EDITORIAL MISCELLANY. 191 J. K. ANDERSON, former Superintendent of Brown county, died lately at Green Bay. JOHN MEGRAN, Jr., late Principal at Stevens' Point, proposes we see to raise a company for Uncle Sam. NORMAL FUND.-By the Report of the State Treasurer, we see that the following amounts were appropriated, in the last distribution, to the schools named below, being at the rate of $30 for each pupil that passed the examination of the agent, Col. McMynn: Milton Academy, $270; Allen's Grove Academy, $270; Beloit High School, $150; Waupaca High School, $270; Albion Academy $30. NOT AT SCHOOL.-In 1862 and 1863, the proportion of school children not attending common schools in several states was as follows-the figures would be more suggestive if confined to a uniform period of school life, say from six to sixteen: "Iowa, between the ages of 5 and 21 years, 28 per cent. New York, between the ages of 5 and 21 years, 25 per cent. Wisconsin, between the ages of 4 and 20, 32 per cent. Pennsylvania, between the ages and years, 36 per cent. Kansas, between the ages of 4 and 21 years, 38 per cent. Vermont, between the ages of 4 and 18 years, 17 per cent. Indiana, between the ages of 5 and 21 years, 48 per cent. Ohio, between the ages of 5 and 21 years, 23 per cent. Connecticut, between the ages of 4 and 16 years, 15 per cent. California, between the ages of 4 and 18 years, 49 per cent. Minneso ta, between the ages of 5 and 21 years, 40 per cent. Maine, between the ages of 4 and 21 years, 42 per cent. Maryland, between 5 and 17 years, about 30 per cent."-Illinois Teacher. MARYLAND.-The first State Superintendent under the new Constitution, Rev. F. VAN BOKELEN, appears to be entering upon his duties with an energy and intelligence that promise the best results. The Maryland School Journal has reached its sixth number, and only wants some improvements in typography, etc., soon to be made, to be one of the best periodicals of the kind; and what is more, it appears to be receiving a good support. PERIODICALS. OUR YOUNG FOLKS.-The first number more than fulfills our expectations Its articles are not of the solemnly stupid order; but charming to the little folks, and we venture to say to many older ones also. Besides articles by the three editors, J. T. TROWBRIDGE, GAIL HAMILTON and LUCY LARCOM, are others from Mrs. STOWE, Edmund Kirke, DIO LEWIS, "CARLETON," JOHN WEISS, MAYNE REID, &c., and an exquisite fairy tale from the Finnish. Terms: Two dollars a year; single numbers 20 cents; three copies for five dollars, or five for eight 192 WISCONSIN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. dollars. With the Atlantic, five dollars. Published by TICKNOR & FIELDS, Boston, Mass. ILLINOIS TEACHER.--With the new year this spicy educational paper passes under the editorial care of RICHARD EDWARDS, Principal of the Illinois State Normal School, who will well maintain its character. The January number commences Vol. XI. Terms: $1.50 a year. THE INDEPENDENT.-This is widest circulating Religious Paper in the world. Rev. Theodore Tilton, Editor; contains a sermon every week by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and among its Special Contributors may be mentioned the following eminent writers: William Allen Butler, Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, Rev. Robert M. Hatfield, Rev. George B. Cheever, Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor, John G. Whittier. This very readable paper commences a new volume with January, on new type. Terms-$2.50 per annum, paid in advance; $3.00 per annum after three months; $3.50 per annum, if paid after six months. Joseph H. Richards, Publisher, No. 5 Beekman street New York. AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL MONTHLY.-This excellent magazine enters this month upon its second volume. To those wish to take a Journal in addition to the Wisconsin, and cannot afford Barnard's, we commend this. $1.50 a year, which also secures two numbers of the “Pulpit and Rostrum." Published by Schermerhorn & Bancroft, New York. WISCONSIN FARMER.-The January number begins Vol. VII, and contains the usual interesting variety which is served up monthly by Dr. Hoyt, for farmers and their families. $1 a year, and a gift of some sort to each subscriber. Published by Hoyt & Campbell, Madison. AMERICAN PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL.-This well known and long established exponent of Phrenology and kindred matters begins a new volume with the year. Its monthly delineations-phrenological and biographical—of the prominent men of the age, are graphic and very readable. Pyhsiognomy receives attention, and the subjects treated are well illustrated by portraits and cuts. The January number is double. Terms, $2 a year. Published by Fowler & Wells, New York. HERALD OF HEALTH. -A new volume of this periodical also commences with January. Those who believe that prevention is better than cure, and who would see what is to be said of other means than drugs for restoring health, will find something to suit them in this monthly. Its articles on diet most peo ple would think a little radical, but now is an excellent time to try the doc trines here taught. Published by Miller & Wood, Laight street, New York, at $1.50 a year. ADORN YOUR SCHOOL ROOMS. Having copies of the large Portraits of Messrs. Pickard and McMynn on hand, we will send a pair of them, quarto size, suitable for framing, pre-paid, for 50 cents, and either alone for 25 eents. EDITORIAL MISCELLANY. TIME EXTENDED. 193 We wished to have closed up our Subscription List as far as possible this month, but delays in printing and binding after our notice last month was put in type, induce us to extend offers then made to the 15th of February. This will give counties nearly up to the mark a month longer to fill quotas and se. cure the McMynn portrait, and a class of individual subscribers still in arrears a further chance to pay up and get the same prize. (See p. 169, last number.) We omit the credit tables of our circulation this month, wishing to get more returns, and such information as will enable us to divide credits properly between certain counties and the cities within them under separate jurisdiction. Will our friends who can do so, please furnish the information? SULLIVAN'S CHRONOLOGY. By an arrangement with the author, we will send single copies pre-paid, for 10 cents a copy, and packages of half a dozen or more, pre-paid, for 8 cents a copy. This little work is important to students of History and useful to any one, and is highly recommended by Mr. Pickard. SCHOOL DESKS. Prof. Allen, of this city, is still prepared to furnish rights for that very strong, durable, convenient and economical School Desk, known as the "Rankin Desk." Parties who construct and use them without the right, should understand that they are liable to pay damages. Address C. H. Allen, Madison, for terms. TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES. 3d Grade, $1.25 per 100-50 cents extra for binding. Cutter's Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene. A knowledge of the principles of Physiology and laws of Hygiene is much needed, as is manifested by the numbers that seek exemption from military duty. To aid in the dissemination of such knowledge, I will supply (to teachers only), my works upon Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene, at lowest wholesale dozen prices, and give a set of large colored illustrating charts (8 or 10 in set), gratis. For particulars, address, CALVIN CUTTER, Warren, Massachusetts. J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. READY! SHAW & ALLEN'S COMPREHENSIVE GEOGRAPHY ! COMPLETING LIPPINCOTT'S GEOGRAPHICAL SERIES. The Comprehensive Geography is entirely new in subject-matter, manner, and illus. tration. It is eminently historical. The gradual advance of geographical knowledge in past ages* is made to assist in the development of the subject now. It combines Physical and Physico-Descriptive as well as Mathematical and Political Geography, hence, It contains two books, and is fifty per cent. cheaper than any work of its class. It contains relief maps showing clearly the general structure of the lands,-a feature of no other work. Surrounding the relief maps are cuts representing the animals and plants peculiar to or characteristic of the countries. The Sectional Maps of the United States are drawn upon a uniform scale. In short, the work is novel in nearly all respects. It will be mailed for examination by school-officers, on receipt of $1.00. * Under this head are reductions of the globe of Behaim, constructed while Columbus was on his first voyage to America; and the Western Hemisphere of John Schoner, in 1520. Fac similes of the original globes, lithographed in four brilliant colors on heavy print paper, 2 x 3 feet, are published in English, at $2.00 for the set of three. Persons of antiquarian taste will be delighted with these representations. Agents will be sup plied with them on very favorable terms. SUE'S FRENCH METHOD. $1 50 A NEW PRACTICAL AND INTELLECTUAL METHOD OF LEARNING FRENCH, grounded on Nature's Teachings; adapted to the System of Noel and Chapsal, with critical remarks on Grammars used in our Schools,.. EXERCISES ON THE FRENCH SYNTAX; or, Practice of the New Practical and Intellectual Method for Learning French, wherein learners have to make direct application of French Rules, and rectify the deviations made from the French Syntax. 12 mo.,....... 75 THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. By Oliver Goldsmith, M. B. Arranged as a Guide for the Construction of French Sentences, completing the System of the Practical and Intellectual Method for learning French,.. 155 A KEY FOR THE USE OF TEACHERS AND LEARNERS, who, after completing the regular course, may further wish to prosecute their study of the French tongue. 12 mo.,...... 75 The whole forming a complete oral and synthetical course. By Jean B. Sue, A. formerly Pupil of the Royal School of Soreze. J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., Publishers, THE WISCONSIN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. OLD SERIES. FEBRUARY, 1865. {Vol. IX, No. 8. From Barnard's American Journal of Educaton. THE TEACHER'S MOTIVES. BY HORACE MANN, LL.D. (CONCLUDED FROM THE JANUARY NUMBER.) Not long since, I visited a prison in a neighboring state, and spent the greater part of the day in private conversation with different prisoners, in order to learn the histories of their temptation and fall, and the spirit in which they received their punishment. While I was there, two new convicts arrived. I went to the receiving lodge, where they were delivered. There was the prison-book, in which was recorded the names, ages, occupation, offence, term of sentence, and so forth, of all who came to dwell in those gloomy abodes. The book, in which these entries were made, was a great folio, probably of not less than five thousand pages. It had been recently procured, and only a small part of it was filled. How can I express the mournful interest with which I looked along the pages of recorded crime and allotted penalty. What a sententious column was that, in which was written, "For two years;" "For five years;" "For ten years;" "For life;" and that other column, containing the words, "Theft;" "Robbery;" "Burglary;" Attempt to kill," and so forth. Oh, if to these culprits, in their early days, God had sent an angel, in the form of a wise and faithful teacher, would those terrible words ever have been written against their names? Would their names ever have been found in that book? I have said that I looked with an inexpressibly mournful interest upon the sad pages of that book which had been already filled. But with a sadness far more profound and solemn, did I look upon the pages which had not been filled-whose clear white sheets had not yet been blackened by the records of guilt and condemnation. We have no adequate ground for hope, that those yet undefiled pages will never be filled; and who are they whose names are to be written therein? The young man, bold, fiery, and reckless, whose veins are fermenting with the new wine of life, but into whose heart no moral alchymist has ever infused a principle which will transmute his tendencies for evil |