pite of all the allurements of vacation which would aw the children away from the school, and the comence of compulsory attendance laws-the interest stness of the children, to say nothing of their evident their work-certainly indicate a large return from ment required."

ar the number of schools has been increased and the appropriation raised to $7,000. The of the committee are not, however, limited to nt of the appropriation, as many contributions red from private individuals. Over 4,000 puarolled. The teaching staff numbers seventy. ol program is exceedingly varied, including aining, cooking, sewing, housekeeping, nature or work, basket-weaving, local history, storyindergarten games, music, and excursions. nphasis will be laid this year on the out-door of the work, and classes will be taken into the s frequently as possible. It seems probable, at the vacation schools everywhere will in the e more and more attention to nature study, thru school gardens and field lessons. Such 'ds opportunities to develop a side of the pue which is not touched by the regular school

uable paper on vacation schools contributed ort of the committee for 1901, Miss Sarah L. rmerly supervisor of schools, indicates certain vacation school management which the exthus far made seem to have established. Says ld:

s agreed that compulsory attendance or absolutely endance is out of the question. However helpful n school may be, no one can doubt that the week try, or the day at the seashore, or the outing at

have uniformly failed. 3. Because the conditions tion school are novel and cannot be met by traditi dispensable that the teachers in such schools shall of quick wit, good sense, sound judgment and read The vacation school is not the proper field for a form ical, or entirely inexperienced teacher. To solv problem a keen mind and trained thought is necess the vacation school must be, in many cases, the su a real vacation, it is admitted that whatever brin vacation school the fundamental elements of the r is of greatest worth. If the children cannot spe mer in the country or by the sea, the vacation sc do something to furnish the normal out-of-doors children. Under wise guidance the playground is cation school. It is not hampered by school t allows freedom in the open air, and yet it affords care. Pursuing the same thought, I should say f the field lessons, the excursions, and the school the most profitable elements of the vacation schoo

Closely connected with the vacation school in Boston is the experiment which will be year to promote a more extended use of houses during the winter. The experimen of the conviction that the expensive school p city, representing an investment of over thre should be utilized to meet the social needs of Something had already been done in this d certain progressive headmasters, but the s not officially sanctioned by the school board spring, when a special committee on the "ex of school-houses" was created. This com selected two school-houses in which to make ment. Lectures and entertainments will be letic and dramatic clubs will be organized, a classes will be conducted. This undertaking ginning of a movement which undoubtedly

Main Entrance of the new Edward Wyman School, St. Louis, Mo. nt of its environment. re fully the needs of ng in our schools, the study of nature and

than then. The education that has been imparted has only made the harvesting more imperative. The elementary school system may be properly said to have acted as a fertilizer and thus giving the fields a whiter look than they would otherwise present. What is being done towards harvesting this more abundant crop? Let us confine our observations to educators and ask them whether they are entering this whitened field? We bring before you a certain school district in order to make plain what we want to say. In that district there were about thirty pupils attending the school. The teacher went to the school-house in the morning and back at night with regularity; we will not say he did not do his duty by the classes in arithmetic and reading, nor that he failed to keep children in order.

ad small school homes thers extremely plain eds of treeless school to be content with he most of our surery effort to improve revival in the adornre. There are none ul and attractive to nd the visible opporasm and inspire our better fitted to add to e children and more ter spirit that dwells d girls should be enothers as well as to its interests will be helping make things to future loyalty in inity, state, and naANGER, of Vermont.

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eat Teacher striving r, and happier stages elds are white for the pressingly needful to

We have our attention fixed on eleven pupils who once attended the school and whom we will call "its postgraduates," and we desire to know whether anything has been done for them. No; they are left to their own devices to pass away the long winter evenings. The needed step

is that the teacher in that district should consider he is sent to minister to all in it, not merely the few who gather within the school-house with him. He does not see that the field is "white for the harvest," but it is nevertheless.

The clergy-the teachers for religion-have become aware that they have more to do than preach two sermons, make four prayers, and pronounce two benedictions per week. Mark the tremendous growth of the Christian Endeavor, Epworth League, and kindred associations. A similar movement is needed in the educational ranks. Friends, you must do more than hear the recitations and draw your pay.

special provisions children by the hea The text-book pu Chicago, was sadde Orrin Sherman Coo of the house of Si born in New Have course of study in t in 1853 to take cha He changed his field the Western interes was later Western position which he r the towns of Lake a Western office of Si mained until his deat Mr. Cook was a ma ality, and one who daughters, and a son William Heineman secured the right for World's Work, to be e as an author and jour to be congratulated o tive magazine.

The American Book of all the school books like $250,000. The c Text-book Commission sit to prevent the st books to the state. Th American Book Compa catil it could comply w the state treasury $2,0 The following day on J rected, and proceeded w the state commission. No publisher has rend Romance language stud Jenkins, New York, wh st of books the well

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Supt. H. W. Shroyer, school-book field. He Chicago, and Minnesota

Mr. Edwin Ginn is ma the bastening of the da de Bloch's "The Futu rendering" of conversa There is an introduction his meeting with M. de pose of Ginn & Co. in bri Having been available in years the book is alrea desire to read and own a that in its present new ence public opinion in the is sold at a price preclud D. Appleton & Sons, wh We recently announced only New York publishing in the South. The Mac former office in Atlanta building. Mr. L. H. Patn given additional office ford Macmillan interests are w The Monarch Typewrite been incorporated with a typewriters and kindred Feibel, Daniel A. Carpente Under

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w school buildings to be erected in New York city visions will be made for the examinations of school the health examiners.

-book publishing world, especially in the vicinity of as saddened two weeks since by the death of Mr. man Cook, for years manager of the Western office se of Silver, Burdett & Company. Mr. Cook was >w Haven, N. Y., in 1831. After completing the tudy in the New York normal school he went West take charge of the schools of Lake Geneva, Wis. 1 his field of labor to Chicago in 1867, to look after n interests of a Philadelphia publishing house. He Western manager for Charles Scribner's Sons, a hich he resigned to accept the superintendency of of Lake and Hyde Park. In 1887 he opened the fice of Silver, Burdett & Company, where he reil his death.

was a man of sterling character, winning personone whose friends were many. A wife, two and a son survive him.

Heinemann, the progressive London publisher, has right for the issuance of an English edition of The rk, to be edited by Henry Norman, M.P., well-known r and journalist. Doubleday, Page & Company are atulated on the wonderful success of their attrac

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rican Book Company will supply about 50 per cent. hool books used in Kansas, amounting to something 00. The contracts were secured from the State Commission last May. Crane & Company brought ent the successful publishing house from selling e state. The Supreme Court on July 21, enjoined the Book Company from transacting business in Kansas Id comply with the corporation law andhad paid into easury $2,000 to cover charter fees for three years. ng day on July 22, they paid the sum in full, as diproceeded with the fulfilment of the contracts with mmission.

her has rendered greater service to the cause of nguage study, particularly French, than Mr. W. R. w York, who has just added to his already long Is the well-known publications of Professor Sau

W. Shroyer, of Henderson, Minn., has gone into the field. He is now with Rand, McNally & Co., Minnesota is his territory.

n Ginn is making a valuable contribution toward og of the day of universal peace by publishing M. "The Future of War," with W. T. Stead's "free of conversations which he had with the author. introduction in which Edwin D. Mead, speaks of with M. de Bloch in London last year. The pur& Co. in bringing out this book is not mercantile. available in its original form for nearly three ook is already familiar to those who would most ■d and own a copy of it. Mr. Ginn is convinced resent new form the remarkable work will influOpinion in the direction of peace, and so the book price precluding financial profit.

on & Sons, whose organization of the Atlanta Press v announced in THE SCHOOL JOURNAL, is not the ork publishing firm which is increasing its facilities h. The Macmillan Company have moved their in Atlanta to better quarters in the new Empire r. L. H. Putney, their Southern manager, has been onal office force. He is a successful agent and the terests are well cared for in shi hands.

-ch Typewriter Company, of Syracuse, N. Y., has rated with a capital of $100,000, to manufacture and kindred machines. The directors are Jacob el A. Carpenter, and Paul Armitage, of New York. general editorship of Prof. Herbert Weir Smyth,

This is a most excellent showing when compare population.

In order to remodel and modernize all schools

date equipment, the government has arranged for tional exposition, September 14 to November 16, bring the manufacturers of school furniture, ma appliances of Europe and the United States into c Assurances are given that those receiving the high can be reasonably certain of doing business bot The government, the church, and private schools. will be held at Santiago under the auspices of th Congress of Education.

The University of Chile is the highest education tion in the Republic. It has an average enrollme students. The National Institute is an important school, with 1,200 pupils. Besides there are the I Pedagogy; thirty lyceums of secondary instruction with 6,200 pupils; twelve lyceums for females, pupils; 1,500 schools of primary instruction, w pupils of both sexes; six normal schools for the teachers; and numerous establishments of a spec such as Conservatory of Music, a Commercia schools of fine arts, agriculture, mining, arts and t and deaf mutes, professional school for girls, indust etc.

The approaching educational exhibition is to co sections: First, an international exhibit of general all kinds of school work from the educational ins material of every description. Second, a repres Chile.

Space in the exhibition buildings and grounds of any charge. The Exposition Board agrees to pack, install, care for, take down, repack and sh charge, everything that may be sent for exhibiti portation of exhibits both ways will be the only pense to the foreign exhibitors.

The new building to be erected by the American pany at Cincinnati (Third and Pike streets) will be beauty.

The Fred. Frick Clock Company, of Wayneb steadily growing. Among the schools to be equ the complete Frick Program and Time system, placed their orders in recent weeks are the follow Wardsleigh high school, 114th street and 7th a York City.

Gallatin county high school, Bozeman, Montana.
Texas Christian university, Waco, Texas.
Manual Training school, No. 2, Washington, D. C.
Beaver Head county high school, Dillon, Montana
New high school building, Santa Clara, Cal.

The widely separate sections of the country rep this list show how the Frick clocks are winning into the schools everywhere.

The Woodward & Tiernan Printing Company, o Mo., is developing a large school book business. books te be brought out soon is an arithmetic se book course for graded schools, by Prof. Archib A.M., of Smith academy of Washington university. method is conservatively used. Colored illustratio in the development of elementary conceptions of the First Book is to contain some magnificent pla tive of the exercises in paper folding. The First "Modern Arithmetic Series" will cover the gro allotted to both Primary and Elementary Arith represents a definite effort to bring into direct with the primary grades, the object work and em activities characteristic of the kindergarten. pages serve as an exercise manual, and are of sp to the teacher. The culture value of the study sight of in this series, but both books are in close the practical side of the subject, the technical p ing been carefully criticised by leading business 1 different classes. The series is thus brought into

roduce the student to Plato by offering him first y.' The present book is the result of his observaook has merits aside from its intrinsic value as a The type is large and clear. The notes are nuthe explanations clear. The binding strikes the rticularly appropriate It is in dark red cloth, band of gilt around the edge, and in the center a copy in gilt relief of an old Greek coin. (Amer›mpany, New York. Price, $1.00.)

Longmans' Pictorial Geographical Readers is desupplementary reader for the grade immediately at in which a text-book is introduced. Many of ary and necessary facts of geography are preple stories, making a series of interesting lessons tic style, but on conversational lines so as to inerest of the young pupil to a subject which be 7 take up in a formal manner. (Longmans, pany, New York. 12 mo., 160 pp., 36 cents.) ing that impresses one on looking over the SunPrimer is the quaint character of the illustragive the book its title. The same sunbonnets apter page, but the babies are always in new atti› always doing something sure to interest children e coloring of the illustrations is unusually good. rations are by no means the only commendable

the book. The sentences are short and such as ve or six years of age use and are likely to care

s much action in them and they should be helpful good expression. Since the same characters apthe book, telling the things they see and do, the resents a continuous story. The vocabulary conwords, which seem to have been selected with care. ne of a series of very excellent supplementary are being issued by this house. (The Sunbonnet r by Eulalie Osgood Grover. Illustrated by Bertha Rand, McNally & Company, publishers, A. W. A., - York)

tary French Reader, by Gaston Douay, assistant the French language and literature, Washington the French language and literature, Washington =. Louis The selection of texts for this reader he principle that great writers are not only ng, but the best reading for beginners in seconnd college classes. We find here selections from ge Sand, Dumas, Voltaire, Taine, Victor Hugo,

The classic writers of the seventeenth and enturies and certain of the best men of conerature are thus brought together. Instead of of light tales whose aim is wholly entertainI the more serious element of historical and disches interposed with the stories. There is a dety of material and of styles that cannot fail to nd profitable to the reader. The editor has supiographical sketches of each author, adequate ocabulary covering the texts in the book, so that complete in itself. (Silver, Burdett & Company, ntroductory price, $1.00.)

Bergerac, a heroic comedy in five acts in verse by and, with notes and introduction by Reed Paige nstructor in French in the Columbian university, D. C. The introduction contains a biography of nd an account of the origin of this famous play. very fully annotated, and advanced students in e very glad of the opportunity, thru this edition, acquainted with this classic, which is already he best works of Hugo and Corneille. (William ew York.)

ebra, by George E. Atwood. This little volume, distinctive title, is really a supplement to the hool Algebra." It has been prepared to meet nts of the most advanced preparatory schools. he "Standard School Algebra," beginning with quadratic equations, is included in this book, in e volume may contain all the more important ould receive attention in the final preparatory

ists in botany. It begins with the lowest forms of life in the unicelled plants and then studies the pr the cell. The bodies of plants are made up of mult of these. So the student is expected to study almos able numbers of plants by their sections, comparin pearances of the structures by the illustration g Algae show most clearly the basis of plant reprodu they are carefully studied, the specific examinati with their classification. The Fungi follow, upon plan, with a slight reference to the lines of divisio the edible and the poisonous. The typical water Archegomatae, are the best illustrations of a soft tissue. The book is very comprehensive, and is well a reference book for such teachers as wish occa know the facts in the structure and life bistory of ticular plant. Excellent chapters are given upon th ment and the geological relations of plants. Eve illustrated by drawings from microscopic examin few reproductions from photographs show phases growth, particularly those of the prairie and of th gigantea. (The Macmillan Company, New York and

A Standard First Reader, and a Teachers' Man have been published by Funk & Wagnalls Compan result of many years of labor and much consulta prominent philologists and practical educationist country and in England. Several points of exce claimed by the former. Words are taught in conne thought, as by conversation; pupils are led to th what is worth knowing; careful provision is made which accompanies the reader presents suggestive in the vowel and consonant sourds, and so forth. T for all the lessons.

Elements of Physics, Experimental and Descriptive, T. Fisher, B. S., assisted by Melvin J. Patterson, B. ing to meet the needs of young boys, particularly grammar school age who wish to study physics, th have set themselves to prepare an elementary wor terized by extreme symplicity. The experiments easy to perform and demand in general only simple a The basis of the demonstrations in algebraic formul developed, and the whole style of the book is a Enough of the modern appliances, such as wireless te are introduced to direct the pupil to careful obser his surroundings. The book seems to be excellently to the work for which it is designed. (D. C. Heath & ton, U. S. A.)

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The Ideal Word Book, by E. E. Smith, A. B., begins alphabet, and ends with the ten rules for amended which have been proposed by a number of scholars f fying English spelling. They are furnished for in merely, as the author does not use them in his b book is in two parts, the first of which deals wi spelling, and the second with spelling and con Part one treats more particularly of teaching ac reproducing the commonly accepted forms of thos words most generally used. Part two pays particu tion to teaching accuracy in use and exactness in in his book tell in the teacher's work by placing at t The author has manifested a sincere desire to make t many of the pages concise hints of methods in prese words given in each column. (A. Flanagan Comp cago. Price, $0.17.)

First Lessons in Arithmetic, by G. B. Longa manual of method is an excellent and very timely a teacher of primary arithmetic who feels the need of ing her work and improving her methods. It is a v tical book with no nonsense about it, and it will pro guide in primary number. It is full of well-arranged work with illustrations suggesting the use of mate M. Parker, publisher, Taylorville, Ind.)

Essay on Burns, by Thomas Carlyle, edited with tion and notes by Cornelius Beach Bradley, A. M., pr rhetoric, University of California, for the Cambridg ture Series. In this book the text of the Centenar