TO THE EDITOR OF THE GREAT ROUND WORLD: 

If any one wants to read an interesting book, I will tell you one of Nora Perry’s books, called “A Flock of Girls and Boys.”  It is a collection of short stories, and tells of the scrapes they got into and how they got out of them, and it has the language boys and girls use every day.  There is one story that I was especially impressed with:  the name of it is “Major Molly’s Christmas Promise.”  It was about a little girl who made a promise to a little Indian girl; and she kept her promise; and in doing that, although she did not know it, saved her mother’s and father’s life, besides her friends having to go to war.

    MADELEINE H.P.

SIMPLE LESSONS IN THE

STUDY OF NATURE

By I.G.  OAKLEY

This is a handy little book, which many a teacher who is looking for means to offer children genuine nature study may be thankful to get hold of.

Nature lessons, to be entitled to that name, must deal with what can be handled and scrutinized at leisure by the child, pulled apart, and even wasted.  This can be done with the objects discussed in this book; they are under the feet of childhood—­grass, feathers, a fallen leaf, a budding twig, or twisted shell; these things cannot be far out of the way, even within the stony limits of a city.

Nor are the lessons haphazard dashes at the nearest living thing; on the contrary, they are virtually fundamental, whether with respect to their relation to some of the classified sciences, or with reference to the development of thought and power of expression in the child himself.

The illustrations are few, and scarcely more than figures; it is not meant to be a pretty picture-book, yet is most clearly and beautifully printed and arranged, for its material is to be that out of which pictures are made.  It will be found full of suggestions of practical value to teachers who are carrying the miscellaneous work of ungraded schools, and who have the unspeakable privilege of dealing with their pupils untrammelled by cast-iron methods and account-keeping examination records.

=_Sample copy, 50 Cents, post-paid_=

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    =WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON
    3 & 5 W. 18th St. ...  New York City=