NOTES ON BOOKS AND PERIODICALS 



The Ohio Aj»iitultiiral Kxi.eiiiiient Station ( Wooster, Ohio) has 

 issued a timely circular (No. 101) on "Illustrative Exhibits at State 

 and County Fairs". It is well illustrated and will i)rove suggestive to 

 teachers interested in display of school work in agricultural nature- 

 study. 



A new Course of Study in Nature-Study has been prepared for 

 the Chicago schools. The outline is very brief, merely suggesting the 

 topics and phases to be emphasized. 



state Supt. E. C. Bishop, of Nebraska, has just issued an excel- 

 lent illustrated bulletin on Domestic Science, giving practical directions 

 for sewing and cooking, for the Nebraska Boys' and Girls' Club. With 

 the bulletin are sent materials for work in sewing. With Supt. Bishop, 

 the Department of Farmers' Institutes of the University of Nebraska 

 issues an agricultural education bulletin for the Nebraska Boys' and 

 Girls' Club on ''Some Common Weeds and Insects of Nebraska Corn 

 Fields and Potato Patches". The bulletin is copiously illustrated and 

 will be of material assistance to teachers. 



An admirable new edition of State Supt. F. G. Blair's bulletin on 

 One-ilooni Country Schools in Illinois has just appeared. The orig- 

 inal pamphlet has been much enlarged and better illustrated, giving 

 suggestions concerning daily program, seating, heating, ventilation, 

 improvement of school grounds, general matters of hygiene, and the 

 like. It is the work, in large part, of Asst. State Supt. U. J. Hoffman. 

 Another bulletin prepared by the state department is the Com Day 

 Annual for the elementary Schools of Illinois, giving detailed sugges- 

 tions for the celebration of Corn Day, appointed by the State Super- 

 intendent for November 4. 



Tlie Fly-Aways and Other Seed Travelers. By Francis M. Fultz. 

 Public School Publishing Co., Bloomington. 111. 1909. Pp. 186. Price, 

 by mail, 60c. 



This timely nature-study book is a supplementary reader intended 

 for third or fourth grade. It wisely avoids the errors of personifica- 

 tion and baby talk into which so many of earlier nature books for pri- 

 mary grades have fallen. The matter is sane and put into interesting 

 form. Illustrations are excellent. 



'I'he Study of Corn. By Vernon Ml. Shoesmith. Orange .ludd 

 Co., New York. 1910. Pp. 94. Price, 50c. 



This is a handy manual dealing concretely with the types and 

 varieties of corn, judging and selection, testing, etc. The author con- 

 siders the exclusive use of the score card in corn study objectionable, 

 and therefore gives many suggestions supplementary to the score card. 

 An excellent feature is the treatment of the field selection of corn. 



