SEPTEMBER, 1900.

Some subscribers forget that EDUCATION is not published in July and August.

Here's to your success during the coming school year. May it be greater than ever.

We are very sorry that Supt. R. G. Boone, of Cincinnati, who agreed to join in discussing "Normal School Problems," has not been able to get his copy to us in time for this symposium.

Will not those librarians who received April, May and June numbers free arrange to put EDUCATION on the list of magazines which they will order and pay for during the coming year? Please give the matter careful consideration and let us hear from you.

The Publishers of EDUCATION offer for sale some very choice pictures for schoolroom decoration. We have a large variety of the famous Witter Wall-Pictures, the Helman-Taylor collection, and the pictures of ancient and modern statuary selected by order of the Austrian Government for the schoolrooms of Austria. We invite correspondence.

If any one is not now taking EDUCATION we will send the June, September, October, November and December numbers of 1900 free on receiving $3 for the year 1901. This gives a year and a half for three dollars and includes all the symposium numbers. To any of our subscribers who will send in $6 for their renewal and for a new subscriber we will send all these free (1900) numbers to the new subscriber, and will advance their date a year and four months. Will you

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Quite a number of leading academy men are intending to write for our October symposium on "Problems which Confront the Academy at the Opening of the Twentieth Century," but as we go to press at the close of the vacation days it is impossible to get many definite answers. Samuel Thurber, Girls' High School, Boston, will give "An Address to High School Assistants"; John E. Bradley, LL.D. (ex-President Illinois College), Boston, will treat of "Nature Lessons"; Supt. E. L. Cowdrick, Lawrence, Kansas, will discuss "The Public Press and the Public School," and E. A. Knapp, Kalamazoo, Mich., will set forth "Ruskin's Educational Views." These, with other articles and the various departments, will make up a valuable number.

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Rev. A. D. Mayo, LL.D., is back in Boston, after a long, vigorous Southern campaign, hard at work on his HISTORY OF THE COMMON SCHOOL, FROM 1830 TO THE PRESENT TIME, IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. It will require about three more years to finish this exhaustive work.

In "Concerning Nature Study," in the June number of EDUCATION, the statement is made that the singing of the mosquito is caused by the vibration of the wings. For "wings" read "air in respiration." The mistake was due to too hurried proof reading.

Mr. S. M. McCowan, Phoenix, Ariz., Superintendent of the Phoenix schools for Indians,said to be the second in size in the United States, has just ordered four Densmore typewriters, which are to be used in instructing the Indians. These machines were sold in active competition with all the standard makes.

The restrictions placed by the Educational Department in Japan upon the teaching of religion in schools has aroused general interest in the subject and led to a great increase in Bible reading throughout Japan. Many men of influence will seek to have the action of the Minister of Education rescinded.

The Lay College, Revere (Mass.), which has done good service in fitting young men as Christian workers during the last decade, under the earnest leadership of Rev. J. P. Bixby, has now enlarged its sphere and changed its name to the " Boston Evangelical Institute." Rev. Dr. Geo. C. Lorimer, the eloquent pastor of Tremont Temple, has been tendered the presidency.

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