New Text-Books by F. G.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 26, 1909

New Text-Books

By F. G.

It will be of interest to our teachers to know what may reasonably be depended upon in the way of new text-books for this coming year. As is well known, the Pacific Press does nearly all the printing of our text-books. They are printing, at the present time, Bible Lessons, Nos. 2 and 3, by Mrs. McKibben; True Education Reader, No. 4; and Nature Study, No. 2. It will not be possible to have all these books at the beginning of the school year, but they will be ready for use shortly after. It is hoped to have Bible Lessons, No. 2, ready by the time the school year opens. These books are being hurried along as rapidly as possible.

In this connection, we would also mention the “Speaker’s Manual,” a little book by Mrs. Fannie Dickerson Chase, which is published by the Review and Herald. This book is intended primarily as a text-book to be used in class study of pronunciation. The familiar diacritical marking is used throughout the book. Part of the work is devoted to “Rules for Spelling,” “Exercises in Enunciation,” “Homonyms,” and “More Than Half a Hundred Don’t’s.” This little book, of one hundred twenty-seven pages, is a valuable one for our schools. It should be in every school, time being given in the daily program for its use with the whole school. F. G.