"THE FOUNTAIN," published at York, Penn., is one of the best juvenile papers that reaches our table. Instead of running to stories it devotes its pages to science, history, natural history, interesting facts, etc., adapted to the comprehenson of boys and girls.

Jo's Boys: By Louisa M. Alcott. For sale by Burrows Bros, Cleveland, O.

The long-promised sequel to "Little Men" appears at last under the title of "Jo's Boys." Readers who have followed with interest and delight the girlish history of Jo and her sisters in "Little Women" and later her story as wife and mother in "Little Men," will hail this book with delight that the future of not only Jo, but of her real and adopted boys may be learned. The book appears in good time to make many a heart happy at Christmas.

LIFE OF ROBERT FULTON: By Thos. Knox. New York: G. P. Putnams Sons. Illustrated.

This life of Robert Fulton is an excellent book for boys to read. It is the history of one who rose from poverty and obscurity, not to be President, but to be greater than President, to be the inventor of one of our great modern conveniences, the steamboat. It is also a history of what common sense, combined with aptitude in the construction of machinery crowned by great perseverance, can accomplish. Following the "Life of Fulton," but in the same volume, is a history of steam navigation. With curious and ingenious boys the book must become a prime favorite.

POETS' HOMES: By Arthur Gilman and others: Chicago: Interstate Publishing Co.

These books, for there are two volumes, have for their contents what their names indicate. A description of the home, its surroundings, the home relations, with a brief sketch of the principal events in the life of our leading writers of poetry are to be found within their pages. Matter is furnished that hitherto has been found only after a prolonged search through old magazines and the encyclopedias. Most of the sketches are illustrated by pictures of the actual residences of the poet. They are two very interesting books, and will be welcomed, we are sure, by many readers.

SELECTIONS FOR WRITTEN REPRODUCTIONS: By Edward R. Shaw. New York: D. Appleton & Co. C. E. Lane, Chicago, Western Agent.

For several years past many teachers have known that one of the most effective means of teaching composition writing is to read a selected story and then have it reproduced by the children in writing. This cultivates the power to listen well, and it gives exercise, expres sion, and the laws of composition, and lays the foundation for independent original writing. These stories can be used equally well to cultivate the power of vocal expression. The little volume above named contains about 100 pages, and the stories are interesting, well selected and graded.

THE MENTOR: By Alfred Ayers. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. This is a book for men and boys. It is a guide to shape their conduct and manners and make them such as will fit them for the society of the better sort. It asserts in the preface what is not universally be

lieved, that wealth is not the surest passport to the better circles of society, but that such a passport is moral worth, supplemented with. education, which includes both instruction and breeding. The book. contains good advice for many of the trying periods of a man's life. It gives rules that may guide his conversation aright, and directions that will serve him well if intelligently followed in company, at church and with friends at home. It strongly commends itself to everyone who will take the pains to examine it.

TENANTS OF AN OLD FARM; Leaves uralist: By Henry C. McCook, D. D. & Hurlbert.

from the Note-Book of a NatNew York: Fords, Howard

The above is a volume of some 450 pages, extensively illustrated, printed on excellent paper, and bound in tasteful style. It is a book: of natural science, put in popular form. Dr. McCook is high authority among scientists in the insect world, and what he says as to thenature, habits, and life of these little insect tenants of an old farm, can. be relied upon. The style is charming. The personification of the insects gives an interest that captivates boys and girls, with even a little inclination to the study of "biology." The usual price is $2.50 but it can be had of Burrows Bro's & Co., of Cleveland, O., for $1.75. "Jo's Boys," noticed above, can also be had at reduced rates from this house. Both are excellent holiday gift books.

GRAY'S ELEGY: With Literary and Grammatical Explanations and comments, and Suggestions as to how it should be taught. By R. Heber Holbrook. Lebanon, Ohio: C. H. Hamilton & Co. Price,

50 cents.

It is remarkable to see how much can be made out of a little poem that in "ye olden time" was easily finished (?) at a single lesson. This little volume will be chiefly valuable in showing how other composition may be studied. It is full of good suggestions.

SCHOOL DEVICES: A Book of Ways and Suggestions for Teachars. By Edward R. Shaw and Webb Donnell. New York: E. L. Kellogg & Co.

This book is what its name indicates. The devices are for all the grades and all the subjects in the common school work, and will be especially helpful to young teachers. Price, $1.25.

THE JUGURTHINE WAR: By Sallust. Edited with Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary, by C. G. Herbermann. New York: D. Appleton & Co. C. E. Lane, Chicago, Western Agent.

This is a new edition of Sallust, with full notes and suggestions so as to assist the student, as far as possible, with all the resources of. modern scholarship. The historical and geographical index is very helpful. The most approved text is used. The author has put forth this volume with the light of all that has been known and written on the subject to direct and help.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDUCATION: Arranged by topics and indexed. by authors. By G. Stanley Hall and John M. Mansfield. Boston:

D. C. Heath & Co.

By this book one can find the names of books with names of authors. on any educational subject. It is the only book of the kind, and will. be valuable to persons seeking authorities on given topics.

ENTERTAINMENTS IN CHEMISTRY: Easy Lessons and Directions for Safe Experiments. By Harry W. Taylor. Chicago: The Interstate Publishing Co. Price, 60 cents.

The above requires only the simplest apparatus, aud but few and inexpensive chemicals. It is a method of making play instructive.

PHILLIPS'S HISTORICAL READERS: In four volumes, respectively entitled, "Stories from English History," "Early England," "Middle England," and "Modern England." Published by the Boston School Supply Co.

These are excellent books for supplementary reading in the upper grades of the common schools. There is a growing demand in these grades for more reading, not as an exercise but for information. Reading, the main purpose of which is to learn to read, should cease with the Fourth Reader.

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VICTOR C. ALDERSON, DUBLIN, IND.

E are in Quincy, Mass.,-the town so famous for its statesmen, its granite, and its public schools. Time,

8:45 A. M. In company with the genial Supt., Mr. Geo. I. Aldrich, we are walking from the railroad station to the Coddington school. The first bell has already rung and the children are either on their way to school like ourselves, or are playing in the yard. Their activity, elastic steps, bright eyes, and general happy appearance banish all suspicion of the high pressure method in their education. The gong strikes and lines are quickly formed. When lo! two typical drummer boys appear on the steps. At a signal, with perfect time and martial air, the roll is sounded and the children, like so many embryotic soldiers, march stately in. We enter at the end of the line and, as the drum beat dies out behind us, a new evidence of soldierly drill confronts us. On the rostrum before us stand two boys, adepts in the art of playing the bones, waving their arms and making all possible noise. Their clatter, together with the notes of the triangle in the hands of the teacher, give the time to the entering files of children. Amid this frightful din of triangle, bones, drums and the steady tramp of hundreds of little feet, we wonder whether we have been ushered into a military school or a minstrel show. Can this be Quincy? The Intellectual Mecca of the East? But wait! In the twinkling of an eye all is quiet

and sixty smiling faces greet the teacher's "Good morning, children," with a hearty "Good morning, Miss H—.”

Except for the fact that the children have happier faces and the teacher a quiet air of masterly ability, we see nothing to distinguish this school from scores of others we have visited. The walls are neither bright nor cheerful; the desks are of the ordinary pattern; the windows few in number; the black-boards clean and shiny. But in the corner is a suspicious closet-the repository of the school-room tools. At our right is a moulding board, with a few grains of sand still clinging to it which show that a child's natural instinct to play in dirt is here utilized in laying the foundation of natural science in the study of geog. raphy. At the farther end is a long table piled with cubes, spheres, and cylinders, which are suggestive of form and magnitude. A pile of splints, a box of shoe-pegs, dissected pictures, strings of beads, colored cards and units of form, are the materials of the Busy Workers.

Our reverie is suddenly broken by the gentle voice of the teacher, "What shall we sing this morning, children?" The children, one instant before a study for an artist, are now nearly hidden behind a sea of waving hands and Quincy enthusiasm has burst upon us. The honored one is quickly chosen and all settle back to their accustomed gravity and join heartily in the song. Not a single mouth remains closed, nor an eye taken from the teacher. This song ended, another is sung. "What day is this?" now comes from the teacher. "Monday, June 7th," answer the class in perfect unison. "Who can tell me a nice story about this day?" Up come the shower of hands, and so vigorously do they wave that one would think each had a special tale to relate which could brook of no delay. Quickly come the answers, expressed without hesitation and with emphasis: "I think this is a fine day." "I think it is warmer than yesterday," comes from an observing child. "My papa said it would rain before noon and made me bring my rubber coat.” "I hope it will not be so hot as it was yesterday," is heard from a youth who has his mind on personal comfort. "I hope it won't either," cheeringly remarks the teacher, "but we must