4. It is difficult to suggest matter that is especially appropriate, but amongst other things selections taken from periodicals like Wide-Awake, or the children's page of The Youth's Companion, or some such source, would be good. Many of the myths and fairy stories can also be arranged for reading to the children, and many good teachers practice reducing the great authors to a form suitable for presentation to the children. The purpose of all such reading is to create in the children an interest in reading, give them the power of appreciating a wide range of material, and to add to their general culture and knowledge. 5. If any drill in phonics is given in either grade it should perhaps be in the second, and its object would be to give the pupil the power of getting at the pronunciation of words through the sound values of their component parts. 6. (a) According to the State Manual, the scope of the first third of the first school year in reading is, "Building of a vocabulary of words considered under the following points, using The Indiana First Reader to about Lesson fourteen as a basis: 1. The association of the written or printed word with the idea for which it stands. 2. Analysis of the written or printed word into its sounds. 3. Analysis of the written or printed word into its symbols standing for the separate sounds of the spoken word." (b) 1. Pupils should image clearly the pictures presented by the selection. 2. Should see, if possible, the point of unity in the selection, or the central thought. 3. They should see any incidental life lessons suggested. 4. Taste is to be cultivated in the selection of the finer thoughts. 5. Careful interpretative reading of the selection. GEOGRAPHY. (Any five.) 1. Give the shape of the earth in geometrical terms; difference of its diameters, and five proofs of its rotundity. 2. What are zones? How determined? 3. What should be the aim of map drawing in the study of geography? Of the use of the sand box and the moulding board? 4. What common agricultural products were not known to the world until the discovery of America. 5. Through what waters would you pass in the shortest all water route from Liverpool to Bombay? 6. What five great religions had their origin in Asia? State briefly the leading tenets of these religions. 1. An oblate spheriod. Twenty-six miles. (1) Curvature observed at sea; (2) circumnavigation; (3) rise or fall of stars with change of latitude ; (4) actual measurement of an arc; (5) circular shadow on the moon. 2. Belts surrounding the globe. The mathematical zones are determined by the inclination of the earth's axis, the climatic by that and many other conditions; as, winds, ocean currents, nearness to the sea, etc. 3. To help the student to form a definite mental picture of any portion of the earth's surface. To emphasize in the mental picture the relief of the surface; i. e., to picture it as a solid. 4. Indian corn, potatoes, tobacco. 5. The Mersey River, Irish Sea, St. George's Channel, Atlantic Ocean, Strait of Gibraltar, Mediterranean Sea, Suez Canal, Red Sea, Strait of Babelmandeb, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea. 6. This question is not geographical, unless some relation can be shown between the physical character of Asia and the rise and characteristics of these religions. It is impossible to "state briefly the leading tenets" of some of them. Judaism.-One personal and righteous God. Christianity. The fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Jesus Christ the Son of God. Brahmanism. — One impersonal God, acting through the trinity, Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. Buddhism.-A reform of Brahmanism through the revelation of Gautama Buddha, who taught that existence is evil, and the source of evil is desire. Lucky is the boy who can say, "In the bright lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail." Out upon weathercock men, who change with every wind! Give us men like mountains, who change the winds. You cannot at one dash fly into eminence. You must hammer it out by steady and rugged blows. A man can get what he wants if he pays the price-persistent, plodding perseverance. Never doubt the result. Victory will be yours. There may be ways to fortune shorter than the old dusty highway, but the stanch men in the community all go on this road. If you want to do anything, don't stand back shivering and thinking of the cold. Jump in and scramble through. Push and pull.-Er. Two notable Child-Study meetings have been held within the past two weeks. The Fourth Annual Congress of the Illinois Society for ChildStudy, held at Chicago the last week in April, had present Col. Parker, Dr. Colin A. Scott, Rev. Gunsaulus, President Hervey, Dr. Bryan, President Hall, Professor Dewey and many others. The Child-Study Congress held at Bloomington, Indiana, the first week in May, announced Professor Thurber, Professor Sandison, Dr. Krohn, Dr. Hall, Superintendent Millis, Mrs. Campbell, Superintendent Moore and others. We shall give an account of these meetings in our next number. Some introductions from proof sheets and proof copies of Bible Reading for Schools. the Natural Elementary Geography: JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY. LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK. SANFORD, MAINE. IRVINGTON, NEW JERSEY. AUBURN, MAINE. Hon. W. T. HARRIS, U. S. Commissioner of Education, says: "I have examined with pleasure the Natural Elementary Geography, and am glad to see the direction taken to combine in a proper manner the human side with the natural. . . . I congratulate you that in this elementary book you have combined the right topics in a proper manner, and on a plan well adapted for the school grades in which the book is intended to be used." MARCH 1, 1897. Edited by NATHAN C. SCHAEF- Also, Nearly Ready, PENTER. Asia. 12mo, cloth, with many illustrations, Single copies of any of these ner books will be sent by mail, postpaid, to any address, upon receipt of price. Special terms for introduction. NEW YORK AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY, 317 Walnut St., Cincinnati, O. PRESS OF MOORE & LANGEN PRINTING CO., TERRE HAUTE. JUL 6 1897 CAST. The Southern Indiana Teachers' Association-Kentucky State Teachers' Association-" The Lock-Step of the Public Schools"-Professor Sandison honored-Another year-The act of teaching-Golden Gate special-Domestic science in the public schools-A breath of country air-Queen Victoria's sixtieth anniversary-Preparation for the N. E. A.-County Superintendents -Dr. Rice again-Foreign appointments-Arbitration defeated-The Eastern situation. Southern Indiana Teacher's Association Child-Study Congresses Educational information Book reviews Books received W. P. 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