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proportion, lines, surfaces, and volumes, and special crops and farm activities, 

 for the classes in agriculture in grades 6 and 7 of the Philippine public schools. 



Chemistry of cominon things, R. B. Brownlee, W. J. Hancock, R, W. 

 Fuller, and J. E. Whitsit (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1914, PP- VIII+616, 

 pi. 1, figs. 186). — ^This book endeavors to meet the growing demand that high- 

 school courses should prepare the pupil for citizenship. Part 1 deals with 

 fundamental ideas and principles, and part 2 supplies additional material 

 adapted to the special needs of industrial, technical, agricultural (including a 

 study of the essential elements of plant life, soils, sources of nitrogen and 

 phosphorus, and constituents of staple crops), and domestic science (including 

 a study of cooking, the adulteration of foods, bread making, milk, cream, ice 

 cream, butter and cheese, and cleaning and laundering) courses. The wide 

 range of topics treated enables the teacher to select a course suited to the 

 requirements of his community. 



Nature study, geography, and agriculture {Dept. Ed. Tex. Bui. 46 (1915), 

 pp. 51-59, 104-108, 111-113, 121, 123). — This manual includes outlines of a con- 

 tinuous course in nature study, geography, and agriculture throughout 7 grades 

 of the elementary schools, work in general agi'iculture, animal husbandry, soils 

 and crops, and horticulture and farm management, respectively, for the 4 

 years of the high-school course with one credit for each year's work, a 

 4-year high-school course in domestic science and art with one-half credit for 

 each year's work, and a list of reference books. 



Nature study and agriculture, Margaret M. Healey and H. A. Farrar (In 

 Material for Teachers^ Manual. Montpelier, Yt.: Dept. Ed., 1914, PP- 195" 

 220 ) . — This is an outline of instruction in agriculture for grades 1 to 8, inclu- 

 sive, designed to furnish to Vermont teachers a basis for systematic work. 



Nature study lessons for teachers and students, G. A. Cornish {Toronto, 

 Can.: Dominion Book Co., 1914, pp. XVI +96, figs. 13). — This is a compilation 

 of bird poems and 31 lessons for the study of typical individual birds and such 

 general topics as bird food, beaks, eggs, and migration. Each lesson consists 

 of observations made by pupils and complete statements, for the use of the 

 teacher, of the facts to be observed by the pupils. 



Eighth grade bulletin containing outline schedules for manual training 

 and home economics, plan for home project work, and rules governing 

 eighth grade examinations [Viash. (.State) Dept. Ed. Circ. 12 (1915), pp. 8). 



Home makers course, Mary L. Watkins (Col. Indus. Arts Tex. Bui. 4S 

 (1914), PP- 32). — This is an outline of a nontechnical and practical course of 

 study prepared for the Texas Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers' Asso- 

 ciation by the secretary of the association, assisted by the department of 

 extension of the College of Industrial Arts, Denton, Tex. The course is 

 arranged under the following topics, to each of which a bibliography is 

 appended: (1) The house, its plan and decoration, (2) household sanitation, 

 (3) science of the household, (4) household administration, (5) study of 

 foods, (6) marketing and care of food in the home, (7) textiles and clothing. 

 (8) personal hygiene and home care of the sick, and (9) child study and 

 some of its problems. 



[Suggestive outlines for club study] (loioa State Col. Agr. Ext. Dept., Home 

 Econ. Circ., 1915-16, Nos. 1, pp. 9; 2, pp. 6; 3, pp. 16; 4, pp. 8).— These circulars 

 contain suggestive outlines as guides for women's clubs in the study of foods, 

 the child, the house, and American industries, respectively. 



Club work in Indiana, J. D. Habpeb* (Purdue Univ., Dept. Agr. Ext. Bui. 42 

 (1915), pp. 16, figs. 11). — This bulletin gives an account of the organization, 

 aims, methods, and results of club work in Indiana. 



