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And on it grow such wondrous things,Yes, drums and dolls and tops and rings,What can it be?

Class:

What can it be?

Why, let us see,

A tree, a tree?

(jumping to feet and clapping hands) Hurrah, hurrah!

A Christmas Tree!

Christmas Thought

(Recitation)

Oh, Christmas is coming again, you say,
And you long for the things he is bringing;
But the costliest gift may not gladden the day,
Nor help on the merry bells ringing.

Some getting is losing, you understand;

Some hoarding is far from saving.

What you hold in your hand may slip from your hand;

There is something better than having.

We are richer for what we give,

And only by giving we live.

Your last year's presents are scattered and gone,

The Two Little Stockings

Two little stocking hung side by side,
Close to the fireplace broad and wide.
"Two?" said Saint Nick, as down he came,
Loaded with toys and many a game,
"Ho! Ho!" said he, with a laugh of fun,
"I'll have no cheating, my pretty one;

I know who dwells in this house, my dear;
There is only one little girl leaves here."
So he crept up close to the chimney-place
And measured a sock with a sober face.
Just then a wee little note fell out,
And fluttered low like a bird about.

"Aha? what's this?" said he in surprise;

And he pushed his specs up close to his eyes, And read the address in a child's rough plan. "Dear Saint Nicholas," so it began,

"The other stocking you see on the wall,

Is hung for a child, named Clara Hall.
She is a poor little girl, but very good,
So I thought, perhaps you kindly would
Fill her stockings, too, to-night,

And help to make her Christmas bright.

If you've not enough for both stockings there, Please put all in Clara's, I shall not care."-Sel.

NOTES.

The November issue of the Kindergarten Magazine contains the following articles: The Congress of Mothers at the Trans Mississippi Exposition, by the editor; Some Summer Journeyings in Europe, Mary E. Burt; Froebel versus Herbart in American Education, Nina C Vandewalker; Topical Outlines for Mothers' Meetings, Mary L. Butler; Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Pestalozzi-Froebel Haus; Normal Training Exchange, and the usual up-todate reports of the kindergarten movements.

In the November Atlantic Hamilton W. Mabie pays a judicious and well-deserved tribute to the activity and energy of the great West in promoting educational culture by schools and associations; Professor Münsterberg shows that the proper attitude of Psychology towards Art is to analyze and interpret the creations of the latter and the receptive emotions produced by them; and Three School Superintendents detail many of the most crying evils of the public school system and indicate the remedies in matters which vitally concern the whole community.

THE EASIEST GERMAN READING FOR LEARNERS, YOUNG OR OLD. With Questions in German for drill in speaking and writing; a Vocabulary; and an Introduction on the teaching of language. By George Hempl. Boston: Ginn & Co.

This little book is designed to enable learners to get hold of the language as language, from the start. Those who desire can use the book simply as a reader, to be taken up as soon as the learner can pronounce correctly.

The Vocabulary has been carefully constructed with the aim not only of meeting the immediate wants of the learner, but also of helping him to form good habits of study.

- New Methods in Education" is the title of a comprehensive work published simultaneously in the United States, England and the Continent, by Orange Judd Company of New York, and by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London. In the five books that are to be bound in this one volume, J. Liberty Tadd lays down the first principles in art, manual training and nature study that have been demonstrated during his twenty two years' experience as Director of the Philadelphia Public School of Industrial Art, and of drawing and manual training in the Roman Catholic high school and the parochial schools of that city. Nearly five hundred engravings and about fifty fullpage plates add to the fascination of the textas they show children and teachers engaged in these various methods, and many samples of their work.

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. April 27, 1898.

I am in receipt of sample copies of your Five Cent Classic Series for Supplementary Reading. I have examined them and find them very interesting and well adapted for the purposes for which they are composed.

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Supt. Public Schools, Niagara Falls, N. Y. SIOUX CITY, IOWA, April 17, 1898 EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING CO. Gentlemen: - I wish to acknowledge receipt of copy of "Grandfather's Chair" and of "Robinson Crusoe for Youngest Readers." Both admirable books for the purpose designed. You have a splendid list of books for supplementary reading. I shall keep your publications in mind.

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We take pleasure in acknowleding receipt of the following books; "Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard," ""American Pioneers," "Great In ventors,' ,""Water Babies for Youngest Readers, "Some Flower Friends," "Tales from Scott," "Lady of the Lake," "Old Greece," Vol. III., "Tanglewood Tales," "Lives of the Presidents." I find them well adapted for library purposes, courses of study, for general reading, or for general supplementary work, and hope that they may find their way into many of our schools.

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THE STORY OF ROB ROY. (Appleton's Home Reading Books.) By Edith D. Harris.

The permanent place which the Waverly novels have found in good literature warrants their publication in condensed form for the use of home and schools. The reasons for the abiding popularity of Scott's novels is given by Dr. W. Harris in introduction to this work and is one more illustration of Dr. Harris' kecn, analytical vision in divining causes and sepa. rating the chaff from the wheat. The book appears in good type, with a few good pictures of Scottish life and scenery. All the young people will welcome Rob Roy in this form. POTTER & PUTNAM CO., NEW YORK CITY. STORIES OF STARLAND. By Mary Proctor. These stories are told to two little children in a conversational form and contain, besides the descriptive matter, legends, myths, and poems that are suited to the subject and the children. The illustrations are particularly good and not only make the text clearer, but will serve to cultivate the imagination of the children. This will make a better home book than school book. The schools are already so overcrowded with other forms of nature work that the stars will not be reached for some time to come.

AMERICAN BOOK CO., NEW YORK CITY. NATURAL ELEMENTARY GEOGRAPHY. Jacques W. Redway and Russell Hinman.

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This is designed for a pupil's first text-book in geography, and is intended for a two years' course between the beginning of the third and the end of the fifth school year. It strikes the key-note at the beginning by making man the central idea and giving prominence to countries in relation to man. The states of the Union are divided into groups upon an indus trial basis, and the humanity of the universe is every where the leading thought. The book is something more than a geography. It provides for sand-modeling, map-drawing, and language-work, and recognizes the truth that no one branch of study can be successfully taught by itself. The accuracy of the work from a geographical standpoint is abundantly vouched for by the distinguished authors who have given their knowledge and experience to its preparation. There are enough illustrations to make a book of themselves and their fine quality and artistic arrangement upon the pages add the element of beauty to the clear type, good colored maps, and the other essentials of an attractive book for the school-room.

CARPENTER'S GEOGRAPHICAL Frank G. Carpenter.

READER. By

is introduced as a family of fairies and the little girl who was tired of practising is at once captured by the fairy folk and rebels no more. That the songs are selected by Mrs. Thomas, an experienced supervisor of music in the Detroit schools, is a guarantee for their merit and adaptability to little children.

The book is most attractively bound, the type is large and clear and it will no doubt be popular in primary schools.

CHAS. SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK CITY. NATURE FOR ITS OWN SAKE. By John C. Van Dyke.

In "Nature for Its Own Sake" Mr. Van Dyke has written for the men and women who have

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It calls attention to all these things as they may be seen by any one of us, and tells us why we so see them, at the same time making us feel their beauty as no purely scientific

treatise could do.

The book is clearly written and very interesting as well as helpful, and should be in every library to which teachers have access.

LOTHROP PUBLISHING CO., BOSTON. LAURA'S HOLIDAY. By Henrietta R. Elliot. A little six-year-old's good times during the different holidays in the year- from one New Year's Day to the next Christmas. The stories are told in a pleasant, vivacious way, and the illustrations are very pleasing and true to life. Children would enjoy having this story read to them in school or at home.

D. C. HEATH & CO., BOSTON. ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY. A select glossary, as an Introduction to the History of the English Language. By Friedrich Kluge and Frederick

Lutz.

It is the design of this book to furnish a primer of English Etymology-to introduce the study of the historical grammar of English. Care has been taken to select only such words as bear on the development of the language at large. Therefore loan words of Scandinavian, French, and Latin origin have been traced back to older periods. It is suggested that in using this book, the teacher makes it a point to deal always with a group of words at a time.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., BOSTON. LITTLE FOLK LYRICS. By Frank Dempster Sherman.

these verses from

The rosary of childhood come For you to string on Fancy's line To be your joy as they were mine. This verse from the author is the key to these "Lyrics." All sorts of subjects of interest to children are fancifully treated in rhyme and illustrated in a most unusual way. There are fifteen full-page illustrations of charming design and in a modern style of art. Children will enjoy them all, and grown-ups will be found lingering over the pages and going back

again to the olden time when the world held fairy lands, and when make-believes were the

The pupils in our schools who study their own continent with the assistance of this Geographical Reader to vivify and lend inter. joy of life. est to every interesting spot, will have a living NEW ENGLAND PUBLISHING CO., BOSTON. knowledge of their country to be obtained in NATURE STUDY BY MONTHS. FOR ELEMENTARY no other way. To be personally conducted GRADES. By Arthur C. Boyden. 100 pages. anywhere by Mr. Carpenter is to see through his clear, discriminating eyes and get a quickened sense of the values of things. This imag. inary trip is mostly through the United States, and includes also Alaska, portions of Canada, Mexico and Central America, and finally clos. ing the tour with the Isthmus of Panama.

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This is not only a book about Nature, but it contains an outline for the teacher's work for each month. All those who have heard Mr. Boj den talk to teachers know the spirit which characterizes his treatment of Nature, and the reverence with which he always approaches it. Such teachers will be prepared to welcome any book in which this author suggests and

CHILD STUDY OF THE CLASSICS. By Grace Adele Pierce. Boards. Illustrated. Price, 40 cents.

Mythological tales of the flowers, the stars, the sea, and other well-known myths make up this little book. The author has designed to cultivate the imagination and create a taste for good literature in her selection and presen. tation of these classic stories. The selection of these, in the main, is good, but the Medusa story is a blot on any bock for children with vivid imaginations. The illustrations are few, but good.

FLOWERS OF GRASSES. By Juniata Stafford. A dainty little autograph book of verses, with a touch of true artistic feeling on every page. The author sees the flowers in the grasses and the hidden beauty in every nook of nature and with reverent spirit weaves it into rhythmic verse.

The National Temperance Society has six new twenty-five-cent picture books by Miss L Penney, bound in cloth and put up in a stont box under the name of the Golden Grain Series. The text consists of little stories and sketches, most of them intended as temperance lessons.

- Mr. Guy Wetmore Carryl has put into humorous latter-day rhyme certain of La Fontaine's fables, which Peter Newell has cleverly illustrated. The author entitles them "Frivolous Fables," and disclaims any serious intention in their production. The moral of each fable is there, just the same. Published by the Harpers.

66 Essays on Work and Culture," by Hamil. ton Wright Mable, is a volume of twenty-five chapters, each upon some special phase of work or study that is more or less peculiar. In "Tool or Man?" he says some good things in favor of an all-round culture, in opposition to the extreme notion that a man should devote himself to a single field.

- Mr. Charles N. Page, of Des Moines, IA., has written and published a little book entitled "Aquaria." It gives in compact form all the information necessary for making and keeping an aquarium, describing the various fishes that are suitable, the newts, snails and plants that may be introduced with benefit; tells how to treat the fish when attacked by disease, and how to breed them. Price, 15 cents.

The Century Company will issue, Nov. 19, & book on "Cuba and Porto Rico, with the Other Islands of the West Indies," written by Robert T. Hill, a geologist and geographer of high standing, who has been engaged for years in explorations of the West Indian Islands. Mr. Hill is a member of the United States Geological Survey and has been connected with the Smithsonian Institution. His book will describe the topography, climate, products, people, social conditions, and business possibilities of the entire group of islands, and it will be very fully illustrated.

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Dear Sirs:-I beg to acknowledge the receipt of "Stories of American Pioneers." It is an excellent book and the stories are just the kind to interest the young reader. Yours very truly,

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