Prof. W. B. Turner, late superintendent of schools at Sprague, Washington, will have charge of the schools in Wenatchee in the same state. Mrs. Rose Rice Turner is well known to all the readers of THE JOURNAL. NEW, PRETTY, GOOD. The Revolutionary Pioneers; just published; price, 30 cents. It will make little folks' eyes glisten. Miss Jennie B. Merrill has been made supervisor of kindergarten instruction, and Mrs. Mary E. Williams was appointed supervisor of cooking, in New York city schools. Each of these ladies is to receive a salary of $2,000. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEARCH For an ink-stand when you use a fountain pen; and a good one will last for years. See our ad. A town in Worcester county, Mass., is wanting two teachers of European education and "wide experience," for their high school. It is hoped that a salary of $100 will secure them! A few of the women teachers in the grammar schools of Worcester receive $1,000 a year. Principal James C. Greenough, so long at the head of the State Normal School at Westfield, Mass., has resigned. This is the result of a long period of disagreement between the principal and some members of the faculty. One of the faculty has been removed by the board of education. The up to-date publications of Williams & Rogers, Rochester, N. Y., deserve the careful attention of every teacher. Send your name and address to them for circulars and catalogues. Supt. J. W. Henninger, of Jacksonville, Ill., says of the Revolutionary Pioneers, which is our latest book for children: "It is a finespirited book. I like it very much." It is a supplementary-reading book for third and fourth grades. Send for a sample copy, if you are looking for reading matter for these grades. Do you teach physiology! If you do, and are not well supplied with apparatus, you should induce your directors to furnish Yaggy's Anatomical Charts. They are very complete, and are not expensive. Write to the Public-School Publishing Co. about them. Send to the same company for their catalogue of professional books; there are some of them that you should study the coming winter. The School Register is a new educational paper published in Worcester, Mass. Number 1, for September, is well filled with local school news. We learn from it, that Thaddeus L. Bolton, Ph. D., of the State Normal School at Worcester, leaves to become professor of psychology at the State Normal School at St. Jose, California; that Miss Henrietta A. Murray becomes teacher of physical culture at the Worcester Normal School. See our advertising pages to learn what the Public-School Publishing Company can do in helping you to obtain good wall maps. Exhaustion Horsford's Acid Phosphate Overworked men and women, the nervous, weak and debilitated, will find in the Acid Phosphate a most agreeable, agreeable, grateful, grateful, and harmless stimulant, giving renewed strength and vigor to the entire system. Dr. Edwin F. Vose, Portland, Me., says: "I have used it in my own case when suffering from nervous exhaustion, with gratifyresults. I have prescribed it for many of the various forms of nervous debility, and it has never failed to do good." Descriptive pamphlet free on application to Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R. I. Beware of Substitutes and Imitations. SCHOOL FLAGS. Look at our reduced prices of flags. The workmanship and the bunting are the best in the market, and our price is the lowest for the best quality of work and material. Flag eight feet long, $3; ten feet long, $4.25; twelve feet long, $6. These prices hold till January, 1897. Our leading article in the General Culture Department, by Supt. J. M. Greenwood, fills more space than is generally given to a single article. But it seems to us to be an excellent epitome of the essentials of pedagogy for the practical teacher, which will be a source of inspiration to him during the entire school year. If any one comes to it to "scoff" at its undue length he will remain to "pray," after he has once entered into the thought and spirit of it. If a teacher has only this one address as a guide during the year, and will re-read it as his memory of it dulls, it will prove a means of grace to him. WHY IS IT, if catarrh is a blood disease, as some claim, that physicians frequently advise change of air and climate to those suffering? Catarrh is a climatic affection, and nothing but a local remedy or a change of climate will cure it. Ely's Cream Balm is so efficient as to do away with the necessity of leaving home and friends, causing instant relief and is a real cure of catarrh. Nearly 1,500 students are enrolled in the State Normal School at Los Angeles. The high school in Decatur, Ill., opened the year with a very large attendance on September 7. The first day 602 enrolled, the senior class numbers 99, and the freshman 238. Supt. M. N. Beeman, of Crawford county, Ill., has started a monthly paper called "The Progressive Teacher," as a medium of ready and regular communication with his teachers. Spencer Academy in Indian Territory was burned on the night of October 3. Three or four students lost their lives. It is said that the fire was set by an Indian boy, a student, who wished to go home. We note that Supt. W. H. Skinner, of Nebraska City, Neb., advocates the extending of the school year to forty-eight weeks, and the lightening of the tension of the work. The spring, summer, and early fall are to bring the children closer to nature than heretofore. Prof. Charles Northend, of Connecticut, died recently. He was born in 1812, and for many years was a teacher in Massachusetts. He was one of the founders of the American Institute of Instruction, and was one of its most active promoters for more than half a century. More than forty years ago he published the "Teacher and Parent," a book well worth study by the present generation of teachers and parents. By order of Pope Leo, Bishop J. J. Keane ceases to be the head of the Roman Catholic University at Washington, D. C. In his letter removing the bishop from his office, the pope offered to nominate him for an archbishopric in America, or to welcome him at Rome, and give him employment there. Bishop Keane replied that he chooses to remain in this country without office. Bishop Keane is a life-member of the National Educational Association, and has won the good opinion of its members by his speeches and co-operation at its meetings. The last report of the Ashland public schools, of Ashland, Ky., is at hand. It is a volume of 101 pages, containing the report of the superintendent, the course of study, and the rules of the board of education. Prof. J. G. Crabbe is the superintendent. His report is very interesting and very encouraging. Kentucky is fast taking rank with the progressive states of the Mississippi valley in the matter of public education. The Ashland schools are among the best, and the teachers are pressing on to higher things under the leadership of Supt. Crabbe. We are using your Robinson Crusoe in three classes. It is the greatest education book I ever used. It infuses just the spirit we want in our boys. OSMER ABBOTT, Lahaina Main, Hawaiian Island. CHICAGO, Oct. 3, 1896. MY DEAR MR. BROWN:-I have your note of October 1. I have looked through the little book, "Pioneers of the Revolution," and have MODERN CLASSICS SCHOOL LIBRARY 34 volumes, cloth, averaging 312 pages, FOR $11.56. Cost of delivery by 'mail, $1.50. The set weighs 20 pounds. Any book will also be sent separately, postpaid, on receipt of 40 cents. A library of thirty-four volumes, containing many of the best complete Stories, Essays, Sketches, and Poems in modern literature, including selections from the most celebrated authors of England and America, and translations of masterpieces by Continental writers. In several instances the selections from an author are accompanied by a biographical essay by another eminent author. Dr. William T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of Education, says "it is an unrivalled list of excellent works." A pamphlet containing the Table of Contents of each volume will be sent on application. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, 4 Park St., Boston. II East 17th St., New York. 158 Adams St., Chicago. taken it home to my children, little girls of eight and eleven, both of whom were charmed with it. I cannot speak too highly of the value of the book. The topics are well selected and the book is well written. I bid you God speed in the publishing of such books for our children. Yours truly, O. T. BRIGHT, Supt. Five of our subscribers have been so grievously offended at THE PUBLIC SCHOOL JOURNAL for having and expressing an opinion on the great questions in this campaign in which our national prosperity, if not our very national existence, is concerned, that they have ordered their JOURNAL stopped instanter. We regret to lose them as readers, of course, for we have an especial feeling of brotherhood for all of those who have become members of our large family of co-workers in the great cause which we all have so much at heart. How many have been induced to subscribe for THE JOURNAL because of its pronounced policy of discussing education in its largest sense, and advocating what seems to us to be of vital interest to our social order, we do not know. We always regret to offend anyone, but THE PUBLIC-SCHOOL JOURNAL was established to speak the truth as its editors see it, and it must remain true to that purpose so long as it continues to exist, believing that the time will come when teachers will recognize that thisis the policy that all ought to adopt. An educational paper in Ohio prints the names and wages of all the teachers of Guernsey county. The highest wages paid are $40 a month; only a few receive that amount. The lowest are $25; the average seems to be about $32 to $35. There is no marked distinction in the wages of men and women. We note that Bro. Gillan, of the Western School Journal, is also taking a hand in the present campaign. This is right. Mr. Gillan believes in the Democratic party, and that the doctrine it advocates is the best for the country. He does not believe that an educational journal is too holy a place for the consideration of great national questions. It is true he does it rather covertly, as though he feared a bold, frank statement might offend somebody, but he makes himself understood by his readers fairly well. It is an indication of progress when an educational journal is concerned in the welfare of the nation as well as in methods of teaching arithmetic and grammar. We believe that both teachers and preachers should be interested and actively engaged in all the great movements that determine the well being of society. The present campaign is teaching us that politics is a matter of personal concern to every citizen, and that he can ignore it only at his peril. WORTH ATTENTION. All intelligent teachers of geography recognize the prime importance of a true conception of the physical features of a continent or a country, as a basis for all sound geographical knowledge of it. The features of a physical map remain the same, substantially, for all time; upon them the changes indicating political and commercial geography are wrought. But they are the unchanging ground work. Klemm's Relief Maps are one of the most ingenious of modern devices for teaching the surface-features of the country. They are made of paper, embossed to show the surfaceforms. The pupil can use them for the study of these forms; and he can use them as blanks on which to delineate the facts of political and commercial geography as fast as he learns them. They are prepared in two styles; one on plain, stiff paper, like drawing paper, which can be used once as outline blanks. The other is on water-proof paper, which can be sponged, and used for successive drawings. These maps are of different sizes, and include the continents, and the principal countries of the world. The cost is very moderate, the prices ranging from five cents to fifteen, according to size and quality. The PUBLIC-SCHOOL PUBLISHING Co. has these maps in stock, and solicits orders and correspondence. See adv. for sizes and prices. Book Table. Allyn & Bacon, of Boston, have just pub. lished a beautiful edition of "Virgil's Eneid" for schools. It consists of Books 1.. VI., VIII, IX., and selections from the other books. It is edited by David Y. Comstock, M. A., and the introductory price is $1.40. ...EPOCH-MAKING TEXT-BOOKS... DEFINITION-Text-Books which embody new conceptions with reference to a given branch of knowledge, introduce new and improved methods of treating the same, and, as a result, bring about a revolution in bookmaking. HERE ARE SOME SAMPLES OF EPOCH-MAKING BOOKS: The Werner Geographies. By DR. H. S. TARBELL. The Werner Bookkeeping-with Blanks. By Principal E. G. LANTMAN. The American Government. By DR. B. A. HINSDALE. The State Government Series. Grammar School Algebra. BY PROF. W. M. GIFFIN. The Werner Mental Arithmetic. By DR. A. N. RAUB. First Year Nature Reader (In Press). The Werner Primer. By LILIAN F. TAYLOR. By MRS. ALMA HOLMAN BURTON. The Werner Language Series. (In Press). BY DR. CHAS. DEGARMO. Legends of the Red Children (In Press) Still other Epoch-Making Books in other branches of study will be added to the Werner Educational Series. Correspondence is solicited. Send for our Price-List and Announcement. ***If a change in Text-Books is contemplated, we shall be pleased to correspond regarding samples, terms, etc. WERNER SCHOOL BOOK COMPANY, BOSTON. PHILADELPHIA. EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS. NEW YORK. 160-174 Adams Street, Chicago. ALL THE YEAR ROUND, A NATURE READER, PART 1; AUTUMN, by Frances L. Strong; Ginn & Co., 102 pages; introduction price, 30 cents. This little book presents a beautiful appearance, both without and within; and an examination of its contents leads us to believe that it is as good as it looks. It is filled with lively stories and sketches of familiar plants, seeds, butterflies, bees, mice, rats, squirrels, rabbits, and other things in which all children are sure to take an interest. The reading matter is richly illustrated by Gertrude A. Stoker, supervisor of drawing in St. Paul. The manner of using the work in the schools of St. Paul is described in the introduction. LABORATORY MANUAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. By R. P. Williams, Teacher of Chemistry, English High School, Boston, and author of Introduction to Chemical Science and Chemical Experiments General and Analytical. Ginn & Co., Publishers. Williams's Laboratory Manual was an original book. The very large demand for it has shown how much it was needed. The author has now made a new and still better Manual. It contains one hundred sets of experiments in inorganic general chemistry, including brief treatment of qualitative analysis of both metals, and non-metals and a few quantitative experiments. There are blank pages for pupil's notes, suggestions for teachers and pupils, and necessary tables. Directions for the experimenter are given with the greatest care and detail, such as large experience has shown to be necessary for the beginner. In the line of observation and inference suggestion of important points, rather than actual information, characterizes the text. The work is amply illustrated, and has been entirely revised and rewritten. THE WERNER GRAMMAR SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY, Parts I and II, by Horace S. Tarbell, A.M., This arrangement makes it possible to give an amount of information in the text that is commensurate with the importance and dignity of geography as a branch of learning. The thought of the author is that this study "affords excellent opportunities for the exercise of judgment, generalization, inference, and comparison," as well as of memory. The memorizing of the text is not encouraged, but an "appeal is made to the judgment as much as the material to be studied, and the age of the pupil will warrant." There are three divisions, which may be named Preparatory, Descriptive, and Comparative. The preparatory sections are thirtytwo in number, occupying fifty two pages; consisting of preliminary definitions, meteorological facts, geological facts, facts of vegetation and animals, and of man in his progress toward civilization. The second division, which forms the main body of the book, contains an account of the continents and of the people who inhabit them. The study of the North American continent begins with the study of its relief, and its consequent rivers and climate. Then follows a full description of the United States, beginning with its physical features and consequent climate and vegetable productions, and closes with the geographical influences affecting American history. The states are studied in groups. A similar method is pursued in the study of all the other continents and their countries. China and Japan are given more prominence than is usual, because of their growing importance in the commercial world. The comparative division contains a fuller treatment of the topics presented in the preparatory division, and gives a brief comparative view of the countries of the world. causes of wind, rain, ocean currents, and many other phenomena are here briefly considered. The Part II, which is the world in map and picture, is a new departure in geography making, LL.D. Published by the Werner School LONGFELLOW BOOKLET Book Co. In the October number of this journal a brief outline was given of the purpose and method of the introductory book of this series, to which the reader is referred. The plan of the Grammar-school Geography follows the introduction, as it logical sequence. The primary book leads the pupil by a natural and easy method in the mastery of elementary geographical facts. It gives in a most excellent and attractive way a birds-eye view of the world in which we live. The text is admirably supplemented by the pictures and the maps, and every assistance is given to the teacher that a text-book can reasonably give. The grammar-school book is the great book of the series. In the first place it is unique in its form, consisting as it does of two parts; one part in octavo form containing the text well illustrated with pictures and small graphic maps, the other part being the world in map and picture, and in quarto form. Entitled "Poetic A science, in its content, is the activity of an energy or principle in the production of a result. In its form, a science is the orderly arrangement and classification of the definitions and laws which describe the process of the activity of this principle. The science may be called natural when the energy or principle follows the impulse of its own nature in giving form to its content. The energy embodied in a nebula acts according to its nature in producing our solar system. The earth is a phase of the activity of world energy, which, working acording to its nature, embodies itself in the myriad forms of animate and in animate existences found upon its surface and in its atmosphere. Man is a phase of the world energy, implied in the star dust, who works out his destiny according to the laws of his nature. Speech or language is the result of the activity of one phase or aspect of this energy called man, in its endeavor to communicate its thought and feeling to another. Man as thought, or as a thinker, naturally gives the form to his thinking that we call a judgment-making it consist of subject, predicate, and copula. This form is implied in the interchange of thought among the lower animals, but it becomes developed only in man. The primitive man gave utterance to his thought in cries and gestures, perhaps; which cries multiplied into different sounds, or words, used as symbols of his thought, by the slow process of evolution. The natural impulse to think involves the thinking of something-the predi cate-about something else, which is the subject. The full expression of all of these elements of the judgment in separate symbols or words was one of the later attainments of man in the long process of his evolution from animal exist ence. The impulse to make judgments, each having subject, predicate, and copula, is common to all human beings. Mankind think in this way. But human beings differ in the symbols they use to express their judgments, and in the method of arranging these in sentences. We have a complete record of the process of the formation of the English language in recent times. The English people were but lately stimulated by their language environment to construct the English tongue as their form of giving utterance to their thoughts. Now the contention is that this language is as truly a natural product as is the apple tree and its fruit the product of the development of the life germ in the apple seed. As the study of the apple tree requires that we keep con |