GERMANY. THE PRUSSIAN BUDGET. -The educational budget of Prussia amounts to about 211,000,000 marks, equivalent to $50,218,000. It absorbs three-tenths of the entire budget, and upon the estimated population (28,000,000), gives $1.78 per capita. The amount it distributed as follows: To the universities, 7.5 per cent.; to the secondary schools (gymnasia, real schulen, etc.), 13.83 per cent. ; to elementary education, 74.43 per cent., and to professional and technical schools, 4.23. Of the entire sum the state contributes 31.03 per cent., the communes, 46.19, and the remainder is derived from endowments and private donations. UNIVERSITY NOTES. The University of Jena announced autumn courses for teachers in the various sciences. The entire number of students in the German universities for the summer semester, was 29,491, distributed among the faculties as follows: Theology, 6,000; law, 6,835; medicine, 8,883; philosophy and natural sciences, 7.773. The Prussian Minister of Education is turning his attention towards the study of the history of medicine. Formerly there was a chair for this subject at every German university; now there is but one, namely, at Berlin, occupied by Professor Hirsch, the Nestor of the Historians of Medicine. It has been recently ordered that every Professor of Hygiene should include in his work, lectures on the history of medicine. A. T. S. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CURRENT PERIODICAL LITERATURE UPON EDUCATION. The following bibliography of current periodical literature includes articles upon education and other subjects calculated to interest teachers. Only articles from peri. odicals not nominally educational are mentioned. Articles of special importance to teachers will, as a rule, be mentioned in notes. Amiel and Pessimism. Brother Azarias. Catholic World, Oct. A scholarly review of the Journal Intime of Amiel. Anthropology at Washington. Prof. J. Howard Gore. Popular Science Monthly, October. Association générale des étudiants, A l'. Le banquet de Mendon: discours de M. Ernest Lavisse. Revue Bleue, August 17. Association of Ideas, Experiments upon. Science, September 27. A resumé of Dr, Cattell's experiments reported in "Mind," No. 54. Australian Ballot System. Edward' Wakefield. Forum, October. Revue Base Ball - For the Spectator. Walter Camp. Century, Oct. Beethoven, La jeunesse de. des Deux Mondes, September 15. Bellamy's (Edward) Vision. William T. Harris. Forum, October. An important criticism of "Looking Backward." British Association, The. Nature, September 19. Opening addresses in the sections of Geology, Geography, Economie Science, and Mechanical Science. The attention of teachers may be directed especially to Col. Winton's address upon Geography, and to Professor Edgeworth's upon Political Economy. Cellini, Benvenuto, The Life of. Edward J. Lowell. Scribner's, October. Clough, Arthur Hugh. William Higgs. Yale Review, October. Coleridge as a Poet. Professor Dowden. Fortnightly Review, Sept. College, The Christian, a Safeguard of the Republic. Prof. L. T. Townsend. Our Day, September. Coöperation, The Progress of. I. In England. George Jacob Holyoake. II. In France. A. Milleraud. New Review, September. Criticism as a Trade. Professor Knight. Nineteenth Century, Sept. Dante's Divina Commedia, The Spiritual Sense of. W. T. Harris. Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Oct. 1887. The number containing this important paper has just been published. Democracy in the Household. E. Lynn Linton. Forum, October. A suggestive article on the servantgirl question. For good or evil, the democratic wave is flowing over all the social ground, inside the home as well as outside in public life." Democracy, The Aberrations of. Washington Gladden. Andover Review, October. Democratic Ideal in Education, The. With an illustration from the Workingman's School and Free Kindergarten, New York. Felix Adler. Century, October. Diderot. Westminister Review, Sept. Diseases caught from Butcher's meat. Dr. Behrend. Nineteenth Century, September. Drawing-room Homily. A. F. D. Huntington. Forum, October. Economy. I sofismi economici vecchi tornati in vigore nelle generazioni nuove. L. G. De Cambray-Digny. Nuova Antologia, Sept. 1 and 16. Egypt, Education in Ancient. F. C. H. Wendel. Popular Science Monthly, October. Frank Egypt under the Kedive. G. Carpenter. Cosmopolitan, Oct. Eight-Hour Law, An. H. H. Champion. Nineteenth Century, Sept. Electricity in War. 1. In Naval Warfare. W. S. Hughes. II. In Land Warfare. John Millis. Scrib-· ner's, October. Ericsson and his "Monitor." Charles W. MacCord. North American Review, October. Espagne, Le mouvement littéraire en. E. Rios. Bibliothèque Universelle, August. Esthétique contemporaine, L': La mimique dans le système des beauxarts. Ch. Bénard. Revue Philosoph-ique, September. Europe, Mutterings of War in. Emile de Laveleye. Forum, Oct. Evolution as Taught at a Theological Seminary. Rollo Ogden. Popular Science Monthly. October. Fiction in the Pulpit. Agnes Repplier. Atlantic Monthly, October. Fork, History of the. J. Von Folke. Popular Science Monthly, October. Translated from Ueber Land und Meer. Formale Bildung. Paul Cauer. Preussische Jahrbücher, September. A valuable paper with reference to the curriculum of the German gymnasium. Freidenker. Ein antiker. Ludwig Büchner. Deutsche Revue, October. Devoted to the poet Lucretius. French Art, A Century of. Claude Phillips. New Review, September. French Association for the Advancement of Science, The. Nature, August 22. Funde und Ausgrabungen der letzten Jahrzehnte. I. J. Mähly. Deutsche Revue, October. Gladstone, The Candour of. T. P. O'Connor. Contemporary Review, Sept. Goethe, La jeunesse de. Goethe et Herder à Strasbourg. Edouard Rod. Bibliothèque Universelle, August. Government and its Creditors, The. Henry Loomis Nelson. Atlantic, Oct. Harris, Willlam T., and the Bureau of Education. William A. Mowry. New England Magazine, October. Harvard of To-day. Josiah Parsons Cooke. Science, September 13. Address at the last Harvard Alumni dinner. Herschels, Maria Mitchell's Reminiscences of the. Maria Mitchell. Century, October. Holmes, Dr., at Fourscore. George Willis Cooke. New England Magazine, October. Iliad, Closing Scenes of the. William Cranston Lawton. Atlantic, October. Irish Home Rule, Parallels to. E. A. Freeman. Fortnightly Review, Sept. Japan, The Two Capitals of. Frank G. Carpenter. Cosmopolitan, Sept. Labor Organizations. The Tyranny of. Austin Corbin. North American Review, October. Ladies and Learning. L. D. Morgan. Atlantic, October. Land, How to Nationalize the. F. L. Soper. Westminster Review, Sept. Lincoln, Abraham : A History. Blair's Mexican Project - The Hampton Roads Conference - XIIIth Amendment. John G. Nicolay and John Hay. Century, October. Linnaeus, Carolus, Sketch of. ular Science Monthly, October. Literature, Making a Name in. mund Gosse. Forum, October. Pop Ed Revue Mariage, Le, et le divorce aux Etats-Unis. C. de Varigny. des Deuz Mondes, September 1. Mind, Growth and Decay of. R. A. Proctor. Knowledge, September. Molière and Shakspere. C. Coquelin. Century, October. Monmouth and Newport Campaigns, The. John Fiske. Atlantic, October. Montchrétien, Le fondation de l' économie politique. Th. TunckBrentano. Revue Bleue, Sept. 14. Moralité, Les transformations futures de l'idée morale-III. Fondemens psychologiques et métaphysiques de la moralité. Alfred Fouillée. Revue des Deux Mondes, Sept. 15. Motion, Our Sensations of. Prof. A. Crum Brown. Nature, Sept. 5. Motley, John Lathrop, The Correspondence of. S. B. Wister. Lippincott's, October. Nashville, The Educational Institutions of. David G. Ray. New England Magazine, October. National Educational Association, The. Albert P. Marble. New England Magazine, October. Negro, Prejudice against the. John Snyder. Forum, October. Shows most pointedly the absurdity of the color-caste line. Nether World," The. Archdeacon Farrar. Contemporary Review, September. Apropos of the above novel, whose characters he finds "all typical," Archdeacon Farrar writes of the evils among the poor and suggests remedies. New England Conservatory of Music, The. Edward Dwight Walker. Cosmopolitan, September. New England's Gift to the Republic. Rev. A. D. Mayo. New England Magazine. October. Nijuii-Novgorod, The Fair of. Theodore Child. Harper's, October. Notoriety, The Love of. Frances Power Cobbe. Forum, October. Occultism, The Origin of Modern. F. Legge. National Review, Sept. Ohr. Ueber Bau und Verrichtungen des menschlichen Ohres. Bürkner. Deutsche Revue, October. K. Perikles. Die Strategie des, erläutert durch die Strategie Friedrichs des Grossen. I. Hans Delbrück. Preussische Jahrbücher, September. Philosophische Bibliothek, J. V. Kirchmann's. Adolf Lasson. Preussische Jahrbücher, September. Phrenology, The Old and New. Prof. M. Allen Starr. Popular Science Monthly, October. A valuable psycholgical paper. Post, Progress and the. Don M. Dickinson. North American Review, October. Postal Reform, Needed. Thomas L. James. Forum, October. Prismatics. Sophia Kirk. tic, October. Atlan Recounts some of the literary aspects of the French Revolution. Religion, In Search of a. W. S. Lilly. Nineteenth Century, Sept. Religion of Rome during the Third Century. Westminster Review, Sept. Rentengüter, Ueber. Sombart-Ermsleben. Preussische Jahrbücher, Sept. Rights of Man, A Tory Plea for the. W. Earl Hodgson. National Review, September. Roads, The Common. N. S. Shaler. Scribner's, October. Russian Characteristics. Part I. Lying. E. B. Lanin. Fortnightly Review, September. Schopenhauer and Goethe (First Paper). Lewis J. Huff. Unitarian Review, October. Sense, An Unknown Origan of. Christine Ladd Franklin. Science, September 13. The writer maintains that Brener's experiments prove that by sensations from the semicircular canals we determine the direction and amount of rotary motions of the body. Sheridan's First Fight. C. S. Greene. Overland Monthly, October. Social Problems. Edward Everett Hale. Cosmopolitan, Sept. and Oct. Socialism. Christian Socialism in America. Nicholas P. Gilman. Unitarian Review, October. Socialism, Practicable. A. R. Newman. Westminster Review, Sept. Based upon Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Barnett's book of the above title. Song, Science in. Lennot Browne. Contemporary Review, September. Spencer's "Faerie Queene," One Aspect of. Henry S. Pancoast. Andover Review, October. Steam, The Supplanting of. Alvan D. Brock. Overland Monthly, Oct. Strikes, The Warning of the English. Henry George. North American Review, October. A suggestive paper. Surgery, Recent Progress in. W. W. Keen. Harper's, October. Tarry at Home Travel. Edward E. Hale. New England Magazine, Oct. Technical Instruction Act, The. Nature, September 12. Trades' Union Congress and Social Legislation. George Howell. Contemporary Review, September. Training of the Teacher, The. With illustrations from the New York College for the Training of Teachers. Nicholas Murray Butler. Century, October. Tropical Education. Grant Allen. Longman's, September. If any one were to ask me (which is highly unlikely)," says the author, 'In what university would an intelligent young man do best to study?' I think I should be very much inclined indeed to answer off-hand, In the Tropics.' Visage de l'homme, Le, et la physiognomie. Emile Yung. BibliothèqueUniverselle, August. Volupuk - The Universal Language that no one Speaks. Cosmopolitan, October. War Reminiscences, A Non-Combatant's. J. R. Kendrick. Atlantic, October. An interesting paper by one who was teacher and clergyman at the South during the War. Paul Man Was mir nicht Wissen. tegazza. Deutsche Revue, October. Women in Public Life. D. F. Hannigan and Elizabeth Martyn. Westminster Review, September. Women, The Position of, among the Early Christians. Principal Donaldson. Contemporary Review, Sept. Woolsey, Theodore Dwight. Joseph Henry Thayer. Atlantic, Oct. Wordsworth and the Quantock Hills. William Greswell. National Review, September. Wordsworth's Great Failure. Professor Minto. Nineteenth Century, September. Workers, A Few Words to Fresh Workers. Octavia Hill. Nineteenth Century, September. Paper read before the University Extension students at Oxford, August, 1889. Working Man, A real. Macmillan's, September. Workmen's Insurance in Germany. Prof. F. W. Taussig. Forum, Oct. AMONG THE BOOKS. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. By John T. Morse, Jr. American Statesmen Series. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Pp. 428. Cloth. Price, $1.25. Mr. Morse himself says in effect, It is far from easy to compress the life of Franklin into four hundred pages. Yet in spite of the difficulty of the undertaking, the work has been done, and well done. The author has given the various sides of the character of his subject very fair treatment, and shows the greatness and strength of the man with clearnessand accuracy. As so large a portion of Franklin's mature years was given to statesmanship, it is what would be expected, to find one-half the chapters upon his services to his country, but in each of these chapters is shown, beside and in connection with his purely political duties, the social side of the man, together with the breadth of his intellect, acuteness, diplomatic manner, and great knowledge of the people of England and France, as well as of America. The book throws new light upon the character and services of Franklin. This is one of the books which every boy should read. ELEMENTARY PRACTICAL PHYSICS. A Guide for the Physical Laboratory. By H. N. Chute, M. S., Teacher of Physics in the Ann Arbor High School. Boston, New York and Chicago: D. Č. Heath & Co. 1889. Pp. 386. For many years the science teachers of the country have been waiting for this book. The most advanced of them have long realized the great disadvantages in using previous textbooks. While each new textbook that appears is in some respects an improvement over any of its predecessors, not one has been written that really fills the bill. Among other faults, these stand up perhaps the most prominently. Too small a list of experiments, too many explanations as to what result the student ought to find, and as a rule too costly apparatus required to perform the experiments. As the method of individual laboratory work in physics is being adopted everywhere, and as most teachers find that their very large physics classes prevent their devising so many experiments, the need of a purely experimental book has appeared on all sides. Professor Chute has happily decided to omit all laws and definitions, and simply to furnish teachers with a long list of carefully prepared experiments that will require the least expensive apparatus, and to adapt it for use with any accurate textbook. There is not an experiment in the book that is not fully described and fitted for the comprehension of any teacher or pupil. With both very simple and more complex experiments on every subject, any teacher has a nearly limitless choice. Some of the experiments will surely fit his apparatus. The work takes up nearly the whole ground of the science, the seven chapters being: "The Properties of Matter," "Experimentally Determined," " Mechanics of Solids," "Mechanics of Fluids," "Heat," "Magnetism and Electricity," "Sound," and "Light." The author has also prepared lists of experiments that would be suitable for courses of greater or less length. The best feature of the book. however, seems to be found in the way in which the pupil is shown how to draw his own inferences. He is nowhere told what he is to expect, but his attention is called to the direction in which he is |