396 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



though the statistics are far from complete, as many counties failed to report fully. 

 There were 18,239 i^oi'e pupils in attendance at the public schools, which were 

 more numerous by 137, the buildings used for school purposes by 328, and addi- 

 tional sittings by 11,573. Teachers numbered 1.306 more; receipts increased 

 $257,016 and expenditures $601,046. An apparent decrease in attendance of 

 colored youth at school is explained by the fact that thirty-two counties did not 

 report. Eighteen fewer schools for colored youth are mentioned." 



Also that, — " Very gratifying progress in school work is apparent in Kansas 

 in 1881-82. Increases are noted in children of school age, in enrollment, in 

 average daily attendance, in school districts organized and reporting, in districts 

 with three months' school or more, in the average length of school term, and in 

 the number of schoal-rooms. The women teaching received $1.46 more monthly 

 pay on an average. The receipts and expenditures of public schools increased,, 

 the former by $228,458 and the latter by $197,839. An increase of $32,109 in 

 the amount of available school fund was also reported." 



The Commissioner recommends among other things : 



1. That the office of superintendent of public instruction for each Territory 

 be created, to be filled by appointment by the President, the compensation to be 

 fixed and paid as in the case of other federal appointees for the Territories. 



2. That the whole or a portion of the net proceed^ arising from the sale of 

 public lands be set aside as a special fund, the interest of said fund to be divided 

 annually pro rata among the several States and Territories and the District of 

 Columbia, under such provisions in regard to amount, allotment, expenditure, 

 and supervision as Congress in its wisdom may deem fit and proper. 



3. The enactment of a law requiring that all facts in regard to national aid 

 to education and all facts in regard to education in the Territories and the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia necessary for the information of Congress be presented through 

 this office. 



4. An increase of the permanent force of the office. The experience of the 

 office indicates clearly that the collection of educational information and pubUca- 

 tion of the same, as required by the law regulating it, cannot be properly done 

 with the present limited clerical force. 



History of the Republican Pariy: By Frank A. Flower. (Illustrated.) 

 Octavo, pp. 623. Union Publishing Co., Springfield, 111. P'or sale by M. 

 H. Dickinson. 



This work is essentially historical, and, while necessarily partisan in its char- 

 acter, is accurate and authentic. It commences with the origin of the Republi- 

 can party and traces its growth, with biographical sketches of its early leaders, 

 from its inception down to the present day. Ir -ddition to this it is a compen- 

 dium of information upon all political movements with the past. quarter of a cen- 

 tury, including the saUent features of the various campaigns, accounts of Repub- 



