NEW LIST OF SCHOOL BOOKS. WELLINGTON. May 29.

Otago Witness, Issue 2673, 7 June 1905, Page 18

NEW LIST OF SCHOOL BOOKS. WELLINGTON. May 29.

An Orrlcr-in-Council will be gazetted this week revoking all regulations under the Education Act prescribing class books for public schools and announcing^ new lisW which, subject to such restrictions as the Education Board in any district may impose, may bo used in any public school.

The following is tho list, of books for us® in public schools prescribed by the Education Department, which will come into> f oroe this week : —

Reading — (a) Literary and General Readers'- Collins's New Zealand Graphic Readers. Longman's New Zealand Readers, Nelson's Royal Crown Readers, Whitoombe and Tombs's Imperial Readers. (b) Geographical Readers : Longman's Pictorial Geographical Readers and New Zealand" Geographical Readers, Round the Empire (Parkin), The Wor.'d- and- Its- People, Axistralasia. The World (Nelson a<nd Sons). Arnold's Britannia. Readers, (c) Historical Readers: Longman's Simple Stories, Historical. Readers i and VV-, public sohool' series- (Whitcombe and 1 Tombs), Murdoch'sSfcruggle for Freedom (Whitoombe. ancfr' Tombs), Gillies's Elementary- Studies iv.English History (-Whitcombe and TombsV Citizen Reader and Laws of Everyday Life (Cassell). (d) Other Supplementary Readers: Zealandia. Schooi Paper. Schoolmates (Brown and Coi). Reeves's New Zealand* Reader (Government Printer). Drummond's Nature^ in New Zealand; {Whitcombe and Tombs), Junior Temple Reader. "Bell's Reading Books. Eves- and/ No Eyes (Cassel). Writing.— Blank books- or any- copybook*in which tho style- is^ upright (or nearly so), clear-. and r continuous.

Arithmetic— Pendlcbury's Shilling Arith- , roetio, Whitcombe and? Tomtoms New ' Southern Cross Arithmetic (Standards II to> TI). ' Composition. — Longman's Compositior. Goyen's- Composition (Macmiilan), Nelson's1 Illustrated Composition- Series.. PublioSchool English - Composition- (Whitcomßa' and Tombs).

Eeeitation. — Globe Poefry Books. Southern Cross Poetry Books, junior and senior (Whitcomne and Tomb 3). Geography. — Southern Cross Geography (Whitoombe and Tombs). :' Science. — Saxroti and Sfeirman's Practical' Physics (.Whitoombe and- Tombs), KiirkV Elementary. Agriculture (Whitcombe and Tombs). Thomson's Introductory to Botany (Government Printer), M-all's Object Lessons from Nature (Cassell). Murche's Phys-"-ology (Blackie), Furneaux Elementary Physiology (Longman 'f,).

Drawing-.— Blank drawing- books (recommended). Colonial Dra.«Mn# Book.*, New Zealand- Drawing Books, Southern Cross , Drawing* Books.

Singing, — C'urwen'* Standard Course, '"Blackbird," and Zealandia Song Book, parts I. It, 111, and other tonlo M>l-f» publications.

Riolvard Riplev, a Crimean veteran, died at, Adelaide on May 17. in his oighty-fourtU year. ITo was present in the operat.ona before- Ssbastopof, and n.w serves in tho Indian Mutiny. A lady p?ssengei I>V thei Ormuz, which arrived at Sydney on May 20, lost iowellery valued at owe £300 on tho voyage between Colombo and Fremanrle.