Huntsville gazette., 1886-10-23
ICircular No. 81
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION.

4. The officers of the Board shall be 4 pres
ident and a secretary, who shall constitute
the executive committee.
5. Any person in Missouri may become a
member of the circle by forwarding his name
to the secretary of the State Board and pay
ing the membership fee.
6. The membership fee for this year (l836-S1)
shall be twenty-five cents, which shall be for
warded with order for books to the Secreta-
ry of the State Board at Jefferson City. ara,
Z. In any community where Two or more
persons wish to become members, they
should organize into a Local Circle, adopt
their own rules and regulations, and elect
secretary, through WHOM all their business
may be transacted with the State Board.
8. None but members in good standing
shall be entitled to reduced rates on books.
8. The entire course shall include four
years readng-two in Elementary and two
in Advanced work. The course is optional;
still the State Board would urge q regular
course
COURSE OF STUDY AND PRICES OF BOOKS. a
ELEMENTARY CoURsE-FIRsT YEAR.
Reduced Retail
Price. Price.
Membership fee ..............$ .25
Raub's Method of Teaching. so 81 $50
Hunts Hygiene for Young
People. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 80 10
Irvng's Sketch Book. 80 .4j
Creasy's Decisive Battles...... 40 t so
LosSing'S Eminent Americans. .6S so
IOtal ...-. ...........--... ;. S21o 5F s9i-Uu
ELEMENTARY CoURsE-sECoND YEAR.
Reduced Retail
Price. Price.
Membership fee................S %
Whites Pedagogy. .........-... .sS SLJO
Eclectic Physiology and Hy-
gl6no. .Jz 3u
Prescott MiscelIanies ........ .34 .45
Barnes New u. S. History .... 80 l.2j
Emerson's Representative
Men ............. .3i .4o
Total .s3.2s si.55
ADVANCED CoURsE-FIRsT YEAR.
Reduced Retail
Price. Price
Membership fee..... ...........S %
Baldwin's Art Of School Man
agement Observation-Disclosures. 105 Sl50
Bain's Education as Science. L2e l75
Dickens Nicholas Nickleby.... 40 80
Barnes General History ........ l40 200
Alden's Famous Biography..... SO 80
Total. ..... ..a.95 S6.55
1t will be seen from the above that those
who take the first year of Elementary Course
pay the membership fee and get the five ex-
cellent books ut $I.2I less than the books
would cost them: IN second year $l.32 less;
and in the Advanced Course $3.50 less. This
Will, of itself, be sufficienti to convince the
teachers that it is good for them
to undertake the work. In the Ele-
more members the last three books can be
had cheaper. Instea OF Sl.3S for the three,
they can be had at sl.l3, express not pre-
paid. Twelve cents added viii pay the ex
press, so that to clubs it will save IL cents
more, making the total amount of cost to
the first year of Elementary Course $3.50 in
stead Of S273 as given above.
ADVANCED CoURsE-sECoSD YEAR -..
Not yet selected.
THE BOOK.
OF the fifteen books in these three courses,
the well known publishing houses, A. 5.
Barnes & Co Van Antwerp, Bragg Il Co,
and ID. Appleton Co., furnish seven of the
books and have reduced the prices to the
minimum for the Reading Circle. Raub'5
Methods of Teaching is a large book, in good
type and well bound. We get Irving, Greasy.
LOSING, Prescott, Emerson, Dickens and
Alden from the famous low price publisher,
John b. Alden, New York. These are
all standard works, well printed
and quantity no cheaper books can be had.
The titles of most OF these books explain
what they. are. Losing gives brief BIZ
ogi aphic sketches of about four hundI ed
noted American men and women. Prescotts
Miscellanies contains, among other things.
critical essays on Charles Brockden Brown
Ceryantes, Sir Walter Scott and Moltere.
Emerson gives biographies OF Plato, sweden
borg, Montague, Shakespeare, Napoleon
and Goethe. Famous Biography is the com.
pilation Of the biography of twelve noted
historical personagcs by such writer's az
Macaulay, Carlyle, Lamartine and Gibbon
HOW TO GET BOOKS.
All orders for books should be addressed
to the Secretary of the State Board at Jeffer-
son City, and must be accompanied by a
draft or post office order sufficient in amount
to pav for the same at the reduced rates
named in this circular.
In ordering be sure to give full and ex'
plicit directions for shipment OF books
COUNTY MANAGEMENT.
The board has thought best to leave the.
organization in the counties to the teachers
of the respective counties. The change to
the plan of having the local circles CORE
spond directly with the Secretary OF the state
Board viii in no way interfere @ WI wed th0Se T@
plan now is to leave teachers free to organ
ize in the manner that seems TO them best i#
CERTIFICATES.
To those who complete the elementary
course by next summer and stand q satisfac-
tory examination on questions prepared by
the board, conducted by the board or some
one representing it, certificate OF gradua-
ton in such course will be issued. Provision
wilt be made for the advanced course later.
The board expects to prepare neat cata-
Iogue next summer that will give the names
of the members and list of those who com
plete the regular course.
TO TEACHERS. Na&NG Ma#saa
1t is hoped you will take an interest IN this
1T seeks to elevate the teach
ers and their profession, by prescribing
course of stuy that Will best Mt them for
their work by securing books at reduced
rates by Offering advice as to metnodS OF
study ard by fixing a standard which you
pay attain in common with others engaged
in the same work. All OF US DO more and
better work when our efforts are organized.
In organizing Local Circles select pres
dent. one or more vice presidents,a secre-
tarv and treasurer. and Instructors IN the
different branches of the course Meet at
stated periods and let the circfes be model =
schools or Institutes.
g. L. OSBORNE, Pres, ast
Warrensburg.
a w. +. CARRISGTON, sec.
Jefferson City.
r c. NORTON, &efsa M4
Cape Girardeau
4 X. D. SHANNON, eA
louisiana.
j. FAIRBANKS, "a
Springfield,