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OXFORD CLASSICAL TEXTS.

London area only which use this system, one may mention

also Finsbury, Cripplegate, Southwark, Walthamstow, Herne
New Yolumes.

Hill, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Kingston - upon - Thames,
Thucydides.-Histories, Book IV. Edited

Wood Green, Croydon, Bromley (in Kent), Twickenham, and
by T. R. Mills. With a General Introduction by H. STUART JONES. Cloth,
35. 6d. ; paper covers, 3s.

Hornsey, and there are others.

To begin with, nearly every English public library has a
Cicero Orationes.--Quinct., Rosc., Com.,

department exclusively reserved for children. The older
Caec., Leg. Agr., Rab. Perduell., Flacc., Pis., Rab. Post.
Edited by A. C. CLARK. Cloth, 3s. ; paper covers, 25. od.

libraries have a large alcove set aside for them ; the newer
libraries have separate lending libraries, reference libraries,

and reading rooms for them. At Cardiff, Islington, and
THE OXFORD GEOGRAPHIES.

Chelsea, for example, the children's rooms are some of the

most handsome and attractive in the building, spacious, well
Edited by A. J. HERBERTSON,

lighted and furnished, decorated with suitable and attractive
Practical Geography. By J. F. UNSTEAD.

pictures, and provided with the best books. At Cardiff the
Part I., Is. 6d. Part II., Is. 6d. (immediately). Parts I., II., 25 writer has watched a class from one of the elementary schools
(immediately).

receiving in the children's hall a lesson from their teacher,
School Gardening. By P. ELFORD and S. HEATON. who was using for that lesson the admirable collection of
Crown 8vo, cloth.

[Immedintelv. illustrations which the library possesses for this. and similar

purposes. At the conclusion of the lesson the children sat
School Garden Note Book, By the same down at the tables, each with a fairy book, for half an hour's
rown 8vo, limp cloth, gd. net.

individual reading. At Islington, when the room is full of

children, as it is every evening, it is a constant practice for
Select List of Educational Works, List of Books set for various Examina- a librarian to give the youngsters an unannounced homily on
tions, and Complete Catalogue (160 pages) post free.

the choice of books and the objects of reading. The Croydon

libraries have regular object lessons in the use of the libraries,
London: HENRY FROWDE, Oxford University Press, Amen Corner, E.C. which are given to classes from the schools; a librarian

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