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board to suspend pupils from school on account of irregularity of attendance. We do not know whether it is yet concluded.

citizen, in regard to the right of a school public addresses were, with few exceptions, extemporaneous, or at all events, largely dependent upon the inspiration of the moment for their forms of words. He was a fluent speaker, using English, though evidently not a vernacular tongue, with ease and accuracy; hesitating, or rather pausing sometimes for a moment, not as if there was any deficiency of thought or words, but as if he was in doubt which to select from a throng of ideas presenting themselves.-New York Tribune.

FALL TERMS OF THE NORMAL SCHOOLS. -Those interested will note the time of opening of fall terms of the Normal Schools, viz: at Platteville and Whitewater, Tuesday, September 1; at Oshkosh, Tuesday, August 25, and not the week following, as advertised last month.

SOMETHING more than thirty short term Institutes will be held this autumn, principally in September and October. Including the Normal Institutes, a larger body of teachers will be out this season than ever before.

THE beginning of knowledge is in the senses. Through their agency we become acquainted with whatever is visible and external; it is, perhaps, needless to add that the period of their greatest impressibility and activity is during childhood. The perceptive faculties attain full vigor A FINE ESSAY.-We have been permit- when most other faculties are only beginted by Miss Field, of this city, to publish | ning to reveal their existence. Every her Graduating Essay, which is a credit appeal, then, should be made first to the both to herself and the University. She was one of the fourteen lady graduates of the last class.

THE list of Fall Institutes is substantially completed. It will be printed and distributed about the time the present number of the JOURNAL is mailed.

THE Amerikanische Schulzeitung will hereafter be published in Milwaukee.

senses, and carried thence to the intellect, as far as age and capacity will allow. As each new subject is presented, and at each successive step in its evolution, watch the effect upon the learner, bearing in mind that that exercise of our sense and intellect, which produces interest and delight, is best adapted to the development of the juvenile mind.-The School.

WHILE the United States is preparing to celebrate its centennial, Iceland is celebrating its millennial, it having been colonized in 874. The King of Denmark has signalized the event by giving the colony its independence. It is to have a constitution and legislative assembly of its own, which was to go into operation August 1st.

AGASSIZ.-Prof. Agassiz was simple in dress and mode of living. His figure was somewhat under the medium hight. His massive head, slightly inclined forward, rested on a thick set and sturdy frame. The natural expression of his face was of cordiality and good humor. His large eyes of bluish gray were ever ready to brighten with kindly interest THE Schools of Vienna are said to be when a student was seeking information, among the best in the world. Their suor telling of what might, perhaps, be a periority is chiefly owing to the thorough new discovery. But whether the thought preparation of the teachers in all the presented was new or old, Prof. Agassiz grades, and the great amount of apparatus rarely failed to bring forth from the store-used. Recitations of our sort are almost house of his memory some illustrative or unknown, teaching being done by illuscognate fact, investing the subject with a trations, and by the teacher working with broader significance. His lectures and his class.

ASSOCIATIONS.-Meetings will be held | THE State Superintendent of Nebraska as follows: Maine, Rockland, time not announces times and places for Teachfixed; Connecticut, New Haven, October ers' Normal Institutes, and says: "Board 23; Pennsylvania, Shippensburg, August and lodging will not exceed $3.00 per 11; West Virginia, Clarksburg, August week." This means work. 4; Iowa, Des Moines, August 25; Minnesota, Owatonna, August 18. In each case the sessions continue about three days.

THE SUPREME COURT of Massachusetts has decided that either teacher or parent may correct a child for misconduct on the way to or from school. This probably means, so far as the teacher is concerned, misconduct affecting the welfare of the school.

IN Arkansas, a new law provides for county superintendents to be elected by the school officers, as in Pennsylvania, which is much the best way. District superintendents are abolished, as having too large jurisdictions of territory.

NEW YORK has passed a compulsory law, requiring that all children from 8 to 15 shall be instructed, either at home or at school, for at least 14 weeks each year, or the parent is liable to a fine of $5 a week.

AT Yale, one hundred and sixty-three students applied for admission to the Freshman class in the Academical department, and ninety-three were examined for entrance into the Scientific School.

IT is said that ex-President Fillmore never saw a grammar until he was 19 years old. Moral—If you want your sons to be great men, don't let them study grammar until they are 19 years old.

AT THE late Commencement of the Ohio University the degree of D.D. was conferred upon the Rev. John M. Leav. itt, late editor of tho Church Review, and now editor of the International.

MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD has resigned her position as Dean of the Woman's College in connection with the Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill.

CHANCELLOR WINCHELL, of the Syracuse University, has resigned his position to take the chair of Geological Instruction, and Dr. E. O. Haven is elected to succeed him.

IN Alabama, the public schools are closed, as there is no money to pay teachers, the State having for the present used $1,200,000 of the school fund for other

purposes.

THE seventh annual Catalogue of the North Missouri State Normal School, at Kirksville, shows an attendance during the past year of over 700 students.

IN New Jersey, the majority of the teachers wish the law forbidding corporal punishment in school repealed as interfering with proper discipline.

IN Raleigh, N. C., are no public schools. A recent bill of expense for criminal prosecutions amounted to $20,000. The moral is not far to see.

MRS. WILLING, of Bloomington, Ill., has been nominated by the Prohibitionists as a candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

ILLINOIS has a new law punishing the exclusion of colored children from the public schools by a fine, not to exceed $100.

A GRADUATE of Harvard proposes that each alumnus shall insure his life for $500, for the benefit of the college.

KANSAS is soon to open (Sept. 1) a second Normal School at Concordia, the town contributing $8,000.

CALIFORNIA has passed a compulsory law, making its violation punishable by a fine of from ten to fifty dollars.

BOOK NOTICES, ETC.

MY MOTHER AND I. A Love Story. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentle. man," etc. With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1874. 12mo; cloth; pp. 277. Sold by Jansen, McClurg & Co., Chicago. Price $1.50. That peculiar and especially sacred love which ought to link mother and daughter was never more faithfully delineated than it has been by the author in these pages. Though the story, like nearly all that she has written, has an undertone of sorrow, and deals with the more sober and darkened side of human life, it is, at the same time, pervaded by a faith and hope which serve to reveal the richer fruits which may come after a course of persistent principle through what seems unmerited suffering.

There is in the story only little of what can be called a plot. And what there is turns out in a way which some novel readers would call disappointing. The heroine is left unmarried. Her affianced husband-one of those genuine, noble men whom the author of "John Halifax" knows so well how to sketch-is drowned at sea, and the daughter remains still the comfort and stay of her mother.

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readable story of Virginia life, and purishes villainy and rewards virtue in the approved way, but is by no means a common place story.

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW-No. 7-July and August. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. $5.00 a year.

THE RHINE: A Tour from Paris to May."Pretty Mrs. Gaston," is a lively and ence. By Victor Hugo. Jansen, McClurg & Co., publishers, 117 and 119, Chicago. 1 Vol., 12mo. Tinted paper. Price $1.75. This beautiful volume is charmingly written, and is, of course, prolific in legends and stories and philosophical reflections, but gives at the same time a most graphic description of the beautiful scenes through which we pass under the author's guidance. One should read this work carefully to appreciate all the poetry and sentiment which live in the poet's mind for the lovely Rhine and its crumbling ruins. The book is remarkably creditable typographically, and an honor to the Chicago house which has ventured to undertake its publication.

UNDER THE TREES. By Samuel Iraneus
Prime. Harper & Bros., N. Y.: Sold by
Jansen, McClurg & Co., Chicago. $2.00.
Dr. Prime is a delightful writer, and

This number gives a new variety, as will readily be seen, and the articles are Cullen Bryant and his Writings, by Ray all of living interest, as follows: Wm. Palmer, D. D.; Coal and its Supply by Prof. E. B. Andrews. State Geologists of Ohio; Thirteen Years of Freedom in Italy, by Prof. Angelo de Gubernatis, LL. D., of Florence, Italy; The Catholic Reformation in Switzerland; The New Rc

view of the English Bible, by Prof. Geo. P. Fisher, D. D., Yale College; The Orthodox Church, by the Princess Dora d' Istria. Books.

HARPER'S WEEKLY, with Nast on the lookout, pencil in hand, is a power of the day. Every topic and event of general interest is presented and illustrated, in a striking and instructive manner. The last number pays its respects, among various other things, to the College Regatta, one of the sensations of the summer. Harper is always on the side of good morals and political reform, and exerts a salutary check on rascalities in high places.

EVERY SATURDAY continues its three serials-“A Rose in June," "His Two Wives," and "Far from the Madding Crowd"-the two first clever stories, the last one of the stories of the day. Every number contains a choice medley of miscellaneous literature, home and foreign, and an abundance of spicy editorials.

A NEW MUSIC BOOK FOR DAY SCHOOLS. -We call the especial attention of teachers and School Committees to the advertisement of Messrs. Ogden & Leslie's new music book, "Silver Carols." The reputation of the authors make it certain that the new book is all that its publisher claims for it. Specimen pages will be sent free to any address. Write to W. W. Whitney, Toledo, Ohio.

CHAMBER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA.-It should valuable work, that the last and best edibe understood by those who wish this tion is not the last Edinburg edition, but that of Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia, which can be obtained of J. H. Rolfe, 36 Monroe St., Chicago. This edition has undergone thorough revision, and is in many respects superior to the last Edinburg edition.

APPLETON'S JOURNAL continues "My ORCUTT'S MANUALS.-" The Teacher's Story," by the author of "Patty," and Manual" will be sent for 85 cents, and several other interesting serials. This "The Parent's Manual" for $1.00, postjournal is specially noted for a choice va-paid. Published by Thompson, Brown riety of contributions from American & Co., Cornhill, Boston. writers, and for its refined taste in all matters of literature, art, music and the drama, with a judicious resume of scientific progress, and a weekly record of events.

TEACHERS will be interested in the advertisement of Eldredge & Brother, which appears in the present number, on cover.

University of Wisconsin,

MADISON, WISCONSIN.

This institution embraces the following Colleges and Departments :

COLLEGE OF ARTS.

Five Departments. General Science, Agriculture, Civil Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy,
Military Science.
COLLEGE OF LETTERS.

Two Departments. ANCIENT CLASSICAL Department, in which the course of study is equivalent
to that in the best classical colleges in the country.
MODERN CLASSICAL Department. French and German take the place of Greek.

SUB-FRESHMEN COURSE.

This embraces two years of preparatory study.

Ladies are admitted to all the courses of instruction in the University.

LAW SCHOOL.

Judge P. L. SPOONER, Dean of the Law Faculty.

The Laboratories for instruction in Analytical Chemistry, Determinative Mineralogy and the Assaying of Ores, are believed to be the most complete in the country, west of the Alleghanies.

A QUANTITATIVE LABORATORY

has been opened, and numerous additions have been made to the apparatus in the different Departments of Science.

LIBRARIES.

are open to students, without charge, containing more than SEVENTY THOUSAND VOLUMES. THE CURRENT EXPENSES

are less than in other institutions of equal grade. One student from each Assembly district, and all graduates of graded schools of the State who pass the required examination, are entitled to

FREE TUITION.

The institution is under the immediate charge of a President and twenty-six Professors and Teachers, and is, in all respects, in a highly prosperous condition.

For further information, apply to

MADISON, June 4, 1874.

JOHN BASCOM,

President.

WISCONSIN

JOURNAL OF EDUCATION.

VOL. IV.

SEPTEMBER, 1874.

No. IX.

Obedience to Law.

Results of School Discipline in the Direction of day affairs of life. Without this in some form or other, man is reduced to the conBY E. A. CHARLTON, PREST. PLATTEVILLE dition of the brute. "Even a bad govNORMAL SCHOOL. ernment," says Dr. Peabody, "is better than none, for a bad government can exist only by doing a part of its appropriate work, while in a state of anarchy, the whole of that work is left undone and unattempted."

(Paper Read before the State Teachers' Association, July 15, 1874.)

"Go, traveler, and tell at Lacedemon that we fell here in obedience to her laws." Such was the inscription on the monument erected to the memory of those who fell at Thermopylæ.

In the education of our youth, the true aim is not merely to give them a certain In this brief sentence we have embod- amount of knowledge and information, ied one of the fundamental ideas under- not merely to develop their intellectual lying the ancient civilization,—the supre-powers, but also, as far as possible, by macy of the state. The individual was the inculcation of right principles and of little account; the state was everything. Whatever she required must be done.

In our modern civilization, I will not say the opposite is true, but the tendency is in the opposite direction. The individual is exalted, and the state is regarded as of relatively less importance, though now there are not wanting those who like Leonidas and his immortal three hundred, would give their lives in obedience to the laws.

the formation of correct habits, to prepare them to become good citizens.

What is more characteristic of the good citizen than respect for all rightly constituted authority, and obedience to its behests.

To render honor to whom honor is due, custom to whom custom, tribute to whom tribute, is the dictate of reason as well as of revelation. "Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's," is just as imper

The "Reign of Law," we are told, pre-ative as "Render unto God the things vails through the boundless realms of that are God's."

Nature, and so more or less perfectly does I will not here discuss the limits to obeit extend through human society and hu-dience for there will be few instances in man institutions.

The very idea of civil society implies order, law, government. It is not enough that laws be enacted and spread upon the pages of the statute-books; they must be principles which guide men in the every

the life of any one of us in which resistance or disobedience will even seem to be a duty.

But obedience to Law may be, under certain forms of government, enforced by the strong arm of power. With that

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