PEABODY NORMAL COLLEGE.

The Peabody Normal College opened this year with about four hundred students representing fifteen states, and more are matriculating daily. The chapel is crowded and no doubt the limit of five hundred will be reached early in the term.

The Students Christian Association organized only last Spring is a power already felt in the spiritual life of the college. In his opening address Chancellor Payne spoke of its work being nearest his heart. Many new members are being received and a systematic study of the Bible is carried on. The annual re-union of the old students and the reception to the new students was given by the S. C. A. in the attractive rooms of the studio on the evening of Oct. 9. A series of social entertainment will be given by the association during the year. Dr. Payne led the first prayer-meeting in the Chapel Sunday, October 11, at 2:30 p. m.

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The Erosophian Society held its first meeting in the Erosophian Hall on the evening of October 10, the interesting programme consisting of a Welcome Address by J. J. Keyes, a debate by W. K. Tate and J. C. Shaw respectively for and against the proposition that "teaching is a desirable profession." The affirmative gained. A beautiful quartette was sung by Misses Lee and Neal and Messrs Tate and Miller. Nine new members were initiated and the pleasant closed. The Agatheridan Soɔiety gaue its opening entertainment in the Agatherdian Hall at 7:30 p. m., October 17. The welcome address was well delivered by N. B. F. Close, after which a quartette was sung. Several new members were received and officers were installed as follows: E. T. Steed, President; S. J. Lewis, Elitor; J. B Aswell, Critic; R. N. Garpner, Secretary The valedictory address of W. L. Grice, the retiring president was delivered with his usual eloquence. A cornet solo by W. C. Miller accompanied by

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Miss Lula O. Andrews, was highly enjoyed by all. After the inaugural address by E. Steed, Mrs. Cheney, the talented music teacher, favored the audience with a solo. cieties are to be congratulated on their efforts and especially in their recent improvements of carpeting the floors and kalsoming the walls. This spirit of rivalry is wholesome and should be encouraged.

The Peabody Literary Society begins the third year of its life with an earnest circle of old members in the field ready for work. Under the leadership of Miss Lula Andrews, as President, Miss Nettie King, Vice President, and Miss Florence Williams, Secretary, the work of the society promises to be carried forward with great energy. The Society Committee is carefully canvassing the school for new members and their ranks will soon be filled to the limited number, twentyfive. To the twelve old members of the Magazine Club new ones will be added and the pleasant work of receiving the best articles in the leading magazines will be entered into with avidity. The club meets Friday nights in the Library and the new feature of interspersing college songs will be added.

The Athletic Association is in good working order under the new management of J. M. King Jr., President, N. B. F. Close, Secretary; J. P. Brown, Treasurer; W. C. Jones, Captain of Field Sports. A challenge to play foot ball has been received from the Vanderbilts.

Paradsse Lost. Book XI. There is nothing obscure in the etymology of this Spanish phrase, which means literally "The Gilded," yet to such an extent has it been abused that few know that it originally related to a man and not to a country. In the later sense it has been applied to almost every gold-bearing district encountered in America since the discovery; and there is scarce ly a mining camp in our Far West but has named its richest lode or most popular resort, whether grog-shop, billiard saloon, or theater, Eldorado. As early as the sixteenth century it served to designate an imaginary region abounding in gold and precious stones in the interior of South America; but prior to this acceptation it had become a synonym for the most remarkable legend of New World, the supposed eastern proximity of which invested its unexplored territory with the glamour of Oriental romance. The term was, indeed, an appellation of royalty, and El Dorado, perhaps, a veritable king whose daily attire is said to have been a simple coating of arothrough a bamboo cane. - Lieut. H. R. Lemly, in the October matic resins followed by a sprinkling of gold-dust blown

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SOME TRUTH IN THIS.

More language work and less technical grammar is what is needed in many of our schools. We have seen pupils who could diagram difficult sentences, and rattle off the parrot like parsing of the noun, verb, etc., with but little effort, but would utterly fail in the proper use of practical grammar. Give your pupils language work and plenty of it if you would meke practical grammarians of them.-Southern Teacher.

IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION.

(Lilla Cabot Perry, October Century.)
You ask if I can love you as you are,
As with all my faults am loved by you,
Since you see heaven shine in a drop of dew,
Could I then, dearest, miss it in a star?

A little eight year old Irish boy in one of our public schools was reproved by his teacher for some mischief. He was about to deny his fault, when she said: "I saw you, Jerry." "Yes," he replied as quick as a flash. "I tells thim there an't much yous don't see wid thim purty black eyes of yourn.' That was the soft answer that turned away wrath; for wha lady could resist so graceful a compliment?

The New England Magazine presents "Benjamin Butler's Boyhood," by himself; Edward Everett Hale's "James Russell Lowell," and a pleasant and instructive commentary on Lowell's old magazine, The Pioneer, by Edwin D. Mead, the senior editor of the magazine. Dr. Hale is always interesting whatever his subject, and the fact of his having been for many years an intimate friend of Lowell's gives his essay a personal sympathy which no reader can help feeling at oi ce. Mr. Mead's article is just one of those delightful papers one expects to find in going through a volume of an old magazine one so seldom meets in a modern periodical. It is embellished with reproductions of several of the outline drawings and engravings which appeared in the three numbers of The Pioneer that saw the light. A fine portrait of Lowell in his study, taken a little while before his death, is the frontispice of the number. Henry S. Nourse contributes an interesting article on "The Public Libraries of Massachusetts," containing many fine pictures. There are two poems by Philip Bourke Marston, the blind English poet who died a few years ago, Ethel Parton writes about Newburyport, an old historic town in Massachusetts, and the headquarters of American privateers during the Revolutionary War. The article is well illustratred by clever pen and ink artists, and reproductions in halftone of a number of good photograhs. Charles Howard Shinn, the brilliant Californian writer, contributes a story "Jan Jansen, Sheep-herder," and Frances Courtenay Baylor has a story called "The Innocent," detailing the experiences of a bogus English Lord and his dupes, illustrated by J. H. Hatfield.

BOOK NOTES.

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Easy drawings for the Geography class. By D. R. Augsburg, B. P., author of "Easy Things to Draw." New York and Chicago: E. L. Kellogg & Co., 1891. 95 pp. Price, 50 cents.

In this volume is the same excellent work that was noted in Mr. Augsburg's "Easy Things to Eraw." He does not here seek to present a system of drawing, but to give a collection of drawings made in the simplest possible way, and so constructed that any one may reproduce them. Leading educators believe that drawing has not occupied the position in the school course heretofore that it ought to have occupied; that it is the most effectual means of presenting facts, especially in the sciences. The author has used it in this book to illustrate geography, giving drawings of plants, animals, and natural features, and calling attention to steps in drawing. The idea is a novel one, and it is believed that the practical manner in which the subject is treated will make the book a popular one in the school-room. The printing and binding is attractive.

The first set is "Sto

"The Young Folks' Library," published by Silver, Burdette & Co., New York, and edited by Dr. Larkin Dunton, is one of the most attractive, and at the same time one of the most instructive of all the valuable series of books now being sent out for children and young folks. Eight volumes, comprising two sets, make up up the series. ries of Child Life," and the second is "The World and its People." The last volume is "Our American Neighbors," and is a most valuable auxillary to the study of geography and history. It "is designed to be read, either at home or at school in connection with the systematic study of America," Another sensible suggestion is as suggested by the editor. this: "When pupils have become fairly familiar with the geography of the United States, their attention should be directed to the homes of our American Neighbors, Canada, Mexico, Central America and South America. The study of these countries should constitute the introduction to the study of foreign geography."

The book is history, geography, biography, anecdote, all

in one, and is entertaining for older as well as younger pupils.

The American Book Company has issued a High School Composition and Rhetoric fully deserving the careful examination of every teacher. Of course it is not a book to take the place of College and University text-books, but is peculiarly suited for use in Aɔademies and High Schools. It is by an experienced high school teacher, Miss Virginia Waddy, of Richmond, Va. Its arrangement is simple and natural; the selections and illustration well chosen; and its definitions clear and comprehensive.

Julia McNair Wriaht has written not a few good books; and four of these make up the series of "Nature Readers" recently published by D. C. Heath & Co.

The author in her preface says: "This series of Nature Readers is intended for the use of beginners in reading. They are not offered as text books in natural science, but rather as a contribution to the idea that facts of real and permanent value may be made known, a noble taste may be cultivated, thought may be developed, and the initiatory steps in an increasingly popular study maybe taken, while a child is learning to read a certain number of English words."

It has no doubt often occurred to the conscientious teacher that a child might as well learn some facts as to repeat that "I have a hat," and it is on this principle that this series of books is worked out. Perhaps the idea in the whole work may be more clearly understood by a reading of the "Word to the boys and girls" in the first volume:

"Do you know that there are cities on your path to school, and under the trees in your garden? Do you know that homes with many rooms in them hang in the branches above your head? Do you know that what you call 'little bugs' hunt and fish, make paper, saw wood, are masons and weavers, and feed and guard and teach their little ones much as your papa and mamma take care of you? This sounds like a fairy story. In this book you will read some of these wonders; and when you have read this book well you shall have one or two more. These books will not try to tell you all that there is to tell of these things; They are only to wake up your minds so that you will think and study and notice them for yourself. Your eyes will be worth many times as much to you as they now are when you learn to observe with care, and to think about what you see."

The first chapter in the first book is about "Mr. and Mrs. Crab." The second book opens with "A look at an ant;" and the story of "The Great Mother"-Earth, introduces the third book. The illustrations are profuse and of excellent quality. Inducements are offered for introduction.

The "Riverside Literature Series" by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., in the language of the newly founded country paper, fills a long felt want. Whatever this press sends outhowever cheap-is in good type and on good paper, so that the eyes do not suffer from its use. The particular book that called forth these remarks is "Rip Van Winkle and other American essays from the Sketch Book," price 15 cents. is the very thing for use in the study of American literature, either in high school or college

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"Swayed by Passion, a story of the Old South," by Will T. Hale, is another "book for the hour" by a southern author. It is novelette of 12 chapters, some of which, from the standpoint of the critic, are worthy of a longer life than the book is likely to have. There are touches in the painting, both of landscape and character, that indicate the brush of the artist; but the painter is apt to dash from one of these exquisite touches into a sweep of flashy exaggeration. Take as an ample, these words uttered by Douglas Vayne, the hero: "Unutterably horrible is the face of a soulless woman; a mansion deserted, out of the windows of which beautiful and hapyy faces peer no more; a cloudy day, where only the hard dull light falls, sombre, cheerless, chilly! But thank God, there are pure women on this earth;-women whom men could no more deflour than satan could reach an impious

hand to paradise and shatter the throne of the Almighty; women, whose chasity visiting angels might pause in their journey to admire and compliment. Mr. Hale is a man of noble ambitions and lofty sentiment. He has written, before this venture, for newspapers and magazines some verses, sketches and stories of real merit; and his friends confidently expect much more from him. Unfortunately he has allowed some phraseology of his earlier writing to become so characteristic as to be known as mannerisms, and these injure his best work In the paragraph quoted from his latest work this influence has marred an otherwise strong expression of a worthy thought The story is well laid in the valley of Louisana and the mountains of Tennessee above Sparta.

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The most attractive profession now open to the young men and women of the South is Teaching, and the best equipped institution for the professional education of teachers, is the Peabody Normal College, of Nashville, Tenn.

In addition to the most thorough academic training, students receive a systematic course of instruction in the theory, history and art of education.

Instruction and the use of text-books are free. The only college charge is an incidental fee of $6 a year. A student's necessary expenses range from $130 to $175 a year. Table board can be obtainee for $10 a calendar month, and furnished rooms in Lindsley Hall for $2.25 a month.

The course of study leads in succession to the degrees of Licentiate of Instruction, Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts.

The Peabody Normal College is a National, not a local, institution. It offers its advantages to the young men and women of the entire South.

The Peabody Board of Trust has endowed one hundred and fourteen scholarships, worth $200 a year each, and good for two years, These scholarships are awarded on competitive examination. During the current year the membership of the College has increased 60 per cent. The enrollment from Tennessee has risen from 69 to 151.

The next session will open on October 1, 1890.
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