The Discovery by Columbus

That The Natural Course in Music is superior to all others, was made July 9, 1895. On that day the Board of Education of the City of Columbus, Ohio, by unanimous vote, adopted The Natural Course in Music for exclusive use in the public schools of that city.

The Natural Course in Music has just been published. It is an entirely new system, based on the principle that music is a language-the highest form of expression-and should be learned as other languages are learned, by using it.

The Course consists of a series of Music Books and Charts, carefully graded, reasonable in price, and designed to cover the work in this branch for Primary and Grammar schools.

Natural Music Readers, Numbers Two, Three and Four, each.
Natural Music Reader, Number Five.

.35

.50

4.00

Natural Music Charts, Series A, B, C, D, E, F and G, each. .

For full description of the Course, terms for introduction, etc., address the publishers.

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

New York Cincinnati

Chicago Boston Atlanta Portland, Ore.

Be careful in selecting your text-books.
Remain faithful to those proven good.

Obey the teachings of your own experience.
Object to novelties which are merely novelties.
Keep in mind that you want results.

School use is the true test of text-books.

ARITHMETIC.

Experienced Pennsylvania Teachers use Brooks's Arithmetics. The Pennsylvania State Normal Schools use Brooks's Arithmetics. BECAUSE 1. Brooks's Arithmetics are practical.

All the above-named books are by EDWARD BROOKS, A. M., PH. D., SUPERINTENDENT OF PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

READING FRENCH.

EDWARD H. MAGILL, A. M., LL. D., EX-PRESIDENT OF AND PROFESSOR OF FRENCH IN SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, has used in his class work methods which teach rapidly a reading knowledge of French. These methods he has embodied in

Magill's Reading French Grammar.

Magill's Series of Modern French Authors.

Vol. 1. Francisque Sarcey.

Vol. 2. Madame de Witt (née Guizot).

Welsh's Practical English Grammar.

Lyte's Bookkeeping and Blanks.

For particulars address

Vol. 3. Anatole France.

Other volumes in preparation.

Westlake's How to Write Letters.

Westlake's Common School Literature.
Pelton's Unrivalled Outline Maps.

Christopher Sower Company, Publishers,

614 Arch Street, Philadelphia.