ich can be fixed to any
piano, and is intended to show the learner just the right angle at which
the wrist should be held.

Children seem naturally to be flabby-wristed when they are trying to
learn to play, and to drop the wrists below the level of the keyboard
seems to be the chief aim and object of every young pianist.

Years ago there were not so many inventions for making learning
delightful to the young, and we distinctly remember the fierce battles
which used to take place at each music lesson over this very wrist
business.

As no wrist-guide had then been invented, necessity--which is the mother
of invention, they say--taught our instructress to make one of her own.
Hers was more simple than the present one, but probably even more
effective. It consisted of a pair of sharp-pointed scissors which
glistened ferociously under the learner's wrists, ready to give them a
sharp reminder whenever they flagged and showed a disposition to droop.

The piano was not as popular an instrument in those days as it has since
become.

This wrist-guide ought to save many tears and much vexation of spirit to
both teacher and pupil.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

We have received from the publishers, Thompson, Brown & Co., Boston, a
set of the Duntonian Vertical Writing-Books. This series is described by
the publishers as follows:

"This is a distinctly new series of Vertical Writing-Books, having some
special features of great teaching value. One of these is the specially
made paper with water-marked direction lines which pertains only to this
system, and by means of which a vertical hand can be much sooner
acquired. These lines are not intended in any way as guide-lines to be
carefully observed in writing the copy, but simply as a ready means of
verifying the work and determining whether the writer is conforming to a
practical vertical style or not."

NOTICE.

The attention of readers is called to the advertisement opposite the
first reading page of this number. This contest cannot fail to be
pleasant work, for to read through carefully the poem of Evangeline is a
treat in itself. We hope that many of our young friends will compete;
and if the proper sort of interest is shown in this contest, others will
follow it.

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