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FIFTH GRADES vols.


 Cortez and Montezuma-Ed. Pub. Co., cloth. Pacific Nature Stories-The Whitaker & Ray Co.
 Robinson Crusoe-Ginn & Co. King of the Golden River-Ginn & Co.,, cloth. Simple Stories From English History-Long- mans. Green & Co, book I. Simple Stories From English History-Long- mans. Green & Co.,, book IT. Ten Boys Who Lived on the Road Long Ago -Ginn & Co.
 Little Lord Fauntleroy-Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
 SIXTH GRADE. Zigzag Journeys in Europe-Estes & Lauriat, Boston.
 Jungle Book-The Century Co.,. New York. Merry England-International Book O., New York.
 Hans Brinker-Charles Scribner's Sons. Courtship of Miles Standish-Riverside Liter ature series-Houghton, Miffin & Co.,, cloth Hiawatha - Riverside Literature Series Houghton, Mifhin & Co. Little Women-Roberts Bros.
 SEVENTH GRADES vols. Hanson's Stories of the Days of King Arthur Thomas Nelson & Sons. Alfred the Great-Harper Bros, New York
 Bonnie Scotland-International Book Co. Tanglewood Tales-Riverside Literature Ser les, P and 23. vol.-Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,, cloth
 Hanson's Stories of Old Rome-Thomas Ne- son & Sons.
 Tom Brown at Rugby-Ginn & Go.
 EIGHTH GRADES vols. Nicholas Nickleby-Lovell. Coryell & Go. Childhood-Little Classic Seres-Houghton, Miffin & Co.
 Alexander the Great-Harper & Bros. 4 Last Days of Pompeii-Lovell, Coryell & Coy Rob Roy-Ginn & Go.
 Elizabeth-Harper Bros. Boys of Other Countries-Bayard Taylor-G. T. Putnam Sons. New York
 NINTH GRADE-12 vols. Webster-American Statesmen Seres-Hough- .ton Miflin & Co
 House of Seven Gables-Lovell, Coryell & O. Kenilworth-Lovell. Coryell & Co. Exile-Little Classic Series-Houghton, Mfr fin & Co.,
 David Copperfeld-Lovell. Coryell & Co. Stoddard's Life of Lincoln-F. A. Stokes. New York
 Midsummer Nights Dream-Hudsons Ed Ginn & Co, cloth
 Silas Marner-Edited by Carpenter--Long- mans, Green & Co.
 Napoleon and His Marshals-Charles Scrib- ners Sons, 2 vols. each. Josephine-Harper & Bros. It is the desire of the County Board of Education to encourage the children to read, and to cultivate a taste for the kinds of reading that will lead to the study of good literature. The plan aQopleu IS to ledu .iio pupiio e" "eii e'' eo interest them.
 The work on supplemental and homo reading has continued since September, 1894 Pupils and teachers alike are very much interested in the reading of good books. The interest in language work, composition and spelling has greatly in creased. The committee consists of the following-named persons: A. C. Barker. Salinas City; Miss R. T. Greene, Salinas City; Miss F. B. Orton, Monterey; Mrs. L. Richardson, San Ardo; Miss M. A. Rouse, Pacific Grove; J. B. Bennett, Castroville; George w. Mcintyre, Spring.
 JOB WOOD JR.,
 County Superintendent of Schools.
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the books, are there others of like char acter in your school library which you have substituted for those recom- mended?
 TO- What are the books most read in your school library?
 IL Has the reading of the books aroused a desire to read other books? 12 Have you been obliged to use any measure to awaken interest in the home reading as outlined? What have you done? In which grades have you been obliged to make the greatest effort? Have your pupils in many cases pre- ferred the home reading of the grade below them to that of their own? N. B.-It is taken for granted that many pupils will read some of the books assigned to higher and lower grades than their own In filling out columns 2 ,. 4 and of question l, answer for all of the pupils in the schools who have head the books. If any of the books prove too difficult for the grade assigned, give them to higher grades.
 The teachers are requested to bring to the institute few of the compositions written by the pupils upon the books read.
 Teachers will greatly assist in the work of the institute by being prompt in send ing reports.
  work will be thankfully received. The reports showed that 2227 had read the various books. Of their number 1866 reported that they liked the books, 359 reported unfavorable on some of the books.
 At the close of the institute revised list was sent out and another report asked for the next institute This showed a marked increase in the interest, about 10000 books being read at home. This list has been added to the course of study by the County Board of Education and Is now made part of the pupils work Following is a list of the books in the several grades.
 The boards of trustees are directed to purchase these books before purchasing other library books.
 FIRST GRADE-(None selected)
 SECOND GRADES vols. Tn Mythland-Ed Pub. Co.,. Boston, cloth Old Time Stories-The Whitaker & Ray Co, San Francisco.
 Little Red Riding Hood-Longmans Green & Co.,, New York.
 Cinderella-Longmans. Green & Co. Jack the Giant Killer-Longmans, Green & Co
 Washington-Ed. Pub. Co.
 Franklin-Ed Pub. Co.
 Lincoln-Ed Pub. Co.
 THIRD GRADE-15 vols The Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories Longmans, Green & Go.
 The Princess on the Glass Hill and Other Stories-Longmans Green & Co. Prince Darling and Other Stories-Longmans, Green & Co.
 The Story of Washington-Republican Print ing House, Santa Rosa, Cal Letters From Cat-Roberts Bros, Boston.
 FOURTH GRADE. Old Stories of the East-American Book Go. Swiss Family Robinson-Ginn 6 Co.,, Boston, cloth.
 Andersen's g. Fairy Tales-Ginn & Co.,, first and second series. cloth.
 Adventures of Browne-T Y. Crowell & Co.,, New York.
 Black Beauty-Lovell. Coryell & Co.,. New York.
 Alice In Wonderland-Lovel Coryell & Go.
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EXPERIMENTS IN HOME READING.

"HE laws of California intend that
 the pupils in the public schools
 shall have the use of libraries
 suited to the ages and desires of the children. For the purchase of such DOCKS and apparatus from $25 to $50 IS set aside each year for library fund rom the county fund of each school dis trict in the State
 The manner of selecting these books is so varied that many of the libraries are almost worthless for the children. The IoVers or Dickens, Thackeray, Scott and bancroft might enjoy days of reading rom libraries intended for primary chill oren. The difficulty is to hold pupils in school till we are able to give them the deslre and ability to read such books. Ihls task inspired the teachers of Mon terey County in 1894 to begin system of experimenting to determine the tastes ana desires of pupils in the several grades. This experimenting showed that certain ages enjoyed fairy stories, elder pupils would not read these, but enjoyed history, biography and poetry Evidently II was our first duty to get pupils to read, create the desire and then guide the pupil in his efforts.
 A list of supplemental readers for the several grades was made. Teachers were
 
 note the desire of pupils of certain ages At the close of the year. teachers were prepared to discuss at the institute the following questions:
 l. To what grade of pupils does each Of these books appeal most strongly? Z. Note what characters in the various books appeal most strongly to particular boys, to particular girls Do children admire characters who are most like themselves, or those quite unlike them selves?
 3. Note the children's attitude toward the fables read. If they do not like them, why not? If they like them, why?
 4. Note any scenes, or parts of books, that are particularly attractive or unat- tractive to your classes. What are the characteristics of these parts
 5. What are the principal difficulties the children meet in reading these books construction. words, unfamiliar objects, people or situations?
 6. Composition exercises in which the
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At the head of the work of the Moth CTS Meetings Association In California stands Mrs. E. G. Greene of santa Cruz According to Mrs. Wood, pr1n- cipal of the Hearst Grammar school, San Francisco is rather behind in this movement, since such meetings have been instituted thus far in only four or our schools.
 The San Francisco association was organized last year and is composed mainly of members of one section or the Teachers Club, which was formed into a committee for the purpose or studying home and school relations. Of thfs committee Mrs Wood was ap- pointed chairman, and Miss Pray sec retary, and some of the other members are Miss Heating, Miss L. M. Wilson, Miss Herman and Miss Ragan. How ever. it is not necessary to belong to the Teachers Club in order to become a member of this committee.
 Most of the teachers named above are principals, which is generally a ne- cessity since to each naturally falls the work of starting the meetings in the various schools, personally Superin- tending them, and inviting the parents to cooperate. The pioneer meeting was held in the Hearst Grammar school, and later they were instituted in the Bernal Heights, the Richmond and the Emerson Primary. In the first named school the meetings occur twice month, but in the other schools but once a month. To those all parents are most earnestly and cordially invited.
 In these meetings the parents and teachers are brought in much closer contact, with mutual benefit. Cues tiOns of discipline home study, lunch hours, growth and treatment of chil- dren are freely discussed from the home and school points of view, with the result that the parents and teach CTS are enabled to work far better to- gether and assist one another in the care and discipline of the children.
 At the last meeting of parents at the Hearst Grammar School the question was raised, Should parents be com peIled to assist the teacher in disCi- plining the child?" This elicited many different answers and resulted in a very interesting discussion. Some parents wished all the punishment carried out at school; some thought the main dis cipline should be at home, and others did not wish to be troubled at all in the matter Still other parents, realiz- ing that the teachers were generally better acquainted with the daily de- pertinent and dispositions of their pu- pils, wished merely to cooperate in the correction of their faults.
 One lady reported to certain prin- cipal that her small son, hitherto eX- ceedingly mischievous had recently said to her, Mamma, love my school; I'm happier in it than I ever was before. And I'm a good boy"
 T don't believe it," returned his mother. "I'n ask your teacher"
 Inquiry proved that the little fellow had spoken truly, for his heart was in his work and he had made rapid pro- gress in both studies and department. But the attitude of distrust of the mother toward her child Is an instance of the harmful ideas which the teach CTS in the mothers meetings are trying to dispel. Why" said the principal to the boys mother. If your son knows that you do not trust him, who can he feel will ?''
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IN ALAMEDA.

From Alameda comee a report of the good progress of the work in the En- cinal School, of which Charles c. Hughes is principal. Mothers meet ings were begun last year, the school of 556 children being. divided into sections and invitations to attend preliminary meetings being sent to one section at a time The invitations to the meetings, which are held every third Friday each month read as follows:
 My dear parents: My teacher and the principal of our school invite you to meet with them on Friday, the 12th of November, at o'clock, for a pa rents and teachers meeting They wish to become better acquainted with you and have you freely discuss with them the home and school training of your children.
 (Signed by the child.)
 MT Hughes writes: ''I used a novel method of getting the parents out. I did not call 1t a mothers and teachers meeting merely, because I wished to persuade some of the fathers also to attend. But I suggested the above form and had the children themselves write out the invitations, under the super vision of the teachers. These the pupils carried home, taking personal inter
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tire educational atmosphere.
 As an illustration of the workings of this system let us take one of the in- terior counties in the great Sacramento Valley. Colusa County, with a popu> lation of less than 9000 showed, ac- cording to the last census, that out of 210S children of school age 1701 are en- rolled in it's schools, and fifty-si teach CTS are employed, of which one-fourth are normal graduates These schools are divided into tWenty-four primary and thirty-two grammar grades, which constitutes nine years course.
 But the educational work of the coun- ty does not end here, for four years ago, discovering a wide gap between graduation from the grammar school and entrance to the State University, in order to bridge this it was voted to erect a high school at the county seat As a consequence Colusa County an- nually furnishes her quota of students to Berkeley, who are admitted without further examination.
 Finding this High School still made quate to meet the demands of the growing number of grammar school graduates, the people in the southern end of the county last August estab- lished the Pierce Joint-U High School at College City, 1t occupying the spacious grounds and buildings of the old Pierce Christian College. Both these high schools contain four years course, and the student has the option of either a literary or scientific course. There are at present just 100 high-school students.
 At the head of public instruction, to whom too great credit cannot be given, stands the present County Superintend- ent, Mrs. Harriet l.. Wilson.
 Her late husband served in the same capacity for almdst two terms, during which time his wife was constantly as- sociated with him in the school work.
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tions, and the meetings have since be- come general. The attendance at the last was very good, and the subject of Home Work was introduced. Open ing the discussion, l made d plea for more and systematic reading along the line of school work, the books to be graded according to the age of the pupils, and the incentive and interest aroused in them by teacher and par ent. I am opposed to pupils taking for home work the subjects which might be called the tools of education, such as the elements of arithmetic, the mechan- ics of reading, writing, etc. Their home leisure should be given to graded read ing along the lines of good literature in classics, history, geography, science, and physical culture.
 Besides this children should always have some manual work to perform at home This view met with decided agreement on the part of the parents present The discussion which fol- lowed related to the best methods of carrying out this plan. Many good ideas were advanced, and I am sure the meeting resulted in mutual benefit
 There is also another meeting of the teachers in the school, which is held every second and fourth Thursday af- ternoons of the school month. Here a seminary plan is adopted. such as is in use at Stanford. We take a sub ject of general school interest, and then hunt up articles pertinent to it. This is not hard task since there is now adays sc much written on education that is new and fresh. School work is in course of such rapid evolution that these magazine articles are often of more value than books on the subject because of more recent date.
 About four of such articles are as- signed for each meeting. Each teacher reads carefully, gives a resume, and then follows general discussion. These
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 On the superintendent death, Mrs. Wilson was selected to fill the unex- pired term, and at the general election in 1890, and again in 1894, she was elected by both Democrats and Repub- licans to the position which she had so ably filled under appointment. Mrs. Wilson's sixteen years of close identifi- cation with the schools of Colusa speak volumes for her fitness and abil- ity in her responsible position.
 The annual teachers institutes, sup erintended by Mrs. WilSsAszhaNeszbe~s come very popuIss throughout the State. She has<the reputation of call ing to her assistance the ablest educa- tors in California, and the percentage of attenda1ce is always large. Super intendent Wilson has lately issued a call for a convention on the 24th and 25th of February of all the school trus- I aea Ill oa a,e county, or Whch there are about l0o, to discuss school matters in general.
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entertainment and dance that was gotten up to assist the relief committee of the circle In its work of assisting those poor old soldiers and their families who are in need. The price of admission was pound of anything that the committee might distribute. and there were a nun Der of parcels received. some or them weighing more than pound: During the evening there was. between dances. gwen plano solo by Mrs. J. Murray Bailey, recitation by Miss Bessie Harvey, vocal solo by Mrs. Dickey and recitation Dy MI Mrs; A. Ayers, president or 1i the tine Gircie, grand Martha Washington tea; something similar to the very successful one given last year.
 COMPANIONS OF THE FOREST.
 During the past week the order suf- fered the loss of an active worker in. the sudden death of Mrs. Coralinn Sandber- ger, past grand inside guard and record ing secretary of Justice Circle, rom rupture of an aneurism.
 Last Monday the grand officers assisted at the initiation of six candidates Tor Mazzini Circle. On Tuesday Washington Circle initiated two candidates. on Wednesday the supreme grand chlef ana the supreme grand secretary visited LID erty Circle and witnessed an imitation. and on Friday night the same oIncers visited Oak Leaf Circle at South San Francisco
 A new circle will be instituted in New Haven, Conn.,, next month. and one VIII soon be instituted in Nevada county, III this State
 AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR.
 Grand Secretary Burton visited nearly all the local councils on the occasion Of the recent Installations and there was in eacn an evidence of revived interest.
 During December and January death claims amounting to $24,0oO have been paid in this State. At no time within the past four years have claims in this State been so nearly paid up.
 Supreme Commander Downes in let ter to Grand Secretary Burton says that during December 151 members were ad- mitted. 139 more passed the medical ex- aminer and were ready to be admitted While the returns for January show an aqdilonal increase. Six new councils were formed in December, making seven- teen during the first half of the fiscal
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FRATERNAL NEWS.
KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF HONOR.

KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF HONOR.
 Last Monday night the officers of Bay City Lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor installed their officers in Welcome Hall, Red Mems building, on Post street, in the presence of many members of the order and friends. The installation was by Mrs. J. Dinklage, district deputy who was assisted in the work by Mrs. NJ. Thompson, grand marshal The new of ficers are: Mrs. E. Quitzow, past protec- tor; Mrs. E. Miesner, protector; Charles Schollkopff, vice-protector; S. American, secretary; H. Miesner, treasurer; Mrs. J. l. Dorety, chaplain; A. Michler, guide H. Clancy, guard; A. E. Edwards, sentry. After the ceremony there was presented for the benefit of all present a very fine programme of entertainment, and it in cluded a Zither duet by Professors R. Jack Braiton; violin solo, c. Smith; piano solo, c. Schoffe; contralto solo. Miss Cor nelia Flood; fancy dance, Miss Ovela; selections by the Lyceum Quartet, Jack Braiton, F. W. Healy, A. H. Littlewood and E.. W. Betts; flute solo, E. Duncke; specialties, Miss Farmer; vocal solo, Miss California Glee Club. During the evening w. H. Quitzow told all about riding a goat in the lodgeroom, and s. B. Carle- ton was called upon for some remarks a very pleasant one and much enjoyed.
 Grand Secretary Carleton, who went East a few weeks since in connection with the publication of the official jour nal. has returned to this city, having made arrangements, for a time at least, which will enable him to remain in this city and direct the issue of the journal from here
 The grand secretary will visit Sacra- mento next month with a view to instf- tute a German lodge in that city.
 The officers of West End Lodge were striving for the prize offered for the lodge bringing in twenty members within a stated period.
 A new lodge is about to be instituted in this city.
 One assessment has been called for
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est in the work and insisting or tha'. parents attendance.
 At the three preliminary m zlsa for organization over 120 mothers anu a few fathers came to the school build ing I introduced my plan, which was freely commented upon, the teachers became better acquainted with the pat rons of the school, and we started an agitation for more school room to re- lieve our crowded condition. This re- suited in a mass meeting at which plans for relief were discussed and are now assuming definite proportions.
 At the beginning of the present term I repeated the sending of invita-
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(d) Does the time you give to reading permit an extension of the list?
 (e) Did your pupils find these books more interesting than the reading book?
 These experiments placed the reading of history in the fifth grade in place of the seventh, as in most counties. The re- suits are very satisfactory.
 The results in supplemental reading led to the appointment of committee on home reading-that is, the selecting of books for school libraries to be read by the pupils of the several grades at home The same plan-the discovery and guiding of the desires of pupiis-guided the com mittee. A list was first carefully selected, the books purchased by most of the Boards of Trustees 0he Boards of Trus- tees worked with us in most instances, and bought such books as were recom-