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The HEATH READERS enable teachers, whether they have much or little knowledge of the art, to teach children to read intelligently and to read aloud intelligibly. They do this without waste of time or effort, and at the same time that the books aid pupils in acquiring skill in reading, they present material which is in itself worth reading. The purpose of the HEATH READERS is, first, to enable beginners to master the mechanical difficulties of reading successfully and in the shortest time; second, to develop the imagination and cultivate a taste for the best literature; third, to appeal to those motives that lead to right conduct, industry, courage, patriotism, and loyalty to duty. The larger purpose is, briefly, to aid in developing an appreciation of that which is of most worth in life and literature. The series contains seven books, as follows:
Descriptive circulars sent free on request. D. C. HEATH & CO., Publishers, Boston, New York, Chicago REVISED AND ILLUSTRATEDTHE HEART OF OAK BOOKS A Collection of Traditional Rhymes and Stories for Children, and of Masterpieces of Poetry and Prose for Use at Home and at School, chosen with special reference to the cultivation of the imagination and the development of a taste for good reading. EDITED BY Book 1. Rhymes, Jingles and Fables. For first reader classes. Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. 128 pages. 25 cents. Book II. Fables and Nursery Tales. For second reader classes. Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. 176 pages. 35 cents. Book III. Fairy Tales, Ballads and Poems. For third reader classes. With illustrations after George Cruikshank and Sir John Tenniel. 184 pages. 40 cents. Book IV. Fairy Stories and Classic Tales of Adventure. For fourth reader grades. With illustrations after J. M. W. Turner, Richard Doyle, John Flaxman, and E. Burne-Jones. 248 pages. 45 cents. Book V. Masterpieces of Literature. For fifth reader grades. With illustrations after G. F. Watts, Sir John Tenniel, Fred Barnard, W. C. Stanfield, Ernest Fosbery, and from photographs. 318 pages. 50 cents. Book VI. Masterpieces of Literature. With illustrations after Horace Vernet, A. Symington, J. Wells, Mrs. E. B. Thompson, and from photographs. 376 pages. 55 cents. Book VII. Masterpieces of Literature. With illustrations after J. M. W. Turner, E. Dayes, Sir George Beaumont, and from photographs. 382 pages. 60 cents. D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO LONDON AMERICA'S STORY FOR AMERICA'S CHILDRENBy MARA L. PRATT. A series of history readers which present the personal and picturesque elements of the story in a way as attractive to young readers as romance, and which will supplement the regular instruction in history in an effective manner. Every statement of fact is historically accurate and the illustrations are correct even to the smallest details. Unusual care has been taken in these matters. These books are effectively illustrated in black and white and in color; are bound in attractive and artistic cloth covers; uniform in size, 6-1/4 x 7-3/4; printed on extra heavy paper, in large type and contain about 160 pages each. Book I. The Beginners' Book. 35 cents. A delightful story book, developing centers of interest through picturesque and personal incidents. Book II. Exploration and Discovery. 40 cents. The great explorers and discoverers from Lief Ericson to Henry Hudson. Book III. The Earlier Colonies. 40 cents. An accurate and fascinating account of the first settlements and the 13 colonies. Book IV. The Later Colonial Period. 40 cents. Settlements in the Mississippi Valley, The French and Indian Wars, etc. Book V. The Revolution and the Republic. 40 cents. The causes that led to it, the men who guided events, and subsequent civil history. Descriptive circular free on request. D. C. HEATH & CO., Publishers, Boston, New York, Chicago Science.Ballard's World of Matter. A guide to mineralogy and chemistry. $1.00 Benton's Guide to General Chemistry. A manual for the laboratory. 35 cents. Boyer's Laboratory Manual in Biology. Treats of both animals and plants. 80 cents. Boynton, Morse and Watson's Laboratory Manual in Chemistry. 50 cents. Burrage and Bailey's School Sanitation and Decoration. Illustrated. $1.50. Chute's Physical Laboratory Manual. A well-balanced course in laboratory physics, requiring inexpensive apparatus. Illustrated. 80 cents. Chute's Practical Physics. For high schools and colleges. $1.12. Clark's Methods in Microscopy. Detailed descriptions of successful methods. $1.60. Coit's Chemical Arithmetic. With a short system of analysis. 50 cents. Colton's Physiology: Experimental and Descriptive. For high schools and colleges. Illustrated. $1.12. Colton's Physiology: Briefer Course. For high schools. Illustrated. 90 cents. 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Roberts's Stereo-Chemistry. Its development and present aspects. $1.00. Sanford's Experimental Psychology. Part I. Sensation and Perception. $1.50. Shaler's First Book in Geology. Cloth, 60 cents. Boards. 45 cents. Shepard's Inorganic Chemistry. Descriptive and qualitative; experimental and inductive; leads the student to observe and think. For high schools and colleges. $1.12. Shepard's Briefer Course in Chemistry, with chapter on Organic Chemistry. 80 cents. Shepard's Laboratory Note-Book. Boards. 35 cents. Spalding's Botany. Practical exercises in the study of plants. 80 cents. Stevens's Introduction to Botany. Illustrated. $1.25. Key and Flora, 40 cents. Botany, with Key and Flora, $1.50. Stevens's Chemistry Note-Book. Laboratory sheets and covers. 50 cents. Venable's Short History of Chemistry. For students and the general reader. $1.00. Walter, Whitney and Lucas's Animal Life. A laboratory guide. 50 cents. Weed and Crossman's Laboratory Guide in ZoÖlogy. Emphasizes essentials. 60 cents. Whiting's Physical Measurement. Parts I-IV, in one volume. $3.75. Whiting's Mathematical and Physical Tables. Paper. 50 cents. For elementary works see our list of books in Elementary Science. D. C. HEATH & CO., Publishers, Boston, New York, Chicago Elementary Science.Austin's Observation Blanks in Mineralogy. Detailed studies of 35 minerals. Boards 88 pages. 30 cents. Bailey's Grammar School Physics. A series of practical lessons with simple experiments that may be performed in the ordinary school room. 138 pages. Illustrated. 50 cents. Ballard's The World of Matter. Simple studies in chemistry and mineralogy: for use as a text-book or as a guide to the teacher in giving object-lessons. 264 pages. Illus. $1.00. Clark's Practical Methods in Microscopy. Gives in detail descriptions of methods that will lead the careful worker to successful results. 233 pages. Illustrated. $1,60. Clarke's Astronomical Lantern. Intended to familiarize students with the constellations by comparing them with facsimiles on the lantern face. With seventeen slides, giving twenty-two constellations. $4.50. Clarke's How to find the Stars. Accompanies the above and helps to an acquaintance with the constellations. 47 pages. Paper. 15 cents. Eckstorm's The Bird Book. The natural history of birds, with directions for observation and suggestions for study. 301 pages. Illustrated. 60 cents. Guides for Science Teaching. Teachers' aids for instruction in Natural History.
Rice's Science Teaching in the School. With a course of instruction in science for the lower grades. 46 pages. Paper. 25 cents. Ricks's Natural History Object Lessons. Information on plants and their products, on animals and their uses, and gives specimen lessons. 332 pages. Illustrated. $1.50 Ricks's Object Lessons and How to Give them. Scott's Nature Study and the Child. A manual for teachers, with outlines of lessons and courses, detailed studies of typical forms of animal and plant life, and chapters on aims and methods and the relation of nature study to expression. 652 pages. Illustrated. Retail price, $1.50 Shaler's First Book in Geology. A helpful introduction to the study of modern text-books in geography. 272 pages. lliustrated. Cloth, 60 cents. Boards, 45 cents. Smith's Studies in Nature. Combines natural history and language work. 48 pages. Paper. 15 cts. Spear's Leaves and Flowers. An elementary botany for pupils under twelve. 103 pages. Illustrated. 25 cents. Wright's Seaside and Wayside Nature Reader, No. 4. Elementary lessons in geology, astronomy, world life, etc. 372 pages. Illustrated. 50 cents. See also our list of books in Science. D. C. HEATH & CO., Publishers, Boston, New York, Chicago Heath's Home and School Classics.Large Type. Good Paper. Many Illustrations. Durable Binding. Aiken and Barbauld's Eyes and No Eyes, and Other Stories. (M. V. O'Shea.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Ayrton's Child Life in Japan. (W. Elliot Griffis.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Brown's Rab and His Friends and Other Stories of Dogs. (T. M. Balliet.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Browne's The Wonderful Chair and the Tales it Told. (M. V. O'Shea.) Two parts. Paper, each part, 10 cents; cloth, two parts bound in one, 30 cents. CarovÉs' The Story without an End. (T. W. Higginson). Cloth, 25 cents. Craik's So Fat and Mew Mew. (Lucy Wheelock.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Crib and Fly: A Tale of Two Terriers. (C. F. Dole.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. (Edward Everett Hale.) Cloth, 60 cents. Edgeworth's Waste Not, Want Not, and Other Stories. (M. V. O'Shea.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Ewing's Jackanapes. (W. P. Trent.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Ewing's Story of a Short Life. (T. M. Balliet.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Fouque's Undine. (E. S. Phelps-Ward.) Cloth, 35 cents. Goody Two Shoes, attributed to Goldsmith. (C. Welsh.) Paper 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Hamerton's Chapters on Animals: Dogs, Cats and Horses. (W. P. Trent.) Paper, 15 cents; cloth, 25 cents. Ingelow's Three Fairy Tales. (C. F. Dole.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Irving's Dolph Heyliger. (G. H. Browne.) Paper, 15 cents; cloth, 25 cents. Jordan's True Tales of Birds and Beasts. Cloth, 40 cents. Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare. (E. S. Phelps-Ward.) Three Parts. Paper, each part, 15 cents; cloth, three parts bound in one, 40 cents. Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses. (W. P. Trent.) Paper, 15 cents; cloth, 25 cents. Martineau's The Crofton Boys. (W. Elliott Griffis.) Cloth, 30 cents. Melville's Typee. (W. P. Trent.) Cloth, 45 cents. Mother Goose. (C. Welsh.) In two parts. Paper, each part, 10 cents; cloth, two parts bound in one, 30 cents. Motley's Siege of Leyden. (W. Elliot Griffis.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Muloch's Little Lame Prince. (E. S. Phelps-Ward.) Two parts. Paper, each part, 10 cents; cloth, two parts bound in one, 30 cents. Old World Wonder Stories. (M. V. O'Shea.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose. Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Ruskin's King of the Golden River. (M. V. O'Shea.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Segur's Sophie. (Ada V. S. Harris.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Segur's Story of a Donkey. (C. F. Dole.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. (Sarah W. Hiestand.) Paper, 15 cents; cloth, 25 cents. Shakespeare's The Tempest. (Sarah W. Hiestand.) Paper, 15 cents; cloth, 25 cents. Shakespeare's Winter's Tale. (Sarah W. Hiestand.) Paper, 15 cents; cloth, 25 cents. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Sarah W. Hiestand.) Paper, 15 cents; cloth, 25 cents. Shaw's Castle Blair. (Mary A. Livermore). Cloth, 50 cents. Six Nursery Classics. (M. V. O'Shea.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Swift's Gulliver's Travels. 1. A Voyage to Lillipot. II. A Voyage to Brobdingnag. (T. M. Balliet.) Paper, each part, 15 cents; cloth, two parts bound in one, 30 cents. Tales from the Travels of Baron Munchausen. (Edward Everett Hale.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. Thackeray's The Rose and The Ring. (E. E. Hale.) Paper, 15 cents; cloth, 25 cents. Trimmer's History of the Robins. (E. E. Hale.) Paper, 10 cents; cloth, 20 cents. See also our list of books for Supplementary Reading. D. C. HEATH & CO., Publishers, Boston, New York, Chicago. |
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