NEW ENGLAND STATES.

MAINE.-The Bowdoin College memorial hall will be built of granite, will be two stories high, and in the form of a Greek cross. It will cost $35,000, of which $20,000 have been already subscribed.

-Charles Bennet, of Brunswick, whipped a school-boy lately, and on complaint the case was carried into court. Thirtyeight citizens of the place now come forward with an address, affirming their great confidence in Mr. Bennet as a man and a teacher, and present him a purse of fifty dollars toward defraying the expenses of the trial.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.-The trustees and friends of the educational institute at New London have voted to raise $100,000, with which to construct new buildings and provide for other wants of the institution. $10,000 have been procured.

MASSACHUSETTS.-In consequence of the injunction which has been issued, forbid ding the payment of the $75,000 pledged by the people of Amherst toward the erection of proper buildings for the State Agricultural College at Amherst, it is stated that an effort will be made upon the assembling of the next Legislature to obtain a repeal of the law which provides that the town in which the college is located must furnish $75,000, and to have an act passed that the whole expense be borne by the State. The grounds upon which the infunction was issued are, that the act is unconstitutional, and that it amounts to the relief of individuals from their private debts and forces them upon the town. is also stated that unless the trustees receive the money before long, they will sell the farm purchased for the college, and locate it elsewhere.

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--During the year ending April 1st, 1866, one hundred and sixty-one pupils were received into the State Reform School, and at that date two hundred and forty-eight remained on the list. The receipts were $36,551.09, and the expenditures $36,434.57. The trustees ask $5,000 from the Legisla. ture for repairs and improvements, and urge the appointment of a committee to examine the affairs of the school and the necessity for enlargement.

CONNECTICUT.-The school-fund amounts to $2,046,532.25, $252,836 having been added last year. The revenue received during the year was $136,471.94, and dividends amounting to $140,816.70 were distributed to the various school-districts. The lands given by Congress for support of an agricultural college were sold for $135,000, and the money has been invested in bonds of

the State. The income from this fund is payable to Yale College, that institution having complied with the requirements specified in the act of Congress. The income for last year was $7,531.26. The number of children attending school last year was 118,780, and the per cap. dividend was $1.10. The revenue of the fund will be lessened by the recent laws of the State, which compel the commissioner to sell, at par, the bank-stocks which were paying ten per cent. dividends, and to invest the proceeds in State bonds, which pay but six per centum.

-The New Haven Board of Education have voted to exclude colored children from the public schools.

MIDDLE STATES.

NEW JERSEY.--The recent examinations and commencement exercises of Rutgers College disclose a most decided progress in the status of that time-honored institution. The indomitable zeal and ability of President Campbell is telling upon its prosperity. The Faculty are, without exception, live men, distinguished in their several departments of instruction. Two new professors have just been elected-Professor Cooper, of Danville, Kentucky, for the Greek chair, and Captain Kellogg, of the United States Army, for Civil Engineering and Military Tactics. The course of study is being continually improved, and students there are required to work. The increased size of the classes proves the growing estimate in which this college is held. One of the members of this year's graduating clas, Mr. E. A. Apgar, was elected, some months before his graduation, to the high position of 'Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of New Jersey. This case is without parallel, and speaks well for Rutgers College, and for New Jersey. During the year a well-furnished observatory has been erected. An Alumni Hall is in contemplation, and the Rutgers Chapter of the famons Delta Phi Fraternity, have taken steps for the erection of a Delta Phi Hall,

From the annual report of Mr. Sears, the City Superintendent of Schools in Newark, it appears that last year the whole number of pupils in attendance during the year was nearly twelve thousand (11,945), being a considerable increase over that of the previous year. The average daily attendance was 85.5 per cent., or a little more than two per cent. better than during the year 1864. The per centage of attendance in the different grades of schools, and which is believed will compare favorably with that of schools of like grades in any city in the country, was as follows: High School, 89.1 per

cent.; Grammar Schools, 87.5 per cent.: Primary Schools, 85.9 per cent.; Colored Schools, 67: Industrial Schools, 67. In the High School the whole number enrolled during the year was three hundred and ninety-nine--an increase over the previous year; the average number enrolled in the male department having been eleven greater than during the year 1864, and in the female department twelve greater.

During the period of eleven years which has elapsed since the opening of this school, the number of pupils admitted has been as follows:

Pupils in the male department, 1,084. Pupils in the female department, 1,117; making a total number of 2,191.

For the maintenance of the system during the year there was expended the sum of $81,322.71-making an average cost of tuition per pupil, excluding the Normal and Evening Schools, and including teachers' wages, fuel, books, insurance, rents of the Primary School-rooms, and incidentals -ot only $12.33 per annum.

PENNSYLVANIA.-The Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends at Philadelphia are erecting a spacious college at Westdale, for the education of their own children. It will cost $200,000.

-The family of Mr. Crozier, of Chester, have given in trust to the Baptist Publication Society $50.000 as a missionary memorial for the literary and theological instruction of freedmen by means of books and missionaries.

-Last summer Hon. Asa Packer, of Mauch Chunk, donated $500,000 toward building and endowing an institution to be located at Bethlehem. Preparations for erecting the building are in progress. When finished it will present a front of two hundred feet, and, if the expectations of its projectors should be realized, will be the finest building in Pennsylvania.

WESTERN STATES.

Оно.-The Board of Education of Cincinnati have raised the salaries of teachers in the public schools of that city ten per

cent.

-The total attendance this year at Oberlin College is seven hundred and seventy, of which four hundred and twenty-five are gentlemen. Of the whole number two hundred and sixty-one are new students. Last term a new Ladies' Boarding Hall opened with rooms for one hundred ladies, and table accommodations for a like number of gentlemen in addition. The building is handsomely finished, containing parlors, reception-room, library, and societyAn effort is being made to raise $150,000 to complete the endowment and to erect two new buildings, one for recitation-room and one for philosophical-room, laboratory, and museum. Over $20,000 are

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already secured. The prospects of the college were never more promising. General G. W. Shurtliff, late tutor, has been made Associate-Professor of Language. In September, Judson Smith, A.M., a former tutor in Oberlin, now teacher of mental philoso phy and mathematics in Williston Seminary, Mass., will return to Oberlin as Professor of Latin Language and Literature.

-The students of the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, have given to the college an aggregate subscription of $10,200, and hope to increase the amount. As few of the students are wealthy, the subscription is extraordinary, and the individual contributions in some cases amount actually to a mortgage on future labor for several years. The alumni of this institution have begun the endowment of a chair, and their subscription already amounts to $6,000. The faculty have subscribed $2,600, or more than twenty per cent. of their entire salary for a year.

INDIANA. The school-fund amounts to $7,613,490.86. All unclaimed fees in the hands of sheriffs or justices of the peace, fines for penal offences, forfeitures of bail, escheated estates, and moneys found on unknown dead persons are paid into this fund. The amount of cominon revenue apportioned in April was $1,004,287.49 for 552,244 children between the ages of six and twenty-one years.

-The State Normal School is to be located at Terre Haute. The appropriation for building is $50,000, besides the grounds worth $25,000. The foundation will be laid during the coming autumn, and the Normal School Board hope to open the institution in the autumn of 1867.

-Indianapolis has ten schools, with 2.851 pupils; average attendance, ninetythree per cent. The teachers' salaries range from $375 to $1,200; the superi tendent receives $1,500.

-Vincennes has nine teachers, with five hundred and ninety pupils. The teachers' wages for the year ending April 1st, 1866, amounted to $2,170.

-The faculty and students of Indiana Asbury University have pledged $6,500 as a centenary offering to the institution.

-The National Convention of State, County, and City Superintendents will be held in Indianopolis on the 13th of this month. At the same place the Convention of normal Professors and Teachers will be held on the 14th instant, and on 15th, 16th, and 17th inst. the National Teachers' convention.

ILLINOIS.-Flavel Moseley, a native of Hampton, Connecticut, who died recently at Chicago, bequeathed $10,000 for a "Moseley Public School Book Fund," $10,000 to mission-schools, and $20,000 to the "Chicago Home for the Friendless."

CALIFORNIA. The school session for children under eight years of age is, by a recent change, limited to four hours per day. -The San Francisco Board of Education are making strenuous efforts to accommodate the city children. Since April 1st 586 pupils have been admitted, making the total amount at present 2,414.

SOUTHERN STATES.

MARYLAND. The number of pupils now in the Baltimore Manual Labor School is thirty-seven. The average number in attendance during the past year was fifty. The building is capable of accommodating one hundred, but the funds of the institution do not authorize such an increase in the number of pupils. The school is supported by public contributions.

VIRGINIA.--At Richmond there is now a free school for whites, the only one in the State. It is modelled after the grammarschools of New York and Boston, and includes a school for boys, a school for girls, and a mixed school for beginners of both sexes. The boys' school contains seventyeight pupils, and is under the charge of Miss M. J. Miles, of Waltham, Mass.; the girls' school, Miss S. E. Foster, of Waltham, teacher, has seventy-six pupils; and the primary department, under Mr. Hovey and Miss C. R. Thorp, of Philadelphia, is attended by two hundred and twenty-five pupils. The schools are filled to repletion, and numerous applications for admission are made daily.

-The prospects of Washington College, under the direction of General Lee, are very cheering. The endowment has been raised to $145,000, and it will soon be further increased. The number of students is one hundred and forty.

-The University of Virginia is said to be in a very flourishing condition, and two hundred and fifty-eight students are in attendance. At a recent meeting of the Trustees of Hampden Sidney College, Colonel B. S. Ewell, President of William and Mary College, was chosen to fill the chair of mathematics.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.-The series of school-readers used in the public schools of Washington being an abolition publication, in that it contains Mr. Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg, an effort is being made to have it thrown out and to introduce a series prepared for the Southern market, with careful omission of all reference to the recent war.

SOUTH CAROLINA.-Two of the Episcopal churches of Charleston are making a united movement for educating colored children, and already have six hundred scholars under their care.

ALABAMA.-Freedmen's schools are in

successful operation in fifteen large cities, and are attended by more than 10,500 pupils. In some of the white churches colored children are taught under the superintendency of the pastors. At Demopolis the citizens have contributed of their funds to aid in the erection of a schoolhouse for colored people. The mayor of Tuskegee is said to have charge of a large Sunday-school for blacks.

FOREIGN.

CANADA-UPPER.-The lists of McGill University show that there are in all nine hundred and thirty-six persons directly receiving instruction at the University; of these three hundred and six are entered in the faculties of law, medicine, and arts. At its late convocation sixty-six gentlemen were graduated. Victoria University has two hundred and eighty-two students. The matriculation and university courses have been somewhat extended. Forty-eight gentlemen have just been graduated.

ENGLAND.-Trinity College has fallen heir to between $300,000 and $850,000, under the will of Dr. Whewell, the late master. It is to make provision for the establishment of a professorship of international law in the University. The appointment of the Rev. William H. Thompson, M. A., as Master of Trinity College, is gazetted.

The great schools are thus compared: At Eton, 32 masters teach 806 boys; at Winchester, 12 teach 200; at Westminster, 9 teach 186; at Harrow, 22 teach 481; at Rugby, 19 teach 463.

-Mr. Spurgeon's college in London for raising up preachers seems to have become a fixed institution. Already about one hundred and twenty have gone out from it and entered upon their work in various parts of England, and the number of those now in preparation is nearly one hundred. Regarded as a system of intellectual education, the training here afforded is brief and superficial. The aim, however, is only to take men of peculiar gifts and to prepare them for extemporaneous preaching.

-The Liverpool corporation schools educate two thousand one hundred and fifty children at a cost of $2,800 per an

The most noticeable feature is the very large increase among those who have not been pupil-teachers.

FRANCE. Formerly only those books which had been sanctioned by the authorities might be used in the National Schools: now, if the consent of the rector or academic head of the district be previously obtained, teachers may introduce any book which has not been expressly forbidden.

-With a population of 40,000,000, France expends only $1,400,000 on primary schools, while the State of New York, with less than 4,000,000 inhabitants, expends $4,400,000. In France many excellent teachers receive only $80 per annum. It is not surprising, then, that the government reports 884,000 children between seven and thirteen years of age as receiving no instruction whatever. The number of illiterate persons is estimated by educational journals to be not less than 2,500,000. In view of this fact, they urge the establishment of adult classes, as far as possible.

-A prize of four hundred francs is offered by the Educational Society of Lyons for an essay to determine how far the want of success in children's education is due to their parents, and how far to the schoolmaster. The essays may be written in any language.

-Next year the French Academy will celebrate its two hundredth anniversary.

ITALY. At the suggestion of M. Berti, the new Minister of Public Instruction, a National School Society has been formed. Its object is to promote popular instruction by training teachers, male and female, by contributing toward the erection of new schools, by aiding intelligent teachers and awarding prizes to those who achieve eminent success, by publishing books for the people, and by founding educational museums, school-libraries, and libraries for the people. To encourage local liberality, it is declared that two-thirds of all local contributions shall be spent on schools of the locality; and that of the remaining third, one-half shall be disposed of by the provincial committee to which the locality inay belong, and the other half remitted to the central committee sitting in the capital. This central committee is to select books for publication, to publish a journal, and to appoint inspectors of the society's schools. Means are to be taken to render diplomas, granted to teachers by this society, of equal legal effect with those granted by the state.

PRUSSIA. In this kingdom there are about two hundred and twenty-five Reformatory Institutions in successful operation. Nearly all have been established since 1848, and a large number are in charge of Brothers of the Rauhe Haus. Besides these permanent institutions there are numerous associations for the care of vagrant children.

These do not place children in Rettungsanstalten (or Houses of Refuge), but put them out to private families and exercise a vigilant care over each one of them.

GERMANY.-The Fourteenth Congress of the Schoolmasters of Germany has just been held at Mannheim. Among the questions discussed were the best methods of developing memory in children; the means of awakening in them a love of country; the advantages resulting from a larger share being given to gymnastic exercises in education; the study of music, especially of national songs; the necessity of teaching children, with the greatest care, the history of their country, and especially the great deeds and victories of the German people, etc. There are now in the different German States sixty-three educational periodicals.

WIRTEMBURG.-Thirty-six reformatories and orphan asylums are in existence. Among them are twenty-three Rettungsanstalten, of which fifteen have at present eight hundred and seventy-six children under their care. The expenses of these institutions in 1864 amounted to thirty-four dollars per head. The Central Committee of Benevolence for the kingdom, established in 1816, reported as under its supervision, 180 Infant Asylums, with 10,000 children; 1,409 Industrial Schools, with 65,000 children; 23 Rettungsanstalten, with about 1,200 children; 11 societies for the care of vagrants in private families; 1 Institute for Juvenile Delinquents; 1 Deaconess Institution; and one training school for female teachers in infant-schools. The agricultural schools of Wirtemburg begin their work after the reformatories have finished. They take twelve or fifteen boys from the latter and put them either on some farm belonging to the Government, or into the family and under the care of an experienced Christian farmer. The latter has the control of the boys, and the benefit of their work, but must clothe and feed them. Besides the opportunity thus afforded to become good farmers, the boys get regular instruction in elementary branches.

SWEDEN.-In 1859, a royal decree empowered women to teach in primary government schools; and this ineasure has proved so beneficial that the Diet is now considering a proposal for opening to women, not only the higher departments of teaching, but also the medical career. Stockholm, particularly, almost all the gratuitious elementary schools for both boys and girls are taught by women, at salaries varying from $200 to $250 per an

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RUSSIA. Regulations have been issued by the Russian Government for the introduction of a new system of public instruction in Poland. The language used in the

different schools as a medium of instruction will be that of the majority of inhabitants of the district, whether Polish, Russian, German, or Lithuanian. Spiritual instruction will be imparted by the secular clergy of the different religious persuasions; and the Polish, together with the Russian language and history, will be taught in all the schools of the kingdom.

Female education is to be taken out of the hands of the clergy, and normal schools are to be established, with teachers of both sexes. To secure the strict observance of these regulations a board of directors has been instituted, which will superintend the establishment and see that order is preserved, and that every effort is made to secure the progress of the pupils.

DR. J. W. DRAPER,' at the request of

his friends, has prepared an abridgment of his large work on physiology, and offers it as a text-book for schools and colleges. We think the abridgment no more fitted for schools than the treatise itself. It treats only of physiology, and, therefore, requires of the pupil a previous knowledge of anatomy. It is altogether too comprehensive for ordinary students, but will be an excellent text for medical students and members of the higher classes in college. Teachers will find it an excellent book of reference; it contains, in convenient form, the pith of what can elsewhere be found only in large octavos, and the author is regarded as high authority in chemistry and physiology.

THE numerous editions through which Dr. Otto's grammars have passed in Germany and in this country, and the fact that they are used in Harvard and Trinity Colleges, the Free Academy in New York, and King's College, Nova Scotia, is presumptive evidence of their excellence.

They are particularly clear in their arrangement and statement. The rules are definitely expressed, and the lessons and exercises are progressive in character. The French grammar unites the best qualities of Ollendorf and Fasquelle, with the additional advantage of being much more brief. It is especially rich in idiomatic expressions, and is admirably adapted to teach the speaking of French. Part First

(1) A TEXT-BOOK ON PHYSIOLOGY. For the use of schools and colleges. BY JNO. WILLIAM DRAPER, M. D., LL.D. 150 engravings. New York: Harper & Brothers. 12mo., pp. 376, $1 50.

(2) OTTO'S FRENCH CONVERSATION-GRAMMAR. Revised by FERDINAND BOCHER, instructor in French at Harvard College. New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1866. 12mo., pp. 396, cloth, $1 75.

The German Grammar is on the same general plan. We noticed the excellent manner in which the genders and declensions of nouns are treated. The verbs, too, are introduced early and fully, and there are copious exercises on the irregular verbs. Reading-lessons are interspersed throughout the book, and at the end is a selection of some of the finest pieces of modern German poetry.

Before Mr. Cuore's Italian Grammar appeared there was no manual of the Italian language accessible in this country that was not grossly defective. With this it is possible to learn that beautiful language with ease and pleasure. This grammar fills a great want, and is an excellent introduction to the tongue of Dante and Boccaccio.

FEW metaphysicians have exercised so great influence upon their generation as

John Stuart Mill. Chief in the Positive or Sensational School, he lately published an examination into Sir William Hamilton's system of intuition, or a priori truth. In this work he attacked the system, not

(3) GERMAN CONVERSATION-GRAMMAR. A new and practical method of learning the German language. By Rev. Dr. EMIL OTTO. 12mo., pp. 502. New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1866. Cloth, $2.

(4) ITALIAN CONVERSATION-GRAMMAR. By L. B. CUORE. 12mo. pp. 279. New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1866. Cloth, $2.