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"Kindergarten Stories and Morning Talks," by Sara E. Wiltse. Ginn & Co.
212 pp., 75 cents.
"Stories for Kindergartens and Primary Schools," by Sara E. Wiltse.
Ginn & Co. 50 cents.
"A Brave Baby and Other Stories," by Sara E. Wiltse. Ginn & Co. 50 cents.
These three books are storehouses of inspiration and models of story-telling.
"Child Stories from the Masters," by Maude Menefee. Kindergarten Literature Co., Chicago. $1.00.
An excellent selection of themes from poets, dramatists, and the Bible.
The teacher will do well to study the originals and try to improve upon the stories given.
"Child's Christ-Tales," by Andrea Hofer. Woman's Temple, Chicago.
$1.00.
Choice ill.u.s.trations from the masters. Suggestive tales and parables.
"The Kindergarten Sunday-School," by Frederika Beard. Kindergarten Publis.h.i.+ng Co., Woman's Temple, Chicago.
An attempt to solve the infant cla.s.s problem. Three series of lessons, each having sequence and unity. Suggestive in its plan, and likely to help teachers to improve upon the models given.
_Books to be Read for the Sake of a Better Understanding of Child Nature._
"Study of Child Nature," by Elizabeth Harrison. Chicago Kindergarten Training School. $1.00.
"Children's Rights," by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
$1.00.
"A Boy's Town," by W. D. Howells. Harper & Bros., New York. $1.25.
"Being a Boy," by Charles Dudley Warner. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.
"The Story of a Bad Boy," by T. B. Aldrich. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
$1.25.
"The Mill on the Floss," by George Eliot. Harper & Bros. Popular ed. 75 cents.
"Cuore, An Italian Schoolboy's Journal," by Edmondo de Amicis. N.Y.
Crowell. Ill.u.s.trated edition. $1.50.
_Pictures and Books from which Pictures may be Culled._
"The Life of Christ as Treated in Art," by F. W. Farrar, D.D., F.R.S.
Macmillan & Co. $8.00, $5.00.
"The Christ Child in Art," by Henry Van d.y.k.e. Harper & Bros. $4.00.
"Sacred and Legendary Art," by Mrs. Anna Jameson. Longmans, Green & Co.
2 vols., 16mo. $2.50.
"The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art," by Mrs. Anna Jameson. Ill.u.s.trated. 2 vols. Longmans, Green & Co. $8.00.
All the above are standard works and are excellent.
"The Earthly Footprints of Our Risen Lord," by Fleming H. Revell. 4to.
$1.50.
A continuous narrative of the four gospels according to the revised version, ill.u.s.trated by numerous half-tone pictures. The selection is not so choice as one could wish, yet many of the pictures are by the best artists, and present a consecutive pictorial story of the life of Christ.
"The Photographs of the Holy Land." Globe Bible Publis.h.i.+ng Co., Philadelphia. $3.00. The same in cheaper style in eight portfolios at 10 cents apiece.
Photographs of cla.s.sic and modern pictures of the child Jesus and of other Biblical subjects. Unmounted, card size, 3-3/4 cents each; cabinet size, 7-1/2 cents each. A catalogue in German will be sent on application. R. Tamme, Dresden, Germany.
There is no duty on pictures.
Blue print copies of pictures of Biblical scenes by the old masters and by modern artists. Mr. Alfred A. Hart, 221 West 109th Street, New York City. Card size, one cent each.
Clear, durable, excellent; of a kind likely to develop good taste. The low price makes it possible to encourage children to make collections of their own. A single secular school has used over twelve thousand of these pictures.
The Christmas catalogues of publishers often contain serviceable pictures.
The standard histories of art are full of ill.u.s.trative material. The teacher should be ever on the alert.
_Objective Helps; Blackboard Sketches._
Cards for children to p.r.i.c.k and sew. Bible Study Publis.h.i.+ng Co., 21 Bromfield Street, Boston, Ma.s.s.
Scroll of history. See "The Modern Sunday School," p. 297. John H.
Vincent.
Sunday-school Museum. Read description of one at Akron, in "The Modern Sunday School," p. 301.
Ill.u.s.trative Blackboard Sketching, by W. Bertha Hintz. E. L. Kellogg & Co. 53 pp. 30 cents.
A helpful guide designed for those entirely ignorant of the art of drawing, who nevertheless like to work out their own way of putting a lesson, for the eye as well as for the ear, in preference to ready-made blackboard exercises and "pictured truth" at second hand.
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