ONE of the biographies in Cleveland's admirable Compendium of American Literature says, "His father died when he was an infant. A juvenile father, truly!

THE telegraph reported recently, in regard to the Burnside victory, that "the stars and stripes were seen at Elizabeth City floating over the batteries." Query: Where were the batteries? At Elizabeth City, or at Roanoke Island?

A VERY bashful young man, translating before his college professor a passage from Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates, in which Socrates says to a young friend, "When you see a beautiful woman, beware!" rendered it thus, "When you see a pretty girl, run like thunder and lightning !" "Ah, yes," said the old professor; "but is n't that rather free?"

"Gun

A COLLEGE student named Gun was absent one day at roll-call. -Gun," said the professor; "anybody know where Gun is?" A little fellow in the corner squeaked out, "Gone off, sir!”

We dropped into one of the lower classes of a city school the other day, during an examination. The following words were used. The class spelled ninety per cent. correctly.

Camel, Cabin, Pallet, Linen, Habit, Melon, Police, Cashier, Heifer, Leopard, Falsify, Pacify, Stupefy, Vilify, Specify, Sleight, Business, Seine, Carriage, Bureau, Pursuit, Religious, Village, Partridge, Bridge.

A friend hands us the following list:

Inseparable, Paralysis, Pigeon, Glycerine, Basilisk, Chrysalis, Sapphire, Basin, Sparse, Solitude, Emollient, Surcingle, Kerseymere, Chalybeate, Irascible, Syzygy, Vermilion, Inuendo, Isosceles, Lachrymal, Saccharine, Dishabille, Apocrypha, Satellite, Baptistery.

Besieged, Baluster, Tyrannize, Eleemosynary, Exchequer, Tranquillity, Codicil, Supersede, Procedure, Huguenot, Gauger, Laudatory, Gherkin, Beleaguered, Mignonette, Millenium, Pretension, Phraseology, Serviceable, Parallelism, Connoisseur, Unmistakable, Contagious, Partisan, Inflammation.

A GOOD MOTTO IN ANY STUDY. Review; Review; Review.

EXAMINATION QUESTIONS.

THE following questions were used at a late examination of teachers for the Bowditch School, of this city.

2. Divide two hundred and fifty-six ten-thousandths by four millionths. 3. In 324,560 inches how many miles? Answer to be given in miles, furlongs, rods, yards, feet, and inches.

4. At what rate per cent. will 840 dollars gain $49 in 2 years 2 months? 5. What is the difference between the interest and the discount of $5,000 for 1 year 6 months?

6. A grocer sold tea at 45 cents per pound, and gained 10 per cent. What would he have gained per cent. if he had sold it for 50 cents per pound?

7. A gentleman purchases a farm for $3,600, and agrees to pay $600 down, and the remainder in 5 equal semi-annual instalments. At what time may the whole be paid at once?

8. A gentleman owns a farm in the form of a square, containing 250 What is the length of one side of the farm, and what is the distance between its opposite corners ?

acres.

GRAMMAR.

1. What is the meaning of the grammatical term Accidents?

2. What parts of speech are declined? What are inflected? and which are neither declined nor inflected?

3. Give the plurals of chrysalis, genus, billet-doux, queen-consort.

4. Compare the adjectives, evil, little, front, wooden.

5. What is the difference between Voice and Mood?

6. What is an impersonal verb? Give an example.

7. Correct the sentence, "To ascertain and settle which, of a white rose or a red rose breathes the sweetest fragrance."

8. In the following sentence, parse the words in italics: "Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.”

GEOGRAPHY.

1. What is the greatest city north of the latitude of London; and upon what river is it built?

2. Which is further south, Marseilles or Florence?

3. What, or about what, is the latitude of Liberia? and what is the longitude?

4. Which is furthest north, Boston, or Berlin, or the Bay of Biscay? 5. Bound Germany.

6. How is Austria bounded, and what is its principal river?

7. Where is Lucca, and what article of domestic use do we obtain from there?

8. Name two or three great rivers of the world that flow from the south towards the north; and which of them is the greatest and most famous ?

HISTORY.

1. What was the foundation of the English claim to North America? 2. Give the dates of the settlement of Plymouth Colony, and the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, and the names of the first governors of each. When were the two colonies united under one name?

3. What was the Continental Congress, and give the date of its assembling?

4. Give the names and dates of such battles of the American Revolution as you recollect.

5. Give the reasons for the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.

6. Give the names of the Presidents of the United States in their order, and the length of the term of office of each.

7. Give the names and 1812 as you recollect.

dates of such naval engagements in the war of

8. State what you know of the origin of the Mexican war, and dates of such battles as you recollect.

ORTHOGRAPHY.

and the names

Balance, Benefited, Botanic, Ballad, Chyle, Cripple, Crystallize, Hieroglyphics, Hygiene, Indelible, Menace, Moralize, Mortise, Panel, Pinnace, Satellite, Rebellion, Triple, Tyrranic, Valid, Vermilion, Valise, Visible.

OUR EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGES.

The Maine Teacher. Edited by Hon. E. P. Weston, State Superintendent of Schools. We are always glad to see this excellent journal. Its editor is thoroughly alive and labors zealously in the good cause. We copied into our last issue his article on "Forefather's Day," and have since seen it in another journal. It will be seen that a correspondent in our present number questions its statements. Which is right?

The New Hampshire Journal of Education: Concord. Twelve Associate Edi

tors. Jonathan Tenny, A. M., Resident Editor. This journal has always been conducted with ability, and its recent issues show a determination on the part of its new editor to maintain its high position. We miss the Grammatical Department. The editor of that department having crossed the line into our own State, may we not hope to receive some contributions from his pen for our own journal ? The Vermont School Journal: West Brattleboro'. A. E. Leavenworth and Hiram Orcutt, Editors. Vermont has probably fewer annual teachers than any other New England State. All honor to them for so well sustaining their journal. May it live and increase. What a journal we should have in old Massachusetts

would our teachers only do half as well!

J. J.

The Rhode Island Schoolmaster: Providence. Board of twelve Editors. Ladd, A. M., and N. W. De Munn, Resident Editors. Little Rhody is not a whit behind her larger brothers and sisters in maintaining a school journal. She cannot boast so many teachers; but what she lacks in numbers, she makes up in zeal. The Schoolmaster has been ably conducted from the beginning. It gives more selections and treats its readers to a greater variety than most journals.

The Connecticut Common School Journal: Hartford. Charles Northend, New Britain, Resident Editor. Twelve Associate Editors. This successful journal, instead of succumbing to the times, has more than renewed its life. It is nobly sustained by the Connecticut teachers, and it is well worthy their support. The two numbers already issued are worth the whole year's subscription.

The New York Teacher: Albany. A Board of thirteen Editors. James Cruikshank, Resident Editor. This journal has a wide field and ought to have, and no doubt does have, an efficient support. Each number contains forty-eight closely printed pages, so closely printed as to look rather unattractive: but its articles are generally excellent, and we think no subscriber can complain that he does not get his money's worth. The resident editor is also publisher, and the present position of the Teacher is mainly owing to his enterprise.

Edited by Thomas H. Bur-
This is an excellent journal.

The Pennsylvania School Journal: Lancaster. rowes, State Superintendent of Common Schools. We have always looked over its pages with interest. Though it ministers mainly to the wants of its own State, it contains much that is useful everywhere. The Superintendent's Annual Report, in the last number, is a valuable document.

The Ohio Educational Monthly: Columbus. Edited and published by E. E. White & Co. The February number of this journal has not yet been received. The January number contained many valuable contributions, and promised well for the new volume. Geography in the Primary School," by Dr. Thomas Hill, and "Hints to Teachers," by M. F. Cowdery, were among the best articles. The publishers seem to have secured the services of the best educators.

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The Indiana School Journal: Indianapolis. Eleven Associate Editors. Daniel Kirkwood, Mathematical Editor, and O. Phelps, Resident Editor. This is an ably conducted journal. The February number has not come to hand. But the January number contains valuable articles. Our associate was so well pleased with the "Cramming vs. the Drawing out System," that he has marked some portions or transfer to our own pages.

The Illinois Teacher: Peoria. Alexander M. Gow Dixon, Editor, and L. A. Briggs, Chicago, Associate and Mathematical Teacher. This is one of the best educational journals. It has an attractive outside appearance, and its contents are always readable and useful. In some respects the Illinois teachers seem to be in advance of their brethren in the East.

Wisconsin Journal of Education: Madison. An Editorial Committee of fifteen. Rev. J. B. Pradt, Resident Editor, and T. D. Coryell, A. M., Mathematical Editor. This periodical comes to hand about as promptly as any of our exchanges, and though from a State comparatively new, yet must be ranked among our leading journals. Its articles are mostly original, and are read with pleasure and profit.

The Iowa Instructor: Davenport. Edited by an Executive Committee. This is the only journal that comes to us from beyond the Mississippi. It stands now as our most advanced "picket," and is worthy of the position. There is no danger of its sleeping at its post. The Iowa teachers are alive and working earnestly in the good cause.

We have noticed above all the State journals we have received this year. Our Southern journals of course have ceased to make their appearance. For some reason the Michigan journal has not come to hand. From Lower Canada, we receive the Journal of Education and Journal de L'Instruction Publique; from London, The Educational Times and Journal of the College of Preceptors, all important publications.

BOOK NOTICES.

PREPARATORY LATIN PROSE-BOOK: containing all the Latin Prose necessary for entering College. By J. H. HANSON, A. M. Boston: Crosby & Nichols. The design of the author has been to improve somewhat the Latin preparatory course, and to bring together in one volume all the Latin prose required; thus lessening the expense to the student. The book bears evidence of having been compiled with much care, and is amply supplied with notes and grammatical references; the latter to the revised edition of Andrews and Stoddard's, and Kühner's Latin Grammars.

The requirements of our colleges will of course decide what amount of Latin prose must be learned before entering. Still we think this book is a move in the right direction. The author, the accomplished Principal of the High School, Portland, Me., has brought to his task the requisite scholarship and practical knowledge, and has produced a book admirably adapted to the purpose for which it was designed. We would commend it to the attention of teachers.

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF BOOK-KEEPING COMBINED. BY AARON SARGENT. Boston: Swan, Brewer & Tileston. 1862.

In a very neat book of 44 pages, small quarto, Mr. Sargent has presented a