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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. 11 tention of our board you will remember, was called to the subject by the Superintendent in his last report. Better Prospects. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Mississippi says The Legislature is composed of gentlemen identified with the State in every way possible, and these gentlemen will correct whatever they may have done improperly. Whatever may have been done wrong in regard to schools will, next session, be made right.

You mistake the animus of the Leg-islature if you suppose that they are unfriendly to the free school system. They will maintain and enlarge it of, this I have full assurance. The complaints about salaries are, to me, a source of much concern. I know, and you know, if you are qualified for your place, that intelligent and efficient local supervision is absolutely necessary, and that such cannot be had at the rate of compensation offered and allowed. of Woman Suffrage found no place in the Congress.

We' know that Mrs. Doggett, Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Adams are advocates of womans right to the ballot, but that is only one of the many privileges they demand for their sex. The broad culture and judiciousness which characterize these papers constitute a peculiarly strong argument for inviting women to help us men conduct the affairs of State.

It must be admitted that there are not, in all likelihood, twenty members of the Congress now in session at Washington who could discuss the problems of life as creditably as they are discussed in these papers. Certain it is that Chicago has never had as much occasion to be proud of any speech in the Congress of the United States, made by a representative, as she has to take pride in the paper on Art for Women, read by one of her votelcss citizens in the Congress of Women. This publication lacks only an index table to be exceedingly valuable as a reference volume. It ought to be widelv read. It is printed by the Fergus Printing Compaiiy, of this city.

Whether it is for sale or not is more than we know. The publishing committee consists of Julia Ward Howe of Boston, and Kate N. Doggett and Ellen Mitchell of Chicago. Chicago Journal. ing, at a total expense of $200,000, a high school house, almost under the shadow of the new capitol.

THIRD CONGRESS OF WOMEN. ONE of the most valuable of the publications which have come to us the current week, bears the self-explaining title of Papers Read at the Third Congress of Women. That Congress met at Syracuse in October last. It opens with the address of the President, Professor Maria Mitchell of Vassar College, one of the greatest scientists that ever walked among the stars and translated their literature. It is brief, practical, and ennobling.

The Caroline Herschel of America, she is more than the equal of Mary Somerville, who associated on terms of equality with Lord Brougham and the great thinkers of that period. Besides that general paper, are nineteen essays on specific subjects, each appropriate to the gathering, and each showing thorough mastery of the subject in hand. Some are quite short, but in every case does the reader feel that the writer had given exhaustive study to the question discussed. The table of contents (had there been one, and there should have been not only that but an index also), would be as follows, besides the opening address Place of Women in Our Public Schools Ednah D. Cheney, Jamaica Plains, N.

Y. Women in Education; Mary F. Eastman, Tewksbury, Mass. Marriage and Work Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Somerville, N.

J. Statistics of the Woman Ministry Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford, Jersey City. Women in Journalism Mrs.

(Jennie June) Croly, N. Y. Uses of Money Sarah M. Perkins, Coopers town, N. Y.

What Practical Measures Will Promote the Financial Independence of Women Charlotte A. Cleveland, Perry, N. Y. Ethics and of Dress; Minnie Swayze. Science for Women; Grace Anna Lewis, Media, Pa.

Organization as Related to Civilization Anna C. Brackett, N. Y. Superfluous Women Mary A. Livermore, Melrose, Mass.

Art Culture E. R. Coffin. Art for Women Kate Newell Dog-gett, Chicago. On the Formation of Art Groups Julia Ward Howe, Boston.

Art as a Medium of Civilization Grace C. Bibb, Louis. Science in the Kitchen Mrs. Miller, Geneva, N. Y.

The Struggle and Reconcileation of the Ideal and the Practical in America; Mary Newbury Adams, Dubuque, Iowa. Relations of Women to Crime and Criminals Elizabeth B. Chace, Valley Falls, R. I. Employments Open to Women S.

A. C. Bond, Boston. It will be observed that the subject since, under the name of Self-Made or, Out of the Depths. Mrs.

Southworth, in the preface to Ishmael, says This story, in book form, has been called for by thousands, during several years past, but the author has reserved it until 1876, as her contribution to the Centennial; not only because she considers it to be her very best work, but because it is peculiarly a National Novel, being founded on the life and career of one of the noblest of our countrymen, who really lived, suffered, toiled, and triumphed in this land one whose inspirations of wisdom and goodness were drawn from the examples of the heroic warriors and statesmen of the Revolution, and who having, by his own energy, risen from the deepest obscurity to the highest fame, became in himself an illustration of the elevating influences of our Republican Institutions. His identity will be recognized by those who were familiar with his early personal history but for obvious reasons, his real name must be veiled under a fictitious one here. His life is a guiding star to the youth of every land, to show them that there is no depth of human misery from which they may not, by virtue, energy, and perseverance, rise to earthly honors, as well as to eternal glory. It is published in a large duodecimo volume of over seven hundred pages, bound in morocco cloth, gilt back, price $1 75, and is for sale by all booksellers, or copies of it will be sent to any one, at once, on their remitting the price of it in a letter, to the publishers, T. B.

Peterson Brothers, Philadelphia, Pa. Whittiers Centennial Edition. James R. Osgood Boston. For sale by Book and News Co.

This Centennial edition of Whittiers Poems includes all the contents of the several volumes Mr. Whittier has hitherto published Mogg Megone, The Bridal of Pennacook, Songs of Labor, The Chapel of the Hermits, The Panorama, Home Ballads, Snow Bound, The Tent on the Beach, Among the Hills, Miriam, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and Hazel Blossoms a noble catalogue of books full of poetry such as pleases and touches the popular heart. For many years Mr. Whittier has been growing in the regard of Americans, and now he enjoys a degree of popularity almost universal. As one of his critics has well observed What great love has silently grown up all over our country for the man who has used his gift of song so nobly, 'so faithfully and so marvelously It has answered every need.

It has given faith to the doubting, courage to the timid, hope to the despairing, comfort to the sorrowful, balm to the wounded. It has kept young hearts pure, and filled them with ardor and with gladness. This Centennial edition of Whittiers Poems comprises three hundred doublecolumn pages, large octavo, handsomely printed, and embellished with numerous illustrations. The publishers, to bring it within the reach of all, have put it at the low price of one dollar. Mrs.

G. N. Bordman, the editor of the musical department of the New England Journal of Education, is 1 rendering the schools of the country a very essential service in composing and publishing a series of Penny Songs for Public Schools. She is one of the best organists in the country, and having been a teacher for a number of years, she knows just what is wanted by the pupils, An Improvement. Hon.

Thomas S. Garthright, the new State Superintendent of Public Education in Mississippi urges County Superintendents to submit estimates in July to the Board of Supervisors, and provide for all debts and deficiencies. He says: You must, in no case, expect to pay off obligations now in force by warrants drawn against the next annual distribution of the Auditor. We hope to be able, after the beginning of the next school year, to payoff teachers every month promptly, in money. You will observe that the State two mill tax is repealed, but provision is made for any deficiency that may arise, as you can perceive by reading the law.

Contracts made at the beginning of and for the present-school year, to close August 31, must be observed, but no new contract should be entered into, contrary to the act approved April 12, 1876. This will be a great improvement, and we hope the school officers will work together to secure this much desired object. Will you when writing to advertisers, please say you saw their advertisement in this journal It will be a mutual benefit so to do. The Front Rank. The President of the Board of Education in Rochester, New York, in a late address, stated a fact which is as true in every school district in the United States, as in Rochester Good schools cannot be maintained, however much money may be expended, without good teachers.

As a body, our corps of teachers is equal to any in the country, and they are uniformly devoted and painstaking in the discharge of their important duties. Teaching has come to be regarded, justly, as among the most honorable of the professions, and some of the best talent of the age is now consecrated to it. Our schools are fortunate in having secured some of the best talent in the profession and so long as the policy shall be maintained of appointing and employing only those who, by education, natural endowment, and enthusiasm in their profession, keep themselves abreastf the times in all that relates to the work of instruction and discipline, so long will our schools occupy the position they now hold, in the front rank of the public schools of the country. Instruction in vocal music has continued with increased facilities dur- ing the year under the able supervision of Prof. Andrews, and has so far grown in favor with the patrons of our schools, that I believe its permanent retention in the course of instruction is a fixed fact.

In drawing and penmanship gratifying progress has been made. Instruction in industrial or free hand drawing, in at least one department of our schools is now wisely required by law, and the at BOOK NOTICES. Ishmael or. In the Depths. By Mrs.

Emma D. E. N. Southworth. Author of Fair Play, The Lost Heiress, The Discarded Daughter, With a portrait of Mrs.

Southworth, engraved on steel, from a photograph taken of her on March 22, 1876, said to be a perfect portrait of the authoress at the present time, with her autograph under it. Bound in Morocco Cloth, full gilt back. Price, $1 75. For sale by Shorb Borland. Isbmael or, In the Depths, is the name of Mrs.

Southworths work, just published in book form for the first time, by T. B. Peterson Brothers, Philadelphia, Pa. It has never before been published except in the New York Ledger, in which paper it was issued many years.