLE FOLKS, arranged by W. E. Crosby, (illuminated covers, square 8 vo.; 106 pp.; 30 cents), is designed to guide and help the youngest children in their first steps in learning, whether in the home, the kindergarten or the lowest primary school. It correlates and teaches reading, writing, number, drawing, form, color, and music in the same book and often in the same lesson. The first steps in reading are taught, not from the Roman type, but from plain vertical script. The illustrations are particularly noteworthy. The covers are beautifully illuminated, and within are many full-page color plates executed in the best style of lithography.

-THE STORY OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE, by H. A. Guerber, author of Myths of Greece and Rome, etc. Cloth, 12mo, 240 pages, illustrated. Price, 60 cents. American Book Company, New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago, tells the story of the Hebrews in the same objective manner as the story of the Greeks and of the Romans by the same author. Beginning with the creation it gives in a connected series of stories, an outline of the most important events in the history of the Chosen People. While these stories are derived from the Old Testament, they are told from a purely secular standpoint, simply as historical tales, without any reference to their doctrinal or religious significance. It is beautifully illustrated by twenty-two full page reproductions of celebrated paintings, and by numerous small cuts, and by sketch maps of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

Government Printing Office, Washington.

-ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1894, has just come to hand with characteristic delay of official publications. The report as usual occupies but a small part of the volume, less than a hundred pages, while six hundred are devoted to various papers on scientific subjects. In this issue there are thirty-eight such papers treating various subjects of natural science, geography, psychology, and archaeology. Some titles will give an idea of the papers: On the Magnitude of the Solar System; Light and

and Electricity; Development of the Cartography of America up to the year 1570; The method of organic evolution; Antarctica, a vanished Austral land; The evolution of modern society in its historical aspects; Psychology of prestidigitation, etc.

Miscellaneous.

-STORIES OF THE RED CHILDREN, by Dorothy Brooks, (162 pp.) and Stories of the United States for Youngest READERS (221 pp.; Educational Publishing Co., Boston; western office, 211 Wabash Ave,, Chicago,) are attractive volumes in large clear print with many pictures, designed for primary classes. The first tells Indian legends and the second a series of tales from American history, and both will prove entertaining to the little folks.

-From E. L. Kellogg & Co., New York and Chicago, we have three neat manuals in limp cloth bindings designed for teachers, THE GEOGRAPHY CLASS, by M. Ida Dean (151 pp.: 35c.) gives a good deal of information about the different countries of the earth with hints about the teaching and some references to sources of further information. How TO TEACH BOTANY, by Amos M. Kellogg (64 pp.; 25c.) details a plan for teaching this subject to primary and grammar pupils, with many illustrations. BUSY WORK, by Amos M. Kellogg, (59 pp.; 25c.) contains suggestions for desk work in language, number, writing, drawing, etc,

-THE WORLD AND ITS PEOPLE, Vol. IV. LIFE IN ASIA, by Mary Cate Smith (Silver, Burdett & Co.; 328 pp.) will be accounted in some ways the most interesting of the valuable series to which it belongs. The varieties of people and life in Asia and the strong contrasts with the life about us, and the sense of antiquity and long development which accompanies stories of India, China and Japan make the book especially valuable for broadening the mind of the pupils. The whole series afford valuable help to the proper study of geography.

-THE STUDY OF TYPE FORMS AND ITS VALUE IN EDUCATION by John S. Clark (Prang Educational Co.; 32 pp.) is an interesting address before the normal class of the art department of the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.

LITERARY ITEMS.

-A student's edition of Bryant's Translation of the Iliad at a popular price is announced by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. -Baumbach's Die Nonna, edited by Dr. W. Bernhardt, is announced by D. C. Heath & Co.

-Introduction to the Study of Economics, by Charles J. Bullock, is announced by Silver, Burdett & Co.

-An important new series of Readers will soon be issued by Silver, Burdett & Co.

-The School Review for April contains the first installment of Prof. E. E. Brown's History of Secondary Education in the United States; Supt. Nightengale discusses What Studies Should Predominate in Secondary Schools? Pres. Adams writes of Higher Education in the North Central States; and Prof. Paul Shorey discusses Discipline vs. Dissipation in Secondary Education--a strong number.

-The Arena appeared in March bearing the names of John Clark Ridpath and Helen H. Gardner as editors. Several new writers contribute to it and the change of management seems to promise an increase of strength and permanent value. A series of articles on The Development of American Cities began in March.

SCHOOL TEACHERS-Please send me your address and I will send you a copy of my new NATIONAL MEMORIAL HYMN, the words and music of which are artistically printed upon the American Flag as a background. Have your school pay tribute to the old veterans "whose ranks are thinning fast." The song is a lesson in patriotism and can be sung at a glance.

J. EDMUND ESTES, Fall River, Mass.