Part I

. An Illustrated Primer (D. C. Heath & Co.).

CIRCULATING SUPPLEMENTARY READING.

_First Readers._--Monroe's, Monroe's Advanced First, Appleton's, Harvey's, Eclectic, Sheldon's, Barnes' New National, Sheldon & Co.'s, Harper's, The Nursery Primer, Parker & Marvel's Supplementary Reading (second book), Wood's First Natural History Reader, Stickney's First Reader, Stickney's First Reader (new edition), McGuffey's Alternate First Reader.

_Second Readers._--Monroe's, Monroe's Advanced Second, Appleton's, Harvey's, Lippincott's, Sheldon & Co.'s, Barnes' New National, Analytical, Macmillan's, Swinton's, New Normal, Stickney's Second Reader (new edition), Harper's Easy Book (published by Shorey), Turner's Stories for Young Children, Our Little Ones, Golden Book of Choice Reading, When I was a Little Girl, Johonnot's Friends in Feathers and Fur, Woodward's Number Stories, Wood's Second Natural History Reader, Young Folks' Library, Nos. 5 and 6 (Silver, Burdett, & Co.).

SUPPLEMENTARY READING IN ONE BUILDING, NOVEMBER, 1890.

GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

CLASS I. (_about Fifteen Years old_).

Longfellow's Poems.

CLASS II. (_about Fourteen Years old_).

Hans Brinker. Mary Mapes Dodge.

How Marjory Helped. M. Caroll.

Magellan's Voyages.

Ivanhoe. Scott.

CLASS III. (_about Thirteen Years old_).

American Explorers. Higginson.

CLASS IV. (_about Twelve Years old_).

Playdays. Sarah O. Jewett.

Water Babies. Kingsley.

Physiology.

A Child's Book of Nature. W. Hooker.

CLASS V. (_about Eleven Years old_).

Stories of American History. N. S. Dodge.

Guyot's Geography.

CLASS VI. (_about Ten Years old_).

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Six stories by Samuel Eliot.

Our World. Mary L. Hall.

The Seven Little Sisters. Jane Andrews.

Each and All. Jane Andrews.

Poetry for Children. Samuel Eliot.

TEXT-BOOKS.

PRIMARY SCHOOLS.

_Third Class._--Franklin Primer and Advanced First Reader. Munroe's Primary Reading Charts.

_Second Class._--Franklin Second Reader. Franklin Advanced Second Reader. First Music Reader.

_First Class._--Franklin Third Reader. [8]New Franklin Third Reader. First Music Reader.

[8] To be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies.

_Upper Classes._--[9]Franklin Primary Arithmetic. First Lessons in Natural History and Language, Parts I. and II. Child's Book of Language, Nos. 1, 2, 3. [By J. H. Stickney.]

[9] Each Primary-School building occupied by a first or second class to be supplied with one set of the Franklin Primary Arithmetic; the number in a set to be sixty, or, if less be needed, less than sixty; the Committee on Supplies are authorized to supply additional copies of the book at their discretion, if needed.

_All the Classes._--American Text-books of Art Education. First Primary Music Chart. Prang's Natural History Series, one set for each building.

Magnus & Jeffries's Color Chart; "Color Blindness," by Dr. B. Joy Jeffries.--One copy of the Chart and one copy of the book for use in each Primary-School building.

Normal Music Course in the Rice Training School and in the schools of the third and sixth divisions. National Music Course (revised edition) in the schools of the first and second divisions.

GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.

_Sixth Class._--Franklin Advanced Third Reader. [10]Warren's Primary Geography. Intermediate Music Reader. Franklin Elementary Arithmetic. [11]Greenleaf's Manual of Mental Arithmetic. Worcester's Spelling-Book.

[10] Swinton's Introductory Geography allowed in Charlestown Schools.

[11] To be used in the manner recommended by the Board of Supervisors in School Document No. 14, 1883; one set of sixty copies to be supplied for the classes on each floor of a Grammar-School building occupied by pupils in either of the four lower classes, and for each colony of a Grammar School.

_Fifth Class._--Franklin Intermediate Reader. [12] New Franklin Fourth Reader. Franklin Elementary Arithmetic. [13]Greenleaf's Manual of Mental Arithmetic. [14]Warren's Primary Geography. Intermediate Music Reader. Worcester's Spelling-Book.

[12] To be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies.

[13] To be used in the manner recommended by the Board of Supervisors in School Document No. 14, 1883; one set of sixty copies to be supplied for the classes on each floor of a Grammar-School building occupied by pupils in either of the four lower classes, and for each colony of a Grammar School.

[14] The revised edition to be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies to schools where this book is used. Swinton's Grammar-School Geography allowed in Charlestown Schools.

_Fourth Class._--Franklin Fourth Reader. [15]New Franklin Fourth Reader. Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary. Franklin Written Arithmetic. [16]Greenleaf's Manual of Mental Arithmetic. [17]Warren's Common-School Geography. Intermediate Music Reader. Worcester's Spelling-Book. [18]Blaisdell's How to Keep Well.

[15] To be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies.

[16] To be used in the manner recommended by the Board of Supervisors in School Document No. 14, 1883; one set of sixty copies to be supplied for the classes on each floor of a Grammar-School building occupied by pupils in either of the four lower classes, and for each colony of a Grammar School.

[17] The revised edition to be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies to schools where this book is used. Swinton's Grammar-School Geography allowed in Charlestown Schools.

[18] One set of not more than sixty copies, or, if determined by the Committee on Supplies to be necessary, more than one set, be placed in each Grammar School, for use as collateral reading in the third and fourth classes.

_Third Class._--Franklin Fifth Reader. [19]New Franklin Fifth Reader. Franklin Written Arithmetic. [20]Greenleaf's Manual of Mental Arithmetic. [21]Warren's Common-School Geography. Swinton's New Language Lessons. Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary. Higginson's History of the United States. [22]Fourth Music Reader. [Revised edition.] [23]Blaisdell's How to Keep Well.

[19] To be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies.

[20] To be used in the manner recommended by the Board of Supervisors in School Document No. 14, 1883; one set of sixty copies to be supplied for the classes on each floor of a Grammar-School building occupied by pupils in either of the four lower classes, and for each colony of a Grammar School.

[21] The revised edition to be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies to schools where this book is used. Swinton's Grammar-School Geography allowed in Charlestown Schools.

[22] The revised edition to be supplied as new books are needed.

[23] One set of not more than sixty copies, or, if determined by the Committee on Supplies to be necessary, more than one set, be placed in each Grammar School, for use as collateral reading in the third and fourth classes.

_Second Class._--Franklin Fifth Reader. [24]New Franklin Fifth Reader. Franklin Written Arithmetic. [25]Warren's Common-School Geography. Tweed's Grammar for Common Schools. Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary. Higginson's History of the United States. [26]Fourth Music Reader. [Revised edition.] Smith's Elementary Physiology and Hygiene.

[24] To be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies.

[25] The revised edition to be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies to schools where this book is used. Swinton's Grammar-School Geography allowed in Charlestown Schools.

[26] The revised edition to be supplied as new books are needed.

_First Class._--Franklin Sixth Reader. Franklin Written Arithmetic. Meservey's Book-keeping, Single Entry. [27]Warren's Common School Geography. Tweed's Grammar for Common Schools. Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary. Stone's History of England. Cooley's Elements of Philosophy. [28]Fourth Music Reader. [Revised edition.]

[27] The revised edition to be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies to schools where this book is used. Swinton's Grammar-School Geography allowed in Charlestown Schools.

[28] The revised edition to be supplied as new books are needed.

_Fifth and Sixth Classes._--First Lessons in Natural History and Language. Parts III. and IV.

_All Classes._--American Text-books of Art Education. Writing-Books: Duntonian Series; Payson, Dunton, and Scribner's; Harper's Copy-books; Appleton's Writing-Books. Child's Book of Language; and Letters and Lessons in Language, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4. [By J. H. Stickney.] Prang's Aids for Object Teaching, "Trades," one set for each building.

Normal Music Course in the Rice Training School and the schools of the third and sixth divisions. National Music Course (revised edition) in the schools of the first and second divisions.

HIGH SCHOOLS.

_English._--Abbott's How to Write Clearly. Hill's _or_ Kellogg's Rhetoric. Meiklejohn's English Language. Scott's Lady of the Lake. Selections from Addison's Papers in the Spectator, with Macaulay's Essay on Addison. Irving's Sketch-Book. Trevelyan's Selections from Macaulay. Hales' Longer English Poems. Shakspeare,--Rolfe's _or_ Hudson's Selections. Selections from Chaucer. Selections from Milton. [Clarendon Press Edition. Vol. I.] Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary.

_Latin._--Allen & Greenough's Latin Grammar. [Roxbury, W. Roxbury, and Brighton High Schools.] Harkness' Latin Grammar. [English, Girls', Dorchester, Charlestown, and East Boston High Schools.] Harkness' Complete Course in Latin for the first year. Gildersleeve's Latin Primer. Collar & Daniell's Beginners' Latin Book. [Roxbury, West Roxbury, and Brighton High Schools.] Harkness' Caesar. Lindsey's Cornelius Nepos. Chase's, Frieze's, _or_ Greenough's Virgil, or any edition approved by the Committee on Text-Books. Greenough's _or_ Harkness' Cicero. Chase's _or_ Lincoln's Horace, or any edition approved by the Committee on Text-books.

_History._--[29]Anderson's New General History. Martin's Civil Government.

[29] To be dropped from list of authorized text-books, July 1, 1890.

_Mythology._--Berens's Hand-book of Mythology.

_Mathematics._--Meservey's Book-keeping. Bradbury & Emery's Academic Algebra. [30]Wentworth & Hill's Exercises in Algebra. Bradbury's Elementary Geometry, _or_ Chauvenet's Geometry, _or_ Wells's Geometry. Greenleaf's Trigonometry. [31]Metric Apparatus.

[30] This book is not intended to, and does not in fact displace any text-book now in use, but is intended merely to furnish additional problems in algebra.

[31] Not exceeding $15 for each school.

_Physics._--Cooley's New Text-book of Physics. Avery's Physics, _or_ Gage's Introduction to Physical Science.

_Astronomy._--Sharpless & Phillips' Astronomy.

_Chemistry._--Williams's Chemistry. Williams's Laboratory Manual. Eliot & Storer's Elementary Manual of Chemistry, edited by Nichols. Eliot & Storer's Qualitative Analysis. Hill's Lecture Notes on Qualitative Analysis. Tables for the Determination of Common Minerals. [Girls' High School.] White's Outlines of Chemical Theory.

_Botany._--Gray's School and Field Book of Botany.

_Zoology._--Morse's Zoology and Packard's Zoology.

_Physiology._--Hutchinson's Physiology. Blaisdell's Our Bodies and How We Live.

_Drawing._--American Text-books of Art Education.

_Music._--Eichberg's High-School Music Reader. Eichberg's Girls' High-School Music Reader. [Girls' High School.]

LATIN SCHOOLS.

_Latin._--White's Abridged Lexicon. Harkness' Grammar. Harkness' Reader. Harkness' Complete Course in Latin for the first year. Harkness' Prose Composition, _or_ Allen's Latin Composition. Harkness' Caesar. Lindsey's Cornelius Nepos. Greenough's Catiline of Sallust. Lincoln's Ovid. Greenough's Ovid. Greenough's Virgil. Greenough's _or_ Harkness' Orations of Cicero. Smith's Principia Latina,