The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature Part 31

[16] To be used in the manner recommended by the Board of Supervisors in School Doc.u.ment No. 14, 1883; one set of sixty copies to be supplied for the cla.s.ses on each floor of a Grammar-School building occupied by pupils in either of the four lower cla.s.ses, and for each colony of a Grammar School.

[17] The revised edition to be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies to schools where this book is used. Swinton's Grammar-School Geography allowed in Charlestown Schools.

[18] One set of not more than sixty copies, or, if determined by the Committee on Supplies to be necessary, more than one set, be placed in each Grammar School, for use as collateral reading in the third and fourth cla.s.ses.

_Third Cla.s.s._--Franklin Fifth Reader. [19]New Franklin Fifth Reader.

Franklin Written Arithmetic. [20]Greenleaf's Manual of Mental Arithmetic. [21]Warren's Common-School Geography. Swinton's New Language Lessons. Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary. Higginson's History of the United States. [22]Fourth Music Reader. [Revised edition.]

[23]Blaisdell's How to Keep Well.

[19] To be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies.

[20] To be used in the manner recommended by the Board of Supervisors in School Doc.u.ment No. 14, 1883; one set of sixty copies to be supplied for the cla.s.ses on each floor of a Grammar-School building occupied by pupils in either of the four lower cla.s.ses, and for each colony of a Grammar School.

[21] The revised edition to be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies to schools where this book is used. Swinton's Grammar-School Geography allowed in Charlestown Schools.

[22] The revised edition to be supplied as new books are needed.

[23] One set of not more than sixty copies, or, if determined by the Committee on Supplies to be necessary, more than one set, be placed in each Grammar School, for use as collateral reading in the third and fourth cla.s.ses.

_Second Cla.s.s._--Franklin Fifth Reader. [24]New Franklin Fifth Reader.

Franklin Written Arithmetic. [25]Warren's Common-School Geography.

Tweed's Grammar for Common Schools. Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary. Higginson's History of the United States. [26]Fourth Music Reader. [Revised edition.] Smith's Elementary Physiology and Hygiene.

[24] To be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies.

[25] The revised edition to be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies to schools where this book is used. Swinton's Grammar-School Geography allowed in Charlestown Schools.

[26] The revised edition to be supplied as new books are needed.

_First Cla.s.s._--Franklin Sixth Reader. Franklin Written Arithmetic.

Meservey's Book-keeping, Single Entry. [27]Warren's Common School Geography. Tweed's Grammar for Common Schools. Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary. Stone's History of England. Cooley's Elements of Philosophy.

[28]Fourth Music Reader. [Revised edition.]

[27] The revised edition to be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies to schools where this book is used. Swinton's Grammar-School Geography allowed in Charlestown Schools.

[28] The revised edition to be supplied as new books are needed.

_Fifth and Sixth Cla.s.ses._--First Lessons in Natural History and Language. Parts III. and IV.

_All Cla.s.ses._--American Text-books of Art Education. Writing-Books: Duntonian Series; Payson, Dunton, and Scribner's; Harper's Copy-books; Appleton's Writing-Books. Child's Book of Language; and Letters and Lessons in Language, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4. [By J. H. Stickney.] Prang's Aids for Object Teaching, "Trades," one set for each building.

Normal Music Course in the Rice Training School and the schools of the third and sixth divisions. National Music Course (revised edition) in the schools of the first and second divisions.

HIGH SCHOOLS.

_English._--Abbott's How to Write Clearly. Hill's _or_ Kellogg's Rhetoric. Meiklejohn's English Language. Scott's Lady of the Lake.

Selections from Addison's Papers in the Spectator, with Macaulay's Essay on Addison. Irving's Sketch-Book. Trevelyan's Selections from Macaulay.

Hales' Longer English Poems. Shakspeare,--Rolfe's _or_ Hudson's Selections. Selections from Chaucer. Selections from Milton. [Clarendon Press Edition. Vol. I.] Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary.

_Latin._--Allen & Greenough's Latin Grammar. [Roxbury, W. Roxbury, and Brighton High Schools.] Harkness' Latin Grammar. [English, Girls', Dorchester, Charlestown, and East Boston High Schools.] Harkness'

Complete Course in Latin for the first year. Gildersleeve's Latin Primer. Collar & Daniell's Beginners' Latin Book. [Roxbury, West Roxbury, and Brighton High Schools.] Harkness' Caesar. Lindsey's Cornelius Nepos. Chase's, Frieze's, _or_ Greenough's Virgil, or any edition approved by the Committee on Text-Books. Greenough's _or_ Harkness' Cicero. Chase's _or_ Lincoln's Horace, or any edition approved by the Committee on Text-books.

_History._--[29]Anderson's New General History. Martin's Civil Government.

[29] To be dropped from list of authorized text-books, July 1, 1890.

_Mythology._--Berens's Hand-book of Mythology.

_Mathematics._--Meservey's Book-keeping. Bradbury & Emery's Academic Algebra. [30]Wentworth & Hill's Exercises in Algebra. Bradbury's Elementary Geometry, _or_ Chauvenet's Geometry, _or_ Wells's Geometry.

Greenleaf's Trigonometry. [31]Metric Apparatus.

[30] This book is not intended to, and does not in fact displace any text-book now in use, but is intended merely to furnish additional problems in algebra.

[31] Not exceeding $15 for each school.

_Physics._--Cooley's New Text-book of Physics. Avery's Physics, _or_ Gage's Introduction to Physical Science.

_Astronomy._--Sharpless & Phillips' Astronomy.

_Chemistry._--Williams's Chemistry. Williams's Laboratory Manual. Eliot & Storer's Elementary Manual of Chemistry, edited by Nichols. Eliot & Storer's Qualitative a.n.a.lysis. Hill's Lecture Notes on Qualitative a.n.a.lysis. Tables for the Determination of Common Minerals. [Girls' High School.] White's Outlines of Chemical Theory.

_Botany._--Gray's School and Field Book of Botany.

_Zoology._--Morse's Zoology and Packard's Zoology.

_Physiology._--Hutchinson's Physiology. Blaisdell's Our Bodies and How We Live.

_Drawing._--American Text-books of Art Education.

_Music._--Eichberg's High-School Music Reader. Eichberg's Girls'

High-School Music Reader. [Girls' High School.]

LATIN SCHOOLS.

_Latin._--White's Abridged Lexicon. Harkness' Grammar. Harkness' Reader.

Harkness' Complete Course in Latin for the first year. Harkness' Prose Composition, _or_ Allen's Latin Composition. Harkness' Caesar. Lindsey's Cornelius Nepos. Greenough's Catiline of Sall.u.s.t. Lincoln's Ovid.

Greenough's Ovid. Greenough's Virgil. Greenough's _or_ Harkness'

Orations of Cicero. Smith's Principia Latina, Part II.

_Greek._--Liddell & Scott's Abridged Lexicon. Goodwin's Grammar. White's Lessons. Jones' Prose Composition. Goodwin's Reader. The Anabasis of Xenophon. Boise's Homer's Iliad. Beaumlein's Edition of Homer's Iliad.

_English._--Soule's Hand-book of p.r.o.nunciation. Hill's General Rules for Punctuation. Tweed's Grammar for Common Schools (in fifth and sixth cla.s.ses). Hawthorne's Wonder Book. Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales.

Plutarch's Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans. Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. Higginson's History of the United States. Hughes' Tom Brown's School-Days at Rugby. Dana's Two Years before the Mast. Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakspeare. [Revised Edition, Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.] Scott's Ivanhoe. Hawthorne's True Stories. Greene's Readings from English History. [32]Church's Stories from Homer. [32]Church's Stories of the Old World. Selections from American Authors,--Franklin, Adams, Cooper, and Longfellow. American Poems, with Biographical Sketches and Notes. Irving's Sketch-Book. Selections from Addison's Papers in the Spectator. Ballads and Lyrics. Hales' Longer English Poems. Three plays of Shakspeare,--Rolfe's _or_ Hudson's Selections.

[32] No more copies of Church's Stories from Homer to be purchased, but as books are worn out their place to be supplied with Church's Stories of the Old World.

_History._--Leighton's History of Rome. Smith's Smaller History of Greece. Long's _or_ Ginn & Heath's Cla.s.sical Atlas. Smith's Smaller Cla.s.sical Dictionary,--Student's Series.