STANDARD TEXT BOOKS

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 156, 20 March 1923, Page 11

STANDARD TEXT BOOKS

THE GOVERNMENT’S LIST FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL USE In pursuance of its decision to standardise the text books used in secondary schools, technical high schools and secondary departments of liistrict “’tt’ schools, the Government has adopted the following Jist: — English Grammar and Composition, (formerly 63 different books in use, now reduced to 17). —English Composition, Parts I and II (Murison). Exercises in English (Burns and Hight), Historical English and Derivation (Nesfield), Outline of English Grammar (Nesfield),. Practical Course of Secondary English (Ogilvie, and Albert), English Grammar, Past and Present (Nesfield), Manual of English Grammar and Composition (Nesfield), Composition through Reading Books, I and II (Pickles), Concise Grammar (Urquhart), First English Course (Jones), Guide to English (Rowe and Webb), Matriculation Tests (Lusk), English Grammar, Part II (Twentyman), Middle School English Composition (Tvemtyman), Composition from English Models, I and II (Kenny), Revised Grammar (West), Course of 1 Tactical English (Bailey). French Grammar and Composition (formerly 86 in use, now reduced to 10).— *p r imary French Course (Siepmann), Wellington College Grammar (Eve and de Baudiss), "Modern French Course (Bertenshaw), First and Second Fiench Course (Florian), French Proso Composition (Weekley), Matriculation French Course (Weekley), Complete Course of French Composition (Iley), Matriculation French Free Composition (Hedgcook and Luguet), Dent s lurst Flench Book (S. Alge and W. Ripman), Preliminary French Course iChaytor and Truelove), Contes et Legendes (Guerber). Latin Grammar and Composition (formerly 62, now reduced to H)-"" Longman’s Latin Courses, I, 11, ana (11, New Latin Primer (Postgate), Aids to Latin Prose Composition (Bradlev), Arnold’s Latin Prose Composition (Bradley), Latin Prose Composition (North and Hillard), First Latin Course (Scott and Jones), Res Romanae (Coleridge), Primer of Roman Antiquities (Wilkins), Brief History of Home (Owen), Short History, of Rome (Bryant) . Mathematics (formerly 122, now reduced to 20).—Oxford Arithmetic VII, Shilling Arithmetic (Loney and Granville), School Arilimetic (Workman), Progressive Exercises in Arithmetic (Harris and Herrick), Shilling Arithmetic (Robertson), New School .Arithmetic (Pendleburv), "Modern Arithmetic (Sydney Jones), Examples in Arithmetic II (Hall and Stevens), "Elementary Algebra (Baker and Bourne), ♦School Algebra (Hall). New Algebra Part I (Barnard and Child). Algebra (Briggs and Bryan), "Elementary Geometry (Baker and Bourne), *School Geometry (Hall and Stevens), Elements of Geometry (Barnard and Child), Elementary Trigonometry (Hall and Knight), *New Trigonometry (Borchardt, and Perrott), Plane H/rigonometry 1 (Loney), Elementary nometry (Pendlebury), Examination Papers in Trigonometry (Ward), Mathematical Problems Papers (Davison). Geography (formerly 51. now reduced to 10).—Pacific Geography St. VI., Junior Geography of the World (YVallis), Longman’s Geography. Book V, Geography of New Zealand and Australia (Sbrimpton and Hight), Model Geographies i’eries—Geography of New Zealand (Marshall), The World and Australasia (Howarth and Taylor), Commercial Geography of the World (Howarth), First Book of Commercial Geography (Alford Smith), Human Geography for Secondary Schools (Fairquene and Young). History and Civics (formerly 45, now reduced to 13). —Brief Survey of British History (Warner), ’Groundwork of British History (Warner and Marten)', Citizenship (Lay), Pupils’ Class Books of English History (Lay), New Zealand Citizen (Mulgan), A First Book of British History (I’out), * A History of Great Britain (Tout), A Social History of Englund (Guest), Civics (Bottrill), Outlines of European History, Part II (Grant), The English Nation (Industrial and Social History), (Meadows), Life of ’Society (Condliffo), History or New Zealand {Shrimpton and Mulgan). Agriculture.—Dairy Science (Penlington). Agriculture in New Zealand (Connell and Hadfield), A First Book of Rural Science (Green), Practical Handbooks. » Botany.—Botany for New Zealand Readers (Neve), Second Stage Botany (Lowson). Chemistry.—Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (Oscroft), Elementary Chemistry (Newth). Experimental Science II —Chemistry (Brown), Inorganic Chemistry for Schools (Hooton), Introductory Chemistry (Gregory and Simmons;, Inorganic Chemistry (Shenstone ana Durrant), Chemistry for Rural Schools (Jones and Griffith). Home Science. —Home Science (HartSmith), Manual of Home Science (Rudman), Science of Common Life (Simmons and Shenhouse), Organic' C*iemistry (Cohen). , . Physiology and Hygiene.—First Stage Hygiene (Lyster). St. John Ambulance First Aid Text-book. Physiology and Hygiene (Chesser). Physics— "Class Book of Physics (Gregory and Hadley). "Course of Pbvsics (Draper) (in 2 or 5 volumes), Experimental Physics and Mechanics (Norris), Experimental Science, .P® \ (Brown), Introductory Course of Mechanics and Physics (Hooton and Mathias), Junior Mechanics (Rosenberg), Electricity and Magnetism (Elementary), (Povser), Magnetism an “ Electricity for Students (Hadley),.Magnetism and Electricity for Beginners (Hadley), Practical Exercises in Magnetism and Electricity (Hadley), I _ ra s' - tica.l Exercises in Heat (Robson), Lessons in Heat (Jones), Heat (*Draper), Senior Heat (Stewart and Satterly). "May be obtained in parts. With regard to primary school textbooks, the Minister stated that the draft list was almost readv. and would be authorised and published shortly.