THIRD GRADE.

Children in France need sugar-
Will you help to save it?

Mary needs six tablespoonfuls of sugar a day. She eats two tablespoonfuls of sugar on her oatmeal, four tablespoonfuls of sugar in her cooked food, and two tablespoonfuls of sugar in her candy. In one day how many more tablespoonfuls of sugar does Mary eat than she really needs?

Each day Alice used two tablespoonfuls of syrup instead of two tablespoonfuls of sugar, in order to save two tablespoonfuls of sugar for a little child in France. How many tablespoonfuls of sugar did she save in seven days?

People in Europe need flour for bread-
Your waste means their hunger.

Edith wished to save bread to help our soldiers. Each day she ate two extra potatoes and gravy, instead of two slices of bread. In one week, how many slices of bread did Edith save for the soldiers?

Soldiers need meat and butter. If you eat meat and butter every day, they must go without.

John's family eats three pounds of meat each day. They plan to eat fish or eggs, instead of meat, two days of each week. How many pounds of meat will they save in one week? How many pounds of meat will they save in one month?

Mary bought no candy or gum for one week and so saved twelve cents for the Red Cross. The Red Cross bought gauze at four cents a yard. How many yards of gauze did Mary's twelve cents buy?

John puts two teaspoonfuls of sugar in his oatmeal.. John's father puts three teaspoonfuls of sugar in his coffee. In one day how many teaspoonfuls of sugar could be saved for the little Belgian children if John used one teaspoonful of sugar in his oatmeal and his father used one teaspoonful of sugar in his coffee?

A soldier needs six tablespoonfuls of sugar a day. Edith saves two tablespoonfuls of sugar a day. In how many days will Edith save enough sugar to feed a soldier all the sugar he needs for one day?

A woman used three cupfuls of wheat flour to make one loaf of bread. She wishes to save flour for our soldiers, so she used two cupfuls of flour and one cupful of rye flour for each of her loaves. How many cupfuls of flour does she save in making eight loaves of bread?

Each pupil in your school can save two teaspoonfuls of butter each week by eating jam or sirup on his bread instead of butter. How many teaspoonfuls can all the pupils of your school save in one month?

By leaving butter in their plates and throwing away buttered bread Alice and John each wasted one teaspoonful of butter a day. If they used only the butter they needed how many teaspoonfuls of butter did they save for the little children of Europe in one week?

HAMILTON'S

STANDARD

ARITHMETIC.

By

Samuel Hamilton, Ph.D., superintendent of schools,
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
BOOK ONE, first four years.

BOOK TWO, fifth and sixth years.

BOOK THRÉE, seventh and eighth years.

New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company.

Samuel Hamilton is one of the most masterful school men of today. He has one of the most responsible official educational positions in America. He has occupied this same position for a longer time than any other man has occupied a highly important and responsible position. He was a great teacher securing notable results.

He was

eminently successful as a city superintendent, demonstrating equal ability in having city teachers achieve results, and as county superintendent he has demonstrated the same leadership in inspiring city superintendents to achieve similar results through their leadership of their teachers. He has also demonstrated marvelous results in the making of a teacher's book. His "Recitation" is the classic in its field and its sales have been as phenomenal as its influence has been wholesome.

A few years ago he made an Arithmetic that captured the market while the traditional was still in demand. Now that progress demands a recasting of the traditional by shedding the outgrown shell, by building a more worthy mansion for its soul, he has succeeded almost miraculously in a transformation from March to May without upheaving the roots by frost throes and without jeopardizing the fruit by unseasonable budding.

"Hamilton's Standard Arithmetic" has to its credit the most of the useful and the least of the useless.

AN INTRODUCTION TO HIGH SCHOOL TEACHING. By Stephen Sheldon Colvin, Brown University. New York: The Macmillan Company. Cloth. 450 pp. Price, $1.60.

There are few signs of the times as wholesome and

hopeful as the multiplicity of books upon the science and art of teaching in high schools. It was not until quite recently that high school teachers as a class conceded the need of any professional training. To know the subject, to be an expert in any science or subject one was to teach was all sufficient. If one could present a letter of commendation from his teacher in Latin, German, mathematics, history, or science, was a much better asset as a candidate than to bring a letter from the department of education. This has entirely changed in all up-to-theminute high schools.

This latest book for prospective teachers in high schools and for teachers in service who aspire to an improvement of their work is adequate in scope, clear in style, and ardently professional.

GRADED WRITING TEXTBOOKS. By Albert W. Clark.

BOOK ONE, Shorter Course. Price, per dozen, $1.08. BOOK TWO, Shorter Course. Price, per dozen, $1.08. BOOK THREE. Price, per dozen, 70 cents. BOOK FOUR. Price, per dozen, 70 cents. BOOK FIVE. Price, per dozen, 88 cents. Boston, New York, Chicago: Ginn & Co.

Is the copy-book coming back? Or better, can the copy-book no more be eliminated than can the spelling book? There have been times when it seemed as though the copy-book was going with the ox-team and the driving horse, but it seems to be as persistent a factor as the cow. The ox went, but the cow stays.

Mr. Clark's slogan is "The Fault and the Remedy." Here is Mr. Clark's statement of the faults:

"The usual methods of teaching penmanship involve more waste time and effort than is tolerated in any other study.

"From the time that the pupil has learned to make the letters his writing shows no consistent improvement. In the upper grades it is often poorer than in the lower grades.

"When writing classroom exercises, pupils use little of their study and practice of penmanship.

"Teachers know less about penmanship than any other subject which they teach."

Mr. Clark boldly claims that he is first to modernize. the teaching of writing by setting forth a new method equal pedagogically to the best methods of teaching other elementary subjects; that all his drills consist of movement work applied directly to letter forms; that the preliminary practice on ellipses and push-and-pull exercises common to every other system is entirely eliminated; that he successfully correlates the penmanship lesson with every other written exercise of the school riculum.

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A PARENT'S JOB. By C. N. Millard, Master of Grammar School, Buffalo. 14 Beacon Street, Boston, 19 W. Jackson Street, Chicago: The Pilgrim Press. Price, $1.00, net; postage, 10c.

This is the best intelligent appeal to parents to do their share in making a child's school life every way successful that we have seen. It makes it entirely clear that the school needs the parent as much as the parent needs the school in the making of successful manly boys and womanly girls. It vigorously emphasizes the fact that the parent is responsible for the child 84,000 waking hours in the first sixteen years, while the teachers at the best have him but 9,000 hours, and the same parent naturally has him all of the hours while there are as many different teachers as the child is at school years, so that the parent has the child in his waking hours about one hundred times as long as any teacher does.

Every parent should read this book with great care. Teachers will do well to promote its reading by seeing that it goes into every public library and school library.

THE PATRIOTIC READER. For Seventh and Eighth Grades and Junior High Schools. By Katharine Isabel Bemis, Franklin Junior High School, Minneapolis; Mathilde Edith Holtz, Bremer Junior High School, Minneapolis, assisted by Henry Lester Smith, Ph.D., Indiana University. Boston, New York, Chicago: Houghton Mifflin Company. Cloth. 194 pp. Price, 56

cents.

This is an exceptionally valuable collection of patriotic selections adapted to these times and conditions. There are eleven on "The Origin of Our Country"; twenty-two on "The Glory of Our Country"; seven on "Washington and Lincoln"; four on "Amalgamation of Races in America"; sixteen on "Our Country's Ideals"; fourteen on "Our Flag," and nine National Hymns and Songs. In addition to the masters to whom we are accustomed there are more recent names, such as Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard, Owen Wister, Henry W. Grady, Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the Interior, Henry van Dyke Katharine Lee Bates, Edwin Markham, Mary Antin, Elbert Hubbard, Charles R. Skinner. Wilbur D. Nesbit, Horace Porter, Albert J. Beveridge, Laura E. Richards.

HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT. By Orison Swett Marden. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 350 DD. Price, $1.25, net.

Dr. Marden's new book will provoke new thought along the parallel lines of efficiency and success. There is always a best way to get what one wants, as he shows by apt story and illustration; for this well known writer on success topics does not theorize. He shows the means that the other fellow has used-whether for failure or success. His writing always has the personal touch. Other chapter heads than the titular one will indicate the directness of the appeal: "Playing the Glad Game." "Discouragement-How to Cure It," "The Force that Moves Mountains," "How to Find One-self." and "How to Attract Prosperity." In some of the chapters, Mental Control is touched upon, as in "Faith and Drugs," and "Our Partnership with God." The book is distinctly a message of the times. Dr. Marden is in a class by himself as the successor of William Matthews. He is the nearest America's Samuel Smiles that we have.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. By George Willis Botsford and Jay Barrett Botsford. New York: The Macmillan Company. Cloth. 518 pd. Price, $1.50.

In a remarkable way these authors have succeeded in bringing the story of the world from the first purpling of the dawn of civilization to the wonders in science and the industries today within 500 pages. They are brief

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EXERCISE AND REVIEW BOOK IN BIOLOGY. A combined laboratory guide, notebook, and review book for student's use. By J. G. Blaisdell. A new volume in the New-World Science Series, edited by John W. Ritchie. Yonkers-on-the-Hudson, N. Y.: World Book Company. Bound in strong kraft paper. 8x10 inches. viii+152 pp. Illustrated. Price, 80 cents.

Although biology is the newest high school science it has reached the stage of the New Biology. It is settling down to a satisfactory science, which means that it demands satisfactory textbooks, such as this "Exercise and Review Book."

This is the first book of its kind provided for high school student's use, and covering the subject of biology. It is made to accompany any of the texts in general biology used in the first year of high school. It also meets the requirements in biology by the regents of the University of the State of New York.

The exercise book contains 100 laboratory exercises and space for others. Twenty-two illustrations are provided for the student and space is given for the drawing of many other simple illustrations. The review section is especially complete.

Full instructions to the pupil are given and space provided for all necessary notes and drawings on the same

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This is the kind of book which frees both the teacher and the pupil from the needless drudgery of laboratory work, making the experimental exercises more interesting and more profitable.

It is a new method, based upon efficiency, and for this reason is likely to be used in all high schools where general biology is taught.

A CHILD'S COMPOSITION BOOK. By James Fleming Hosic, Chicago Normal College, and Cyrus Laurence Hooper, Yale School, Chicago. Illustrations by Maud Hunt Squire. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co. Cloth. 281 pp. Price, 50 cents, net. 60 cents, postpaid. No child can turn the pages of this book without being fascinated by its brilliant illustrations, and few boys or girls in the fourth, fifth or sixth grade will study it as a textbook without genuine enjoyment in writing compositions. In a variety of ways these authors lead children to have many things they would like to say orally and in writing. The book is focused to have even slow children think, to want to express what they think, and to express it effectively and attractively. It is a captivating book from the standpoint of both the teacher and the child. GOD'S MINUTE. Philadelphia: The Vir Publishing Company. Holiday edition. Purple cloth, gold top, stamped in gold. 384 pp. Price, 50 cents, net. Plain cloth, price. 35 cents.

A book of 365 daily prayers-sixty seconds long-arranged in calendar form-a prayer to a page, with a verse of Scripture at the top of the page on encouragement to worship. The prayers were written expressly for this book by 365 of the most eminent evangelical clergymen and laymen in the English-speaking world.

ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATING (Revised Edition). Bv William Trufant Foster, LL.D., president of Reed College. Boston, New York, Chicago: Houghton Mifflin Company. Cloth. 468 np. Price, $1.40. President Foster, now well and widely known as educator, writer and public speaker. a graduate of Harvard, with an earned doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, won his scholastic spurs by the publication of an attractive and widely used text mentation and Debating" while professor of English and on "ArgiArgumentation in Bowdoin College. Now with many years out in the open, with experience extended and intensified he remakes the book and appeals to the new world of young men.

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