Our School Books.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4236, 29 July 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

Our School Books.

At the meeting of the Board of Education on Friday afternoon, the following report by Messrs O'Sullivan, McArthur, and P. Peacocke upon the class books authorised under the resolution of Mr Laishley on tlie 261h of May last was read, viz.:—We have the honor to report that we have,carried out the instructions contained in the resolution of the 26th of May respecting the reduction of the list of books authorised to be used in this district. We recommend that tho use of the books " marked out" in the schedule .annexed be discontinued, such discontinuance to ba gradual, us in the case «'!i<hj the use of one book is substituted for that of another in the schools. We have nofc recommended the disuse of tlie Brief History, but are of opinion Hint the question of substituting another junior his.iory fur it may with ad vantage be considered at an early date. Marked out : Writing, Parnell's Copy Books ; Arithmetic Manson's Progressive exercises (junior and senior); grammar, Allan's and Cornwell's Grammar (junior and senior); Uollin's New hlementary Grammar; composition, Allen and Corawell's Young '. omposer; Geography; Nelsou's Jioyal Geography, Coiliu's Modern Geography (Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand) ; Petrie's New Zealand Geography; history, Longman's Epochs of History, Collins's Scbmidtz's History of England ; elementary science, Chamber's Political Economy. The report was adopted, the recommendations to be carried into effect.