CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN. Illustrated books are indi EACH of the volumes is printed in large type, on good paper, and firmly bound. cated by stars. An edition has been bound in cloth, omitting the heading, "Classics for Children." The books may be had in sets, boxed. Introduction prices are given: first of the cloth edition; second, of the board edition. We show how any Live Teacher, by very little effort, can place a set of this choice Literature in his school: The series contains twenty-six books, each costing, on an average, 40 cents. If each of ten pupils will buy a book, and then exchange with his fellows, he may read the ten books at a cost of 4 cents per book. If twenty pupils buy on the same basis, each may read the twenty books at a cost of 2 cents per book. And fifty pupils, paying 20 cents each, can purchase the entire twenty-six volumes, and each read them all at a cost of 1 cent per volume. 110-112 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. S. SMYTH, Manager. ILLINOIS. SCHOOL · JOURNAL. VOL. VIII.-No. 1. SEPTEMBER, 1888. WHOLE NO. 85. EDITORIAL. CALIFORNIA. How shall the scribe properly record the hospitality of California? All accounts seem stale, flat, and unprofitable to one who was there. A city of 250,000 never before, on this continent, stood, hat in hand, to greet the school ma'ams and masters. Yet San Francisco impressed at least one school-master as maintaining that attitude for a round week. San Francisco was not alone, however. All the cities of the state on the great thoroughfares, vied with the metropolis in acts of generous courtesy. Free lunches, free carriages, free music, free fruit, free everything, and the more the merrier. The serenade at the Occidental and Palace hotels on the last evening, was a fitting ending of a memorable meeting. The desire to do everthing that could be done to make our stay not only pleasant but delightful was well illustrated by the ardor of one enthusiastic Californian, who, after everything and everybody had been toasted and cheered, proposed a final hurrah for "the whole outfit." And now, as President Gove properly suggested, we have a National Association with a big N., since it has held sessions from sea to sea. C. With this number we begin a new volume of THE JOURNAL. It will be two years next December since A RE- the present management began the publication of this STATEMENT. paper. It was commenced under the conviction that a frank and friendly consideration of what is good and what is bad in common school education would be wholesome. It was begun, too, with a feeling of loyalty to the common school that had matured into a habit and grown into a |