literary appointments, a large attendance will be atracted to the Seniors' promenade concert on the campus, and to the athletic sports of the undergraduates on Tuesday. The railroads leading to Easton have made special rates of fare for Commencement week.

Prof. W. N. Hailman will conduct the Western Summer School of Primary Methods at Grand Rapids, Michigan, for four weeks, from July 19th to August 15th, 1886.

Prof. T. J. Mitchell, of Charlotte, N. C., has been engaged in a three weeks' Normal Institute at Florence, Ala., in connection with Florence Normal School.

Publishers' Notes.

Messrs. Ginn & Co., Boston, announce for early publication A Beginner's Book in French. With comic illustrations. Designed for children. By Sophie Doriot. Messrs. Ginn & Co., Boston, announce for early publication a revised edition of Allen & Greenough's Cicero. It includes thirteen orations arranged chronologically and covering the entire public life of Cicero. It is illustrated, and contains notesand vocabulary.

Messrs. Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., Cincinnati, will publish about September 1st, The Elements of Pedagogy, by E. E. White, LL.D. It will present-1. An Analy. sis of Psychical Processes; 2. The order of Activity and Development of the several Powers of the Mind; 3. A clear and full presentation of the Principles of Teaching; 4. General Methods of Teaching; 5. The Application of the General Methods to the Elementary Branches, and 6. Moral Training.

Teachers of Natural History will be interested in learning that D. C. Heath & Co. announce for early publication an Elementary Course in Practical Zoölogy, by B. P. Colton, A. M. This work is designed to aid the student in getting a clear idea of the animal kingdom as a whole, by the careful study of a few typical animals.

The work is limited to what can be done by the average high school pupil, as proved by the experience of several years, during which time these "guides to the study of animals," have been used.

The Magazines.

The June number of EDUCATION is before us. In strength of thought, force of expression, and the choice of topics, this magazine is proving itself of great power and value. Among the writers in this number are Prof. W. T. Harris, of Concord, Mass.: Prof. H. B. Adams, of Johns Hopkins University; Mrs. A. A. Knight and Miss Julia H. May; Dr. C. E. Lowrey, of Ann Arbor; Lillie J. Martin, of Indianapolis; May McIntosh, E. P. Gould, and F. C. Sparhawk. Prof. Adams has a vigorous discussion of "History in Harvard College "; Dr. Harris treats of "Industrial Education"; while "Chemistry," "Classics," "The Education of Girls," "The Three Necessary Powers of this Age," and other topics of timely interest, are treated with clearness and skill.

The Editorial "articles are numerous and unusually vigorous. "Current Literature" forms an interesting and useful feature. "The Résumé of Current Educational Literature" will be welcomed by all. The "Foreign Notes" are judicious and valuable. The" Book Table" is full, discriminating and fearless.

Altogether this number of EDUCATION will commend itself as a valuable addition to our Educational Literature. $3 a year in advance. William A. Mowry, editor and publisher, 3 Somerset street, Boston.

THE SOUTHERN BIVOUAC for June.-The June number begins the new volume of this suc cessful Southern magazine. It opens with an excellent article on the "Sugar Fields of Louisiana," by R. A. Wilkinson, of New Orleans.

Dr. Felix L. Oswald concludes his valuable series of articles on "Our Last Hunting Grounds" with a paper devoted to the Rocky Mountains.

Mr. Edward Atkinson contributes a timely article on "Postal or Local Savings Banks," in which is described the system established in Massachusetts, and the objections against the proposed national system clearly stated.

Paul Hamilton Hayne writes of Charles Gayarré. His paper is animated and graphic, and is a pleasing picture of life in Louisiana in the old times.

W. R. Belknap describes the pains and pleasures to which one who has his life insured for a million dollars is subjected because of the more than paternal care of the companies most concerned.

Richard H. Musser continues his story of "The War in Missouri"; Judge Richards gives the second installment of the sketch of General Turner Ashby, and Margaret J. Preston contributes an admirable ballad of the war.

The article entitled the Destruction of Louisville" describes the outbreak which followed the growing discontent among the laboring classes, and the evils which followed the ascendancy of the Anarchists and Socialists. The narrative is graphic-somewhat blood-curdling, but points a plain moral.

Clinton Scollard has in the June number a pleasing poem, "Down the Ochlawaha," and Daniel E. O'Sullivan has a few good lines on "Death."

LIPPINCOTT'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE for June contains: Taken by Siege, XI-XIII.; The Reeds. Robertson Trowbridge; The Industrial Republic, F. P. Powers; Retrospect, Marion Manville; A Bachelor's Blunder, XXI-XXIV., W. E. Norris; Our Experience Meetings, III.: My Experiences in the Labor movement, Martin Irons-Some Experiences of a Working Girl-My Eperiences as a Street Car Conductor; John Turnor's Invention, R. N. T.; A Plea for the Spoils System, G. W. Green; Had 1 But Known, Hunter MacCulloch: Our Monthly Gossip: A Psychological Problem, Doris Huntingdon; The Mormon Question, W. H. Babcock; The Poet as a Business-Man, H. E. W.; Dream-Stuff, J. E. P. THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for June.-Contents: The Golden Justice, III-IV, William Henry Bishop; A Roman Gentleman Under the Empire, Harriet Waters Preston; King Raedwald, Helen Gray Cone: Valentine's Chance, Lillie Chace Wyman; A Glimpse at 1786, Edward Stanwood; The Princess Cassamassima, Book Third, XXXIII.-XXXVI., Henry James; The Statue of Lief Erikson, Henry Van Brunt; The Coup de Grace, Andrew Hedbrooke; In the Clouds, XIV-XVI., Charles Egbert Craddock; Honoré de Balzac, George Frederic Parsons; James, Crawford, and Howells; The Contributors' Club; Books of the Month.

POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.-Contents for June: Evolution Bounded by Theology, by W. D. Le Sueur, B. A.; An Economic Study of Mexico, III., by Hon. David A. Wells; What May Animals Be Taught? Primitive Clocks, by F. G. Mather (illustrated); The Factors of Organic Evolution (concluded), by Herbert Spencer; Ethnology of the Blackfoot Tribes, by Horatio Hale; Rafinesque, by Prof. D. S. Jordan; Counting Unconsciously, by Prof. W. Preyer (illustrated); The Millenium of Madness, by Felix L. Oswald, M. D.; The Principles of Domestic Fireplace Construction, by T. P. Teale, F. R. C. S. (illustrated); Scratching in the Animal Kingdom, by Prof. Samuel Lockwood; The Poisons in Spoiling Food; Eels and Their Young; Sketch of George Engelmann, M. D. (with portrait); Editor's Table: Labor Troubles; Literary Notices; Popular Miscellany; Notes.

The June CENTURY.-A finely engraved drawing from Houdon's bust of Benjamin Franklin is the frontispiece of the June CENTURY, and several pages of " Unpublished Letters of Benjamin Franklin," edited by the Hon. John Bigelow, add to the literary interest of the number.

The Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley contributes a remarkable article on "Faith-Healing and Kindred Phenomena."

In their order the illustrated papers of the number are a "Literary Ramble" along the Thames from Fulham to Chiswick, in which we have allusions to many famous people known in literature and in history, and glimpses of the scenery along "the University course"; Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer's second paper on "American Country-Dwellings," with drawings of some of the handsomest country houses in the Eastern States; and a paper by John Burroughs on "Bird's Eggs," with engravings of twenty-two varieties of ezgs.

The Antietam campaign is the subject of the war papers in this number, the illustrations referring mostly to the battle of Antietam, and forming perhaps the richest pictorial contribution yet made to the series.

Besides the continuation of Mr. Howells's new novel, "The Minister's Charge," the fiction of the number comprises two dialect short stories-a tale of the war, entitled "Meh I ady," by Thomas Nelson Page, the author of "Marse Chan "; and a humorous sketch by Colonel Richard M. Johnston, called "The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker."

The poems of the number are by Bessie Chandler, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Amélie Rives, C. S. Percival, Edmund Gosse; and in "Bric-à Brac" by Samuel Minturn Peck, Anthony Lovell, Charlotte Fiske Bates, and the late George T. Lanigan.

Contents of ST. NICHOLAS for June: Frontispiece, “A June Morning"; "Once-on-a-Time," poem, Emily Huntington Miller; Little Lord Fauntleroy, ch. VIII, IX, Frances Hodgson Burnett, two illustrations: Winged Seeds, poem; No More School, picture; Personally Conducted, VIII.-Queen Paris, Frank R Stockton, fourteen illustrations; Grandpapa Rosebush, verses, illustrated; The Kelp-Gatherers, cbs. I., I, III., IV., V., J. T. Trowbridge. two illustrations; George Washington, chs. XV., XVI., Horace E. Scudder, six illustrations; The Butterfly and the Bee, verse, Edith M. Thomas; Fishes and Their Young, three illustratons; A Puzzled Papa, verses; The Wild Flowers, verses, illustrated; The Boys' Paradise, three illustrations; A Boys' Camp, described by one of the campers, three illustrations: Robin's Return, poem, Edith M. Thomas; Little Miss Mabel, jingle, illustrated; Mother's Idea; The Satchel, five illustrations; Wonders of the Alphabet, fourth paper, illustrated; St Nicholas Pog Stories, illustrated; A Recipe, verses, illustrated: Riddles for Very Little Folks jingles: Pretty Painted Bridges," "White Sheep," "Dormio Hill," illustrated and engrossed; Jack-in-the-pulpit, illustrated.

OUR LITTLE ONES AND THE NURSERY for June has been received. The progress made in child literature in the last decade has been very marked. This Magazine is a splendid exponent of this progress, in matter, illustration and style. The June number is fully up to the usual high standard.

OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT.

J. L. BUCHANAN, Superintendent Public Instruction, Editor.

[The Journal is sent to every County Superintendent and District Clerk, and must be carefully preserved by them as public property and transmitted to their successors in office. |

Text-Books.

PRICE-LIST AND REGULATIONS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The following circular was, mailed to superintendents and district trustees on the 10th day of June:

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA,
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,
Richmond, June 1, 1886.

To County and City Superintendents and Trustees of Schools:

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION has adopted the following list of textbooks for use in the public schools of the State for a term of four years, beginning August 1, 1886.

The agreement with the publishers of the books adopted is, that they will provide a supply of books in each county in which they are used, sufficient for the use of the schools thereof, at a cost to the pupils not to exceed the present wholesale price.

The price annexed to each book on the list given below is that at which the book is to be sold to pupils, and it is the duty of school officers to see that no higher price is paid.

The policy adopted by the Board of Education does not necessitate changes of text-books in any county or city of the State, but leaves the question to be determined by the county and city school boards. Counties and cities having other books than those on the prescribed list, can continue in use any one or every one of the books they now have, or they can change any one or every one of them at any time during the next four years. But all changes must be to the books adopted by the Board of Education. Where no change is desired, no action on the part of the county or city board is necessary, as the books now in use will be continued until displaced by the adoption of other books.

NOTE.-School Officers will bear in mind that while no requirement is made that cities or counties shall change the text-books previously adopted and in use, all text-books which shall be adopted at any time within the ensuing four years in place of those now in use, shall be taken from the list above prescribed. This provision for gradual changes of text-books through a period of four years, according as such changes may be deemed

expedient, will, it is believed, reduce to a minimum the inconvenience to the schools and the expense to the people.

JOHN L. BUCHANAN, Superintendent Public Instruction.

REGULATIONS

OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF VIRGINIA AS TO INtroducTION AND UNIFORMITY OF TEXT-Books.

[Adopted May 19, 1886.]

1. The text-books used in the public schools of Virginia on Spelling, Reading, Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, Penmanship, United States History and Virginia History shall be those adopted by the State Board of Education.

2. The contract between the State Board of Education and the publishers is limited to four years, namely, from August 1st, 1886, to August 1st, 1890, and the school board of each county may change from the books now in use to the books on the State list at any time during the four years-the newly adopted books to remain in use not less than four years from the date of their adoption and introduction, provided they continue for so long a time on the list licensed by the State Board.

3. The new books shall be introduced in the formation of all new classes, and the old books shall be tolerated only when a commencement has previously been made in such books by a majority of the pupils in a class; in such case their use may be continued until the completion of those books by the class. If, however, the publishers of the newly selected books make satisfactory offers in reference to exchange of the new books for the old, the changes may be as sudden and complete as may be deemed advisable by the county board, due regard being had to the course of instruction in the school.

4. As soon as a change of text-books for use in the schools shall have been determined on by the county school board, due public notice shall be given by the county superintendent of the names, prices and mode of obtaining the books, and of the regulations of the State Board of Education requiring every pupil to be supplied with the proper books before admission into any public school.

5. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent to see that early and efficient arrangements are made whereby supplies of books will be brought within reach of the children and sold on the terms indicated in the contract. He shall furnish each teacher with a copy of the regulations of the Board of Education concerning text-books,