NEW SERIES. MARCH, 1888 -This Issue of the JOURNAL 2030 Copies. TEXAS SCHOOL JOURNAL. Officia' Organ of the State Teachers' Association and of the apartment of Education. mail matter Entered at the postoffice at Austin, Texas, as second-ass mail me any HARRINGTON & JONES, PRINTERS, AUSTIN, TEXAS. ATION PUBLISHED THE FIRST DAY OF EACH MONTH Revisea and Improved Edition of ndrew's Manual of the Constitution. A Manual of the Constitution of the United States, for the instruction of American Youth in the Duties, Obligations and Rights of Citizenship. By I. W. ANDREWS, LL. D., Mariett College, New Edition, Revised to date by the Author, thoroughly adapted to grammar, highschool and college grades; re-set entire and printed from new type. 12mo., 408 pp., $1.00. By Mail, $1.17 McGuffy's Natural History Series. For Third Reader Grade: Familiar Animals and their Wild Kindred, 208 pp., full cloth. Introduction and sample copy price, 50c. 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