The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-06-17
PUBLIC SCHOOL
BOOKS CHOSEN
By the Text Book Committee
American Book Co. Gets
the Largest Plum.

The School Book Commission, ap-
pointed by the governor to select the
school books for the children OF Mis-
Sissippi for the next five years, COM
pleted the work Of adoption on juno
10. The commission consists Of eight
prominent educators of the state pre-
sided over by State Superintendent G
Education Whitfield. All men OF
high character, and it must be pre-
sumed that they selected the books
they considered best adapted to the
educational needs Of the stale, AZ
things being considered. The Ameri-
can Book Company secured the largest
number of adoptiOnS for one reason
perhaps, that they offered the largest
number of books on every subject.
The adoption is pretty we'll divided
up among more than dozen concerns.
A great many of the books adopted
have never before been used in the
state except by q small number Of ed
ucatorS, which will entail perhaps.
considerable confusion when the
schools open this fall. AS to prices
ever offered before in the state. Suit
able exchange prices were named
whereby the old books may be swap
ped for new ones. The retail price Of
the books adopted. which is only
10 per cent more than the wholesale
price, is as follows:
MAYNARD, MERRILL CO., NEW YORK
Reeds Primary Speller, 15 cents.
WeidenhanSer' Mental Arithmetic~
- cents, new.
w. IL WHEELER & CO., CHICAGO.
Wheeler's Graded Primer, board 25
cents; cloth, 30 cents, new.
C. P. BARNES, CHICAGO.
Empire Writing Book, cents.
BENZ. sANBORN & CO., BOSTON.
Southworth & Stone ArithmeticS,
|, 2 and 3, cloth bound, %, 80 and jS
cents.
RAND. M'NALLY & CO., CHICAGO.
Teller and Browns First Book is
Business Methods, 20 cents.
F'rye's Elementary Geography, 40ss'
Higher Geography, sSc.
Mothers Tongue, Book l., SOC.
Agriculture, BRket's, Stevens g.
Hill, 60c. ...e.. ....-.-
NEWSON l. CO., NEW YORK.
Bushler & Hotchkiss' Modern En-
glish Grammar Lessons, !35c; HOtch
kiss Modern English Grammar, SOC
New books.
sCRIBNERs' SONS, NEW YORK.
Sykes Elementary Composition, so
cents.
SOUTHERN PUBLISHING co., DALLAS
Estill's Beginners History of Our
Country, 40c.
UNIVERSITY PUB. CO., NEW YORK.
Halsell's Higher History, 70c-
M'MILLAN & CO., NEW YORK.
Coleman IS Physiology for Beginners.
35c.
Coleman's Lessons in Hygenic Phys
iology, without Menakin, 40c; with
Menakin. Acc. New books.
AMERICAN BOOK CO., CINCINNATI.
Hunts Progressive Speller, part l.
l5c; Hunts Progressive Speller, COM
plete, 1sc; Webster's Primary DictiOn-
airy, 44c: Hunts Progressive Speller,
part 2, Reading, 13c; Baldwin'S School
Reading by Grades, (board) 1St, 2nd
and 3rd year, IS, 25 and 3Oc, respec-
lively: the same in cloth, %, 81 and
36 cents.
This list of books are now in use in
perhaps 35 per cent of the schools OF
the state.
Petersons S Elementary OF Civil Gov
ernment, 54c. This text book is al
ready in use in ffty-eight counties OK
| the state.
b. r. JOHNSON & CO., RICHMOND, VA.
Readers-Gradcd Classics, in boaTdY
4th year, SOC; 5th year, soc; Grades
Classics in cloth, Soc for each year-
These are new books in Mississippi.
History--Lee's Primary, 45c-a-
ready used in so per cent OF the ooEaE-
ties.
Riley's History Of Mississippi, ass=
used now in 85 per cent OF the
counties.
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