-The Cleveland Normal School has grown, under its present principal, Miss Ellen G. Reveley, from thirty pupils to ninety, notwithstanding the faet that the standard of admission has been raised, and now requires every pupil entering to hold a teacher's certificate from the City Board of Examiners, as well as a high school diploma. The growth of the school has made an additional teacher necessary, and Mrs. E. C. Hard, recently principal of the Rockwell school, has been appointed. She once attended the Oswego Normal School, was afterwards a student at Cornell University, and now proves to be the right woman in the right place. The number of training schools has been increased to six, with four critic teachers, Mrs. T. Ashton, Miss J. Jackson, Miss Jennie Pullen and Miss O. Reisterer. The two latter assist Miss Reveley in the Normal department also. All the graduates of the January and June classes of 1888, have received appointments as teachers.

-The Greene County institute was held the week beginning August 27th, at Xenia. The instructors were Marcellus Manley, of Galion, and John C. Ridge, of Waynesville. It was the most interesting and profitable institute held in Greene County for many years, there being in attendance 173 teachers. Messrs. Manley and Ridge each gave an evening lecture, free to all.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, R. W. Mitchell, Alpha; Secretary, Miss Nettie Smith, Bowersville; Ex. Committee, John E. Barnes, Fairfield; J. L. Miller, Old Town; C. S. D. Shawan, Jamestown.

The Ex. Committee has ginning Aug. 12th. C. W. home talent the first week. rectors' day. Alston Ellis, Hamilton, and Samuel Findley, Akron, have been engaged as instructors the second week.

decided to hold a two weeks session next year, beBennett, of Piqua, has been employed to assist Thursday of the first week will be set apart as di

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-Now that the rush of the summer work is somewhat over, we desire to call attention to some matters looking forward to profitable work for the fall months, and through the winter. Write to B. F. Johnson & Co., 1009 Main St., Richmond, Va., and they will show you how to do a grand work, which can be made a permanent thing.

PERSONAL.

-C. W. Vandegrift now has charge of the schools of Plain City, Madison County.

-Reinhard Weisbach, of Cincinnati, has charge of German instruction in the schools of Napoleon, O.

-Hugh A. Myers is the successor of the late John D. Phillips, in charge of the schools of Harmar, Washington Co.

-Superintendent H. N. Mertz is willing to make some institute engagements for next summer. Committees can communicate with him at Steubenville, Ohio.

-Fred. Blaeser, a Noble County teacher, has recently suffered a very sore bereavement, in the death of his wife. He is left with eleven children, the eldest a daughter 16 years old.

-N. W. Bates, (from Ohio of course) occupies the chair of Latin and English in the Alabama State Normal School, at Florence. A letter from him appears elsewhere in this number.

-Geo. B. Bolenbaugh is principal of the Madison Township High School, Pickaway County. He reports an auspicious opening and expresses the hope that ere long every township in the county will have a high school.

-W. D. Korn has recently been appointed on the Lawrence County Board of Examiners. He conducted the Boyd County (Ky.) institute, the last week in September, and reports a good attendance and an interesting session.

-The many friends of Dr. Thomas W. Harvey will be pained to learn of the death of his daughter, Annie Steese Harvey. She died at her home in Painesville, Oct. 10th, after a short illness, at the age of 21. She was graduated at Lake Erie Seminary last year.

-Jonas Cook, formerly a member of our craft in Ohio but now at Harper, Kans., did institute work in Greenup Co., Ky., the past summer. He gives a favorable report. Kentucky teachers must attend the institute, under penalty of forfeiture of their certificates.

-Portland, Dakota, had thirty applicants for the principalship of her schools. B. F. Remington, an Ohio man, took it. He says school matters there are in better shape than they are in Ohio. He gives a good report of what our old friend John Ogden is doing out there.

-Mr. Geo. W. Reed. of the class of '88, Ohio University, and Miss M. C. Baker, of the class of '82, also Rev. W. A. Hunter, of the class of '85, and Miss Ella F. Kirkendall, class of '86, were recently married and are all teaching in Salt Lake City. Are these results of co-education?

-E. H. Cook, Principal of the State Normal and Training School at Potsdam, N. Y., formerly Principal of the Columbus High School, has been chosen President of the New York State Teachers' Association-the next meeting to be held in Brooklyn in July next. A well deserved honor.

-Miss Kate E. Stephan has resigned her position as critic teacher in the training department of the Cleveland Normal School, on account of ill health. The Board granted her leave of absence. She formerly served as supervisor of primary instruction. She will be greatly missed in the Cleveland Schools. Miss Jeanette Jackson, one of the early graduates of the Normal School, and since a very successful primary teacher, has been appointed to fill the

vacancy.

-Marcellus Manley, member of the Ohio State Board of Examiners, and for a number of years superintendent of schools at Galion, Ohio, resigned his position at Galion, Sept. 1, to accept a similar position at Santa Ana, California, and went at once to his new field of labor. The frequency of such dispensations in our midst says in unmistakable tones to those that remain, Be ye also ready. A. W. Lewis, of the Galion High School, succeeds to the superintendency.

-Miss Kate A. Findley, of Andover, Mass., a graduate of the Boston School of Oratory, and for a number of years a teacher in the public schools of her native town, and in one of the Pennsylvania State Normal Schools, can be secured for institute work in Ohio. She is at present Instructor in Elocution, Reading and Rhetoric in the Ohio University at Athens, and refers by permission to the Faculty of the institution, to Supt. Balliett, of Springfield, Mass., and to Mrs. Col. Parker, Chicago, Ill.

BOOKS.

Potter's New Elementary Geography (Teacher's Edition). By Miss Eliza H. Morton, late Teacher in the Normal Department of Battle Creek College, Mich. (John E. Potter & Co., Philadelphia).

This is not a book for the routine teacher. It is a radical departure from the beaten path. There are a hundred lessons, each of which is to be preceded by oral instruction. The teacher's edition contains carefully prepared notes to aid the teacher in each oral lesson. The lessons for pupils consist largely of suggestive hints and questions, calculated to lead each pupil to observe and think for himself. The lesson grinder will shun this book; the highly skillful teacher will be delighted with it.

Physiology: A Manual of 1000 Questions and Answers Systematically Arranged, Containing a Full Treatment of the Physiological Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics, with a complete Analytic Outline of the Subject, and Notes on Teaching. By W. A. Clark, of the National Normal University. Published by C. K. Hamilton & Co., Lebanon, Ohio.

This book has been prepared specially as an aid in teaching and in preparing for examination. No better book of its kind has ever fallen into our hands. Clearness, completeness, and conciseness are its leading characteristics.

Longmans' School Geography, by George G. Chisholm, M. A., B. Sc., (London: Longmans, Green & Co.) is a convenient duodecimo without maps. It is commendable for what it omits as much as for what it contains. Ignoring all petty details, which if learned would not be remembered, the author presents the essential facts and principles in their proper relations, with a view to securing the highest discipline as well as the best information. In the description of countries, prominence is given to such features as comparative latitude, density of population, and the growth of cities.

A School Grammar, by David Salmon (Longmans, Green & Co., London and New York) is a grammar simple and pure, without mixture of composition, rhetoric, etc. There is not even a preface to tell what long felt want the book is intended to supply. It is sufficiently elementary for beginners, and sufficiently advanced for the average common school.

Elements of Composition and Rhetoric, with Copious Exercises in both Criticism and Construction, by Virginia Waddy, Teacher of Rhetoric in the Richmond High School. Published by Everett Waddy, Richmond, Va.

The outgrowth of school-room experience, this work is a practical text-book sufficiently elementary for lower high-school grades, yet sufficiently comprehensive to give a fair knowledge of the subject.

The Boston Tea Party, and other Stories of the Revolution, Relating many Daring Deeds of the Old Heroes, from Henry C. Watson, (Lee & Shepard Boston), is a book to be remembered when reading for the young people is to be selected. These stories of personal daring can scarcely fail to excite an interest in the history of our country and arouse a spirit of patriotism in the breasts of our young people.

Two recent additions to the Classics for Children, published by Ginn & Co., Boston, are Benjamin Franklin; His Life Written by Himself, and A Selection of Stories from the Arabian Nights' Entertainment; the former edited by D. H. Montgomery, the latter by Edward E. Hale. The preparation and publication of these classics is a real service to teachers as well as to pupils. The proper reading of such books is an education in itself.

Colloquia Latina. Adapted to the Beginners' Books of Jones, Leighton, and Collar and Daniell. By Berjamin L. D'Ooge, Professor of Latin and Greek, Michigan State Normal School. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston.

The two fold aim of this little book, to secure thoroughness and inspire enthusiasm by the use of colloquial Latin in the early part of the student's course, is highly commendable. The method is approved and adopted by many of the best Latin professors. The exercises in this book will prove a pleasant recreation to the tyro as he sweats over his paradigms.

There seems no end of good reading for young people. One of the latest and best books of this class is from the press of D. Appleton & Co., New York,Stories of Other Lands, compiled and arranged by the late James Johonnot. It contains fragments of history, feats of heroism, stories of artists, and stories of science and industry-all told in simple yet chaste language.

The Realities of Heaven is a neat little 16mo volume of 120 pages, containing eight lectures by Rev. T. F. Wright, on the inhabitants, employments and enjoyments of the spiritual world. Published by William H. Alden, Philadelphia.

English-German Model Letter Writer and Book keeper. By Dr. Jacob Mayer. Published by I. Kohler, Philadelphia.

This is a volume of considerable size. The two languages are on opposite pages. It contains directions and models for every variety of correspondence, in both languages; also a short treatise on book-keeping, with business forms, in both languages. There is an observable tincture of German on a good many of the English pages.

The Child's Song Book. For Primary Schools and the Home Circle. By Mary H. Howliston. Published by A. S. Barnes & Company, New York and Chicago.

A very pretty little book, filled with sprightly songs, games and exercises for the little people. Just such a book as every primary teacher wants.

Splendor! For Singing Classes, Conventions, Normal Schools, Day Schools, Institutes, Academies, Colleges, and the Home. Containing a greatly Improved Method of Teaching the Principles of Music, Voice Culture, Theory and Exercises; Pretty and Easy Pieces for Beginners, More Advanced Glees, Part Songs, Quartets and Anthems, and Grand Sacred and Secular Choruses for Concerts. By S. W. Straub. Published by S. W. Straub & Co., Chicago.

Selections from Ruskin, By Edwin Ginn, with Notes and a sketch of Ruskin's Life, by D. H. M., belongs to Ginn's "Classics for Children." It contains Ruskin's Lectures on Books and Reading, War, and Work, slightly abridged for school use. Seems like pretty strong diet for "children"--perhaps intended for "the children of larger growth." If so, it is excellent for them. Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language. Vol. I. A to America. New York: John B. Alden, Publisher.

Illustrated.

The work bearing the above title is one of the remarkable literary enterprises of the age. In it are combined a cyclopedia of universal knowledge and a dictionary of the English language. It claims to include every word which has any right to a place in the English language, and to give reliable information in every department of human knowledge. Many of the topics are treated at considerable length-Africa, for instance, occupying a dozen pages and America nearly thirty. One of the marvellous things about it is the price. Each volume is a neat duodecimo of more than 600 pages, sold in plain cloth binding, for 50 cents, and in half morocco for 65 cents. The volumes are to come from the press at monthly intervals.

Laboratory Manual of General Chemistry. Including Directons for performing one hundred of the more Important Experiments in General Chemistry and Metal Analysis, with blank Pages and a Model for the same, Laboratory Rules and Suggestions, and Tables of Elements, Compounds, Solutions, Apparatus, and Chemicals. May be used with any text-book, but specially adapted to the author's "Introduction to Chemical Science." By R. P. Williams. Boston: Ginn & Co.

First French Course: Rules and Exercises for beginners. By C. A. Chardenal, University of France. New and Enlarged Edition. Boston. Allyn and Bacon.

Introductory Lessons in English Grammar. For Use in Lower Grammar Classes. By Wm. H. Maxwell; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Brooklyn, N. Y. A. S. Barnes & Co., New York and Chicago.

The author holds that the chief purpose of studying grammar is to teach children how to comprehend thought expressed in language. He also claims that "language lessons" have been largely a failure, because they have dealt almost exclusively with expression, ignoring the development of the power to think. The point seems well taken; there can be no valuable attainment in power to express thought without thinking. The teacher's great task is to secure the clear expression of thought by means of clear thinking. We are pleased with this book. It is based on sound principles, and admirably planned and well executed.

A College Algebra. By G. A. Wentworth. Boston: Ginn and Company. This is an advanced algebra, designed for a full year course. After a brief review of elementary principles, there is a clear and thorough presentation of quadratic equations, binomial theorem, choice, chance, series, determinants, and the general properties of equations. The previous reputation of the author is a guaranty of excellence.

A very excellent little manual is How to Teach Manners in the School Room, by Mrs. Julia M. Dewey. Published by E. L. Kellogg & Co., New York and Chicago. Teachers would do well to get it.