12 THE WESTERN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. * Reviews. *** Educational Articles in Recent Magazines. [Note. Under this head there will be printed each month the title of the Educational Articles in American and Foreign Periodicals, and the contents of the leading Educational Reviews.-Ed.] Voice Culture In Its Relation to Literary Culture. Hiram Corson. June Atlantic. Newspaper English. Franklin Mathews. Scientific Progress Ninteenth Century. H. H. Boyesen. June Cosmopolitan. The Roxbury Latin School. James De Normandie. June New England Magazine. Indian Universities. April Calcutta Review. The Manitoba School Question. May Canadian Magazine. Professional Institution. Herbert Spencer. May Contemporary Review. Educational Values. April 16, The Dial. Chicago. The Criminal Crowding of the Public Schools. J. H. Peniman. May Forum, New York. Crowded Schools as the Promoters of Disease. H. D. Chapman. May Forum, New York. The Government as a Great Publisher. A. R. Spofford. May Forum, N. Y. Pettifogging Law Schools and an Untrained Bar. David S. Jordan. May Forum. The Sloyd System. C. S. Work. May Lend a Hand, Boston. Genius the Model for Educational Methods. William George Jordan. April New Science Review (quarterly), Phila. Changes in Spoken English. A. B. Kingsbury. April New Science Re view, Phila. Scientific Irritability. Evelyn J. Hardy. April New Science Review. Notes on Scientific Progress. April New Science Review. The German Use of Foreign Words. D. Sanders. April Deutche Revue, Stuttgart. The So-called Esthetics of Culture. R. Dehmel. April Die Gesellschaft, Leipzig. enna. Women's Education in England. L. The Normal School and the Revue Bleue. Secular Schools and the Reason for Their Existence. La Civitta Cattolica, April 20th, Rome. Popular Science Monthly.-N. Y. May. Studies of Childhood. VIII. Fear. James Sully. Archæology in Denmark. Frederick Starr. The Office of Luxury. Paul Leroy Beaulieu. Professional Institutions. I. Herbert Spencer. Kidd on "Social Evolution." W. D. Le An Old Naturalist. W. K. Brooks. Business, Friendship, and Charity. Race Mixture and National Character. L. R. Harley. Woman as an Inventor and Manufacturer. Microbes as Factors in Society. M. L. Capitan. The Illustrious Boerhave. William T. Lusk. Education.-Boston. May. Has the New England Academy Outlived G. Taylor. The Study of Words. W. F. Parsons. Educational Review.-London. May. Technical Education for Girls. R. W. Hinton. The Teaching of English Composition in Schools. Miss E. Irgall. University Reform in India. T. Vijayaraghavan. English and Irish Public Schools. Leo. Girls Gymnasia in Germany. Miss Geography as a School Subject. Charles A. McMurry. Correlation of Science and History. Wilber S. Jackman. The High School Period. James H. Recent Text-Books on Fiction. Brander Matthews. Is Oxford a University? Richard Jones. Content and Form. Henry W. Brown. Classical Conference at Ann Arbor. Andrew F. West. Kindergarten Magazine.-Chicago. May. Language Training in the Kindergarten. J. V. Denney. Knighthood a Symbol of Moral Power. Susan E. Blow. The First School Year.-IX. Katherine Beebe. Books. PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING. By Arnold Tompkins. (Ginn & Co., Publishers.) The "Philosophy of Teaching" is purely a work founded on the principles of psychology. Teaching is a mental process, not a mechanical one, is the keynote to the book. The author declares that if the teacher is to cause the pupil to think the position, form, size, cause, and effects of the Gulf Stream, the teacher himself must think each of these relations while stimulating the pupil to think each of them. The book is divided into the following subjects: The teaching process; the aim of teaching; method of teaching specific phases of the law; thinking the general; the process as a complex law; problems solved by law. The subjects are treated in an interesting matter. Prof. Tompkins has written a great book for the teacher in need of help. MYTHS OF NORTHERN LANDS. By H. A. Guerber. (American Book Co. Price $1.50.) "The Myths of Northern Lands" is a companion volume to the popular book, "Myths of Greece and Rome," by the same author. Northern mythology is always interesting. In this book it is presented in a complete and connected manner, and will serve a purpose covered by no other book. The Northern myths have always had a great influence on our customs, religion, art, and literature. For high schools, graded schools, and private reading, "The Myths of Northern Lands" will serve a most excellent purpose. The illustrations are particularly fine, and are usually the reproductions of famous works of art. The book is new; it is also desirable. men. Heald's College. The editor of this journal has been personally acquainted with the work of Heald's College for many years. Its graduates may be found in the employ of many of the great mercantile houses and corporations of San Francisco. Many of the graduates are successful business The institution is conducted on business principles, and it has the confidence of all the business men of San Francisco. No matter what kind of an education a man has, he should at least have a thorough business education. He can learn by actual practice at Heald's College. E. P. Heald's name in the sphere of business education is just as prominent and as honorable as that of Dr. Jordan's in university work, and Prof. C. S. Haley is a shrewd and successful business manager. He has given every detail of the business part of the institution close attention. The management is thoroughly up to date in all of its improvements. It has added an electrical department, and placed in charge Professor Brooks. It is a genuine workshop, where the pupils learn not of books but by practical work the various uses of electricity. If you want good practical education along any of the lines of business, write to Heald's Business College, 24 Post street, for catalogue. The Whitaker & Ray Company have fitted up elegant quarters for teachers and school officers in the above building. It is also the office of THE WESTERN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. You are cordially invited to visit us when you come to San Francisco. The Pacific School Furnishing Company, Wm. L. Oge, General Manager, is well and favorably known to many of the school officers of the State. The company furnishes everything in school merchandise at less than trust rates. Intending purchasers will do well to read his advertisement. corners. There were balls on the table and sticks very much like blackboard pointers. They had a jolly time at this round-table. The stories Fred M. Campbell told were almost equal to those famous yarns of Madison Babcock, and the mild-eyed and gentle-mannered Hodgson looked on in wonder at the way the musical Cox handled the blackboard pointer to carom the white spheres on the red globes. Prang's art was never shown to better advantage than by Dumbreck on the occasion of the establishment of the Hollister round-table. Even the venerable Ginn forgot about text-books in watching the artistic moves of Campbell, Cox, Dumbreck and Hodgson. After the instituting of this round-table, Prof. Cox suggested a lesson on cubes and squares. He produced a leathern goblet with some squares in it, with dots on them somewhat different from Prang's kindergarten material. The humor of this quaint play seemed to be on Ex-State Superintendent Campbell. It was next suggested that the round-table company should next try an experiment in military tactics, a branch of learning that is quite a fad. Hodgson soon found a place where lessons to four were given for a quarter. A faded woman handed out the guns, and the practice consisted in shooting at a discolored white moon with a dark spot in its center. Cox showed most excellent military drill. The next day each member of the round-table appeared before the County Board of Education, and made a very serious address on the good qualities of the books he represented. This must be said in each man's favor: He made his statements brief and did not disparage his competitors' books; and the County Superintendent was heard "Even a book agent can be a to say: gentleman." Speaking of book men, it is reported that that A. F. Gunn, who has represented the American Book Company in California, will retire next month. Mr. Gunn's management of the company's affairs has been broad and liberal. There is not a County Superintendent in the State who does not regard Mr. Gunn as a personal friend. He is a square man in the book business, and he will take with him the good wishes and the kindliest remembrance of all those who have had dealings with him. Mr. Gunn has been very successful in his business affairs, and retires to devote himself more exclusively to his large private interests. The meeting of the County Boards of Education in Southern California in conference to secure more uniformity in examinations and courses of study, is a move upward not on Prof. Brown's educational spiral, but up in a perpendicular line. Now, when the County Superintendents meet this year let all the County Boards send representatives and hold a State conference. Yes, round-table talks at institutes would be popular and good results could be obtained. It is really one of the most difficult things in the whole duties of a Superintendent to conduct an institute on satisfactory lines. There does not seem to be any system thoroughly satisfactory. The motto of "Try, try, try again," is pertinent to institutes. THE TEACHERS' VACATION. The East-The Yellowstone-Denver, and the National Educational Association. Teaching is the hardest kind of work, and the teacher should have the very best sort of a vacation-above all, she needs a change,-and with the modern comforts of travel she may have both rest and the delights of new scenery at the same time. The Northern Pacific Railroad traverses a cool latitude and one of the most interesting regions of America. About half-way across is the wonderful Yellowstone Park, which affords a delightful half-way rest on an overland trip. Then, too, a trip by the Northern Pacific is economically the "correct thing"; for their upholstered Pullman Tourist sleeepers are as clean and comfortable as Pullman Palace sleepers. Special rates have been secured for a teachers' party via the Shasta, the Northern Pacific, and the Burlington routes, and the Yellowstone Park and Black Hills, to Denver, and the N. E. A., with privilege of returning over any of the Rio Grande routes. Mr. Hodgson, of Stanford University, who organized the Dr. Jordan party for the Yellowstone last month, has charge of the arrangements, and a number of well-known teachers have decided to join the party. Whether you join this party or not, it will pay you to go East over the Northern Pacific and enjoy a cool summer climate, for it costs you no more than to go over a shorter line. For further particulars and copy of "Sketches in Wonderland," address T. K. Stateler or Caspar W. Hodgson, at 638 Market street, San Francisco. A New Firm for Teachers and School Officials-The Whitaker & Ray Com pany. The new firm of educational publishers and booksellers has succeeded to the educational business of the Bancroft Company, and has just fitted up large and elegant quarters at 723 Market street. The firm is prepared to supply the wants of any school district on the Western Slope. The firm is rated as one of the wealthiest in the book trade in San Francisco, and has facilities for the purchase of supplies, the manufacture of goods, and the sale of the same, not equaled by any other firm. The well-known general merchandise house of Whitaker & Ray, of Galt, is one of the most popular and successful firms in California. This firm is the senior member of the Whitaker & Ray Company. Mr. Adams of the company is a schoolman of large experience, as a teacher, a member of the Board of Education, and a salesman, while Chas. M. Wiggin, the secretary of the firm, is a young business man who has the verve, the energy, and the ability so characteristic of the younger generation of the best product of California schools and business training. This firm is ambitious; it will meet the wants of the Western teachers and school officers. A new catalogue, the most complete of its kind ever issued on this coast, has just been published. If you want anything in the line of books or school supplies, send for a copy. The Bankers' Alliance, of Los Angeles, Cal., has established an office in the Mills Building (room 14, fifth floor), San Francisco, and J. D. Mouser has been appointed District Manager. This is one of California's prosperous and successful institutions. The combined accident and life policy of insurance issued by this company is so reasonable in cost and provides so much protection that the business being written is unprecedented. Read the following testimonial: LOS ANGELES, CAL., May 24, 1895. Gen. E. P. Johnson, President Bankers' Alliance of California.-Dear Sir: I wish to add my testimony to emphasize the well-known reputation of the Bankers' Alliance for its prompt payment of claims. My late husband, Dr. E. T. Shoemaker, insured with the Alliance in 1889; after suffering one week with pneumonia he did on the 11th inst. 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Murdock: "To know the true, to love the fair, to do the right, is the end and aim of true education." Madison Babcock: "Teachers are measured by what they can do, not by what they have been over." " Tenth Annual Teachers' Excursion. Prof. J. B. McChesney and Professor Crawford, of Oakland, will chaperon a party of teachers June 13th for Chicago, New York, Boston, and Eastern points. This excursion will go over the Denver & Rio Grande, the Burlington, and the celebrated Erie lines. The Erie lines are represented by J. G. McCall, who is noted Blackboards, miserable makeshifts, upon which neat work is impossible, and so rough that the rooms are filled with chalk-dust, ruinous to clothes and injurious to lungs!... Nothing is more important than Good Blackboards! Why not have them? for being one of the best posted and most THE HAYNES VENEER BLACKBOARDS accommodating in the business. Write to J. B. McChesney, T. O. Crawford, or J. G. McCall, agent Erie lines, 10 Mont- Meeting of the N. E. A. Are fully equal to the best natural slate, but fortunately we can furnish them at about half the cost. Send for Illustrated Descriptive Circular. We carry in stock, and furnish at reduced prices, EVERYTHING REQUIRED BY SCHOOLS-FURNITURE, BELLS, MAPS, CHARTS, GLOBES, APPARATUS, BOOKS, AND GENERAL SUPPLIES. New Illustrated Catalogue for those wishing to order. Write us. WILLIAM L. OGE, Manager The National Educational Association The Pacific School Furnishing Co. 723 Market St., San Francisco will meet at Denver, July 5th to 12th. The most popular excursions this year for teachers are those running to Castle Crags and the regions about Mt. Shasta -"Lone as God, and white as a winter moon." Wanted-Teachers to canvass for this paper. Los Angeles 1201⁄2 S. Spring St. THIS office enters its seventh year of business with good prospects. It is associated with the Fisk Teachers' Agencies in Boston, New York, Chicago, and Minneapolis, and has a record of 8077 positions filled. Each branch is managed by teachers of college education, and of long and successful experience in important educational positions. The managers know what qualities are essential in a good teacher. They have an honorable pride in making their future business, like their past, worthy of the best patronage and commended by the best educators. They cannot afford to do less. No effort that experience and study can suggest will be spared to accomplish this result. We invite acquaintance with teachers and trustees by correspondence and by calls at our office. Circulars free. C. C. BOYNTON, Manager. Blackboards Maps and Globes Send for Catalogue Practical lessons in Penmanship for contras School Furniture comparison distinction and practice by Prog Leon PW.Stiebil President of Stients Short Hand and Business College. No123 Market Street, San Francisco Calis. Platel Copyrighted Forward Hand. Vertical Hand. Back-Hand N N N N N N N N N му www www w w w Hold the pen in the most natural manner. 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