in a programme of recitation for a school of forty pupils and placed on the board by Mr. Johonnot.

It was decided to organize the Institute into a permanent association, whereupon a constitution was drafted and adopted, and permanent officers elected, consisting of President, two Vice-Presidents, Secretary, and Treasurer-invested with power from the constitution, as a committee, to transact business, such as calling meetings and procuring teachers and lecturers.

On account of the political mass meeting the 28th, the Institute closed at noon on that day. F. H. METCALF, Secretary.

KENDALL COUNTY.-The Institute convened phrsuant to the call of the School Commissioner, in the public school-house in Oswego, at 1:30 o'clock, on Monday, September 26th. Com. Coy, ex-officio President, in the chair.

The exercises were opened with prayer by Rev. H. B. Thayer, of Oswego. 0. S. Westcott, of Yorkville, was appointed Secretary.

The exercises were: 1st. Reading, conducted by J. H. Rolfe, of Chicago; 2d. Grammar, by J. H. Gano, of Oswego; 3d. Arithmetic, by W. S. McFeaters, of Yorkville; 4th. Remarks relative to the designs of Institutes and the best methods of conducting them, by H. B. Thayer.

Adjourned to meet at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning.

Tuesday.Institute met pursuant to adjournment. Usual opening exercises. The following resolution was, after some discussion, adopted:

Resolved, That each member be considered a critic; that both Webster's and Worcester's Dictionaries be considered standards in the Institute; and that the last fifteen minutes of each session be set apart for general criticism.

Exercises as follows: 1st. Reading, by J. H. Rolfe; 2d. Intellectual Arithmetic, by O. S. Westcott; 3d. Methods of Study, more particularly as applied to Geography, by J. Johonnot, of Joliet; 4th. Criticisms. Adjourned.

Afternoon Session.-Exercises: 1st. Geography, by J. Johonnot; 2d. Orthography, by O. S. Westcott; 3d. Intellectual Arithmetic, by J. Johonnot; 4th. Criticisms.

Adjourned to meet in the Court-House on Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. Wednesday Morning Session.- Usual opening exercises. Regular exercises: 1st. Arithmetic, by M. J. Vincent, of Michigan; 2d. Methods of securing Order and Cleanliness, by J. Johonnot; 3d. Grammar, by J. Hull, of Bloomington; 4th. Arithmetic, by W. S. McFeaters; 5th. Criticisms.

Afternoon Session.-Exercises: 1st. Reading, by O. W. Herrick, of Chicago; 2d. Remarks on School Government, by Messrs. Tabor, of Aurora, Vincent, of Michigan, Herrick and Rolfe, of Chicago, and Bishop, of Yorkville; 3d. Reading, with illustrative recitations, by Prof. Griffith, of Batavia; 4th. Criticisms. Adjourned.

Thursday Morning Session.- Usual opening exercises. Regular exercises: 1st. Reading, by Prof. Griffith; 2d. Grammar, by J. E. Bishop; 3d. Arithmetic, by O. S. Westcott; 4th. Criticisms. Adjourned.

Afternoon Session.- Regular exercises: 1st. Spelling and Grammar, by J. Hull; 2d. Reading, by Prof. Griffith; 3d. Organization of Schools, by Prof. Richard Edwards; 4th. Criticisms. Adjourned.

Friday Morning Session.-Usual opening exercises. The committee on textbooks made the following report, which was adopted:

"The undersigned having been duly appointed a committee to report a suitable series of text-books for use in the schools of Kendall county, and having carefully examined most of the common-school books now extant, consider the following series as the best, and heartily recommend it for the favorable action of our fellow teachers now in Institute assembled, viz. :

"Hillard's Readers; Worcester's Comprehensive Speller; Payson, Dunton & Scribner's Writing-Books; Mitchell's New Series of Geographies; Greene's Introductory Grammar; Greene's Comprehensive English Grammar; and Quackenbos's U.S. History.

"We further recommend, for the use of every school in the county, 'Webster's Unabridged' and Worcester's Quarto' Dictionaries; Mitchell's Outline Maps; and E. A. Sheldon's Phonic Charts." A. J. ANDERSON, O. S. WESTCOTT, W. S. COY.

The committee having failed to agree on a series of Arithmetics for recommendation, a new committee, consisting of A. J. Anderson, W. S. Coy, Mrs. M. A. Rodgers, W. S. McFeaters, and Miss A. Gifford, was appointed to recommend a series at the next meeting of the Institute.

Regular exercises: 1st. Prof. Edwards, on the Organization of Schools; 2d. C. D. Wilber, on Illinois; 3d. Criticisms.

Afternoon Session.- Regular exercises: 1st. Arithmetic, by M. Tabor; 2d. The Moral Influence of Teachers, by Rev. H. B. Thayer; 3d. Spelling, by J. H. Gano; 4th. Remarks on the Duty of the Teacher, by Messrs. Brown, Bray, Tabor, and Vincent.

The following resolutions were adopted:

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Institute that the branches of study in our common schools should be strictly confined to such branches as by statute law are required to be there taught.

Resolved, That the thanks of the Institute are especially due and are hereby tendered to the citizens of Oswego for their kind hospitality in so generously opening both private houses and public buildings for our use; and to Messrs. Quereau, Wilber, Edwards, and Griffith, for the able and entertaining lectures which they have given us; and to each of the instructors who have rendered such efficient aid in conducting the interesting and profitable exercises which we have enjoyed; and to our County Commissioner, Mr. Coy, for his unwearied exertions in trying to promote the best interests of our common schools, and especially for this Institute which we believe to be indicative of the rank which our county Institute shall one day attain.

The Institute then adjourned, to meet again on the call of the School Commissioner. There were ninety-three teachers in attendance.

O. S. WESTCOTT, Secretary.

HENRY COUNTY.-The Henry County Teachers' Institute met in Geneseo on Wednesday, October 26th. Owing to the very unfavorable state of the weather, the number of teachers present was limited to forty-eight. President Edwards, of the Normal University, was with us during Wednesday and Thursday, and gave the members of the Institute a thorough drill in Phonetics, Reading, and Grammar. He also discussed the subject of school-discipline in his clear, earnest manner, and threw out many valuable suggestions as to the best methods of governing schools. On Thursday evening a large and attentive audience listened with interest to Pres. Edwards's able lecture The Teacher may be a Man'; in which he demonstrates that we need not become mere automatons, but that the tendency of the profession, when rightly followed, is to ennoble the man and to develop all the faculties of his being. It was a lecture worthy of its honored author. The exercises of the Institute closed with a Sociable on Friday evening, and the members returned to their work with invigorated hearts and minds.

E. H. B.

NOTICES OF BOOKS, ETC.

A NEW ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE For Young Folks.- Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, will shortly begin the publication of a new juvenile magazine, entitled Our Young Folks: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, edited by J. T. Trowbridge, Gail Hamilton, Lucy Larcom. The staff of contributors will include many of the most popular writers of juvenile works in America and England. Captain Mayne Reid will write regularly for it Stories of Adventure, similar in captivating interest to those absorbing narratives, The Desert Home',

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'The Plant Hunters', 'The Forest Exiles', etc. J. T. Trowbridge, the Editor, who is well known as the author of 'Father Brighthopes', and other charming and popular Juveniles, will contribute to every number. He will begin in the first number a story for boys, entitled 'Andy's Adventures'. Gail Hamilton and Lucy Larcom, the associate editors, will preside over that portion of the magazine especially designed for girls, and, in addition to their editorial supervision, will write regularly each month. Mr. and Mrs. Agassiz will supply for every number of the first volume a paper on Natural History, with illustrations. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe will contribute to each number, commencing with a charming story, entitled 'Hum, the Son of Buz'.

In addition to the writers named above, regular contributions will be furnished by Carleton', author of My Days and Nights on the Battle-field'; Dr. Dio Lewis; Edmund Kirke; Aunt Fanny'; Henry W. Longfellow; J. G. Whittier; O. W. Holmes; Richard H. Stoddard, author of Adventures in Fairy Land'; Horace E. Scudder, author of Dream Children'; Grace Greenwood, editor of "The Little Pilgrim'; the author of the 'Little Susy' books; Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, author of Faith Gartney'; Miss Maria S. Cummins, author of 'The Lamplighter'; Miss Lydia Maria Child; Miss Louisa M. Alcott, and others.

Every number of Our Young Folks will contain capital pictures, drawn and engraved by our best artists. The valuable aid of Mr. Darley has been secured, and the first number will be enriched by designs from his pencil. A finely-engraved steel portrait of some popular author will be given in the first number of each volume. The portrait in the opening number will be that of Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby'.

Terms. Single subscriptions, Two Dollars a year. Single numbers, Twenty Cents. The Atlantic ($4.00 a year), and Our Young Folks ($2.00 a year), and the Illinois Teacher, will be sent together to one address for Six and a half Dollars. Specimen copies of the first number will be sent to any address, as soon as published, for Ten Cents each. Address Ticknor & Fields, 135 Washington street, Boston, Mass.

ARTHUR'S HOME MAGAZINE FOR 1865.

The Home Magazine closes its volume for 1864 with the widest circulation it has yet attained. For 1865 it will be enlarged, and made still more worthy of the patronage it is receiving. No periodical in the country has met with a heartier welcome from the press. Its praises come heralded from every direction. To maintain the high place it has reached in public favor, the publishers and editors will spare neither expense nor labor. A fine steel engraving, and two pages of music, will appear in every number, besides choice pictures, groups and characters, prevailing fashions, and a large variety of patterns for garments, embroidery, etc., etc. A new story by T. S. Arthur will be commenced in the January number. Give it, say we, a circulation for the coming year beyond that of any other periodical of its class in the country. It is, par excellence, the people's magazine, and should find a place in every home. Terms $2.50 a year; the Home Magazine and the Teacher $3.50 a year.

CAREY'S SOCIAL SCIENCE.

Concerning Mr. Carey and his great work, Hon. W. T. Harris, of St. Louis, himself as clear-headed an economist as the West affords, has written the following to Mr. John A. Norton, of Chicago, the western publisher of Mr. Carey's works:

DEAR SIR: I learn with great pleasure that you propose to take measures which will bring into general use the works of H. C. Carey. Not only for Colleges and High Schools', but for Common Schools, an Abridgment of the Social Science' should be prepared. Any boy who can read Robinson Crusoe with pleasure can comprehend the elements of the system when presented in the lucid manner of Mr. Carey.

I believe that America has produced no genius eminently original in any other department of Natural Science, but Mr. Carey is the first man who has been able to fuse the scattered insight attained by Political Economists into one Science.

The grand corner-stone of his edifice is the division of labor; and when we stand on this basis, the dismal theories of Quesnay and Stewart, of Malthus and Ricardo, et id omne genus (magnum), seem like the memory of a nightmare. The erroneous systems seem to have arisen from taking as a starting-point the effect (wealth, etc.), in stead of the cause (society) and it is clear that the present Southern Rebellion owes its existence to these false and mediæval theories which have been industriously circulated by demagogues (see De Bow's Review, for example), and with which the Southron was imbued, and perhaps is now to some

extent.

In conclusion permit me to say that in Mr. Carey's work alone can the statesman find an enlightened exposition of the foundation upon which our republic rests and alone can rest. Very truly yours.

FREE GYMNASTICS.

WM. T. HARRIS.

Mr. O. W. Powers, of the Chicago Academy of Free Gymnastics, has handed us a Synopsis of the Course of Instruction in this department in the institution, being a new system of light gymnastics, compiled from various sources with adaptations and additions by O. W. and J. E. Powers. We can make little out of the manual; but we have witnessed the exercises at the academy, and can say of the system that it is simple enough to be easily mastered, appropriate to the family or the school, methodical, natural, and physiological. Besides all these, it is attractive, and under the guise of amusement will accomplish much good.

ESSAYS: MORAL, POLITICAL, AND ESTHETIC. By Herbert Spencer. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co. Pp. 382. $2.00.

A new volume by Herbert Spencer will be welcomed by educators every where. The essays contained in this volume are: The Philosophy of Style; Over-Legis lation; The Morals of Trade; Personal Beauty; Representative Government; Prison Ethics; Railway Morals and Policy; Gracefulness; State Tamperings with Money and Banks; and Parliamentary Reform-The Dangers and the Safe-guards. These subjects have received from Mr. Spencer profound and protracted study, and his views mark an immense advance in political philosophy and throw light upon numerous questions of practical concern. The first essay, 'The Philosophy of Style', will help every teacher who reads it in his instructions in the science of language.

THE PATRIOTIC SPEAKER. By Robt. R. Raymond, A.M. New York: A. S. Barnes & Burr. Chicago: Geo. & C. W. Sherwood. $1.75.

This work has emphatically grown out of the great Southern rebellion. The greater part of it is made up of extracts from the great efforts of the past four years, and is as valuable as a compendium of all that has been said as for a school speaker.

LYRA ANGLICANI: OR A HYMNAL OF SACRED POETRY. By the Rev. George T. Rider, M.A. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co. 1865. $2.00.

This collection of sacred poetry is selected from the best English writers, and forms a welcome addition to the devotional element of our literature. It appears in a tasty dress, and will make a beautiful holiday present.

A REPORT OF THE DEBATES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECRET SESSIONS OF THE CONFERENCE CONVENED FOR PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. By L. E. Chittenden, one of the Delegates. New York: Appleton & Co. Chicago: Griggs & Co. 8vo. Pp. 626. $5.

These proceedings of the great peace convention of 1861 are from the notes made by Mr. Chittenden at the time. They afford the best opportunity we shall ever have of knowing just how its prominent members stood before the war, are an indispensable chapter of our political history.

and

UNCLE NAT. By Alfred Oldfellow. New York: Appletons. Chicago: Griggs & Co. 75 cents.

A good book for boys about the good time which George and Frank had, trapping, fishing, and camping-out.

THE PRIMARY SCHOOL SPEAKER. By George Sherwood. Chicago: G. & C. W. Sherwood. 30 cents.

Just the thing-poetry, prose, and dialogue to learn their pieces from.

DECLAMATION FOR THE MILLION.

for the little primary children

Parts II and III. By E. G. Hibbard. Chicago:

G. & C. W. Sherwood. 30 cents each.

Part I, containing poetry, we have already noticed. Part II contains dialogues, and Part III prose. The selections in both have been well made, and by one who evidently knew what boys like to find in books of this character.

SHAW AND ALLEN'S COMPREHENSIVE GEOGRAPHY.

We have found time since our previous notice was written to give this geography a thorough reading. It has more than fulfilled the expectations we formed from the earlier examination. This new system does not follow an any beaten track, but has that logical beginning and end which characterize the true Epic. It introduces the pupil to our globe when it was young and new; leads him from that point of time down to the present, attention being invited to the various changes, physical and historical, which have from time to time occurred. While nothing foreign to the true scope of such a book has been dragged in, as by the ears, many valuable incidental suggestions connected with geology, natural history, natural philosophy, botany, astronomy, and civil history, are interwoven. Indeed, so far as the latter branch is concerned, the work proceeds upon the hy pothesis that geography, rightly presented, is an inseparable and necessary companion of history; and the two are so linked together as to fix in the pupil's mind many itens of importance which would in the absence of such association soon pass away and be forgotten.

Mr. Shaw, who, we believe, is mainly the author of these two geographies, has not copied, because he could not, from preceding systems. His work is the sole member of its genus and species. He has not merely presented facts, but placed them in order, and drawn from them, with masterly simplicity of expression, the truths with which a sound system of geographical knowledge can be built up. His arrangement of materials is not less worthy of commendation than its quality. First, we have an account of the origin and a representation of the life of the globe during the ages preceding man, appropriately styled Natural History. This is followed by short chapters on the advent of ancient, mediæval, and modern history, closing with separate physical and political descriptions of the countries of the present day, the whole being told with the continuity and absorbing interest of a thrilling narrative. Thus it is an unequaled introduction to many cognate studies. It is a kind of museum of the natural sciences generally, frour which the pupil, having become acquainted with their mutual relation in time and influence, may proceed intelligently in any direction. As a Physical Geography it has no rival, fitness of application being considered.

Scarcely any thing is wanting in the typographical execution, and this we regard as no small matter. The text is profusely yet judiciously illustrated, and by engravings prepared expressly for the work. All are fresh, vivid, and make the text talk. Many of the maps are now for the first time published in English; those in relief can not fail to be admired by all who will examine them. We commend it to the teachers of Illinois as deserving their early examination.

THE SPRINGFIELD Republican (Daily and Weekly).

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