Approved by the Department of Public Instruction for use in the Public Schools of New South Wales. Price, 3d. each.
No. 1A—Elementary, Straight Lines, Curves and Simple Figures.
Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4—Graduated Elementary Freehand, Regular Forms, Simple Designs, &c.
Nos. 5 and 6—Foliage, Flowers, Ornaments, Vase Forms, &c.
No. 7—Book of Blank Pages.
N.S.W. Educational Gazette: “This series of drawing books has been arranged by the Superintendent of Drawing for the purpose of enabling teachers and pupils to meet fully the requirements of the Public School Syllabus of 1899. It consists of seven numbers, designed for the third, fourth and fifth classes respectively, and there is also a book of blank pages (No. 7). Nos. 1 to 4 treat of elementary freehand, simple designs, pattern drawing, &c.; Nos. 5 and 6 of foliage, flowers and ornaments. The copies are excellently designed and executed, and carefully graduated, and the books are printed on superior drawing paper. ‘The Australian Drawing Books’ should be used in every public school in the colony, first on account of their intrinsic merit, and secondly because they are the only books that accurately fit our standard.”
THE AUSTRALIAN COPY BOOK.
Approved by the Departments of Public Instruction in New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania, by the Public Service Board of New South Wales, and by the Chief Inspector of Catholic Schools. Price, 2d. each.
No. 1, Initiatory, Short Letters, Short Words; 2, Initiatory, Long Letters, Words; 3, Text, Capitals, Longer Words; 4, Half-Text, Short Sentences; 5, Intermediate, Australian and Geographical Sentences; 6, Small Hand, Double Ruling, Australian and Geographical Sentences, Prefixes and Examples; 6A, Text, Half-Text, Intermediate, Small Hand; 7, Small Hand, Single Ruling, Maxims, Quotations, Proverbs; 8, Advanced Small Hand, Abbreviations and Contractions commonly met with; 9, Commercial Terms and Forms, Addresses; 10, Commercial Forms, Correspondence, Addresses; 11, Plain and Ornamental Lettering, Mapping, Flourishes, &c.