Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1904-07-26
SAD AdoptIon d Tsxt Book.

OF SCOOOl DOCKS lnIOIkuOuL tue
State Under this law the country
schools and all graded schools
without exception are required to
use the same books. Those coun-
ties having county adoptions now in
force, will not be required to change
to the State adoption books until
their county adoptions have ex-
pired, but all counties whose coun.
ty adoptions have expired, and all
city and graded schools in the
State, will be obliged to use the
books at once
Under date of July 5th, the State
Superintendent, Hon. James H.
Fuqua, Sr., writes that 40 inspec-
tion of the returns from the County
School Book Commissions through
out the State show that the books
offered by the American Book Com.
pany are the ones selected accord
ing to law for State adoption for
five years. We printed on July II
list of these books together with
the retail prices. 1t will be seen by
examination of these prices that the
expense of books is so greatly
lessened that the people of the
State are to be congratulated upon
having at last secured that which
the legislature has been endeavor-
ing for several years to accomplish.
The reduction in expense will be
fully one-third over the expense of
school books under the old order of
things.
The quality of the books, both as
to subject matter and mechanical
execution, is exceptionally good,
considering tne extreme low prices
fixed by the legislature as a maxi
mum price at which publishers
should furnish them.
The new speller received one
hundred and fifteen votes out of the
one hundred and eighteen text
book commissions that sent ID re-
turns; only one county In the State
failed to send in its vote to State
superintendent Fuqua, at Frank
fort The new McGuffey readers are
the equal of any readers published.
These readers have been out but a
snort time, and the subject matter
jn the first, second and third and |
the illustrations are entirely new,
and the same may be said of the
fourth and fifth. The plan OF these
new readers is the same general
plan upon which the original read
ers were built, and hence the name
is retained. The Rays
modern arithmetics, which are
iouud IN the list, are equal to any
that have ever been
written. 1t is the old Ray, re-writ-
teu, but as the name would lndi-
cate, modernized with modified def !
uItlons and problems to meet the
views and terms of the present day |
rhe natural Biographies are first !
class in every respect. The lam
guage lessons and grammars are
those which have stood the test of |
time and are very widely fused in
the schools of this State at the pres
ent time as we'll as in the schools of |
other states The ply siologies on
the list are new and are a series |
that has received the hearty conn.,
mendation of the ladies of the Wo. |
mans Christian Temperance Un-
ION. The histories and civil gov
ernment are books that have been |
widely used in the State heretofore
ana Will, therefore, require no
change 10 many of the counties in
which they have been in use. AL
the quality OF the books
and the low prices are such that |
the people have good cause to re-
joice, not only at the saving in mon
ey, but at the superior quality of
the books that will be placed in the
schools throughout the State.
1t will also do away with one
hardship that has been complained
Of In the past, and that is the thing
by many poor people in
from one town or county to
another of having to purchase an
entirely new outfit of books.
Under the law, the old books
used by the children may be used
in mart navnent fer the ne " hooks