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THE BARNARD LANGUAGE READER

By Marion D. Payne, Instructor in the Barnard Schools, New York City

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30 cents

This book for the first school year offers an interesting variety of material for dramatization, reproduction, and memory work. Besides simple adaptations of seven popular nursery stories, such as The Three Bears," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "The Little Red Hen," the book contains a of fables and folk tales which illustrate us duties and faults of childhood. The or the most part classic in character, is with small boys and girls. The matter ed with reference to the seasons. Among attractive illustrations are twenty-three Cours, while the cover design is a clever adaptation of an old-fashioned sampler.

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STAMPER'S TEXTBOOK ON THE TEACHING OF ARITHMETIC

By Alva Walker Stamper, Ph. D., Head of the Department of Mathematics, State Normal School, Chico, California

$1.00

This book gives a greater breadth of view in connection with the larger problems concerned with the teaching of arithmetic, some practical suggestions as to methods, and a brief but comprehensive review of subject matter. It contains an interesting history of the subject; an account of the reasoning involved in arithmetic; a brief treatment of the scope and value of algebra and geometry in the elementary school; a general lesson plan, with ten plans worked out in detail; advice as to modes of instruction and detail, of routine work, etc. The work is carefully planned; the methods are up-to-date and practicable, and the subject related to actual life.

AUSTIN'S LESSONS IN ENGLISH FOR FOREIGN WOMEN

35 cents

This book is designed especially for use in Settlement Work and evening schools. It teaches foreign women to speak and read English and shows them how to become good, intelligent American citizens. The working woman's longing for sociability is made the basis of the instruction. The class meetings form the connecting link between the old world and the new, and help adjust the immigrant to her new environment and new conditions of living. These lessons are the outgrowth of many years' experience in Settlement Work, in teaching English to foreign women, and in training other teachers for such work. Interest in the reading lessons is stimulated by the use of questions, conversation, memory exercises, and pictures. Self-expression is encouraged as much as possible. Every lesson is full of valuable information on some topic of greatest interest and importance to foreign

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These books tell in the author's own inimitably entertaining way, stories of the journeys made by those adventurous pioneers who were determined to push west either to found homes or to gain riches for themselves from the better opportunities offered in the new country. There were hardships to be endured in making the long and tedious journeys through almost unbroken forests, across desolate prairies and over unbridged rivers. in fair and stormy weather; there were homes to be built, and there were fields to be cleared, while savage foes watched from the distance. All these hardships and all these adventures were experienced and are interestingly related by children.

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