The Health Index of Children

BY

Dr. Ernest Bryant Hoag

has been adopted by the Teachers' Reading Circles of Virginia and Alabama. In California it has been adopted very generally by the County Boards of Education. Price 80c net, postpaid.

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Something DEFINITE for the Teacher of Agriculture

Something Widely Used in California Schools "One Hundred Experiments in Elementary Agriculture for California Schools," Third Thousand, 44 pp. with notes, 25 cents per copy. "Course in Nature-Study and Agriculture for the Elementary Schools of California," Second Edition, 10 cents per copy.

Special Rates for Larger Quantities

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Riley O. Johnson

State Normal School, Chico, Cal.

Five Little Song Pictures

A Collection of Children's Songs. Price 50c.

Leila France, composer of "The Old Flag Forever," has written the music for The Sandman, The Moon is a Lady, Seven Times One, The Honey Bee and Christmas Carol, and Elizabeth McDermott has illustrated the same. The songs are dedicated to the school children of California. Have your School Board order copies for you. Price, 50 cents for book. Address

Elite Publishing Co.

Los Altos, California Note-"Old Flag Forever," a good patriotic song for schools, 1 cent per copy in lots of not less than 25. Send stamps.

Was This A Tidal Wave
Or Only A Land Slide

During the year 1911, California, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida adopted one or more of the Ritchie-Caldwell series in hygiene, sanitation and physiology. Eight states have now adopted this series in all or in part for exclusive use as text-books, and nearly every city of prominence in the U. S. has ordered these books or adopted them as text-books. Orders have also been received from nearly every foreign country on the globe.

This series consists of:

NEW YORK

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LOCAL INSTITUTES A GREAT
SUCCESS

J. E. Reynolds, the author of the new Institute law, and County Superintendent of Schools of Ventura County, gives his impression of local institutes:

The first series of local institutes was a success. The attendance, although not so large in one or two places as I had hoped for, was good, aggregating for the week from 1200 to 1500 people, easily five times as many as ever attended an institute meeting under the old plan.

Interested in what our schools are doing, these have learned from the teachers with some definiteness our objects in the teaching of the subject considered, literature; and in several places, the teachers have learned the parents' point of view on the same subject. Besides this, all have had the opportunity of listening to an interesting and instructive lecture on literature by a man thoroughly informed on his subject. Moreover, by actual count, twenty-six teachers of the county have had the benefit of coming face to face with their own thoughts on the subject of literature in the schools by arranging those thoughts for expression before an audience, and then have had the further advantage of comparing their ideas with those of others. Twentysix is just eleven more than appeared on the program during the entire annual last year. Activity always has advantages over passivity, and the logical institute in this respect has shown itself decidedly superior even in the first series.

Further than this, the short session institute, treating of one subject gives a clear, definite, strong impression which is not effaced or made faint by immediately overlaying it with the impressions from lectures and discussions on half a dozen other subjects.

Last and not the least, the work of the schools has not been stopped or interfered with. Teachers have given their time without extra pay, and have done so with cheerful willingness. Why not? Under this plan of institute, they will receive for the year's work exactly as much money as under the annual plan; and, in almost every case, their expenses for attendance reduced, in most cases, in fact, reduced to nothing.

It seems patent, then, that for all who really want to know what the schools are doing, and how they are trying to do it, that is, for parents and schools officers; as well as for the teachers and the schools, the local institute has thus far shown itself to be a success.-Ventura Free Press.

SAN MATEO INSTITUTE The San Mateo County teachers were particularly fortunate in the number of instructors and the varied topics presented to their institute which took place in the beautiful new high school building in San Mateo. The speakers engaged by Superintendent Ray Cloud were Professor P. E. Davidson, H. L. Coggins, Loyal L. Wirt, Richard G. Boone. Dr. William F. Snow, Thomas E. Hayden and Professor C. E. Rugh.

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H. L. Coggins, who is at the head of the literary department of the Whitaker-Ray Wiggin Co., has just returned from a lecture trip to El Dorado and other places. His illustrated lecture on "Birds" is of very great interest and is extremely popular.

President Lulu White of the Northern Section of the California Teachers' Association has prepared a fine program for the Chico meeting, October 24 to 27. There will be a large attendance and interesting speakers.

Supt. Edward Hyatt and Mrs. M. G. Hyatt, Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, attended the opening of the Anthropological Museum donated to the University of California by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. The museum is in the affiliated Colleges near the Golden Gate Park.

SISKIYOU COUNTY TEACHERS'
INSTITUTE

Superintendent W. H. Parker called his first institute to meet in the county high school building at Yreka on September 5th to continue through the 5th, 6th and 7th.

The session was one of much interest and was attended by all the teachers as well as many who were not teaching.

The instructors from abroad were Lee Emerson Bassett of Stanford University, Lincoln L. Wirt, formerly Superintendent of Public Instruction of Alaska, Miss Ida M. Fisher of the San Jose Normal, Mrs. Nettie S. Gains of Stockton and Job Wood Jr. of Sacramento.

Superintendent Parker, in addition to giving some excellent talks, proved himself a fine presiding officer.

Many of the teachers took part in the discussions and the following named ably presented subjects before the institute.

A. D. Tenney, R. R. Simmons, R. H. Taylor, Miss Esther L. Lee and Miss Edna Jones. The local musicians enlivened the session with many excellent selections.

The day following the close of the Teachers' Institute, Friday, the Trustees of that county met under the new law for the first time. Nearly all of the districts were represented by men who showed the interest in education taken by the people of this northern county.

Those taking part in the program were W. H. Parker, County Superintendent, W. B. Shearer, J. A. Ayer, A. A. Millikin, Roy E. Swigert and Job Wood Jr.

The meeting from an educational point of ciew was a great success.

YUBA COUNTY TRUSTEES
INSTITUTE

On Saturday, September 16, Superintendent W. P. Cramsie called his first Trustees Institute to meet in the assembly hall of the free library in the city of Marysville.

Nearly all of the districts were represented by trustees who took much interest in the subjects presented.

Superintendent Cramsie presided in his most genial way and kept the interest at the highest point from the beginning to the close.

Mr. P. M. Fisher of the Oakland Polytechnic High School presented a most excellent talk on the "Selection of Teachers and the General Management of Schools."

Job Wood Jr. discussed the recent school leg

islation and the management of schools in a general way.

Mayor G. W. Hall was a prominent figure during the day and gave a kindly greeting to the trustees and to each as he met them during

recess.

Mr. E. T. Manwell, formerly Superintendent but now District Attorney, was present and gave a most interesting address on school management. Mr. W. H. Neimeyer of Wheatland spoke in a most entertaining way on the "Relations of the Trustees to the Community."

Mr. J. W. Mills, a trustee at Linda, gave a most excellent address on agriculture in schools. Mr. Mills has had an excellent training in these subjects both in and out of college and he speaks from experience...

A POPULAR CALIFORNIA SONG "California, Queen of Old Columbia" is the most popular song for California schools yet published. It has been recommended by many of our best musical and literary critics. Price, 10 cents. Address Mrs. Jennie L. Thorp, Healdsburg, Cal., or The Whitaker & Ray Co., 770-776 Mission street, San Francisco.

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing farthest, has the deepest love for mankind. He who sees without loving is only showing his eyes in the dark.-Maurice Maeterlinck.

Winslow's
Geography

OCT 281311

JUNIOR

1. Last year's best sellers; a most popular series of Supplementary Readers.

2. A valuable side-light on the State Geographies, in which the story is told in a very interesting and readable manner.

3. The 750 illustrations-well executed half-tones of real scenery, industries, and people-add much to the interest.

4. The maps, which are numerous, are clear, distinct, and modern.

5. The industrial and commercial features of the subject are given most emphasis. 6. Don't fail to get a Set for your school.

DR

Book Notes

"Bliss's History in the Elementary Schools" by W. F. Bliss, B. S., M. L., Dean of the Normal School and Head of the Department of History, State Normal School, San Diego, California; Sometime Teaching-Fellow in History, University of California. Cloth, 12mo. 214 pages. Price, 80 cents. American Book Company. This helpful manual for teachers provides for a complete course of study in American history for the first eight years in school. It is the result of years of experience and has been tested in many schools. It combines methods, courses of study, and bibliographies, and is equally suited to graded or ungraded schools. Among its many helpful features are: its practicability and adapability to any conditions; its logical consistency; its vital interest to the pupils; the sense of the unity of history which it arouses in the minds of teachers and pupils; the selected, workable bibliography, containing book lists especially suitable for the use of young pupils and of teachers who have had only the minimum of historical training; the introduction of a variety of methods of representation and reproduction by the pupils in the form of drawing, sand and clay modeling, handicrafts, simple dramas, etc.

Professor Bliss is one of the ablest teachers of history in California, and we are delighted that he has put some of his work in permanent form.

"Exercises in English," by Edwin C. Woolley, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin. Cloth. 147 pages. Price, 60 cents. D. C. Heath & Co. Publishers. In nearly every class in composition in high school or college there are students in need of special training in some of the elementary processes of writing. This book furnishes apparatus for the drill necessary to remedy these defects. It is not intended that all the exercises shall be taken consecutively, but that the teacher should assign to individual students such exercises as will remedy the particular defects appearing in their written work. The topics include the proper use of synonyms and grammatical and idiomatic accuracy; rhetorical principles as affecting sentence structure in unity, order of members, dangling

modifiers, coordination, subordination, logical agreement and the like. Exercises in spelling, compounding, abbreviation, syllabication, punctuation, paragraphing, and letter writing are also included. The book will prove a book to teachers of composition in secondary schools and colleges, and is a worthy companion of the author's widely known "Handbook of Composition" and "Mechanics of Writing."

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"Principles and Practice of Poultry Culture," by John Henry Robinson, Editor of Farm Poultry,

Boston, Mass. Ginn & Co., Publishers, 717 Market street, San Francisco, Cal. Mr. Robinson is perhaps our greatest American authority on the practical raising of poultry. His field of work is assuming tremendous proportions in modern industry. His book is the only comprehensive treatise on the subject in circulation. It is based upon the intimate association of the scientific and the practical in everyday work, and is elaborately yet appropriately illustrated. More than five hundred cuts from photographs and drawings, systematically arranged with reference to the text and to each other, show graphically the evolution of methods and systems of poultry keeping, the development and range and types of structures for poultry, common appliances and the methods of using them, the characteristics of the different kinds, classes, breeds, and varieties of poultry, etc. The general list of references includes all important poultry books and bulletins. The gloss

ary is carefully compiled and includes all words used in the text in a technical sense. Though written primarily for students, the book meets all requirements of a general treatise on poultry cul

ture.

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"Standard Short Course for Evening Schools," by William Estabrook Chancellor, Superintendent of Schools in the town of Norwalk, Connecticut; Professor of Education, Summer Session, Northwestern University, and Lecturer in Teachers' Institutes. Cloth, 12mo, 259 pages with illustrations. Price, 50 cents. American Book Company. A systematic course of practical, elementary lessons in English, including reading, language, and spelling, in arithmetic, in civil government, in physiology, for students in evening schools, especially the foreign-born and the adult beginners. All the materials for such instruction are here provided. This one-book course is designed for the convenience of towns and cities with evening schools, desiring an abundance of well selected and well graded material at moderate price. It has been prepared largely from the author's four-book series for evening schools, issued some years ago and now in very wide and successful

"Kimball's Elementary English," by Lillian G. Kimball, formerly head of English Department, State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Cloth, 12mo. Book One, 276 pages, 40 cents; Book Two, 299 pages, 60 cents. American Book Company. "Kimball's Elementary English" in two volumes is designed for use in grades four to eight inclusive. It is in complete accord with the present strong tendency in education toward what is practical and useful rather than what is merely disciplinary. It recognizes the child-his natural interests, his needs, and his development-as the controlling factor in the teaching of grammar and composition. It makes a continual demand upon the child's powers. It requires him to take the initiative, thus helping him to become self-reliant and free. It is inductive throughout.

It is used in eight of the ten largest cities of the Iowa.

Eighty cities in Illinois use it-giving it six times the business of all competitors.

In Nebraska it has five times the business of its nearest competitor.

It has 90% of the business in Indiana.

It has 65% of the business of all cities in the United States.

WHY

The songs are unsurpassed in musical content.

Technical instruction is based on musical songs, not dry exercises.
It is stimulative.

It makes instruction in music a pleasure.

The material is closely related to the child's life and interests.

It is in accord with the best modern pedagogical thought of the day. It does not use old-fashioned cumbersome charts; we have dispensed with charts in reading, why not in music.

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