Practical Mathematics:- Right and Oblique-Angled Trigonometry, with applications; the Mensuration of Surfaces and Simple Solids. (Practical Mathematics will not be required of female candidates until 1895.)

Book-Keeping-To be familiar with Book-Keeping, as given in the prescribed

Text Book.

Natural Philosophy and Physics :-Dynamics and Statics. Wormell's Natural Philosophy and Hotze's Physics. (Female candidates will not be required to work questions involving the principles of Trigonometry.)

NATURAL SCIENCE: Botany:-The same as for Class II together with the Determination of ordinary Flowering Plants.

Chemistry and Agriculture:-Same as for Class II. Physiology and Hygienean intelligent acquaintance with the Prescribed Text Book.

Latin: At the closing Examinations in 1895 and thereafter Candidates who may wish to qualify themselves for the Principalship of Superior Schools will be required to pass an examination in Elementary Latin Grammar, and One Book of Cæsar or its equivalent.

Requirements for Grammar School Class.

In addition to the requirements of Class I.

Latin.-1. The Latin Grammar. 2. To be able to translate and parse any of the following authors: Cæsar De Bello Galico, Books I-III; Horace-Odes, Book 1 and Ars Poetica; Virgil-Æneid, Books I-III; Cicero-De Senectute and Pro Archia.

Greek.-1. The Greek Grammar. 2. To be able to translate and parse accurately any of the following authors: Xenophon-Anabasis, Books I-II; HomerIliad, Books I-III; Euripides-Alcestis.

History. To have a good knowledge of Grecian and Roman History.

Geography. To know the ancient Geography of Greece and Italy.

Mathematics. 1. Plane and solid Geometry (Hamblin Smith); 2. Spherical Trigonometry (Wentworth's); 3. Algebra (Todhunter's Advanced Algebra, or an equivalent).

Chemistry.-General Chemistry. The prescribed texts.

Botany and Physiology.—An intelligent acquaintance with the prescribed texts. REMARK 1.-Equivalents for the Latin and Greek subjects may be allowed on application to the Chief Superintendent at least six weeks before the date of the examinations.

REMARK 2.-Candidates for Grammar School License will be allowed the privilege, upon application to the Chief Superintendent six weeks before the date of examinations, of being admitted to examinations on a stated part only of the subjects of the syllabus. Examinations on the remaining subjects must be passed the following year. No certificate shall be issued until all the requirements have been met.

5. Other Changes. A change in the form of contract between Teachers and Trustees, a modification of the course of instruction in the Normal School, and several verbal changes elsewhere, will, it is hoped, be found to be improvements. Special effort has been given to make the Index more complete and useful than the Index of the former editions.

Change of Boundaries of Inspectoral Districts.

The inconvenience and practical difficulties which resulted from the grouping of the Counties of Kent, Victoria and Madawaska into one Inspectoral District, led the Board of Education at its session in December last to revise. the boundaries of four of the Districts. These changes took effect on the first day of January, 1893. The Inspectoral Districts are now the following:

DISTRICT No. 1.

The Counties of Restigouche, Gloucester and Northumberland.

DISTRICT No. 2.

The Counties of Kent and Westmorland.

DISTRICT No. 3.

The County of Albert, the County of Kings except the Parishes of Westfield and Greenwich, and the County of Queens except the Parishes of Canning, Gagetown, Hampstead and Petersville.

DISTRICT No. 4.

The Counties of St. John and Charlotte, and the Parishes of Westfield and Greenwich in Kings County.

DISTRICT No. 5.

The County of York except the Parishes of Canterbury and North Lake, the County of Sunbury, and the Parishes of Canning, Gagetown, Hampstead and Petersville in Queens County.

DISTRICT No. 6.

The Counties of Carleton, Victoria and Madawaska, and the Parishes of Canterbury and North Lake in York County.

Appendices.

I beg to direct special attention to the Appendices, in which will be found interesting and instructive reports from the Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick, the Principal of the Normal School, the Inspectors, the

Boards of Trustees of cities and incorporated towns, the Principal of the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Principal of the Halifax School for the Blind.

These reports give details in regard to the several Institutions and depart-ments from which they emanate.

THE UNIVERSITY.

The letter of the Hon. Senator Wark, included in the report of the Chancellor is worthy of the practical consideration of the Legislature, and of the patrons and alumni of the University everywhere. If the University is to grow in efficiency and in the confidence of the public, it must be more generously endowed. The munificent liberality, both from public and private sources, which, during recent years, has been directed towards the strengthening of the older universities on this continent, and the endowment and equipment of new ones on a scale hitherto unattempted, renders it all the more necessary that some method should be devised by which the University of New Brunswick shall be placed in a position to stand at least the equal in every respect of those Institutions with which it is brought into more direct comparison and competition. The endowment of additional chairs, as Senator Wark suggests, is very desirable; but what, in my opinion, is of greater urgency at the present time is to provide adequate salaries for the occupants of the chairs which have been already established.

THE INSPECTORS' REPORTS.

These reports give some very interesting details in regard to the Districts While hopeful in tone, they do not fail to point out the fact that there still exists, after more than twenty years' operation of the Free Schools Act, great need of increased enlightenment in the minds of many ratepayers and Trustees in regard to the essential conditions of success in the schools. I regret that too many instances still occur of narrow and parsimonious views, even where the financial condition of the Districts would warrant an adequate provision for the maintenance of efficient schools. Factious disputes in some localities paralyze every effort to promote the educational welfare of the community, and the gratifying of personal animosity occasionally weakens or entirely closes the school, to the irreparable loss of the children who are thus permitted. to grow up in comparative ignorance. The importance of electing the best men in each community to the office of School Trustee cannot be over estimated. Every ratepayer should regard it as a sacred duty to attend the annual meeting and use his efforts in behalf of the children's best interests. The law invests the Board of Trustees with large powers, and these should be exercised faithfully, firmly, constantly, and without regard either to the clamor of fault-finders or the personal interests of those who allow selfish considerations to over-rule the general good. A studious observance of the provisions.

of the School Manual on the part of the Trustees would prevent many a difficulty.

Inspector Whelpley directs attention to the need of a thorough revision of the boundaries of school districts. I regret to know that in the Counties of Victoria and Madawaska even a more pressing need for an extensive revision exists than in the Counties included in Mr. Whelpley's Inspectorate. Though scarcely a meeting of the Board of Education has been held for many years at which the revision of boundaries has not formed a considerable part of the business transacted, yet it is becoming more apparent year after year that more general changes are required than can be effected by the unaided efforts of the Inspectors, unless they are relieved from other duties required of them by statute and regulation.

Most of the Inspectors make encouraging reports in regard to improvements in the general appearance of school buildings and premises, and in the supply of modern furniture, apparatus, books for school libraries, etc. These improvements have often been made at the suggestion and with the aid of the teachers, who have in this excellent way not only contributed towards the efficiency of the school but strengthened their own influence in the community. It is to be hoped that the Inspectors will soon find it unnecessary to bring a pressure to bear upon the Trustees and Ratepayers of any District to induce them to provide suitable buildings and equipments for the schools.

I regret that circumstances beyond my control deprived the Counties of Kent, Victoria and Madawaska of adequate Inspectoral Supervision for a portion of the year, and that there is consequently no Inspector's Report from that District. Arrangements made. at the beginning of the present school year will, I have every reason to hope, prove satisfactory and prevent the recurrence of a similar state of affairs.

REPORTS OF BOARDS OF TRUSTEES OF CITIES AND TOWNS.

These reports furnish complete information, both educational and financial, of the work in Cities and Towns organized under the provisions of Sections 104 and 105 of the School Act. They indicate progress in almost every respect, and show on the part of the several Boards of Trustees an appreciation of the importance of the duties entrusted to them, and a praiseworthy effort to discharge these duties effectively.

INSTITUTIONS FOR THE BLIND, THE DEAF AND DEAF-MUTES.

The painfully interesting reports from these Institutions will be read with interest. The Legislature, in making provision for the free education of these unfortunates classes, discharged a duty not only of charity but of simple justice. Notwithstanding the public grants to these schools, I am assured that

there is still occasion for the exercise of increased private liberality in their behalf.

The diminution during the last two terms of the County fund apportionment to the Common Schools of several of the Counties is due principally to the fact that the grants to the Blind Asylum and the School for the Deaf and Dumb are a first charge upon the County fund of the Counties to which the pupils of these Institutions belong. The Counties most affected in this respect were Kings, Westmorland, Albert, Kent and St. John.

Suggestions.

Among the duties assigned to me by statute, is "to offer suggestions on educational subjects." In addition to suggestions made in my last Annual Report in reference to Grammar Schools, and others embodied in the foregoing parts of this report, I beg respectfully to recommend the establishing, at as early a date as practicable, of a Kindergarten department in connection with the Provincial Normal and Model Schools. I do not propose to fix the limit of school age below its present limit of five years, or to make the support of Kindergarten schools throughout the Province a charge upon the public revenues. Such a proposal would be objectionable, for it is only in the cities and centres of population that Kindergartens could be maintained, and it might be urged with reason that the support of local or sectional schools should depend chiefly, if not altogether, upon private enterprise. But I am convinced from observation of Kindergarten work. outside of our own Province, and from a study of the principles which underlie Kindergarten methods, that these methods should be closely followed in the earlier grades, at least, of our primary school work. To give the pupil-teachers at the Normal School a practical insight into these principles and methods could not fail to make them better teachers in all the grades, and would, in my opinion, tend not only to make the schools more attractive to the children, but also to develop in them keen powers of observation in regard to form, color, order, symmetry, etc., to cultivate manual dexterity, and to quicken at the same time all the intellectual processes.

The expense of a Kindergarten department need not exceed $750 per annum, and if it should be thought proper to charge a small fee for the admittance of children to the Model School of this department, the charge upon the public funds might be still less than the sum named.

I have the honor to be,

Your Honor's most obedient servant,

JAMES R. INCH,

Chief Superintendent of Education.