sharp reminder whenever they flagged and showed a disposition to droop.

The piano was not as popular an instrument in those days as it has since
become.

This wrist-guide ought to save many tears and much vexation of spirit to
both teacher and pupil.




BOOKS RECEIVED.


We have received from the publishers, Thompson, Brown & Co., Boston, a
set of the Duntonian Vertical Writing-Books. This series is described by
the publishers as follows:

"This is a distinctly new series of Vertical Writing-Books, having some
special features of great teaching value. One of these is the specially
made paper with water-marked direction lines which pertains only to this
system, and by means of which a vertical hand can be much sooner
acquired. These lines are not intended in any way as guide-lines to be
carefully observed in writing the copy, but simply as a ready means of
verifying the work and determining whether the writer is conforming to a
practical vertical style or not."