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No. 9.

which at once suggested that teachers while they teach and while they do not teach should sit on all such idiotic com. mands. If a teacher is alive no great harm will result from his sitting when he is tired, and if he is dead, pedagogically speaking, standing will not resurrect him. An injunction to school boards to provide a suitable teacher's chair for every school-room in which the weary teacher could find needed rest would be far more appropriate. - The Silent Educator.

WHEN we wrote, last month, in commendation of Julia McNair Wright's "Nature Readers" we had not read this, in a foot note in Quick's "Educational Reformers":

"Having myself gone through a course of Ahn and Ollendorf, I remember as a sort of nightmare innummerable questions and answers, such as, "Have you my thread stockings? No, I have your worsted stockings. Still more repulsive are the long sentences of Prendergrast."

Give the young pupil a thought—at least an idea-as well as a collection of words.

THE following from the Educational News cannot be too strongly commended:

Mr. Superintendent, a word of praise to your teachers is quite as powerful as the word of praise which you advise them to give to the children. And, Mr. Principal, a word of praise always gladdens the hearts of your assistants, and helps them to do their work more effectively. None of us ever get so old that we do not enjoy having those in authority over us or holding higher positions than we give us kind words of commendation when we do our work well.

THE Conscientious editor, is well as the conscientious bookdealer, rejoices in a book notice like the following from The Literary World:

This novel, "The heart of a maid," with the name of Beatrice Kipling on the title-page as the author, almost arouses indignation at first sight; for if the sisters and the cousins and the aunts of Rudyard Kipling are to be let loose on a helpless The world, the very name of Kipling will become hateful. scene of The Heart of a Maid is laid in India, but for all the local color the story has, it might as well be laid in any English garrison town. It is a commonplace story of an unhappy marriage, made hastily and repented at leisure. The story is tame and insipid, and only the name of Rudyard Kip. ling's sister as its author will give it many readers.

THE SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION is conceded to be the superior of any of its class of journals in the South or Southwest, but it is not what its editors and publishers are determined that it shall be. As it improves month by month we desire the acquaintance of a larger circle of superintendents, teachers and patrons of the schools of the South. We want you to help us to this wider acquaintance. But we

want to pay you for it. Our prenium offer on page 26 of this issue is made in good faith, and if you accept any one of the several offers you will receive from 25 cents to a dollar for every subscriber you send us. Send us two or three subscribers-accept one of the smallest of our propositions—and see if we are not right.

If you cannot work for a premium yourself call these handsome offers to the attention of some friend who will.

THE JOURNAL compliments itself on presenting its readers. with a sketch of the oldest college for women in the world, written by one of the best known and most popular magazine writers in the South. Miss Andrews is as entertaining a lecturer as she is a writer; she is still better as a teacher; and most charming of all does she appear to the circle in which she moves as a woman friend.

Next month we will have a sketch of the first school to of

fer to young women a high grade of instruction in mathematics, logic and psychology, with a portrait of Dr. Z. C. Graves.

DON'T lay down this paper till you have read our splendid premium offer on page 26. Those books will strike you as suitable Christmas presents.

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THIS IS OF INTEREST TO TEACHERS.

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To this end the Journal from time to time furnish its teacher readers with material for a proper celebration of memorial days of representative American citizens.

EDUCATIONAL NOTES FROM ABROAD.

GERMANY.-The Hessian Minister of Public Instruction in. tends to appoint for all cities in the Duchy special school councillors or inspectors, in other words, superintendents who shall supervise all the schools of the resptive city, higher intermediate and lower, classical and modern, boys and girls schools Local supervision is on the increase in Germany, but the best feature of the trend is that it is "professional" supervision the Germans insist upon. We have learned to place a physician in the health office, and lawyers in the judges seats, elect universiters to bishoprics, but when we need a school superintendent, frequently a man who has been unsuccessful in other professions is good enough for us. Let us be hopeful though, such cases are less frequent now than they used to be.

GERMANY.-Whila the number of illiterates among the army recruits is only equal to eight tenths of one percent, that of the illiterates among the people who marry is 2.6% of the men, and 3.32% of the women. This number shows a decrease of 2% in both sexes since 1882.

GERMANY.-The little principality of Waldeck has 130 schools and lecto 30 and 35 teachers' positions are vacant. Teachers of Waldeck often accept positions in Prussia, and this deprives the principals of teachers. Waldeck pays very low salaries. While Prussia pays 600 marks increase according to length of service, Waldeck pays only 180 marks (4m.=$1.)

GERMANY.-In Leipzig (which city has nearly 1000 teachers and pays annually more than $500,000 for maintaining its schools) there are four teachers in the school-board, not

more so each month. You will do yourself and your neigh-only as advisory members, but members with power to yote.

bor both a service by securing subscriptions.

PATRIOTISM IN THE SCHOOLS.

Chancellor W. H. Payne, of the University of Nashville, in an address to his students on the 8th of January 1890-the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans-used this language "If this college is to be true to its mission, it must be, in the best sense of the term, a school of patriotism; for it represents in this part of the Union the American public school, and the best conception that we can form of the public school is that its function is the formation of citizens. "Returning now to the thought with which I set out-that the characteristic function of the public school is the formation of citizens-it is to be noted that one prime and indispensable quality or element in good citizeship is an ardent and intelligent patriotism a profound and ardent love of country, such a noble passion for native country and her institutions as will subordinate personal snd selfish ends to the nobler and purer ambitions that inspire the statesman and patriot."

There is probably no better way of inspiring the embryo citizen with a love of country than to acquaint him with noble characters produced by his country.

The board has 43 members.

AUSTRIA.—The women teachers in Vienna have nominated two of their number for election to the Bezirks (county) schoolboard. They have also determined to vote for men These schoolonly if they are "friendly to their cause." boards are made up of professional teachers and stand between the state-boards and local boards, performing supervisory duties. In Vienna the first female school principal has just been appointed. A worthy lady who had 19 years of experience was chosen.

GERMANY.-Prof. Rausch in Jena calls attention to the fact that the 4th of May 1891 was the 200th anniversary of German composition writing in the schools of the Empire. It was Christ. Thomasius who had the courage to openly denounce witch burning and the exclusive use of Latin as the language of education. of education. He opened an academy in 1691 for the teaching of German composition, calling his institction "Collegium styli."

Ratio of attendance at universities to the total population. The following figures are taken from an important work of Professor Conrad of the University of Halle (Prussia) and published in his "Jahrbucher fur National-Oekonomie and Statistik.' The date from which the comparison is drawn is

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Another curious calculation establishes the increase since 1870 of the desire for higher education. This increase is in indicated as follows:

For every 100 university students in 1870 there were in 1890. Norway, 214, Belgium, 156, Denmark, 182, Italy, 155 France, 162, Holland, 150, Switzerland, 160, Germany 148, Austria, 158.

At a first glance this last table seems incredible, if we consider that in 1870 Germany had 17.631 students, while now it has 34, 118. The ratio of increase of population in Germany was 20% in these two decades, while the ratio of increase in the number of students was 100%. Prof. Conrad's tables come to us through a French educational journal and must be taken at a discount since national prejudice may have colored them so as to place Germany et the end of the line. We shall be pleased to correct the statement when Prof. Conrad's Jahrbucher arrives.

JOURNALISM VS. BREAD.

Prof. J. W. Stillman, in a paper on "Journalism and Literature," in the November Atlantic, says:

It is truly a grave question for the young man who desires to follow literature and must work for his daily bread how he shall pay his way. I might say, with Dr. Johnson, that "I do not see the necessity;" and fn fact the greater, far greater part of those who attempt it do not justify the experiment. But I will suppose that the individual in any one case is justi. fied in devoting his life and all its energies to letters; that his calling is irresistible, or at least so strong that he is willing to do all but starve and freeze to be able to follow it. Even then I say, with all the energy of a life's experience put into my words, and a knowledge of every honorable phase of journalism to give them weight, Do not go on a daily journal unless the literature satisfies your ambition. Now and then, with the possible frequency of being struck by lightning, you may, as a special correspondent, find a noble cause for which you may nobly give your whole soul-once it has happened to me; but even this is not literature. Better teach school or take to farming, be a blacksmith or a shoemaker (and no

trade has furnished more thinkers than that of the shoemaker), and give your leisure to the study you require. Read and digest, get Emerson by heart, carry Bacon's essays in your pocket and read them when you have to be idle for a moment, earn your daily wages in absolute independence of thought and speech, but never subject yourself to the indigni ties of reporterism, the waste of life of the special correspondent, or the abdication of freedom of research and individuality of the staff writer, to say nothing of the passions and perversions of partisan politics. That now and then the genius of a man survives all these and escapes above them is not a reason for voluntarily exposing ourselves to the risks of the encounter; and who can tell us how much of the charm of the highest art those successful ones have lost in the experience? For what we get by culture is art, be it on canvas or in letters. Study, fine distinction, the perfection of form, the fittest phrase, the labor lime and the purgation of immaterialities of ornament or fact, and the putting of what we ought to say in the purest, simplest, and permanent formthese are what our literature must have, and these are not qualities to be cultivated on the daily press. Of no pursuit can it be said more justly than of literature, that "culture corrects the theory of success."

ONE FOR EACH SCHOOL DAY.

SELECTED FOR THE JOURNAL.

Each man has only an extremely good will to nim who is moving on towards his object.-Thomas Carlyle. Howe'er it be, it seems to me,

'Tis only noble to be good;
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.
-Tennyson.

Who can confess his poverty,
And look it in the face destroys its sting;
But a proud, poor man is poor indeed.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

Be firm! One constant element in luck
Is genuine, solid, old, Teutonic pluck.

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Truth from any other source is like water from a cistern; but truth drawn out of the Bible is like drinking water from the fountain immediately where it springeth.-Bacon.

Attempt the end, never stand to doubt. Nothing so hard but search will find it out. -Robert Herrick.

Try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life that is the most wholesome society. Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.-Thackeray.

Little by little the morning breaks,
Little by little the world awakes.
Little dy little the sunbeams shine,
Little by little-line in line.
Little by little mounts the sun,
Little by little, to sultry noon.
Little by little the shadows grow,
Little by little they lengthen slow.
Littie by little the sun goes down,
Little by little the twilights come.
Little by tittle the night creeps on,
Little by little-Life's day is done.

H. Albert Wilson.

SOME COLLEGE NEWS.

This writer has not the statistics at hand, but he believes that Dr. Price's Nashville College for Young Ladies is the

largest girls' school in the South, and it is certainly one of the few high grade schools. This paragraph was called out by a flying rumor--entirely untrue-that Dr. Price had sold out. The college property is owned and controlled by a board and it has in no way changed ownership.

The Christian Advocate is authority for the statement that Rev Dr. John H. Dye has leased Galloway College, at Searcy, Ark., for a period of twelve years, and will take charge of it at the opening of the next scholastic year. He is a capital man for such work, having made a famous record as Superintendent of the Arkansas School for the Blind.

A RARE ANNOUNCEMENT.

The semi-annual meeting of the Director's Association of Bedford County will be held in Shelbyville, Wednesday, December 2, 1891, beginnig at 10:30 o'clock.

PROGRAMME.

Value of Organization-Gen. M. Frankle.
Free Text Books-J. W. Wells.
Secondary Schools-T. F. Smalling.

Officers for the ensuing year will be elected and other business of very great importance to our schools be transacted. Each district in the county should be represented in the meeting.

The announcement is signed by "J. H. Allen, Chairman of the Executive Committee," and published in the newspapers of Bedford County. It is probable that all the names of Tennessee counties that have such meetings can be printed in one of these lines, yet the good that comes from such organizations is incalculable.

CUT-UP STORIES.

SUGGESTIONS.-Cut out these paragraphs and paste them on stiff cardboard. Distribute among pupils and call upon them to read by number.

MAY AND HER PETS.

No. 1. May has a lot of pets. She has a cat, a dog, a hen and a kid.

No. 2. The cat is fat and sits on the mat, but the dog runs in the lot with Pat, who sees to a big ox that is in the lot. No. 3. A pig is in the lot too, but the pen it is in has a lot by it, so that it cannot get out.

No. 4. May got a rat-tan box for her hen but you may see it, if May lets it be in the patch the kid runs in.

No. 5. A fox ran by to get at her hen but Pat got his hat and the dog and ran at it.

No. 6. The fox ran to a van in the lot, and so the dog did not get it, but he will get the an i-mal yet.

No. 7. May's kid has a skin like satin, if you pat it with your hand.

No. 8. This is a cat a-logue of May's pets, and to see them is a pan-or-a-ma to sat-is-fy you all.-Educational Journal.

Bright little Tot, who was impatient for her dinner, kept running to the dining-room to see if the table was spread: at last she rushed back jubilant, saying: "The water is in the high pitcher now, mama, and let's go in and begin on that." -Harper's Young People.

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