tion at this Institute to be the most practical, thorough, and comprehensive we have ever received. Miss Bettie Urquhart, one of Campbell's best teachers, on her way from Marion State Normal, stopped a week with us, and gave some instructive talks on the Phonic elements. We hope to have another Institute in the summer of 1886, as we believe this, the first session of the Roanoke Normal, has been of great benefit to our schools.

The following resolutions were passed at the Roanoke County Teachers' Meeting, and speak for themselves :

We, the public school teachers of Roanoke county, at our February monthly meeting, having under our consideration "School Legislation," desire to submit to our law-making body the following legislation, which, in our opinion, would make our free school system much more efficient.

1. School trustees should be paid a small salary, and then be required to visit the schools.

2. School superintendents should be bonded officers and be made the treasurers of the school funds, receiving and paying out the same; receiving therefor the same commissions as are now paid the county treasurers for disbursing the State funds, thus increasing the salary of a poorly-paid officer with very little additional expense to the schools.

3. That the law which forbids the holding of County Institutes should be repealed.

4. That the State Board of Education be required to provide a uniform set of text-books for the entire State, to be continued not less than ten years.

5. That a primary work on Physiology and Hygiene, and the injurious effect of liquor and tobacco upon the human system should be added to our list of text-books. M. P. F.

Literary Notes.

D. C. Heath & Co., are about to add to their series of "Educational Classics" The Levana; or, The Doctrine of Education. A translation from Jean Paul Frederich Richter. They add this volume to the series in the belief that it will tend to ameliorate that department of education which is most neglected and yet needs most care-home training. Among other topics it treats of—

The Importance of Education; The Spirit and Principle of Education; To Discover and to Appreciate the Individuality of the Ideal Man; Religious Education; The Beginning of Education; The Joyousness of Children; Games of Children; Music; Commands, Prohibitions, Punishments; Physical Education; Female Education; The Moral Education of Boys; Development of the Desire for Intellectual Progress; Speech and Writing; Attention and the Power of Adaptive Combination; Development of Wit; Development of Reflection; Abstraction and Self-Knowledge, together with an extra paragraph on the powers of Action and Business; On the Education of the Recollection-not of the Memory; Development of the Sense of Beauty; Classical Education.

Educators are sure to be interested in a book soon to be published by D. C. Heath & Co., in their series of "Educational Classics." It is a translation of Dr. Paul

Radestock's Habit and its Importance on Education. Dr. G. Stanley Hall, of Johns Hopkins University, writes an introduction to the book.

A study of the book will impress one anew with the fact that all true education is but a building up of habits; and that, in order to have the building strong and beautiful, both physical and psychological laws should be observed. Normal School students especially will, on reading this book, find themselves confronted by some of the most fascinating phenomena of mental science, and will feel with renewed vigor what a responsible thing is the training of the human soul from the first faint dawn of the intellect and will to the full glory of manly and womanly hearts and minds.

D. C. Heath & Co., of Boston, announce for publication, beginning with February' a new monthly periodical, to be known as "The Citizen." It will be devoted to the discussion of questions of popular interest relating to citizenship and government, and will be edited by members of the American Institute of Civics. The subscription price will be a dollar and a half a year. Specimen numbers will be sent to any address upon application.

-Messrs. Ginn & Co., Boston, announce for early publication Greek Inflection by B. F. Harding, A. M.; Halsey's Etymology of Latin and Greek; Kendrick's Greek at Sight; Keep's Essential Uses of the Moods; Seymour's Homeric Language and Verse; Veazie's Music Primer, by G. A. Veazie, Jr.; The Rigveda, the Oldest Literature of the Indians, by Adolf Kaegi, Professor in the University of Zürich.

-Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons have recently issued The Story of Greece, by Professor J. A. Harrison, of Washington and Lee University. Professor Harrison's scholarship, and skill and experience as a writer, have contributed to make this an exceedingly interesting and valuable volume. It forms volume I of a series of histories projected by this firm to be called The Stories of the Nations.

-Messrs. Ginn & Co., Boston, announce for early publication, Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, edited for home and school use by J. H. Stickney, in three series, supplementary to the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Readers. Analytical Geometry, by G. A. Wentworth; the aim of which is to present the elementary parts of the subject in the best form for class-room use.

The Magazines.

ST. NICHOLAS for March.-Contents: Frontispiece, "Madame Le Brun's Portrait of Herself." Stories of Art and Artists, French Painters, Clara Erskine Clement; An Explanation, verses; Little Lord Fauntleroy, chapter V, illustrated, Frances Hodgson Burnett; New Bits of Talk for Young Folk, "Tit for Tat," Helen Jackson (H. H.); The Great Snowball Fight; An Errand, verses; Savage and Cowardly, full-page illustration; "The Wolves and the Roebuck;" Taking Baby's Picture, verses; Personally Conducted, VI, In Florence and Venice, ten illustrations, Frank R Stockton; Pane-Pictures, verses; St. Nicholas Dog Stories, illustrated-1. Gipsey, II. Carlo, III." Bob," IV, The Honest Dog of Ferentino, V. Mr. Irving's Collie, VI. Why Major Went to Church, VII A Moneyed Dog, VIII. Dogs as Newspaper Carriers, IX. My Dog Fido, verses; "Not handsome, perhaps, but very stylish!" picture; George Washington, chaps. VII, VIII. IX, illustrated, Horace E. Scudder; The New Hat and Muff, verses; Wonders of the Alphabet, illustrated, First Paper: Quaker Esther's Ride; Among the Law-Makers, concluded; Minute Sketches, a page of pictures; The Brownies' Circus, poem, three illustrations, Palmer Cox: Jack-in-the Pulpit, illustrated; Editorial Notes; The LetterBox, illustrated; The Agassiz Association; The Riddle-Box, illustrated.

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for March.-Contents: A Brother to Dragons; Classic and Romantic, F H. Hedge: A Salutation, Louise Imogen Guiney; Americana, Justin Winsor; The Princess Casamassima, Book Third, XXII-XXIV, Henry James; The United States after the Revolutionary War, John Fiske; Elisha Mulford, H. E. Scudder; Eve's Daughter, Andrew Hedbrooke; The New Portfolio, two "Occasional" poems, with an introduction, Oliver Wendell Holmes; On the Present Condition and Prospects of Architecture, Henry Van Brunt; Grant, T. W. Higginson; In the Clouds, V-VII, Charles Egbert Craddock; A Shakesperian Scholar; General J. E. B. Stuart; Folk Tales; Tennyson, the Conservative; The Contributors' Club: Books of the Month.

LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE for March.-Contents: Taken by Siege, chaps. IV, V; Killdee, John B. Tabb; Song-Games and Myth-Dramas at Washington, W. H Babcock; A Bachelor's Blunder, chaps IX-XII. W. E Norris; The March Wind, F. D. Sherman; The American Play, Laurence Hutton; As I came down from Lebanon, Clinton Scollard; Perchance to Dream, Brander Matthews; The One Pioneer of Tierra del Fuego, Randle Holme; Silence, Helen Gray Cone; Our Monthly Gossip-Is New York our Literary Capital? W. H. B.; A New Society wanted, H. E. W.; On a Text from Mr. Howells, A. W. B.; Co-operation in Little Things, L 8. H.

POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY for March-Contents: Biological Teaching in Colleges. by Prof. W. G. Farlow; Discrimination in Railway Rates. II; A Thinking Machine, by Grant Allen; Health and Sex in Higher Education, by John Dewey, Ph. D.; Proem to Genesis: A Reply to Professor Huxley, by William E. Gladstone; Animal Weather-Lore; Japanese House Building, illustrated; The Influence of laventions upon Civilization; Colorado as a Winter Sanitarium; Durability of Resinous Woods; Infancy in the City; Arbor-Day; Sketch of Sir John Bennet Laws, with portrait; Editor's Table: A Case in Moral Education-Stability in Systems of Thought; Literary Notices; Popular Miscellany; Notes.

THE CENTURY for March-In the frontispiece of the March Century there is a reminder that Spain has been astonishingly quiet since the death of the young king. Emilio Castellar, the Oratr," whose striking personality is revealed in the portrait-has been a figure in every political agitation since the abdication of Isabella II, the mother of the late king.

In Italy from a Tricycle," Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pennell begin a novel pen and pictorial account of a trip from Florence to Rome, in a manner of travel and description peculiarly their own. Ex-Minister Benjamin writes of Mountaineering in Persia" as experienced during a summer trip in the Elburz mountains" for health and trout "

Mrs. Schuyler Van Renssalaer contributes a second paper on "City Dwellings."

Mr. Howells, in the second part of his new novel "The Minister's Charge," treats Lemuel Barker to an arrest and imprisooment on a false charge, which brings the reader in contact with phases of city life not previously treated by the author.

This month's war article is by General Don Carlos Buell, who, in "Shiloh Reviewed." assails General Grant's paper of a year ago, and also takes issue with General Sherman. In "Memoranda on the Civil War" additions t› the interesting Confederate "Controversies in Regard to Shiloh" are made by Colonels S. H. Lockett and Alex. R. Chisolm. Major W. H. Powell makes a claim or "The Fourth Regular Infantry at Gaines's Mill;" and General Longstreet corrects the statement in his February paper, as to the time of the arrival of his corps on the field of the second Bull Run.

A remarkably clear and interesting statement of "The Strength and Weakness of Socialism," considered from the standpoint of the social agitators, and also from that of conservative reformers, is made by Dr. Washington Gladden.

The February number of EDUCATION is the first issue under the new management. This maga zine, which is now in its sixth year, has heretofore been published by the N. E. Publishing Company as a Bimonthly, philosophical in its character. It has been purchased by William A. Mowry, Ph. D., late editor of The N. E. Journal of Education, who will edit and publish it as a popular monthly educational magazine

The present number presents itself in a new dress with new cover, and altogether has a very attractive appearance. The contents are varied and valuable The opening article, with a good picture of Daniel Webster, taken three months before his death, as a frontispiece, is entitled Daniel Webster as a Schoolmaster, by Elizabeth Porter Gould. This is followed by Overwork in Schools, by John D. Philbrick, LL. D.: Education in Rome, by L. R. Klemm, Ph. D.; The Relations of Biography with History, by Marshall P. Wilder, Ph. D ; Gen. Grant, by Gen. L J. Jennings, England; The Problem of Woman's Education, by Nicolo D'Alfonso, translated by Victoria Chamberlin; The King's English at Home and at School, by J. H. May; Can Colleg" Graduates succeed in Business? editorial with various other editorial articles, Notes and Comments, and Among the Books.

Published by William A. Mowry, 3 Somerset street, Boston. Price, 83 a year.

THE SOUTHERN BIVOUAC, for March, contains a fac simile reproduction of a letter from Thomas Jefferson relating to the Kentucky Resolutions of '98. In the same article is given an exact reproduction of the official copy of these resolutions as adopted by the Kentucky Legislature, which copy differs in many particulars from the usually accepted version.

It has also a paper descriptive of the Teche (La.) Country Fifty Years Ago.

Paul H. Hayne gives an account of the defense of Fort Wagner, in Charleston Harbor. His description of the desperate assault made by the Federal troops under Col. Shaw, and its repulse, is very graphic

R. M. Kelly has an interesting sketch of John Williamson, Botanist and Artist, with numerous illustrations.

OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT.

R. R. FARR, 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.]

Fifteenth Annual Report.

We are gratified to state that this report is at last out and that it is being sent to school officers and others as rapidly as possible. We think that when school officers examine it, especially the summaries and analysis of school census, they will be satisfied that their labor was not in vain, and that no useless questions were asked in the census blanks. To economize time we were compelled to publish the report in three parts, but we give a complete index which removes all confusion on that account.

Summer Institutes.

There will be nineteen hundred dollars of Peabody money to be expended in this work in the State the coming summer, and we presume that Dr. J. L. Buchanan will make arrangements for institutes immediately upon assuming the duties of this office. Teachers are advised to make their arrangements in time to attend the institutes.

The Summer Normal at Farmville.

It is with pleasure that we publish the following circular from Dr. Ruffner, and call the especial attention of school officers and lady teachers to its importance. In our judgment it is one of the finest opportunities that has ever been offered to any of the teachers of the State to acquire thorough and systematic drill in the art of teaching, and we regret deeply that so few can enjoy its advantages, and that the session is not longer. This Summer Normal is far superior to any of the usual Summer Institutes that are held, from the fact that it will be conducted in one of the permanent institutions of the State, which is identified with our great public free school system, and is charged with the responsible task of furnishing the highest grade of teachers for the same-by a corps of thorough normal teachers, second to none in the country, under the direction of the able

Principal, who, by his long and intimate connection with our public schools, knows so well what the teacher requires.

We expect the Superintendents to give this matter their immediate attention, and that they will take pride in having their respective counties and cities represented. One month at Farmville-from the fact of the school being already organized, the equipments of the institution, the ability of the teachers, and the class of instruction furnished—is equivalent to two months of any ordinary Summer Normal. The tuition and all school facilities are free, and board and washing, as stated in the circular, but $12, thus furnishing the cheapest Institute that has ever been offered the teachers, and putting it within the reach of all who may be so fortunate as to be enrolled as members.

The State Normal School at Farmville is doing a great work, making thorough teachers, but we believe the Summer Normal School will prove its greatest success.

We see no reason why the certificate of the Principal and Faculty of the school, showing the attendance and proficiency of teachers, should not be taken by the Superintendents in lieu of additional examination, and a license to teach in the public school issued in conformity therewith.

We have no doubt but that if the matter is brought to the attention of our successor (Dr. Buchanan) he will so instruct.

We again urge school officers, and especially the Superintendents, to give this matter their immediate attention.

Summer Normal School at Farmville, Virginia.

A Normal Institute for the benefit of public school female teachers will be held in the buildings and conducted by the teachers of the State Normal School, at Farmville, Virginia, beginning Monday, June 7th, 1886, and continuing four weeks. The number of teachers received cannot exceed one hundred and twenty-eight, owing to our unsuitable school-room accommodations. All teachers who have taught in the public schools in the past year, and who expect to teach next year, are eligible to places in this institute free of charge. The applicants, as to number and locality, will be received according to the rule prescribed by the law in respect to the regular students of the school, that is, one from every county, one from every city of over 5,000 inhabitants, and in cases where the county or the city sends more than one member to the House of Delegates,