Mr. Bailey. notice. In the meantime let us exhort of the following journals: Littell's every County Superintendent to be a Living Age, Appleton's Journal, live man, and imitate the example of Phrenological Journal, Scribner's Monthly, The Popular Science The Indiana School Journal, edited Monthly, or The Atlantic Monthly. by W. A. Bell, Indianapolis, is one of In such journals you have the best the best school journals in the country. Price, $1.50 per annum. W. P. Smith, Superintendent of Hancock Co., has sent us his "Manual" of the schools of his county. It is a most excellent work. The Course of Study is most admirable. In a future number we will notice it more in extenso. type of what is called the current literature. Each magazine occupies ground of its own, and you need not any sameness if you take and read all of them. fear Do not fail to carry this number of the TEACHER with you to your In our notice, last month, of the next Township Institute. Ask all manual and blanks of Superintendent who do not take it to subscribe. A. C. Goodwin, of Clarke Co., we spoke of the report of Mr. Veazey, teacher of Some teachers think statistics are district No. 2. It is proper to say that of no value, and of course do not this report was made on a blank pre-make much effort to keep accurate pared by Superintendent Goodwin. The records of the things required by blanks were all filled by Mr. V., and we, for this, commended him. The TEACHER returns thanks for the many words of commendation sent in by friends from different parts of the State. We hope more abundantly in the school laws of the State. If you keep them accurately, they will be of value. How many teachers have promised themselves that they will do better the future to merit the good opinion of work during 1878 than they have the friends of common schools. We done during 1877? intend to do all we can to bring these schools to the high ground they ought to occupy. BOOK-TABLE. The State Teachers' Association meets The notices of books have been in Indianapolis during the holidays. crowded out this month so that we have We are not advised of the place of to content ourselves with the simple meeting in the city. It is expected to mention of those that have found their be a good and profitable meeting. Let way to our table during the month. the educators come together and counsel for a better and higher school life. J. A. B. Best Thoughts and Discourses of D. We called the attention of teachS. Moody, with Anecdotes and Temperance Talks as delivered in England, ers some time ago to The Atheneum, New York, Brooklyn, Chicago and Bosa new monthly magazine published ton. Published by N. Tibbals & Sons, at Springfield, Illinois. It is devoted 37 Park Row, New York. to "the true, the good and the beau- German Without Grammar or Dictiful" in elocutionary literature. It tionary; or, A Guide to Learning and aims to be first-class in every par-Teaching the German Language, According to the Pestalozzian Method of Teaching by Object Lessons. By Dr. How can teachers keep "abreast Zur Brucke. Published by S. C. Griggs of the times and not read any one & Co., Chicago, Ills. ticular. What Anæsthetic Shall We Use? By parents, and others specially interested Julian J. Chisolm, M. D., Professor of in education, a concise yet comprehenEye and Ear Diseases, University of sive record of the progress of education Maryland. Published by Sun Book during each successive year, thus, and Job Printing Establishment, Bal- while complete in itself, forming an intimore, Md. dispensable supplement to the Cyclo Whipple's Animal Analysis; A Meth-pædia of Education, recently prepared od of Teaching Zoology. By Elliott by the same editors. Whipple, M. A. Published by Jansen, McClurg & Co., Chicago. It is intended to afford (1) to teachers information of all that is going on in the educational world, which may conThe Question Book. A General Re-duce to render their labors more valuaview of Commou-School Studies. To ble and efficient, and for the same purbe Used in Schools, in Connection with pose all new views on the theory and Text-Books. By Asa H. Craig. Pub-practice of teaching, discipline, school lished by the Author, Caldwell's Prairie, Wis. government, etc.; (2) to parents such information in regard to home educaFirst Lessons in Latin; Adapted to tion as will enable them to prepare the Latin Grammars of Allen & Green-their children for the work of the ough, Andrews & Stoddard, Bartholo-school, and to co-operate with the mew, Bullions & Morris, Gildersleeve teacher after his special labors have & Harkness, and Prepared as an In- been begun; (3) to school officers instruction to Cæsar's Commentaries on formation on all questions pertaining the Gallic War. By Elisha Jones, M.A., Assistant Professor of Latin in the University of Michigan. Published by S. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago. to school organization, supervision, and management; and (4) to clergymen and Sunday-school teachers information in regard to educational movements in the B. K. Bliss & Son's Autumn Catalogue religious world, and particularly in reand Floral Guide, 34 Barclay Street,spect to the progress of the Sunday school cause. New York. One Hundred Choice Selections in The scope of the work will, in particular, embrace the following general topics: Prose and Poetry. Published by P. Garrett & Co., 708 Chestnut St., Phila1. A brief educational history of the delphia, and 116 E. Randolph Street, year, giving an account of the progress Chicago. of education in the several states, terriThe Kindergarten Guide. An Illus-tories, and large cities of the United trated Hand-Book; Designed for the States, in foreign countries, and in conSelf-Instruction of Kindergarteners, nection with the chief religious denomMothers and Nurses. By Maria Krans-inations, Sunday-schools, and special Boelte and John Kraus. Published by classes of schools, embracing full staE. Steiger, New York, numbers one, two and three. Number one treats of the First and Second Gifts; number two treats of the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Gifts; number three treats of the Seventh Gift (The Tables.) tistics in relation to each topic. Under this head will also be included an account of the establishment of important educational institutions, both public and private, including colleges and universities, technical, scientific, and professional schools, and institutions for [The following prospectus of the Ed-special instruction. ucational Year-Book, edited by Henry Kiddle and Alexander J. Schem, speaks for itself.] The Educational Year-Book is designed to supply to teachers, school officers, 2. An abstract of new school laws, in this and foreign countries, and a sunmary of legislative proceedings relative to educational affairs. 3. A condensed statement of educa tional discussions, with the views of meet with a favorable reception and a distinguished educators; also those set generous support, from the friends of forth by prominent educational jour-education; and no pains will be spared to make this and every succeeding volnals. In this connection, special attenume worthy of their approbation and tion will be given to the great educaacceptance. tional questions of the day, such as Each successive volume of the Yearcompulsory attendance, co-education of Book will be a complete and independthe sexes, corporal punishment, indus-ent work in itself, but, of course, will trial and technical education, the limits be especially valuable to those who are of common-school instruction, denom-able to make constant use of the Cycloinational and secular education, etc. pædia of Education, since many of the 4. A digest of the contents of the articles will be supplementary to those most important educational works and of that work on the same subject. No journals, so as to exhibit to the practi-subscriber or habitual reader of the Cycal educationist what is new and useful clopædia will fail to realize the fact in their contents. that the rapid progress of education at 5. References to the more important the present time requires a constant text-books, published during the year, and systematic continuation of large with practical as well as critical ob- classes of articles. The Year-Book is servations, with the view to afford val- intended to supply this need in such a nable information and guidance to manner as to render every important teachers and school officers. article contained in the main work as No educational work on so compre-nearly complete as possible up to the hensive a plan as is here proposed, has, end of the year to which each annual as far as is known to the editors, been supplement is devoted. issued; but there is no doubt that the The first volume, which will give the present wide-spread demand for infor-progress of education during the year mation on the subject of practical edu- 1877, will appear about the first of cation justifies the compilation and pub-April, 1878. It will contain not less lication of such a work. 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