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II. and III. are designed to lead up to Freehand, and to meet the want of preparatory teaching in this subject. Cheapness has been rigidly studied, and twenty-four pages (not sixteen as is usual) have been given to each book. copies are in the book, which is thus both a Drawing Book supplying copy, and book for copying from model. The recent outbreak of another Afghan War once more calls attention to Afghanistan. This country is fully described in the Editor's AFGHANISTAN; single copies 1d. post-free, or 1s. per dozen, for P.T's. and classes taking the Geography of Asia. CYPRUS: Halfpenny Geography of. For Schools; with Map. 6D. PER DOZEN, post-free. Single Copies, 1d. post-free. H. MAJOR Leicester; SCHOLASTIC TRADING COS.; and SIMPKIN & MARSHALL. Reviews. GLIMPSES OF THE GLOBE-J. R. Blakiston, M.A.: Griffith and Farran. This is an admirable alternative Reading Book for the Second Standard, and just meets the requirements of the New Code for the Class Subjects to be taught in "Reading Lessons." It is written in language and expressed in terms suitable to children of the age of Standard II., and is the first attempt made in this direction to circumscribe what has hitherto been a limitless subject to reasonable bounds. A teacher using this book as a reading book will find Geography the most instructive and entertaining subject for children, instead of its being, as it too often is, dry and uninteresting. GLIMPSES OF ENGLAND (same author and publisher).-The success which has so rapidly attended the issue of the above has been an inducement to issue a complete series of Geographical Reading Books for all the Standards. The style is pleasant and chatty, and just such as boys and girls appreciate, while there is a large amount of information in the book. It would, of course, be impossible in a book of this size to exhaust such a subject as that of "Our Own Country," but though this is not done, indications are afforded to teachers, each in his own locality, to supplement by further (and especially by local) information. If the forthcoming Glimpses of the British Empire be as good as the first two of the series, teachers will hail the attempt made with gladness. The River. First comes the gentle rain, As the streams meet! But the rains fast fall, Till all the ditches fill, Helping to turn the mill Under the Hall. Then flowing through the town, Down to the sea! Ships riding lazily, Then to meet ocean's tide, H, MAJOR. HUMOROUS PHYSIOLOGY.-A report on the examination of girls in Board Schools for the prizes offered by the National Health Society has been presented to the London School Board, The examination was attended by 215 girls from 11 schools at four centres. Many of the children appear to have been utterly unable to understand the terms of the questions. "Mention any occupations which you consider to be injurious to health, giving reasons for your answer." This question especially appears to have puzzled them. One girl's complete answer to this question is, When you have a illness it makes your health bad as well as having a disease." Another says, "Occupations which are injurious to health are carbolic acid gas, which is impure blood." Another complete answer is, "Why the heart, lungs, blood, which is very dangerous." The word "function" was also a great puzzle. Very many answered that the skin discharged a function called perspiration. One girl says, "The function of the heart is between the lungs." Another says, What is the function of the heart? Thorax." Another girl in answer to the sixth question says, The process of digestion is:-We should never eat fat, because the food does not digest." Another class of errors is that of exaggerated statements, one girl answering, "A stonemason's work is injurious, because when he is chipping he breathes in all the little chips, and then they are taken into the lungs." Another says, "A bootmaker's trade is very injurious, because the bootmakers always press the boot against the thorax, and therefore it presses the thorax in and it touches the heart, and if they do not die they are cripples for life." Several girls insist that every carpenter or mason should wear a pad over the mouth, and one girl says that if a sawyer does not wear spectacles he will be sure to lose his eyesight. Finally, one girl declares that "all mechanical work is injurious to health." Another says that if we do not wash ourselves "in one or two days all the perspiration will turn into sores." Another girl says, "The chyle flows up the middle of the back-bone and reaches the heart, where it meets the oxygen and is purified." Another says, "The work of the heart is to repair the different organs in about half a minute." Another says, "We have an upper skin and a lower, the lower skin moves at its will, and the upper skin moves when we do." In many of the papers errors of spelling are very numerous. One child says, heart is a comical shaped bag." "The Proportion. The rule of Proportion is the most difficult for a child to learn, and for a teacher to teach in all arithmetic. From immaturity of mind it is difficult for the child to understand what is meant by as 1 : 2 :: 3 : 4, or as a b c d; or this is another and a better way of expressing it, To help him we may show that four things in groups of two a с b d pairs are to be dealt with; represent these first by straight lines, two long and two short; then show that these must be arranged :: -, or else - : :: 66 (this works the old notion up of direct or inverse proportion). Next take this, as big big:: little: little; this is a graphic representation; next we will take an arithmetical one, as 2: 4 :: 3 : 6, and give exercises asking for arrangement of four given numbers or quantities. Next educe from the class in about twelve examples that the product of the means " is always equal to the product of the " extremes;" also educe from the class, giving four terms always, that second term is always as many times greater or less than the first as the fourth is greater or less than the third. If this be done skilfully with low numbers, the teacher will find that when he has set down three terms the class will readily give the fourth without any formal rule. We should next proceed to teach this formally, as in the following example, 2:4:: 3: 6.4 x 32×6; if, therefore, 6 be dropped out and last term be written in its place, our series stands, 2: 4:3: last term. as before 4 x 3 = 2 × term," last term = 4 x 3 ÷ 2, out of this get the rule, viz., multiply second and third together and divide by first; to complete this let a take the place of "last term." last (mind Although fourth term is the one most often asked for, yet it is useful to be able to find first, second, or third. 1: 2 :: 3 : 4 or = here, 1, 2, 3, 4, only means first, second, third, and fourth terms), :. 1 = 2 × 34, or if = :. a = α с b d bx c d for first term; so again, Sometimes proportion is taught, in the estimation of the teacher, by what is termed first principles; this is very good for practice in reasoning for class, and shows what we have before stated: that so-called rules of arithmetic with exception of involution are all in first four rules; but Rule of Three by statement, especially when compound is absolutely necessary in higher arithmetic, explains the nature of fractions, and is excellent for training minds. SPREAD OF SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION.-According to the report of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, the number of persons who have during the year 1879 attended the schools and classes of science and art in connection with the Department are as follows, viz., 51,519 attending science schools and classes in 1879, as against 57,230 in 1878. The total number of persons who received direct instruction as students or by means of lectures in connection with the Department in 1879 was 862,021. |