Circular. WITH the publication of the Number for December, (Number 11,) the editor and publisher of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION have done all they could to meet their engagements with subscribers for the year 1857. During the year, thirteen hundred and fifty-two pages of Educational matter, and ten portraits of eminent teachers and benefactors of Education, from steel plates, engraved, in most instances, expressly for the Journal, (350 pages and six portraits more than was promised,) have been forwarded by mail, or by local agents, to all subscribers who have paid their subscriptions, for 1857. The publication of the Journal will be continued through the year 1858, substantially on the plan of the previous volume, and on the terms set forth in the prospectus of the publisher, for 1858. Number 12 will be issued on the 15th of March, and will be paged from the close of Number 11, so to constitute, when bound up with Numbers 10 and 11, Volume IV, with about the same number of pages as the previous volumes. Numbers 13, 14, and 15, will together constitute Volume V; and the five volumes will be known as the FIRST SERIES of this periodical, and the first installment of the editor's Encyclopedia of Education. Those of our friends who propose to continue their subscription, will confer an obligation by signifying their intention as early as they can. If all of our present subscribers will renew their subscriptions, and each one will send us the name of a new subscriber, the editor, in addition to devoting his whole time to the interests of the Journal, will no longer be burdened with a large pecuniary loss by the publication. If the friends of American Education, in any of its departments, will help to fill a subscription list for one thousand copies of the First Series of the American Journal of Education-[Volumes I, II, III,. IV, and V,] substantially bound-they can in that way relieve the editor of the pecuniary loss he has already sustained. For the convenience of subscribers, who may discontinue their subscription with Number 11, an Index to Numbers 10 and 11 is herewith sent. THE American Journal of Education. No. XII.-MARCH, 1858. CONTENTS. PAGE. I. THOMAS ARNOLD AS A TEACHER. By Prof. Eliot of Trinity College, Conn.,.. 445 Portrait......... Rugby Grammar School..... II. THE SCHOOL AND THE TEACHER IN LITERATURE.. George Crabbe...... Schools of the Borough.. 545 ....... 560 582 582 582 591 ........... III. TENDENCY OF MISDIRECTED EDUCATION AND THE UNBALANCED MIND TO PRO- V. THE HIERONYMIANS; or Brethren of the Common Life. By Karl von Raumer.... 622 VI. MEMOIR OF WILLIAM A. ALCOTT...... 629 Portrait....... Catalogue of Publications..... 629 655 VII. HISTORY OF SYSTEM OF COMMON SCHOOLS IN CONNECTICUT........ 657 Period I. Action of Towns and Colony of Connecticut, from 1638 to 1665..... VIII. MEMOIR OF HENRY TODD............ IX. EARLY TEACHERS IN THE NETHERLANDS. By Karl von Raumer... X. EDUCATIONAL VIEWS OF ERASMUS. By Karl von Raumer...... XI. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES OF PHILIP MELANCTHON. By Karl von Raumer..... 741 1 Melancthon's Childhood... 667 46 1701 to 1800.... 669 611 714 729 741 (a) Lectures; (b) Personal Influence; (c) Inauguration of Gymnasium and School Plan; (d) School Manuals; (e) Declamations; (f) Love of Science.... 747 Labors from 1618 to 1650... XIV. STATE GEOLOGICAL HALL and AgricultuRAL ROOMS, Albany, New York...... 785 Remarks of President Hitchcock on Results of State Geological Survey.......... Educational Uses of Museums of Natural History.... XV. EDUCATIONAL MISCELLANY AND INTELLIGENCE....... 1 GERMANY. F. Froebel and the Kindergarten... Dr. Vogel on Female Teachers... 784 ..... 785 787 787 793 793 765 |