Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-08-19
ALL INQUIRIES ANSWERED.

In response to the widespread de.
mand for information concerning the
school books selected by the State
Commission for 8 in the schools fol-
the next five years, Superintendent
John R. Kirk, who was president o.
the School Book Commission, has is
sued the following circular, which full
ly answers all inquiries:
l.. In response to an almost uniyer.
sal demand for s'mental arithmetic
Whites Oral Arithmetic was adopted.
The design is that this book shall 60
along with written arithmetic. 1t can
be used from the beginning of the
third grade upwards. Its author is q
well known Missouri teacher and sup
erintendent.
2. Mines Elementary and Mines
Standard Arithmetic take the place OF
Rays Elementary and Rays Practical
Arithmetic.
8. Speer's Part One and Hewitt's
Primary Arithmetic are adopted for
use of teachers only. 1t is expected
that every teacher having first and
second reader pupils will secure one
of these little books for a guide in pre-
pairing arithmetic lessons for such pu-
pills.
4. The Stricken chart adopted is
the work of a Missouri teacher and is
designed for primary classes.
5. The Rand-McNalI biographies
take the place of those formerly in
use, book for book.
6. Morris Elementary History is
adapted to use in the fifth and sixth
grades.
z. RAIDER and Thummel's History
and Civil Government OF Missouri is
by Missouri authors and is thought to
be adapted to classes from the fifth to
the seventh grade. If used by a class
as textbooks are ordinarily used, this
volume can easily be completed in one
year. So can the Elementary United
States History mentioned above in
clause six.
8. Shinn's History of the American
People takes the place of Barnes, the
one formerly in use.
8. Language lessons: De Garmo's
First Book is designed for the third
and fourth grades; De Garmo's Sec
ond Book, for the fifth and sixth
grades. But it is the special suggest
ION OF the author that country schools
take the first and second books COM
plete In one volume. This volume is
adapted to the third and fourth reader
classes of good country schools.
10. In response to a strong demand
for nor grammar in the elementary
schools, Patrick's Lessons in Gram
was adopted. 1t follows the De
Garmo language books. 1t Is adapted
to the last two years below the high
school, or to the most advanced group
Of pupils In a country school. This
book is exclusively a Missouri pro-
duct.
IL. The Natural System of Vertical
Writing will be furnised in two forms:
|. With the horizontal base lines
only; or 2. With horizontal base lines,
and guide lines to indicate the heighth
letters. Teachers should instruct
dealers as to which kind they prefer
10 have ordered.
II. For instruction In physiology
md hygiene, Baldwin's Essential Les
IONS may be used from the fifth to the
grade, bat any good class can
complete the volume In one year, or
ess time.
IS. The readers are already well
AS to primers 1t liz optional
each school whether the children
hall use. the Taylor or the NewFrank-
In, or both.
II. The Sever Speller takes the
place Of the one formerly In use. It's
author 70 . ell-known Missouri sup
10. School and Home, by william
Z, Thomas, st. Louis, was "recom-