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. (2s. 3d.), pages 1-26; map questions to be answered from map and then from memory, and then in filling up blank map from memory before each lesson. All geography to be learnt with map. Children to make memory maps. Know something about foreign places coming into notice in the current newspapers. _The School Atlas_, edited by H. O. Arnold-Forster (37 Bedford Street, London, 3s.).

_English Grammar._

_A Short English Grammar_, by Professor Meiklejohn (Holden, 1s.), pages 25-52. Parse and point out Subjects, Verbs, Objects.

BEGINNERS, pages 5-25.

_Writing._

_A New Handwriting for Teachers_, by M. M. Bridges (Mrs Bridges, Yattenden, Newbury, 2s. 9d. post free); practise pages 1, 2, 3. Two perfectly-written lines every day. Transcribe some of your favourite passages from Shakespeare’s _Julius Cæsar_, with page 6 as model.

_Dictation._

Two pages at a time to be prepared carefully; then a paragraph from these pages to be written from dictation or from memory. _The Citizen Reader_, by H. O. Arnold-Forster (Cassell, 1s. 6d.), chapters vi., vii., viii. (both parts).

_Plutarch’s ‘Lives.’_

Plutarch’s _Julius Cæsar_ (omitting unsuitable parts) (Cassell’s National Library, 3d.).

_English History._

_A History of England_, by H. O. Arnold-Forster (Cassell, 5s.), pages 1-56 (B.C. 55-A.D. 871). Read from Shakespeare’s _Julius Cæsar_ (Cassell’s National Library, 3d.). Read contemporary parts from _Old Stories from British History_ (Longmans, 1s.).

_French History._

_A First History of France_, by L. Creighton (Longmans, 3s. 6d.), pages 2-22, to be contemporary with English history. Any time over should be given to English history.

_Drawing._

_Pour Dessiner Simplement_, par V. Jacquot et P. Ravoux (Glaisher, 3s. 6d.), _cahiers_ ii. and iii., for occasional use. Twelve twigs of trees with leaf-buds in brushdrawing. Original brushdrawings from scenes in _Julius Cæsar_. Garden (or section of) drawn to scale;

and, Join the _Portfolio of Painting_ (see _The Children’s Quarterly_).

_Picture Talk._

Study six reproductions of J. F. Millet’s work (see Perry Pictures).

_Reading._

Geography, English history, French history, should afford exercise in careful reading. The _Morte D’Arthur_, Selections by C. L. Thomson (Marshall, 2s., pages 190-238), or, poetry, to be read on Thursdays.

_Nature Lore._

(Tuesday) Buckley’s _Fairy Land of Science_ (Stanford), pages 99-123. (Wednesday) _The Sciences_, by E. S. Holden (Ginn & Co., 2s. 6d.), pages 1-34. _Seaside and Wayside_ may also be used. Keep a Nature Note-book. Record, when you see them, and describe twelve birds and notice all you can about them. (Saturday) _Birds of the Air_, by Mrs Fisher (Cassell, 6d.), pages 38-79. All members must take in _The Children’s Quarterly_.

_Arithmetic._

_A B C Arithmetic_, Teacher’s Book,