Show this number of the TEACHER to your friend and get him to subscribe. Queries from Hancock County Normal Institute query box: 1. What is a boomerang? MONTHLIES FOR SEPTEMBER. Contents of Phrenological Jour nal: Richard R. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy; The Study of Metaphysics; Life in the Deep; Our Work; Where is the island St. Anne? Poor Tom-A Photograph; Mrs. 3. What is meant by the Gads- Elizabeth Thompson; Home from den Purchase? Give its geography Commencement; The Stereoscope and history. and its Pictures; Thomas Cook, the Traveler's Friend; India-Ancient and Modern; Secretiveness, Cau 4. Why do gunsmith's cut rifles in a gun in a spival fashion? 5. Give two rivers in South tiousness, Approbativeness; As Man America which flow in both directions? 6. What is the etymology of the word antipodes? What land (or) water) is antipodal to Valparaiso? and Animals; "Meat" in the Scriptural Sense; The Action of Medi cines; The Plum and the Apricot. ATLANTIC MONTHLY. The article by Hon. D. A. Wells In what direction would we enter in the September Atlantic is one of the earth to go straight to China? BOOK TABLE. the most important essays ever written by this publicist. It treats of property, titles, and debts, and of the question of their taxability; and asWe have received from the pub- sails the monstrous abuse of power lishers, A. Tilbals & Son, No. 3 Park by which the property is frequently Row, New York, a work entitled taxed in two States. Every man of "Helps to Speak and Write Correct- means in the country will be inter ly." More than one thousand mis-ested in this masterly paper. takes are corrected. In addition to The short stories of the Atlantic this some of the pecularities of lan- this year have all been remarkably guage are noted with practical hints striking for certain qualities that dison composition. The book contains tinguish them from the tales of other 216 pages. The object of the book magazines. But for the high standis to promote accurate habits of ex-ard maintained by the Atlantic in pression and to correct some of the these matters Mr. Rose Terry Cooke's many mistakes of the people in gene-story in the July number would have ral. The work seems to be very ac-been a literary event; and now in the curate, and to deal fairly with all. September number appears another It is well bound in cloth and is so story of equal power. It is a painlow in price as to bring it within the ful but terribly faithful study of the reach of every teacher. Retail price, life and career of a girl committed $1.00. Let each one send for it and in childhood to the tender mercies see how many mistakes he has been of the Reform School. The Child of making in the past, and of what use the State reads like fact. It is too it will be to him in their correction. sad not to be true. . LITTEL'S LIVING AGE. Folks' Fun in Central Park, Charles The numbers of the Living Age Barnard, seven illustrations by J. 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The Other papers in this number are next article, "Odd Forms among "A Russian Funeral," by Eugene Fishes," is by the late Prof. Sanborn Schuyler; "Hints on the Use and Tenney, who, with the aid of numerCare of the Eyes," by Dr. Burnett, ous illustrations, gives a very enterthe oculist; and a paper on "College taining account of sundry curious Instruction," by Charles F. Thwing, divergences from the typical pattern who gives some interesting compari- in this division of animal life. The sons of instruction in leading Ameri- Observatories of Italy, of which can colleges. there are no less than ten, under the The poetry is by Richard Henry patronage of the Government, are Stoddard (a sketch entitled "At Mer- briefly described in the third article, ry Mount"), Clarence Cook, Mrs. with the work that each is doing. Piatt, Mary Ainge De Vere, Mrs. E. 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