d, for instance, is for him to
have gained greatly in intelligence.

It will be of great advantage to the class for the teacher to have a
complete set of the papers whose forms are given in Appendix A. These may
be obtained at almost any newspaper office, at a cost of about 50 cents.

A scrap-book or series of envelopes in which to file newspaper clippings
illustrative of the every-day workings of government, may be made very
useful. Pupils should be permitted and encouraged to contribute.

One good way to review is for the teacher to give out, say once in two
weeks, a set of twenty-five or more questions, each of which may be
answered in a few words; have the pupils write their answers; and the
correct answers being given by teacher or pupils, each may mark his own
paper. Each pupil may thus discover where he is strong and where weak.

The questions given for debate may be discussed by the literary society.
Or for morning exercises, one student may on a certain day present one
side of the argument, and on the following day the negative may be brought
out by another student.

A student should not be required to submit his good name to the chances of
answering a certain set of questions, however excellent, at the
examination, when from anxiety or other causes he may fall far short of
doing himself justice. One good plan is to allow each student to make up
50 percent of his record during the progress of the work, by bringing in,
say, five carefully prepared papers. One of these may be a _resume_ of
matter pertaining to his local organization; another may be an account of
a trial observed, or other governmental work which the student may have
seen performed; a third may be a synopsis of the president's message; the
fourth, a general tabulation of the constitution; the fifth, a review of
some book on government, or a paper on a subject of the student's own
choice.

Among reference books, every school should have at least the Revised
Statutes of the state and of the United States, the Legislative Manual of
the state, a good political almanac for the current year, the
Congressional Directory, and Alton's Among the Lawmakers.

A Teachers' Manual, giving answers to the pertinent questions contained
herein, and many useful hints as to the details of teaching Civics, is
published in connection with this book.

TO STUDENTS.

You will notice in chapter one that at the close of nearly every paragraph
questions are