13. The following books and exercises, are those required, at present, in the English Grammar department of these schools. Fourth Class. No. 1. Spelling book, by Lindley Murray, stereotype edition. 2. New Testament.

Third Class. No. 1. 2. continued, and No. 3. Murray's Introduction to his English Reader, Boston stereotype edition.

Second Class. No. 4. Bible. 5. Murray's English Reader, Boston stereotype edit. 6. Murray's English Grammar, abridged by himself, stereotype edition, or Alger's Abridgement of the same work. 7. Walker's Dictionary abridged. 8. Geography, with Atlas, by Worcester.

First Class. No. 4. 6. 7. 8. continued, and No. 9. American First Class Book. 10. Murray's English Grammar and Exercises, stereotype edition; and Composition. 11. Declamation.

14. It shall be the duty of the instructers in the writing department of the school to prepare the writing books and pens of the scholars at such time, that there may be no delay or interruption of business in school hours.

In this department all the children shall be taught writing and arithmetic daily.

That there may be no intervals of idleness, the instructers shall require them to learn perfectly by heart such tables and rules in arithmetic as they find suitable to their various capacities and improvements; and if these exercises are not sufficient, spelling lessons shall fill up their leisure.

The number of classes or divisions in writing shall depend on the pleasure of the writing master. But for the purposes of arithmetic this school shall be divided into four classes, and be taught as follows.

Fourth Class. Numeration Table. Numeration and Notation fully exemplified, in small and large numbers. Addition and Subtraction Table, with its uses. Division Table, with its uses.

Roman Notation. Multiplication and

Third Class. Simple Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division, Federal Money.

Second Class. Compound Tables of Money, Weights, and Measures, Reduction, Compound Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division, Exchange of Coins.

First Class. Rule of Three, and more advanced Rules, in which the principle of Proportion is involved. Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, as applicable to those Rules, The Roots, &c.

The author on arithmetic required to be used is Daboll, for the

purpose of written arithmetic. Colburn's Arithmetic and Sequel may be used for the profitable exercises of mental calculation.*

15. It shall be the duty of the masters of each school to make to the secretary of this board regular quarterly returns, i. e. on the first week of April, July, October, and January, signed by both masters, of the number of scholars, male and female, attending their school, together with their ages, and places of abode, that this board may regulate the number which shall attend each school, and, if necessary, transfer some to other schools, where fewer attend; regard being always had, in adopting this measure, to the distance of each pupil from the schools, it being intended, that the children, as far as possible, shall be accommodated in the school nearest to their residence.

Regulations relating to the English High School.

This school is situated in Pinckney street. It has been instituted at the public expense, with the express design of furnishing the young men of this city, who are not intended for a collegiate course of study, and who have derived the usual advantages of the other public schools, with the means of completing a good English education, to fit them for active life, or qualify them for eminence in private or public stations. Here are enjoyed, especially, the best instructions in the elements of mathematics and natural philosophy, with their application to the sciences and arts, in grammar, rhetoric, and belles lettres, in moral philosophy, and in history, natural and civil. This establishment is furnished with a very valuable mathematical and philosophical apparatus, for the purposes of experiment and illustration.

In addition to the common regulations, the following are required to be observed in this school.

1. No boy shall be admitted, as a member of the English High School, under the age of 12 years.

2. Boys shall be examined for admission into this school only once a year, viz. on the Friday and Saturday following the semiannual visitation and exhibition of the school in August.

3. Candidates for examination shall produce from the masters of the schools they last attended, certificates of good moral character and presumed qualifications for admission into this school. shall, however, be the duty of the master of it, to institute a personal examination of them in Reading, Writing, English Grammar, Géography, and arithmetic as far as Proportion, including a general

Daboll's Arithmetic is now superseded. For written Arithmetic, Robinson's Elements are used; and for mental, Colburn's First Lessons and Sequel.

view of Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, in all which they shall be found well versed, in order to be admitted.

4. The school shall be divided into three classes; and such sections of these shall be formed as the good of the school may, from time to time, demand. Each class shall have their appropriate studies assigned them, corresponding to the intellectual progress of the institution: and to every class and section of the same the master shall be required to give a due proportion of his personal at

tention.

5. Individuals shall be advanced in these classes according to their scholarship, and no faster; and none shall be permitted to remain members of the school longer than three years to complete their

course.

6. The classes or sections shall be required to pursue their respective branches of study not less than one week, without mixture, except where occasional exercises, as writing, reading, declamation, composition, &c. may be advantageously introduced, as a relief to the pupils..

7. Particular reviews of each class, or section, shall be instituted, once a week; and general reviews once a quarter, by the several instructers, in their appropriate departments.

8. The branches of learning and the authors, to which the several classes shall, at present, be required to attend, are as follows:

3d, or lowest Class. No. 1. Intellectual and Written Arithmetic, by Colburn and Lacroix. 2. Ancient and Modern Geography, by Worcester. 3. General History, by Tytler; History of the United States, by Goodrich. 4. Elements of Arts and Sciences, by Blair. 5. Reading, Grammar and Declamation. 6. Bookkeeping, by Single and Double Entry. 7. Sacred Geogaphy.

2d Class. No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, continued. And No. 8. Algebra, by dictation....and Colburn. 9. Rhetoric and Composition....Blair's Lect. Abridg. 10. Geometry, by Legendre. 11. Natural Philosophy. 12. Natural Theology, by Paley.

1st Class. No. 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, continued. And 13. Chronology. 14. Moral Philosophy, by Paley. 15. Forensics. 16. Criticisms on English Authors. 17. Practical Mathematics, comprehending Navigation, Surveying, Mensuration, Astronomical Calculations, &c. together with the Construction and Use of Mathematical Instruments. 20. A course of Experimental Lectures on the various branches of Natural Philosophy. 21. Evidences of Christianity, by Paley.

9. For every accession of forty pupils to the whole number in this school, an additional assistant shall be allowed the master, that is, there shall be at least one instructer for every forty pupils.

10. Supplemental to the holydays granted to all the schools, the English High School shall be entitled to the week succeeding the week of Commencement at Cambridge, as an extension of their vacation.

11. The times for beginning and ending this school, daily, and the allowance for tardiness, shall be the same as in the Latin Grammar School; excepting, that no classes shall be dismissed before the regular hour of closing the school, in the forenoon.*

[The regulations relating to the Latin Grammar School, follow the matter contained in the preceding extracts; but as the substance, and in fact, the results of those regulations have been already given in our extracts from the Prize Book, it would be unnecessary to insert them here.]

A MANUAL OF THE SYSTEM OF MONITORIAL OR MUTUAL INSTRUCTION,

AFTER the favorable reception which the system of mutual instruction has of late experienced, and the solid arguments in favor of its utility deduced from successful experiments made in our own country, and under our own observation, a formal defence of it cannot be necessary. The public in general are satisfied; they do not want proofs of the utility of the system, but plain directions to enable them to put it in practice.

The directions given in the following manual are founded upon a knowledge of all the improvements which have been made upon the new system since its first promulgation, and the experience of several years in the instruction of elementary and other schools; upon, it is believed a thorough knowledge, of the system hitherto pursued in New England; and a rigid regard for economy, a consideration of no little weight in most of the school districts in our country towns. Our manual is intended for public schools, where spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar and geography only are taught, and is equally applicable to small schools of thirty, or

The following are the rules to which reference is made above.

The times of beginning and ending this school shall be the same in the forenoon as in the public grammar schools; but, in the afternoon, school shall commence, during the summer term, at 3 o'clock P M. and end at 6; and during the winter term, shall begin half past 2, and end at half past 4; and 5 minutes only shall be allowed for tardiness, at the expiration of which the doors shall be closed against delinquents.

The three lowest classes shall be dismissed from the school each day, at 11 o'clock, that an hour may be devoted by them to relaxation, or to some polite accomplishment, or useful study, at the pleasure of each individual.

large ones of three hundred or more. Mutual instruction was first introduced to save the expense of teachers in large schools, but experience has discovered in it a far greater benefit, which is the more thorough and practical education acquired by those children who are required to teach as well as learn, and, in a well ordered school on the monitorial plan, every child before he leaves the school is employed as a teacher. In schools, therefore, of only twenty or thirty scholars, although the master may feel perfectly competent to teach them all personally, still it is desirable that they should learn the use of his instructions by transmitting them to the younger scholars.

It is to be regretted that in our common school rooms so little regard has been paid to the convenience of the master and pupils. The bench of one desk is generally fastened to the front of the next desk, so as to allow no passage behind the scholar, and to oblige him to disturb the whole row when he wishes to leave his seat. This arrangement also effectually prevents the writing master from passing between the desks to examine the books of the writers. Another fault of construction in our school rooms is that the forms or desks do not all face the master's desk. This prevents his having a commanding view of the whole, and the scholars having a convenient view of him, and what he wishes to show them; besides, it enables the children to look at each other, a serious evil were one sex only present, but much more serious, when, as in most of our country schools, both sexes are in the same room, and placed opposite to each other. These are the two greatest defects in the construction of our school rooms, and it is desirable that they should be remedied before the new system is introduced ; but let it be understood, that the new system may be tried in a room of any construction, although its advantages cannot be so fully appreciated as when the room is more conveniently arranged.

A parallelogram, or oblong square, is the best form for a school room; the instructer's desk should be at the end nearest the door, that he may see who enters or goes out, and that visiters who come in may see the faces of all the scholars, as will be the case if the desks cross the room in front of the master's desk. It is necessary to have a broad aisle of five or six feet on one side of the school, in which the classes may form semicircles around their monitors, who stand or sit with their backs to the wall.

The annexed diagram will give some idea of the most simple and convenient form of a school room; and school committees who are about to erect new school houses, may be assured that the arrangement we propose will be found as convenient for the old system of instruction, as for the new, besides the economy of room, which will be evident.