SEEING BY AID OF THE LENS. 



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Africa, finds that his happiness and satis- 

 faction do not depend on such things. 

 Besides the many interesting objects 

 that he can see with the unaided eve, he 



nre to the boy is now so associated with 

 what is repugnant that it loses much of 

 its charm and of its beneficial results. 

 I sincerely hope that the microscopes 



AN OPEN GIZZAKD OF CRICKET. 

 To show grinding "teeth." 

 Well mounted by Miss M. A. Booth. 



can, by the outlay of a few dollars for 

 a microscope, discover a strange and 



beautiful world at home. 



And there is one class in which I am 

 especially interested, and in whom I place 

 much hope. They are the boys. I 

 have taught them for years. 1 was one 

 of them myself for a long time, so that 

 1 can speak with some authority. I 

 know that they are much interested in 

 nature, and what can show them so 

 much nature in so little space as the 

 microscope. 



Microscopes have been introduced into 

 thousands of schools I know, but the 

 Moloch of examinations has been intro- 

 duced also, and what is 'naturally a pleas- 



in the schoolhouses will be accessible to 

 the boys out of school hours, and that 

 the school hours will become fewer, the 

 vacations more numerous and longer, 

 as the young people learn to employ them 

 better, and that the pupils will be al- 

 lowed to do something in school because 

 of their interest in it, something which 

 has not as its final goal an unattractive 

 written examination. I hope, too, that 

 they will get the habit of buying micro- 

 scopes as well as skates, sleds or bicy- 

 cles. If this is done the coming genera- 

 tion will see the revival of the good old 

 microscopy, and the revivication of the 

 good old microscopist. 



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IlTERARY 



BIOGRAPHICAL 



To the; Top of the Continent. By 



Dr. Frederick A. Cook. New York 



City: Doubleday, Page & Company. 



This important book not only chron- 



icles the first conquering of the highest 

 mountain peak on this continent, but it 

 tells of a new gold field 40 miles square, 

 which will probably be the objective 



