8TH EXERCISE.-1st movement. Step out gracefully to the front with the left foot, toe well pointed and heel high from the floor (4 times).

2nd movement. Step out in like manner with right foot (4 times).

3rd movement. Step out alternately with left and right (4 times). This exercise is put in in order to rest the arms. 9TH EXERCISE.-Arms above head. 1st movement. With one motion bend the body till the bar-bell is opposite the chest, head between the arms.

2nd movement. Again bend till the bar-bell is opposite the knees.

3rd movement. Raise arms and body till the bar-bell is again opposite the chest.

4th movement. Raise arms and body till bar-bell is above the head. Repeat movements 1, 2, 3, 4 alternately (4 times).

10TH EXERCISE.-1st movement. Charge to left-front, stepping out with left foot and bending knees, at the same time raising the arms until the bar bell is above the head. In this exercise keep the arms perfectly parallel. Do not twist them as in exercise 2. Step back to position, heels together, arms at sides.

2nd movement. Charge to right-front in a similar manner (4 times). Similarly charge to left-back corner (4 times). Charge to right-back in like manner (4 times).

5th movement. Charge in like manner alternately to left-front, right-front, left-back, right-back (twice).

HOOP EXERCISE.-This is a pretty exercise if well done, and, as it is not lengthy, is well suited for an entertainment or exhibition.

Two small hoops, such as may be obtained from a small keg, will answer the purpose nicely, when covered so as to match the costume. One hoop to be firmly held in each hand.

1ST EXERCISE.-1st movement. Throw the arms up from the sides until the hoops are parallel above the head. 2nd movement. Let hoops drop to sides (8 times). 2ND EXERCISE.-Arms raised to a little above the waist. 1st movement. Throw arms forward till hoops are parallel and close together.

2nd movement. Thrust arms back to sides. Repeat movements 1, 2 alternately (8 times).

3RD EXERCISE.-1st movement. Charge to left-front,

stepping out with left foot, bending knee and at the same time raising the hoop until opposite the face and looking through it; then step back to position and dropping the hoop to the side (4 times).

2nd movement. Charge to right-front, raising right arm till the hoop is opposite the face, looking through it, then stepping back to position and dropping the hoop to the side (4 times).

3rd movement. Charge to left-back in like manner (4 times).

4th movement. Charge to right-back in like manner (4 times).

5th movement. Charge alternately to left-front, rightfront, left-back, right-back, using hoop as before (4 times). 4TH EXERCISE.-1st movement. Raise the two hoops and with their edges touch the top of the head.

2nd movement. Touch two shoulders similarly. 3rd movement. Touch two hips similarly.

4th movement.

Bend body sufficiently to touch the floor with the edges of hoops. Repeat movements 1, 2, 3, 4 alternately (4 times).

5TH EXERCISE.-Move arms towards the front and swing them right round (8 times).

6TH EXERCISE.-1st movement. Make a graceful curve with left arm until the hoop touches the forehead lightly as if saluting the audience, at the same time putting out the left foot with the toe pointed and the heel high from the floor, and bending the body gracefully. Then step back to position, letting the arm drop with a graceful outward curve (4 times).

2nd movement. Similar motion with the right arm, foot and hoop (4 times).

3rd movement. Same motion alternately with the left foot, then the right (4 times).

7TH EXERCISE.-Raise the hoop in the left hand until it is higher than the head, without bending the arm, and at the same time bend the body towards the right and look up at the hoop in the left hand.

2nd movement. Raise the right arm, at the same time lowering the left, bending the body towards the left and looking up at the hoop in the right hand. Repeat movements 1, 2 alternately (8 times).

8TH EXERCISE. Allow the hoops to rest on hips, make

a quarter revolution to the left, using feet as a pivot on which to turn another quarter revolution until facing the back. Another quarter revolution until the face is towards right-hand side of the room. Quarter revolution back to front. Repeat, thus making two complete revolutions, then reverse movement to right-back, left-front, making two more complete revolutions.

9TH EXERCISE.-1st movement. Curve the left arm until the hoop touches the top of the head, then drop the hoop to the side (4 times).

2nd movement. Curve the right arm until the hoop touches the top of the head and drop the hoop to side (4 times).

3rd movement. Same movements alternately, left arm ascending while right descends, and vice versa (4 times). 4th movement. Same movement with the two arms ascending and descending gracefully together (4 times).

1ST EXERCISE.-1st movement. Gracefully move left. hoop as if to touch the lips, at the same time slightly inclining the body (4 times).

2nd movement. Move the right hoop in like manner (4) times).

3rd movement. Same alternately left and right (4 times).

Editorial Notes and Comments.

A SUMMER SCHOOL is to be tried as an experiment by Principal Dresser of St. Francis College, Richmond, this year, as mentioned in the last RECORD. It ought to be a success. Richmond is a delightfully beautiful place in summer viewed from the hill upon which the college stands. The college building itself will furnish accommodation for all the students that will attend, and board will be provided at reasonable rates. The important part of the matter is the fact that the instructors are specialists in their several branches and have had successful experience in teaching. The courses are physical geography and practical geology by Principal Dresser, B.A., botany by Prof. Honeyman, B.A., drawing and painting by Miss Cairnie, and conversational French by Prof. de Bellefontaine. These are good courses for our teachers.

An institute will be held in Richmond, beginning on the 30th of June and lasting four days. The summer school

will open the following week. It is to be hoped that many of the teachers who attend the institute will go prepared to remain for the summer school. Principal Dresser will send a circular of information to any enquirer.

MARTHA'S VINEYARD summer school is one of the oldest and best known in America. Many of our most progressive teachers have attended it to the great advantage of themselves and their schools. The fact is, the teacher cannot afford to stand still. If he does, his stagnation is apparent to everybody, except himself of course. In other professions men are dealing with men, with intellectual equals. They have to be alert and ambitious in order to hold their own. The intellectual struggle keeps the mind fresh, active, keen and strong. The teacher deals with immature, not to say inferior, minds. He is facile princeps in his little world. He needs stimulus that his mind does not naturally get. Hence the summer school is a necessity for many, and an advantage to all teachers. See the announcement in this number of the RECORD on the advertising page, and ask yourself whether you can afford to stay away.

-THE June examinations will be with us once more before another number of the RECORD will have appeared, and teachers of the Superior Schools will be once more in the midst of their anxiety as to the results. The success of these examinations depends upon the manner in which they are conducted, and now that most of the deputy-examiners have come to know the minutest details of the routine, there is within view the possibility of having everything done in order. In conducting an examination of this kind there is no possibility of an irregularity escaping the notice of the pupils, and this in itself should be one of the strongest of reasons why everything in the shape of an avoidable irregularity should be discountenanced by the teacher, who, it ought to be understood, continues in charge of the discipline of his or her pupils during the days of the examination as at other times. But there is just as little chance of irregularities escaping the notice of the authorities at Quebec. The countenancing of irregularities, directly or indirectly, creates a nervousness among those taking the examination which readily enough reveals itself in the written answers. Indeed all the examiners are agreed that the school that always comes out best in these circumstances is the school where pupils answer the questions out

of the fulness of their knowledge, and in which everything is done with an eye to the "honesty that is the best policy." It is a foolish thing also for any teacher or deputy-examiner to criticise the questions in presence of the pupils before the examination is over. A nervous teacher, who is fond of frowning at the originality of certain questions, is sure to make his pupils nervous. There is but one legitimate criticism in such cases, and the query which helps the teacher to it refers to the scope. "Is the question within the scope," should always be asked as a preliminary in such cases. To accuse the examiners or examination papers of unfairness simply because a pupil fails to take as high a standing as the teacher expected, is the height of folly, and all the more so since the experienced examiners who have charge of these examinations never miss, it is said, giving the pupil the benefit of the doubt. In speaking of these examinations, it may be said that the improvement in the work done is simply marvellous, and those who would say that the process of testing the schools in this way is a pernicious one, would do well to examine the results before stereotyping their opinion.

-FOR the information of our readers, we give here the substance of a circular issued in connection with the approaching meeting of the National Educational Association.

The annual meeting of the National Educational Association of America will be held this year in Buffalo, from July the 7th to July 11th. The teachers of the continent. are, as far as has been heard from, delighted with the selection of Buffalo; while the teachers of the Dominion of Canada are satisfied that no better place could be selected for their convenience. Situated at the foot of the great lakes and in the immediate vicinity of Niagara Falls, Buffalo is easily approached by boat as well as by rail. Its railroad facilities, embracing 26 terminal lines, are greater than those of any other city on the continent, Chicago alone excepted. No city is increasing more rapidly in population and commercial prosperity than Buffalo. It has nearly 350,000 people, fine schools and churches, a residence section that is almost unequalled for beauty and attractiveness, and more miles of paved streets, so agreeable for driving and bicycling, than any other city in the world. Niagara Falls are not far away. Chatauqua is near at hand, while the most interesting excursions have been arranged for in