new department are proving very popular is shown by the fact that 115 stu dents have enrolled.

Professor James B. Garner was at the head of the chemistry department in Wabash College for thirteen years. In August he resigned this position. We are not informed as to his plans for the future. He was succeeded by Professor James M. Breckenridge, of Waukesha, Wis.

The enrollment for the second session of the summer library school, conducted by the State public library commission at Hanover College, was forty.

The innovation in public school work of Muncie this year are the night vocational schools for women, to be conducted in five of the principal city school buildings, each school being in charge of competent women instructors. Any woman over the age of eighteen may enroll and may study sewing, millinery and household arts. The schools begin at 7 o'clock in the evening and continue two hours.

Superintendent W. C. Goble, of Nashville, has inaugurated a new feature in Domestic Science Training. A number of pupils from the county come into Nashville to attend the High School. Upon the suggestion of Superintendent Goble the school board rented a house, furnished it, installed the Domestic Science teacher as the head of the home and the out-of-town pupils live there and run the house accarding to the directions of the Domestic Science teacher. "Mighty good Domestic Science work"-say we.

The most casual observer can not help seeing the hearty co-operation between the county and city teachers of Grant county. County Superintendent Terrell is enthusiastic for the Departmental plan of holding the County Teacher's Institute. He also favors a

night lecture during the week to pro

mote the social side of the teachers lives and the teachers do not come to this night meeting with the spirit of having to.

The Martin County Teachers' Institute is held alternately at Shoals and Loogootee. This year it was at Loogootee. Superintendent Charles O. Williams is able to have practically 100 per cent. of his teachers in the institute. He believes in holding his meeting late late so that the teachers go from the institute to their schools. The instructors there this year were President and Mrs. Dearing of Oakland City College, Professor L. A. Wood of Loogootee School and Mrs. Julia Fried Walker of The Educator-Journal Company.

Two hundred and forty-three students graduated from the eighth grade in the Clark county schools and all have made a promise that they will enter high school this fall term.

Z. E. Scott, formerly of the Jeffersonville schools, but more recently the head of the department of education at Moores Hill College, has been elected superintendent of schools at Asbury Park, N. J., at a salary of $3,000 per year.

Received from Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, Chicago and Boston: German Songs, compiled by Max Walter, Ph. D., director of the Musterschule (Realgymnasium), Frankfurt am Main, visiting professor Teachers' College of Columbia University, and Carl A. Krause, Ph. D., head of the department of modern languages in Jamaica High School, N. Y., lecturer on methods of teaching modern languages, New York University. Music arranged by H. Weigand. Cloth, 92 pp. Beginners' French, by Max Walter,

Ph. D., and Anna Woods Ballard,
M. A., instructor in French at Teach-
ers' College, Columbia University.
Illustrated, cloth, 249 pp.

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Frances Willard, principal of the A. H. Burley School, Chicago. A supplementary reader to be used in connection with the history and geography work of sixth and seventh grades. Illustrated by 125 halftones. Index and pronouncing vocabulary. 269 pp., 50 cents.

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for school use by William Allen Neilson, M. A., Ph. D., professor in English at Harvard University. 25

cents.

Tom Brown's School Days, by an Old Boy, edited for school use by A. B. De Mille, A. M., master in English in Milton Academy, Milton, Mass. 35 cents.

Addison and Steele, selections from the

Tattler and the Spectator, edited for school use by Herbert Vaughan Abbott, professor of English at Smith College. 35 cents.

The above named books belong to the famous Lake English Classics. The general editor, Lindsay Todd Damon, A. B., is professor of English literature and rhetoric in Brown University.

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First German Reader. By Frieda L. Martini. 12mo, cloth, 231 pages, with fragen and vocabulary, 70 cents. Racine's Andromaque. Edited, with introduction, notes and vocabulary, by Colbert Searles, associate professor of romance languages, Leland Stanford Junior University. 16mo, semi-flexible cloth, 144 pages, 40

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Altes und Neues. Revised edition. Edited, with notes and vocabulary, by Karl Seeligmann, late instructor in German in the Harvard School, Chicago. 16mo, semi-flexible cloth, 131 pages, 35 cents.

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The Theory and Practice of Argumentation and Debate, by Victor Alvin Ketcham, B. A., LL. B., assistant professor in the Ohio State University. 366 pp., cloth, $1.25. History of English Literature, by A. S. Mackenzie, M. A., Litt. D., author of "The Evolution of Literature" and professor of English literature. State University of Kentucky. Cloth, 477 pp., $1.10.

How Man Conquered Nature, by Minnie J. Reynolds. Illustrated by

Florence R. A. Wilde. Cloth, 249 pp., 40 cents.

Pinocchio Under the Sea, translated

from the Italian by Carolyn M. Della Chiesa. Edited by John W. Davis, with illustrations and decorations by Florence R. Abel Wilde. Cloth, illustrated, 201 pp., 50 cents.

The Beginner's Garden Book, a textbook for the upper grammar grades, by Allen French, author of "How to Grow Vegetables." Cloth, illustrated, 402 pp., $1.00.

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Brookman. Cloth, 112 pp., 60 cents. A Group of Famous Women, a biographical reader, by Edith Horton. Cloth, illustrated with portraits, 229 pages, 50 cents.

First Notions of Geography, by John H. Haaren, associate superintendent of schools New York City. Cloth, 50 illustrations, 160 pp., 45 cents. Crop Production, an agricultural text for schools, by Clarence M. Weed and William E. Rilet, State Normal School, Lowell, Mass. 246 pp., cloth, illustrated.

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Ten Sex Talks to Boys Ten Years and Older, by I. D. Steinhardt, M. D. Cloth, 187 pp., $1.00.

Teaching of Oral English, by Emma Miller Bolenius, A. M., Columbia. Cloth, 214 pp.

Daily English Lessons, by Willis H. Wilcox, Ph. M., professor of English in the Maryland State Normal School, Baltimore. Cloth, 293 pp., profusely illustrated; book 1, 45 cents; book 2, 60 cents.

History of the United States, by Mat

thew Page Andrews, M. A. 155 illustrations and 24 black and white maps in the text, also frontispiece. 406 pp., cloth, $1.10.

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Art Metalwork, with inexpensive equipment for the public schools and for the craftsman, by Arthur F. Payne, assistant professor of manual arts Bradley Polytechnic Institute. 187 pp. and 159 illustrations, attractive cloth binding, $1.50.

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Chats in the Zoo, by Teresa Weimer, primary teacher Franklin School, Kewanee, Ill., and R. G. Jones, superintendent of schools, Rockford, Ill. Illustrated with 54 half-tones and photographs. Cloth, 139 pp., 40

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