PUBLISHERS' NOTE 



The late Professor Alpheus Hyatt and others 

 urged Mr. Whittemore to describe his school-room 

 methods and put them into permanent form. With 

 this desire of his friends in mind, he preserved much 

 written work of many children, and several years 

 ago published in the columns of a local paper the 

 school exercises which, with some changes and 

 additions, now appear as "Illustrative Examples.' 

 He published the ''Historical Sketch" in the same 

 weekly newspaper, and in 1908 began to reprint these 

 articles, together with certain school documents, 

 under the title of "The New Method of Education." 



While this part of the book was in process he was 

 at work upon "General Principles' which he did 

 not live to complete. 



October 1911. 



