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Ml The Educational Screen III. THE YOUNG REPUBLIC Si\ PLAYS in Sixteen Reels 17. Benjamin Franklin (The Treaty of Peace) 3 18. The National Domain (John Sevier) 2 19. The Constitution (Washing- ton) 3 20. Alexander Hamilton 3 21. Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates 3 22. Marshall (The Steamboat Case) 2 IV. THE VISION OF THE WEST Eight Plays in Twenty-two Reels 23. Daniel Boone 2 24. Lewis and Clark (Louisiana) 3 25. The Battle of Lake Erie (Perry) 3 26. Monroe Doctrine 2 27. Old Hickory 3 28. Old Oregon (Astoria) 3 29. The Alamo (Sam Houston). 3 30. The Gold Rush and the Vigilantes 3 V. THE CIVIL WAR Six Plays in Eighteen Reels 31. The Fight for Kansas.. 4 32. Abraham Lincoln 4 33. Grant and Farragut 3 34. Stonewall Jackson 3 35. Jefferson Davis (The Eman- cipation Proclamation) .... 36. Lee and Appomattox 3 VI. THE AGE OF POWER Five Plays in Twenty-five Reels The transformation caused by the inflow of immigrants and the develop- ment and utilization of mechanical power on a great scale; picturing invention and the mechanical revo- lution and the America of today. News Notes THE famous Visual Instruction Divi- sion of The University of the State of New York, under the leadership of A. W. Abrams, issues a circular of sug- gestions to slide makers. Although in- tended primarily for professionals mak- ing slides for the Division, and for ama- teur slide-makers in New York State, the suggestions are exceedingly valuable for those teachers throughout the coun- try who are sufficiently advanced in visual instruction to be attempting the §ame thing in their own institutions. Poor slides are depressing, not stimulat- ing, to interest in this movement and we reprint here Dr. Abrams' suggestions as a wholesome discouragement of slipshod or careless workmanship: Specifications for Making Photo- graphic Negatives. To be acceptable a negative needs to be first-class, which in- cludes at least the following qual- ities: 1. Unless arranged otherwise in advance the negative must be an original one. 2. Unless arranged otherwise in advance the negative must be 6^x8^2 or 8x10 inches on glass plate. The image should nearly fill the plate. 3. The negative should show the object or objects in good position and arrangement; that is, the com- position should be good. As artistic a picture should be secured as is consistent with the special purpose for which the view is wanted. 4. The object should be prop- erly lighted. 5. The object should be in proper focus. 6. The exposure should be cor- rectly timed, both for the shadows and the high lights, and it is expected (Concluded on page 271)