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school is as good as five, we can make quite a saving in various ways, and that is going to be an important educational factor in the near future.

NEW JERSEY.

Now the educators of New Jersey are disgusted over an attempt on the part of legislators to reorganize the educational system of the state. Miss Elizabeth A. Allen of Hoboken is opposed to the Stokes bill, and if she does not defeat it, I shall be thoroughly surprised. The country through, there is not a more skillful legislative tactician from the outside, man or woman, than Miss Allen. She has intellect, courage, and the various graces to aid her in her purpose.

It is claimed that this bill practically deprives the

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schools; first, by removing boards of education from the control of the elective or appointive power; second, by subordinating boards to superintendents and business managers. It creates many new and expensive offices. In cities of 50,000 or more population it gives the superintendent almost unchecked control of the educational department of the schools.

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One Hour a Day

New Jersey

State Stories

The Century Question

Education and Ignorance-(XV.)

The Santa Barbara Incident

New York

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Educational Intelligence

business departments. The vast patronage of the public school system is centralized in these officials. About the only function the bill leaves to boards of education is that of appropriating money for superintendents and business managers to spend. The state superintendent is empowered to remove any member of any local board of education, and there seems to be no appeal from such action. Under such circumstances, self-respecting men will decline to serve the boards of education. Some features of this bill distance all other reform efforts.

STATE STORIES.

It is an interesting fact that state stories, histories, and geographies are among the best selling A symposium on scientific temperance teaching is book of the times. Stetson's book on Maine was in its second edition a few weeks after it was issued, and all ready for space. the Penn Publishing Company's "Pennsylvania Stories" sold the first edition in a single week, and the second in ten days after it was issued. I have no doubt from what is known in a general way that a similar record has been made by "Bay State Stories," Brumbaugh & Walton's Pennsylvania Historical Reader and kindred local readers, histories, and

A more idiotic proposition was never made than that which looks to the political making of school books for Chicago.

Superintendent E. Benjamin Andrews does not appear to be in the least frightened by anything that the president of the school board says or insinuates.

Shall we say "The United States are a republic," or "The United States is a republic?" The Journal will soon print what a large number of editors, proofreaders, authors, and college professors of English think about it.

We greatly regret that the early numbers containing the "Jukes-Edwards" articles are out of print. The demand far exceeded our highest expectations. In consequence, the series will be issued in

permanent form.

It looks as though Chicago was to be in funds once more. The supreme court has given a ruling which provides the school board with all the money it. asked for. Prior to this decision there was serious talk of reducing the school year to eight months, or else paying the teachers in vouchers.

ONE HOUR A DAY.

Ithaca stands sponser for the statement that little children will do as well and will learn as much in one hour a day as in five. If this is a universal truth, then we need not expend nearly so much on primary school buildings. Principal F. D. Boynton has a training school and with the aid of Mrs. Sara D. Jenkins, teacher of the little people, has demonstrated to his satisfaction that a teacher does just as much with a small class for one hour as with a large class for five hours. Mrs. Jenkins taught twelve five-year-old children one hour and then sent them home, and Mr. Boynton says they learned as much as any class of the same age ever learned in five hours. Of course one experiment, however successful, counts for little except as a pointer. Now let us have the same trial made in many cities; for if one hour in

stories.

THE CENTURY QUESTION.

We have received many communications about the twentieth century. We had planned to publish the first, but there are so many on both sides of the question that it seems best to let them pass. Some eminently good men take the view that we are already in the twentieth century. They all work from the same standpoint: namely, that twelve months had passed before the year 1, and that in consequence ten years had passed before the year 10, and, therefore, 1900 years had passed before the year 1900. It is entirely evident that those who see it that way will never see it in any other. Several diagrams have been sent us to prove it. There is no disposition on

our part to argue the matter. The other poiz view is that of the Journal; namely, that it is the year until twelve months have passed and after it is the second year, so that it was the 1899th: until midnight the 31st of last December, an 31st of next December. We do not see any re 1900th year will not have passed until midnig why any one should not enjoy the other point of Accept their premises that the year one does not gin until twelve months have passed, and no one quarrel with their conclusions. There is no tion but that most of the world takes the vie have endorsed. The emperor of Germany is the important civil ruler who takes the other view, the "Almanac de Gotha," which is the most schola almanac in the world, and which represents Ger in such matters infinitely better than William, that this year is in the nineteenth century. Journal sees no possible harm in any one's taking: view that twelve months passed before the year We cannot see it thus. That is all there is t The communications would all be published if could get the space for it.

have added materially to the figures given in articles, as far as relate to college graduates, cians, lawyers, clergymen, and officers in civi military life. The most eminent wing of family is the Ingersol, of whom there are eminent scholars and professional men. They specially prominent in Cleveland, in Oberlin Cell, and in New York city.

Of the other important branches of the fan mention should be made of the Porters, centering Hartford, Tyler and Mather, who have helped make Amherst famous, Pollock, Burgwyn, Devereaux of the South, Tyron of Michi Hooker of Hartford, Whiting and Whitney.

It should ever be kept in mind that with all t names that the Edwards blood has helped to 11 distinguished, the name of Edwards has persiste kept at the front as an intellectual and moral and the descendants of Mr. Edwards' son Jone have been pre-eminently prosperous and usefu’. every branch of the family, whatever the new! may be, the name of Edwards as a middle nam very generally utilized Sometimes it is the name, while Jonathan Edwards as a whole nary as the first two names appears with great freque

Between degeneracy intensified by the moment of inheritance, ignorance, and contaminating et panionship on the one hand, and respectability a virtue emphasized by heredity, education, and ex radeship on the other, a great gulf is fixed, one t is ordinarily impassable by the usual school a church, social and industrial conditions. One America's greatest needs is to discover ways an means, new or old, for bridging this gulf so th there shall be a highway from the degenerates to regenerates.

A year ago last September the reform element rted out to accomplish great things. Santa Barra is a delightful city. Just the place, one would nk, for reform to thrive. Fred Burke of the Attie Monthly articles fame was elected superintenit. Ile at once proceeded to introduce kinderten, drawing, sloyd, nature study, and departntal work, and he had arithmetic and reading ght by the most approved methods, which makes -timers catch their breath. Geography was brilfly taught, and spelling was as appropriately as appropriately Ived. There was absolutely nothing left undone ta vivid imagination could suggest. Mr. Burke de a record in a year, and was called to San Fran

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when the day may be." However, the teachers are solacing themselves with the belief that they'll be paid "some day," and cultivating the virtue of resignation, getting down to one meal a day, and studying Dick Swiveller's plan of subsistence.

As matters now stand, a number of bills, in addition to those spoken of last week, have been introduced in the legislature. They differ greatly in their provisions. Dr. Ettinger, president of the Teachers' Association, has sent out the following open letter regarding the matter:

It is unfortunate that even in the matter of legisla

tive relief for the teachers the same conflict of contending interests that was engendered by defects in the

charter, and was responsible for the sufferings of the teachers, should again threaten to make them the victims.

Contemplated legislation includes several bills that contain measures of practical relief. But the struggle over the passage of these measures in their entirety will only repeat the history of the past troubles, and embroil the teachers' interests in a strife of personal animosities, borough jealousies, and administration differences.

The opposition was wide awake. A new city charwas provided, which made it possible to elect an ire new school board for January 1, 1900. Now citizens generally, those who ordinarily control die opinion, and the principal local paper were Mr. Burke and the reform, but the opposition intense, and when the critical day came, the opition paper charged that the city teachers paid. All parties agree that immediate relief should be granted.

Burke ten per cent. of their salaries while he was re, and are still paying it to him, now that he has e to San Francisco. Promptly every teacher in city signed the following, which was published he leading local paper:Ve, the undersigned, teachers in the public ools of Santa Barbara, do each hereby certify that do not now and never have at any time paid any centage from our salaries, or any sum or sums of ney whatsoever, to any person whatsoever for our itions in the Santa Barbara public schools; and further declare, each speaking for himself and -elf, that as to us the assertion made in Sunday's ws that tribute of ten per cent. of our salary has n paid for our positions on the school force of s city to Mr. Burke is untrue.

Nothing could be more ridiculous than this charge. ere was not a scintilla of a suspicion. It was a out of whole cloth. There is not a man on earth re incapable of such a thing, and his every act and nner would convince any sane man that such a rge was absurd. And yet the opposition insisted n it. When the teachers denied it, they said, course they will deny it." The full opposition zet was elected and largely because that base falsed was published. All that Mr. Burke did for the mols practically goes for naught, and progress g his lines is at an end. Once shake publie connee, and any lie will find those who will believe it. e idea that Fred Burke would take ten per cent. mission is absurd; the idea that it would be paid er his connection ceased, is more absurd, and yet t barefaced falsehood got in its work, and a come overturn resulted. Fortunately, Mr. Burke is 1 out of the way and cannot suffer, but the cause

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et all reformers who cry fraud remember that are establishing a practice that will react upon an with terrific force. If they have any evidence, e the case into court: if they have no evidence, p still. Fred Burke's enemies can trade on susions just as honorably as can any reformers. It liabolical, no matter who does it. Do you say, h, but we cannot prove it." That was just what d Burke's enemies said. Do you say, “Of course guilty ones will deny it." That was what his mies said. He who creates public distrust of the ool administration in America is the worst enemy The schools. In every community the schools are re intelligently and honestly administered than other public interests, and whenever wrong is pected it can be righted best by quiet, prompt, rgetic attention to the matter directly.

NEW YORK.

ast week it was a triangular duel between the compller, mayor, and board of education; this week it is multi-angular one, the board of education, the compller, Senators Ford, McCarren, Marshall, Elshey, 1 Grady, as well as a few papers being the participants. And the teachers? Well, they are learning to sing the song "Some Day" with pathos and effect. They are dving it under the leadership of the comptroller, who is far has not got beyond the first line,-"I know not

The teachers ask that measures for their relief be considered apart from questions of school organization.

Then let all insure this by not making measures for this purpose depend upon the passage of bills that are sure to arouse opposition on account of administrative features dealing with the powers of school officials and school

boards. Let the legislature deal with teachers' salaries

first, school administration afterward. The one is im

mediate, the other should be approached in a cautious, deliberative, and concil'atory spirit. Relieve the present strain on teachers' minds, and at once benefit the schools more than any possible change in school administration could do in years. W. L. Ettinger. President New York City Teachers' Association New York, January 10.

If the legislators would but heed the suggestion conveyed in this, the situation would be greatly improved. Speaker Nixon of the Assemby has appointed the following committee on public education: Messrs. Lewis of Monroe, Russell of Rensselaer, Darrison of Niagara, Hallock of Suffolk, Stevens of Franklin, Griffith of Wayne, Remsen of Kings, Smith of Otsego, Kittell of Columbia, Plank of St. Lawrence, Frisbie of Schoharie, Slcane of Westchester, Herrick cf Onondaga.

It will be noticed that there is no one representing a district in New York county on the committee, and as this body will have considerable legislation affecting the school system to consider, it seems strange that the county is not represented.

Assemblyman Maurice M. Meriton of New York has introduced a bill by which inspectors of common schools shall be empowered to determine the number of pupils who shall be permitted to attend each school in the school district, and to direct the transfer of pupils from one school to another in the same school district.

At the regular meeting of the board of education held this week, J. J. Little was re-elected president. A statement was read to show the percentage of all moneys expended that is used for clerical help. The average in Manhattan and the Bronx is the lowest,-one-half of one per cent.; Brooklyn has an average of seven-tenths of one per cent.; Queens, two and one-half per cent.; and Richmond, five and two-fifths per cent.

Henry W. Maxwell and J. Edward Swanstrom, whose terms as members of the Brooklyn board will expire on February 14, announce that they will not accept reappointment. Both have been prominent in Brooklyn educational affairs for several years. Mr. Swanstrom has served two terms as president, and Mr. Maxwell was for a long time chairman of the finance committee.

A teacher in one of the schools calls attention to the fact that pupils are promoted without examination in ac

cordance with the consensus of the best educational

opinion, but that teachers of ten years' experience or more, when seeking to become principals are compelled to pass examination. He quotes the following questions given at the last examination for the principals' eligible list:

"It is also, I think, to be noted that it is above all, that philosophy of mind which regards mind as being, under more or less disguise, a process of sense-agglutination, which will generate a method in the forming of mind as pedantic in practice as it is unsound in theory. The growth of a mind, etc., ad nauseam.

"Draw up in a series of propositions what you understand to be the meaning of this excerpt, and give briefly, with reasons, your views at to the truth of each proposition.

"Discuss the following:

"The principle of association by previous contiguity in consciousness, we affirm to be the one psychological principle underlying all the mechanism of successive associated ideas."

"The presence of an idea of result in the motive helps the organism to make its movements precise and accurate, weeding out the useless movement ideas, and planting arrangements for the performance of useful movements."

"Illustrate this statement and state educational corollaries.

She asks if this method is not putting a premium on what the French call le chauffage, so bitterly inveighed against in Demolini's "Anglo-Saxon Superiority."

Bonds to the amount of $1,168,483 are to be sold this month, the proceeds to go to the purchase of school sites and the erection of school buildings this year.

The statue of the late Dr. Edward A. Sheldon, principal of the Oswego normal school and father of the state system of normal schools, erected by the children of the public schools of the state, was unveiled at Albany on January 11. It was presented to the state by Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles R. Skinner, and was accepted by Governor Roosevelt. Addresses were delivered by Dr. William T Harris, United States commissioner of education, Dr. W. J. Milne of the Albany state normal school, Principal Isaac B. Poucher of the Oswego normal school, and Hon. George B. Sloan of Oswego. A number of representatives from the city were present at the exercises.

It is said in Albany that the unification plan may not pass at the present session.

The court of appeals had brought before it this week a case of much interest to the people of the state regarding the color line in schools, in re Cisco vs. School Board of the borough of Queens, New York City. Mr. Cisco, a colored citizen, sent his children to the public schools in that borough, but admittance was refused them on account of their color, and they were ordered to the separate colored school. The father refused to send his children to this school, and in consequence was twice tried before a jury and acquitted each time on the charge of violating the compulsory education act, the charge being that he refused to send his children to the colored school when admittance was denied them at the white school. He died shortly after, and then his wife was arrested for the same offense, but was never brought to trial. She applied for a mandamus to compel the board to receive her children in the common schools.

The supreme court, special term, denied her motion, on the ground that the court was bound by the decision of the court of appeals in King against Gallagher in 1883. Mrs. Cisco appealed, but the decision was affirmed by the appellate division. She has now appealed to the highest court in the state.

Ex-Assemblyman Wallace, of the law firm of Wallace & Smith, of Jamaica, has appeared for Mrs. Cisco throughout. Assistant Corporation Counsel Carr appeared in opposition. Mr. Wallace asked the court to reverse its decision of 1883. He contended that there was great doubt even at that time, and only four members of the court joined in the decision. One of these, Judge Earl, joined five years later in an opinion in another case expressing contrary views. Mr. Wallace contended that section 383 of the Penal Code had never been passed upon by the court of appeals until after the decision of 1883, when it was fully sustained by the highest court This section makes it a misdemeanor to keep children out of any school on account of color. He also contended that the compulsory education act of 1894 was absolutely incompatible with the color distinction in schools. He also contended that color distinction had been specifically prohibited for years past in schools of New York City, where colored schools were permitted, but they must be open to all "without regard to race or color." As the borough of Queens has been taken into New York city. Mr. Wallace contended that this clause governs its schools as well as all the other schools of the city. He further showed that all the legislation relating to colored people since 1883 had manifested the intention of the legislature and of the people of this state to wipe out color distinction, and the court of appeals now had the opportunity to explain to the world that the last vestige of enforced color distinction had been wiped out of the civilization of the Empire state.

That the citizens of New York are public-spirited is again shown by the moneys given to educational institutions during the past few days. John D. Rockefeller donated $100,000 to Columbia to endow a chair of psychology. The same institution has received $500 from the Temple Emmanuel-El for the department of oriental languages, and $800 from E. B. Holden, E. R. Holden, and F. A. Heinz, for the department of mechanical engineering. Chauncey S. Truax has given to Ḥamilton College $25,000 to be used in completing the new Hall of Philosophy. Dorman B. Eaton, the exponent of civil service reform, lately deceased, has bequeathed to Columbia $100,000 and the same amount to Harvard. The bequest of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt to Yale College, $100,000, has been paid to that university.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROSE AND POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON. By Hiram Corson, LL.D. New York: The Macmillan Company. 303 pp. Price, $1.25.

Professor Corson has eminently the right idea of studying literature. He urges in the Milton volume that his prose works should be read for their subject matter and their noble, earnest spirit. As an introduction to the study of Milton, he brings together all the more important autobiographical passages in his prose and poetical works, according to their order in Milton's life, making a hundred pages of autobiography. These exhibit the man, his inmost being, which is indelibly marked on all that he wrote. Yet, strongly as we can feel his personality, we need to know some of the facts of his life, and a compact biography, which we fail to find in this volume, would seem desirable in an "introduction." The volume contains further selected passages which set forth Milton's idea of true liberty, the poems "Comus," "Lycidas," and "Samson Agonistes," with the editor's excellent notes on all.

The unique and particularly valuable portion of the book is the autobiography, which, with its translations from the Latin, will be readily appreciated by students. The book should meet with instant welcome and adoption in college, Milton classes, and from other students and readers.

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Stories from the early history of Maine are quite as interesting and dramatic as the more familiar ones that cluster about the colonial settlements at Plymouth, Jamestown, and elsewhere. The author of "Stories from Maine" has gathered her material from forgotten histories, and the musty records of historical societies and the neglected incidents prove to be pleasant reading. Oftentime contemporary characters are allowed to tell the stories in their own words, which adds to the charm. Indians naturally play a large part in the book, but Maine's share in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, her heroes, and her present resources come in for a portion of attention. The book should become popular in the schools and among the general public of this great state. WOTAN, SIEGFRIED, AND BRUNNHILDE. By Anna Alice Chapin. New York and London: Harper & Brothers. 133 pp. Price, $1.25.

Miss Chapin has given evidence of careful study and an appreciative understanding of the Niebelungen Ring stories in two previous volumes, and now in "Wotan, Siegfried, and Brunnhilde" she discusses these three principal characters in Wagner's operas. Their careers and the development of their character is a most interesting theme, bringing out, as it does, the side lights and the finer spirit of the four operas. The poetical and the musical beauties are dwelt on in sympathetic words. It is a book that will please lovers of Wagner, and that will interest those who know him and his music less well, and help them to a truer comprehension of his spirit.

FRITHJOF, THE VIKING OF NORWAY, AND ROLAND, THE PALADIN OF FRANCE. By Zenaide A. Ragozin. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 295 pp. Price, $1.50.

The "Frithjof-Saga" gives a human, vivid picture of Norse life in the eighth century or thereabouts before it was changed by the advent of Christianity, and the charm of folk-lore and of epic poetry clings about the story of this Viking hero as retold in modern prose by Zenaide A. Ragozin. As a companion piece to Frithjof, the story of Roland of France and his fight against the Paynims is given. These classic, heroic tales are enjoyable stories and eminently worth reading. The author has a dignified, appreciative style that presents the material at its best. Such thoroughly good reading as this book is for both young and old, leaves small excuse for the worthless and unhealthy reading of which we have so large a supply. Here the taste for adventure and imaginative writing is gratified, and, at the same time, the reader acquires a valuable intellectual possession.

coln in a light that reveals the man as he was without idealization, and without bringing into undue prominence those characteristics which marked the lives of many of the prominent men of his time and locality. As the subtitle of this book shows, Lincoln, as the man of the people, occupies so strong a position in history and in the affection of his countrymen that the truth of his life and career will but serve to strengthen the interest in him. This work shows all phases of his life, his elevation from politics to statesmanship; his humor and his pathos; his early loves and his later greatness.

The book is a welcome addition to the many works on the same topic.

PAUPERIZING THE RICH. By Alfred J. Ferris. Philadelphia: T. S. Leach & Co. 432 pp. Price, $1.25. Mr. Ferris' study of social problems, entitled "Pauperizing the Rich," is "an inquiry into the value and significance of unearned wealth to its owners and to society." The first part is a diagnosis of the present social status, followed by the remedy, which shall bring the whole nation within the bounds of our present middle class.

He would have a society of equal opportunities for all, with no definite class of large wealth where men's aspirations would be raised above the level of material welfare. The author admits that it is an irridescent dream, but argues that it is not impossible of realization when income and property shall be redistributed on principles of justice.

WABENO, THE MAGICIAN. By Mabel Osgood Wright. New York: The Macmillan Company. 346 pp. Price, $1.50.

"Wabeno, the Magician," is a sequel to "Tommy-Anne and the Three Hearts," which created something of a sensation in literature for children a year ago by reason of its quaint and bright originality. "Wabeno" fully sustains the reputation of its predecessor. TommyAnee, now grown to twelve years, has dropped the first part of her name. She is a genuine outdoor girl, who makes a confidant of her dog, and talks to the North wind. It is the "Heart of Nature" with which she communes in this book, and Wabeno, the spirit of wild nature, an Indian equivalent of the god Pan, is her teacher. The spirit of Indian legends mingles delightfully with practical, everyday life, making a whole in which the imaginative and instructive are combined in an artistic and charming manner. But all this is what the "grownups" see in the book to admire. The child for whom it is written finds the story of a little girl, a lovable, toddling, baby boy, and two dogs, who want to know the why and wherefore of everything they see about them in the fields and woods and at the seashore. The mystical, imaginative answers that fit so well into the dreams of childhood, that personify everything in nature, will help our children to see through the magic glasses that beautified the world to Tommy-Anne.

SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDY OF MACBETH. Edited by L. A. Sherman. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 199 pp.

Professor Sherman of the University of Nebraska has prepared his text-book of "Macbeth" with careful thought for the needs and the best literary education of the pupil, and his judgment gains weight from long experience with Shakespeare classes. A few of his ideas are worth space here: That quoting opinions of critics in such manuals as this hinders the independent perceptions and judgments of the pupil: that source matter should be used wherever possible; that the junior student has no taste for parallel passages from other literature, and they are best omitted. The notes are made unusually full on the reasonable ground that the pupil finds special difficulties in beginning to read Shakespeare.

A long list of questions on each scene focuses attention

on the artistic construction of the play and its meaning. What seems at first sight an overabu of apparatus for study proves decidedly helpful stimulating, and the book should promote a thorough profitable study of the play.

FRIENDS AND HELPERS. Compiled by Sarah J. E Boston: Ginn & Co. 231 pp. Price, 70 cents. In "Friends and Helpers" Sarah J. Eddy has book about animals that every child will be the bet reading. It is the spirit of mercy, kindness, and lore she seeks to develop in children She would have t appreciate the help and usefulness of all kinds of ani and treat them with considerate kindness. As th lessness and ignorance are responsible for much s ing, this effort to train the child in right relations to mals ought to have most excellent effects. The itself is charming with its stories, poems, and partie attractive illustrations. It is always instructive, yet rank with young readers as a story book. We hope see it widely used in the schools.

THE HONEY-MAKERS. By Margaret W. M Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. 424 pp. Price, $1 For the purposes of most readers what Miss Mar W. Morley has to say about "The Honey-Makers," plainly called bees, could better be told in smaller pass. It is hard to imagine that the reading about: brosia and nectar in Greek and other classic literat could stir any one's desire to know "the important the bee holds in the principal literatures of the w Still, taken for what it is worth, the hundred or pages devoted to this subject have a curious interes show considerable learning. The larger part of the deals with the structure and the habits of bees, of v rather too much is quoted from other writers. It readable, if less instructive, than a scientific tra of the subject.

The "Stories of the Rhine," by Menco Stern, pleasing variety for German classes. The atmosp purely German, for the stories are associated close the river which they follow from source to mouth man history, geography, literature, customs, and leg are bound together with the thread of the Rhine, st the real Germany, in part, at least, is brought vivi the mind of the student. The stories are short bright, and seem admirably adapted for easy rel classes, for conversation and composition mac After the monotony of the pointless and detached p graphs that are often presented in readers and con tion books, this is a welcome change. The illustrat of German scenes are a pleasant addition to the boo

BOOKS RECEIVED.

"Sir Patrick: The Puddock." By L. B. Walford.-"A SULE Ransome's Short History of England." Price, 40 cents. New! Longmans, Green, & Co.

"Publishing a Book." By Charles Welsh. Price, 50 cents. B D. C. Heath & Co.

"Milton's L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas. E by T. F. Huntington Boston: Ginn & Co.

The Divine Pedigree of Man." By Thomson Jay Hudson. Pr $1.50 Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.

"A History of American Privateers." By Edgar Stanton Ma Price, $3.50. New York: D. Appleton & Co. "Plutarch's Lives." (Vol. 10.) Price, 50 cents. New York: Ta Macmillan Company.

"Of Making One's Self Beautiful." By Wm. C. Gannett Fr $1.00. Boston: James H. West.

"Geschichten Vom Rhein." By Menco Stern. New York: can Book Company.

"Shakespeare's King Richard II." Price, 10 cents. New Ith Cassell & Co.

"The Light of Scarthey." By Egerton Castle. Price, $1 York: Frederick A. Stokes Company.

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PRACTICAL PALMISTRY. By Henry Frith. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company. 50 cents each.

A handy little book is Beuchtel's "Dictionary of Mythology," with its cyclopedic sketches of characters in Grecian and Roman mythology. The book on "Law" bears the sub-title "How to Keep Out of It," and explains the legal principles involved in ordinary business transactions and everyday affairs.

The ignorance of common legal rights and principles is surprising, and is too often the cause of ill-will and useless litigation. This book, which instructs in simple, clear, practical terms, serves a good purpose.

The small volume on "Dancing" begins with the first steps, and leads up to the square and round dances, with a full list of calls and figures for the german. Palmistry is a popular study or amusement, and the handbook on this subject by an adept will doubtless find many interested readers.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE. By Norman Hapgood. New York: The Macmillan Company. Price, $2.00.

In this volume the author has endeavored to show Lin

Arithmetic."

BOSTON. The New England schoolbook men met January 8 and had their annual dinner at Hotel Bellevue. President H. I. Smith presided, and short addresses were made. Sixteen members were present. The next meeting of the New England Conference of Educational Workers, drawing department, will be held Saturday, January 20, at 10 a m., at the English high school building, Boston. Subject: "Nature and Art"; address by Walter Sargent. Henry T. Bailey, chairman. Olive E. Underhill, Lowell, secretary.

NEWTON. The monthly meeting of the Newton Education Association was held January 10 in the Newton high school building at Newtonville. There was a large gathering of members, who listened to an interesting address on "Woman's Work in British Local Government," given by Mrs. Widrington of London, Eng. SPRINGFIELD. Figures have just been compiled showing the total enrollment in the local schools for the year ending in June. During that year 10,786 pupils were enrolled, a gain of 742 over the year previous. This, it is argued, bears out the statement made often in school circles, that the city should build one new school building a year, merely to keep pace with the normal increase in the school population. There is not a school building in the city which will accommodate the 742 pupils who were added to the school population during the year. The new high school has only 622, while the Central-street school has 692 pupils, these being the two largest buildings in the city. The Forest Park school, which was opened a year ago this month, has 482 pupils in thirteen rooms, besides a kindergarten with thirty-four pupils. For the past several years there has been a nearly steady increase in the school population. These

are the figures for the six years past: 1894, 7,637; 1895, 8,304; 1896, 8,717; 1897, 9,488; 1898, 10,044; 1899, 10,786.

MEDFORD. Walter Scott Dickson, a wealthy retired shoe manufacturer of Salem, has endowed Tufts College with $50,000 for the purpose of establishing a new professorship. The only condition attending the endowment is that Rev. Edwin C. Bolles, formerly pastor of the First Universalist church of Salem, be made professor of English and American literature, at a salary of $2,000 per year, for the term of his natural life. CAMBRIDGE. The bequest of Edward Austin, a Boston merchant, who left $500,000 to Harvard for scholarships in 1898, has been arranged for. The settlement of the estate gave a total of $425,000, which the president and fellows voted to dispose of as follows: Of the income, $2,000 will be given in eight installments of $250. There are also eight teaching fellowships, of $500 cash, in the graduate school. One thousand dollars was also given for a traveling scholarship in architecture; $4,000 for teachers assigned in medical investigation; and $3,000 for other beneficiary purposes.- -At a meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College January 10, it was voted to concur with the president and fellows in appointing James A. Noyes a member of the university council, and also in the election of B. L. Robinson, Ph.D., as Gray professor of systematic botany. A committee of three was appointed, with a committee of the corporation, to consider the franchise in voting for overseers.

DANIELSON. Principal Somes has completed his report upon the eyes of the pupils of the Killingly high school and the graded schools of Danielson. In accordance with a recent law, the examination of the eyes of the pupils was begun about two months ago, and Principal Somes has had personal charge of the testing, except in the four lower rooms. The total number of scholars enrolled in the schools during the fall term was 394, of whom 351 were tested as to their vision. The eyes of twenty-six scholars only were found to be defective, a most remarkable showing in comparison with results obtained in other places. There were only four who were actually near-sighted, and three whose eyes were differently focused. In most of the cases, where the eyesight was recorded as defective, the vision was nearly normal, the scholars being only partially near-sighted, A detailed account of the test will be sent to the state board of education, and the parents of the children whose eyes were defective will be notified.

NEW HAVEN. The third annual meeting of the Society of College Gymnasium Directors opened December 29, with an attendance of about thirty directors from a score of colleges and universities. The first session was opened with the address of the president, Dr. Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard, who briefly outlined the work of the convention and reviewed the progress of the work of the gymnasia of the country. Dr. Edward Hitchcock of Amherst College followed with an address on "What action can be taken to increase the dignity and importance of the physical work in the estimation of college authorities?" detailing his own long experience and the results of his work. Dr. W. G. Anderson of Yale delivered a brief address on "What is the best means of preventing students from entering athletic when in a crippled condition."

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-The Cuban Educational Associat which was formed by General Jo Wheeler and Gilbert E. Herroun ab year ago, has elected the following offe for the coming year: President, Gene Joseph Wheeler; secretary and treas Gilbert E. Herroun; directors, Gene Wheeler, General Leonard Wood, T. dore Roosevelt, Ferdinand W. P Nicholas Murray Butler, Albert S William H. Baldwin, Jr., and Gilber: Herroun. In the past year more tha. young men from Cuba and Puerto R between the ages of fourteen and g teen, have been allotted to educationa stitutions. General Wheeler has not sent any pupils from the Philippines he has a number under examination v. a view to determining their worth.

SYRACUSE. The will of Erastus! Holden, disposing of an estate of ne $1,000,000, has been filed. The pubik quests are: Syracuse University, $ Syracuse women's and children's hosp $5,000; and Onondaga county orphan lum, $2,000. The widow receives $2 and each of the four children will re more than $100,000.

James G. Gulick, lately appointed s intendent of schools of the province Mayaquez, Puerto Rico. died rece while on his way to that place of m gitis. Mr. Gulick was twenty-five of age, and was graduated from Har WEST VIRGINIA. MORGANTOWN. The winter quar convocation of West Virginia Unir was held January 2. The convocati dress was delivered by Dr. Chara Dabney, president of the Univers Tennessee, on "Washington's Inter Education." President Raymond, quarterly report, announced that friends of the university had given f to pay for a new pipe organ for th versity chapel. He also reported a creased attendance of 150 students last year, and the strengthening of departments. Most of his report taken up with an interesting discuss the elective system récently adopted the university. The degree of bacher arts was conferred upon five students At the spring convocation President dan of Leland Stanford University w liver the address.

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WILLIAMSBURG. Mrs. Algotha Wa the oldest school teacher in the state Ohio, died at her home here December at the advanced age of ninety-nine yea She has taught school regularly seventy-eight years, and was known to the oldest school teacher in Ohio, if I in the entire United States.

CINCINNATI. Former Superintende of Schools William H. Morgan died at home January 3, after a short illness Morgan was born in New York Apri. 1837, and began teaching in this e 1856, afterward serving in different p tions until 1889, when he was ele superintendent of schools, succeeding E. E. White, serving in that capacity June, 1899. Mr. Morgan married, in Miss Eliza Bushnell, sister of Gover Bushnell of Ohio. Their children now ing are John Davis Morgan, Asa Bush Morgan, and Mrs. Helen Morgan-Ste

-The public schools closed Tuesd January 2, to attend the funeral of the ex-Superintendent William Morga Cincinnati wants a new high school a an appropriation of $300,000 will be ass for to erect four new school buildings.

COLUMBUS. At the sixteenth ant session of the Ohio Association of Scho Examiners, held last month, the following officers were elected for the ensuing ye President, S. A. Stilwell, Waynesville vice-president, G. W. Brumbaugh, Da

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