Januabt 21, 1887.] 



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general session, each supposed to be applicable to 

 the needs of the common schools of Indiana. The 

 following papers were read before the high school 

 section : * Mathematics as a factor in mind-develop- 

 ment,' by J. A. Camagey ; ' Limitations in peda- 

 gogical psychology,' by J. R. Hart ; ' Psychology 

 in its relation to English literature,' by A. M. 

 Huycke ; ' Some observations on teaching Latin 

 in the high school,' by George W. Hafford ; and 

 ' Zoology in the high school,' by Prof. O. P. 

 Jenkins. 



— The Medical tiews contains an interesting 

 statement of the books, pamphlets, etc., in the 

 principal medical libraries of the country. It is 

 as follows : — 



Library of surgeou-general's office 



Library of College of physicians of Phila. . . 

 Library of New York academy of medicine. 



Boston medical library 



Library of the New York hospital 



Library of the Pennsylvania hospital 



Vol- 

 umes. 



76,700 

 34,234 

 20,000 

 16,374 

 15,860 

 15,000 



Pam- 

 phlets. 



106,600 

 16,026 

 12,000 

 13,364 



— The Bell and Lancaster systems of education, 

 or at least so much of them as relates to the 

 employment of monitors or pupil teachers, have 

 been considered dead. But the London Journal 

 of education announces that the Bradford (Eng- 

 land) school board has adopted a plan according to 

 which pupil teachers are retained, but on the half- 

 time system, and they are placed during the second 

 half of the time in a central class for instruction 

 under skUled teachers. If pupil teachers are to 

 be retained at all, some such basis as this is the 

 only one on which it should be done. 



— Pi-of. John W. Burgess of Columbia college 

 is to deliver a course of ten lectures at Andover 

 theological seminary during the spring, on ' The 

 influence of the church in modern European 

 history.' 



— AfrikaniscTie nachrichten is the title of a new 

 monthly, which is published at the press of the 

 geographical institute in Weimar. It is devoted 

 to the extension of information concerning Africa, 

 and will pay especial attention to German inter- 

 ests in that continent. 



— The emigration at the German seaports and 

 Antwerp amounted, during the first six months of 

 1886, to 39,477 persons. For the same period in 

 1881 it was 126,139 ; in 1882, 117,801 ; in 1883, 

 94,145 ; in 1884, 90,301 ; in 1885, 63,345. 



— An excellent idea may be obtained of what 

 subjects are of greatest contemporary interest to 

 the leading universities abroad by an inspection of 

 the list of lecture-subjects announced. For the 



Hilary term at Oxford, for example, the follow- 

 ing are some of the courses announced by the 

 leading professors : Professor Bryce announces a 

 course on some leading principles and maxims of 

 Roman law, with illustrations from the Digest ; 

 Professor Dicey, on the law of contract, and on 

 succession to real and personal property ; Profes- 

 sor Burdon-Sanderson, on the physiology of the 

 nervous system ; Professor Sylvester, on surfaces 

 of the second order ; Professor Jowett, on the his- 

 tory of Greek philosophy from Thales to Socrates ; 

 Professor Nettles hip, on the history of Latin lit- 

 erature from the earliest times to the end of 

 the second century B.C. ; Professor Wallace, 

 on moral psychology, and on the relations of 

 ethics and aesthetics in German philosophy from 

 Kant to Schopenhauer ; Professor Fowler, on the 

 Aristotelian logic, on the methods of the various 

 sciences, and on the principles of legal and histori- 

 cal evidence ; Prof. Bonamy Price, on free trade 

 and fair trade ; Professor Palgrave, on the sculp- 

 turesque and pictorial styles in ancient and 

 modern poetry. 



— Mr. Bardeen of Syracuse announces for sale 

 an uncut copy of the ' Orbis ptctus ' of Comenius. 

 Only one other copy is known to be in America. 



— Prof. Max Miiller is to lecture at Oxford 

 during the present term on the Vedas. 



— We learn from the Athenaeum that Professor 

 Bain is about to publish a new and enlarged edi- 

 tion of his ' Rhetoric and composition.' In this 

 edition the author proposes to omit a number of 

 the topics comprised in the existing M'ork, and to 

 bestow a greatly expanded treatment upon points 

 selected on account of their importance as well 

 as their suitability to pupils of a certain standing. 

 In part i. the subjects are, order of words, num- 

 ber of words, the sentence, the paragraph, figures 

 of speech, and intellectual qualities of style. 

 The second part, which will speedily follow, is 

 exclusively devoted to the emotional qualities of 

 style, and is meant to be an introduction to the 

 higher criticism of poetical literature. The first 

 part will be accompanied by a small volume en- 

 titled ' On teaching English,' which is partly con- 

 troversial and partly didactic. It discusses the 

 various methods of English teaching at present 

 in use, and exemplifies the rhetorical method in 

 a series of select lessons. It also handles at some 

 length the vexed question of the definition of 

 poetry. 



— Captain Gore of the royal engineers is to 

 construct the new map of Afghanistan from the 

 surveys, reconnaissances, and explorations made 

 by the Afghan boundary commission. 



