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will be shown in parallel subdivisions by states and countries, and by grades or classifications according to the age of the pupils, the work and methods of instruction from the kindergarten and primaries up to the universities, so that the entire educational processes of each state may be seen at a glance, and may be compared with those of other states. Thus we shall have the kindergarten work, covering the years from four to six, primary, from six to ten, grammar, from ten to fourteen, high school, from fourteen to eighteen, and college, from eighteen to twenty-four. All the different movements, such as evening schools, cooking-schools, schools of stenography and typewriting, industrial schools, etc., etc., will be represented, and there will be congresses, with discussions and comparisons of methods and results, by the world's greatest educators. The authorities of Harvard University have applied for 7,000 square feet for a thoroughly representative exhibit from that historic institution. The outlook is very promising for a grand exhibition of woman's industrial, educational and charitable work in this and foreign lands.

Besides the technically educational exhibit there will be an opportunity to study any and every subject in which anyone may be interested. Are you a student of botany? The floral display will be complete and beautiful. Do you incline to music or the fine arts? Elaborate preparations have been completed for the presentation of the productions of the greatest masters, and the exhibition of gems and masterpieces of art from the public and private galleries of the world. Are you a plain farmer? A miniature model of a typical western farm, complete in every detail, will be shown; and all kinds of farm and other machinery will be seen in actual operation.

In other departments of study we note that the Washington commission has arranged to make a very complete fish exhibit. It will include all kinds of deep-sea and inland species of fish, oysters, clams, crabs, lobsters and other crustaceans, turtles, frogs, snakes and other reptiles, specimens of aquatic mammals, such as sea-otter, seals, fishers, beavers, musk-rats, etc., fish-eating birds, their nests and eggs, and fishing-boats and apparatus.

"Carl Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, the celebrated dealer in wild animals, will take to Chicago his entire collection of trained and wild animals, also his collection in natural history. A structure in the form of a Roman arena will be erected in the Midway Plaisance on a space 110 feet square, where some seventy animals and several hundred monkeys and parrots will be shown. The wildest beasts living, together with domestic animals, will go through all sorts of per

formances."

A vast amount of very valuable descriptive, statistical and other information concerning the different states of the Union will be presented, together with topographical maps, photographs, etc., and many elegant and costly illustrated books descriptive of the resources,

productions, population, education and advantages to settlers and capitalists will be given away to visitors. The opportunities for the study of geography and ethnology will be unlimited, for representatives of every nation under heaven will be there in national costume, and ready and prepared to illustrate the customs and peculiarities of their respective lands. It is announced that

"One of the remarkable features of the Exposition will be a series of religious congresses from August 25 through the month of September, 1893. The chairman of the general committee, Rev. John Henry Barrows, of Chicago, has associated with him members of sixteen different religious organizations. They have invited the representatives of all the great historic religions to confer together and to show what light religion has to throw on the great problems of the age. Their plan has met the approval of Mr. Gladstone, Cardinal Gibbons, the poets Holmes and Whittier, Archbishops Ireland and Ryan, Professor Drummond, Professor Godet, of Switzerland; Rabbi Maybaum, of Berlin; Justice Ameer Ali, of Calcutta; President Washburn, of Robert College, Constantinople; Bunyin Nanjie, a learned Buddhist, of Japan, and scores of the leading scholars of America and Great Britain."

Lovers of the curious, and admirers of the ingenious skill of man will be delighted with such announcements as the following:

"The Jelly Palace, which the women of California will prepare for the World's Fair exhibit, will be sixteen by twenty feet and twenty-five feet high, with two open doors approached by three marble steps. The frame work will be of wire. On this will be firmly placed several thousand jelly glasses cups, globes, prisms, etc. filled with jelly of many shades of color arranged in artistic and beautiful designs. The interior will be brilliantly illuminated by electricity. The cost of the frame work and glasses alone is estimated at $2,700."

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"A paper published in Warsaw, Poland, describes a wonderful clock which will be exhibited in Chicago. The clock is the result of six years of earnest work by a watchmaker, named Goldfaden, in Warsaw. It represents a railroad station, with waiting rooms for travellers, telegraph and ticket offices, an outside promenade, and a fountain in operation. Along side of the station are seen the tracks, with signal-booths, switches and water reservoirs, in fact, everything belonging to a European railroad depot. In the dome of the central tower of the building is a clock showing the local time, while in each of two other towers there is a clock, giving the time, respectively, of New York and Pekin. In both of the towers, last mentioned, a calendar and barometer are seen. Every quarter of an hour it gets lively at the station. First the telegraph operator does his work issues the telegram to signify that the track is clear. Then the doors of the building are opened; the station-keeper and his assistant appear on the platform; at the ticket office the cashier is noticeable; the guards leave the signal-booths and hoist the barrier; a long row of passengers is observable in front of the ticket office; baggage is hauled; one of the guards rings the bell and a train runs into the station. While the whistle of the locomotive is blown, the train stops; a workman goes along the row of coaches and hits the axles with a hammer, while another one pumps water into the water tank of the locomotive. After a third signal with the station-bell the train starts and disappears in a tunnel on the opposite side. The station-keeper and his assistant leave the platform and the doors of the depot building are closed, the guards enter their booths and quiet reigns. After fifteen minutes the same trouble commences again."

We have made these notes simply to indicate in the briefest way the variety of the attractions and the scope of the educational advantages. offered to young and old, rich and poor in this remarkable exhibition. Truly, it is a privilege to live in this late age of the world's civilization, and if anyone doubts it, let him attend the World's Columbian Exposition.

F. H. P.

AMONG THE BOOKS.

It seems as though the coming generations would grow wise without effort, so many and so ingenious are the means for administering knowledge by indirection. SEA-SIDE AND WAY-SIDE, by Julia McNair Wright, is No. 4 in the series of "Nature Readers," and while learning to read well the pupil becomes familiar with the leading facts and principles of geology, astronomy and biology. Such books cannot be too highly commended, and should be found in the homes where there are children as well as in the schools. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co. 70 cents.

TYPICAL TALES OF FANCY, ROMANCE AND HISTORY FROM SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS. Edited by Robert E. Raymond, A. M. Besides a memoir of William Shakespeare, this book contains "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "As You Like it," and "Julius Caesar," arranged on a unique plan for reading aloud in the family and to popular audiences, as well as for study in classes in English literature, and for supplementary reading in grammar and high schools. Portions of the text are given in full, and between these the narrative is told in an easy and interesting way largely in the very words of Shakespeare, but in a very much more condensed form. Thus the entire play can easily be read aloud at a sitting, and a clear and intelligent conception of it can be formed even by the younger minds in the audience. New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert. $1.20.

MEN AND EVENTS OF FORTY YEARS is the fitting name given to a book of very interesting personal recollections by the late Hon. J. B. Grinnell of Iowa. Mr. Grinnell was preeminently a man of affairs, a mau of action. He came of sturdy New England and Huguenot ancestry and was born in New Haven, Vt., Dec. 22, 1821. He was a bright, sturdy lad and determined to make something of himself. In this he succeeded. His breezy, buoyant nature, foresight, energy, sagacity and pluck carried him through to successful issues in many things which to most men would have proved dismal failures. His education was in New York State under Abolition influences. After graduating at Auburn Theological Seminary, in 1847, he preached for a time at Union Village, N. Y., Washington, D. C., and in New York City. Then he received the famous advice from Horace Greeley, for whose Tribune he had nine years before written breezy letters from Wisconsin-"Go West, young man, go West." The young man went west, preëmpted several thousand acres of the virgin soil of central Iowa and laid the foundations of Grinnell. Here, on the rolling prairie, has grown up a beautiful young city, full of thrifty, enterprising and cultured people. No liquor is sold there. Its churches are full and it is the seat of Iowa College, which continually adds to its fair fame. Mr. Grinnell was always generous and benevolent. His donations to the town, the church and the college would, all told, make a goodly fortune. His royal nature and genial wit and earnest advocacy of all noble causes endeared him to all. He was sent to Congress, and did good service during the war period. He died full of years and honors, on March 31, 1891, having just completed this volume. The diction of this book is not always perfect, but the contact with notable men and the newness of the West is very entertaining. We wish there were many more such men in the world.

The twenty-first volume (new series) of THE CENTURY MAGAZINE, from November, 1891, to April, 1892, presents the usual attractive variety of reading matter and artistic illustrations, in the tasteful binding and finish for which the Century Company are so deservedly famous.

An excellent and convenient ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY TO XENOPHON'S ANABASIS has been prepared by Prof. J. W. White, Ph. D., and Prof. M. H. Morgan, Ph. D., of Harvard University. It is based on an original examination of the Greek text, with an independent collection and examination of all the places where each word occurs. Students of the Anabasis will find this an indispensable aid to their work. Boston: Ginn & Co. $1.35.

Dr. Wm. J. Rolfe has edited with notes, Walter Scott's LADY OF THE LAKE and it is issued as a double number in the Riverside Literature Series (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.) It is illustrated with upwards of thirty cuts which add much to the knowledge and interest in the poem. Dr. Rolfe's notes occupy a hundred pages and are among the most valuable that this writer has put forth. To the same series has been added Irving's VOYAGE and other English essays from the Sketch Book.

THE LAND WE LIVE IN is the third book of Mr. Chas. F. King's delightful series of picturesque geographical readers. The reading classes in our schools will make visits, in imagination, to the leading industrial centres of the Eastern and Middle States, as well as to some of the other principal cities, where they will be entertained and instructed by facts and figures in regard to products, industries, distances, forms of government, etc., etc. The illustrations are clear, excellent and beautiful, and the whole book is an admirable execution of a bright idea. Boston: Lee & Shepard. 56 cents.

COMMON WORDS DIFFICULT TO SPELL is the title of a little book which pleases us right well. James H. Penniman, its author, is the instructor in English at the De Lancey School, Philadelphia. Here are ninety-four pages; six of preface and eighty-eight of text, the last ten being dictation exercises. The body of the book is filled with page after page of graded lists of words, in double columns. The pronunciation is given in brackets of such words as one is likely to mispronounce. Special attention is given to words which, from a similarity of sound, are liable to be misused; also to abbreviations of states and months, French words in common use, rules for spelling and plurals of nouns. This excellent little book is now in its third edition and deserves a wide sale. Besides teachers, we wish every young man in America had a copy at his elbow. Philadelphia: Sherman & Co., Printers.

THE BEGINNER'S AMERICAN HISTORY, by D. H. Montgomery, is intended as an introduction to the author's "The Leading Facts of American History." The latter work has had a phenomenal reception from the educational public, reaching the enormous sale of 295,000 in the first fifteen months after the publication. The object of the present work is " to present clearly and accurately those facts and principles in the lives of some of the chief founders and builders of America which would be of interest and value to pupils beginning the study of our history." The same clear apprehension of what constitutes a “leading fact," and the same genius for describing it concisely and attractively are displayed in this as in the former volume. The illustrations and press work are equally meritorious, and we predict a success for this work which shall parallel that of the other. Boston: Ginn & Co. 70 cents.

To accommodate readers who may wish it, the Publishers of EDUCATION will send any book reviewed in these columns on receipt of price.

HIGH SCHOOL ALGEBRA, by William J. Milne, Ph.D., LL.D., is a revised and enlarged edition of "Milne's Inductive Algebra," and is a simple, clear and thorough presentation of the subject for high school and academy students. American Book Company. $1.00.

The American Book Company publish a SUPPLEMENTARY FIRST READER, the author of which is Rebecca D. Rickoff. It is intended to be a companion to any First Reader. We are much pleased with this wisely planned, well illustrated and nicely made little book.

"ONOQUA," by Frances C. Sparhawk, a pleasing Indian tale intended to illustrate the abuses existing at the Indian Agencies, is issued by Lee & Shepard, at fifty cents, in the "Good Company" series. It is a book which has already had a wide reading as a serial story in the Congregationalist.

THE SONG PATRIOT, a collection of national and other songs for school and home, compiled by C. W. Bardeen, editor of the School Bulletin, collects into one handy volume a large number of the best patriotic songs of this and other countries, and is especially timely in view of our country's 400th anniversary and the Columbian Exposition with its accompanying celebrations.

Fowler & Wells (N. Y.) publish Carrica Le Favre's DELSARTEAN PHYSICAL CULTURE, which is an attempt to explain the system and furnish the principles of the universal formula. The volume is illustrated with cuts and gives full directions for employing the system. It is one of the best hand-books on the subject that has been put forth.

The publishers of the Century Magazine have issued a pamphlet entitled CHEAP MONEY, containing the articles on Cheap-money Experiments which have been appearing in "Topics of the Time" of the Century during the past year or more. Those who read these strong papers in current numbers of the Century will be glad to secure them in a compact and convenient form. The articles are a valuable contribution to the literature of the subject which is now so prominently before the people. It may be obtained of the Century Company, (N. Y.) for ten cents a copy.

STUDIES AND NOTES IN PHILOLOGY AND LITERATURE is the title of a series of studies to be issued by a committee of the Department of Modern Languages in Harvard University. One volume will be published each year. Vol. I., 1892, is at hand and contains essays on such subjects as The Authorship of the English Romaunt of the Rose, by Geo. L. Kittredge, Origin of the English Names of the Letters of the Alphabet, by E. T. Sheldon, etc. Advanced students in English will find this work stimulating and helpful. Boston: Ginn & Co. Teacher's price, $1.00.

Full of a true eloquence, the eloquence of truth, and written with all the fascinating art of a real preacher who is constantly in contact with the deep things of mankind, is Rev. Smith Baker's "THE DIGNITY OF THE COMMON SCHOOL TEACHER'S MISSION," published by School Education Company, Minneapolis, Minn. If any teacher is discouraged, or tired of the monotony of the daily routine, or over-anxious for more worlds to conquer, let him read this beautiful and powerful address on the real dignity and worth of his work. It will be to him as cold water to a thirsty soul, and he will return to his duties with a new inspiration.

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