in ilcbutocx. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The .tmerlcan Woman** Home. (NOW 
York: J. B. Ford & Co.)—Dedicated to the wo¬ 
men of America, this goodly volume or nearly 
five hundred pages, the joint production Of Miss 
Catharine E. Beecher and Mrs. Harriet 
Beecher Stowe, has the best Interests of all 
womankind in view, and should find thoughtful 
students in every home. Its numerous essays 
upon all topics relating to Domestic Economy, 
in its widest application, are plain, practical, and 
come right home to the every-day lifoatld duties 
Of housekeepers. What a Christian home should 
be they forcibly depict. There has been much 
theoretical generalizing touching tills, but we 
have here more than theory. As housewifery is 
cmiuentiy practical, it is here discussed in a 
practical manner. We regard the book ns al¬ 
most invaluable to woman, and believe that its 
Careful conning by the sex would conduce 
greatly to their comfort and happiness. And we 
advise every man having a wi fe or sister to buy 
it, when the Subscription Agent calls, and pre¬ 
sent it to her. 
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•ttiam flute, —Two new editions of Georoe 
Ej.iot’r novels are being brought out by two of 
our most, prominent publishing houses, and both 
begin with this admirably wrought out story. 
The edition of Fields, Osgood & Co. is author¬ 
ized by an autograph letter from the authoress, 
is uniform with their “ Household Edition ” of 
Thackeray, is neat and cheap; that of the 
Harpers is printed from huger type, with only 
one column to the page, is illustrated, is also 
neat and cheaper. Both editions are fairly 
bound in cloth. Gbohok Eliot unquestionably 
stands first, among English female novelists. 
Her delineations of character have the faithful¬ 
ness of nature, and posse-s peculiar charms. 
Then, while she is strong even to masculinity, 
slit* is never coarse, and her portraitures never 
savor of that low, brutal element which so 
degrades many contemporary English produc¬ 
tions. 
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The literature of the Jlge of T.lleaheth. 
(Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co.) —As an essayist 
Edwin P. WiureLJCdeservedly ranks first among; 
American writers. He is clear, crisp, logical, 
inoisf ve in si yJe, often eloquent. Whatever sub¬ 
ject he takes up ho Infuses with a new life. He 
is not. content with a vague outline in his pic¬ 
ture, but. adds all those lit tle touches of charac¬ 
ter which bring it out strong ami vivid. All his 
best characteristics arc manifested In this de¬ 
lightful volume, made up of lectures originally 
delivered beforo the Lowell Institute in 185!). 
Twenty-seven writers of the Elizabethan Age 
an* treated of, most, prominence being given to 
Si t a us t* rare and U won, who tiro complimented 
Willi two essays each. The rare delicacy of an¬ 
alysis, and keen appreciation which shine out 
all through the whole scries, render the volume 
more Interesting than a romance. 
Vinter the Crow*. (Boston : Henry Hoyt.)—A 
beautirul title for a beautiful little volume. It 
is designed as a companion for devout Christians 
inhours of meditation and affliction, and is com¬ 
posed of about One hundred and thirty poems by 
the best poets, appropriately arranged under two 
sub-titles—"‘The Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ 
and its Divine Power,” and “The Cross of the 
Disciple and its Discipline." The poems are 
mainly well selected, and cannot be too often 
read. The compiler was hardly careful enough 
in tho matter of credit, however; several poems 
are utiered!ted, the authorship of which is well 
known, and Phoebe Carey's tender “ Nearer 
Homo" Is credited to her sister Alice. 
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Sermon». (Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co.)— 
The Kev. Stopford A. Brooke is Houorary 
Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, though we 
do not know if this be saying anything note¬ 
worthy of him, and hi this volume are twenty- 
five of the sermons, wo suppose the best, which 
he has preached in St. James’ Chapel, London. 
They are excellent, after a manner of excellence 
which is perhaps not the truost, but which im¬ 
presses men much; and their style is such as to 
render them attractive reading even to many 
who seldom peruse such literature. 
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Hitchcock ’» -Vfir Monthly Mag-aslne. (New 
York: Benj. \Y. Hitchcock.)—If the excellent 
taste which characterizes this first issue of a new 
musical periodical is but a prelude of what is to 
come, then its publisher may rest assured of 
success, Handsomely illustrated, beautifully 
printed, and well odited, these Blxteen pages of 
literature especially interesting to lovers of 
music,—such us biographies of Malfbuan and 
Leonardo Da Vinci,— and vocal and instru¬ 
mental music, are very attractive and valuable. 
The f'etl lifted. (Boston: Henry Hoyt.)— 
The sub-title of this tastefully gotten up little 
book is a good index of its character,—“ The 
Romance and Reality of Convent Life.” As a 
literary production it is open to severe criticism; 
as an expose of conventual experience it is 
evidently truthful, and we commend it to tho 
perusal of all who have daughters iu convents, 
or who may themselves be meditating an en¬ 
trance within monastic walls. Its pictures of 
life there are heart-rending. 
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The Improdeatore. (New York: Hurd & 
Houghton.)— Hans Christian Andersen has 
long been favorably known In America as a story 
teller for children. He is hardly loss charming < 
when he addresses himself to an adult audience. 
The first complete English edition of his works 
is now to be given out, from the Riverside press, 
and the present volume is the iuii iai of tho series. 
It is a strange, poetical tale, translated by Mary 
Ho Witt, The book is elegant ly printed and 
bound. 
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Catherine. (Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co.)— l 
In a cheap form we are here presented with one i 
of Thackeray’S earlier stories, written to coun¬ 
teract the injurious influence of certain popu- ' 
lar fictions which made heroes of highwaymen ' 
and burglars, and thus created a false sympathy 1 
for the vicious and criminal. ] 
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Our Y'ouner Polk*. (Boston: Fields, Osgood - 
k Co.)—The October number of this established 
fa void to is as full of good things Tor young peo- J 
pie as the most exacting could desire. j 
flftmratiomil. 
FREE SCHOOLS IN TENNESSEE. 
In a circular issued by John Eaton, Jr., 
Supcriutcndcnf of Public Instruction in Ten¬ 
nessee, we find some interesting facts in 
relation to the workings of tho Free School 
System in that State. 
Free Schools were established in Tennessee 
by legislative enactment had in March 1867; 
TEACHING MADE EASY. 
A few days since, at a meeting of the 
members of the “Woman’s Bureau,” Miss 
Susan B. Anthony remarked that her de~ 
but as a public speaker was made seventeen 
years ago, at a Teachers’ Convention in this 
State, in which the question came up; 
“ Why is it that teachers, in social position 
and influence, undcr-rank divines, lawyers 
and doctors?” Being a teacher, she very 
naturally wished to defend the profession, 
and to claim for it a place among the learned, 
and then she asked to be heard. But, ho\v- 
Jiadimtion but little more is required than 
a general knowledge of the branches in the 
course. 
Difficulties may be avoided, if we will 
only remember that the orders of mind are 
as various as the features and complexion 
of the human face, and yet so corre ponding 
in quality as to he as easy of das, f dealt, m 
as the different races of mankind. i Sr n is 
classification nature has set mark* u\ on the 
person that cannot be mistaken. These dis¬ 
tinctions reside, to a great extent, in the 
physical organization, and are developed in 
J- tUSMUO 
THE IjITTIAFC TRUANTS.—(flee Y>age GT0.) 
but they did not go into actual operation un¬ 
til several months later. What they accom¬ 
plished in the less than two years ending 
July 12, 1869 is not fully set forth in the cir¬ 
cular, as complete reports were not received 
from all the counties; yet sufficient is shown 
to prove Free Schools of wide benefit, and a 
great step forward in educational progress. 
In East Tennessee twenty-seven counties 
reported 1,112 schools opened, of which one 
hundred and one were colored, and 60,266 
scholars enrolled, 5,5151 being colored. Funds 
were drawn from the Slate in support of the 
schools to the amount of $152,127.62. The 
average cost of instruction per scholar was 
$2.84. Twenty-three counties reported in 
Middle Tennessee, giving a total of nine hun¬ 
dred and forty-three schools opened, about 
one-fifth colored, and' 51,688 scholars en¬ 
rolled ; funds drawn from the State, $178,- 
574.10; average cost of instruction per 
scholar, $8.54. In West Tennessee thirteen 
counties reported three hundred and seventy- 
six schools opened, only twenty colored; 
253,853 scholars enrolled; $92,619.36 drawn 
from the State; average cost per scholar for 
instruction, $4.40. 
Thus it will bo seen that in the whole 
State sixty-three counties reported, with the 
following grand total:—Number of schools 
opened, 2,431; number of scholars enrolled, 
135,732; amount of funds drawn from the. 
State, $423,5321.08; average cost of instruc¬ 
tion per scholar, $53.59. It is asserted that 
the average tuition for same term of five 
montlis in other than Free Schools is $10.96, 
proving the Free School System much the 
most economical. We have long advocated 
this system, and find in the above showing 
good evidence of its value. May it ore long 
obtain throughout the country. Popular 
education is the greatest means of national 
progress, and there should he such universal 
provision therefor as to render it free to all. 
When every child in the land can share in 
good educational advantages, there will be 
fewer jails aud poor-houses to support. 
ever much Mias Anthony’s voice may have 
done towards the proper recognition of the 
respectability of the teaching profession, she 
has not. been able to rob it of its ordinarily 
undesirable character, and, unless her success 
is greater in securing the ballot. Miss An¬ 
thony and her every scheme will be reckoned 
egregious failures. It isotlen the most vexa¬ 
tious of all drudgery and the least capable 
of evoking gratitude from tho recipients of 
its cares and annoyances. 
In the beginning, the child has to deal 
with arbitrary characters, meaningless in 
themselves, and assuredly possessed of very 
little attraction to the little learner, by virtue 
of any symmetry or comeliness as pictures. . 
Then, these characters must be compounded 
into other arbitrary characters, with no more 
meaning to the child than the first; and it 
is only when these combined characters are 
shown to give a name to some familiar ob- 
! ject, that the child can take any positive 
Interest in education. As soon as it learns 
to read, a field of inquiry is opened, it longs 
after food as naturally as does the stomach. 
It is now the teacher’s opportunity to de¬ 
velop some wisdom, to do positive good. 
The kind and quality of food adapted to the 
peculiar physical and mental organization 
of tho child, is the matter for consideration. 
Every stomach cannot, with equal or similar 
effects, receive the same food. What may 
nourish and stimulate one, may clog and even 
poison another; neither can every mind re¬ 
ceive equal benefit from the same course of 
study. It is folly to force every child 
through the same curriculum of a public ! 
school, whether or not there is mental adap¬ 
tation to all of the studies included. Every 
institution of learning can point to its dis¬ 
tinguished, in mathematics, the languages, 
or natural history; and if the history of the 
I ( lixtinr / uc $ is looked into, save in rarely ex¬ 
ceptional cases, the proficiency or excellence 
is discoverable alone in one definite branch 
of learning. It. is true there must he some 
. understanding of all to win the guerdon of 
the temperaments. As says the author of 
a Scientific Basis of Education:—“ These 
are extensively understood, having been rec¬ 
ognized by physiologists since the time of 
ITippocuates, and arc easily distinguished, 
without requiring any special education on 
the part of the observer.” 
We all know that the physical structure 
has a direct influence upon the functional 
operations* of the brain; and as in the brain 
resides the mind, thus is exhibited mental 
phenomena. The same author says:—“ Tho 
Principals of our schools could easily qualify 
themselves and divide classes into four por¬ 
tions, according to the predominance of 
the four temperaments— The Nervous, The 
Sanguine, The Bilious and tho Lymphatic, 
respotively, and such a division would be 
sufficient, for practical purposes. It would 
be more correct to discard arbitrary divisions, 
and analyze the constitution of each individ¬ 
ual as it is ‘ tempered,’ by the peculiar ad¬ 
mixture of the influence of the principal 
physiological functions of the Bystem; but 
for the purpose of a practical application to 
education, the subject must be treated in a 
more generic method ; and only what we 
know as the four leading temperaments need 
be regarded." 
But this is sufficient as a starting point and, 
as a rule, is multum in parvo. The tempera¬ 
mental classification, with due regard to the 
shades of difference in the tone and compass 
Of mind, as demonstrated by the author, 
would at least rob the teaching profession of 
its character for drudgery if not raise it to a 
level with other learned professions, and 
open a wav for something like a scientific 
system in education. 8. A. Brock. 
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Choice of Studies. —The teacher cannot 
use too much care in recommending branches 
of study, To deal wholly in a general way 
is to overlook all tastes on the part of 
scholars, and to force them often to what is 
not only distasteful, but not essential. Teach¬ 
ers cannot too closely analyze character. 
SAILING ON. 
BY A. II. LINTON. 
They snllod along a summer sen. 
Three shipwrecked sailors sore. 
With streaming eyes far off tho leo 
A-HOnreUlug for the shore; 
And on through many n cloudless day, 
O'er many u league they look their way. 
Still hopeful for the best, 
And piled their oars, or spread their sail 
When hafuty blew a. favoring gale, 
While steering towards tho West! 
Around them shone aallvory sheen 
As day hy day Had by ; 
The nights that fell so soft between 
Were gemmed in sea aud sky. 
Behind them, as tho mornings tied, 
A stream of sllvory glory led 
Afar to Eastern sun, 
But wrapt. Ill era tn its fullest blaze 
As high noon crowned the passing days 
Ere afternoons begun. 
And when their shadows lengthening fell 
Alar to eastward hack, 
A golden glory gleamed ns well 
Along the forward track. 
The how that cut tho waves before, 
And each In-dipping of an oar, 
But parted crystal light, 
That shimmering lay tnr on beyond, 
Where waves were kissed by sunshine fond 
A rosy-lipped ‘'good-night." 
The sea of life onstretches far 
This side Its lluther shore, 
Aud we Its patient sailors are, 
A-auiling evermore. 
A track of light far bunkwurd leads 
To where the shore of Youth recedes, 
Am morning fades away : 
When noontide moments wane apace 
A way of lender light wo trace 
On toward the dying day. 
When evening comes with amber (lush 
And touches wavoand sky, 
We ship our oars with silent hush, 
Nor care to question why. 
There float upon the water’s breast 
No ripples then, for all is rest. 
And being is delight; 
And in the rarest sunset glow, 
When heaven is bonding o’er us low, 
There breathes a soft “ Good-night 1” 
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'tones for iluralists. 
BETWEEN TWO PERILS ; 
IS IT LI WORTH SAVING? 
BY A. A. HOPKINS. 
[Continued from page 654, last No.] 
CHAPTER V. 
Mr. Makepeace Law.more found his cli¬ 
ent. Said client was not of tho male gender, 
as he hud given Dr. Pillhbuky to suppose 
Avas the case, but a young lady of considera- 
j ble pretension to beauty, who lived several 
| hundreds of miles away in a Southern city, 
and who was known to the few friends she 
numbered as Emily Varlent. I have noth¬ 
ing to do with her actual history, or with 
her earlier acquaintance will) Mr. Make¬ 
peace Laavmokk. I only bring her before 
the reader’s mental vision as that gentleman 
found her when to find her was his errand,— 
a young woman with much natural grace of 
manner, possessed of fine personal presence, 
more than average shrewdness, unusual tal¬ 
ent to please, little faith in the good motives 
of mankind generally, and inspiring still less 
faith, in those who studied her closely, in her 
own honesty of heart and purpose. 
She was not a bad woman, in the sense 
that some might, think; if she had been I 
Avon Id not introduce her to you at all. But 
even though this can he said in her favor, 
she was not a pleasing character to contem¬ 
plate, and were I writing only a mere fancy 
sketch, she would not figure in it to any ex¬ 
tent,, for I could fancy more agreeable per¬ 
sonages. As I am picturing real natures, 
however, such as we all have known to exist, 
I must deal Avith them as they are. 
She was a Avoman without any soul. You 
will know what I mean. She had the sem¬ 
blance of a heart, at least; she could mani¬ 
fest those little touches of feeling, when she 
pleased, that so charm men; she could he 
even very womanly, at times, in her agree¬ 
ableness, and send you away with the im¬ 
pression that here avhs much loving confi¬ 
dence blended with uncommon feminine 
strength; hut she lacked that, deep con- 
I sciousness which is womanhood’s true beauty 
and glory; all her ripples of sensibility were 
! but surface exhibitions, and if she ever put 
any heart into an experience or a purpose il 
was but, a weak heartiness, with no positive 
depth of feeling more than has a poe,.’ sen¬ 
timental fancy. 
That the life courses of two such individ¬ 
uals as Makepeace Law mo RE and Emily 
Varlent should intersect here and there, I 
regard as the best evidence within my own 
observation that wickedness is really pun¬ 
ished here on earth. They both seemed to 
be so soulless that punishment after death 
would bo expended on naught. Each w as, 
I take it, cither a foreordained or self-elected 
chastisement upon the other. Each knew 
the other, 8o there was a mutual beholding 
of untruth, of agreeable falsity 7 , of perverted 
cleverness, and this whole train of ordinarily 
unpleasant personal characteristics whenever 
they met. Yet each had for the other some 
inexplicable fascination, not strong, but 
peculiar. 
It may be that she was drawn to him be¬ 
cause in her orphanage she was lonely, and 
