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SThe Second Mrs. Jim," by stephen
Conrad, scores Distinct Hit-"In
Merry Measure"-A New Grammar
school Arithmetic by Professor Smith
of coIumbIa-LIttIe, Brown & Com
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Reading-Anna Chaplin Rays New
work.
Stephen Conrad has scored another
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Second Mrs. Jim" which is a very hap
py story of 1854 pages, with a frontis-
piece illustration by Ernest Fosberg.
It is very attractively published by L.
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iever-failing conquest of all difficulties
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"A treat for stepmothers and de-
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Price s1.OO; for sale at Judd's.
In Merry Measure. Verse by Tom
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These two volumes were made up of
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The new volume Of the series is called
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CHM and Company, Boston, the well
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'sGramn1ar School Arithmetic" by Da-
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mates in Teachers college, Columbia
university, New York.
Like the authors Primary Arithme.
tic. this work follows, in sequence Of
topics, the best of the courses of study
In use by the various cities and states
In general, each topic is so treated as
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BILE mastery, togetherWith the con-
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more important subjects, as the chile
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In the matter of methods and device
the effort is made to adopt the best, al.
ways avoiding extremes. For example
the equation in it's simplest form is in.
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is used only when it simplifies the
work. The exercises are composed o
genuine American problems, showing
common business as it really is to-day
but without presenting subjects tex
technical for the appreciation Of boyl
and girls Of grammar school age. Al
the same time due provision is made
for that thorough and continued drill
on the arithmetical operations that il
so necessary.
While the need for illustrations is no
SO great as in the primary grades, sucl
use Is made of pictures as will appea
to teachers as reasonable, and as will
add to the interest and value of thu
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The book has 1894 pages and is vel
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Little, Brown and Company's popula
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cludes the following: "Anna, the AID
ventures" by E. Phillips Oppenhein
fourth impression); "The Rainbov
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