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"Geschichten Won Deutschen Stad-
ten" BY Menco Stern, author of
"Geschichten vom Rhein." Cloth, 12mo.
42O pages. With vocabulary, map and
illustrations. Price SIPS. American
Book Company, New York The sto-
ries in this volume in tone and con-
tents describe faithfully the various
cities of the German Empire, portray
ing their local color and giving their
local traditions. Besides furnishing
interesting and attractive reading mat
ter the book includes also valuable
suggestive material for exercises in
conversation and composition. 1t is
well suited for intermediate and ad-
vanced grades, and is carefully edited,
with complete vocabulary.
"Bradish's Stories of Country Life"
BY Sarah Powers Bradish, Cloth, 12mo.
Illustrated, 40 pages. Price 40 cents.
American Book Company, New York.
This is one of the latest additions to
the wel-known series of Eclectic,
School Readings, and the stories are
suitable for reading in the fourth or
NTH years. 1t presents in easy and
interesting manner the yearly round of
country life on a farm, with especial
reference to the history of wheat from
its planting to it's grinding into flour
at one OF the great modern mills Into
this general framework are inter-
woven true narratives of horses and
dogs, birds and little wild animals,
describing traits that may be watched
and verified by any observant child.
"Leavitts Outlines of Botany" by
Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, A. M, of
the Ames Botanical Laboratory. Cloth.
Svo., 272 pages. Price 81. This book
has been prepared to meet specific de-
mand, and combines, with great sim
pllcity and definiteness in presenta-
ton, a careful selection and iudicious
arrangement OF matter. 1t offers-l
A series of laboratory exercises in the
morphology and physiology of phan-
erogams. 2. Directions for a practical
study of typical cryptogams, repre-
senting the chief groups from the low
est 70 the highest. 3. A substantial
body of information regarding the
forms, activities, and relationship of
plants, and supplementing the labora-
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so chosen that it is adapted both to
schools possessing extensive equip
ments and to those with only limited
apparatus. The order of arrangement
follows in the main that of Gray. the
standard, and while morphology and
physiology are fully treated. special
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lations of the plant with its environ
ment. There are nearly four hundred
carefully drawn illustrations in the
book.
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Anna Cole Mellick, A. B. Cloth, 12mo,
40 pages. Prices. 40 cents. American
Book Company, New York This book
is intended for students who are read
ing Caesar and using a Latin amman
for the first time. 1t aims to fix in the
mind some of the simpler cons tructions
of nouns and verbs as found in the
Commentaries, and consists of twenty
five lessons, each Illustrating certain
grammatical principles, thes being sys-
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Porter and Carke's Shakespeare
Studies-Macbeth." BY Charlotte Por-
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IA pages. Price, Sc cents. American
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in which Shakespeare has expressed the |
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Establishing a Newspaper" by o. |
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1.-THE Gospel Of the Kingdom and the
Gospel Of the Church." by william y. /
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