tendent spends his time, how teachers' meetings are conducted, etc. It was the most practical and valuable paper of the meeting. "Physiology and Hygiene in the Lower Grades," was presented by I. F. Patterson, of Steubenville, and completed the program. The following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: President, Elijah Burgess, of Cambridge; Vice-Presidents, W. H. Ray, New Philadelphia, Martha J. Leslie, Steubenville, Nellie Battelle, Bellaire; Secretary, C. E. Gullet, of Freeport; Treasurer, Jas. Duncan, Bridgeport; Executive Committee, A. M. Rowe, Steubenville, S. K. Mardis, Gnadenhutten, Maggie Davis, St. Clairsville. Next year's meeting will be held at Steubenville. -The annual meeting of the South Eastern Ohio Teachers' Association was held at Middleport, on the last Friday and Saturday of November. We clip the following report from the Meigs County Telegraph : The meeting was highly successful, in point of numbers, in the substantial character of the papers, addresses, and discussions, and in the interest taken in the work of the Association, not only by the teachers, but by the large numbers of citizens and others in attendance. The church was well filled at half past three o'clock Friday afternoon. After devotional exercises, Supt. W. H. Davis, of Middleport, on behalf of the citizens, welcomed the teachers to the hearts and hospitality of the people. Supt. M. E. Hard, of Gallipolis, responded on behalf of the teachers and on behalf of their pupils, who were thus left at home to enjoy a brief holiday. The welcome and the response thus given in words was followed right royally in deeds of hospitality by the people, and in enjoyment by the teachers. All of which added very materially to the success of the meeting. The inaugural address of the President, Supt. T. C. Flanegin, of Pomeroy, closed the afternoon session. At half past seven the audience filled the church to its utmost capacity to hear the address of Dr. J. P. Gordy, of the Ohio University at Athens, on the subject," Why Should I Study Pedagogy?" It was a masterly discussion of the subject, and held the interested attention of the audience to the close. A violin solo by Major J. B. Downing, with piano accompaniment, added to the enthusiasm of the assembly, whose cheers called for more, and the violin responded in a livelier strain. As the audience dispersed for the night they were serenaded by the Middleport band. The morning session opened with the discussion of the su' ject of Examinations, which was introduced by Supt. C. E. Keyes, of Belpre. Many members of the Association took part in the earnest and spirited discussion that followed, revealing a variety of opinions as to the prevailing methods pursued. It was agreed that examinations are necessary, but that the manner of conducting them needs to be improved. The forenoon session closed with a paper by Prof. John M. Davis. of Rio Grande College. It was a clear and logical discussion of "The Relation of Body and Mind," presenting in an interesting manner, thoughts of great practical value to every teacher. At the afternoon session Superintendent L. D. Bonebrake, of Athens, read a paper on the subject, "Do we Teach?" showing very clearly that many of the methods in vogue are illogical and unnatural-that while there is genuine teaching, there is also that which is unworthy of the name. Supt. Jonas Cook of McArthur, followed in a pointed and witty discussion of this subject eliciting frequent applause from the audience. So that the dismissal, after the election of officers and the usual closing exercises, found all in a happy mood, feeling that the session had been a pleasant and profitable one, and that the success of the meeting was very largely due to the cordial hospitality of the teachers and citizens of Middleport, and to the music furnished by them to enliven the exercises of the occasion. PERSONAL. -F. V. Irish, well known in Ohio, is one of the newly-elected members of faculty of the State Normal School at Lock Haven, Pa. -Rev. W. V. Marsh, for eight years principal of the East Side Grammar school at Fremont, is now pastor of the M. E. church at Swanton, near Toledo. -William Reece, formerly a teacher in the Springfield high school, is now superintendent of schools at Great Bend, Kansas, having a corps of eight teachers. -J. H. Lehman is serving his eleventh year as superintendent of the Canton schools. His corps of teachers numbers sixty-three, with an enrollment of 3400 pupils. An elegant new high-school building is nearly ready to occupy. -Prof. J. M, Davis, of Rio Grande College, has completed a post graduate course of study in Wooster University, and has recently received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. We congratulate Dr. Davis. We know him to be worthy. -B R. Gass, for some time in charge of schools at Boone, Iowa, is now superintendent of schools at Durango, Col. He writes that he has taken the MONTHLY for 25 years, and that the habit is too firmly fixed to be broken with safety. -G. W. Felter, superintendent of schools at New Richmond, Clermont County, is now in his thirty-first year of school work-the seventh in his present position. He has served nineteen years on the Clermont County board of examiners. -Mr. C. S. Coler, formerly an Ohio teacher, is now engaged in railroading in Arizona. He says a majority of the teachers in that Territory are from the East. Wages range from $100 to $125 a month. County superintendence has already been adopted. -Miss Susie R. Platt, an account of whose death is given in this number of the MONTHLY by Superintendent Knott, was at one time principal of one of the Akron Schools. She was a superior teacher and a woman of most excellent spirit. Mr. Knott attended her funeral at Hornellsville, N. Y. -Miss L. E. Michael who will have charge of the instruction in Methods in the Ohio University after Jan. 1, is a graduate of the same institution, class of '84. She has spent most of the Fall and Winter at Normal Schools in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, studying their various methods of instruction. She was an unusually good student at college and has been a successful teacher since graduation. -Mrs. Asa D. Lord is still on duty in the capacity of assistant principal of the ladies' department at Oberlin. In renewing her subscription to the MONTHLY she adds, "I have many precious memories of the Ohio Journal of Education, and have watched with special interest the progress of the MONTHLY." We attended an institute at Cedarville, Greene county, in 1853, in which Dr. A. D. Lord was the principal instructor. He was one of the founders and early editors of this magazine. -Miss May Donally who has recently been appointed instructor in elocution at the Ohio University was for some years a pupil of the well known Jas. E. Murdock and of his daughter Mrs. R. Murdock-Hollingshead. She spent the years '84-5 in Germany, France and Switzerland, travelling and studying the languages. While abroad she was correspondent for the "Cincinnati Illustrated Week" and "The Graphic." She has taught French, Music and Elocution in Cincinnati and the suburbs, and given public readings in various towns of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. BOOKS. Scribner's Sons have in press and will announce shortly a History of Modern Philosophy, by Krono Fischer, translated by J. P. Gordy, Professor of Psychology and Pedagogics in the Ohio University. Ex-Pres. Porter will write an introduction. The first two volumes are nearly ready, and may be looked for within the next few weeks. The whole work will probably fill five volumes octavo. One of the most popular and widely used school-books of the day is Mrs. Knox's Elementary Lessons in English, Part I. It is probably not too much to say that it stands at the head of the books of its class, and they are legion. Part II has appeared, under the title, The Parts of Speech and How to Use Them. Like Part I, it is eminently practical, aiming at correctness, fluency, and strength of expression, rather than skill in parsing and making diagrams; and yet it contains all the grammar that need be taught below the high school. It is a book that every progressive teacher will wish to see. Its appearance is one of the signs of the times. Published by Ginn & Company, Boston. Queer Questions and Ready Replies is a neat little book from the press of the New England Publishing Company, Boston, containing four hundred questions in history, geography, biography, mythology, philosophy, science, etc., etc., with their answers. The author, S. Grant Oliphant, has collected and arranged in this volume a large amount of curious and valuable information. The book contains more of real value and less puerility than is usually found in such books. The Dollar Method in Stocks and Bonds, Exchange and Commission, including Problems in True and Bank Discount, Profit and Loss, and Interest, is a neat pamphlet of 70 pages, by Ed. M. Mills and S. A. Kagy, Findley, Ohio. It contains detailed solutions of problems under the various heads. MAGAZINES. The object of Mr. Daniel Greenleaf Thompson's article on Science in Religious Education," in the January number of The Popular Science Monthly, is to make a plea for giving to science a more important and essential place in religious education, in order, among other things, that clergymen, when they come to deal with scientific questions, as they often have to do, may be more fully prepared for the work. The sales of The Century Magazine have gone up over 30,000 copies in six weeks, since beginning the Life of Lincoln. A second edition of December will be issued on the 15th. A veteran New York publisher predicts that the permanent edition of the magazine will go beyond 300,000 before the completion of the Lincoln history. The January installment, which is said by the editors to be of most surpassing interest, occupies thirty pages of the magazine and treats of Mr. Lincoln's settlement in Springfield; his practice of law in that city; the Harrison Campaign; Lincoln's marriage; his friendship with the Speeds of Kentucky; the Shields duel; and the campaign of 1844. The Swiss Cross is the name of a new monthly magazine to be issued from the office of Science, 47 Lafayette Place, New York. It will be devoted to spreading among the people a knowledge and love of nature. Subscription price $1.50 a year. The Atlantic Monthly for 1887 will contain, in addition to short stories, sketches, essays, poetry and criticism, two serial stories, papers on American history, a continuation of papers comparing the French and English people, essays and poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, and occasional papers by James Russell Lowell. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, have commenced the publication of a new illustrated magazine of general literature, called Scribner's Magazine. Though not quite so large, it resembles the Century in size of page, paper, type and illustrations. It will appear on the first of each month. Subscription price, $3.00 a year. Arthur's Home Magazine starts on its thirty fifth year with the January number, enlarged and improved. Besides a serial story of considerable merit and several interesting short stories, there are departments devoted to temperance, house keeping, needle and other fancy work, and home decoration. It is, as its name implies, a magazine for the home. It is published at $2.00 a year, by T. S. Arthur & Son, Philadelphia. One of the strongest and best magazines of the day is the North American Review, now in its seventy-second year. It employs the very highest order of talent in the discussion of the great questions of the time. The outfit of a man that thinks can scarcely be said to be complete without a copy of the North American. Edited by Allen Thorndike Rice, and published at No. 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York. The Post-Graduate and Wooster Quarterly is the name of a new maga zine, published in the interest of the Post-Graduate Department and Alumni of Wooster University, and conducted by Dr. A. A. E. Taylor, Dean of the Post-Graduate Department. The first number is very promising. The popularity of the University's plan of work for non-resident candidates for degrees has already drawn into this department a large number of able men from nearly half the States and Territories of the Union. This, in connection with the rapid increase of the alumni of the University already numbering more than 400, has made such a publication almost a necessity. 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