The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-12-10

A school history OF the United States, by John
Bach McMaster, professor of American history
in the University Of Pennsylvania, cloth, 12mo,
| 5G7 pages, price S1.0O, American Book Company.
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present volume is remarkable not only for con.
| tanning a treatment of the subject entirely new
to school histories, but for the remarkable power
of condensation which il exhibits. combined
with mastery literary style which renders the
whole narrative one of absorbing interest.
American Comprehensive Arithmetic. BY NJ
A. Bailey, A. NJ, Professor Of Mathematics in
the Kansas State Normal School, limo, 314
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possesses many new and striking features which
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I OF life. %
Integral Calculus, BY Daniel Alexander Muir
ray, Phi. D., Instructor in Mathematics at Cornell
! University Cloth, 12mo. 20s pages. Price 81 co.
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primarily for the Of students in engineering
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is to acquire facility in performing easy in
tegratons and the power of making the simple
| applications which arise in practical work.
Applied Physiology for Advanced Grades
| Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcoti, 9
By Frank Overton. A. NJ, NJ. D.. Late House
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book.
/ Dana's Revised Textbook OF Geolcg Edited
by William North Rice. Phi. D., L. L.. D., PROBES.
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ior high school and elementary college work.
The Lincoln Literary Collection, designed fol
schoolroom and family circle, by P. Nc
| Caskey, editor of the Pennsylvania School
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| American Book Company, New York, Cincinnati
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| 81 which he knew profoundly tns meaning
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Birds of tho United States A Manual for the
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