The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1891-06-24
Reportcf the County Textbook
Committee.

our cOnmlltec elccteu anu @AtAo4
lied by the Directors Association Of SOM
erset County to recommend a series OF
textbooks for uniform use in the COM
mon schools Of the county, respectfully
submit the following report:
The committee met at lockwood May
Q, 1891, all the members being present
except two, both Of whom subsequently
endorsed the action taken at the meet
ing. We therefore submit this report as
the unanimous Judgment of the whole
committee. In our Recommendations
We have been guided by the former COM
mittee's report, so far as the books rec
commended three years ago have proven
satisfactory
The county now has almost complete
uniformity Of textbooks on the subjects
of History, Physiology, Grammar and
Arithmetic, and is rapidly approaching
uniformity in Geography, Spelling and
system of penmanship. The committee
has not learned of any dissatisfaction
with the recommended series now in use
upon the branches Of study named and
believing, moreover, that Barnes His
tory, Steele's Physiology, Reed and Kel-
lOgg's Grammar, BrOOks's Arithmetic,
The Modern Speller, und the Spencerian
Copy-book to be well adapted to the
actual needs of the schools, We recon-
mend the continued use Of these books
in the districts in which they have al
ready been adopted, and their selection
by all Others as soon as may be deemed
expedient by the district boards
In view Of the general demand fos
change of readers, and from the fact that
nearly all the readers now in use in the
county were adopted from eight to twelve
years ago, the committee decided to rec
ommend a new series, with the hope
that the county would more readily unite
in the adoption Of such series than
upon any of the series already long in
use in some districts.
In the Judgment Of the committee,
Swinton's Readers are the equal in mat
ter, method, arrangement, adaptation and
binding of any series within the range
of our choice, and we therefore recon-
mend their adoption by the district
boards throughout the county. The pub
fishers of these readers will, in case of
adoption, exchange them for Appleton's
Readers at half the usual exchange rates
They viii also receive from the book
dealers within or for the district making
the adoption all readers in stock, at full
/ value
The COMMITTEES also recommends for
adoption and use in the Normal and
borough high schools, 50 far as such text
books may be needed:
Brooks's Higher Arithmetic.
Elements Of Algebra.
Geometry and TrigonOmetry.
Buffers Physical Geography.
Barnes General History.
Hills Rhetoric.
Grosbeck's Bookkeeping.
sharpless and Philips Natural PHI
losophy.
Terms of introduction, exchange and
supply
The publishers Of the textbooks rec
commended have agreed by written con
tract that the prices quoted below shall
not be increased during the period of
adoption and if at any time prices shall
be reduced, school boards shall have the
benefit Of such reduction. 1t is also
agreed that the present superior style Of
binding shall be maintained.
The wholesale prices quoted are the
net contract prices to school boards di-
rect and to local dealers in school books.
Modern Spc2er,-Taintor Bros. & Co.,
Publishers, New York. Sd Owen, Gen
eral Agent, Market St, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Chas. H. Fisher, Local Agent, Somerset,
Pa.
Even exchange for Warren's Speller ;
exchange price for any other spelling
book, 10 cents; Introductory price, 20
cents; wholesale price, l6i cents.
S,riHi0r,'s Readers, American Book
Company, Publishers, New York. G. /.
Holiday, General Agent, Pittsburgh, Pa
Chas. II. Fisher, Local Agent, Somerset,
Pa
Exchange prices for Appleton's Read
ers, s, TO, Is, 90 and p cents for First,
Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Readers
respectively. Exchange prices for any
other readers, Is, 20, so, 40 and 50 cents
for the respective numbers Introductory
prices, =, 35, 50, 65 and 90 cents; whole
sale prices, %, 2s, 10, % and p cents.
BroOEs's Arilsnctic,-Christopher Sower
Co, Publishers, Philadelphia. John H.
Holtzinger, General Agent, Box 276.
Harrisburg, Pa.
New Primary AIithmetics, exchange
price y cents; Introductory price, Il
cents; wholesale price, l5 cents. New
Elementary Arithmetic, exchange price,
20 cents; Introductory price, 50 cents /;
wholesale price, 30 cents
New Mental Arithmetic, exchange
price, u cents Introductory price, p
cents wholesale price, Do cents.
New Written Arithmetic, exchange
price, 40 cents; Introductory price, 63
cents wholesale price, 81 cents.
Even exchange Of the New Written
Arithmetic for the Union Arithmetic.
BstlG's GsograPhies,-E. H. Butler &
Co., Publishers, Philadelphia. II. ".
FisheI, Agent, Box 416, Harrisburg, Pa.
Elementary Geography, exchange price
so cents; introductory price, 81 cents ;
wholesale price 45 cents.
Complete Geography, exchange price,
20 cents; Introductory price, Sl2O;
wholesale price, Sl.OO.
Red and Kellogg's Grausaars,-Ehing-
ham, Maynard & Co, Publishers, III
Broadway, New York.
Introductory Language Work New
exchange price, 25 cents introductory
price, 40 cents; wholesale price, 35 cents.
Graded Lessons in English, exchange
price, 20 cents; Introductory price, So
cents; wholesale price, 80 cents.
Higher Lessons in English, exchange
/ nrice 20 cents intrOductorv price 6O