Orient (revised edition); Scudder's Boston Town; Drake's The Making of
New England; Towle's Pizarro; Towle's Vasco da Gama; Towle's Magellan;
Fairy Land of Science; Hawthorne's True Stories; Higginson's Young
Folks' Book of Explorers; Scott's Ivanhoe; Longfellow's Evangeline;
Little Folks in Feathers and Fur; What Mr. Darwin saw in his Voyage
around the World in the Ship Beagle; Muloch's A Noble Life; M. E.
Dodge's Hans Brinker; Lambert's Robinson Crusoe; Lamb's Tales from
Shakspeare (revised edition, Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.); Abbott's Jonas
on a Farm in Summer; Smiles' Robert Dick, Geologist and Botanist; Eyes
Right; Alcott's Little Men; Alcott's Little Women; Stoddard's Dab
Kinzer; Scott's Kenilworth; Tom Brown's School-Days at Rugby; Abbott's
Mary Queen of Scots; Abbott's Charles I.; Taylor's Boys of Other
Countries; How Marjory Helped; Little People in Asia; Gilman's Magna
Charta Stories; Overhead; Yonge's Lances of Linwood; Memory Gems;
Geographical Plays; Ten Boys Who Lived on the Road from Long Ago till
Now; Scott's Tales of a Grandfather; Hayes' Cast Away in the Cold; Sharp
Eyes and other Papers; Lessons on Practical Subjects; Stories of Mother
Nature; Play Days; Jackanapes; Children's Stories of American Progress;
Little Lord Fauntleroy; Gilman's Historical Readers (three volumes);
Pilgrims and Puritans; The Patriotic Reader; Ballou's Footprints of
Travel.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
PERMANENT SUPPLEMENTARY READING.
Easy Steps for Little Feet. Popular Tales (first and second series.)
Parker & Marvel's Supplementary Reading (first book). Tweed's Graded
Supplementary Reading. Modern Series Primary Reading, 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, 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.