46 Philosophy of, Voluntary Courses in Colleges, Visible Illustrations, Utility of, Visitatorial Power of Colleges, Visiting Schools, Duty of, Thomas A. Greene, WALKER, AMASA, Political Economy a Study for Common Schools, WARREN, JOHN C., on Physical Education, WARREN, GEORGE W., on the Characteristics of the Good Teacher, WAYLAND, FRANCIS, Introductory Discourse in 1830, xx. 1831 128 1837 66 Introductory Discourse in 1854, How may Education be still more Improved, Webster, Daniel, True Influence of Learning, 66 66 Influence of the Bible on New England, Webster, Noah, Tribute to, by Mr. Thayer, WELD, A. H., on Classical Instruction, WELLS, WILLIAM H., on Self-reliance, on Attendance of Children at School, 14 1854 16 1854 16 1854 West, Influence of Social Relations in the, upon Professional Success, WHEELER, CHARLES H., on Essential Elements of American Education, WHITAKER, WILLIAM J., on Drawing as a Means of Education, WHITE, ELISHA, on Condition of Common Schools in the South, 66 on the Size and Ventilation of School-rooms, 66 on the best Mode of Teaching Geography, 66 on Juvenile Population of the United States, Woodbridge, Rev. W., Communication on School-houses, WOOD, W. H., Moral Responsibility of Teachers, Woman, her interest in a better Education, C. Cushing, Worcester, Proceedings of Annual Meeting at, in 1837, . 261 1831 219 1833 . xiii. 1833 Words, Meaning of, how taught to Young Children, D. Howe, . 66 58 1842 vii. 1841 H. Mann, 13 1841 WYMAN, EDWARD, on Influence of Social Relations in the West, 92 1850 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ART, by M. A. Dwight. 12mo., New York: D. Appleton & Co. There are various indications in our country that the love of the Fine Arts is continually advancing. Costly paintings, by ancient and modern artists, find ready purchasers; print shops are on the increase; a demand is felt in manufacturing communities for good designers; and, finally, many schools, both private and common, have begun to consider drawing as a proper part of even an elementary education. Many persons, however, interested, as teachers or scholars, in the study of art, have felt the need of a good manual, in which the principles of taste, and the laws of design should be briefly and clearly set forth. Such a hand-book has now been prepared by Miss Dwight. Herself a thorough scholar, an admirer of all that is beautiful in nature and art, and, more than that, a successful teacher of practical drawing, she has written a volume which will be welcome in any family or school where the crayon has found its way, or where an inquiring mind is seeking for those principles by which to appreciate, with discriminating taste the varied productions of human genius. As her book is only an "Introduction to the Study of Art," it is mainly devoted to the laws of line and perspective, light and shade, color, composition, expression, and kindred topics. There are valuable introductory chapters on the anatomy of the human frame, and a full and excellent statement of the meaning of symbolic colors and emblems. Should this volume meet with the success which it deserves, there are reasons to expect that it will be followed by other works of a corresponding character. Its general introduction into our higher schools and especially into seminaries for young ladies, would awaken a love for artistic pursuits, where it does not yet exist, and would correct the taste and improve the judgment of those who are already alive to the study of the beautiful. EDUCATIONAL MEETINGS IN AUGUST. THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION will hold its Sixth Annual Meeting at Detroit, Michigan, commencing on Tuesday, August 12th, at 10 A. M., and continuing in session through the following Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Introductory Address by Henry Barnard, the retiring President. Papers will be read and addresses delivered by Dr. Tappan, Prof. Boise, Prof. Haven, of the University of Michigan; Prof. Gillespie, of Union College; Pres. Dr. White, of Wabash College; Rev. Dr. Spees, of Milwaukie; Prof. Turner, of Illinois College; Prof. Barnard, of University of Mississippi; Pres. Dawson, of McGill College, Montreal; Prof. Cooke, of Bloomfield, New Jersey, and others. THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE will hold its Tenth Annual Meeting at Albany, New York, commencing on Wednesday, August 20th. The exercises, it is understood, will be of a more than ordinarily interesting character. THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION will hold its Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting at Springfield, Mass., on the 19th, 20th, and 21st of August. Introductory Address by President Walker, of Cambridge. [We have not received the Programme of Exercises.] CONTENTS. NO. 6, FOR SEPTEMBER, 1856. NO. 2, VOLUME II. Portrait of Warren Colburn. I. CONDITION OF COMMON OR PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1855. principally from Official Reports. ALABAMA. Difficulties in organizing an efficient system of Common Schools. Educational Funds.... Visitation of Superintendent.. Results of Personal Observations.. Reasons for Perseverance. CALIFORNIA. Condition of Public Sentiment. School Fund.... School Attendance. School Lands... Seminary Lands. Drawn .257 257 .258 .258 .258 .259 259 .259 .260 ..260 An Oration before the Connecticut Beta of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity in Trinity III. EDUCATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. Biography of Warren Colburn. By Rev. Theodore Edson, D. D., Lowell, Mass... Reminiscences of College Life......... First lessons in Intellectual Arithmetic.. Popular Lectures on Science...... 294 .294 .298 ..301 ..804 .812 IV. LECTURES ADDRESSED TO A CLASS OF YOUNG TEACHERS. By William Russell, Lancaster, Mass. Education of the Perceptive Faculties. V. HOME EDUCATION. Labors of Rev. Warren Burton......... ....317 .838 VI. PRUSSIAN EXPENDITURES FOR PUBLIC INSTRUCTION COMPARED WITH FRENCH. From the French of M. Eugene Rendu. .. .. . An Address before the Alumni of Yale College, at Commencement, 1856. By James D. Dana........ VIII. THE EDUCATION REQUIRED BY THE TIMES. By Rt. Rev. Thomas M. Clark, D. D. XI. ART. ITS IMPORTANCE AS A BRANCH OF EDUCATION. By M. A. Dwight... Report of a Special Commission to the Minister of Public Instruction in France.....419 XIII. CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES. Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Educa tion.......... ........................ Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Instruction.... THE American Journal of Education. No. VI. SEPTEMBER, 1856. I. COMMON OR PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES. HAVING exhibited in the Journal for March and May, the magnitude of the educational interest of the United States, in a series of statistical tables made up from the census returns of 1850, showing the aggregate and juvenile population of the several states, the number of educational institutions of different grades, with their teachers, pupils and annual cost, the number of persons returned as not having received the lowest form of instruction; and having in a subsequent number presented the statistics of institutions supported wholly or partly by the avails of public funds or taxation in each State, we now proceed to give the condition of the Common or Public Schools, with the means and suggestions for their improvement, as set forth in extracts from official and legislative documents and addresses. These extracts should be read in connection with the statistics of population, &c,. before given. ALABAMA. Report of the Superintendent of Education [W. F. Perry] of the State of Alabama, to the Governor, Oct. 1, 1855. 36 pages. This is the first Report of the Superintendent of Education, and is confined to an account of preliminary operations. DIFFICULTIES IN ORGANIZING AN EFFICIENT SYSTEM. The building up of an efficient educational system, adapted to the various wants and circumstances of a large community, has never been accomplished, hitherto, but by the patient, unremitting efforts of successive years. The experience of other states abundantly proves that liberal appropriations and legislative enactments can not, of themselves, impart to such a system that vitality and energy which are essential to its ultimate success. It must rely mainly for these upon enlightened public opinion,-upon a rational, all-pervading interest on the subject, which springs not up spontaneously or from sudden impulse, but is itself the result of a sort of process of education, by which the whole people are brought to esteem the proper training of those who are to come after them, as their paramount duty and highest earthly concern. EDUCATIONAL FUNDS. The two funds placed under his control, under the general title of Educational Fund, were created at different times, were subject to different laws, and sustained different relations. One was the property of the State, consolidated and unchanging in amount; the other belonged to the town No. 6.-[Vol. II. No. 2.]-17. |