The first schoolbook manufactured and published by the Oxford University Press in this country was Schiller’s _Wilhelm Tell_, edited by Sphoenfeld, which was issued in 1902. The concern publishes the Oxford English, French, and German Series. In 1918, the Branch added a Medical Department, which handles all the medical publications of Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton of London. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.--Mr. George P. Brett, the present President, with the proprietors of Macmillan & Company, Ltd., London, the people who had been interested in the agency of Macmillan & Company previously operating in the United States, undertook the organization of the corporation, The Macmillan Company, in this country in 1896. Mr. Brett has been the President of the American corporation since that date. There have been several heads of the Educational Department. It was organized first under the direction of Dr. F. L. Sevenoak, who gave a part of his time to this work, the balance being devoted to teaching. He was succeeded by James R. McDonald, who filled the position until the fall of 1902, when he was succeeded by William H. Ives. In 1906 Mr. Ives was succeeded by F. C. Tenney, who filled the position until July, 1912. At that time A. H. Nelson became the head of the Educational Department and held the position until July, 1920, when Charles H. Seaver, who now occupies it, succeeded Mr. Nelson. School textbooks were published in America by Macmillan & Company before the time when The Macmillan Company was formed as an American corporation, the records showing the publication of Hall and Knight’s _Elementary Algebra_ and _Algebra for Beginners_ in 1895, Tarr’s _Elements of Physical Geography_ in 1895, and Channing’s _Student’s History of the United States_ in April, 1896. Immediately following the establishment of the American corporation, there was published Miller’s _Trigonometry_ in 1896, and in 1897 the following books appeared: Tarr’s _High School Geology_, Nichols’ _High School Physics_, Lewis’s _Writing English_, Tarr’s _First Book in Physical Geography_, McLellan and Ames’ _Arithmetic_, Hall and Knight’s _Algebra for Colleges and Schools_, Davenport’s _Elementary Economics_, Murche’s _Science Readers_. The McLellan and Ames _Arithmetic_ and the Murche _Science Readers_ were the first textbooks published for elementary grades. The Macmillan Company first undertook the work of publishing books for that field in the fall of 1897. W. H. WHEELER & COMPANY.--This Chicago concern was organized in 1897 by Mr. W. H. Wheeler. In 1898 W. C. Fidler purchased an interest in the Company. Some years later, E. E. Wheeler, son of W. H. Wheeler, was admitted to the firm, as was also John H. Pugh. These four men are still active in the business. The first books published by this house were Wheeler’s _Graded Studies in English, First Lessons in Grammar and Composition_. These were followed a little later by Wheeler’s _Graded Primer_.