The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-28
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With the approach Of the begin
Ming of t.c new school year the APP
pearauCc Of new text books assume
Importance. For the study of Ian
guage We have. IN English. Readings
from Literature" Dy Reuben Post Hal
le,k. Ill. D.. and Elizabeth Graem"
Barbour ,AmeriCau Book Company,
an interesting and sensible selection
In which a few modern Americans are
joined 20 the standard names in litega-
ture; Book Five OF The Young and
Field Literary headers ,G!nn x Co,
Boston,, IN which the pedagogical in
tent Is made manifest by long intro
auctions, notes II questions on the
text, Good English by John Louis
Haney The t.gerton Press, Philadel-
phiaD. a list of words about whose
proper use people may have doubts,
and The New Barnes Spelling Books,
Book One" 10y Edward Mandel tTne
\. :. Barnes Company, in which the
words seem TO be classified neither ac-
Cord,ng to their difficulty nor by any
method. u just as the pupil is likely
to meet them first In daily experience.
the book is illustrated with pretty COL
ored pictures, In French Albert \.
Menus. Ph. D., and Il. Meras offer lie
Premier Liyre' ,Nme;iCan Book Com
pany), in which The grammatical and
conversational methods seem to be
combined, the text used being an
adaptation of Malot's sans famille. "
The sounds assigned to the vowe,s
imply an eccentric pronunciation of
either French or English. With these
may be Joined 'Taquigrada Espaiola
de Isaac Pitman' Isaac Pitman and
Sons. New York;, Il Spanish edition of
the we'll known shorthand method.
In science the requirements OF
school boards which compress a great
deal into a short time are met by
cara \. pcasc's "a First Course i'm
General Science" ,Charles T.. Merrill
Company. New York;, which in 300
pages covers astronomy. physics,
physical geography and hio.Cgy as well
as some of the subsidiary sciences.
The First Principles of Chemistry"
which the schools require are supplied
in Il revised edition 10y IA combination
OF New York High school teachers,
Raymond u. Irown!ee, William J..
Hancock, Robert W Fuller, Michael
~ 'N'il'l anu ifEEt Is w ullSAl lAllNl II
and Bacon, Boston,. \ single handed
essay To treat the same subject in a
philosophical is made by Or.
b. w. Mcfarland in "A Practical Ele-
mentary Chemistry CHARLES Serb
uer's sons, the assumption being thai
the students pc form their own expert
ments. \ more complex science which
has made its way into the school cur
riculum IL treated in the proper sc!-
entinc spirit by Carlotta &. Greer in
"A Textbook Of Cooking" C.Nllyn and
Racon). The modern views of food
are indicated by the headings for some
divisions of recipes; carh hydrateS,
fats and oils, protein, mineral matter.
TIL author also deals with matters
like dining room courtesy, service
and the cost of food \ relic Of the
old time education which survives
somehow will ho found in the "Ele-
meutary Algebra" by pr. II. T.. Slaught
and DR., Nj, lsnncsCAllyn and BaCon).
Algebras now are ornamented with
historical notes and portraits of math-
ematlcians. Three sets of printed
forms "a he filed out by the student
in the laboratory are issued by the
American Book Company; the one on
"Phy steal Geography" has been pre-
pared by lu Lester EVERY. Ralph r..
Blount and Calvin |" Walton; the one
on General Chemistry" by Roland II.
Williams and Walter G. Whitman and
tho II on Plant study 10y John
Gaylord Coulter.
Tho Elements Of Government" h.
Arndt NJ, Stickias american Book
Company, describes the structure OF
our Government in a condensed form.
Tn" condensation extends to the