The following courses in Manual Training for the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades were prepared after eight years of careful study, during which time the author visited over 250 cities and towns in the New England States, New York and New Jersey.

The courses are arranged progressively and presented in as clear and simple a way as possible, - the drawings themselves being self-explanatory.

For the many teachers who are obliged to follow a required course, but who are allowed to introduce supplementary or optional models, as well as for those instructors who have more liberty and who are able to make such changes as they see fit, these courses will be found readily adaptable to any schedule already in use.

The instructor's outlines have been included, as the author has found it most advantageous to give his assistants an outline to work by.

The author has provided four different models for each progressive step in the courses - that is, four models which illustrate the different tools under each principle, thus giving the pupil a wider choice where desirable, and the instructor who has to teach the same grade of pupils during an entire year most practical assistance.

Frank Halstead. East Orange, N. J., September, 1913.