Washington, said publication (complete) to be in the hands of the judges not later than October 1, 1906. These articles must be sealed and addressed to TEACHERS' CONTEST, Care Portland Commercial Club, They will be opened by the judges. Prizes will be awarded strictly on the merits of the articles. Contestants can treat any phase of the subject that appeals to them-natural resources, scenery, irrigation, agriculture and horticulture, history, educational and religious advantages, climatic or social conditions, etc.-or in a more comprehensive vein. The judges will be absolutely untrammeled in making their decisions. This offer is made, not so much with view of having the country "boomed" in the common acceptation of that term, as to have the teachers of the country become more familiar with this portion of the United States and give expression to their views in such articles as will be acceptable to papers throughout the entire Union. TOM RICHARDSON, Manager, Supt. Edgar N. Haskins, Oaktown schools, is one of the instructors in the normal department of Vincennes University. He is a graduate of the Indiana State Normal, and is held in high esteem by the teachers of Knox County. Miss Cora A. Snyder, teacher of English in the Anderson high school, has been attending for several months the course of lectures upon the drama given by Professors Chas. Swain Thomas and M. W. Sampson at the Shortridge high school at Indianapolis. She will probably attend the N. E. A. at San Francisco, after which she will spend the summer with her brother, who is a member of the faculty in Stanford University. Mrs. Mary E. Foulke-Stewart has been principal of the Dublin high school for the past five years, and we are pleased to note her re-election. She was formerly principal of the Worthington and Middletown high schools, and is a graduate of the Indiana State Normal school. She has specialized in Earlham College and Indiana University. Prof. F. H. Huntworth, graduate of the Indiana State Normal school and formerly superintendent of the Clay City schools, writes to Mr. J. W. Walker as follows from Georgetown, Wash.: "The Educator-Journal comes in due time. Please find one dollar ($1.00) inclosed in payment of my subscription. I am employed in Georgetown, a suburb of Seattle, as superintendent of schools. We have twenty teachers, and a four-year high school course. "My wife's health is much better here than it was in Indiana. Our children are big and strong." Miss Julia Fried, who edits the l'rimary Department in the Educator-Journal, has been engaged for institute work at Frankfort and Peru. Her services are in demand elsewhere, and she will accept engagements in other leading county teachers' institutes if the dates shall not conflict with those in Clinton and Miami counties. County superintendents desiring additional information should address County Superintendent Homer L. Cook, 79 Court House, Indianapolis. Miss Fried is connected with the Indiana Kindergarten Normal, and will be one of the instructors at Winona Lake. She excels as a primary teacher. She was one of the instructors in the Monroe County Teachers' Institute at Bloomington last summer, where her work was commended very highly by Dr. E. B. Bryan, president of Franklin College. We regret to note the death of Miss Emma Buchanan, who was one of the most efficient teachers in the Lafayette schools. She was formerly connected with the Edinburg schools, and was a member of the Southern Indiana Teachers' Association. Her home was at Rising Sun, Ind. It always affords us pleasure to note the progress of Prof. L. M. Sniff, Angola, Ind., where he has been president of the TriState Normal College for many years. The growth of the institution has been so steady that he has found it absolutely necessary to incorporate three separate colleges as follows with the power to grant degrees. The institutions are as follows: (1) The Tri-State College, a literary institution with five courses. (2) The Tri-State College of Pharmacy, two courses. (3) The Tri-State College of Engineering with four courses. Notwithstanding the establishment of the colleges named above, Professor Sniff will continue to give the best of normal training to hundreds of teachers in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan at a minimum cost of time and money. He believes in strenuous work, and has no sympathy whatever for secret fraternities. Hazing, competitive athletics and college rowdyism are repulsive to him. He prefers to appeal to those pupils and teachers who desire to become students for laudable purposes. Mr. John Clerkin, the very efficient superintendent of the Jennings County schools, has developed a great interest in the Boys' Corn-growing Club and Girls' Bread-making Club under the auspices of the Farmers' Institute and County Board of Education of Jennings County, Indiana. The conditions for membership and the prizes offered are as follows: Open to all boys and girls under twentyone years of age. Conditions of Boys' Contest: 1. Seed to be furnished by the farmers' institute association and the county school superintendent. 2. Kind of seed-Alexander's Gold Standard (yellow). $18.50. Second grand prize, $5.00. Third grand prize, $3.00. Township Prizes: First grand prize in each township, $2.00. Second grand prize in each township, $1.00. Third grand prize in each township, $0.50. Poultry-County Prizes: First grand prize, cash, $3.00. First cash prize, $5.00. County Superintendent Clerkin has prepared for the boys a very excellent outline for their compositions to be submitted by each member of the Corn Club who desires to participate in the contest explained above. The following points are suggested: 1. Kind of soil in which seed is planted. 2. Location-field, garden, level, slope or Statement of what has been learned by contestant in raising this corn. 10. State what difficulties, if any, were encountered with diseases, insects, squirrels or other pests, and results. 11. Name, address, age and school district of contestant. Situated on Tippecanoe River, near its source, and in Northern Indiana, is the beautiful little city of Warsaw. It is progressive as well as pretty, for it is up-todate in every way, well lighted, drained and paved, and with modern stores, well stocked. Right on the edge of this goodly city, at its feet, as it were, is the most beautiful lake in Hoosierdom-Lake Winona. Thousands of people have traveled far to look upon lakes less beautiful. On the shores of this beautiful sheet of water is the Winona Summer School. A more ideal place for a summer school could not be found in the United States. The school faculty is made up of eminent educators, and a school with such a faculty, and the advantages of the famous Winona Assembly programs, and the summer resort privileges, should attract, not only the teachers of southern Michigan, western Ohio, all of Indiana, eastern Illinois, and southern Wisconsin (its regular contributing territory), but those much farther off. With its twenty departments and fifty teachers, Winona will compare favorably with the biggest and best summer school in this country, and when it comes to situation and environment, few are its equal, there are none superior. Those energetic and talented gentlemen, S. C. Dickey, president, Winona Lake, Ind., and C. M. McDaniel, principal, Hammond, Ind., will give you full information.-Public School Journal, Cincinnati, Ohio. Students who contemplate attending a summer session outside the State of Indiana would do well to consider the advantages offered by the University of Wisconsin. The university is located in one of the most beautiful little cities in the country, practically surrounded by three lakes, and giving opportunity for many kinds of aquatic diversion. The graduate courses offered are unusually strong, one department alone offering four seminary courses, and it is possible for the advanced student to continue his investigation after the close of the session. Three-fourths of the faculty of the session are of professional rank, including such well-known special lecturers as Jane Adams of Hull House, Chicago (sociology); Brigham of Colgate (geology), Fairclough of Stanford (Latin), Huberich of Stanford (political science), Urdahl of Colorado College (political economy), and Van Tyne of Michigan (American history). One of the successful innovations made by the director of the session is the giving of a weekly reception to faculty and students at Chadbourne Hall, the women's residence. These receptions are said to aid surprisingly in developing an esprit de corps among the student body of the session, composed of men and women coming, without previous acquaintance with each other, from various parts of the country. We are not at all sure that our Hoosier students need to go outside their State for summer work, but there are good arguments for a change of environment, and Wisconsin offers strong inducements for the patronage of her summer session. BOOK NOTICES. D. C. Heath & Company of Boston and Chicago have in preparation a most useful little book for geometry classes in secondary schools. The author is D. Sands Wright, of the Iowa State Normal School, and the work consists of a series of supplementary exercises, which are adapted to use with any of the regular text-books in geometry. This book will meet the demands of the more progressive teachers who wish to provide their classes with ample material for drill and review. Wright's Problems in Geometry will perform the same service for geometry classes that McCurdy's Exercise Book in Algebra, issued by the same publishers, has accomplished for classes in algebra for several years. Ginn & Co.'s Common School Catalogue for 1906 has been received. It contains a complete list of the publications. Superintendents desiring copies of same should address the company at 378 Wabash avenue, Chicago. Ginn & Company announce the early publication through their trade department at Boston of a unique contribution to the literature on outdoor life. It is called "Mountain Wild Flowers," and is written by Mrs. Julia W. Henshaw, who has in this book gathered together the result of many years' study of these fascinating flowers that bloom above the clouds. Professor John Macoun, the eminent naturalist, in a letter to Mrs. Henshaw says, "That the work should have been done as you have done it is more than I could have hoped. The beauty of the photographs, the absolute correctness of the grouping of the flowers, the concise and yet complete descriptions make it easy for even the visitor of a day to identify all the plants he is likely to see." "In the Days of Scott" (A. S. Barnes & Co., New York), by Tudor Jenks, author of "In the Days of Chaucer," "In the Days of Shakespeare," "In the Days of Milton," etc. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. $1.00 net. In sketching the picturesque of the "Wizard of the North" Mr. Jenks has done full justice to the earlier dramatic times of Jacobite uprising which produced an atmosphere that influenced Scott peculiarly. The outlines, the surroundings, influences and conditions of one of the most interesting periods in the history of English literature. His charming life story of the great novelist gives a picture of Scott and his work which is wholly exceptional in its succinctness and personal interest. The Language Readers (The Macmillan Co., London, New York and Chicago), by Franklin T. Baker, professor of the English language and literature in Teachers' College, George R. Carpenter, professor of rhetoric and English composition in Columbia University, and Katherine B. Owen, instructor in the Charlton school, New York City. These readers should receive very careful consideration, as they are based upon the general theory that the work in reading and the work in language should be brought into close relationship. One of the definite objects, therefore, is the teaching of the language as well as the reading of good literature. The distinctive feature of the series is that it includes in one book for each of the first six grades all the work in English needed for the grade, except the supplementary reading. The books have been so carefully edited and the selections so judiciously selected that their use will cause a decided improvement in language teaching. Teachers desiring circular information concerning these readers should address the publishers at 378 Wabash avenue, Chicago. "A Short History of England's and America's Literature" (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, New York and Chicago), by Eva March Tappan, Ph. D., formerly of the English department, English high school, Worcester, Mass., author of "England's Story," "Our Country's Story," "Robin Hood His Book," "Old Ballads in Prose," "The Christ Story,"etc. 420 pp., $1.20 net. Teachers of literature in the high schools especially will find this work most helpful in their actual teaching as it is based upon the following con victions: 1. That the prime object of studying literature is to develop the ability to enjoy it. 2. That in every work of literary merit there is something to enjoy. 3. That it is less important to know the list of an author's works than to feel the impulse to read one of them. 4. That it is better to know a few authors well than to learn the names of many. "The Library Method in American History" (World's Events Publishing Co., Dansville, N. Y.), by Geo. R. Crissman, A. B. This outline presents historical facts in the best way. It organizes them and brings out their logical relations. "American Hero Stories" (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.), by Eva March Tappan, Ph. D. This interesting volume contains five accounts of voyagers and explorers, ranging from Columbus to Lewis and Clark; stories of five colonies of marked dissimilarity Virginia, Quebec, Plymouth, New York and Philadelphia; brief lives of four pioneers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and fifteen short stories of war times. 265 pp., 55c. net. The following are new and forthcoming school and college texts announced by Silver, Burdett & Company: "The School and Its Life," by Charles B. Gilbert, a valuable treatise on practical pedagogy, relating to school management and organization; a French composition book, "Through France and the French Syntax," by Robert L. Sanderson, giving a connected story of a journey through France; additions to "The Silver Series of Classics" are "Selected Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe," edited by Charles Marshall Graves, an illustrated edition of the best of the author's poems and five representative tales; and Tennyson's "In Memoriam," edited by Vernon P. Squires; in the "Stories of Colony and Nation" series, "The War of 1812," by Everett T. Tomlinson, appears the third volume of the delightful historical stories for upper grammar grades and for class and general reading. Another new book compiled by the author of the popular "Songs of the Nation" (published by the same house several years since), "Songs of America and Homeland," by Col. Charles W. Johnson; patriotic, devotional and folk songs of America and other countries. In "The Silver Song Series" number twenty-four, "Songs of Devotion and Patriotism," by Leonard B. Marshall; and in the "Beacon Series of Vocal Selections" there have been added about ten new selections, furnishing choice songs and choruses for graduation exercises and special school occasions. The "Standard Series of Mathematics," a series of arithmetics for primary and grammar grades by the well-known authors John W. Cook and Miss N. Cropsey, consisting of "The New Elementary Arithmetic" intended for use in the third, fourth and fifth elementary grades, containing an abundance of carefully graded exercises, designed to train pupils to think in number; and "The New |