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ted), another home-life story by J. H. Jamieson, are very entertaining. A Moqui folk-tale of The Genesis of Earth and Moon, a Norse folk-tale of Why the Sea is Salt, the Margaret-Patty Letter, the Drawing of the Child Figure (Miss Rimmer's art-paper), The Lake Maidens, a literary narrative by Miss Garland about the daughters of Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge, with portraits, and the Peppers Serial, the Italian Child-life Serial, and Miss Matilda Archambeau Van Dorn, together with the poems and pictures, and four pages of Men and Things anecdotes, make up a most readable number. $2.40 a year. D. Lothrop Company, Boston.

THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY for October. Contents: Lessons from the Census (I), by Carroll D. Wright, A. M. The Development of American Industries Since Columbus (VIII). The Manufacture of Steel, by W. F. Durfee (Illustrated). Metamorphoses in Education, by Prof. A. E. Dolbear. The Rivalry of the Higher Senses, by G. T. W. Patrick, Ph. D. Exercise for Elderly People, by Fernand Lagrange, M. D. Life on an Ostrich Farm (Illustrated) Dress and Adornment II, Dress), by Prof. F. Starr (Illustrated). On Polyandry, by Lieutenant-Colonel A. B. Ellis. The Dogs of Ancient Egypt, by M. G. Maspero (Illustrated). Astronomical Societies and Amateur Astronomers, by M. L. Niesten. The Spinning Sisterhood, by Olive Thorne Miller. Hearing in the Lower Animals, by M. Pierre Bonnier. Sketch of Professor John Winthrop (with portrait). Editor's Table (Mr. Spencer on Justice-Duty as a Science). Literary Notices. Popular Miscellany. Notes.

THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY for November. Contents: University Extension, by Prof C. Hanford Henderson; The Development of American Industries since Columbus IX. The Manufacture of Steel (Concluded), by William F. Durfee (Illustrated); Do We Teach Geology, by Robert T. Hill; Dress and Adornment. III. Ornament, by Prof. Frederick Starr (Illustrated); Some of the Possibilities of Economic Botany, by Prof. George Lincoln Goodale; Lessons from the Census, II, by Hon. Carroll D. Wright, A. M; Reef-Knot Nets, by William Churchill Illustrated); The Ethics of Confucius, by Warren G. Benton; The Origin of Painting, by M. Lazar Popoff; High Life: Sketch of James Curtis Booth (with portrait); Editor's Table, University Extension-A Group of Scientific Meetings; Literary Notices; Popular Miscellany; Notes.

SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE for November. Contents: Evening Colors (Frontispiece)-The United States Naval Apprentice System. Explorations in the Sierra Madre, by Carl Lumholtz (Illustrated), The Federation of Australia, by the Hon. Alfred Deakin, M. P., of Victoria. In November, by Duncan Campbell Scott. The United States Naval Apprentice System, by A B. Wyckoff, Lieutenant U. S. Navy (Illustrated). The Wrecker (Chapters X, XI). By Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne (Begun in August-to be continued, with a full-page illustration by William Hole). The Ocean Steamship as a Freight Carrier, by John H Gould (the sixth article in the series on Ocean Steamships. A Recognition, by Octave Thanet. Dolorosa, by William Vaughn Moody. The Picturesque Quality of Holland (Figures and Costumes), by George Hitchcock. The Proposed Trans-Saharian Railway, by Napoleon Ney (ilustrated). Song from "Ayuna," by Julian Hawthorne. Mr. Lowell as a Teacher. The Auction. Adventures Among Books (Second Paper), by Andrew Lang. The Point of View. Mr. Lowell in Anti-Slavery Days. The Safety of Buildings. Vapor that Vanisheth. Unimproved Chances of Self-Assertion.

ST. NICHOLAS for November. Contents: Frontispiece, "Romance." Romance, Poem (Illustrated), by Mildred Howells. A Dash with Dogs for Life or Death (Illustrated), by Frederick Schwatka. The Sea Fight off the Azores (Illustrated), by C. H. Palmer. Winter Trees (verse), by M. F. Butts. Tom Paulding (chapters I, II, III), by Brander Matthews. Lisbeth's Song, Verse (Illustrated), by Virginia Woodward Cloud. Tee-Wahn Folk Stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes (Illustrated), Charles F. Lummis. Picture, "The Referee." The Dickey Boy (Illustrated), by Mary E. Wilkins To the Summit of Pike's Peak by Rail (Illustrated), Lucie A. Ferguson. After the Game, Verse Illustrated), Benjamin Webster. How They Ride, Verse (Illustrated), Eva L. Carson. Russian Children in the Ural Mountains, David Ker. The New Story of the Apple Pie (Illustrated), E. T. Corbett. Picture, "November." Launcelot's Tower (Illustrated), Marjorie Richardson. The Barber of Sari-Ann (Illustrated), Jack Bennett. Jericho Bob (Illustrated), Anna Eichberg King. Professor Chipmunk's Surprising Adventure (Illustrated), Tudor Jenks. Picture, The First Tooth." How Johnny Got a Gun (Illustrated), H. A. Ogden. Jack-in-the-Pulpit. The Letter-box. Pictures, Little Billy and the Old Hen. The Riddle-box (Illustrated).

THE CENTURY for November. Contents: "Delphian Sibyl" and Cumaan Sibyl," by Michelangelo. Frontispieces. Michelangelo Buonarotti, Italian Old Masters, by W. J. Stillman. Izaak Walton, from painting by George H. Boughton. Southern Womanhood as Affected by the War, by Wilbur Fiske Tillett. A Great German Artist-Adolf Menzel. The Players, by Brander Matthews. India, by Florence Earle Coates. The Naulahka (1), by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier. Sursum Corda, by Edith M. Thomas. What are Americans Doing in Art? The Hunger-Strike. How Old Folks Won the Oaks. Bronte, by Harriet Prescott Spofford. The Autobiography of a Justice of the Peace, by Edgar W. Nye. Mazzini's Letters to an English Family, edited by Stephen Pratt. In the Pauses of Her Song. A Rival of the Yosemite, King's River Cañon. A Theft Condoned. A Song for all Seasons. The Food-Supply of the Future. Folksong The Sonnet. James Russell Lowell. by George E. Woodbury. Lowell's Americanism, with a letter from James Russell Lowell, with portrait. The Major's Appointment. The Choice Music. San Francisco Vigilance Committees, by the Chairman of the Committees 1851, 1856 and 1877, William T. Coleman. Topics of the Time: Lowell's Legacy to his Country. Michigan's "Wild-cat" Banks. Corrupt Practices Legislation in 1891. An American Achievement in Art. Open Letters: California's Interest in Yosemite Reform. A Roman Catholic's View of "Sister Dolorosa." The Paris Opera. George H. Boughton. In Lighter Vein: Kitty, My Colleen. The Prophets. Brer Fox. Grace after Meat. Ho for the Desert! My Old Skippers. The New Street-Sweeper.

OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT.

JOHN E. MASSEY, Sup't Public Instruction,

J. A. MCGILVRAY, Secretary Board of Education,

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[The Journal is sent to every County Superintendent and District Clerk, and must be carefully preserved by them as public property and transmitted to their successors in office.]

School Year 1890-'91.

In advance of the publication of the Virginia School Report, we give the readers of the JOURNAL the following summary of the reports made for the school year which closed July 31, 1891 :

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Cost of tuition per month per pupil enrolled, cents

Cost of public education per month per pupil enrolled, cents.......

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Number owned by districts...

Number built during the year.......................

Seating capacity of buildings used for white pupils

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26 66

5.8

10.8

44

34

25

61

72

147 4,650

1,633

79

6,509

5,200

. 263

247,845

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Estimated value of school property owned by districts......$2,379,745 22

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Average length of time spent in each school-room on each visit, minutes......

145

787

369

8,195

8,165

14,580

80

COST OF THE SYSTEM FOR ALL PURPOSES TO ALL SOURCES FOR THE YEAR, INCLUDING BALANCES DUE FOR THE YEAR.

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Real estate, buildings, furniture and repairs.. $136,084 36

School apparatus...........

Total cost for all purposes.......

13,950 82

150,035 18 $1,636,982 84

MISS CLARA M. OEWEL, Wytheville, Va., has been awarded a Peabody scholarship in the Peabody Normal College, good for two years from October, 1891. This appointment was made to fill the vacancy created by Mr. Frank L. Bruce's withdrawal, which was occasioned by ill-health.

Circular No. 75.-Virginia Schoool Register.

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, RICHMOND, October, 1891.

To the County and City Superintendents of Schools.

As it appears from official reports made to this Department that some teachers have not been supplied with the Virginia School Register, I desire hereby to call your attention to the requirement that this Register be placed in the hands of every teacher of a public school in the State.

If all of your teachers are not supplied with this Register, I trust you will see that arrangements are made whereby those who are now without this valuable aid will have the benefit of it at an early day.

In cases where teachers have been supplied with a copy of either edition of the Register, and sufficient blank space remains therein for transcribing the records of a school year, it is not necessary to purchase new Registers until the old shall have been used up. But when supplies are ordered, the new edition should be purchased.

Very truly yours,

JOHN E. MASSEY,
Superintendent.

Join the Educational Association of Virginia.

The State Educational Association can be made of great practical service to the cause of public education in Virginia. The earnest cooperation of superintendents will make it so. Every superintendent ought to be a member-an active member. Active members are needed, and if superintendents will set their teachers a good example in this good work, a large number of active teachers will soon be enrolled as members.

From time to time, blanks will be sent to superintendents for enrolling the names of school officers and teachers who desire to join the Association. Superintendents are requested to distribute these blanks on their rounds to the schools, and to urge teachers and school trustees to fill them up. Or, the blanks can be sent to teachers with receipts for monthly reports, and teachers can fill them up and return them to superintendents with their reports for the next month. Superintendents can return the blanks, when filled, to the Department of Public Instruction as they may have occasion to transmit official documents.

The blank referred to reads as follows:

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