284 REVIEWS — JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, MONTREAL. 



Canada seek to set forth in the teaching they inaugurate. The 

 " Celestial Crown" which he who is engrossed by the raking together 

 of the world's dust and straws cannot discern, is not indeed mere 

 intellectual culture, though that unquestionably has an elevating 

 tendency. It raises men's thoughts, uplifts their aspirations, and 

 precludes in some degree the all absorbing sovereignty of mammon's 

 worship. 



The motto of the English Journal is : " Labor vincit omnia" 

 that of the French Journal : " Rendre le Peu/ple meilleur" but both 

 exhibit their chosen cri de guerre encircled by the Canadian emblems 

 of the beaver and the maple- wreath ; within which, and resting 

 against the symbol of our common christian faith, is the open 

 volume, inscribed : " religion, science, liberty, progress," as the 

 means which — -notwithstanding the differences separating those of 

 English and Erench language and origin from each other, — they 

 thus acknowledge to be, each and all of them, indispensable as the 

 allies and coadjutors of national education, by which all difficulties 

 must be overcome, and all obstacles removed which would hinder the 

 making of the people better. That these, the true elements of a 

 neople's greatness and prosperity, may advance simultaneously as 

 the fruits of the great blessing of a wise national education through- 

 out every section of our Province, is, and must be the earnest desire 

 of every one who believes that the " people are destroyed for lack of 

 knowledge;" but that " righteousness exalteth a nation, and sin is a 

 reproach to any people." 



"We would gladly see both of these Journals obtain an extensive 

 circulation in our upper section of the province. The more we learn 

 to take an interest in all which pertains to the welfare of each other, 

 the better will it be for our common country and the success of all 

 in the progress of which we have a mutual advantage to reap, and 

 we gladly cherish the belief that the common ground on which we 

 can meet and exchange sympathy is neither narrow nor straightened. 

 Views of the Jacques Cartier Normal School, illustrate the first 

 number of the one Journal, and of the McGill Normal School the 

 other. Already papers are introduced as the first of a series, on 

 questions interesting to all engaged in education ; while another 

 series devoted to k ' the Colleges of Canada," begins with the history 

 of Laval University, and with a view of the extensive but singularly 

 unacademic looking range of buildings which furnish accomodation 

 for that Institution at Quebec. This will be followed by similar 

 notices of the other educational institutions of the Province, and is 



