Wonderful; the children of this Kindergarten are charity children, who, as a rule, are not healthy, and are very often evil in disposition, and the improvement in their physical and moral natures is marked, and, through the child, the parent and home feel the elevating influence.

Best system that can be had for the physical and mental development of children.

Most beneficial; rightly conducted, it is far in advance of the old method of teaching beginners.

Minneapolis, Minn.

Insures a healthy physical development, trains the artistic imagination, the scientific mind, and the skilful hand, engenders. love for order, neatness, freedom, and justice, without taking the child from its innocent childish sphere.

Natural and harmonious developement of mind and body, and superior preparations for future abstract study.

Healthful; the children learn to observe and to be accurate, to be quick of comprehension and keen in discerning.

St. Louis, Mo.

Gives perfect control of the body, makes the child graceful and self-possessed, cultivates the senses, awakens the child's curiosity, arouses a desire for knowledge, and stimulates to free creative activity.

Excellent in its effect on more prominent habits and practices required of the pupil when he enters the primary school.

Harmonious development of the three-fold nature of the child. Through the gifts is developed his intellectual nature; through the occupations, his physical nature; and by songs and games, his spiritual or emotional nature.

Makes the child graceful, polite, skilful, self-dependent, thoughtful, constructive, and eager for knowledge.

South St. Louis, Mo.

The children taught in Kindergarten have clearer views of whatever is presented to them for study, they more readily comprehend instructions, have keener eyes to observe and readier hands to execute, and are better prepared for common schools. than children otherwise trained.

Newark, N. J.

Cultivates correct habits of thought and expression, awakens the senses, makes the child graceful, polite, self-dependent, eager for knowledge, and skilful. Children attending Kindergarten for two or three years are always the healthiest and best scholars.

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Quickens the child's intellect and developes his moral nature; makes him happy, polite, and healthy, and is beneficial as a preparation for more advanced studies.

Buffalo, N. Y.

Trains all the perceptive faculties, forms correct judgment, teaches children to live and work harmoniously together, and lays a foundation for moral growth.

New York, N. Y.

Promotes general health and awakens the mental faculties naturally, bringing knowledge in a connected form before the

mind.

Makes the children healthy, cheerful, and happy, and under a thorough Kindergartener developes the mental faculties in a systematic manner.

Quickens and develops the mental powers, fitting the child for ordinary school studies; also teaches use of and how to handle different farming implements.

Harmonious development of all the powers; it teaches combination of knowing with doing, and exerts a wholesome influence in the formation of character, cultivating a love of nature, a love for work, a generous regard for others, and humane treatment of animals.

Nyack-on-Hudson, N. Y.

Strengthens the body, enlarges the reasoning faculties and powers of observation, and so fits the child physically and mentally for later studies.

Oswego, N. Y.

The children are led to observe, to express themselves clearly, and to be graceful in movement. They learn to read and write more readily than those who have not had the training.

Cincinnati, Ohio.

Strengthens the powers of observation and tends to produce harmonious development of the physical and mental natures.

Imparts a fondness for mathematics, makes the child more observing, more logical in thought, self-helpful, and respectful of the rights of others.

Cleveland, Ohio.

It makes healthy, thoughtful children.

An approach to symmetrical development, physically, mentally, and morally.

Columbus, Ohio.

Develops the physical, mental, and moral powers, and lays a. firm foundation for future education.

Toledo, Ohio.

Physical and mental activity are acquired; the child is easily controlled, and nervousness and dullness overcome.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Develops the child's threefold nature, brightens the dull, and strengthens the weak.

Develops physically, training the hand and eye, develops. clearness of perception, and cultivates attention, thought, and understanding.

Promotes, health, grace, and ease of body, develops quickness. of perception, clearness and accuracy in thought, and cultivates. truthfulness, gentleness and love.

Very beneficial, producing a sound mind and a sound body; many have been sent to this Kindergarten for physical improvement only, and in securing it have been mentally and morally improved.

Providence, R. I.

Rapid, easy, natural, and harmonious development of the physical, mental, and spiritual nature of the child. Madison, Wis.

True and natural development; children who take a two-year course in Kindergarten are able to make rapid progress in. primary work, especially in numbers, writing, and drawing.

Milwaukee, Wis.

Imparts health and grace to the body, cultivates the reasoning and observing faculties, develops a sense of beauty in form, color, and sound, and trains the child to habits of order, punctuality, obedience, kindness, and self-control.

Washington, D. C.

Tends to awaken perception, cultivates self-control, improves habits relating to proper care of body and mind.

Just what is claimed for this system of training; the children trained by the system are more attentive, observant, obedient, and gentle than those otherwise trained, and it produces a genial awakening of all the faculties.

Improves the general health, teaches the child self-government, and leads him to choose to do what is right; it is also a superior preparation for subsequent mathematical training.

MUSIC.

Some improvement is being made in teaching this subject. The most encouraging feature in connection with the subject is the attitude of the teachers towards it. They are rapidly becom ing interested in the teaching of music, and believe that they should do the work chiefly themselves. The annual concerts in connection with the closing exercises of the schools, in June, were most successful, and the pupils, under the leadership of Mr. E. W. Schuch, sang in a most creditable manner.

I repeat a former recommendation that a special teacher of music be appointed for the Classes below the Senior Third Book. One of the most important of his duties would be to guide the teachers in these Classes in the proper performance of their work.

DRILL AND PHYSICAL EXERCISES.

The Annual Review and Competitions in Drill and Calisthenic Exercises took place in June. The School Games were held on the same day. A grand procession of about 8,000

children marched through the principal streets before the competitions began, and the appearance, bearing, carriage, and precision of step of the girls, as well as the boys, won the admiration of all spectators. There can be no doubt of the wisdom of directing special attention to the definite physical training of the pupils in our schools. The health of the children is a matter of vital importance, and even the moral characters of the children are directly affected by a system of physical drill which gives additional bodily vigor, and at the same time leads them to make the body act with proper precision in obedience to a definite exercise of will power. Action not only aids in expressing thought, it re-acts on thought to define it. The wide spreading of the arms in expressing the sentiment of freedom deepens the feeling and thought of freedom in the mind. To make a boy change his shuffling step and bent form to a definite use of his limbs and an erect, easy, active figure, will do a good deal towards removing his carelessness and general indefiniteness of character.

The Boys' Battalion was reviewed by Col. Denison, D. A. G., and the several companies executed the various movements in a manner which earned for them the earnest praises of the Inspecting Officer and the Judges.