Talks on 
Pedagogics. 
BY 
Col. Francis W. Parker, 
of the Cook County Normal School , 
Col. Parker needs no introduction to the teachers of America. The 
thousands who have drawn aid and inspriation fiom the Talks on Teaching 
and all to whom the name of Col. Parker has for years stood for aggres¬ 
sive leadership in education will want this book, which contains the results 
of the author’s most mature thought and work. 
The book is the most mature expression of the educational belief of 
its author, formed after many years of study and investigation. 
The ideas presented and the methods outlined are the outcome of 
work done in the Cook Co. Normal School. The doctrine of concentra¬ 
tion alone is of sufficient importance and interest to arrest the attention of 
every thinking teacher in America. 
What it contains: 
The following titles of the chapters of the book will indicate the sub¬ 
jects of which it treats : Chap. I. The Child ; Chap. II The Central Sub¬ 
jects of Study ; Chap. III. Form as a Mode of Judgment; Chap. IV. Number 
and its Relation to the Central Subjects; Chap. V. What can be done with 
numbers ; Chap. VI. Attention; Chap. VII. Observation ; Chap. VIII. Lan¬ 
guage and Hearing Language; Chap. IX. Reading and its Relations to 
the Central Subject; Chap. X. Modes of Expression; Chap. XI. Unity of 
Expressive Acts; Chap. XII. Acquisition of the Forms of Thought Ex¬ 
pression; Chap. XIII. Speech and Writing ; Chap. XIV. School Govern¬ 
ment and Moral Training; Chap. XV. Summary of the Doctrine of Con¬ 
centration ; Chap. XVI. Democracy and Education. 
The whole makes a large volume of 507 pages. Nearly two solid years 
have been spent in its preparation. Nearly 2000 advance orders have been 
received for it. It is finely printed and durably bound as a book of its 
value and importance deserves to be. There are topic headings and ques¬ 
tions for the student. 
Price, $1.50; to teachers, $1.20; postage, 14 cents. 
E. L. KELLOGG & CO.. New York and Chicago. 
