n orange
standard, and red supports. Yet these are no fancy pictures I have
painted, and if the child places the tablets in this fashion, they
are often allowed so to remain without criticism from the purblind
kindergartner. She even sometimes dictates, herself, extravagant and
vulgar combinations of color, such as a violet centre-piece with
green corners and an orange border.

There needs no reasoning to prove that such a person is radically
unfit to handle the subject of color-teaching, and is sure to corrupt
the children under her charge; for in general, if ordinarily well
trained, they should now be far beyond the stage in which they would
be satisfied with such crudity of combination. They have had their
season of "playing with brightness," as Mr. Hailmann calls it, and
should now begin to have really good ideas as to harmonious
arrangement of hues. If they have not, if they really seem to prefer
the pigeon-house or barn above mentioned, then they are viciously
ill-taught, or altogether deficient in color sense.

It has been noted that the older children often choose the light and
dark wooden tablets, for invention, rather than the gay pasteboard
forms; but this may be on account of the high polish of the wood, and
its novelty in this guise, rather than because, as has been suggested,
they have been surfeited with brightness.

READINGS FOR THE STUDENT.

Paradise of Childhood. _Edward Wiebe_. Pages 30-38.
Law of Childhood. _W. N. Hailmann_. 38, 39.
Kindergarten Guide. _Kraus-Boelte_. 145-237.
Koehler's Kindergarten Practice. Tr. by _Mary Gurney_. 6-9.
The Kindergarten. _H. Goldammer_. 116-54.
Kindergarten Culture. _W. N. Hailmann_. 68-70.
Kindergarten and Child-Culture. _Henry Barnard_. 210, 255, 257.
Prang Primary Course in Art Education. Part I. _Mary D. Hicks_,
_Josephine C. Locke_.
Color in the School-Room. _Milton Bradley_.
Elementary Color. _Milton Bradley_.
Color Teaching in Public Schools. _Louis Prang_, _J. S. Clark_,
_Mary D. Hicks_.
Color, an Elementary Manual for Students. _A. H. Church_.
The Principles of Harmony and Contrasts of Colors. _M. E. Chevreul_.
Students' Text-Book of Color. _O. N. Rood_.
Suggestions with Regard to the Use of Color. _Prang Ed. Co._

FROEBEL'S EIGHTH GIFT

THE STRAIGHT LINE.

_The Single and Jointed Slats and Staff or Stick._

"The knowledge of the lin