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The Check System is considered one of the best. We cannot describe the various good plans, but I will detail one which seems to me to be more simple and to obviate more difficulties than any other that I am acquainted with. It first provides a carefully-printed numerical catalogue of all the books, with the number of pages. Give to each scholar one of these catalogues, and replace it when lost. If the school is a small district-school, a written catalogue will answer the purpose equally well. Then a
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Library Card, four inches by two-and-a-half inches, is provided for each scholar on the first of each month. On this is written or printed--
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Library Card,
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Class No. 6,
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John Smith. Each scholar takes his
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Library Card and catalogue home, and there, with aid from his parents or a friend, he selects from ten to fifteen books, either of which he will be satisfied with during the next four weeks. The
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Library Card