SCIENCE NOTES. LEMMINGS are very numerous in several valleys in Southern Norway this winter. In many places the snow is furrowed for miles by the march of these little animals in their migration southward.-Scientific American. HANDIWORK TEACHING IN SWEDISH SCHOOLS.-Slöjd is the Swedish name for handiwork instruction in the schools. It was invented by the famous Finnish educator, Uno Cygnæus, and was adopted in Sweden about fifteen years ago. The teaching is confined to simple work in woods, if it is to be regarded merely as a training for the faculties, or in many branches, if it is to be regarded as subsidiary to technical instruction. No efforts are spared to make the system attractive to pupils and parents. Pupils are allowed to keep what they have made, or to buy it cheaply; or are credited with deferred pay, which they forfeit if they leave before a stipulated course is completed, or which is given them as credits in a bank-book on finishing the course. The sympathy of parents is catered to by teaching the children to make and use such common implements as are most in demand at home; and by allowing them the use of the school tools to make family repairs. The system has proved very successful in Sweden, Norway, and Finland.-Popular Science Monthly. NOTES AND QUERIES. No. 113. Who is the author of the following lines? "So angels walked unknown on earth, ITEMS. F. WESTTOWN BOARDING SCHOOL.-The new West End" is now occupied by the girls, and the boys' school has been transferred to their new quarters, which had been occupied by the girls for school purposes for more than a year. The line of school-rooms on a single hallway on one floor is found to be of great advantage in promoting order and promptness in class training. The first day of the new order was the 12th of Third Month, the day of the great storm, and the boys and their teachers were glad that the necessity for the out-door trip to "Industrial Hall" did not exist. OAK GROVE SEMINARY, VASSALBORO', ME.-One of the most noticeable as well as gratifying circumstances connected with Oak Grove Seminary, is the intense loyalty and devotion of the pupils connected with it. Out of one hundred enrolled before the fires seventy-five remained to finish the term. During the winter seventy-four were in attendance; and now the spring term has opened with seventy-six. The most of these seem glad to make the best of the many inconveniences which must of necessity exist, and their patient cheerfulness and close application have done much to lighten the almost crushing weight of the teachers' burdens. There will be five graduates from the Commercial Department, and from the other three courses, The Normal, The Literary and Scientific, and The College Preparatory, one each. The graduate from the last named is a daughter of the principal. She hopes to enter Bryn Mawr next fall. Evi Sharpless held a short series of meetings at the school during the second week of the term, with very satisfactory results. The religious interest which pervades the whole school is encouraging. WHITTIER COLLEGE, Salem, Iowa, first opened in 1867, after some years of financial struggle lost its school building by fire in 1885. The action of Friends since that time is to be specially admired, as they have raised the funds and erected a building in which the school is now being carried on by J. A. Biddison as president, and Anna E. Packer and Levi Gregory as assistants. JAMES MACALISTER, Superintendent of Philadelphia's public schools, states that his normal cooking school is the most popular of all the classes in the manual arts. The better class of citizens are only too eager to send their daughters, and graduates are in constant demand from those cities who are anxious to be abreast of the times. WHEN the history of the progress of botany during the nineteenth century shall be written two names will hold high positions: those of Prof. Augustin Pyrame De Candolle and of Prof. Asa Gray. In many respects the careers of these men were very similar, though they were neither fellow-countrymen nor were they contemporaries, for the one sank to his rest in the Old World as the other rose to eminence in the New. They were great teachers in great schools, prolific writers, and authors of the best elementary works on botany in their day. Each devoted half a century of unremitting labor to the investigation and description of the plants of continental areas, and they founded herbaria and libraries, each in his own country, which have become permanent and quasi-national institutions. were they unlike in personal qualities, for they were social and genial men, as active in aiding others as they were indefatigable in their own researches; and both were admirable correspondents. Lastly, there is much in their lives and works that recalls the career of Linnæus, of whom they were worthy disciples, in the comprehensiveness of their labor, the excellence of their methods, their judicious conception of the limits of genera and species, the terseness and accuracy of their descriptions, and the clearness of their scientific language.-Nature. Nor You are Sure to like the following NEW BOOKS. They are worth ten times their cost to any teacher wishing to keep abreast of the best methods. Hyde's Practical Lessons in English. Book I., 35 cts. Book II., 50 cts. First year's work bound in pamphlet form, 10 cts. S. A. JOHNSON, Haverford College Grammar School, Pa.:-We have just ordered it for the second grade primary. We like it very much. CLARA A. WINSLOW, Friends' School, Providence:-I have used it the past five months and find it a most excellent book. It is concise and practical, as well as attractive. Badlam's Suggestive Lessons in Language and Reading. Price, $1.50. "It is rarely we meet with so sensible an educational book as this."-Literary World, London. SARAH A. STEWART, Prin. of Normal Kindergarten Training School, Phila.: -You can put me down as a sincere admirer of the whole work. Both the teacher and children will be stupid indeed that cannot use the work to advantage. Wright's Nature Reader, for Second or Third Reader Grades. Price, 25 cts. DR. HENRY C. McCook, Phila. :-Could this book and others of like character be placed in the hands of our school children, the next generation would be blessed as no other generation has been with "the seeing eye," and the book of nature would open up its secret pleasures and instructing facts to multitudes before whom it otherwise must be a sealed book. Mrs. Wright has certainly done her work well, and as it seems to me, has maintained the simplicity and brightness of style necessary for a child's book without sacrificing the natural facts which she wishes to communicate. Badlam's Number Cards. For first work in number, price, 30 cts. Being ordered by cities for the primary teachers. Progressive Outline Maps. 2 cts. each, $1.50 a hundred. Used in a large number of cities, such as Cincinnati, Boston, Providence, etc. Send above prices for sample copies. No charge for the Hyde and Wright when introduced. D. C. HEATH & CO., Publishers, Boston, New York, and Chicago. J. B. Lippincott Co., Agents, Philada. You are invited to call there and inspect the books. Mention this paper. THE AMERICAN HEALTH PRIMERS. EDITED BY W. W. KEEN, M.D. Cloth Binding, 50 Cents. 12 Volumes in a Box, $6.00. Sent, postpaid, upon receipt of price. I. Hearing, and how to Keep it. With illustrations. BY CHAS. H. BURNETT, M.D., of Philadelphia Aurist to the Presbyterian Hospital, etc. II. Long Life, and how to Reach it. By J. G. RICHARDSON, M.D., of Philadelphia, Professor of Hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania. III. The Summer and its Diseases. By JAMES C. 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ADDRESS: JOHN HIGHLANDS, 229 NORTH NINTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA Ceramic Art **NIX The Household. DINNER WARE. TOILET WARE. FINE LAMPS. BRIC-A-BRAC. ROSE JARS. CHOCOLATE POTS. IMPORTERS OF Fine Pottery and Lamps. F ROM the day that Aspasia delighted ancient Athens with her beautiful collection of Ceramics, down to the present time, pottery has had a prominent place in the esteem of those who have made interior decoration their special study. In this practical age, and in that day of highly aesthetic civilization, its presence in the household is an evidence of refinement and taste, and, more than this, of that appreciation of art that is the direct outgrowth of education and high social culture. We use this term Ceramics, however, in a far broader sense than it can rightly be used in connection with the long ago culture of the Greeks. We extend its refining and beautifying influences all over the home, from Parlor to Library and from Dining Room even to Kitchen. In short our stock will admit of no narrower limits, for every ceramic centre, the world over, has contributed to our perfect exhibit, and each has interpreted differently the value you will place upon this or that department of your home. It is a question, however, whether, even in its broader sense, the term can be made to embrace Lamps, but even if it does not, our stock does, and among them that KING OF LAMPS-THE ROCHESTER. R. J. ALLEN, SON & CO. 309-311 MARKET ST. SARATOGA AND ROUND LAKE National Summer School of Methods. At ROUND LAKE, JULY 10.- -1888 At SARATOGA, JULY 24. DEPARTMENTS, FACULTY AND BRANCHES. 1. SCHOOL OF METHODS. (Four Weeks.) 1. Pedagogics. (Two weeks.) Prof. W. H. PAYNE, Chancellor University of Nashville. 2. Psychology. (Two weeks.) THOS. M. Balliet, Superintendent Schools, Springfield, Mass. 3. Mind Studies. (One week.) Dr. JEROME Allen, University of New York. Miss 4. Methods in Language. (Three weeks.) ROBT. 5. Methods in Geography. (Three weeks.) ALEX. 6. 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