348 NA TURE STUD Y RE VIEW 



South: "Our experienced teachers who have long found it an 

 almost impossible task to pilot the immature and natively slow 

 mind through the mazes of arithmetic, now feel with rejoicing 

 and even with enthusiasm that their problem has been solved. 

 Of course the looked for improvement will not come in a day. 

 Only by degrees and thru a series of years will the excellent 

 result that may fairly be counted on be wholly realized. But 

 already they see that the admirable method of presentation in 

 the Essentials arouses the child's interest and enables the mind 

 that has been painfully groping to have a clear vision instead of 

 a stray glimpse thru a fog. I am not going too far in saying 

 that thru adopting the Essentials we have taken one of the most 

 notable steps forward we have made in recent years." 



WHY IS THE NATURE STUDY REVIEW LATE? 



It is late this month for the same reason that it was late 

 last month and for the same reason that it will be late next 

 month, - because the presses of our printer are overwhelmed 

 and overworked by the great congestion of matter, text books 

 etc. held up by the long printer's strike so that we have to 

 await our turn. The composition on the December number 

 is now going on and we shall try to catch up by making 

 January and February issues into a double niunber. We en- 

 treat our subscribers to be patient, because really there is 

 nothing else to do. 



