that he who is with thee, and will follow thee, must be ready to follow thee through storm and through toil and hardship; must be ready for what thy life has taught, 'Through conflict to victory!' Thou hadst not merely the courage to pledge thy life in war, in peace also hast thou pledged it again and again, and joyfully hast sacrificed all to thy cause. "Thou didst often say, 'I like the storm; it brings new life;' the lightning which on our way here flashed out of the cloud shall remind us that the darkness which still obscures the time can be rent and illuminated by a mighty ray; it reminds us how thy words, thy inspired action, fell like a fire-flame into the dark heart, summoned the sleeping conscience to awake, and made clear to itself the darkened mind. Does not one (the descendant of Luther) stand here by my side, who feels now in his heart, with burning thanks, how thou didst lead him many years ago in the path of a worthy existence? Will not many of those present confess that thou hast thrown into their minds a kindling and illuminating torch, hast opened up to them new ways of culture, and hast furnished them the means of turning the kindled thought into act? and for how many maidens in the night of an embittered existence hast thou lighted the star of a better hope, and cast the saving rope into the dangerous breakers and drawn them to the green shore of child-nurture? . . . . "Thou callest upon us: You are my last witnesses, be my true disciples and heralds; be the true little band which shall always increase, and which the greater one shall join. Think of me and my words; He who was with me will be with you, and will give you courage and strength as he has vouchsafed it to me, even to the grave. ... Thank me by silence and action, by a deeply penetrating insight and a united creative practice.' . . . . There stand the mothers with their nurslings in their arms, their children by their sides, who bear witness that thou hast smoothed the way to the minds of men not only by the fire of thy speech, but also by the tones of song with which, like the delicious, caressing wind and the fresh morning breeze, thou hast imbued the hearts of the mothers. 'Now a song I had written for the occasion was sung, which was followed by the sacred hymn, 'Rise again, thou shalt rise again.' The pastor said, as he threw a handful of earth into the grave, May God grant to each of us such an end as that of this just man.' "As the bystanders repeated this act, Luther cried with a loud and agitated voice into the grave, 'I thank thee, too.' "The scholars threw flowers upon flowers into the grave; one took her bouquet from her breast and threw it in; then I cast in my song also, as the last gift. "Mutually consoled, we separated quietly, and with inward confidence, to go in our various directions; and over the minds and feelings of all spread the wings of an exalted peace.” CONTENTS OF LANGE'S COLLECTED WRITINGS OF FROEBEL VOLUME I.-Frederich Froebel and his Development,........ 1. Introduction by the Editor,.... A. Chronological View of Principal Events in Life of Froebel,. B. Critical Moments in the Froebelian Circle,........ C. Unity of Life,.. D. Report on the Efforts of the Froebelian Circle,.... 3. Froebel's View of Pestalozzi,...... 2. Autobiographical Letters,... A. Letter to Duke of Meiningen,. B. Letter to K. Ch. Fr. Krause,. 4. An Appeal to our German People from Keilhau,.. 5. Principles, Aim, and Inner Life of the Universal German Educational Institution at Keilhau,.. 242 6. Aphorisms, 1821, with Preface by the Editor,.... 7. Concerning the Universal German Educational Institution at Keilhau,........ 284 8. Upon German Education in general, and the Institution at Keilhau in particular, 291 Appendix of Krause's Judgment on the foregoing Essay,. 9. Report on Institution at Keilhan, with Plan of Study,... 311 322 .... 10. The Christmas Festival at Keilhau, 1817, 364 11. Announcement of the People's Educational Institution at Helba,. 12. Froebel at the grave of Wilhelm Carl, 1830,........ 13. Announcement of the Institution at Wartensee,. 423 14. Ground Principles of the Education of Man, with a Study-Plan of the Institution at Willisau,.... 15. Plan of Educational Institution for the Poor in the Canton of Berne,.. APPENDIX.-Letter to Christopher Froebel in 1807,. 456 479 524 VOLUME II., PART ONE.-Education of Man, and other Essays, ........ C. Language, and Instructions in Language, with Reading and Writ 158 D. Art, and Subjects of Art,.. 178 The Connection between Family and School, and the Subjects of Instruc EDUCATION OF MAN-Continued....... m. Science of Numbers,.... n. Science of Forms,. o. Exercises in Utterance,. p. Writing,.... q. Reading,. r. Review and Close of the Whole,.... APPENDIX TO PART ONE.-Treatises Upon Different Subjects,. I. ESSAYS OF THE YEAR 1826,.. E. The Little Child, or the Significance of its Various Activity,. 384 F. Gat of Child-life,.. G. The Science of Forms and its Higher Significance... II. Instructions in Science of the Earth, with a Chart of Schale Valley, 462 397 413 8. The Child's Life-The First Act of the Child,.... II. THE YEAR 1836 REQUIRES THE RENEWING OF LIFE,..... .499-561 VOLUME II., PART TWO.-Papers by Froebel in Different Periods,.. 1. The Double Glance, or a New Year's Meditation,... .... 1 2. Plan of an Institution for the Fostering of Inventive Activity, 11 18 25 47 48 58 79 82 4. The Ball the first Plaything of the Child,.. 5. The Seed corn and the Child; a Comparison,. 6. Play and the Playing of the Child,..... 7. The Sphere and the Cube the Second Plaything,. 8. First Oversight of Playing,..... 9. The Third Play and a Cradle Song,.... 10. Progressive Development of the Child, and Play Developing with the Ball,.... 110 11. The Fourth Play of the Child,.. 16. Frederich Froebel, in Relation to the Efforts of the Time and its Demands,... 239 17. The Children's Garden in the Kindergarten,. 24. Plan for the Founding of a Kindergarten, and Report upon the Expense....... 456 501 28. Speech at the Opening of the first Bürger Kindergarten in Hamburg,. . An Intelligible Brief Description of the Materials for Play in the Kindergarten, 559 PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO FROEBEL AND HIS SYSTEM. Under the title of " The Froebel Literature," Mr. Louis Walter, teacher in Dresden, has issued a pamphlet of 197 pages devoted to the publications which Froebel's system has called forth in elucidation, attack, or defence since Froebel issued the Sonntagsblatt in 1838. The author does not claim to have exhausted the list of contributions, although it is evident he must have had in the Baroness v. MarenholtzBülow the best informed individual and in her own library access to the best collection in the world relating to the subject. The title page of each publication is given in full, with brief notice of the contents which enables Mr. Walter to classify these contributions as follows: 1. Written from the medical standpoint to the number of 16; Do. from the Journalistic, 47; 7. Do. by women, or women associated with men, 46; making an aggregate of 335 treatises. Under the 5th classification is the names of 11 authors who are connected with gymnasiums or Real Schools; 17 with Teachers' Seminaries; 30 with the Common Schools; 6 with Institutions for feeble-minded children; and 24 with practical Kindergart ners. In addition to this classification Mr. Walter brings together the authors who treat of (1) Froebel's Life and Educational Work; (2) Froebel's System of Education; (3) the Kindergarten, its special aim and field; (4) Manuals of Method; (5) Material and Equipment; (6) Music and Songs; (7) Relation of Kindergarten to the School, School-garden, and School Shop; (8) Special Features of the New Education; (9) Related subjects. Mr. Walter gives the address where the best Kindergarten Material and Manuals and Froebelian Literature can be had in different countries. The last chapter is devoted to a list of authors arranged chronologically each year from 1838, the date of Froebel's first issue of the Sonntagsblatt. This list, with some modifications, or else a new bibliography, arranged alphabetically, we hope to print before we close our Kindergarten and Child Culture Papers" in this Journal. 66 The interest in Froebel's system, judged from the publication standpoint, does not die out, there being more issues (30) in 1879-80, than there was from 1838 to 1850. We give elsewhere a List of Publications relating to Froebel and the Kindergarten, which are accessible to American students, and hope hereafter, as is intimated above, to make that list complete up to the date of its publication. DIE FROEBEL LITERATUR, Zusammen stellung, Inhalts-Angabe und Kritik derselben, von Louis Walter. Dresden: Verlag von Alwin fuhle, 1881, S. xi +197. Mr. Walter is also the author of an interesting volume of 156 pages devoted to the Baroness von Marenholtz-Bülow's labors for the dissemination of Froebel's System of Education and Kindergarten. Other works are announced by him: "On Diesterweg and Froebel"; "Development of the Froebel Idea in different Countries"; "Froebel's Place in the History of Pedagogy." KINDERGARTEN AND CHILD CULTURE PAPERS AND SUGGESTIONS BY FRŒBEL, PESTALOZZI, FICHTE, MONTAIGNE, Rousseau, BUSHNELL. PAYNE, AND OTHERS. 800 pages, $3.50. 1. Memoir, 2. Autobiographical Sketch of Home and School Training, 3. Aids to the Understanding of Fræbel, by Lange, Middendorf, Barop, Payne, 5. Publications relating to Fræbel and his System, III. Middendorf's Labors for the Kindergarten, Memoir by Diesterweg, . JV. Marenholtz-Bulow - Labors in behalf of Fræbel, V. Fichte and the Congress of Philosophers in 1869, ........ VL International Congress and the Kindergarten, 1880, Extension of Frobel's system to Primary Schools, VIL Child Culture-Early Manuals and Methods, 2. The New England Primer and Saying the Catechism, 3. The Potty Schools of England in 1659, Subjects and Methods with Little Children, VIII. Object Teaching-in German Pedagogy, Ilistorical Development and Existing Manuals, 989-336 291 337-368 339 334 369-400 369 375 375 401-416 401 417-448 417 IX. Kindergarten Work and Papers in Different Countries, 449-560 1 Fræbelian Institute-Berlin, Cradle and Day Nursing - Infant Asylums - Kindergarten, 4. Kindergarten Movement in England, 5. Kindergarten Work in United States, X Reminiscences of Early Kindergarten Work, Maria Boelte-Krause - Autobiography, XI. Fræbel's Principles in the Nursery, XIII. Fræbel's Principles and Methods in Public Schools, XIV. Kindergarten and Homes of the Poor, 2 Mrs. Quincy Shaw's Charity Kindergartens, XV. Kindergarten Training for Artist and Artisan, XVI. Use of Colors in Musical Notation-D. Batchelor, XVIII. Hints on Early Training, Bushnell, Channing, Montaigne, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Goethe, and others, |