Physical Science. Chemistry and the rudiments Higher Mathematics sixth 1. The Book of Euclid, of electricity with problems in and galvanism. the first four books. 2. The subjects which follow quadratic equations in Lund's edition of Wood's Algebra. 3. Trigonometry. 4. Levelling and land surveying. 5. To exhibit (with a knowledge of the principles) the structure and action of simple machines, and of the instruments most commonly used in teaching pneumatics, hydrostatics, and optics. Three plays of Shakspeare, viz., Macbeth," "Julius Caesar," and "The Winter's Tale," with the "First Book of Bacon's Advancement of Learning," and the History of English Literature from Chaucer to Milton, inclusive. This exercise will be an extension of that headed "English Grammar and Composition," being similar to it in character, but with more especial reference to style and subject matter. 1. To the end of Yonge's Eton Grammar (supra). 2. An easy passage of Latin prose, and another of Latin poetry, will be given for literal translation into English, and simple grammatical questions will be founded thereon. THE NATIONAL SCHOOL CHORAL SOCIETY. The arrangements for the proposed grand Festival, in 1858, are progressing very satisfactorily. A large number of clergymen have already promised their patronage, and many have, in addition, promised their co-operation. The Rev. Principals Coleridge, Clark, Bromby, Alford and Evans, of St. Mark's, Battersea, Cheltenham, and Highbury Training Colleges, and the Home and Colonial Training Institution, and the Committee of the National Society have also consented to be patrons: On December the 4th, upwards of 300 Teachers assembled in the Trinity School Rooms, Marylebone, to hear a performance by the young gentlemen of the Chapel Royal, Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, of some of the music intended for the Festival. The Rev. Thomas Garnier presided, and in a brief, but very forcible speech, set forth the aim of the Society. Mr. Farnham then introtroduced Mr. G. W. Martin to the meeting, as Conductor; and informed them that Mr. M. had accepted the office, pledged himself to do his best,-but "would not accept any remuneration, preferring to make a present of his services to the 'Benevolent Fund.' This announcement was most enthusiastically received. The rehearsal went off exceedingly well, and the audience unanimously agreed to "spare no pains" to avert anything like failure. There is, however, no time to be lost-Church School Teachers, all of whom are invited to assist, must be "up and doing." The cause is too sacred to be looked upon with unconcern, for it is the cause of "the sick and needy; the fatherless and widows," for whose benefit the Church Schoolmasters and Mistresses Benevolent Fund was founded, and to aid which this festival is intended. The address of the Secretaries was misprinted in our December number, it should have been Mr. G. John Entwistle, Guy's Question Book.-Simpkin & Co. Having reached the eleventh edition it is certain this book is well known and extensively patronised. A recent, revision and enlargement, to bring its facts down to the present time, give it additional claims on public favor. For the information of junior teachers who, may not have made acquaintance with it, we may say that it is not a book of questions as its title seems to indicate. Mr. Guy's book is really an abstract of Ancient and Modern History, set in chronological order, to which are added outlines of Geography, Astronomy, Biography, and other subjects. The entire set of subjects is given in the old form of question and answer. While there may be some doubt about retaining the old method, there can be none whatever respecting the value of the matter which this school-book contains. The Book of Object Lessons, by W. J. Lake.-Longman & Co. The subjects, on which lessons are given in this book, are Minerals, Vegetable, and Animals; a few others are added under the head of miscellaneous, making in the whole fifty-seven lessons. Such of them as have appeared before are re-written and extended. Mr. Lake proposes in this Manual to give only "Notes of Information;❞—that is, the matter to be communicated. There is of course method in the arrangement, but no attempt to show the method of communication. We commend this book to junior teachers, not only as a storehouse of well-selected matter on given topics, but as furnishing also some good models of the method of arrangement. No But and Neer Heed, by J. Campkin.-Bingley, Harrison & Co. We are not quite sure that this north-country title will be intelligible to people who are not privileged to reside in or near the paradise of oaten cakes. The following sentence may help to its understanding. "I can no' but try, and ne'er heed work," which put into English means something like:-"I cannot but try, and never heed the labor." The purpose of this book, under so qucer a title, is to tell the story of a lad, born and bred in one of the factory districts. Charles Howgate, the lad in question, though not favorably circumstanced in early life, by availing himself of his opportunities, and devoting his best energies to serve his employers, rose gradually in the estimation of good men, and ultimately to a very honourable position in society. For young people Mr. Campkin's book is full of interest and profit, and we heartily recommend it, both for school libraries, and as a suitable reward book. Register for Sunday School Magazines, and Subscription Receipt Book.Wertheim and Macintosh. "The object of this book is to facilitate the Superin tendent in taking down the required number of magazines for each class, and also the amount of subscriptions received." It is only necessary for us to say further, that the pages of the Register are ruled so as to accomplish this purpose in the most ready manner. Prayers for Little Boys.-Wertheim and Macintosh. The parent of a family not quite satisfied with the existing "Prayers for Children," endeavoured to supply their want. The Prayers, constructed under these circumstances, passed into other families, and are now presented to the public, with the desire that they may be profitable in a larger sphere. The short introduction on the true nature of prayer is fitted to instruct those who are no longer "Little Boys." Besides a morning and evening prayer for an entire week, there are a few shorter ones for special occasions. We think the writer has been very successful in his effort, and for his further success, he has our best wishes. Greig's Young Ladies' Arithmetic.- Simpkin and Co. Mr. Greig's Arithmetic has been long and extensively used in Ladies' Seminaries. To make it still more acceptable, it has been revised and enlarged by Mr. Reynolds, of the College of Preceptors. Mistresses of elementary schoo's will do well to make acquaintance with this work, as a repertory of practical questions, chiefly on domestic affairs, a kind of questions rarely met with in the ordinary school arithmetics. It is a Simple Bible Questions.-Longman and Co. This little book is the work of a Lady, and contains above a thousand questions on the Book of Genesis. recommendation that leading questions are avoided, and that the entire series has been in use for many years. Essays upon Educational Subjects read at the Educational Conference of June, 1857; With a Short Account of the Objects and Proceedings of the Meeting, Edited by ALFRED HILL, Barrister-at-Law, one of the Honorary Secretaries. Post 8vo., pp. 400, price 6s. 6d. sewed. London: Longman, Brown and Co. That the main defect of popular education in this country is not so much the lack of schools as inadequate attendance, has for some years past been manifest to those who have taken the deepest interest in the question. Early in the present year, at the suggestion of the Rev. Canon Moseley, an Educational Conference was projected-first, to ascertain the extent of the evil; secondly, to consider how it might most efficiently be remedied. To admit full latitude of suggestion and discussion, it was determined to adopt a course of proceeding which had proved eminently successful at the Bristol Meeting of the National Reformatory Union,―viz. to inaugurate the proceedings by a public meeting; then to employ a day in the reading and diccussion of papers in sections (on the plan of the British Association); and to wind up with another public meeting, at which the results of the proceedings of the sections should be discussed, and resolutions founded thereon submitted and passed. From the whole number of papers read, twenty-six have been selected by the Committee for publication on account of their valuable and practical character. These twenty-six essays compose the present volume; they are accompanied by a very brief account of the proceedings at the public meetings from the pen of the Editor, and are arranged under the following heads: 1. Papers chiefly on the fact of the non-attendance and early removal of children from school in this country; 2. Papers on the attendance, &c. at schools on the continent; 3. Papers chiefly on prize and certificate schemes; 4 Papers on half-time schemes, and evening and factory schools; 5. Six papers not falling under the above heads, viz. On endowments created for the apprenticeship of children and their application to the promotion of the edu cation of the poor, On industrial training, On juvenile delinquency, On middleclass examinations, On indirect compulsory schooling, and On the improvement of the dwellings of the labouring classes and a contingent educational franchise. The following are among the authors of the papers: Seymour Tremenheere, Esq.; the Rev. J. P. Norris, Inspector of Schools; Mary Carpenter; Edward Baines, Esq., of Leeds; the Rev. Canon Girdlestone; Joseph Kay, Esq.; M. Eugene Rendu; Edward Akroyd, Esq., M.P.; Alexander Redgrave, Esq., Inspector of Factories; Jelinger Symons, Esq.. Inspector of Schools, and the Rev. C. H. Bromby, Principal of the Cheltenham Normal College. Correspondence. Sir,-I. W. P. asserts that "the lengths of the arms (of a false balance) will have the proportion of the false weights, not that of their square roots.” But let us examine this assertion. in the terms of H. E., i. is 10 (ay). acocrding to H. E. = Therefore, the arms are not as the false weights. It would be no difficult matter to prove that they are as the square roots of the false weights. 'If the arms exactly balance each other there is no need to make any allowance for the weight of the beam,' and experiment will verify this. Take the beam of an ordinary true balance and suspend the weights at the distance of the square roots of the false weights from the fulcrum, and the result will accord with the rule given. Scales must not be used in experimenting with unequal arms, unless their weights be calculated along with the weights experimented upon. II. With regard to the limits of ellipsis in Grammar, I think W. P's remarks somewhat indefinite. He says truly that we may not supply all the essentials of a clause. The question thence arises: what constitute the essentials of a clause? I answer: 1 A finite verb (or interjection) 2 A subject 3 (within a sentence) A copulative ie. a relative conjunction, or fig. Asyndeton, Where one of these exists, there we have a clause, and may supply the rest. Where there is not one of these, there is no separate clause, and we may not make one. Thus in "Men, wont to sleep on duty, rouse, &c." We may not supply who are "before "wont" because the phrase beginning wont, &c." does not contain one essential of a clause. The same, I beg to submit, is the case with "to parse." The Greek, French, German, and Italian languages allow an infinitive of cause. Why not the English? Apologising for the length of this Examination Papers. GENERAL EXAMINATION OF TRAINING SCHOOLS. CHRISTMAS, 1857. THE HISTORY, CHRONOLOGY, AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE BIBLE, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MARK. Three hours allowed for this Paper. SECTION I. 1. Draw a Map of Palestine, to include Edom, Moab, Bashan, and Ammon, and to show the situation of the tribes which occupied the country when the Israelites crossed the Red Sea. 2. Draw a Plan of Jerusalem. 3. Draw a Map of the Mediterranean Sea, and of so much of the adjacent countries as is necessary to exhibit the Apostolical journeys of St. Paul. SECTION II. 1. Write a history of Saul, the first King of Israel. 2. Give an analysis of the Book of Exodus. 3. Enumerate the types, either of our Lord, or of the Christian Life, which may be found in the narrative of the march from the Red Sea to the banks of the Jordan. SECTION III. 1. In what respect did Elijah and Elisha, as Prophets, differ from Isaiah and Jeremiah. 2. What prophecies of the Old Testament are quoted in St. Mark's Gospel? 3. In St. Mark ii., 21, 22, we read,-" No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment, else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred; but new wine must be put into new bottles." From what passage in the Old Testament are these similitudes taken? Does that passage assist in explaining the meaning? SECTION IV. 1. What miracles, and what parables, of our Lord's are recorded only by St. Mark? |