"It is to be hoped that our State legislature at its coming session will make a liberal appropriation for the support of Normal Institutes in 1873. The value of these Institutes to the schools of the State is very great indeed.-HOSEA BARNS."

OSHKOSH NORMAL SCHOOL.-The Northwestern some time since chronicled 30 students in the Institute class, 120 in the Normal Department proper, and 95 in the preparatory and model classes, making a total of 245 students. A good showing for the beginning of the second year.

RIPON COLLEGE.-There are 159 students in the preparatory department, and 65 in the regular college classes.

MADISON.-The report of the Principal and Superintendent, W. H. CHASE, for the portion of the fall term ending Nov. 10, shows an improvement in the percentage of attendance and punctuality for the second month. Mr. CHASE says:

"I desire to call the attention of the parents to this report, and request that they will always assist the teachers in their efforts to secure prompt and daily attendance in the schools on the part of all connected with them. The standing of the pupils in their classes will be thereby in every way improved, and they will be able to make much more rapid progress in their several studies."

MONROE.-A marked improvement is noticed here in the punctuality and general tone of the schools, under Mr. REYNOLDS. A friendly contest is going on, in the matter of punctuality, between Monroe and Brodhead. If both should be perfect, they can be excelled nowhere.

STOCKBRIDGE.-E. H. SPRAGUE, last year at Augusta, writes us from his new field: "My school is prospering finely, and I like the place and people very much. Stockbridge is a small town, but quite rapidly growing, and bids fair to be the best town in the county. We expect to organize a normal class, and as this will be the first opportunity of the kind offered to Calumet county teachers, no doubt many will avail themselves of it."

WAUPACA. Of the new Principal here, the Republican says:

"Mr. NICHOLSON, we are glad to see, has a system of teaching, and will follow it, and the general opinion is, that our schools are in good hands, and will yield satisfactory results."

WAUZEKA.-M. E. MUMFORD, formerly Superintendent of Crawford county, is in charge of the Union School of this village.

OUT OF THE FIRE. In a recent fire at Appleton, the office of A. H. CONKEY, Esq, County and City Superintendent, was burned with its contents, including materials for his reports; but he has promptly reproduced them, and sent the report forward.

New Publications.

BOOKS.

A MANUAL OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. By JOHN S. HART, LL. D. Philadelphia: Eldredge & Brother.

This compact volume of 641 pages contains more information on the subject of which it treats than any other yet issued. Previous books have been mainly reading books or compilations of extracts. In this, much more space is devoted to literary history and criticism. The astonishing growth of American literature may be seen by comparing this volume with the author's Class Books of Poetry and Prose, issued in 1844. The important feature of this volume is that it is in some just sense of the term a text-book of American literature; not a mere reading book, but one that can be used with profit in our highest schools and colleges. Though not without faults, it is at present in advance of all others of the kind, and must give an impetus to the study-which by the way should precede that of English literature.

A MANUAL OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. By N. K. ROYSE. Philadelphia: Cowperthwait & C. 360 pp., 12 mo.

This book, appearing simultaneously with Dr. Hart's, is of quite a different character. While it contains some history and criticism of our literature, it is principally made up of selections from our more recent leading and representative authors in different departments, arranged in the order of subjects. Mr. ROYSE, who is a teacher in Cincinnati, has prepared his book with good taste

and good judgment, and we should say it would answer an excellent purpose as a preparatory manual on the subject, or for classes that can barely glance at our literature, without devoting much time to its study, which is the case with a large majority of pupils in our public schools. Many who taste here, will seek to drink more. See advertisement.

PARKER'S PHILOSOPHY. Revised and Enlarged, by GEO. W. PLYMPTON, A. M., Professor in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.

Parker's Philosophy has been long known, and was favorably received from the first. Professor Plympton has added much useful matter, and brought the subjects treated up to the present state of the science. The book is so arranged that the new editions may be used, if desired, in connection with the older one. See advertisement.

THE LAWRENCE SPEAKER. By PHILLIP LAWRENCE. Price Two Dollars. T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Publishers, Philadelphia, Pa.

"The Lawrence Speaker" is a selection of Literary Gems in Prose and Verse, designed for the use of Colleges, Schools, Seminaries, Literary Societies, and for Private Study, and is especially adapted for all persons desirous to excel in declamation and public speaking. By Philip Lawrence, Professor of Elocution, and Principal of the Institutes of Elocution in New York and Philadelphia. It contains not only the finest productions of authors known to fame, both Prose and Poetry, but also a number or Anonymous Pieces of the highest merit, as well as practical Hints and Rules to be followed by all in the study of Elocution, as regards Articulation, Modulation, Emphasis, and Delivery. It is published complete in one large volume of over 600 pages, bound in half morocco. Copies will be sent by mail, to any place, post-paid, by the publishers, on receipt of the price. Teachers, schools, etc., will be supplied at very low rates by the single copy, dozen, or hundred.

A MANUAL OF DICTATION PROBLEMS AND KEY to the Common School Arithmetic. By D. B. HAGAR, Principal of State Normal School, Salem, Mass. Philadelphia: Cowperthwait & Co.

The Manual may be used with any arithmetic, to supplement the subjects studied, to give active pupils more work to do, and for reviews and examinations, and may be had separately for 50 cents. The entire book for one dollar. Teachers will find that Mr. HAGAR understood his business, and has made a good book. See advertisement.

PERIODICALS.

ECLECTIC MAGAZINE.-The December number of the Eclectic brings to a worthy close one of the most attractive volumes of this sterling periodical. After an existence of twenty-eight years, a magazine has left but little for the critic to say of it, but we may mention among the increased attractions for the coming year that the Editorial Departments, including Literary News, home and foreign, will be fuller and more comprehensive, as the publishers state, than ever before. Increased attention will also be paid to Science, and the Editor announces that he has facilities for securing the best papers from the ablest writers in this important field. Essays, Reviews, Sketches, Serial and Short Stories, and Poetry will also receive due attention. Readers who seek real culture as well as amusement in their monthly reading should patronize the Eclectic, and the present is a favorable time to subscribe. The December number has a copious and varied table of contents, and is embellished with a portrait of the late Dr. NORMAN MCLEOD. Published by E. R. PELTON, 108 Fulton Street, New York. Terms, $5 a year; two copies, $9. Single number, 45 cents.

LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE for December marks the conclusion of the tenth volume of that periodical. Its contents are fresh, varied, attractive and informing. Indeed all its past numbers, during the year, have been a credit to our magazine literature and enterprise. The promises which are made concerning the next volume are of the most appetizing character. A new serial story by GGORGE MACDONALD, entitled "Malcolm," and esteemed the masterpiece of its author, will constitute the leading attraction in the way of fiction. A profusion of beautiful illustrations, engraved in a highly artistic manner, will imbellish each issue, and every department of the Magazine will be mananged with a sedulous care and a liberality of enterprise which can scarcely fail to secure an ample reward. Yearly subscriptions, $4.00. Single number, 35 cents. Specimen number, with premium list and club rates, mailed, post paid, to any address on receipt of ten cents. J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., publishers, 715 and 717 Market St., Philadelphia.

THE COLLEGE COURANT has recently been placed under new editorial management, and brings to the support of its columns increased aid of material from both English and Foreign resources, considerably more interesting and important to educated readers generally, than is contained in any other single publication of its kind now accessible to the American public. Its corps of contributors embraces many of the leading College Presidents and Professors, and much of the best literary talent in the country. It contains educational news from all parts of the world; full intelligence and criticisms of new books; the best items of intelligence, and discussion from English and Foreign journals, editorials on a variety of topics interesting to educated persons, and carefully prepared notes. The subscription price of THE COURANT is $4.00 a year, or it will be sent for three months, on trial, for $.00. Single copies ten cents. Address, Publishers "COLLEGE COURANT," New Haven, Conn.

THE NURSERY, a "Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers," has completed its 12th volume, and begins a new year in January, with a tempting bill of fare, so far as announced writers, premiums, etc., can give an indication of what is coming. As a holiday gift, nothing can be more acceptable or useful to the little ones. Unlike a toy, it is renewed every month, and, we know from observation, gives uniform delight. Subscriptions sent in before the first of January will secure the November and December Nos. free. $1.50 a year. Address JOHN L. SHOREY, 36 Broomfield street, Boston.

PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT.

BARNES' BRIEF HISTORY of the United States must have the elements of popularity and success in a large degree, having been introduced, we learn, into 200 or more prominent towns and cities in the west, including 53 in Wisconsin. Our printer, by the way, made the price, 21.50-which should read, of course, $1.50. Sample copies are sent for examination, at half price. We see that it has recently been adopted in Louisville. See advertisment.

A TESTIMONIAL.-We are pleased to give place to the following well considered endorsement of an excellent school-book:

"I have read THALHEIMER'S MANUAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY through, and think it is incomparably the best outline of Ancient History that has thus far been published in this country. It covers the same ground as RAWLINSON'S manual, and is the only school-book in common with the latter which contains the results of modern scholarship with reference to the nations of antiquity; but it is much fuller in details than RAWLINSON'S, and is written in a more pleasing style."

'It is difficult to say which is most to be admired in Miss THALHEIMER'S book-the graceful and entertaining flow of the narrative, the accuracy of the scholarship, or the fullness with which each subject is treated in so limited a space.

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"The book is issued in a style which does the publishers very great credit. I believe I do not exaggerate in saying that it is the handsomest school-book which has been published in this country."-JAMES MAC ALISTER, Chairman Committee on Text-Books and Graded Course of Instruction for the city of Milwaukee.

NUMBER LESSONS.-Those who are familiar with Professor ALLEN's happy methods in giving number lessons, will be glad to get his cards, prepared for that purpose. Specimens are given, in part of the issue of this number, with the advertisement of the publisher.

C. L. HART, M. D.,

OPHTHALMIC AND AURAL SURGEON.

DR. HART, A GRADUATE OF THE NEW YORK OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL COLLEGE, and thoroughly educated as specialist in diseases of the EYE and EAR, 'akes pleasure in announcing to persons thus afflicted that he is permanently located in Madison, and is prepared to give his patrons the benefit of the most modern and approved method of treatment.

REFERENCES.-J. H. Twombly, D. D., President of the State University; Samuel Fallows, D.
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Court; Gen. David Atwood, of the State Journal; Rev. P. S. Mather, Presiding Elder of the M.
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PARKER'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

REVISED BY PROF. PLYMPTON.

A SCHOOL COMPENDIUM OF NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY. By RICHARD G. PARKER, A.M. Thoroughly revised and enlarged by Prof. GEO. W. PLYMPTON, Professor of Physical Science, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. 12mo, pp. 456. Price, $1.75

The favor with which this book has, from its first appearance, been received by teachers, has induced the publishers to offer to the schools of the United States a revision and enlargement of the previous editions. This combines such attractions of the text as the recent progress in physical science demanded, and the addition of an appendix of new matter with a number of new illustrations. In these additional pages the mechanical theory of Heat, the practical relations of Hydrostatics and Hydraulics to Mechanical Engineering, the later uses of compressed air and the theory of the Spectroscope, have received a due share of space. Prof. Plympton's experience and reputation guarantee the excellence of the revision.

SNELL'S OLMSTED'S SCHOOL ASTRONOMY.

A COMPENDIUM OF ASTRONOMY, adapted to the use of Schools and Academies. By DENNISON OLMSTED, LL.D., late Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, Yale College. Revised by E. S. SNELL, LL.D., Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Amherst College.

This is an entirely new edition, thoroughly revised and re-written, printed from new stereotype plates and illustrated by many engravings, mostly drawn and engraved expresssly for this edition.

"Besides bringing the science more fully down to the present time," writes Dr. Snell, in the preface, "I have made it my special aim to present the facts and principles of the subject in clear language and in few words, believing such a style most profitable to the pupil and most satisfactory to the teacher."

The universal approval with which Dr. Snell's edition of the "COLLEGE ASTRONOMY " has been received, is guaranty for his fitness for the work he has undertaken in preparing this text book, and the Publishers cordially invite an examination of its merits.

It forms one elegant volume, good, clear type. Price, $1.18.

SCOTT'S MANUAL OF UNITED STATES HISTORY.

A MANUAL OF HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES: a new edition, brought down to the administration of President Grant, illustrated with maps. To which is annexed, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States, with Questions, by Prof. DAVID B. SCOTT. 16mo, pp. 220. Price, 63 cents.

This Manual, prepared by the Principal of one of the leading Grammar Schools in New York, has met with great success. It is used as a text-book by the Board of Education, and is being adopted throughout the country.

Copies for examination will be mailed, post paid, to teachers upon receipt of one-half the retail prices by the publishers. Liberal terms for introduction.

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