OUP P ост NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS POPULAR Vol. XXXII. EDUCATOR BOSTON-NEW YORK-CHICAGO-SAN FRANCISCO No. I UNUSUAL NEW BOOKS PERRY & PRICE'S AMERICAN HISTORY FIRST BOOK (1492-1763) 60 cents SECOND BOOK (1763 to Present Time) 60 cents Wholly unlike any other books for firstcycle study. Only the chief events are given, and these are presented in a lively, stirring narrative, full of human interest, and giving a background for later intensive reading and study. The style is very dramatic, each chapter being introduced by a color picture which excites the child's curiosity. COE & CHRISTIE'S STORY HOUR READERS One or Two Books for Each Year. Perception Cards Basic readers, on the "story" method, in which a jingle is followed by a complete story, brimming over with interest, humor, and action, and well adapted for dramatization. The child's attention is directed chiefly to the thought, and he learns to read, therefore, with good natural expression. The complete system of phonetics is adapted to the reading material. The illustrations are unusually attractive and abundant. OVERTON'S HYGIENE SERIES HARVEY'S ESSENTIALS By FRANK OVERTON, A. M., M.D., Author of PERSONAL HYGIENE (For the lower grades) 40 cents Books which combine the advice of a friendly, common-sense doctor and the broader scientific point of view of a State sanitary officer--both of which Dr. Overton is. In the present general movement toward better public, as well as private, health he has been one of the leaders. OF ARITHMETIC By L. D. HARVEY, Ph.D., President of Stout FIRST BOOK. For 2nd, 3rd, and 4th school years. 25 cents Unusually practical books filled with prevocational problems relating to agriculture, commerce, manual training, and the household arts. They teach the pupil to interpret and analyze problems correctly, and train him to be accurate and quick in handling numbers. AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO SEPTEMBER IS THE MONTH TO SELECT SUPPLEMENTARY READING Many Schools leave the selection of this important branch of education till the beginning of the school term. 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 speciai introductory prices. September 1914 GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION GOVERNMENT TEXT-BOOKS The present tendency to experiment with the production of text-books by State governments is to be regretted. It is no accident that the United States enjoys the use of the best elementary textbooks in the world. This happy situation is the result of competition. Without such competition the disparity between the actual and possible text-book situation here might be as great as in the case of our telephone system as compared with the inefficient government telephones of Europe. Text-book publishers experiment extensively, and the material which they push represents the survival of the fittest. This is a process strictly analogous to the ways of nature in the animal and vegetable kingdoms. State governments cannot afford to experiment in this way. If they produce a book, it must be used in the schools of the State for a term of years. Where this has been done the result has been disastrous. Demands have been made of late that publishers lease the plates of successful text-books, allowing the printing and binding to be done under State auspices. The aim is an honest one - to reduce the cost to the pupil. The plan, however, takes no account of the time and expense involved in promoting such books and securing their public recognition as standard works. No publisher who has once leased plates in this way and sacrificed his fair proportion, not simply of profit, but of actual preliminary expenditures, is likely to make such a contract a second time. If the craze for State printing were to spread, the publisher would be reduced to the position of a plate-broker, the evolution of new and better text-books would be halted, and eventually progress in textbook work would come to a standstill. All the text-books marketed yearly in the United States sell for no more than the combined cost of three or four warships. Where State-adoption systems have secured low prices to the purchaser, the better books have been "frozen out" of the competition, and quality has been sacrificed. The text-book question in these cases has been dragged into politics, and has furnished demagogues, and even others, with campaign programs which have not, in the long run, been for the public good. Further advance in the matter of crystallizing the present textbook situation into permanent form under State regulation would establish and make lasting the present passing stage in the evolution of the subject, and would tend to put us educationally on the standstill basis of China. LITTLE FOXES Dau's Tip Top mabam R Report Cards We mean a. Daus Improved Tip Top $5 First dozen 15c., each additional dozen 10c. Envelopes to match 5c. per dozen, postpaid. On front page is a neat design with spaces for name of Scholar, Grade, Term and Teacher. Second and third pages contain blanks for nine months' term and space for three examination grades with reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic, geography, grammar, language, history, physiology, algebra, civil branches. The last page contains notice to parents and space for signature and a promotion blank. We sell many government, deportment, days present, days absent, times tardy, monthly average, also six blank spaces for extra of these and they give entire satisfaction. One of our patrons, Miss Cora MacKey, Longview, Texas, says: "I have We have an especially fine used your report cards for the past four years and like them better than any others." souvenir for Christmas 1914 and close of school for 1915. Send a 2-cent stamp for sample. SEIBERT PRINTING CO. Box 20, Canal Dover, Ohio "THE CHILDREN WERE DELIGHTED SPECIAL OFFER, ALL FOR TEN CENTS IN STAMPS DURING SEPTEMBER Carter The Perry Pictures It ought to be in every home and in every school-room. It contains 64 pages with cover in two colors. For a frontispiece it has one of the beautiful Boston Edition pictures. As an insert it has one of the New York Edition pictures and also one of the Seven Cent pictures, also one of the Bird Fictures in Natural Colors. AURORA Guido Reni Besides these, it contains 1600 miniature illustrations, showing pictures that are published in The Perry Pictures. It also contains two pages of illustrations of United States Carbons and Artotypes for framing, and four Half Cent Pictures. It also contains 37 pictures each nearly as large as the Half Cent Size. This Catalogue with all the illustrations and pictures should be worth many times its cost in any home or school-room. During September we will send this Catalogue and a picture of President Wilson mounted on paper 53 x8, and tied, for ten cents in stamps if you mention "Primary Education," and ask for a mounted picture of President Wilson. (Our Catalogues have not usually contained one of the Seven Cent Pictures.) This Catalogue tells about the One Cent Size, on paper 51⁄2 x 8. Half Cent Size, on paper 3x32. 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