of the pencil in sketching, have enabled him to carry the reader at once into the class-room, where he sees teachers and pupils engaged in their daily work, and hears the recitations as they proceed. Then he joins them on an excursion into the country, and takes part in their study of history, geography and the sciences. Teacher's meetings are visited, teachers consulted in their own rooms and class work seen in all the grades of the leading schools. Numerous illustrations show the apparatus used, and give specimens of pupil's work. ter first showing the work as actually done, the author frankly gives his views of the value of the methods employed, and leaves the thoughtful reader to judge for himself. It is a delightful and valuable book for the American teacher, enabling him to broaden his views by looking at the different phases of European School work, and to improve his own teaching by knowing the best methods employed in Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland.

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Ulysses among the Phaeacians is No. 43 of the Riverside Literature Series. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Publishers.

Selections from Culture and Anarchy with explanatory notes is No 68 of Effingham, Maynard & Co's English Classic Series.

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The December number (No. 44) of the Riverside Literature Series (published quarterly during the school year 1889-90 at 15 cents a number by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston) contains Waste not, Want not, and The Barring Out, from Maria Edgeworth's Parent's Assistant.

Messrs D. C. Heath & Co., have published a second edition of Faulhaber's One Year Course in German, the aim of which is to meet the wants of students whose time is short. A brief synopsis of the grammar is given followed by well selected prose matter. The book is well arranged and is particularly adapted for training pupils in a short time to become sight readers.

W. H. Venable, the well known Cincinnati teacher and poet, has issued in elegant form "The Teachers' Dream" and other songs. The other songs," are "The School-Girl," "Wherefore Fret," "The Salutatorian," and "The Old SchoolHouse," popular favorites, all of which are amply illustrated by the best artists. The price, 53 cents is low for such a beautifully printed book. Letters of inquiry and orders may be directed to Mayo Venable, Station C, Cincinnati, Ohio.

C. W. Bardeen, Syracuse, N. Y. is reprinting a number of papers read at the meeting of the National Educational Association in 1889. The idea is a good one and many will read them who cannot do so without owning the large book of Proceedings. The numbers issued are, Discussions on Denominational Schools by Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Kean Edwin D Mead and John Jay, 25 cents; W. T. Harris on the Educational Value of Manual Training, 15 cents; Gray on Methods of Instruction and Courses of Study in Normal Schools, 15 cents; Dr. Charles Forster Smith on Honorary Degrees, 15 cents; and Art Education, the true Industrial Education by W. T. Harris, 15 cents.

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