by Miss Jennie Sheldon. It is a very pleasant school, with a home-like appearance. We noticed a vacant desk, covered with flowers. One of the little girls was dead, and the children had brought the flowers as a tribute of respect.

THE HAYES' VALLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL-Miss L. J. Mastick, principal, numbers 217 pupils and five teachers. Miss A. S. Jewett is a graduate of the State Normal School, and Miss C. E. Younger, of the High School.

THE GREENWICH STREET PRIMARY-Miss Kate Kennedy, principal, numbers 305 pupils and six teachers. Miss Kennedy has been engaged in teaching in the city schools since 1856, and always with success. Miss A. Campbell and Miss Fanny Soulé, assistants, are graduates of the State Normal school. Miss Cheney is a graduate of the High school.

THE FOURTH ST. PRIMARY SCHOOL-Mrs. L. C. Morgan, principal, numbers 551 pupils and eleven teachers. Of the assistants in the school, Miss Mary J. Bragg and Miss Evelyn Mosse are graduates of the High school, from the Rincon school, now teaching in the same building in which, but a few years ago, they were primary pupils. Miss Sadie Davis is a graduate of the State Normal school, from the Rincon school, who has a fine class of boys under most excellent training. Miss Anna Gibbons, special assistant, and Miss Annie M. Jourdan, are graduates of the State Normal school. Miss S. H. Clark, assistant, is a graduate of the Toronto Normal school. Miss Hahnlen and Miss Carter are graduates of the High school.

THE HYDE STREET PRIMARY-Miss H. Cooke, principal, numbers 238 pupils and four teachers. Miss Cooke is an experienced teacher, from the Chicago public schools. Miss Anna Chalmers is a graduate of the High school, from the Rincon, and Miss Kate Bonnell is also a High school graduate. The whole school is in good training.

THE STEVENSON STREET PRIMARY-Numbers 428 pupils and eight teachers. Mrs. E. C. Burt, the principal, has long been connected with the public schools. Miss Jennie Smith, assistant, is a graduate of both the High school and the State Normal, who ranks as a most excellent teacher. Miss Julia R. Clayton and Miss F. A. E. Nichols, are graduates of the State Normal school, and Miss Helen A. Grant of the High school. This school is held in a rented house, very unsuitable for school purposes.

THE SECOND AND MISSION STREET PRIMARY-Miss S. S. Knapp, principal, numbers 236 pupils and four teachers. Miss E. White, Assistant, is a graduate of the State Normal School. Miss Campbell and Miss Derby formerly taught in San Joaquin County, and they have maintained the reputation which they brought with them of being superior teachers.

THE LINCOLN PRIMARY SCHOOL-Miss Kate Sullivan, principal, numbers 724 pupils and 13 teachers, and is held in the new house erected on the corner of Fifth and Market streets, at a cost of $5,000. Miss Sullivan was formerly teacher of the Model School. Miss Sherman and Miss Clegg are graduates of the High School from the Rincon, and Misses Clara Neal, Maggie Jordan,

Nellie Littlefield, and Ellen Holmes, are graduates of the State Normal School; Miss Katie B. Childs is a High School graduate. This school is in excellent training.

THE MONTGOMERY STREET PRIMARY-Mrs. A. S. Duane, principal, numbers 398 pupils and 7 teachers. Of the Assistants in this school, Miss Annie Hucks, Miss Overend, and Miss Helen Satterlee, are graduates of the High School, and Miss M. A. Krauth, of the State Normal School. We remem

ber Miss Annie Hucks as a pupil of the Rincon Primary School, on the corner of First and Folsom streets, in 1853, just learning to read in the primer. She has a remarkably well drilled class. Miss Frances Holmes is a High School graduate.

THE COSMOPOLITAN SCHOOL-So called because French, German, and Spanish are taught in connection with English studies-numbers 521 pupils and 11 teachers. Of the Assistants, in English, Miss Carey, Miss York, and Miss Annie Holmes, are graduates of the State Normal School. Miss Carey graduated three years ago, and has since won a high reputation as a teacher. Most of the classes of this school seemed to be doing well; but the wretched accommodations on Post Street, corner of Kearny, are enough to demoralize any school. The thin board partitions oppose no resistance to sound, and when concert exercises are in full blast, the teachers ought in self-protection to fill their ears with cotton.

THE BROADWAY COLORED SCHOOL--Rev. S. D. Simonds, principal, numbers 80 pupils-31 in the Grammar Department, and 49 in the Primary. Both departments in this school seemed to be in good condition, and they compare favorably with other schools.

THE TRAINING SCHOOL-Numbers 228 pupils, all of Primary grades, taught by the pupils of the State Normal School, and is under the control of the City Board. The school is in fine working order, and may be considered the most practical part of the State Normal School.

THE EIGHTH STREET PRIMARY-Miss A. E. Slavan, principal, numbers 302 pupils and 6 teachers. Notwithstanding the disadvantages of a poor house, located in a sand-bank, this school is orderly and well conducted. Of the Assistants, Miss S. E. Frissell and Miss Mary Williams are graduates of the State Normal School. A new building ought to be at once provided for this section of the city.

The schools which we did not have time to visit are as follows: The Spring Valley Primary, Miss Haneke, principal, numbering 230 pupils, and 4 teachers; Geary and Hyde St. Primary, 103 pupils, and 2 teachers; Natoma St. Primary, 108 pupils, 2 teachers; Third St. School, 231 pupils, 4 teachers; Polk and Austin St. School, 45 pupils; Folsom St. School, Mrs. H. H. Treat, teacher, 79 pupils; West End, 23 pupils; Potrero school, Mr. Francis J. Leonard, 60 pupils; the Pine St. School, 42 pupils; the Chinese school, Mr. Lanctot, 38 pupils; Colored school, Mr. J. B. Sanders, 21 pupils. Among the teachers in these schools are Mr. F. J. Leonard, graduate of the High

School, the only young man from that school who has engaged in teaching; Miss A. S. Cameron and Miss P. A. Fink, graduates of the State Normal School, and Miss Humphreys and Miss Benjamin, of the High School. Out of 183 female teachers in the School Department, 36 are graduates of the State Normal School, and 33 of the High School-making a total from both, of 69, or nearly two-fifths of the whole number employed. These statistics show the great importance of these two schools in relation to the school system. In a few years more, they will determine the character of the Instruction in all the lower grades of the city schools. Let them both be fostered, and let another training school be opened as soon as practicable.

SUMMARY.-The average number belonging to all the city schools is 10,330, with an average daily attendance of 9,852-showing a percentage of attendance of 95.3 Of this number, 273 attend the three High Schools; 2,583 the Grammar Schools; 6,696 the Primaries, and 299 the Ungraded schools. The amount paid for teachers' salaries last year was $185,000; for the buildings, $92,000; contingent expenses, $82,000; total, $361,000. The average

monthly wages paid to male teachers was $145 per month; to female teachers, $70 per month. The assessment roll of the city amounts to 79 millions, and the rate of school tax is 35 cents on the hundred dollars. In our next number, we propose to conclude with some general remarks on the condition of the schools.

PERSONAL.-A. T. Winn, Principal of the Los Angeles Grammar School last year, has taken charge of the Public School at Napa. Mr. Winn holds a State Diploma, is a graduate of Harvard College, and a competent and successful teacher.

Robert Taylor, from Kelsey district, El Dorado County, has taken charge of the public school at Alviso, Santa Clara County. Mr. Taylor holds a State Diploma, gained in the State Examination, one year ago, in which he stood at the head of the list of seventy-five teachers who were examined. He is a good teacher and a noble-hearted man, and we congratulate the Trustees of his school on their good fortune in securing a teacher who is an honor to the profession.

CALIFORNIA. We extract the following from the American Educational Monthly:

"The new school law establishes a State Board of Education, and defines clearly the duty of the Superintendent. It requires every teacher to attend the teachers' institutes, which must be held at least once a year. Trustees must not only allow teachers to attend, but may make no deduction of salary for consequent absence. Each county must give $100 towards defraying the expenses of the institute. None but white children may be admitted to public schools; but if the parents of ten Negro or Mongolian children sign a request, the trustees of the district must establish a separate school for their instruction. The law provides for the establishment of a State Normal School at San Francisco, and appropriates $8,000 per annum for its support. It makes provision for district libraries, for the support of a State educational journal, and for the establishment of State, county, and city boards of examination. The law is an excellent one, and California equals the Eastern States in educational enterprise."

CALIFORNIA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY.-In answer to a call of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, a meeting of the California Educational Society was held at the rooms of the Superintendent, August 21st, 1866, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year. In the absence of the President, Prof. Minns, the meeting was called to order by Mr. Swett, and Bernhard Marks was elected President pro tem., and Wm. K. Rowell, Secretary. After appropriate remarks from the State Superintendent as to the importance of continuing this organization and increasing its membership, the Association proceeded to elect officers: For President, Theodore Bradley of San Francisco; and for Vice Presidents, E. H. Holmes, San Francisco, and D. C. Stone, of Marysville, were elected. Messrs. Marks, Swezey, Swett, and Myrick were nominated for Corresponding Secretary, and after a spirited contest, John Swett, of San Francisco, was elected on the seventh ballot. Bernhard Marks, of San Francisco, was elected Recording Secretary, and James Denman, of the same place, Treasurer. For Executive Committee, Messrs. Geo. Tait, of Oakland, T. S. Myrick, E. Knowlton, T. C. Leonard, and H. P. Carleton, of San Francisco, were elected; and for Examining Committee, Messrs. S. I. C. Swezey, J. Stratton, and Wm. K. Rowell, of San Francisco. The election of the officers was made unanimous.

On motion of Mr. Swett, the Recording Secretary was instructed to procure a suitable blank book, and to pay for the same from funds in the treasury, in which to record the minutes of the Association from its commencement to the present time; and the Secretary was further instructed to secure any necessary aid in copying. The Association next proceeded to consider the subject of Public School Libraries, and to discuss the merits of a list of books selected for the same and presented by the Superintendent. Adjourned.

WM. K. ROWELL,
Secretary pro tem.

ROBINSON'S MATHEMATICS.-One of the pleasant things pertaining to the editorial profession is the evidence of appreciation not unfrequently received from large-hearted friends. The latest token of this sort received at this office is a set of Robinson's Mathematics from Messrs. Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co., of New York. We are not expected, as we understand it, to formally notice the books in our pages; that would destroy the virtue of the gift, since our careful book notices require precious time before writing; but they are received as we suppose, that we may be certain of having a reliable standard by which to measure such mathematical works as may hereafter come to us in the beaten way of business. So we place them on our shelves, purposing to enjoy quiet hours with them when our vacation shall come.

THE Emperor Napoleon III recently had a quiet evening with a few friends. In the course of conversation he remarked that it was very hard to define savant. “I don't think so," retorted M. Droun de Lhuys; "I propose this definition: A savant is a man who knows all that the world doesn't know, and who is ignorant of what all the world knows."

CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS.-The Stockton Independent asserts that the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, in referring to the Biennial Report of John Swett, Superintendent of Public Instruction in California, for the school years of 1864 and 1865, stated a fact when it says:

'It certainly is a most creditable statement for the State, and honorable to our American system of civilization and education, that of the $19,657,000 expended by California for all purposes, from the organization of the State Government up to August last, nearly $9,000,000 was expended for educational purposes. The average expenditure for each child between four and eighteen years of age, in 1865, was twenty cents more than in Massachusetts. The average monthly pay of the teachers is $74 for males, and $62 for females; an increase in the latter case of $7.09 over 1864. The salaries of the female teachers are higher than in any other State in the Union, and almost four times as high, deducting board in each case, as in our own State. There is much less difference between the wages of male and female teachers than at the East, and all the leading educators in the State are taking strong ground in favor of a more general employment than at present of female teachers in the public schools, not on the ground of cheapness, as is generally the reason for such a movement here, but because that "to teach and train the young seems to be one of the chief missions of woman." The educational system of California is evidently in the hands of competent and energetic persons who fully understand the necessity and value of education, and who will do all that is possible to secure the education of the rising generation there. Aside from the public schools there is a State Normal school, and nearly twenty colleges and seminaries, with a valuation of $1,500,000, and an attendance of about 2,000. There is certainly good and abundant hope for the future of a State which has so early in her history devoted so much attention and money to the diffusion of intelligence.

THE TEACHER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA.-Hon. W. R. White, State Superintendent of Free Schools for West Virginia, under date of Wheeling, March 21st, writes: “Teachers, as a class, cannot provide themselves with encyclopedias, or such other books of reference as would aid them in their labors; but in the latest edition of Webster's magnificent Quarto Dictionary they have a worthy substitute. Whenever I meet teachers in their associations or institutes, or in private, I earnestly present to them the great advantage they would derive from having this work near them. It will tend to make them accurate, while the definitions and illustrations will suggest many new ideas for elaboration among their pupils."

AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL MONTHLY.-We have been so busy of late that we have omitted to notice this most valuable journal. It grows better as it grows older, and each number is full of interesting articles. There ought to be one thousand subscribers for it in this State. One dollar and a half in currency cannot be better invested. Address Schermerhorn, Bancroft & Co., New York city.

WOMEN VOTING.-Hon. John Stuart Mill, a recently elected member of the House of Commons, England, declares himself in favor of allowing women to vote. We would say to our English Cousins, why not be consistent and allow women to vote, since you allow a woman to sit on the throne?

MR. DOUGLAS, in his great debate with Mr. Lincoln, accused him of tending bar, alluding to his keeping a grocery store. True," said Mr. Lincoln, "the judge and I have both tended bar-I on the inside, he on the outside."