The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-07-07
PRICES ON
SCHOOL BOOKS.
Great Reductions Secured
by the
STATE TEXTBOOK COMMISSION.
Saving of From Fifteen to Sixty Per Cent.
on All Books, and Half Price for Ex-
change of Old Books.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 29.-The
State Text Book Commission finish
ed its work in selecting a uniform
system of textbooks to day, and to-
night gave out its report. 1t is stated
that in almost every case the IecOm-
mendations OF the subcommission
which examined books as to their
merits were followed. 1t is estima-
ted that the great saving effected in
the price of books will the first year
offset the expense incurred in eX-
changing the books now in use,
which will be taken at 30 per cent.
The commission in its report says:
There is not a single book adopted by
the commission upon which a very
material reduction has not been effec-
ted varying from Is to 60 per cent. The
best series of text books as a whole ever
in use in the State has been obtain ed.
rhe quality of books has greatly i'm
proved and the commission wherever
possible adopted the most modern and
improved editions.
Among the reductions secured are
these: Writing books, ten cents to
three and four cents; spoilers,
twenty cents to fourteen cents; five
readers, seriatim, twenty five cents
to sixteen cents; thirtvtive cents to
TWEEN Y two cents; fifty cents to
thirty cents; siXty-five cents to
thirty-fve cents; ninety cents to
forty two cents arithmetics, thirty
five cents to twenty two cents; geo.
grapnies from nifty five cents to
Iorty cents, and from 81 20 to eighty
eight cents.
With scholastic population of
800 900 and lS 600 teachers an id ca
can be gained of the great saving
effected. The commission will re-
advertise for Tennessee history. The
commission has decided to put these
books into the schools September l..
The books adopted with the con-
tract price are as follows:
Times Printing Company. writing
books, at three, lour aud five cents.
Maynard, Merrill & Co., book
keeping, single entry forty five
cents, double seventy-two cents.
d. g. Heath d Co., Hyde's Ian
uage Lessons, twenty five cents ;
Williams Composition aud Bheto-
C, sixty cents.
Gospel Advocate Company, Nash
vile, Alexander Primer, eighteen
| cen S.
b. f. Johnson g. Co., United States
History, Lees primary, fifty cents
Lees New School History, seventy
five cents.
Fisher & Schwatt, School Algebra,
seventy-five cents.
P. Lippincott 81 Co., Cutler 5
Physiology Beginner, twenty-five
cents: Intermediate. forty three
cents, and Comprehensive, seventy
cents; Worcester's Dictionary, Pri-
mary, forty cents; School, sixty five
cents; New Academic, 81 20.
American Book Company, Mines
Elements of Algebra, fifty four
cents; Metcalf's Grammars' thirty
six and fifty-four cents; Winslow'
Agriculture, fty.four cents; Peter
mans Civil Government, fifty-foul
cents.
CHM & Co., Spoilers, fourteen
cents; Stickney's Readers at six
teen, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-fivt
and fOrty-twO cents; Wentworth
Arithmetics, TWENTY-FIVE and forty
two cents; Frye's Geography, Intro
ductory and Advanced, forty anC
eighty eight cents; Cages Philoso
ply, eighty cents; Wentworth
Geometry, sixty cents and 81.
The exchange price is 90 per cent
of the contract price.