very full list of books, with pages specified, is given in
connection with each topic.

The large number of these special topics affords ample choice, and emphasis
has been placed on those which show the life and character of the people.
These topics may be used as themes in English, and as subjects for debate,
in order to stimulate reading and discussion on the part of the class.

There are outline maps to be filled in, and numerous spaces for drawings
and plans which can easily be made by the pupil after consulting the
specific references in the books mentioned.

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

ESSENTIALS OF BIOLOGY

By GEORGE WILLIAM HUNTER, A.M., Head of Department of Biology, De Witt
Clinton High School, New York City.

This new first-year course treats the subject of biology as a whole, and
meets the requirements of the leading colleges and associations of science
teachers. Instead of discussing plants, animals, and man as separate forms
of living organisms, it treats of life in a comprehensive manner, and
particularly in its relations to the progress of humanity. Each main topic
is introduced by a problem, which the pupil is to solve by actual
laboratory work. The text that follows explains and illustrates the meaning
of each problem. The work throughout aims to have a human interest and a
practical value, and to provide the simplest and most easily comprehended
method of demonstration. At the end of each chapter are lists of references
to both elementary and advanced books for collateral reading.

SHARPE'S LABORATORY MANUAL IN BIOLOGY

In this Manual the 56 important problems of Hunter's Essentials of Biology
are solved; that is, the principles of biology are developed from the
laboratory standpoint. It is a teacher's detailed directions put into
print. It states the problems, and then tells what materials and apparatus
are necessary and how they are to be used, how to avoid mistakes, and how
to get at the facts when they are found. Following each problem and its
solution is a full list of references to other books.

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

GARNER'S GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

By JAMES W. GARNER, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois
With Special State Editions

Merits the special consideration of teachers in secondary schools because
in the first place it includes the most recent governmental problems of
interest and importance, and in the second it devotes an