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so many pages per day, and from the teachers recitation-hearing, 

 marking, and reporting, his schools were eminently successful. 

 Teachers, pupils, and patrons neither knew nor desired anything 

 better; but that sympathy with childhood which had led Mr. 

 Sheldon into this work was not satisfied with these poor results. 

 Five years of growing dissatisfaction with the current range of 



E. A. SHELDON. 



subjects and methods of instruction had culminated in a determi- 

 nation to prepare some books and charts for himself, when a visit 

 to Toronto revealed the object of his search. He saw there in the 

 National Museum, though not used in their own schools, collec- 

 tions of appliances employed abroad notably in the Home and 

 Colonial Training School in London. Evidently the seed sown 

 by this school had not found in Toronto so good a soil as in the 

 mind of this Yankee schoolmaster. From this visit he returned 

 with the delight of a discoverer of a new world, laden with 

 charts, books, balls, cards, pictures of animals, building blocks. 



