LINCOLN MONUMENT SUBSCRIPTIONS.

Teachers who have not yet taken up subscriptions for this fund, will have an opportunity of doing so, as it is found necessary to delay forwarding the amount already received for another month.

PUBLIC, SCHOOLS OF BOSTON. We acknowledge the receipt from Hon. John D. Philbrick, Superintendent of Public Schools, of the Boston School Report for 1865, an elegantly bound and beautifully printed volume of four hundred and forty-seven pages. It is embellished with a fine wood cut of the "Prescott Grammar schoolhouse;" a new building, resembling somewhat in plan the Lincoln schoolhouse of this city, and built at a cost of $110,000.

The report is ably written, and is full of interesting topics and statistics. Boston has a population of 192,324; San Francisco, 120,000; and for the purpose of comparison, we place the school statistics side by side.

COMPARATIVE STATISTICS OF BOSTON AND SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOLS.

Boston. S. F.

Number of children between 5 and 15 years of age.
Average number belonging to schools of all grades during the

34,902 17,388

year.

27,095 8,694

Average daily attendance.

Ratio of the average number belonging to whole number between 5 and 15..

Cost per scholar for incidentals.

Whole cost per scholar, not including school-houses..

Amount received from State School Fund.

Ratio of School tax to the whole amount Raised by tax.

90,000 92.000 643,700 361.600

13.74 21.33

In Boston, the children between five and fifteen years of age, constitute one hundred and eighty-one of the population; in San Francisco, one hundred and

forty-five; in this city, only one half the children between five and fifteen attend school; in Boston, more than three fourths.

San Francisco pays for salaries of teachers, half as much as Boston, for teaching one-third as many children. This is on account of the higher rates paid here to primary teachers. Grammar masters and Submasters are paid

higher in Boston than in San Francisco. We regret that we can find no statistics showing the actual separate cost, last year, of the High, Common and Primary Departments of this city.

The following is a full schedule of Boston Salaries :

TEACHERS' SALARIES IN BOSTON.

The Chairman of the Board, Edwin Wright, in his report, gives the following interesting items, which show how teachers are regarded in that section of the country.

"In this corps of our teachers, the Board are possessed of treasures untold; of devotion to duty that absorbs the life; of abilities that are regal; of fidelity as absolute as human nature will permit; of achievement that approaches perfect success; of ambition for duty, for good, for wisdom, ample as the field itself."

"One gentleman, who has acceptably served the Board as Grammar Master for a term of thirty-seven years, has during the year retired from active service, to give ease and quiet reflection to the residue of his declining days; and, as a memento of his long and faithful service, the Board appointed him teacher emeritus, with a stated salary, to be continued for a limited time, at its pleasure."

"Another Grammar Master, whose literary ability has won for him a national reputation, as an author for juveniles, finding a more grateful field for the growing exercise of his rare and genial talent, declined a further election, and has left the service of the Board.

COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA.-We have received" A Report upon a projected improvement of the estate of the College of California, at Berkeley, near Oakland; by Olmstead, Vaux & Co." It is a document possessing value beyond that which may accrue to the college for which the report was prepared, inasmuch as it enters into the conditions which combine to make desirable country homes. It appears that Berkeley promises well for any gentleman of leisure who may desire to establish himself within easy reach of the city, and where a pleasant dwelling shall furnish at the same time, without great expense, unusual educational advantages for the children.

THE SAN LORENZO DISTRICT, in Alameda County, has one of the neatest and prettiest little schoolhouses in the State, situated on San Lorenzo Creek, under the overhanging branches of several huge sycamores. The School numbers forty pupils, taught by Mr. Fuller. We have seldom visited a pleasanter school. The order was perfect, the house was tidy, and cheerfulness beamed from the scholars' faces. A class in mental arithmetic was remarkably quick in mental processes.

ROLLS OF HONOR.-We are almost weekly in receipt of Rolls of Honor, which indicate that the pupils in the public schools are striving to do their duty in all class exercises and deportment. To publish all the names would take more space than we can well spare, but hereafter we will give the first two names on each list, whenever we are able.

Rock Creek, Butte Co. (James W. Lamon, teacher), sends us these: Boys— Alick Thrower, Henry Lawsen. Girls-Nettie Still, Josephine Still.

Buchanan District, Mendocino Co. (Harry P. Williams, teacher), sends us these (77 pupils enrolled). Boys-Charles Smith, James Pool. GirlsJosephine Jackson, Ada Lyman.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT-For the forms illustrating the Monthly Report Card, the Merit Card, and the Recitation Card, we gratefully acknowledge our obligation to the prompt and cheerful courtesy of Messrs. Bosqui & Co., Printers to the San Francisco School Department, who kindly placed them at our disposal, with their compliments to the CALIFORNIA TEACHER, and all teachers, be the same male or female.

K.

FACTS.-A lady, teaching in one of the Sabbath Schools of this city, was requested recently by the Superintendent to ascertain, with the other teachers, whether the members of her class had been baptised. Upon making the inquiry, one little one, unquestionably a pupil in the public schools, said, " O, yes, ma'am ; and vaccinated, too!"

A lady teacher is accustomed to pronounce words from the reading lesson for the pupils to spell. Closing the book one day, she pronounced the first word to be spelled, "Head boy, 'squeal.'" The youth gravely spelled the word squeal, without perceiving the effort required for the teacher to conceal her emotions as she thought of the order, and congratulated herself that the boy did not squeal.

STATE DIPLOMAS.-Under the Revised School Law, authorizing the State Board of Examination to recognize State Normal School Diplomas, and to adopt the report of County Examinations, since April last, the Board has issued the following Diplomas:

Samuel I. C. Swezey, graduate of the New York State Normal School. Silas A. White, of the California State Normal School.

Mrs. George Bunnell, issued on City High School Certificate.

Mrs. Ira G. Hoitt, on High School Certificate.

Philip Prior, on Grammar Master's City Certificate.

J. B. McChesney, Nevada City, issued on County Examination.
George F. Morris. Red Bluff, issued on County Examination.
Professor F. M. Gatch, Santa Cruz, County Examination.

J. M. Howe, Sacramento, County Examination, and forty years experience in teaching.

James Harlow, Sonoma County, graduate of Bridgewater State Normal School.

Noah S. Flood, Downieville, County Examination.

In the County Examination, on which these Diplomas were granted, the State Series of Questions were used in full, and the original papers were forwarded to the State Board.

FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATES.-Miss Susie Carey, California State Normal School.

E. D. Humphrey, California State Normal School.

Miss Caroline F. Burrowes, New York State Normal School.

A. F. Olinger, California State Normal School.

Miss Maggie McKenzie, State and City Examination.
Miss Mary J. Ritchie, State and City Examination.
Mrs. W. W. McFadden, State and City Examination.
Miss Bertha Comstock, California State Normal School.
Miss Lizzie B. Jewett, California State Normal School.
Miss Anne S. Jewett, California State Normal School.
Mr. W. W. Holden, Alameda County Examination.
O. H. Huntley, Santa Clara County Examination.

Miles Gay, Santa Clara County Examination.

W. W. Kennedy, Santa Clara County Examination.

Miss Mary Barnes, Napa and Solano County Examination.

O. H. O'Neill, Napa and Solano County Examination.

L. H. Van Schaick, State Examination.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.-Have patience with us. For several months we have had articles marked "accepted," in our drawer, but the Department of Public Instruction deserves preference, and they have been deferred. Most of them are as good for one month as another, however, and we mean to do justice to all. Do not stop writing because your contributions have not appeared, and do not forget to give your name in a private note to the editors, even if you do not care to have it appear in print, for they rarely consider the merits of anonymous communications.

PACIFIC PIONEER.-The California Youth's Companion has changed its name to "The Pacific Pioneer and Youth's Literary Companion," and comes to us enlarged and greatly improved. We judge from some very excellent articles therein, that Prof. Knowlton is giving to its pages the benefit of his intellectual energies. The boys and girls of our State should be proud of their new journal. Weekly; $2 per year. Smith & Kelly, San Francisco.

SIERRA COUNTY INSTITUTE.-The first Institute ever held in Sierra County was opened on the sixteenth of October. The local papers generously devote considerable space to the proceedings. A fair attendance and an earnest spirit seem to have made the occasion one of marked interest.

THANKS. Several of our friends in this State and Oregon have kindly forwarded to us copies of the TEACHER for August and September, as requested in our last month's issue. The editorial files are now, thanks to their attention, complete.

London and New York: pp. 191.

NEW BOOKS.-The following new books have been received: THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN. By Emily Davies. Alexander Strahan. San Francisco; A. Roman & Co. In this beautifully printed little volume we have some sensible views of what should be done for the cultivation of woman's powers in the world, under the general heads of "The Ideal," "Things as they are," and "Things as they might be." The authoress has felt the need of some change in the development of thought and activity among her English sisters, and aims to assist in bringing about a proper understanding of affairs. Without indorsing all the propositions herein made, we can cordially commend to all entrusted with the education of girls a perusal of this little treatise.

MASTER AND SCHOLAR, ETC. By E. H. Plumptre, M.A. London and New York: Alexander Strahan. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. pp. 229.

The poem which gives a name to this collection sets before us Roger Bacon in A.D. 1267, and in A.D. 1294, his thinkings, trials, longings, death. The scholar is one whom he set forward in the way of knowledge. We have not time to examine the latter half of the book, but we judge from the portions we have read that no reader need regret the time or money spent in order to secure its well chosen words. We are glad to notice the publications of Strahan, whose books are always well printed and in many cases have a permanent value.

ROBERT MERRY'S BOOK OF RHYMES AND PUZZLES. Edited by Robert Merry. New York: James O'Kane. San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft & Co. pp. 299. All the children will rejoice in this new edition of a book expressly for them. It seems to be a collection of the best rhymes and puzzles which were contained in the old "Merry's Museum," one of the most popular of young folks' papers, before the time of "Our Young Folks." which Ticknor & Fields are now sending forth monthly to the world. We think teachers would find this volume a most acceptable gift to the bright boys and girls, who always delight in Robert Merry.