serving to temper their aspirations, and make them as Goethe says, "think of living." So we are glad to see the Journal of Maurice de Guérin. MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME RECAMIER. Translated from the French, and edited by Isaphene M. Luyster. Boston: Roberts Brothers. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. pp. 408. The story of this most beautiful woman is hardly known in America; but this volume shows how widely she was esteemed in Europe, among men whose names have gone over the world. In most biographies, the letters written by the subject are recorded; but this book reverses the natural order, only seven written by Madame Récamier being given, while those to her from such sources as General Bernadotte, Madame de Staël, Lucien Bonaparte, Moreau, Chateaubriand, Queen Hortense, etc., are numerous. To persons fond of court gossip, and of the private doings among people that make history, these memoirs will be of decided interest. THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD. By Charles Dickens. With Original Illustrations by S. Eytinge, Jr. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft & Co. pp. 494. The "Diamond Dickens" progresses famously. This is No. 3, of the monthly issues, and the entire set is to be completed in thirteen volumes. Concerning David Copperfield, it is unnecessary to speak further than to say its appearance in this series is most welcome. Nowhere else has Dickens so fully done himself justice as in this admirable story, which we read for the hundredth time, more or less, with fresh pleasure and renewed satisfaction. THE ELEMENTS OF COMPOSITION, BELLES LETTRES, AND ORATORY. By Augustus Layres, Professor of various languages, Rhetoric and Science. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. pp. 166. Prof. Layres has become well known in the leading cities of the State through his course of lectures on Composition and Oratory. In this book, which is the first part of his course, to be succeeded by two other volumes, we have the elements set forth which are deemed by the learned professor suitable for the instruction of children and youth. We have read the book before us with interest and profit, and commend it to the teachers of the State as containing valuable suggestions that may be made practically useful in the school-room. It would be well to have it placed on the list of books for Libraries, as containing in small space and scientific form the elements of a very important art. As a text book in ordinary schools, we think it would hardly prove popular. Indeed, it would seem the author himself was aware that the text is somewhat abstruse for a pupil, since he has placed. under almost every page of the text questions with short answers comprising the main points of the more elaborate statements above. The work is dedicated to "the Directors of Public and Private Instruction, to the Patrons of the Author, and to all the Friends of Literature ;" and the closing paragraph of the Preface is as follows: If the public and private institutions of learning of the United States of America, and more particularly those of the STATE OF CALIFORNIA-whence this treatise has emanated-shall derive benefit from the author's work, he will have attained his object, and will consider himself amply repaid for his labor." CALIFORNIA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY. Publication Rooms, No. 302 Montgomery St. Towne & Bacon, Printers, 536 Clay Street. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION— RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF CALIFORNIA. 1 4 INSTRUCTIONS TO TEACHERS 3 RULES FOR DISTRICT LIBRARIES. 6 STATE SERIES OF TEXT BOOKS COURSE OF STUDY.... 9 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.... 17 STATE BOARD OF NORMAL SCHOOL TRUSTEES. 19 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 20 DISTRICT SCHOOL TAX... 22222232 TEMPORARY CERTIFICATE.. RESIDENT EDITORS' DEPARTMENT A MONTH AMONG THE SCHOOLS.... A NEW SCHOOL JOURNAL 23 26 26 26 26 26 UNION INSTITUTE 27 CITY FEMALE SEMINARY.. 27 NEW YORK REFORM SCHOOL. 27 REGISTRY ACT 27 THE COMPLAINING TEACHER 28 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL REPORT. 28 29 PROF. MARTIN KELLOGG, Cal. College, Is invited to these Pictures, as an important and useful aid to the instruction of the young. They serve to amuse the pupils when through their studies-and have been introduced into the Schools throughout the Atlantic States and San Francisco. Price $1.00. CLARKE'S NEW SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. By CHARLES RUSSELL CLARKE, A.M. ADOPTED JUNE 8TH, 1866, BY THE State Board of Education of California. This is a new SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY of the World. It has been prepared by a practical teacher, of thirteen years' experience, for use in the Pacific States. The demand for it seemed imperative, owing to the vastness and novelty of the interests of this portion of the Union, and the meagre space allotted to them in other Geographies. It seems only reasonable that a pupil in California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, or Arizona, should learn something more of his own State than can be gleaned from a few imperfect statements, and small, incorrect maps. The special features of this Geography are the following: 1. A large amount of text devoted to the Pacific States. The sections and interests of each are reviewed in detail. 2. New and correct maps, general and local, of the Pacific domain. 3. The matter pertaining to the Pacific Coast is placed foremost, so that the pupil begins his study of the world at home. 4. When foreign countries are treated, especial attention is directed to the markets and supply ports of the Pacific States. And a fuller exhibition than ordinary is given of those countries with which the Pacific States hold direct_intercourse, to wit: Mexico, Central America, South America, Eastern Asia, Japan, and Oceanica. British Columbia and Vancouver Island are treated with especial fullness. 5. The book aims to serve as the training book of a habit of connecting cause and effect. Hence, facts are rarely stated unaccompanied by their causes or effects. Thus the great laws of Physical Geography are constantly brought before the pupil's attention. 6. The Map Questions are reduced in number; and the Text Questions are written so as to call out the causes of facts, as well as the facts themselves. 7. The mechanical execution of the work, to wit: the printing, the maps, and the illustrations, is of the first order. This GEOGRAPHY has been most highly recommended by all the leading Educators of California. Mr. SWETT, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, says: "CLARKE'S GEOGRAPHY Supplies a want which has long been felt," and adds: "It cannot fail to be received with deligh by all teachers and educators." Prof. MINNS, Principal of the State Normal School, says: "The work is absolutely demanded on the Pacific Coast." Rev. Mr. VEEDER, Principal of the City College, San Francisco, says: "It meets a want that entitles it to a place in all our schools, to the exclusion of all other School Geographies of the same scope." Mr. SwEZEY, Resident Editor of the TEACHER, says: "I do not see that any question can exist in respect to its superiority over all other text books on Geography for the use of schools on the Pacific Coast." Rev. Mr. WILLEY, Vice President of the College of California, says: "It ought at once to be adopted by all our schools, in preference to any other." Published by H. H. BANCROFT & COMPANY, BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, |