SCHOOL JOURNAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1938, Page 19

SCHOOL JOURNAL

INTERESTING ARTICLES

In this month's issue of the New Zealand School journal.there is much that will prove both instructive and interesting to the children. History, geography, humour, natural history, literature, and good poetry all are represented in well-chosen extracts from the best modern and classic writers. ~ In Part One, for the very little ones in St. 1 and 2, there are interesting articles' about limpets told in a very simple way so that the children can understand, an incident from Joyce Lankester Brisley's "Milly Molly Mandy," and an adaptation 'from Forty More Tales," by Stephen Southwold, as well as one or two delightful little pieces of verse. In the next section for children of Standard 3 and Standard 4, is an exciting story, "Stealing Tiger Cubs," abridged from "The. Man who Stole Tigers," by W. 'Gilhespy. A letter about the Arabian desert (taken from "Letters to Channy," by Heluiz Washburne), and an article entitled "Lincoln Remembers his Boyhood" should prove very interesting to the : young readers^ Also there is an amusing little poem from "Punch" and Tennyson's "The Merman" in this issue.

•Part' 3, which is for the use of Standards 5 and 6, contains some well-chosen reading matter for the older pupils. The first part of "Maggie Runs Away," from "The Mill on ..the Floss" (George Eliot) and the portion dealing' with "Appolyon," from "Pilgrim's Progress" (Bunyan) give the children classical literature. An extract from "Gone Sunwards," by Cecil Roberts, and an article from "Punch" represent modern

writers, and Browning's "How They Brought the News from Ghent to Aix" and Andrew Lang's delightful "Scythe Song" are the poems chosen for this issue.