faces and ceremonial mummery, but in active goodness, in Sanitary and Freedmen's Aid Commissions, in helping Little Wanderers, and giving children aid; in saving the vicious, and protecting the weak, and comforting the sick and the wretched, and doing God service by helping our fellow-men.

And so again it comes to pass, that the live minister nowadays comes out of his pulpit, and preaches week-day sermons; and to be respected must, as we have said, be a man, taking part in men's work, understanding their week-day interests, knowing how to apply religion to practical life. He is permitted to be a student only on condition that his studies bring forth fruit, and that he know what is going on in the world about him.

Dr. Osgood's book is not a great book, but it is a sign of the times. A Doctor of Divinity in the last generation would have shut himself up in his study, and written a heavy tome of controversial divinity; and our grandfathers would have read it, and we suppose it would have done them good; for each generation has its appointed work. But here is a volume by a Doctor of Divinity, gay in red and gold, of practical essays contributed to a pictorial monthly; and just as an accomplished scholar does not disdain to edit that popular monthly, so we think Dr. Osgood has shown his good sense, and a right understanding of the wants of the times, by writing in it. His chapters on Little Children, on School Influence. American Boys and American Girls, are the ones that address themselves most directly to teachers.

Greek for LITTLE SCHOLARS. The First Greek Book of the Pantographic Series. Published for the Philotechnic Institute of Camden, N. J., by J. P. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia.

We don't think that little scholars ought to learn Greek, and so we cannot exactly see the benefit of this first of the pantographic labors of the Philotechnic Institute. We should recommend that the whole edition, "booce," "mooce," "soos," "heep-pooce," phool-lon" and all, be shipped to the late King Otho's dominions. It might prove as good a speculation as Timothy Dexter's venture of warming-pans to the West Indies.

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THE RIVERSIDE MAGAZINE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Vol. I. No. 1, January, 1867. New York: Hurd & Houghton.

A really beautiful Youth's Magazine, got up with great taste both as regards the printing, the wood-cuts, and above all the handsome cover, printed in colors. We hope its contributors will prove to be possessed of the rare and difficult art of writing well for children.

CRADOCK NOWELL, A TALE OF THE NEW FOREST. By R. D. Blackmore, author of Clara Vaughan. Harpers' Library of Select Novels, No. 283.

BERNTHAL; OR, THE SON'S REVENGE, from the German of L. Mühlbach, Harpers' Select Novels, No. 284.

LIZZIE LORTOn of GreyrigG, by E. Lynne Lynton. The same, No. 279. MADONNA MARY, by Mrs. Oliphant. The same, No 282.

THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL Report of thE COMMON SCHOOLS OF CINCINNATI, 1866-7.

ANNUAL REPORT of the BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF LOUISVILLE, KY., 1865–66.

REPORT OF THE Superintendent of EducATION OF LOWER CANADA, FOR THE YEAR 1865.

OLIVER OPTIC'S MAGAZINE: OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. Boston: Lee & Shepard.

Periodicals for children seem to be multiplying with singular rapidity, though we do not think it at all an easy task to write really well for them. Oliver Optic here makes an independent venture, and he is too established a favorite with young folks to need an introduction.

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THE LITTLE CHIEF. Indianapolis. A neat little child's paper from the West. OHIO EDUCATIONAL MONTHLY. Vol. VIII. No. 1.

Our excellent contemporary begins its new volume in a new dress, and can boast of a circulation of about 3000. We rejoice in its success. Meanwhile it justly says, "Teachers' wages have been increased, and a new impulse imparted to the profession. Thousands of teachers are earnestly inquiring for better methods and truer guiding principles. Egotists, drones and fossils are alone satisfied with their attainments and success. One of the practical results of this professional revival should be a large increase in the circulation of educational works."

NOTICE

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

When a Teacher is to be stopped, it is not sufficient simply to enclose the number in a cover, and return it. We must, of course, have name and postoffice address.

NOTE. Our readers, we hope, will look leniently upon occasional oversights in the revising of our journal. We shall try not to call upon them often for such consideration. But in our last number, the awkward phrase, “The science of mental philosophy we have hardly begun to apply" was so arranged in consequence of our own careless correction of the proof; and we certainly should not have said in p. 3, “very important principles which it is of great importance" to enforce, if we had not written hastily. We like such a slovenly style as little as any one. On p. 29," one manual" should be "our manual."

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