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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 



£. 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, 



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