The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal of Education

THE KINDERGARTEN GUIDE. An Illustrated Hand-book, designed for the Self-Instruction of Kindergartners, Mothers, and Nurses. By Maria Kraus-Boelte and John Kraus. New York: E. Steiger. 1877.

This Guide is in three numbers, each neatly bound in garnet cloth. Number One treats of "The First and Second Gifts"; Number Two, of "The Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Gifts"; and Number Three, of "The Seventh Gift (The Tablets)." The whole number of pages in the three numbers is 237. Each number is profusely illustrated. As to the Froebelian orthodoxy of the Guide it is only necessary to say that Mrs. Kraus is the highest authority in this country on kindergartenism, having been a pupil of Froebel's widow. She is a woman whose moral qualities are a fit setting for her fine personal appearance.

SYLLABUS OF LECTURES ON ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, for Students of the State Normal and Training School, at Cortland, N. Y. By T. B. Stowell, A. M. Syracuse, N. Y. Davis, Bardeen & Co., Publishers. 1877. Pages 82, every other page being blank. Price 50 cts.

The author of this work was a pupil of Agassiz's, and is now a successful teacher of anatomy and physiology. All we need to say of the Syllabus is that every teacher of physiology should have it as an aid to instruction and investigation. The last page contains the names of twenty-five works that have been consulted.

THE KENTUCKY SCHOOL-LAWYER: or a Commentary on the Kentucky School Laws and the Rules and Regulations of the State Board of Education. By Howard A. M. Henderson, A. M., D. D., LL. D. Frankfort, Ky.: 1877. Pages 291. Price 1.25 by mail.

It is sufficient to say that this volume will certainly be the source of much valuable information to the people of Kentucky who are interested in their educational machinery. We wish we had an educational manual for Ohio which contained legal school forms, the Commissioner's Decision, Supreme Court decisions on school questions, as well as the school laws, etc.

FACTS AND FIGURES FOR MATHEMATICIANS; or, The Geometrical Problem which Benson's Geometry Alone can solve. Pages 22. Price 30cts. Lawrence S. Benson, 149 Grand Street, New York City.

The problem referred to is one sent to the Scientific American by Capt. R. Kelso Carter, Professor of Mathematics in the Pennsylvania Military Academy. It is as follows:

"Given the area of a circle, say one acre, to find that of another circle, which being described from a point, as a centre, on the circumference of the given circle, shall have that portion of its area outside the given circle equal to the area of the given circle."

In solving this problem he takes 3R2 as the area of a circle whose radius is R. His answer must evidently be wrong, because 3R2 is just the area of an inscribed dodecagon. It is utter folly to assert that the area of this dodecagon is equal in area to the circle in which it is inscribed. Let 2-1/3 Ꮴ

be the side of a regular dodecagon, then

must be its apothem and its area is equal to 3. To get round this fact Mr. Benson must declare that the area of a triangle is not half the rectangle of its base and altitude.

THE INSTITUTE SONG BUDGET. By E. V. De Graff. 1878. Price 15 cts. This is a 72-page pamphlet, published by Davis, Bardeen & Co., Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. De Graff is a well-known conductor of Teachers' Institutes in the State of New York. He says that 19,000 copies of the former edition having been sold he was induced to increase the size of the book one-third by the addition of pieces of the same character.

SCHOENSCHREDE-HEFT.

In six numbers. By D. H. Lueken. St. Louis.

The Central Publishing Company. These are German Copy-books " on a New Rational Method." The contents of the numbers are as follows:-Inhalt der Hefte. No. 1: Die kl. unverläng. Buchstaben. No. 2: Die kl. verläng. Buchstaben. No. 3: u. 4: Die groszen Buchstaben. No. 5: Einzeilige Sätze. No. 6: Geschäftsaufsätze, Anzeigen, Briefe.

PERIODICALS.

The New-York Observer is one of the veteran newspapers of the country, being near the close of its 56th volume. It is both religious and secular. Its high-toned character makes it eminently a family paper. The remarkable letters of Irenæus Prime, the veteran editor-in-chief, are alone worth the price of the paper. Agriculture, commerce, finance, the markets, and general literature receive weekly appropriate treatment. To crown all it has a Youth's Department, thus making it valuable and entertaining to all members of the family. This great paper costs less than 1 cent a day, its price postpaid being only $3.15 a year. Sample copies are sent free. The address is The New-York Observer, 37 Park Row, New York.

The Weekly Toledo Blade, we have come to believe, is the best general newspaper in the country, really giving a better variety of reading matter than the Weekly New-York Tribune. The East must look to her newspaper laurels which are rapidly passing to the vigorous West.

ADDENDUM TO EDUCATIONAL PERIODICALS.-Just as we go to press with our last signature we have received a new school journal, being the November, or No. 4., Vol. I., of The Iowa Normal Monthly, Official Journal of the State Department. It is a covered octavo about the size of the Ohio Ed. Monthly, and is issued at Dubuque, Iowa. W. J. Shoup & Co., Editors and Publishers. Price $1.50 a year.

CORRECTIONS:- Page 395, last month, 31st line, 6th word should be ease" instead of "care"; p. 396, 28th line, 1st word, should be "ratified" instead of "satisfied."

PAMPHLETS, ETC., RECEIVED.

Annual Report of the Public Schools of Elkkart, Ind. 1876-7. Pages 48 M. A. Barnett, Sup't.

Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Hamilton Public Schools for the school year ending Aug. 31, 1877. Pages 127. Alston Ellis, Sup't. This is a valable report.

Our Future Life in Phonic Shorthand. Burns & Co., New York. Price, 10 cents.

Annual Report of the Steubenville Public Schools for the year 1876-7. Pages 43. Martin R. Andrews, Sup't.

Two Addresses relative to the Orphan Houses in Ashley Down, Bristol, England, and The Other Objects of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad. By Geo. Müller. A. S. Barnes & Co., 111 Wil

liam Street, New York. Pages 57.

Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education.

No. 1.-1877

Reports on the System of Public Instruction in China. Pages 28.

Fourth Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Portland (Oregon) Public Schools, for the year ending June 22, 1877. Pages 80. T. H. Crawford, Sup't.

Proceedings of the Teachers' Institute of the City and County of Philadelphia, for the year 1876. Philadelphia, 1877. Pages 76.

Bedford School Report for 1876. Pages 100. Sup't Henry F. Harrington. He always writes with force.

The Ohio Central Normal School, Worthington, Ohio. Pages 37. John Ogden, Principal.

Catalogue of Highland Hall, 1876-7. Highland Park, Ill. Hon. Edward P. Weston, President.

President Hayes's Southern Policy. An Address delivered in the Town Hall, Hiram, Ohio, Tuesday Evening, September 25, 1877. By B. A. Hinsdale, President of Hiram College. Pages 32.

Eighth and Ninth Annual Reports of the Superintendent of the Public Schools of Pittsburgh, for the years ending September 1, 1876, and September 1, 1877. Pages 78 and 98.

Annual Catalouge of Baldwin University. 1877. Pages 18. Dr. Aaron Schuyler, President.

Report of the Superintendent of Public Schools of Lancaster, Ohio, together with the Regulations and Course of Instruction; also the Exercises of the Graduating Class of the High School for the two years ending August 31, 1877. Pages 63. G. W. Welsh, Superintendent.

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