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ANDREWS'S BOTANY ALL THE YEAR ROUND

By E. F. Andrews, High School, Washington, Ga.

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This book is admirably adapted for botanical work in the average high school, and requires no expensive equipment. It is based on observation, and the lessons are so arranged that each subject is taken up at just the time of year when the material for it is most abundant. The book contains a list of the living specimens required and a large number of practical questions, etc. KUTNER'S COMMERCIAL CERMAN

By Arnold Kutner, High School of Commerce, New York.

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A unique book designed particularly for commercial students. It forms a complete course in itself, containing grammatical tables, the elements of commercial German, wit' reading selections dealing with German business customs and many pages devoted to the study of commercial correspondence, newspaper articles and advertisements.

WOLFSON'S ESSENTIALS IN ANCIENT HISTORY

By Arthur Mayer Wolfson, Ph.D., Assistant in History, DeWitt Clinton High
School, New York In consultation with Albert Bushnell Hart, LL.D.,
Professor of History, Harvard University.

81.50

This convenient manual presents work for one school year and fits students in Greek and Roman history for entrance to every college. It dwells only on the most important events. The book is unusually attractive, and the illustrations and maps are numerous and clear.

CHESTON, DEAN, AND TIMMERMAN'S LABORATORY
MANUAL OF PHYSICS

By Henry C. Cheston, Philip R. Dean, and Charles E. Timmerman,
High Schools, New York.

$0.50

There are seventy-three experiments in this manual. The course is sufficient for one year, and affords a broad basis for class teaching. At least half the experiments are adapted to be performed by the class and recorded in a note book.

FRANKLIN AND CREENE'S SELECTIONS FROM LATIN
PROSE AUTHORS FOR SICHT READING

$0.60

By Susan Braley Franklin, Ph.D., and Ella Catherine Greene, A.B., Instructors
in Latin at Miss Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

This book is designed to test and to increase by exercise the student's power to read Latin. Accordingly, passages have been chosen in which the difficulties of syntax, order, and vocabulary are fairly typical. There are seventy-five selections.

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Favorite Songs and Hymns

Four Hundred and Fifty (450) Songs and Hymns in 400 pages. Handsomely issued, solid and substantial, a book that will wear in every way. Would you give some friend a glad surprise? No better gift book to anybody who sings or who loves music. It will be prized for a lifetime. Send your order with 80 cents, and this delightful book will be mailed to any address by AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago.

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HE modern Christian imagination dif

fers from the ancient chiefly in its greater tenderness and confidence-a legitimate outgrowth from that clearer idea of the Fatherhood of God which is a marked feature of the religious thought of our day. It makes Paradise the homeland of the soul, and this a continuous home-stretch. If it be objected that this home-land is but a rose-colored reproduction of life on earth, perhaps the best answer may be given in the words of St. Paul: "The invisible things of him from the foundation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made." It is but the reasoning from the known to the unknown, which is the very foundation stone of all sound thought and progressive action. It is the true ideal, beautiful and helpful because it grows out of and carries onward and upward a known reality. Ruskin has said: "All the paradises imagined by the religious painters are true ideals; and so far from having dwelt on them too much, I be lieve, rather, we have not trusted them enough, as possible statements of precious truth." Those who hope for no other life, are dead even for this," says Goethe. "The Power that gave me existence is able to continue it in any form that He pleases, with or without the body," says Paine. "Man is not completely born until he has passed through death," says Franklin. And Leibnitz: "The soul is a substance. Now, no substance can wholly perish without actual annihila

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IN a recent sermon Rev. Dr. Mackey, one of the leading clergymen of New York, says: "One does not require the vision of a seer to recognize that the two most illiterate classes of society to-day are the abject poor, who, by necessity, must think of the needs of the body, and, therefore, can think of nothing else; and the idle rich, who by choice devote every hour of the day to the trivial problems of 'what they shall eat and what they shall drink, and wherewithal they shall be clothed.""

"THERE seems to be some mysterious influence in Mr. Carnegie's library gifts," suggests the Chicago Inter-Ocean. "The trouble in every instance has grown out of the fact that Mr. Carnegie has expected the beneficiaries to do something. themselves in order to exhibit their good faith. If Mr. Carnegie had given the libraries, sites and all, and left nothing for a grateful people to do, everything would have been harmonious."

FOR lower grade supplementary reading, the latest addition to the well-known and widely-used series of Eclectic School Readings presents two stories of Jacob Abbott in new and attractive form, with an introduction by Dr. Lyman Abbott. The ethical discussions and explanation have been largely eliminated, and, thus revised, these once popular stories are

admirably suited to hold the interest of young readers and to do excellent work in training youthful instincts naturally and healthfully. The stories have a distinct educational effect, both mental and moral; they teach industry, honesty, and all the manly virtues. The illustrations are numerous and pleasing, and have all been drawn especially for the book. They are published by the American Book Company.

SONG, as is patent to every one, is not confined to the spring of the year. During fine autumns and mild winters, when food is plentiful, birds sing much. Sunshine in any season kindles in them glad emotion, and inspires song. There is a direct relation between pleasurable sensations and the expression of joy in animated creatures. Youth, vigor, plenty, as in civilized man so in inferior animals manifest themselves in "fits of gladness, affecting them powerfully, and standing out in vivid contrast to their ordinary temper. . . . And birds are more subject to this universal joyous instinct than mammals, more buoyant and graceful in action, more loquacious, and have voices so much finer; and the gladness shows itself in a greater variety of ways, and more regular and beautiful motion, and with melody.-W. H. Hudson.

IN a lecture before the King's College Medical Society Dr. Milne Bramwell gave an interesting sketch of the subject of hypnotism. Describing the experiments of Forel, who till recently was medical director of the Burghölzi Asylum and one of the professors of the University of Zurich, he said that he succeeded in hypnotizing nearly all his asylum attendants, both male and female, a large proportion of them becoming profound somnambules. For ten years experiments were made in regard to the use of hypnotism in the night watching of dangerous lunatics. Warders were hypnotized and trained to sleep by the bedside of these patients and to wake the instant they heard them attempt to get out of bed, the hypnotic suggestion being made use of to inhibit all sounds which had no reference to the duty laid upon them, and it was found that warders so hypnotized could perform night duty for six months and work hard all day without showing signs of fatigue. The results of these experiments were, it is said,

uniformly successful, and no accident of any kind occurred. In regard to this and other applications of hypnotism Dr. Bramwell refers to the method of Wetterstrand, who, instead of restricting himself to suggestions made in the course of a short hypnotic trance, advocated the use of the curative effects of prolonged hypnotic sleep. Wetterstrand treated epilepsy and grave forms of nervous disorder by keeping the patients in the hypnotic trance for three or four weeks. Without rousing them the patients were fed at stated intervals, and the actions of the bowels and bladder were regulated by suggestion, and thus mental as well as physical rest was given, in addition to such therapeutic advantages as might be gained by aid of suggestion. Dr. Bramwell says that, although every one cannot be deeply hypnotized, profound states are not necessary for the successful employment of suggestion, and the number of persons insusceptible to some degree of hypnotic influence is extremely small. Among other diseases he gives the following as those in which hypnotism has given good results: "Hysteria, neurasthenia, dipsomania and other drug habits, obsessions, moral perversities and nervous tricks in children." We may add that, as far as the treatment of dipsomania (confirmed drunkenness) is concerned, it seems not entirely impossible that some of the startling results which are said to have been obtained at certain institutions for the treatment of this condition may have been the outcome of an unacknowledged but none the less effectual application of hypnotic suggestion.-London Hospital.

THE State Librarian is a member and the executive officer of the Pennsylvania Free Library Commission, whose report, from its organization down to the close of the past year, has just been issued by the state printer. This commission acts in an advisory capacity to all the local free libraries in the state, with some supervising authority, extending at least to the power of requiring reports, and it also maintains a useful system of traveling libraries for the use of rural communities unable to establish libraries of their own. This is a recent development of the free library system that has become very important in New York and some other states, and the account given of the work in Pennsylvania-established or

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