SCHOOL FURNITURE.

The improvements in School Furniture are all of recent date. But tasteful and commodious furniture, adapted to the comfort and wants of children, attractive in its appearance, and elevating in its influence, is even more important in our Schoolhouses, which are to be occupied by children during the most susceptible period of their lives, than is the furniture in our Dwelling Houses and Churches. The truth of this statement seems but recently to have gained a lodgment in the public mind. The house of Mr. Ross, the pioneer in this department in the country, which was established in 1838, is still manufacturing and sending out improved School Furniture from the city of Boston. More recently, similar establishments have been opened in New York, Buffalo, and other cities.

The cuts which I am enabled here to present, have been furnished me by establishments in the three cities just named, and may be regarded as representing specimens of their work. Nos. 1 to 6 are from the house of W. Chase & Son, 198 Seventh Street, Buffalo. Nos. 7 to 17 are from the house of Nathaniel Johnson, 490 Hudson Street, New York. Nos. 18 to 29 are from the house of Joseph L. Ross, corner of Hawkins and Ives Streets, Boston, with branch houses, 413 Broadway, New York, and 194 Lake Street, Chicago, where the Messrs. Chase have also a branch.

A simple style of Seats and Desks, entirely of wood, is represented in Plan No. 3 of Schoolhouses. The styles. of furniture here given are so constructed as to admit of being taken apart and snugly packed for transportation:

No. 1.-Chase's Portable Intermediate Single Desk and Chair.

Two sizes of this style of Desk are manufactured, with the hight of the side next the scholar, 22 and 24 inches. Primary School Desks of the same design, and of varying sizes, are also manufactured.

No. 2.-Chase's Portable Intermediate Double Desk.

Two sizes of the double Desk are also manufactured, with the hight of the side next the scholar the same as No. 1. Primary School Desks of the same design, and of varied sizes, are also manufactured.

These Desks have open spaces beneath the top to receive books and papers. The Chairs bave iron backs.

Three sizes of this Desk are manufactured, 241, 26 and 27 inches high. This arrangement gives each pupil the benefit of a single Desk, as does No. 1.

No. 4.-Chase's High School Double Desk and Chairs.

Three sizes, are manufactured, 24, 25 and 27 inches high. Each cover opens a separate apartment in the desk designed for the exclusive use of one pupil. This arrangement, though less commodious than single seats, allows a separate apartment for each pupil's books.

The new Union Schoolhouse at Kalamazoo, I am advised, is furnished with this style of desks and seats.

No. 5.-Chase's Teachers' Desk with Four Drawers, and Cloth Top.

A good and convenient Desk is of hardly less importance to the Teacher than is a good boarding place. Both, indeed, are essential to his comfort and highest success.

The style of Desk here represented gives the Teacher the benefit of drawer room, which is very important, and while it adds greatly to his convenience, it may often be made to protect valuable books and papers belonging to the District.

No. 6.-Chase's Teachers' Desk with Eight Drawers.

This style of Desk affords an increased amount of drawer room, which will be found convenient where there are not cupboards or closets connected with the School-room.

Should greater hight be required, as in case of standing to read, a portable Desk like that represented by No. 23, may be used on either of these Desks.