Grade "C."

Normal College, Truro, (25 September, 1913 to 27 January, 1914).

Strathcona Physical Training Prizes, 1914.

The present twelve inspectorates of the Province are the Provincial sub-divisions for supervision of, and competition in, Physical Training for the Strathcona prizes which will be apportioned for 1913-1914 to each inspectorate in proportion to the annual school enrolment of the previous year, as follows:

The inspector shall award the prizes for physical training within his own inspectorial division. The total amount of each prize shall be paid to the teacher who shall apply one third, with the approval of the inspector and trustees, to some appropriate object to be permanently displayed in the school room as a memento. The competition sub-divisions of each inspectorial division are the same as last year.

232. TEXT BOOKS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

In performing the duty of selecting and prescribing text books for the Public Schools, the Council of Public Instruction has availed itself as fully as possible of the knowledge and experience of those who are engaged in the practical work of education. The sole aim of recent modifications has been to secure at a reasonable cost, a series of texts adapted for use in schools. Change in authorized books is in itself a very undesirable thing.

Instructors and teachers are reminded

(1) That the course of study for common schools encourages an economical expenditure for the text books by providing a system of oral instruction for junior classes. Too many teachers try to satisfy themselves in respect to their more youthful pupils by placing in their hands text books not needed in any case, and worse than useless when unaccompanied by proper oral exposition. A text book should not be required for a child until he is prepared to use it intelligently.

(2) That the regulation which makes it illegal and improper for a teacher to introduce unauthorized texts, by no means hinders him from giving his pupils the benefit of other treatises, to whose explanations he may attach importance. The progressive teacher will always have such aids within reach, and will so use them as to impart variety and interest to his instructions.

(3) Under section 81 (e) of the Education Act, school sections can vote money for the purchase of prescribed school books and school trustees are free to arrange to obtain them at wholesale rates from publishers, or with the regular trade discounts from booksellers, and to arrange to distribute them at cost, at reduced price, or free to all pupils of their schools, or to pupils who cannot afford to buy them.

(4) For the full information of school boards the regular (a) retail price, and (b) dozen lot cash price of each is given according to the trade usages followed by the leading book dealers, Halifax. The following list gives merely in a general way the price of the book when bought (a) singly and (b) in small lots. The terms in detail can be obtained from the dealer.

(5) Price of Books for Common School Grades.

Per Per one dozen

$ .07 .63

Acadian Reader No. 1, Part 1 (Nelson, Edinburg).
Acadian Reader No. 1, Part 2 (Nelson, Edinburg)
Acadian Reader No. 1, Complete (Nelson, Edinburg).
Acadian Reader No. 2, Complete (Nelson, Edinburg)
Acadian Reader, No. 3, Complete (Nelson, Edinburg)
Acadian Reader, No. 4, Complete (Nelson, Edinburg)
Nova Scotia Reader No. 1 (Morang, Toronto)..
Nova Scotia Reader No. 2 (Morang, Toronto)..
Nova Scotia Reader No. 3 (Morang, Toronto).
Nova Scotia Reader No. 4 (Nelson, Edinburg).
Nova Scotia Reader No. 5 (Nelson, Edinburg)
Nova Scotia Reader No. 6 (Nelson, Edinburg).
Reading for VII and VIII [Series 1].

Ontario Readers (From August, 1915) per set of five
Lessons in English (Grammar and Composition).

History of Canada [Calkin's Brief] (MacKinlay).

History of Canada [Hay's] (Copp, Clark).

Brief History of England (Nelson).

Geography [Calkin's Junior] (MacKinlay).

Prang's Drawing Books (Prang's, New York).

Royal Crown Copy Books (Nelson).

Augsburg's Drawing Books (Educational Book Co., Boston)
Ontario School Hygiene (Copp, Clark, Toronto).
Common School Arithmetic (Simpson, Toronto).

(6) Price of Books for High School Grades.

49

.23 2.21

.25 2.25

.20 2.04

.15 1.44

.60 5.40

.03 .29

.12 1.16

.12 1.16

.25 1.92

.18 1.85

Nova Scotia English Grammar (MacKinlay)
Outlines of British History (MacKinlay)..

.23 2.07

.35 3.36

Canadian Civics [N. S. Edition] (Copp, Clark, Toronto).

.35 3.36

Geography [Calkin's Advanced] (MacKinlay).
Morton's Mechanical Drawing (Allen).

.90 8.64

.40 3.84

Collar & Daniell's Latin Book (Ginn & Co., U. S. A.)

1.00 10.20

Common School Course of Study (Handbook for Teachers).

Manual of School Law, 1911...

.251

Most of the other books used in the high school grades have their retail prices specified in the high school program and the wholesale prices are generally in the same ratio as indicated above.

Books at Wholesale Prices.

(7) The school law of Nova Scotia enables school sections to assess themselves for their school books, and obtain them at wholesale prices. This is being done in many sections of the province, some of which supply the books free to the pupils. They can well be sold at cost; so that a school section which once voted the money, could have it recouped annually, and thus without any more cost continue to supply books at wholesale cost forever.

The school trustees are the proper parties to take charge of the supply of books; for they are in continual and close touch with the school. They can allow those who desire to own their books to have them at wholesale prices; and the deserving indigent can be supplied free. Both oversight and economy can be easily maintained under the management of the local trustees.

NEW BOOKS.

List of Books received at Education Office since publication of the Journal of Education October, 1913. The names of publishers are arranged in alphabetical order.

G. BELL AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON, ENGLAND.

Bell's Outdoor and Indoor Experimental Arithmetics by Goodacre, a book for each year of a five years course, pp. 30-48, each 74x54, each 0/4. A First English Grammar by Wallis, pp. 80, 7x4, 1/. Exercises in English, by Bewsher, pp. 141, 71x42, 1/

A Course of Practical English, by Balley, pp. 182, 7x5, 1/6.

Representative Passages from English Literature, by Hudson, 1914, pp. 319, 71x51, 2/6.

Early English Social History, by Dodd, 1913, pp. 211, 74x51.

The Building of the British Empire, by Richardson, 1913, pp. 166, 71x5, 1/6.
Western Europe, by Henderson, 1913, pp. 258, 74x5, 2/.

English Industrial History, by Meadows, 1913, pp. 254, 7x5, 2/.
French Vocabularies, by Marichal, 1912, pp. 137,7x5, 1/6.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, LONDON, ENG.

*The Cambridge Historical Readers, by Bosworth, 1913, each 8x51. Primary, pp. 242; Introductory, pp. 155; each 2/6. Junior, pp. 284; Intermediate, pp. 286; each 2/6.

CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED, LONDON AND TORONTO.

*Modern School Series.

Stories of Other Lands, by Duckworth, pp. 128, 7x5, 0/10.
Under Other Skies, by Duckworth, pp. 160, 71x51, 1/

England and Wales, by Palmer, pp. 212, 71x5), 1/3.

Scotland, Ireland and Canada by Berry, pp. 224, 74x5, 1/4.

Europe and North America by Bentley and Treble, pp. 246, 72x5}, 1/6.

W. B. CLIVE (UNIVERSITY TUTORIAL PRESS LIMITED) LONDON, ENGLAND.

Preliminary English Course, by Walmsley, 1913, pp. 163, 7x5, 1/6.
Preliminary Arithmetic, by Banadough, 1913, pp. 184, 7x5, 1/6.
Preliminary Geography, by Hodgkinson, 1913, pp. 225, 7x5, 1/6.

Preliminary French Course, by Chayton and Truelove, 1913, pp. 155,7x5, 1/6. Junior English Grammar and Composition, by Walmsley and Edmunds, 1914, pp. 224, 7x5, 2/6.

Junior Geometry, by Cracknell, 1913, pp. 276, 7x5, 2/6.

Spelling and Punctuation, by Shoosmith, 1913, pp. 120, 7x5, 0, 8.

THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED, TORONTO.

First Science Book, by Higgins, pp. 237, 74x5, 65 cents.

Common Errors in Speaking and Writing, by Strang, pp. 129, 71x5.

J. M. DENT & SONS, LIMITED, LONDON, ENG.

*Selections from Prescott-"The Conquest of Mexico and Peru," by Smeaton, pp. 271, 61x41).