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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



the United States Bureau of Education as 

 one of its " Circulars of Information," among 

 which it forms one of a series of " Contri- 

 butions to American Educational History," 

 under the editorial direction of Herbert B. 

 Adams. Iu this essay, as Commissioner 

 Dawson remarks, the writer has traced the 

 genesis and development of education in 

 North Carolina from the first settlement of 

 that State to the present time ; and for that 

 purpose has examined the colonial records, 

 the early laws of the State, works in public 

 libraries, and private collections and per- 

 sonal correspondence, by the aid of which he 

 has made a very satisfactory presentment of 

 the story. While the history of primary 

 and secondary instruction has not been neg- 

 lected, the higher education has been prin- 

 cipally treated in the sketch. The influence 

 of certain classes of immigration and of 

 institutions outside of the State is shown. 

 Facts concerning noted educators are brought 

 out. A full account of the University of 

 North Carolina and of its influence on the 

 South is given. In the picture of the pres- 

 ent status of education in the State, we have 

 been particularly interested in the story of 

 what has been achieved since the war, and 

 with the accounts of education among the 

 colored people. One flourishing institution, 

 Livingstone College, of the African Methodist 

 Episcopal Zion Church, is wholly the product 

 of their effort. The views of buildings, which 

 are prominent in the volume, help illus- 

 trate how fast a hold the architectural idea 

 still keeps in education. 



Another of the Educational Bureau's cir- 

 culars comprises a paper on Industrial Edu- 

 cation in the South, by the Rev. A. D. Mayo. 

 A general discussion of the conditions of 

 American and Southern life leads to a con- 

 sideration of the need of industrial train- 

 ing to improve those conditions, not only in 

 the shops and on the farms, but in the home 

 too ; and to a review of the provisions that 

 have been made to furnish such training. 

 These seem to be good, so far as they have 

 been made, to be distributed with fair even- 

 ness among the States, and to be afforded 

 in such institutions as Tulane University and 

 Washington University on a liberal and effi- 

 cient scale. 



Included in the Proceedings of the De- 

 partment of Superintendence of the National 



Educational Association, at its meeting in 

 Washington in February, 1888, are papers 

 and discussions on " Manual Training in 

 the Public Schools," "County Institutes," 

 "Elocution," "Qualifications of Teachers," 

 " Normal Schools," " Moral Training," " Can 

 School Programmes be shortened and en- 

 riched?" "Alaska," the relations of "Su- 

 perintendents and Teachers," and " National 

 Aid to Education." 



The Massachusetts Society for promoting 

 Good Citizenship (Boston) issues as its first 

 " Circular of Information " a report of the 

 Committee upon Courses of Reading and Study 

 on Works on Civil Government. The report 

 contains a list of text-books recommended 

 for schools, each accompanied by a descrip- 

 tive and critical note, showing the scope and 

 value of the book ; a list of other text-books, 

 with notes ; a list of brief commentaries and 

 similar books recommended; and a list of 

 less valuable or more bulky commentaries 

 and books of reference. 



The fifth of the " Monographs " of the 

 Industrial Education Association consists of 

 a study, in the history of pedagogy, of As- 

 pects of Education, by Mr. Oscar Browning. 

 The author reviews the various shapes in 

 which interest in education has manifested 

 itself since the middle ages, with the factors 

 which have influenced or worked to change 

 them — ending with the present aspect, which 

 he seems to regard as largely the following 

 of Dr. Arnold's labors at Rugby School. 



Hints for Teachers of Physiology, by H. 

 P. Bowditch, M. D. (D. C. Heath & Co.), is 

 No. 14 of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History's " Guides for ScienceTeaching." It 

 furnishes suggestions for supplementing the 

 instructions of the text-books by means of 

 simple observations and experiments on liv- 

 ing bodies or on organic material, for which 

 teachers will need no other apparatus than 

 is within their easy reach. Price, 25 cents. 



The Training of Nurses, an address be- 

 fore the Michigan State Board of Charities 

 and Correction, by Dr. Hal C. Wyman, gives a 

 clear picture of what the ideal nurse should 

 be, and of the manner in which she should 

 perform the duties of her office. 



The Seaside and Wayside series of read- 

 ers, by Julia McNair Wright, has reached 

 its third number (Heath, 55 cents). The 

 present volume is similar in character to the 



