consin already has too many teachers' organizations. Teachers are burdened to death with too many meetings, and school boards are beginning to draw the line on dismissing schools for such meetings. If the Southern and Western associations would disband, some relief would be given to the situation in the southern part of the state which is so accessible to the big state meeting in Milwaukee. one. view of the state teachers' meeting at Milwaukee every year, the Southern association might be dispensed with. Supt. W. G. Clough of Portage was elected president for next year and W. C. Watson of the Whitewater normal, secretary. PRESIDENT SALISBURY'S NEW BOOK ON SCHOOL MANAGEMENT. Following his text on Psychology and Pedagogy of a few years ago, President Salisbury has added another achievement to his literary career in a new book dealing with the subject of school management. To those who know President Salisbury, a description of the contents of this volume is un Milwaukee: After forty-one years of service in the city puble school system, Prin. Patrick Donley has resigned as principal of the third district school. Miss Eleanor M. Waigli succeeds Linsey Webb as princpal of the eighteenth district school number necessary. Prin. H. Hahn succeeds Miss Waigli as principal of the thirteenth district number two. He will be succeeded by R. H. Ruhnke. Mrs. Frances E. Clark, for eight years supervisor of music in the city schools, resigned on February first to take a commercial position with the Victor Phonograph Co. Former Assistant Superintendent Walter Allen has accepted the principalship of the eleventh district school number two. A resolution has been introduced permitting teachers who have taught in the Milwaukee schools for at least seven years to be allowed a year off on onehalf pay for the purpose of travel and study. The city attorney has ruled that teachers who retire before the age of sixty-five, except when physically incapaciated, are not entitled to a pension. In spite of the fact that Pres. Slothower presented one of the strongest programs ever prepared for a Wisconsin sectional meeting, and in spite of the splendid work done by Supt. Walker and Prin. Melcher in making complete arrangements for the entertainment of guests and attending to other details, the Southern Wisconsin Teachers' Association which met at Delavan last month was not a success so far as numbers are concerned. The inaccessibility of the place, the fear of many that they could not secure accommodations, the bad weather, and delayed trains all contributed to this result. The papers here presented were strong, the officers and people spared no pains in making preparation for the event. No one is to blame. The lesson learned is not to hold the meeting in any small place, and to make either Madison or Janesville its permanent home for the future. Many expressed the hope that in A long life in the schoolroom as the trainer of teachers and being a man who has kept pace with educational progress, naturaliy means a practical book with little theory and every paragraph driving home principles for the safe guidance of teachers. Mr. Salisbury's vigorous style, his coming-to-the-point-quick manner of writing makes this volume one full of meat and a most valuable addition to the present literature on this important subject. BOOKS RECEIVED. The Story of the Roman People. An Elementary Selections From the Riverside Literature Series American and English Classics For Grammar The Night Before Thanksgiving, a White Heron, and Selected Stories. By Sarah Orne Jewett. With introductory notes, and questions and suggestions by Katharine H. Shute, Head of the Dept. of English in the Boston Normal School. Price $.25. Boston, New York, Chicago, The Riverside Press Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Co. The Nibelungenlied. Translated from the Middle High German with an Introductory Sketch and Notes. By Daniel Bussier Shumway, Prof. of German Philology in the University of Pennsylvania. Price $.75. Boston, New York, Chicago, The Riverside Press Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Co. The Oregon Trail of Francis Parkman. Edited with introduction, notes, and map, by William Ellery Leonard, Ass't Prof. of English, University of Wisconsin. 16mo, cloth xxxvi+361 pages, price, 45 cents. Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Ginn & Co., Publishers. The Deerslayer. By James Fenimore Cooper. Abridged by Marion F. Lansing. 12mo, cloth, 378 pages, illustrated, price 65 cents. Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Ginn & Co., Publishers. The Teaching of Agriculture in the High School. By Garland Armor Bricker, Ass't in Agricultural Education, Dept. of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Ohio State University. With an introduction by Dr. W. C. Bagley, Director of the School of Education, University of Illinois. Price $1.00 net. 1911. All rights reserved. New York, The MacMillan Co. Elements of Zoology. To Accompany the Field and Laboratory Study of Animals. By Charles Benedict Davenport, Ph. D., and Gertrude Crotty Davenport, B. S. With four hundred and twenty-one illustrations. Revised Edition. Price $1.25 net. 1911. All rights reserved. New York, The MacMillan Co. The English Language, Book Two. English Grammar with a chapter on Composition. Price $.55. By James P. Kinard, Prof. of English in Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. D., and Sarah Withers, Prin. of Training Department and Critic Teacher Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. D. 1911. All rights reserved. New York, The MacMillan Co. National Education Association of the United States. Journal of proceedings and addresses of the forty-eighth annual meeting held at Boston, Mass., July 2-8, 1910. Published by the Association, Secretary's Office, Winona, Minn. CRAM'S UNRIVALED WORLD ATLAS-NEW CENSUS EDITION. The 1910 government census will be the most elaborate, the most important and interesting of any heretofore issued by our government. It required an army of 75,000 enumerators to gather the facts and will cost over $15,000,000, and when completed will reflect a correct picture of our country and show the wonderful progress during the past ten years in our manufacturing, commercial, agricultural and educational life, in fact our whole business life, as well as our great increase in population, railroads, etc. The question is often asked where can this valuable information be secured? The publishers of the well known Cram's Atlases are at work on a new set of map plates, covering every known portion of the globe and will bring out early in 1911 a magnificent new world Atlas, including the new government census, new populations of every state, county and town in the United States. There will also be new descriptive matter and the new and most interesting statistics compiled from the new census. Cram's Atlases are standard publications and are authority on the geography of the world, and the new edition of their Unrivaled Atlas will surpass any work of the kind for the price ever published. This valuable book will soon be on the market, and advance subscriptions at reduced prices may be entered now with James R. Gray & Co., 61 Market St., Chicago. TEACHERS SHOULD TRAVEL. Every teacher should travel some during the summer. There is no other preparation for her next year's work so effective as coming in contact with new people among new scenes. An ideal goal for such an outing is at the Colorado Chautauqua and Summer School, at Boulder, Colorado. The free literature published by this institution tells all about the expense and the charms of such an outing. Better write to the secretary, F. A. Boggess today. CARNEGIE COLLEGE-HOME STUDY-FREE TUITION. Carnegie College gives Free Tuition by mail to one representative in each county and city. Normal, Teacher's Professional, Grammar School, High School, College Preparatory, Civil Service, Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, Greek, Latin, German, Spanish, Italian, Drawing, and Agricultural Courses are thoroughly taught by correspondence. Applicants for Free Tuition should apply at once to Dept. C, CARNEGIE COLLEGE, Rogers, Ohio. 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EDITORIAL COMMENT BY PROFESSOR M. V. O'SHEA, THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. Go into any one of fifty of the smaller communities in the northern part of this state, and observe the personality and the work of the teachers. You will hardly fail to be impressed with the courage and devotion of the young women you will find in the schools. In many cases they have come from larger cities, where they have had social and other advantages. They have had excellent training in the grammar school, in the high school, and in the college or the university. In speech, in appearance, and in manner they give evidence of being intelligent, refined, and cultured individuals. In the communities in which they now work, they often have few of the advantages which they had always previously enjoyed. The communities are too small and too remote from the larger cities to afford opportunities for intellectual or musical or even social relaxations and pleasures. Yet you will not find these young women pessimistic. They will tell you that they enjoy their work; and while outside of the school there is not much that can interest them, still they are devoted to their studies, they enjoy their pupils, and they are really contented. Their statements are borne out by their appearance, and by their deportment in the classroom. Women seem to do this sort of missionary work better than men on the whole, contrary to all theories on this subject. Girls who have been tenderly brought up, who have been safeguarded throughout their educational course, and relieved from strenuous work, go into some of these schools, and labor from half after eight in the morning often until nine at night, and without complaining. They take care of themselves, and play a wholly independent rôle in the communities in which they live. This is such a common No. 4 event that its significance escapes some people. But although we have ourselves seen a good deal of it, we never cease to be impressed with it. WOMEN TEACHERS AT THE FRONTIER. During the month of September last, a teachers' convention was in session in one of the towns of Montana. At the same time there came into the town some Englishmen, fresh from the Old Country, in search of adventure at the frontier. They had heard they could find what they desired anywhere in the State of Mountains, and especially in this particular section, which is about as wild as nature could make it, so far as physical characteristics are concerned. It was suggested to the sportsmen that they should begin their researches by attending the convention then in progress, and looking over the teachers. Practically all of them were living a frontier life, often homesteading it alone, many miles from any point of civilization, and even from any neighbor. Nine out of ten of the teacher in the convention were women, the majority of them having come from Eastern states. In many cases they had diplomas from colleges and normal schools of high standing. When the Englishmen saw them they refused to believe that they were frontierswomen, who had separated themselves from the refinements and protective agencies which are supposed to be necessary for the very existence of women. In appearance they seemed as gentle, as feminine, as "helpless" in every way as their sisters in the cities. There was nothing of the cowboy about them, nothing masculine, nothing that even suggested the life of the frontier. On the whole they were more alert, appreciative, and gleeful than groups of teachers in the older, more settled, and more conventional parts of the country. The |