The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature
Part 17
_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, Part II.
_Greek._--Liddell & Scott's Abridged Lexicon. Goodwin's Grammar. White's Lessons. Jones' Prose Composition. Goodwin's Reader. The Anabasis of Xenophon. Boise's Homer's Iliad. Beaumlein's Edition of Homer's Iliad.
_English._--Soule's Hand-book of Pronunciation. Hill's General Rules for Punctuation. Tweed's Grammar for Common Schools (in fifth and sixth classes). Hawthorne's Wonder Book. Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales. Plutarch's Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans. Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. Higginson's History of the United States. Hughes' Tom Brown's School-Days at Rugby. Dana's Two Years before the Mast. Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakspeare. [Revised Edition, Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.] Scott's Ivanhoe. Hawthorne's True Stories. Greene's Readings from English History. [32]Church's Stories from Homer. [32]Church's Stories of the Old World. Selections from American Authors,--Franklin, Adams, Cooper, and Longfellow. American Poems, with Biographical Sketches and Notes. Irving's Sketch-Book. Selections from Addison's Papers in the Spectator. Ballads and Lyrics. Hales' Longer English Poems. Three plays of Shakspeare,--Rolfe's _or_ Hudson's Selections.
[32] No more copies of Church's Stories from Homer to be purchased, but as books are worn out their place to be supplied with Church's Stories of the Old World.
_History._--Leighton's History of Rome. Smith's Smaller History of Greece. Long's _or_ Ginn & Heath's Classical Atlas. Smith's Smaller Classical Dictionary,--Student's Series.
_Mythology._--Bulfinch's Age of Fable.
_Geography._--Geikie's Primer of Physical Geography. Warren's Common-School Geography.
_Physiology._--Mace's History of a Mouthful of Bread. Foster's Physiology (Science Primer). Blaisdell's Our Bodies and How We Live.
_Botany._--Gray's School and Field Book of Botany.
_Zoology._--Morse's Zoology and Packard's Zoology.
_Mineralogy._--Tables for the Determination of Common Minerals. [Girls' Latin School.]
_Mathematics._--The Franklin Written Arithmetic. Bradbury's Eaton's Algebra. [33]Wentworth & Hill's Exercises in Algebra. Chauvenet's Geometry. Lodge's Elementary Mechanics.
[33] 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.
_Physics._--Arnott's _or_ Avery's Physics, _or_ Gage's Physics.
_Drawing._--American Text-books of Art Education.
_Music._--Eichberg's High-School Music Reader. Eichberg's Girls' High-School Music Reader. [Girls' Latin School]
LATIN AND HIGH SCHOOLS.
_French._--Keetel's Elementary Grammar. Keetel's Analytical French Reader. Super's French Reader. [34]Sauveur's Petites Causeries. Hennequin's Lessons in Idiomatic French. Gasc's French Dictionary. Erckmann-Chatrian's Le Conscrit de 1813. Erckmann-Chatrian's Madame Therese. Bocher's College Series of French Plays. Nouvelles Genevoises. Souvestre's Au Coin du Feu. Racine's Andromaque. Racine's Iphigenie. Racine's Athalie. Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Moliere's Precieuses Ridicules. Corneille's Les Horaces. Corneille's Cid. Herrig's La France Litteraire. Roemer's French Course, Vol. II. Ventura's Peppino. Halevy's L'Abbe Constantin. La Fontaine's Fables. About's La Mere de la Marquise. Daudet's Siege de Berlin. Daudet's Extraits. Daudet's La Belle Nivarnaise.
[34] To be furnished as new French Readers are needed. The use of the book confined for this year to the English, Charlestown, Roxbury, and West Roxbury High Schools.
_German._--Whitney's German Dictionary. Whitney's Grammar. Collar's Eysenbach. Otto's _or_ Whitney's Reader. Der Zerbrochene Krug. Schiller's Wilhelm Tell. Schiller's Maria Stuart. Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea. Putlitz's Das Herz Vergessen. Grimm's Maerchen. Goethe's Prose. Schiller's Prose. Stein's German Exercises. Heine's Die Harzreise. Im Zwielicht. Vols. I. and II. Traumerein. Buckheim's German Poetry for Repetition.
NORMAL SCHOOL TEXT-BOOKS.
The text-books used in this school shall be such of the text-books used in the other public schools of the city as are needed for the course of study, and such others as shall be authorized by the Board.
Normal Music Course.
HORACE MANN SCHOOL TEXT-BOOKS.
Such text-books shall be supplied to the Horace Mann School as the committee on that school shall approve.
EVENING HIGH SCHOOL TEXT-BOOKS.
Benn Pitman's Manual of Phonography. Reporter's Companion. The Phonographic Reader. The Reporter's First Reader. Bradbury's Elementary Geometry.
The text-books used in this school shall be such of the text-books authorized in the other public schools as are approved by the Committee on Evening Schools and the Committee on Supplies.
_East Boston Branch._--Graded Lessons in Shorthand. Parts 1 and 2, by Mrs. Mary A. Chandler.
EVENING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEXT-BOOKS.
Munroe's Charts. Franklin Primer. Franklin Reader. Stories of American History. Harper's Introductory Geography. The Franklin Elementary Arithmetic. The Franklin Written Arithmetic. [35]Andersen's Maerchen. Writing-books, Plain Copy-books; and such of the text-books authorized in the other public schools as are approved by the Committee on Evening Schools and the Committee on Supplies.
[35] In schools in which the English language is taught to German pupils.
SCHOOLS OF COOKERY.
Boston School Kitchen Text-book, by Mrs. D. A. Lincoln.
REFERENCE-BOOKS.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary. National Music Teacher. Munroe's Vocal Gymnastics. Lessons in Color (one copy for each Primary-School teacher's desk). White's Oral Lessons in Number (one copy for each Primary-School teacher's desk). Smith's Primer of Physiology and Hygiene (one copy for each Primary-School teacher's desk).
Observation Lessons in the Primary Schools, by Mrs. L. P. Hopkins (one copy for each Primary-School teacher's desk).
Simple Object Lessons (two series), by W. Hewitt Beck. Natural History Object Lessons, by G. Ricks (one set of books of each title for each Primary-School teacher's desk).
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
Appleton's American Encyclopaedia _or_ Johnson's Encyclopaedia. Chambers's Encyclopaedia. Anthon's Classical Dictionary. Thomas's Dictionary of Biography and Mythology.
Worcester's Quarto Unabridged Dictionary. Webster's Quarto Unabridged Dictionary. Webster's National Pictorial Dictionary.
Lippincott's Gazetteer. Johnson's Atlas. Reclus' Earth. Reclus' Ocean. Flammarion's Atmosphere. Weber's Universal History. Bancroft's History of the United States. Battle Maps of the Revolution. Palfrey's History of New England. Martin's Civil Government. Frothingham's Rise of the Republic. Lossing's Field-book of the Revolution. Shurtleff's Topographical History of Boston. Frothingham's Siege of Boston. Lingard's History of England. Smith's Primer of Physiology and Hygiene (one copy for the desk of each teacher of the fifth and sixth classes).
Goold-Brown's Grammar of English Grammars. Wilson's Punctuation. Philbrick's Union Speaker. Methods of Teaching Geography (one copy for each teacher of Geography).
_First Classes._--Physiography (Longmans & Co.). Copies for teachers' desks.
_Second Classes._--Harper's Cyclopaedia of United States History.
_Maps and Globes._--Cutter's Physiological Charts. Charts of the Human Body (Milton Bradley & Co.). White's Manikin. Cornell's Series Maps, _or_ Guyot's Series Maps, Nos. 1, 2, 3. (Not exceeding one set to each floor.) Hughes's Series of Maps. Joslyn's fifteen-inch Terrestrial Globe, on Tripod (one for each Grammar School). Nine-inch Hand Globe, Loring's Magnetic (one for each Grammar School room). Cosmograph. O. W. Gray & Son's Atlas. (To be furnished as new atlases are needed.)
LATIN AND HIGH SCHOOLS.
Lingard's History of England. Harper's Latin Lexicon. Liddell & Scott's Greek Lexicon, unabridged. Eugene's French Grammar. Labberton's Historical Atlas and General History (one book for the desk of each teacher). Guyot's and Cameron's Maps of the Roman Empire, Greece, and Italy. Strang's English Lessons (for use on teachers' desks).
NORMAL SCHOOL.
Observation Lessons in Primary Schools, by Mrs. L. P. Hopkins (one set).
NORMAL AND HIGH SCHOOLS.
Charts of Life. Wilson's Human Anatomical and Physiological Charts. Hough's American Woods.