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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.

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.]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.]

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' Cæsar. 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.

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.

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.

Zoölogy.—Morse's Zoölogy and Packard's Zoölogy.

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' Cæsar. 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.

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.—Macé'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.

Zoölogy.—Morse's Zoölogy and Packard's Zoölogy.

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.

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 Thérèse. Bôcher's College Series of French Plays. Nouvelles Genevoises. Souvestre's Au Coin du Feu. Racine's Andromaque. Racine's Iphigénie. Racine's Athalie. Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Molière's Precieuses Ridicules. Corneille's Les Horaces. Corneille's Cid. Herrig's La France Littéraire. Roemer's French Course, Vol. II. Ventura's Peppino. Halévy's L'Abbé Constantin. La Fontaine's Fables. About's La Mère de la Marquise. Daudet's Siège de Berlin. Daudet's Extraits. Daudet's La Belle Nivarnaise.

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 Märchen. 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 Märchen. 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.

SCHOOLS OF COOKERY.

Boston School Kitchen Text-book, by Mrs. D. A. Lincoln.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · To be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies.Note 2 · Each Primary-School building occupied by a first or second class to be supplied with one set of the Franklin Primary Arithmetic; the number Note 3 · Swinton's Introductory Geography allowed in Charlestown Schools.Note 4 · 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 forNote 5 · To be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies.Note 6 · 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 forNote 7 · The revised edition to be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies to schools where this book is used. Swinton's Grammar-SchNote 8 · To be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies.Note 9 · 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 forNote 10 · The revised edition to be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies to schools where this book is used. Swinton's Grammar-SchNote 11 · 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 Note 12 · To be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies.Note 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 forNote 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-SchNote 15 · The revised edition to be supplied as new books are needed.Note 16 · 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 Note 17 · To be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies.Note 18 · The revised edition to be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies to schools where this book is used. Swinton's Grammar-SchNote 19 · The revised edition to be supplied as new books are needed.Note 20 · The revised edition to be furnished at the discretion of the Committee on Supplies to schools where this book is used. Swinton's Grammar-SchNote 21 · The revised edition to be supplied as new books are needed.Note 22 · To be dropped from list of authorized text-books, July 1, 1890.Note 23 · 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 Note 24 · Not exceeding $15 for each school.Note 25 · 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 ofNote 26 · 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 problemsNote 27 · 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 Note 28 · In schools in which the English language is taught to German pupils.
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