X NEWS FROM THE BIRDS. 



Fourth Dimsion. The fourth class of books in- 

 cludes more especially literature and works that make 

 known the beautiful in such departments as sculpture, 

 painting, architecture and music. Literature and art 

 show human nature in the form of feelings, emotions, 

 and aspirations, and they show how these feelings 

 lead over to deeds and to clear thoughts. This de- 

 partment of books is perhaps more important than 

 any other in our home reading, inasmuch as it teaches 

 a knowledge of human nature and enables us to un- 

 derstand the motives that lead our fellow-men to 

 action. 



Plan fok Use as Supplementary Reading. 



The first work of the child in the school is to 

 learn to recognize in a printed form the words that 

 are familiar to him by ear. These words constitute 

 what is called the colloquial vocabulary. They are 

 words that he has come to know from having heard 

 them used by the members of liis family and by his 

 playmates. He uses these words himself with con- 

 siderable skill, but what he knows by ear he does not 

 yet know by sight. It will require many weeks, 

 many months even, of constant effort at reading the 

 printed page to bring him to the point where the 

 sight of the written word brings up as much to his 

 mind as the sound of the spoken word. But patience 

 and practice will by and by make the printed word 

 far more suggestive than the spoken word, as every 

 scholar may testify. 



In order to bring about this familiarity with the 



