SCHOOL BOOKS.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7141, 31 August 1888, Page 6

SCHOOL BOOKS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRES'A Sir,—The assertion made by the Cbeft' man at the Conference of School Cβ* mittees' meeting on Friday night, thsttbi " Koyal Readers " were in use throngnoat Otago is very misleading, and lam saf>~ prised that anyone should make a staJ*ment of the kind at a public meetiuff before making himself sore of bie tacts. _ • The "Royalßeaders"have nofcbeeaa general use in Otago for years. The bo«B lately used there have been BlaeneV Chambers', and the Star Series, and BM will take the trouble to enquire he w» find that the books appointed to be US**. for the next three years are Cnambß* "Graduated" and "Southern CP» Readers." ti* Another member etates that Wg: " Royals " are the " best used In Brftejfl. If he will inquire from anyone au cwfrrL with educational matters, he will find w» they are very little used in Enguf* having been superseded by several <>«*•"► notably Longman's, Whitehall, Cto«; bers\ Blackwoods", the "Stars' ■*£ new "Royals," as the old WP* Readers " do not comply with the wqaH* meats of the present education code. B In our own colony the " Boyale ■»• only generally in use mWanganui, ««jf?J and New Plymouth, but they are etlflJJ be found in some of the Napier •» Wellington schools. ' ._. The Readers, ,, which «c« e» sidered very good at the time they «w»first issued, have now become eome«r out of date, as they have never vised since first issued, some fifteen jw* , wishing to , underrate tjj» ability of the gentlemen e° m P° eUl ßiM* (Conference in their own I hardly think they shonld dictate w <*! Board of Education, who have «JjX service some of the best edticatiooaiW"?; in the colony, the proper text booB» w - used in public echools.-Youj^&c.^ Christchurch, 27th August 1868. —r ——