The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-10-30

tanning form Of Stories ne principal events in
japanese history Of the past, the steps which led
the reforms and progress Of the present, the
ocular features and conditions of the present
government etc. !
The Story Of the Romans. BY H. A. Guer5er.
Linen, emo, 288 pages. Illustrated. Price 60
cents. American Book Company. New York
Cincinnati, and Chicago. Recognizing that child
rem are more easily interested in the sayings and
dongs Of people than in the bare facts of dynastc
and military history, the author has sklful!y
grouped around the famous characters OF classical
history the great events with which their names
will forever stand connected.
Curtiss's Semi-Vertical Copy Books. new
system Of Freehan1 Writing. BY G.. G. CurtIss
late principal Of the Curtiss Commercial College,
Of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Six books. Price
per dozen, 90 cents. American Book Comp
any, New York. Cincinnati, and Chicago
These new copy-books will certainly commend
themselves to the great body of teachers who have
hcen seeking golden mean " between the ver-
'cal and common systems of writing.
Gems Of Schoo, song Selected and edited by
Carl BelZ. Supervisor of Music, Public Schools,
Kansas City, Mo- Cloth. 4to, 100 pages. Price
10 cents. American Book Company. New York,
Cincinnati and Chicago. This is a choice col!ec-
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schools of different grades. Notwithstanding
the numerous books of this class there is still a
demand for good. fresh and tuneful songs for
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want the best Of any we have seen,
Stories from the Arabian Nights selected and
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illustrated Price, 60 cents. American Book
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What has long been needed--a selection of the
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carefully made and edited by competent authori
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lively bound, and illustrated.
Fragment, of Roman SATIRE. Selected and NJ
ranged by Elmer T. Merrill. Cloth. 12nio IFS
pages. Price Is cents American Book Company.
New York, Cincinnati and Chicago. This work
consists of examples of fragments of Roman Sa-
tire OF special interest and classic teachers and
scholars. The selections are from Ennius, Lu.
cilius Varro, Petrosius, Seneca, and Apuleus,
authors less known ard read than Horace, Pers,as
and Juvenal IN his interesting field Of study simp
y because their writings not easily accessible
Die Journa|isten. A comedy in Four Acts. By
uustav Freytag. Edited..for school use, by j
Norton Johnson, Phi. D. Boards. l2mo III pages
Price, IS cents. American Book Company, New
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est representative OF their nineteenth century
comedy. Its humor and character drawing are
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in colloquial character partcular'' lapts it for
us. by classes studying German