TWENTIETH CENTURY TEXT BOOKS, 



The closing years of the present century are 

 witnessing the beginning of a remarkable awakening 

 of interest in our American educational problems. 

 There has been repeated and elaborate discussion 

 in every part of our land on such topics as the co- 

 ordination of studies, the balancing of the different 

 contending elements in school programmes, the 

 professional training of teachers, the proper age of 

 pupils at the different stages of study, the elimina- 

 tion of pedantic and lifeless methods of teaching, 

 the improvement of text books, uniformity of 

 college-entrance requirements, and other questions 

 of like character. 



In order to meet the new demands of the country 

 along the higher plane of educational work with a 

 complete and correlated series of text books fully 

 embodying the latest advances in our education, 

 the Twentieth Century Text Books are now offered. 



At every step in the planning of the series care 

 has been taken to secure the best educational 

 advice, in order that the books issued may really 

 meet the increasing demand that now comes alike 

 from academies, high schools, and colleges for text 

 books that shall be pedagogically suitable for teach- 

 ers and pupils in the schools, sound in modern 

 scholarship, and adequate for college preparation. 



