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mending one person as particularly in Syracuse, N. Y., and Harrisburg,

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Barren and treeless condition of many school yards in Indiana.

SHOWS BAD AND PROPER CARE OF THE SHADE TREE.

P is a trunk decay due to neglect; GH and F, and CD and AB illustrate the proper way of taking off large limbs; E, limb removed too far from the trunk; ON shows where the limb should have been taken off; I and L, limbs properly removed with decay beginning because the wounds were not properly dressed; K is turn buckle which joins the bolts 1 and 2 through the limbs of the crotch.

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BOOK NOTICES

"Practical Training in English" (D. C. Heath & Co., Boston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, San Francisco and London), by H. A. Kellow, M. A. Allen, Glenn's School, Glasgow, Scotland. Cloth. 272 pp. 75 cents. This book is admirably adapted to the needs of classes that have completed the English training in the elementary schools and have entered upon the high school course. The book is the outgrowth of class-room practice, and provides elementary training in the appreciative and critical study of literature, in the history and development of the language, in the study of words and expressions, together with the essential elements of English composition. Each lesson has questions and exercises that not only make the pupil's task definite and comparatively easy, but also insure the mastery. of the facts and principles that the lesson is intended to illustrate. No class can complete the work in Mr. Kellow's book without arriving at a degree of skill and extent of knowledge much to be desired in pupils in the earlier part of the high school course.

"The Leading Facts of English History" (Ginn & Co., Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Atlanta, Dallas, Columbus and San Francisco) by David H. Montgomery. $1.20.

This work deals with the growth of

the people over pre-historic times. down to the passage of the veto act under George V. The revision has been thorough and to a considerable extent rewritten. It embraces a number of new maps and twenty-five new illustrations. The work is primarily intended for use in the high schools.

"Indian Stories" (Silver, Burdett & Co., Boston, New York and Chicago), by Cicero Newell, Major of the Tenth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Cavalry. 200 pp. 50 cents.

The author lived among the Indians many years ago and knew them well. He considers them very different from the Indians of today. He had great respect for the former and for their manner of life.

"A First Reader" (Newson & Co., New York and Chicago), by Frank E. Spaulding, Superintendent of Schools, Newton, Mass., and Catherine T. Bryce, Supervisor of Primary Schools in the same city. The illustrations are by Margaret Ely Webb.

This reader gives the interesting exercises of the Aldine Primer-The Rhymes and Stories, the Dramatizations and Pictures-which make the child's efforts to master the art of reading both delightful and surprisingly successful. The content is concrete, alive and full of action. The

joys of happy childhood at play are in the open with the birds, the animals, the flowers, the wind, the snow and the rain.

"Grammar and Thinking" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2, 4, 6 W. 45th St., New York City), by Alfred Dwight Sheffield, formerly of the Staff of Webster's New International Dictionary. $1.50, net.

This is a real story of the working conceptions in syntax and should interest both teachers and students of English.

"Applied Physics for Secondary Schools" (Longmans, Green & Co., New York, Chicago, London, Bombay and Calcutta), by V. D. Hawkins, Head of the Department of Science, Technical High School, Cleveland, O.

The author is of the opinion that Physics ought to be a live subject, and reasonably explain all the everyday events of life. He is conscious of the fact that many of the most successful teachers of the subject consider many of the present school texts far too difficult for one year for the average high school pupil because of the large amount of mathematics.

"The United States History for Schools" (The Macmillan Co., New York, Chicago and London), by Edmond S. Meany, Professor of History in the University of Washington. $1.00, net.

This excellent work is based upon

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