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THE FUTURE 
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A figure wandors through my dreams 
And wears a veil upon its face, 
Still bending to my breast it seem*. 
Yet ever turns from my embrace. 
And sometimes, passing from my sight, 
It lifts the veil as It departs. 
And eyes flash out with such a light 
As never dawned on waiting Hearts. 
There is no need of sound or spoooh, 
Or toiling through the troubled years. 
The rapture of that smile can teaoh 
More than a century of tears. 
And this 1 know, If it could move 
Out of my dremns Into my days. 
One service of unbroken love 
Should till and crown m.v lifts with praise. 
hove with no double nml no demn nds, 
i'ut generous »s n southern June,— 
Vast, •rpt lierhood of hearts and hands, 
Choir r a world in perfect tone : 
No shallot sunset lllms to gild 
Far summits which we darts not, climb, 
But eoasL'ltsKtt charms of hope f til Piled, 
Milking a miracle of time. 
How sure, how culm the picture seems ! 
How near It cornea, beheld, possessed ! 
It is not only In my dreams 
I feel that touch upon my breast. 
It thrills me through the barren day, 
It holds iu*> In the heart of strife; 
No phantom grasp that melts away, 
It seems—It la—the touoli of life! 
We look into the heart, of flowers 
And wonder whence their bloom can rise 
The secret hope of human hours 
Is hidden deeper from our eyes. 
In helpless tracts of wind and rain 
The work goes on without, a sound: 
And while you worn your weak In vain,” 
The flower Is growing underground. 
We know tlio lesson ; but a cry, 
Bitter and vast. is Ln our ears; 
One life of fruitless misery 
Shakos all our wisdom into tears. 
Thronged by the Clamorous griefs that say, 
“ Behold what lx, forget what seems.” 
I can but answer, “ Wellndny; 
There i* that figure in my dreams.” 
MUSIC IN SCHOOLS 
We have long believed that .music 
should be as regularly taught in mr pub¬ 
lic schools as any other branch of learn¬ 
ing. The idea has not been popular. 
Good conservative people, with no estheti- 
cal tastes whatever, have decried it, and 
have done their utmost to keep it in dis¬ 
repute. And yet, in spite of all opposition 
and ridicule, it has grown in general favor; 
and now the sweet influence of song is felt 
in many schools, and is practically helping 
on the reform. 
Here in New York City music has been 
taught in the public schools, and with suc¬ 
cess. Its introduction was long delayed. 
The good conservative and non-musical peo¬ 
ple were aided in their opposition to it by 
the Society of Friends, to whom our free sys¬ 
tem of education owes much, and who are 
opposed to music on principle. Though vo¬ 
cal music wtts introduced into one of the 
primary departments in 1830 , and was well 
received, it was not generally adopted until 
nearly twenty years later. But it became 
popular then; is now taught in all the de¬ 
partments by experienced teachers; and 
forms a part of the regular morning exer¬ 
cise. Good testimony says: — “Its effects 
have been most beneficial; the taste of the 
pupils has been cultivated, the schools made 
more attractive, and the discipline much 
bettered.” 
Outside New York, wherever the experi¬ 
ment. has been made, we believe it has uni¬ 
formly succeeded. There is no reason why 
vocal music may not be as successfully taught 
in district schools in rural sections, as in the 
public schools of the cities. Country school 
teachers tire generally sufficiently versed in 
music, to teach if to their pupils, an hour, 
say, twice or three times a week; and such 
as are not so versed should at once inform 
themselves. We have urged, heretofore, 
that, a fair knowledge of music should be 
considered a requisite in candidates for 
teachers’ certificates; and we arc more than 
ever convinced that this requisite should be 
insisted upon by Commissioners. A daily 
exercise in singing will do much to enliven 
the routine of study and recitation, and can 
but have a highly beneficial effect. 
They have established in Norway and 
Sweden schools for adults, similar to those 
existing in Denmark, and in these vocal 
music h one of the regular studies. If music 
is good for grown students, it surely must be 
conceded of value for the children. They 
need something that is full of life and enthu¬ 
siasm, sandwiched in bet ween what to them 
are often hard, dry tasks. An occasional 
song will add a zest to study,—will brighten 
up dull eyes and minds,—will enceurage 
both teacher and scholars. 
terries far 
A DOUBLE CUBE, 
OR, THE WONDERFUL CHERRY TREE 
ADAPTED FROM THE GERMAN 
BY MRS. E. F. ELLET. 
SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS. 
Alpine scenery, even in picture, possesses 
a strangely powerful influence over the lover 
of Nature. There is about it a dissonance 
of harmony,—a grand grouping of rough, 
craggy details,—that makes itself felt, and 
impresses one as simple, perfect harmonious¬ 
ness never can. The above engraving will 
explain our meaning better than words, and 
will suggest more than we have room to 
speak of. It has in it both the grandeur, 
the sublimity of snow-clad mountain-peaks, 
and the sweet though common-place poetiy 
of the humble shepherd’s life, that the Alpine 
horn seems to echo wherever heard; and is 
a fitting companion to the Swiss study given 
in the Rural a few weeks since. Some pic¬ 
tures please by their beauty, others profit by 
suggestiveness. The latter are of most worth. 
Grammar ami Arithmetic* 
In whatever you may teach, you will he 
greatly helped by an acquaintance with dif¬ 
ferent text-books, instead of following any 
one of them. Go over the lessons you 
assign very carefully, and be yourself 
thoroughly prepared for your class,— so 
well prepared that you can conduct the 
recitation without the aid of a book. You 
rvill thus lie able to pay all your attention to 
your pupils. 
Give short lessons, and insist upon good 
lessons; for is better to build slow and sure, 
with an ample base, than to erect a showy 
building upon a defective foundation. Let 
reviews be of frequent occurrence. Take 
pains to illustrate what you teach, in every 
way that may fix the ideas in the mind. Do 
not he content with teaching simply the 
word* of the hook, but bring all the interest 
you can into lessons that may otherwise be 
dull. 
flow easy it is, when you speak of the 
Arabic notation, to tell of the wild men of 
the. desert, and their way of life; to describe 
the Romans, when you teach their system 
of notation. A collection of coins will help 
you as you talk of currency, and when you 
teach compound numbers, use measures and 
weights, making the newly acquired knowl¬ 
edge available at once. 
Children often fall into the error of sup¬ 
posing that much of what they learn will 
never be of use to them. You break down 
this error when you set the boy to measuring 
a room and ask him how much it will cost 
to plaster it, or how many yards of carpet 
are required for the floor; and to this end it 
is a good plan to give frequent practical 
examples, and insist that they shall be solved 
unaided. In teaching written arithmetic do 
not forget mental arithmetic. It is of the 
utmost importance that boys and girls shall 
become ready reckoners. 
Insist upon great neatness in all black¬ 
board exercises, remembering that habits ac¬ 
quired in youth are not easily dropped. 
Teach them to explain the solution of prob¬ 
lems in a few, well-chosen words, and here, 
as elsewhere, to avoid grammatical errors. 
The first half dozen lessons in grammar 
may bo given orally with the beat success. 
Talk about the origin of language, explain 
natural and artificial language, and as you 
go on, break up the hard words that arc 
wont to bewilder the learner. Borne defini¬ 
tions you can correct a little if you see the 
need, making them a great deal more con¬ 
cise. Be very patient with your young 
grammarians; for they have need of great 
forbearance, being usually put to the study 
before they are really fit for it. Give them 
examples of false syntax for correction, and 
sometimes make it a part of the lesson that 
they shall bring a specified number of gram¬ 
matical errors. In this way mistakes will 
grow less and less frequent in school, and 
the pupils become habituated to correct ex¬ 
pression of their ideas. La Feuille. 
Francisco anrl Ban Diego. The report, contains 
much valuable information In regard to the 
country between the Kfo Grando and Colorado 
rivers, and also between the Colorado and the 
Paoillo Ocean, to which arc added extracts from 
Dr. Parry's geological report on the same re¬ 
gion, and accurate maps. 
e llriuttotr 
NEW PUBLICATIONS, 
My Recollection * of I,ora Myron. (New 
York: Harper & Brothers.) This is a reproduc¬ 
tion, from the English translation, of the long 
promised work of the somewhat, celebrated 
Countess Gtjiccrorr. While it puts forward con¬ 
siderable that is new about Byron, and much 
that is interesting, it, is so illy arranged that tho 
effect is sadly marred. Perhaps criticism is dis¬ 
armed here, however, for the author disclaims 
any attempt at methodical biography, aiming, 
chiefly, to present an analysis of the poet’s mind 
and character. Yet wo think her analysis would 
impress more favorably did it wear tho sem¬ 
blance of logic. According to tho Countess' 
recollections, and those of other eye-witnesses 
of his life whoso testimony she adduces, Byron 
was, and ever has been, greatly misjudged. At 
heart ho was very liko a saint, and not the 
Chu.dk Harold or Don Juan which he was 
commonly believed to he. All readers of his 
works will peruse this volume with interest. 
Saint ./lug-uxftne^ Florida. (New York: G. 
P. Putnam Sc Bon.) —“An English Visitor” at 
Saint Augustirio gives, in this square liimo. of 
sixty-three pages, a pleasant sketch of the oldest 
town in North America, together with some 
general notes for Northern tourists on the St. 
John's river, which will interest the many now 
looking toward Florida its a Winter resort. The 
writer betrays gross ignorance of the United 
States in general, while writing of tho quaint 
old town in particular; but. we can pardon this. 
*• fjot-r <fte IjiUle^l.ort .tie f.oner.tt (Boston: 
Fields, Osgood & Co.) - Another of the Household 
Edition of Ueadk's novels is hero given. It Is of 
the lighter order, remarkable chiefly for its 
limning of feminine character,—or two or three 
peculiar phases of it. 
TEACH GOOD ENGLISH. 
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In conversation with your pupils, teacher, 
be careful,— more careful than you are wont 
to be,— to make use of good, pure English. 
Bo will you impress its usage upon them. 
There is a deal of questionable language 
employed, by those who are, or ought to be, 
educated to a correct standard. It is em¬ 
ployed mainly through carelessness, at first, 
and then from habit. Youthful, imitative 
tongues catch it up, and the habit of one is 
made the habit of a score, and is finally mul¬ 
tiplied ad infinitum. Phrases of speech are 
strangely contagious; and this contagion 
spreads incorrect language and uncouth 
degrading “ slang ” throughout schools and 
communities all over the world. If some 
thoughtful, pure-spoken ones do not give out 
a corrective, good English will be found only 
in print. 
.ttlxxourt Fiitomotng'lcal Report. We have 
received from Charles V. Hr let, State Entomo¬ 
logist of Missouri, his First Annual Report on 
Noxious, Beneficial and Other 1 u sects of the 
State of Missouri — a volume of near two hun¬ 
dred pages. Mr. Riley is one of the most inde¬ 
fatigable workers and enthusiastic entomolog¬ 
ists we know of. This volume is an illustration 
of his energy and zeal, and of the good sense of 
the people of Missouri in calling him to the 
work ho la doing, and an earnest, wo think, of 
tho high position Missouri holds, and la to oc¬ 
cupy, because of its fostering care of all indus¬ 
tries and encouragement of all measures look¬ 
ing to the highest development of its resources. 
We most heartily congratulate Mr. JlCLKY upon 
this first, report. Every Missouri farmer and 
fruit grower should obtain a copy of it. 
Notice. I li'.mu.-paper, pp. an.i.J New York: D. Ap¬ 
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The Putvct crus or Psychology. Part I. Tho 
Data, of Psychology. By Herbert Spencer. 
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St. Co. 
A nNk or GEl kHST lEN. A Romance. By Sir W al¬ 
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York; D. Appleton & Co. 
Tu k Danish Islands: An? wo Bound in Honor to 
Fay for Thorn. By .Iambs P auto. v. (syo. paper, 
pp. Til.] Boston : Fields, Osgood & Co. 
The Book Buyer. A Summary of American and 
Foreign Literature. With Supplement, March, 
1809. Now York Charles Scribner A Co. 
Putnam’s Monthly Maoazimi of Literature, 
Scik.nch, Art ami National Intkrebtm. April, 
1809. Now York : G. I*. Putnam A Sou. 
The Atlantic Monthly, Devoted to Literature, 
Science, Art and Politics, April, 1809. Boston: 
Field:*, Osgood A Co. 
Harpers new Monthly Magazine. April, 1809, 
New York: Harper & Bros, 
Report Of Survey* .jrroxx the f'ontinent .— 
(Philadelphia: W. B, Silheimer.)—Tho surveys 
here reported were made under the direction of 
General W. W. Wright, in isoy v,s, for a route 
extending the Kansas Pacific Railway to $uu 
Educate the heart as well as the head, 
