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TO SUBSCRIBERS.

THE NATIONAL TEACHERS' MONTHLY will be sent to any address, postage pre-
paid, for the annual subscription price of One Dollar, in advance. Subscriptions may
commence at any time. Back numbers furnished if desired.

No subscription will be entered unless accompanied by the cash.

PREMIUMS.-Any person sending us five or more subscriptions under one cover,
with the cash for the same, will be entitled to the return of one-fifth of the amount in
books from A. S. BARNES & Co.'s Catalogue, by mail, post-paid.

PREMIUM EXTRAORDINARY.-For Two Dollars the publishers will send, postpaid,
any $1.50 book from their Catalogue, and the MONTHLY for one year.

CLUB RATES.-THE NATIONAL TEACHERS' MONTHLY with INTERNATIONAL REVIEW,
or "Popular Science Monthly," for $5.00 (the price of the latter periodicals alone!);—
with Harper's, Scribner's, Lippincott's, the Atlantic, or Galaxy Monthlies, or Harper's
Weekly or Bazar ($4.00 periodicals), for $4.25;--with any $1.50 Educational Monthly,
for $2.25; with the New York Weekly Tribune, for $2.50;-with the $3.00 Religious
Weeklies (Independent, etc.), $3.75; etc., etc.

Send stamp for our Descriptive Catalogue, or Twenty-five Cents for GRAND
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE of all our publications. A. S. BARNES & Co., Publishers.

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THE COMPETENT TEACHER.

HE evil influence of the incompetent teacher, both in its positive and negative aspects, is beyond exaggeration. Leaving out of account the intentional propagators of evil, of whom, let us hope, the number is insignificant, and considering only those who make mistakes, or who have not yet learned the business, or who, imagining they have learned it are yet wofully ignorant of it, and what a melancholy scene we have before us! Who can picture the disaster wrought by such? Undeveloped or faultily developed characters embracing unsuitable or criminal occupations-legitimate and well-founded hopes of parents dashed to earth and galling disappointments planted in their stead. The efforts of the state wisely made, and its means generously given, frittered away with no results or only evil results. Who does not know and can not name a fatal example of a career blighted and rendered ignoble by the errors, the incompetence, or the heartlessness of those who should have saved it? The large schools in our cities furnish special opportunities for witnessing the influence of teachers in these respects. The concentration and aggregation of teachers and pupils there found offer special facilities for the examination of this topic. There you may often witness in the same child almost all phases of character in his passage through the different rooms and grades. Especially is this true if his home influences are weak or vicious.

The parent comes with him the first day, and anxiously but hopefully places him in the lowest room of the first floor. If the teacher there has a proper conception of her work, his perceptive faculties are awakened and employed, and he soon passes on. He enters a higher room, and if the teacher is equal to her work, there is no interruption of his progress. In the school fortunate enough to possess a corps of teachers who are masters of the situation, all goes well, and the work is in every way satisfactory and

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