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TEACHER'S EDITION of The New Advanced Arithmetic by Cook and Cropsey, adopted for the Indiana Public Schools.

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ONE THOUSAND of the most difficult problems are solved, showing carefully every thought relation involved.

The book contains many diagrams, A MAP ILLUSTRATING THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE, and its relation to the solution of problems in Longitude and Time.

All the problems in Algebra are carefully stated, all questions fully answered.

Stocks and Bonds receive special attention. This book will help any teacher, however well versed in mathematics, and save much time and hard work.

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It is a notable fact, and no less The Educator a deplorable one, that in polifor '99-'00. tics parties have one platform to get in on and another one to stand on after they are in. The former represents theory, the latter, practice; the former usually has a good deal to commend it, while the latter often has a good deal that ought to condemn it. Our contention is that so far as possible theory and practice in all relations of life should agree. When, therefore, we announce our partial program for the new school year we do it with confidence and invite our friends to accept it in that way. It is true, of course, that even the best laid plans are not always realized in full, but we now have definite arrangements for contributions as follows, and our readers may reasonably expect all that is here promised, while they may be sure of much besides :

To the special department of mathematics which has been so acceptably conducted during the past year by Professor Aley there will be added a department of music to be conducted by Superintendent J. G. Crabbe of Ashland, Ky., and a regular primary department under the direction of Miss Flora J. Cooke of the Chicago Normal School. Professors Francis M. Stalker and Chas. M. Curry will be frequent contributors as associate editors. Dr. Chas. R. Dryer will furnish at least three articles on the use of the new Frye Geographies, Dr. D. W. Dennis of Earlham College three on some phases of nature study, Miss Elizabeth Harrison of the Chicago Kindergarten College, four on Kindergarten and allied subjects. Professors E. W. Kemp and L. J. Rettger will prepare six articles each on their respective specialties, history and physiology. Dr. B. W. Evermann will contribute an occasional

article describing some of his many travels. Professors S. H. Clark and Howard Sandison are to prepare the comment upon the work of the township institute. Professor J. T. Scovell is to continue his contributions on Scientific Temperance. "Some Famous Stories" is the title under which Professor Curry will write a series of six articles in the same informal style as those on reading, the last of which is yet to appear. He will also assist Mrs. Carrie B. Adams in the preparation of three elaborate special day programs. Professor Stalker's papers on the Public Schools are to continue.

One or more articles are promised from each of the following persons: Dr. J. Mark Baldwin, Dr. Chas. R. Henderson, Professor Charles Zeublin, Professor A. B. Milford, President W. T. Stott, Professor J. B. Wisely, President R. G. Boone, Professor A. R. Charman, Professor W. A. McBeth, Dr. Andrew Stephenson, Professor Thomas F. Moran, Superintendent McHenry Rhoads-and others.

The peculiarly uncertain Where Are You? tenure of the teacher's position prevents large numbers of them from locating permanently where they teach. This means a change of address when school closes and another when it is resumed, even if the same position is held. This reminder is thrown out with the hope that subscribers will help us to keep track of changes, sending word as early as the twentieth of the month. We do not mind making changes as often as desired, but to render the satisfactory service that will best please both you and us requires this little aid from you. Kindly remember that periodicals can not be forwarded beyond their first destination unless additional postage is paid in advance. For THE EDUCATOR the rate is two cents per copy.

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These are the two important reforms which SuperinBetter School Buildings. tendent Jones wishes to see realized in the Indiana system during his incumbency. It is doubtless true, as Professor Jones states, that the free text-book plan has worked well wherever it has been faithfully tried. The fact that the present system makes those children who are unable to buy necessary text-books objects of charity is one strong argument in favor of the change. The other reform in view has particular reference to school buildings in the country districts. Better locations, better lighting, better heating, better ventilation, are questions not only of educational but of vital interest to every child in the community. These things are now considered essentials, to say nothing of more attention to pictures and other decorations that contribute so much to the higher life of the child.

Three Valuable Reports.

One result of the tendency to specialize, now so prevalent in all departments of work and study, is the submission of certain definite questions to carefully chosen committees who are expected to make an exhaustive investigation and a full report. Several years ago the National Educational Association recognized the value of this method of investigation and there have since been several reports which stand as the most important documents in our educational literature. The committees of Fifteen on Correlation, and of Ten on Secondary Education, will be readily recalled. Three other of these committees have just reported-that on Normal Schools, that on College Entrance Requirements, and that on Relations of Public Libraries to Public Schools. The first of these takes up such questions as the function, administration, variations, and inner life of the normal school in the different parts of the Union. An account of Professor Rein's practice school in Germany, and another of a typical English training college are interesting appendices. The committee on college entrance has been at work since 1895, and there have already been partial reports. The complete work now published, designed to harmonize the relations between high schools and colleges, will be of great interest to all who have to do with the preparation of study courses in the respective schools. The report that will be of greatest interest to the mass of teachers in the public schools is the one on libraries. The conception of a library as a storage place for books has grown into that of a working place

among books. This work that formerly began chiefly in the high schools now begins well down in the grades. Even here it is not merely as a set of reference books, or as supplements to the regular text-books that a school library has value, but as the source and foundation of a taste for good literature. With the growing appreciation of this value has come a desire to let down the barriers between the children and the books. Not preservation but use is the motto to-day. The librarian who was a guardian of books has changed front to become a guide for his patrons, and cooperation is everywhere advocated between the public library and the public school. It is such questions as these that the report considers. It is rich in practical suggestion and contains several lists of books from which we shall print in early issues of THE EDUCATOR.

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The Man With the Hoe.

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Ranking in popularity with Kipling's Recessional and The White Man's Burden is the poem that appeared in THE EDUCATOR last month with the above title. Its author, Edwin Markham, assures us that he did not anticipate any such interest as the poem has aroused; and it is evident that the fame to which he has awakened is not likely to disturb the even tenor of his way as principal of the observation school in the University of California. Ten years ago, he says, he first saw Millet's painting, which impressed him as being more terrible than anything in Dante. He saw in it a type of the toiler brutalized through oppression, and for ten years the effect upon his mind lingered, or deepened, perhaps, until it became the poem. The critics say he "has struck a universal chord." This may be true, but is not the popular response due rather to the deep under-current of revolt against the industrial conditions that make beings of this type at all possible? In this sense the poem expresses the spirit of the time. According to the Bookman Mr. Markham believes "that all true progress of men is a progress unto solidarity, an ever growing realization of the principle of fraternity. Fraternity is to him the holiest of all words, being at once the essence of all gospels, and the fulfilment of all revelations."