matization.

** The First Reader may be used with any method of teaching reading,
for it combines the best ideas of each. A number of helpful new
features are also included. Each reading lesson is on a right-hand
page, and is approached by a series of preparatory exercises on the
preceding left-hand page.

** The illustrations constitute the finest and most attractive
collection ever brought together in a series of readers. There are
over 600 in all, every one made especially for these books by an
artist of national reputation.

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

HICKS'S CHAMPION SPELLING BOOK

By WARREN E. HICKS, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Cleveland, Ohio

Complete, $0.25--Part One, $0.18--Part Two, $0.18

This book embodies the method that enabled the pupils in the Cleveland
schools after two years to win the National Education Association
Spelling Contest of 1908.

** By this method a spelling lesson of ten words is given each day from
the spoken vocabulary of the pupil. Of these ten words two are
selected for intensive study, and in the spelling book are made
prominent in both position and type at the head of each day's lessons,
these two words being followed by the remaining eight words in smaller
type. Systematic review is provided throughout the book. Each of the
ten prominent words taught intensively in a week is listed as a
subordinate word in the next two weeks; included in a written spelling
contest at the end of eight weeks; again in the annual contest at the
end of the year; and again as a subordinate word in the following
year's work;--used five times in all within two years.

** The Champion Spelling Book consists of a series of lessons arranged
as above for six school years, from the third to the eighth,
inclusive. It presents about 1,200 words each year, and teaches 312 of
them with especial clearness and intensity. It also includes
occasional supplementary exercises which serve as aids in teaching
sounds, vowels, homonyms, rules of spelling, abbreviated forms,
suffixes, prefixes, the use of hyphens, plurals, dictation work, and
word building. The words have been selected from lists, supplied by
grade teachers of Cleveland schools, of words ordinarily misspelled by
the pupils of their respective grades.

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

SPENCERS' PRACTICAL WRITING

By PLATT R. SPENCER'S SONS

Books 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Per dozen, $0.60

SPENCERS' PRACTICAL WRITING ha