The Literature Note-Book
By Professor F. N. Scott, of the University of Michigan, and F. E. Bryant, of the University of Kansas. Price, each, 6 cents; per dozen, 60 cents; per hundred, $5.00.
This is a blank-book for book reviews and reports on home reading. On the front cover are seventeen numbered questions, each suggesting a possible treatment for the book review. The purpose of these is to enable the teacher with the least labor to prescribe the scope of the essay he wishes the pupil to write. The teacher indicates a question, or series of questions, by number, and the pupil understands that his review is to answer these questions. There are directions for both teacher and pupil. On the back cover is a list of books for home reading.
Journeys in Fiction
By Alfred M. Hitchcock, High School, Hartford, Conn. Paper, 42 pages. Price, 10 cents.
Select Essays of Macaulay
Edited by Samuel Thurber. 12mo, cloth, 219 pages. Price, 50 cents.
This selection comprises the essays on Milton, Bunyan, Johnson, Goldsmith, and Madame D'Arblay, thus giving illustrations both of Macaulay's earlier and of his later style. The subjects of the essays are such as to bring them into close relation with the study of English Literature.
The notes are intended to help the pupil to help himself. When an allusion is not easily understood, a note briefly explains it, or at least indicates where an explanation may be found. In other cases the pupil is expected to rely on his own efforts, and on such assistance as his teacher may think it wise to give.