ness and good temper, by cultivating her intellect, by studying what is best and brightest, acting on her woman's natural impulse to please, she can come to have such winning ways that nobody will think of her as not beautiful.

Local Examinations Authorized by the University of Virginia, for April, 1886.

REGULATIONS.-Written examinations, beginning on April 29th, 1886, and extending through three days, will be held at different centres of public and private schools for boys and girls, by examiners appointed by the University. Every candidate admitted for examination will be required to pay a fee of two dollars in order to defray the expenses of the examinations. The latest day of entry is April 15th, 1886.

When girls are to be examined, there will be a local committee of ladies, and a separate room for the examination of girls,

Candidates who pass with credit or satisfy the examiners will receive certificates to that effect. Each certificate will specify the subjects on which the candidate has passed with credit or satisfied the examiners, and the honor class, if any.

CENTRES OF EXAMINATION.--Centres will be established where an examination is desired if there be a sufficient number of candidates to justify it.

A local secretary will be appointed for each Centre.

All candidates must name the subjects on the schedule which they select for their examination.

GOLD MEDALS IN RECOGNITION OF SPECIAL MERIT.-Twenty gold medals--ten for Seniors and ten for Juniors--will be bestowed in connection with the local examination for 1886, for distinguished merit in the papers presented by candidates.

CHAS. S. VENABLE,
WILLIAM E. PETERS,

ORMOND STONE,

Committee on University Local Examinations.

Teachers interested will please make application to the undersigned, to whom all concerned will please address inquiries.

Inquiries invited.

CHAS. S. VEnable, Chairman of Committee.

-PROF. N. B. WEBSTER'S DIRECTIONS TO BE STRICTLY OBSERVED BY HIS PUPILS IN WRITING COMPOSITIONS.-Write carefully, spell correctly, observe the rules of syntax, express thoughts clearly, avoid slang words, and do your best every time. Begin with a capital letter every sentence, every name of a person or place, every line of poetry, all names of Deity, the pronoun I, titles of honor, names of months and days, and nouns of special importance. Put a period after every sentence and abbreviation. Commas are required in writing where brief pauses would be made in speaking so as to be understood. Never copy, but present your own composition.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

-Prof. N. B. Webster, of Norfolk, has accepted a position in Yonkers, N. Y. He will be engaged with Dr. Dio. Lewis in editing a new encyclopædia of sanitary and hygienic matters. Our readers will be glad to know that he promises to give us an occasional contribution for the JOURNAL. He will carry with him the best wishes of his host of Virginia friends.

In speaking of Dr. Curry's retirement from the position of General Agent of the Peabody Fund, Hon. A. Coward, Superintendent of Public Instruction in South Carolina, used the following language:

"It is with profound regret that I have to state that the letter conveying to me the pleasing intelligence given in the two preceding paragraphs closes the official career of Dr. J. L. M. Curry as General Agent of the Peabody Fund. It was an intuitive and happy insight into the deep, broad, philanthropic spirit of Mr. Peabody that prompted the trustees in the selection of such a man as Dr. Curry to succeed the wise, benevolent, and lamented Sears. With the wide acquaintanceship with men and affairs acquired by distinguished services as a moral and religious teacher and as a statesman, with the deep sympathies of a Southerner who had witnessed and shared the sufferings of his people, Dr. Curry threw his whole heart and all the energies of his powerful talents into the work of the high trust committed to him. While always discharging with rare tact and zeal the duties of General Agent, his eloquent tongue and powerful pen were always freely employed in urging forward the general cause of education as the only sure foundation of progressive civilization. The fragrant memories of his work in this State and in the South cannot be effaced by even the most brilliant record he may make in the exalted field to which he has been called."

Dr. J. L. M. CURRY, on the presentation of his credentials at the Spanish Court, made an address which is noticed in the following terms by a Madrid paper of the 23d December:

"The speech pronounced by the Minister of the United States, Mr. Curry, at his reception, has justly attracted attention. Departing from the ordinary and trite formula, Mr. Curry expressed sentiments and brought forward ideas which reveal not only lofty purposes, but also justify the reputation with which he comes to our country. His manner of delivery, besides emphasizing every phrase and increasing the force of some of his periods, made the persons who were present at the ceremony fix their attention upon the important considerations which the speech, that we publish elsewhere, contains.

"Mr. Curry is a man who has distinguished himself greatly in his own country as an orator and a man of letters, who has consecrated a large part of his life to educa tional work and received the honorable charge of executing one of the largest legacies left for that purpose by the celebrated Mr. Peabody.

"In the war of secession he was colonel of cavalry in the defence of the rights of the South; but, peace made, and the two great parties reconciled, his great merits have placed him at one of the posts which is considered in the United States, and not unreasonably, as one of the most distinguished-that of representing his country in Spain."

PROF. PAINTER'S "HISTORY OF EDUCATION."-We copy from the Salem TimesRegister the following gratifying announcement. Prof. Painter has given special study to this subject, and has prepared a work that is probably the most thorough and complete treatment of the subject published in this country. We have had the pleasure of hearing some of his lectures on this subject, and can vouch for their interest and value:

We are glad to learn that Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., of New York, have in press "A History of Education," by Prof. F. V. N. Painter, of Roanoke College. This work will be a volume in the well-known Appleton educational series. In a com

pendious way it presents the educational theory and practice of ancient and modern times, with biographical studies of such educators as have exerted a noteworthy influence upon educational progress. It is the completest presentation of the subject in English and will, no doubt, supply an educational want. The work will appear in

about six weeks.

Mr.

The magazine EDUCATION heretofore published by the New England Publishing Company has been purchased by Wm. A. Mowry, who for a year past has been engaged in editorial work in connection with this magazine and the New England Journal of Education. He brings to the new work he has undertaken experience, culture and fine business habits. EDUCATION ha ccupied a comparatively fresh field, and has reached and maintained a high positi the educational world. Mowry will give to it his entire me, and use his best endeavors to make it one of the most valuable mediums of educational thought in the country. Heretofore the Magazine has been published bi-monthly. It will in future be a monthly. The January number presents the following table of contents: Education and a Philosophy of Life, John C. Dana; The Education of the Colored Race: its Importance, its Methods, its Limitations, Rev. C. G. Andrews; Organization of Higher Education, Miss Beale; Education of Girls, by Fenelon, 4 Want and How to Meet it, L. R. Klenum, Ph. D.; Sir Joshua Reynolds, F. C. Sparhawk; Reports on Education at the World's Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans; "New Education" Run Mad, C. H. Levermore; Dr. Hertel upon Over-Pressure in the High Schools of Denmark, A. T. Smith; The Physical and Metaphysical Equilibrium of Forces, John Ogden; Professional Enthusiasm, Prof. H. E. Norton; Editorial; Educational Notes.

Book Notices.

"COLLEGE SONGS."-In everything that enters into the make-up of acceptable College Song Books, those published by Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston, are unquestionably superior. "Carmina Collegensia" ($3.00), an elegant volume, containing an excellent collection of American and Foreign Student Songs, at once took its place as the song book par excellence years ago. After twenty or more editions, the result of frequent and careful revisions, it remains the standard book of its kind, and will probably so continue for years to come. Not long ago, to meet the demand for a cheaper edition, this house issued "Student Life in Song” ($1.50), with a charming introduction by Charles Dudley Warner, and containing choice selections from the larger book, including all of its foreign student and miscellaneous songs.

To these favorite books has been added a third, the popularity of which is attested by the fact that every edition has been exhausted as fast as printed. This book, "College Songs" (mailed free for fifty cents), is the best as well as the cheapest of its kind. It contains not only a collection of the best "old songs," but a splendid collection of new songs recently introduced in college circles, most of which are copyrighted, and can be found in no other collection. Among them are such capital ones as "Funiculi," "Paddy Duffy's Cart," "Darling Clementine," "In the Morning by the Bright Light," "Irish Christening," "Emmet's Lullaby," McSorley's Twins," "Spanish Cavalier," "Solomon Levi," "Carve dat Possum," "To the Bravest " (quartette), "Rosalie," "Good bye, my Lover, Good bye,"

"What Beams so Bright," and many more choice gems.

One of the best features of this and the books first mentioned, is that all of the solos have piano accompaniments.

"That these books should excel in value is not surprising, in view of the fact that their editor has had at his disposal the copyright facilities of the largest music publishing house in the world.

FRANKLIN SQUARE SONG COLLECTION. Two Hundred Favorite Songs and Hymns for Schools and Homes, Nursery and Fireside. No. 3. Selected by J. P. McCaskey. New York: Harper & Brothers. Price in paper, 50 cents. Fine edition, $1.

The Franklin Square Song Collection brings together at a price within the reach of all desiring it, a large number of the very best songs and Hymns in the language. Some of the selections are comparatively new, while others are very old, but, like friends long known, are prized all the more for being old. In it are to be found every variety of songs-nursery songs, national songs, songs of home and country,⚫ love songs, and grand old hymns and chorals. Besides these, are interesting Notes and Paragraphs, bearing more or less directly on music, musical culture and related subjects.

MANUAL OF THE BOTANY (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION, FROM NEW MEXICO TO THE BRITISH BOUNDARY. By J. M. Coulter, Ph. D., Prof. in Wabash College. Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., New York and Chicago. Price by mail, $1.85; Tourist's edition, $3; Coulter's Manual, with Gray's Lessons in Botany prefixed, $2.50. The author has aimed in this volume to do for the Rocky Mountain range what has been for a long time so admirably done for the Northeastern States by Dr. Gray. By the Rocky Mountain region, the author refers to the tract of country beginning with the western limits of the mountain system, and extending eastward across the plains to the prairies, and including Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Western Dakotah, Western Nebraska and Western Kansas. The larger part of the contiguous floras is also described, embracing the western part of Indian Territory, Northwestern Texas, Northern New Mexico and Arizona, and Eastern Utah and Idaho. The edition claims only to be a compilation--an orderly arrangement and sifting of scattered material. The author hopes, however, that the various corrections called forth may enable him to publish a complete edition at an early day. EASY LESSONS IN GERMAN: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CUMULATIVE METHOD; ADAPTED TO SCHOOLS AND HOME INSTRUCTION. By Adolphe Dreyspring, author of "The Cumulative Method," and "The German Verb Drill." New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1886.

"The Cumulative Method" published by this author some months since has won for itself a rapid recognition, and a success beyond the expectation of either author or publisher. To adapt its method to the needs of more elementary pupils this volume has been prepared. It follows the same general method, but is so simplified and so mod. ified as to meet the wants of beginners. It must share in the success of the former book.

STUDIES IN GENERAL HISTORY. By Mary D. Sheldon, Formerly Professor of History in Wellesley College, and Teacher of History in Oswego Normal School, N. Y. Student's Edition. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co. 1885. Mailing price, $1.75.

Probably no better idea can be given of the method of this book than the fol

lowing extract from the author's preface: "This book is not a history, but a collection of historical material; it contains just the sort of things that historians must deal with when they want to describe or judge any period of history. * * * * In Greek History it gives bare chronicles of deeds, pictures of buildings and statues, extracts from speeches, laws, poems; from these materials you must form your own judgment of the Greeks, discover their style of thinking, acting, living, feeling; you must, in short, imagine that you, yourself, are to write a Greek history, or that you are a Greek citizen called upon to judge of the life about you. To help you in this I have inserted in the midst of the material such questions and problems as the historian or citizen must always be asking himself, or rather, must always be putting to the laws, events, poetry, and ruins that he studies, whether they belong to times and peoples far away or near at hand. In this way you learn how to judge and interpret what you see before you in your own country, and help to make of America that which she may become-the strongest, noblest, finest nation in all the world." APPLIED GEOLOGY. A Treatise on the Industrial Relations of Geological Structure, and on the Nature, Occurrence, and Uses of Substances Derived from Geological Sources. By Samuel G. Williams, Professor of General and Economic Geology in Cornell University. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1886.

No work covering the ground indicated by the title of this book has been written in this country. The revelations of geology intimately affect many of the industries in which our people engage. The author aims to give a comprehensive and systematic account of the most important relations which geology sustains to human interests. He accordingly discusses Rocks, Economic Relations of Geological Structure, Materials of Construction, Relations of Geology to Agriculture and Health, Mineral Fuels, Materials of Illumination, Metalliferous Deposits, Materials of Physical Application, Ornamental Stones and Gems. It forms a valuable addition to the literature of economic science.

ELEMENTARY POLITICAL ECONOMY. By A. B. Meservey, Ph. D., Principal of New Hampton Literary Institute, and Author of a Treatise on Bookkeeping. Boston: Thompson, Brown & Co., Publishers.

Appreciating the need for elementary instruction in this important branch of knowledge, and believing that its principles can be so stated as to be intelligible and interesting to pupils of average capacity, the author has prepared this volume. He aims at no originality, but has simply compiled from sources considered reliable, a text-book presenting conclusions, facts and principles, rather than discussions, theories and hypotheses-a volume which he hopes will prove a welcome assistant to teachers and a help to students. It will, we think, prove a very handy and useful treatise.

THE NEW THIRD MUSIC READER. Based largely on C. H. Hohmann. With two-part exercises and songs, and directions to teachers. By Luther Whiting Mason. Boston: Ginn & Co., Publishers. 1886. Mailing price, 35 cents.

In the previous books of this course pupils have been taught to read easy two-part music in nine different keys in the major scale. In this they are led to regard the single sound as a member of a harmonic combination. For this end they are made to see how, through a combination of any two sounds, two-part song is developed, and by degrees to become conscious of the harmonies which form the groundwork of two-part singing. The exercises are numerous and well graded, and a number of songs are added to illustrate the principles taught.