NOW IS THE TIME TO SELECT SUPPLEMENTARY READING In making your selections, permit us to call your attention to a list of first class books for all grades, all of which have been selected by the special committees of experts of various cities, as well as by State Boards of Education in several States where uniform books are adopted by the State. During the past few years, we have spent thousands of dollars in the latest improved modern machinery for printing and binding our own books. No expense has been spared to turn out the best printed and most strongly bound books that can be produced—a result we were unable to attain when depending on contract work. Neither have we forgotten the artistic embellishments, which add so much to the child's happiness, and æsthetic training: We have had a corps of artists constantly employed to produce new and first class illustrations. Unlike many other necessities of life, the prices have not been increased. We want you to consider our books strictly on their merits, as we know they merit your consideration. Correspondence with Superintendents, Principals, and Teachers is cordially invited. Address office nearest you for special introductory prices. Vol. XXXII. Educt 210,3 E DUCATOR BOSTON-NEW YORK-CHICAGO-SAN FRANCISCO No 3 JUST PUBLISHED SERL'S INTERMEDIATE LANGUAGE LESSONS By EMMA SERL, Teacher in Normal Simple and practical lessons in English for the fourth, fifth WHITE'S PANTOMIME PRIMER By EMMA GERTRUDE WHITE, 24 cents This uniquely illustrated primer teaches children to read by the dramatic method. By taking advantage of their natural bent for "making believe," it accomplishes its purpose with little effort. The method of presentation is simple. First the children memorize a short nursery rhyme, learning the words by sight. Then they read aloud the simple directions for acting, and take parts as directed. And finally they perform the actions of the rhyme without speaking. Twenty-five rhymes that every child should know are memorized, and over 200 common words are made familiar to the pupils. The book is filled with striking silhouettes. DANN'S FIRST YEAR MUSIC By HOLLIS DANN, Professor of Music, 60 cents Prepared for use by teachers of music in the kindergarten and the lower primary grades. It contains rote songs and pianoforte selections, the former including both accompanied and unaccompanied melodies. The range and compass of the songs are suitable for young children, and the accompaniments combine ease of execution with beauty of effect. There are a number forte selections include marches, dances, and other pieces suited of "game songs" with full directions for the teacher. The pianoto use in the recreation periods. In connection with the author's Musical Dictation, Book I, this volume provides all necessary material and directions for first year music. WILKINS'S THE WEAVER'S CHILDREN By EVA WILKINS 36 cents Adapted for fifth year reading, this is the true story of two girls whose father "moved" from place to place in the New England and Middle States to establish woolen mills. Its narrative interest lies in the numerous little adventures and experiences which the weaver's children had in their travels. Its historical value rests on the authentic pictures of life and manners in our country eighty years ago. In a quaint but simple style the young reader of to-day is here told of the way in which his great grandparents lived; of their methods of travel by wagon, by steamboat, by canal, and by the earliest form of railroad cars; of the schools they attended; and incidentally something vital about the great national issues of the '30's and '40's, as these affected everyday life. A DIRECTORY OF LEADING TEACHERS' AGENCIES "An honest, painstaking, efficient teachers' agency is a very serviceable institution for school boards and teachers." It is a legitimate and helpful business. Some of the very best and most successful educators in public schools, colleges and private schools have been put there by means of teachers' agencies. The following excellent teachers' agencies are managed by able, experienced and reliable persons, and have our recommendation. "THE RIGHT TEACHER IN THE RIGHT POSITION MEANS THE HIGHEST SUCCESS FOR BOTH TEACHER AND SCHOOL." Eastern Teachers' Agency Telephone Connection ESTABLISHED 1890. Miss E. F. FOSTER, Manager. 6 Beacon Street, Boston. THE NOTES UNIVERSITY EXTENSION How universities and colleges, both public and private, in every State in the Union, are reaching with instruction not only students who come for the regular college course, but also thousands of other men and women eager for educational opportunities, is described in a bulletin on "University Extension in the United States," published by the Bureau of Education. Dean L. E. Reber, Director of the Extension Department of the University of Wisconsin and a leader in the movement to make the university serve the State, is the compiler of the Bureau's bulletin on the subject. Dean Reber shows that, while elements FICKETT TEACHERS' AGENCY of university extension work appear as EDWARD W. FICKETT, Manager, Teachers Wanted at Once for all Grades. The Salary your qualifications deserve is increased by an agency registration. early as 1831 in the United States, the real beginning of the movement was in REGISTER NOW. 1887, and its most rapid development has taken place in the last half dozen years. In 1891, twenty-eight States and Territories reported university extension in some form. Between 1892 and 1906 twelve institutions organized extension teaching, mainly in agriculture, and since 1906 twenty-eight universities and colleges have introduced the work, while twentyone others have reorganized their extension work on a basis of separate divisions or departments. EDMANDS EDUCATORS' EXCHANGE Modern Service, our 17th year manual, tells how to improve applications. Sent free to teachers within 300 miles. 101 TREMONT ST., BOSTON, MASS.-WELLES BLDG., WILKESBARRE, PA. Save time by writing your address above and returning to nearest office. .......... An Agency registration increases your chances for securing work entirely congenial. Beginning largely as correspondence, bulletin, and package library work, university extension has now come to include ALBANY TEACHERS' AGENCY all university service done away from the institution, as well as a certain kind of work done within the institution, such has good positions for good teachers with good records Harlan P. French, Pres., Vincent B. Fisk, Sec'y,, 81 Chapel St., Albany, N. Y. as popular short courses, conferences, of Boston, extra lectures, and the like. Many of the universities give correspondence courses THE TEACHER'S EXCHANGE 120 Boylston St. in college subjects and allow credit for RECOMMENDS TEACHERS, TUTORS AND SCHOOLS. Recommends college and normal graduates, specialists, and other teachers to colleges, public and private Engage the help and experience of an agency. Western Positions for Teachers SATISFIED. WM. RUFFER, Manager ROCKY MT-TEACHERS such work toward the regular collegiate degrees. In discussing Dean Reber's findings, Dr. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education, declares: "No longer do colleges and universities confine their work within their own walls. More and more they attempt to reach all the people of the communities to which they minister. The campus of the State university has come to be co-extensive with the borders of the State whose people tax themselves for its support. "The great universities, with large endowments, attempt to serve still larger areas in this popular way. Wherever men and women labor in the heat, or toil in the shadows, in field or forest, or mill or shop or mine, in legislative halls or executive offices, in society or in the home, at any task requiring an exact knowledge of facts, principles, or laws, there the modern university sees both its duty and its opportunity." Beautiful Inexpensive For Christmas Gifts The Perry Pictures Easily sent by mail leach The Thanksgiving Story and The Christmas Story with These Pictures. Send 25 Cents for 25 Art Subjects, 5 x 8, or 25 Madonnas, or 25 Kittens, or 25 for Children, or $1.00 for the 4 sets. No two pictures alike. Send $1.00 for Art Set of 100 Pictures, 5 x 8. From it you can make up 3 or 4 gifts. Art Booklet "Madonnas" for 25 cents. Study pictures of the Madonnas in December, also other famous pictures. Give each pupil a beautiful Madonna picture for a Christmas gift. HALF CENT SIZE, 3 x32. 50 for 25 cents. Order Now. 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