VOL. VII.

No. I.

The CHILD-STUDY MONTHLY takes on a new dress with this issue. The type is improved; the single column makes way for the double and its name becomes the REVIEW OF EDUCATION. These changes are generally desired by our best teachers.

Hon. Alfred Bayliss, State Superintendent Public Instruction for Illinois, was for years editor of the Educational Current, a very important feature of our CHILD-STUDY MONTHLY. Upon receiving the announcement of the REVIEW OF EDUCATION he wrote that inasmuch as this idea came pretty near originating with him he thought he should have a complimentary subscription for the first one hundred years of its life. We replied that we would place him on the free list for ninety-nine years, no longer. He feels that it will be a very useful journal.

As its title implies the REVIEW OF EDUCATION will not seek to compete with its contemporaries but rather to supplement them. It is not a question whether it will be better than other school journals; it will be different. Each issue will be supplementetd by two of our beautiful color bird pictures reproduced from nature by color photography. Nothing in the line of supplements has hitherto been attempted to compare with these.

It will contain extracts from leading educational journals everywhere; reviews of the best books and periodicals; special contributions from well known teachers and important educational news from each of the states.

We present it to you without any apologies but with a sincere desire that it may bring to the educators the best

thought of their fellows. To this end we ask your co-operation; we request your support; we invite your friendly criticism. If in your reading you find material that you think would be helpful to the teaching profession at large we should be pleased to have you call our attention to it. We shall publish it if it seems to be what our readers generally want. We do not hold ourselves responsible for the personal opinion of any of our contributors, but at the same time we wish to have the REVIEW OF EDUCATION voice the best sentiments of those who are devoting their lives to school work.

We shall be pleased to have you call the attention of your fellow teachers to its pages.

NOTES AND NEWS.

An association of teachers and their friends has located three miles east of

Spooner, Wis. They claim that they have found an ideal resting place among the trees, flowers, birds, wild flowers and mounds. A Chippewa Indian village is located near by and there is also excellent fishing and hunting. Spooner Lake has ten miles of coast line and many beautiful wooden islands.

The action of the Board of Education of New York City in abolishing the teaching of "vertical handwriting" in the public schools is certain to revive the discussion of the comparative merits of the new and old systems of penmanship. It is also apt to suggest an inquiry into the advisability of dropping the vertical system in other cities where it was adopted when the fad first broke loose among the educators.