Study Nature-Old and Young The Year Round. The Best Books-and always good. $87.50 BOOK FOR $7.50. Better than all others, because of the MAGNIFICENT COLORED PLATES. The best work, and best suited for all who are interested in our American plant life is the American Wild Flowers. By PROF. GEO. L. GOODALE, of Cambridge, with 51 superb colored plates, by Isaac Sprague. Small quarto, cloth, extra, net, $7.50. The Ferns of North America. This standard work, the only one on the subject worthy that name, by PROF. D C. EATON, of Yale. A very limited number of copies only, can now be offered, and no more can ever be issued. With 81 perfect colored plates, of all the species, by Emerton and Faxon. 2 vols. Small quarto, cloth, gilt top, net. $35.00. OTHER GOOD BOOKS. Butterflies of New England, 235 figure, $7.00. Manual of Mosses of No. America, 6 plates, $4.00. Handbook of Invertebrate Zoology, illustrated, $3.00. Methods in Microscopical Anatomy and Embryology, illustrated, $3.00. Behren's Guide to Microscope in Botany, $5.00. The Naturalists' Assistant, $1.50. Book List for Naturalists on request. Any book postpaid on receipt of price, or sold by all booksellers in the United States. BRADLEE WHIDDEN, Publisher & Bookseller, 18 Arch St., Boston, Mass. The Popular Question Book. A new work from cover to cover. It has been prepared by educational experts. We guarantee it. Thousands of questions and correct answers on History, Arithmetic, Hygiene, Geography, etc. Cloth, Price, $1.00. EDUCATIONAL PUB. CO.. 50 Bromfie'd Street, BOSTON. NOTES. Edison is said to employ 200 women for fine mechanical work on his electrical inventions. - Miss I 'a Pollock took the highest rank in the examination of fifteen physicians in Balti more by the State Board of Medical Examners, in which is vested the authority to grant licenses to practise. - Mr. Alexander Graham Bell calculates that a mother, in talking to her infant, speaks 35,000 words a day-equal to about four hours' continuous talking, and this notwithstanding the fact that the baby does not know what any single one of the 35,000 words means. -In Jerusalem there are eight printing offices, of which five belong to religious orders and three are devoted to the publication of newspapers-Haor(light), Hacharazeleth(flower) and Jeruscholajim, all three in the Hebrew language; at the convent, the most of the printing is done in Latin and Arabic. - An old Mount Washington guide says that to carry a compass is an entirely unnecessary proceeding, as there are three distinct ways by any one of which a traveler may learn all that the compass teaches: "Three-fourths of the moss on trees grows on the north side, the heaviest boughs on spruce-trees are always on the south side, and the topmost twig of every uninjured hemlock tips to the east." DAY SCHOOL SONG BOOKS SONGS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS. By G. F. JUNKERMAN, Supt. of Music in Cincinnati Public Schools. In two parts. Price of each Part, 10 cents. FIRST YEARS IN SONG LAND, By GEO. F. ROOT. The most simple. progressive. and complete elementary system of Music for Day Schools ever published. Price. 50 cents. DAINTY SONGS FOR LITTLE LADS AND LASSIES. For use in the Kindergarten, School, and Home. By JAMES R. MURRAY. A bright little book of songs for little singers, with good words and taking music, on subjects especially interesting to little folks. Price, 35 cents. JUVENILE CLASS AND CONCERT. For Young People's Singing Classes and Day Schools. By H. H. MCGRANAHAN and W. A. LAFFERTY. A book by experienced and practical teachers, containing a complete and carefully graded course of instruction, and a large variety of new and cholce Songs, Duets, Trios, Dialogues, Motion Songs, Glees Price, $1.00. AGENCIES AND SCHOOLS. EASTERN TEACHERS' AGENCY. PROGRESSIVE TEACHERS Occurring, and there are always opportunities for wanted at all times. Vacancies are constantly bright, earnest teachers to advance. We receive calls for teachers for every grade in E. F. FOSTER, MANAGER. 50 BROMFIELD STREET, BOSTON, MASS. THE FISK TEACHERS' AGENCIES. 100 PAGE AGENCY MANUAL SENT FREE TO PRIMARY TEACHERS. 4 Ashburton Pl., Koston, Mass; 70 Fifth Ave., New York; 106 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill.; 371 Main St., Hartford, Conn.; 120 1-2 So. Spring St., Los Angeles, Cal.; 131 Third St., Portland, Ore. THE BRIDGE TEACHERS' AGENCY, BOSTON AND CHICAGO. ONE FEE REGISTERS IN BOTH OFFICES. Send for Agency Manual. Business Offices: 110 Tremont Street, Boston, 211-213 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. KERR & HUYSSOON GET PLACES FOR TEACHERS. CHARGE NO ADVANCE REGISTRATION FEE but depend on results. 3161 Positions filled. Salaries aggregate $2,053,600. Send stamp for blanks. UNION SCHOOL BUREAU, (Union Teachers' Agency and American School Bureau, Consolidated) 2 West 14th Street New York. ALBANY TEACHERS' AGENCY Secures good positions for good teachers with good records. We have good openings for graduates of New ESTABLISHED E. MIRIAM COYRIERE, Widely Known and 1880. 150 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. Patronized. Eligible teachers promptly provided for Families, Schools, Colleges. Skilled Teachers supplied with positions. Circulars of Good Schools to Parents. School property rented and sold. School and Kindergarten Material, etc. Best of reference furnished. TEACHERS' CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND. 36 BROMFIELD STREET, BOSTON. Seven years established, For the best teachers, promptest service and more desirable positions, address F. B. SPAULDING, Manager. S. R. WINCHELL'S TEACHERS' AGENCY. This is a personal agency. It deals with teachers only by personal recommendation. No fee for registration. Send two-cent stamp for Enrollment Blank. Only the best teachers are wanted. secured for teachers in 1892. Over 300 positions filled. This represents $200,000 the work of one manager and one agency. Good vacancies now on our books for October, many of them in and near Chicago. See catalogue for particulars. New Topical History of United States Memorial Story of America -From 1492 to 1892.- - NOTES. LOUIS KOSSUTH, the Hungarian patriot, is fast nearing ninety, but looks hale, and is seemingly as alert mentally as he ever was. He looks like a patriarch, but has ruddy cheeks, a flowing beard, white as snow, and scanty locks. His house was formerly a palace, but is now going to decay. Here he lives with his books, being interested just now in scientific studies. ITALY has an Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and she is a school teacher; the daughter of a poor widow. At the age of eighteen she be came a school teacher, teaching in an elementary school, and two years later published her first volume of verse, which was very successful. Her name is Ada Negri It will be a wonder to the teachers in America how a teacher, especially one engaged in primary school duties, can successfully perform her duties and, at the same time, be able to give to the world, "long and ambitious" poems. -IN the United States they believe very heartily in the teaching of patriotism. It lends itself as delightfully as most other subjects to amusing school-boy blunders. "Who was the first man?" asked a Chicago teacher. "Washington," promptly answered the young Ameri can. "No," said the teacher; "Adam was the first man." "Oh, well, I suppose you are right," replied the undaunted patriot, "if you refer to furriners "-Ed. Times NO PEN CAN DESCRIBE The suffering I endured ten years from Dyspepsia. The most prominent educators of the country say it is the best and most complete "Manual" on writing that has ever been published. It contains full and explicit directions for self-instruction and class use, and facilitates the teacher's work and gives the best methods for presenting the subject to the class. Business penmanship can be taught in several months with this method. The many new original and valuable features and the pleasant style in which it is written, make it a book abounding in instruction, inspiration and enjoyment for everyone. Profusely Illustrated. Cloth. Price, 75 Cents. EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., 50 Bromfield St., BOSTON. 70 Fifth Ave., New York. 262 Wabash Ave., Chicago. CLEVELAND, AND CHICAGO. Through Palace Buffet Sleeping-Cars between New York, Boston and Chicago. Two Systems of Life Insurance are contesting the field for public favor - the Old Line and the New. The former is cumbersome, artificial and costly. The latter is simple, natural and inexpensive. The Massachusetts LIFES ASSOCIATION is a striking example of the new plan of Life Insurance. The Largest and Strongest Natural-Premium Insurance Co. of New England. 35,000 MEMBERS. $105,000,000 INSURANCE in Force. $1,000,000 CASH SURPLUS. $7,000,000 Paid in DEATH LOSSES. The NEW POLICY of the Massachusetts Benefit Association has no superior. It gives Cash Dividends, Cash Surrender Values, Paid-Up Insurance, and other desirable options. Splendid Openings for Energetic Men to Act as Special, General and State Agents. GEO. A. LITCHFIELD, Pres., 53 State St., Boston. NOTES. SPECIAL COLLEGES. A modern humorist (Mr. H. D. Traill, we think) once drew a picture of the school of the future, where every pupil would have a master to himself, who should be confined to impart. ing instruction on a limited portion of one subject only. One boy would thus, after ten years' schooling, have a really sound knowledge of the history of King Henry VIII.'s reign while another would have laid the foundation for a searching study of some of the carbon-compounds. The president of the Chicago University would seem to be in favor of some such "specialization": "How much better would it be if one institution devoted its strength and energy to the development of history and politics, another to the biological sciences, another to throwing all its efforts into the great field of electricity. As it is, a tenth-rate college in a remote locality announces courses in every department of human knowledge, and students are compelled in self-defense to dabble in everything, rather than do work in a few things." To most of us this may seem an argument for abolishing "tenth-rate colleges," but hardly a reason for concentrating all the history students and teachers in one "remote, locality," and all the mathematicians in another and so Educational Times. on. Dr. J. G. Fitch, of the Education Department, London, Eng., writes: "I see that your Applied Psychology' is full of valuable, practical counsels, and that pains have been taken in it, to base these counsels on the Science of Mindland on the philosophy of human nature. I always very gladly wel. come any addition to our educational litera. ture, which has this two-fold design. For mere empiracle rules without any perception of principles which underlie those rules, and give them validity, are !profoundly unsatisfactory for the purpose af equipping à teacher for his work." YOU NEED SCHOOL SINGING BOOKS. NOTE THE FOLLOWING: MERRY SONGS. 118 pp. Words and music. None better for schoolroom. 118 pp. of Instructions. Price, 30 cents. $3.00 per dozen. MERRY MELODIES. 80,000 copies sold. Contains some of the sweetest melodies ever written. Price, 15 cents. $1.50 per doz. SILVERY NOTES. A new book to follow Merry Melodies. Can't be excelled. Price, 15 cents. $1.50 per dozen. PRIMARY AND CALISTHENIC SONGS. Contains Motion Songs and others suitable for Primary Grades. Price, 50 cents. No. 1, contains 80 pp., words and music, all original. No. 2, contains 80 pp., most of which are original, but some are old favorites. No. 3, contains 72 pp. of standard, patriotic and miscellaneous songs. Best collection ever made. Price, any of this series, 15 cents or $1.50 per dozen. SONGS OF SCHOOL LIFE. 32 pp. of stirring' suitable songs for school use, the words being adapted to popular airs. They will wake up any school. They are popular and cheap. 6c each or 60 cents a dozen. SUNBEAMS OF SONG is a similar work, same A. FLANAGAN, 262 Wabash Avenue, I have made $25 a week at Home. Instructions FREE to lady readers. Send stamp. (No humbug.) MRS. J. A, MANNING, Box 69, ANNA, OHIO. Will $500 Help You Out? We If so, you can have it! offer you the Sole Agency for an article that is Wanted in Every Home and Inidspensable in Every Office, something that SELLS AT SIGHT. Other articles sell rapidly at Double the Price, though not answering the purpose half so well. You can make from $500 to $700 in three months, introducing it, after which it will bring A Steady, Liberal Income, if properly attended to. Ladies do as well as men, in town or country. Don't Miss this Chance. Write at once to J. W. JONES, Manager, Springfield, Ohio. CURRENT An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine devoted to recording the history of the world as that history is being made. Not mere extracts from other publications, but an original, carefully studied review, giving an intelligent and comprehensive grasp of affairs. The only magazine, covering the historical field systematically, and to which the reader may turn with absolute certainty that no current historical event of importance is omitted. A concise yet comprehensive review for the use of teachers, clergymen, lawyers, students and others who would be up with the times. Each number contains about 224 pages; price $1.50 per year: sample copies, 25 cents. Full descriptive circulars, sample cover showing contents of last issue mailed free request. Address Garretson, Cox & Co., Publishers, 357 373 7th Street, Buffalo, N. Y. HISTORY upon AGENTS WANTED. KEEP ON YOUR TABLE MCCLELLAN'S APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY. Used in the Normal Schools of NORMAL, ILLS. PROVIDENCE, R. I. CHICO, CAL. INDIANA AND KUTZTOWN, PA. HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL OF PEDAGOGY, ETC. 'MINNESOTA READING CIRCLES, ETC. "I have looked in vain, till I received this book, for a practical Psychology, one that would be really helpful to teachers in their work. I must say that McLellan's comes nearer my ideal than any other book on the subject that I have as yet seen. EDW. T. PIERCE, LL.D., Prin. State Normal School, Chico, Ca.. Ex. Cloth. Illustrated. 350 pages. $1.25. EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 50 Bromfield Street, Boston. LATE CORRESPONDENCE. Editor POPULAR EDUCATOR: Yesterday I accidentally took up No. 1, Vol. XI, of the POPULAR EDUCATOR, in turning over its pages I found so much valuable information and interesting reading matter that I at once resolved to join its army of readers. Enclosed please find one dollar, subscription for Vol. XI. Being a follower of Herbart for a number of years, I am exceedingly pleased to find in Dr. Noss so able an advocate of Herbartianism, and I hope to hear again from the Doctor in in your columns. I most heartily endorse Prof. Greenwood's views on Silly Reading Books, maybe it's because I learned to read in the old McGuffey's Readers in the fifties down in old Missouri, but I love them to-day. I still have the old series in my library, and my children would rather read in them than in modern readers. W. H. GRAEBNER, State Board of Control of Wisconsin Reformatory, Charitable and Penal Insts., Madison. en -The State Normal School begins the year under favorable auspices. Notwithstanding the hard times the attendance is larger than last year. The new Principal, Dr. Boone, late Professor of Pedagogics in the Indiana State University, comes to his work with an viable reputation as author and teacher, and receives most cordial welcome. Already the school feels the influence of new inspiration. Appropriation was made by the last legisla ture of $20,000 for a gymnasium building. Work begins at once and the building is expected to be ready for occupancy spring. before - Michigan suffers a serious loss from the educational ranks by the removal of Prof. Walter M. Cheever, Supt. of the Lansing schools, who goes to Wisconsin to accept the chair of Civics and History in the State Normal School at Milwaukee. -It is a remarkable record when a High School doubles its numbers in a single year. Yet this is what has happened to the Ypsilanti High School under the superintendency of Supt. M. A. Whitney. Two years of good work has put such enthusiasm into the lower grades that the students stay by to get the benefits of the higher work. Supt. Whitney is a Maine product, and if that state has any more of the same sort Michigan will know how to take care of them. still the work in -Muskegon continues which she was the state pioneer, science She made no mistake teaching in the grades. when she put a born naturalist in charge of the work. Prof. McSouth added to his duties as instructor last year the publication of a small monthly called "The Naturalist Teacher," full of suggestions and helps for elementary science work. This year the little paper is much enlarged, and several of his former pupils in the Normal school are associated with him in the editorial work. -Prof. C. O. Hoyt of Jackson takes the place of Prof. Cheever as Supt of the Lansing schools. -Last year the State Normal School granted a year's leave of absence to C. E. St. John, Assistant in the Dept. of Physical Science. The year was spent at Harvard, and at its close, Mr. St. John won the John Lyndall scientific scholarship. This carries with it a year's further privileges at Harvard and a year of study abroad. The Normal School like herself for the a good mother, comforts absence of her children by thinking of the honors which come to them. I am much pleased with "Leaves from Nature's Story-Book," and shall take pains to recommend them to teachers for Supplemental use in class reading and for school libraries. ROBERT FURlong, Supt. Schools, Marion Co. Cal. -The essays read before the Brooklyn Ethical Association during the season of 1892-'93 are now ready, in a volume entitled "Factors in American Civilization." Like the series that have preceded them, their keynote is evolution. The present volume is notable for the number of subjects in it that have been treated by thoroughly equipped specialists. Among these may be mentioned Charities, by Professor Amos G. Warner; The Drink Problem, by Dr. T. D. Crothers; Labor, by N. P. Gilman and J. W. Sullivan; Foreign Commerce, by Hon. William J. Coombs; and Penal Methods, by James McKeen, (D. Appleton & Co., New York.) -The October number of the Atlantic Monthly contains many timely articles of historical and literary value. Chief among these may be mentioned "The Isthmus and Sea Power", by Captain A. T. Mahan, U. S. N., a fundamental inquiry into the future history of the United States in the event of the opening of the Nicaragua Canal. READING AND GEOGRAPHY. I have just finished reading your new book entitled "Stories of Australasia." It is a charming and instructive little book, and will prove a valuable addition to school literature. J. B. YOUNG, Supt., Davenport, Iowa. I have received the "Stories of Australasia." It is the finest thing of that kind I ever saw. Why has it not been thought of before? We ought to have a book of that kind for Africa and Asia. C. L. BEMIS, Supt. Schools, Ionia, Mich. I have examined "Stories of Australasia" carefully, and find it a timely, valuable and interesting "wonder" book. It ought to be a popular supplementary reading book for intermediate and grammar grades. T. C. CLENDENIN, Supt. Schools, Cairo, Ills. NATURE STUDY IN CALIFORNIA. I have read many pages of each volume of "Leaves from Nature's Story Book" with delight. Mrs. Kelly's visits to the bottom of the ocean are grand but simple, and should be within reach of all school children, for all can learn from them. J. H. SHANNON, Supt. Schools, Inyo Co., Cal. Liked the "Leaves from Nature's Story. Book" so much that I at once put them on our list of Supplementary Reading. The author has done excellent work, and has done more than any other writer for the children in this department of school work. She literally leads the children by the hand into the very home-life of Nature's children. INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE. Educational Publishing Co. I have examined the two volumes "Stories of Industry" and find that they contain much useful and interesting information. We shall order some copies when we make out our next list of books for supplementary reading. Yours truly, N. C. SCHAEFFER. (Late Keystone State Normal School, now State Supt. of Public Inttruction, Pa) "The forty copies of "Leaves from Nature's Story-Book", Vol. III, which we have just received from your firm, are very satisfactory indeed. I have for some time tried to instil into the minds of my pupils a love for nature's story, and they find Mrs. Kelly's books most attractive. A. LONELLA SANDERRON. I have examined "Stories for Home and School" with the greatest satisfaction and profit. I wish it might be placed in every home and school, for it would exert a strong influence for good. A. S. DRAPER, Supt. Schools, Cleveland, Ohio. By PICTURES FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE. Sarah A. Hamlin, Teacher of English Litera ture, Dean Academy, Mass Educational Publishing Company: Boston, New York and Chicago. This book is designed for young pupils and happily meets a demand which is only now just beginning to be heard for something that will interest the boys and girls in our English classics. The plan is altogether unique; the pictures presented are very attractive; Miss Hamlin herself writes in a charming, and indeed rather facinating style, and her style harmonizes happily with the extracts she makes from the several writers, so that there are no unpleasant or incongruous breaks as the reader goes from her description and interpretation to the language of the great writers. No story is given in full; but enough, so that one easily gets the substance; and such a portion is almost sure to create an appetite for a more thorough acquaintance with the works of which such delightful specimens are presented. In this way the reader is treated to sketches from King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, the Canterbury Pilgrims, two pictures from Paradise Lost, Sir Roger de Coverley, the home of the Vicar of Wakefield, Pippa, and several others. The selections are judicious and are severally extensive enough The to accomplish the purpose aimed at. engravings are excellent. Boston Commonwealth, E. E. Hale, Editor. A NEW THROUGH SLEEPING CAR LINE FROM CHICAGO TO SEATTLE Via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and Great Northern Railways, has been established and first-class sleeping cars will hereafter run daily from Chicago at 10.30 P. M., arriving at Seattle 11 30 P. M., fourth day. This is undoubtedly the best route to reach the North Pacific Coast. For time tables, maps and other information apply to the nearest ticket agent, or address C. A. BROWN, New England Pass. Agent, 210 Washington St., Boston, Mass. CHROMO REWARD CARDS. Thousands of New Pretty Designs, Flowers, Fruits, Scenes, Views, Crescents, Shields, Easels, Juveniles, Vases, Ships, Birds Animals, Balloons, Anchors, etc. Prices for 12 cards, size 3 x 4 1-2 in., 8c; 3 1-2 x 5 1-2 12c; 3 1-2 x 5 1-2 embossed 15c; 4 1-2 x 6 1-2 20c; 5 1-2 x 7 1-2 35c; 7 x 9 50c. All beautiful Reward and Gift Cards no two alike. Samples sent free to Teachers. New Price List of School Supplies, Chromos, Plain, Embossed, Frosted. Silk-Fringed Chromo Reward and Gift Cards, Reward, Gift and Teachers' Books, Speakers, Dialogues, Reports, Aids, and a few samples Chromo Reward Cards free. All postpaid. Address A. J. FOUCH, Warren, Pa. |