Iseulte, by the author of "Vera," &c. MESSRS. A. S. BARNES & Co., NEW YORK:— Practical Ethics, by Matilda Fletcher :-Written for American Schools. As a primary work it brings before the mind of the student, in a catechistical form, those cardinal moral principles which lie at the foundation of all true character. Manual of Algebra, by Prof. Wm. G. Peck, LL.D. :-This is one of the series of mathematical works by Prof. Peck, whose books are being now extensively used in the U. S. It is printed with clear type. Pooler's Test Speller :-For the use of Teachers' Institutes and other spelling classes. MESSRS. ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK :Testimony of the Rocks, by Hugh Miller :-This work, the last that the great geologist penned, and the final effort of an expiring reason, will be read with great interest. Originally written in the form of lectures, they were collected and arranged for publication just before the author's lamented death. Not the least interesting portion of the book is that in which Mr. Miller avows his conversion to the theory School Hymn and Tune Book:-By J. D. Bartley. Containing a colwhich reconciles the Mosaic and geological accounts of the Creation. Approaching the subject with the belief of a Christian and the conclu-lection of national, anniversary and parting hymns, as well as a variety of tunes composed by popular authors, or arrangements from classic sions of a practical geologist, he rejoices in being able to trace the finger of God, writing again for us on the tables of stone the story which composers. Moses wrote. The "memorials" detail the melancholy story of his death-" a mighty vessel foundered in the calm." Twelve Months in Madagascar, by Joseph Mullens, D.D.:-The visit to Madagascar which is here described was undertaken by Rev. Dr. Mullens, Foreign Secretary of the London Missionary Society. It is, therefore chiefly devoted to a review of the work, and an outlook at the prospects of the missions in that Island. We are glad to learn that Dr. Mullens regards the hold that Christianity has obtained there as real and permanent. Desirous of a more extended geographical and personal knowledge of the country, Dr. Mullens went prepared to observe the natural features of the island, and to learn something of the natives, He has brought back, and embodied in this book, some very valuable information, and has made extensive additions to our present knowledge of the country. He has compiled a large new map, beautifully engraved, and which accompanies the book, of the central and less known portions of the Island. There are also several excellent illustrations in the book. The deputation was well received by the Queen of Madagascar and her Government. Teacher's Hand Book :-By Wm. F. Phelps, M. A., Principal of State Normal School, Winona, Minn. An exhaustive review and discussion of educational questions, both in regard to the duties and attitude of education to the masses, and of the relation of the State to the educational system. This is coupled with a course of instruction mapped out by Mr. Phelps, going over the ground minutely, while Part II. is devoted to Teachers' Institutes, their origin, organization and object. The National School Singer, containing many popular songs, as well as song lessons. ---A very useful publication. From J. R. OSGOOD & Co., Boston. Victorian Poets. By E. C. Stedman. Poets, great and small, who figure in what Stedman calls the Victorian age, are reviewed in this work. It is written as a philosophical criticism on the style, form, quality, and tendencies which the verse of British poets exhibit, and is, at the same time, a historical review. This serves to give a compactness and sequence to the book which renders it of some value as a literary volume of reference. American poetry Mr. Stedman regards as being as it were in its infancy, and as not having acquired a definiteness aspired. From BELFORD BROTHERS, Toronto. which would render it a consideration of value as regards characteristic Four Years in Ashantee, by the Missionaries Ramseyer and Kuhne :-style and form. Those British poets who are regarded as types are Lauder, This account of life in Ashantee will be found very interesting. The Hood, Proctor, Browning, Tennyson, Buchanan, Swinburne, Morris. writers, missionaries of the German Basel Society, were taken prisoners Mrs. Browning is the only lady whose position in literature is asserted as by the Ashantees and only released when Sir Garnet Wolseley took Coomassie. Their experience was long and painful, and is told in graphic language. Their captivity, however, afforded the devoted missionaries abundant opportunities of gathering knowledge and experience for their special work, which they appear to have amply profited by. The preface is written by the distinguished Dr. Christlieb, Professor of Theology at Bonn. Apart from the narrative of suffering experienced by the captive missionaries, this book contains a graphic account of the Ashantee war from an inside point of view. Farm Legends. By Will Carleton. This is a very handsome Canadian edition, containing, in addition to the "Farm Legends," other poems, and two of the most popular of the wellknown Farm Ballads. The enterprise of Belford Brothers in bringing out encouragement. The moral as well as the social influence of the Legends so very tasty an edition of a most popular and useful book deserves every will be most salutary. The "Ballads" have proved themselves so, and in "holding the mirror up to nature" in farm life they have rubbed the Nurses for the Needy, by L. N. R., Authoress of the "Missing Link :"-rough corners off many points of rural life, and have corrected many social This book contains a most interesting record of seven years of nursing errors and mistakes. work by Bible women in the houses of the London poor. Its purpose is to show the want as well as success of Mrs. Ranyard's second "missing link," in the shape of "nurses for the needy," which it is shown are required scarcely less than the first Bible women "link." All about Jesus, by Alexander Dickson': This is a deeply devotional work by one whose earnest, loving study of Holy Scripture has led him (taking the 10-16 verses of Canticles as his motto) to collect all the texts relating to the person and character of Jesus, and to show forth from them the exceeding beauty, grace and glory of the Saviour. 66 To show his high appreciation of this work Mr. Robert Carter, the head of the publishing firm in New York, adds these words: May the Master make this book as sweet to others as it has been to me." The Golden Chain, by Miss Marsh :-This is another delightful little work from the pen of Miss Marsh, the authoress of "English Hearts and Hands," Victory Won," "Headly Vicars," &c. The motto of the book is "Trial and blessing, peace and pain, are links in Mercy's golden chain." The book contains five touching and beautiful sketches by the writer. 99 66 Coulyng Castle, by Agnes Giberne :-An historical tale relating to Sir Floss Silverthorn, or the Master's Little Handmaid; and Pieces of Doors Outward :-A sterling tale, by the author of "Win and Wear.', Sceptres and Crowns and the Flag of Truce :-Two admirable stories by the well-known author of "The Wide, Wide World." Eleanor's Visit and Mabel Walton's Experiment :-Two well-told stories by the author of the "Bessie Books." Little Brothers and Sisters :-Two excellent stories by Emma Marshall An Eden in England and the Little Maid and Living Jewels, by A. L.O. E.: -The whole of these books form a collection of most interesting and instructive Juveniles, admirably adapted for Sunday School Libraries. The names of the various authoresses quoted, with titles of the books are a sufficient guarantee for the worth and excellence of them. Beside, none but the best kind of Juveniles are published by the noted firm of Carter, Brothers, of New York. Betty's Bright Idea. By Harriet Beecher Stowe. This little volume contains three excellent stories, written in Mrs. Stowe's characteristic style: Betty's Bright Idea, a touching Christmas story; Deacon Pitkin's Farm, a beautiful Thanksgiving Day story; and The First Christmas in New England, a capital sketch of the good old Puritan times. The three stories are sold by the publishers for 25 cents, and are admirably adapted for children's reading. We and Our Neighbours. By Harriet Beecher Stowe. This novel contains the records of an unfashionable street, and is a sequel to the writer's "My Wife and I," though it is complete in itself. It is written in Mrs. Stowe's genial, hearty style, and is eminently readable. Sermons Out of Church. By the Author of John Halifax. This delightful volume contains so-called "Sermons out of Church," by Miss Mulock, on-1. "What is Self-Sacrifice?" 2. "Our Often Infirmities;" 3. "How to Train Up a Parent in the Way He Should Go;" 4. "BeneMy Brother's Keeper;" 6. "Gather up the volence or Beneficence?" 5. about them, but are written in a practical, popular style. They deal with Fragments." These "Sermons" have nothing of the sermonizing style the many blisters of humanity" in a kindly, loving spirit, and cannot but have a good influence on those that read them, How to Live Long. By Dr. W. W. Hall. This is a useful yet unique medical book, written in a somewhat "proFun is better than Physic." The practical and proverbial sentences in verbial philosophical" style, inculcating, by "numerous examples," that the book number 1,408, and are admirable. Belford Brothers have really done good service in reprinting so many useful books. From COPP, CLARK & Co., City. Science and Art of Teaching. By George V. Le Vaux. have already appeared in this Journal, others in the American Educational Several of the chapters in this valuable contribution to school literature 66 66 Monthly, in English and Irish papers, and in an Australian Journal of Edu- Canadian Official Postal Guide. No. 1. VI. Departmental Notices. authorised (not prescribed) none of them can be introduced into any School except with the concurrence of the Trustees and of the HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMME, INTERIM COMMITTEE. Inspector. Teachers, therefore, will have to act very prudently in The Executive Committee of the High School Section of the introducing even the newly authorised books in any School. Ontario Teachers' Association recently passed the following troduced by a teacher. No unauthorised book can, under any circumstances, be in resolution : This resolution is both misleading and unfair. The Interim Committee had full power to adopt the programme, which had been carefully prepared and revised by the High School Inspectors under the direction of the Regulations Committee of the Council of Public Instruction. Inspectors Are specially required by law (clause ten (a) section one hundred and twelfth): the use of authorised books in each School." SCHOOL CENSUS OF 1875 THE BASIS OF As the School Census of 1875, which the School Trustees are required by law to take, will likely be the basis of the Legislative School apportionment of 1876, it is most important that the Inspectors should see that it is accurately taken in every School Section, incorporated village, town, and city. TRUSTEES' SUPPLEMENTARY RETURNS. The details of the plan of "Payment by Results," as recommended by the Inspectors, and on which the whole programme is based, were unanimously adopted at a very full meeting of the Council on the nineteenth day of May last, thirteen members having been present on the occasion. The progamme itself in its general features was also approved at the above date. It was also some months ago approved as a whole by the 1. The Supplementary Return relating to blind persons in "Regulations Committee" of the Council with the exception Ontario, accompanying the Blank Forms for 1875, which were of one or two matters of detail, respecting which the Com- recently sent to the Inspectors, is intended to be forwarded by mittee desired the Inspectors to be again consulted. This was them to the Trustees, in order that the fullest information on done; and the programme came back from the Inspectors in this subject may be obtained. When returned to the Inspector its present shape. It was then formally adopted, without by the Trustees, they should be (such as are filled up only) change, by the Interim Committee, under the authority of the transmitted to J. Howard Hunter, Esq., M.A., Principal of High School Act, and of the Regulations of the Council con- the Blind Asylum, Brantford. City, Town and Village Boards tained in its minutes of the first and third days of September, of School Trustees, who will receive their Forms at the close of one thousand eight hundred and seventy four, as published in the year, are requested to do likewise. the Journal of Education. Its early adoption has been the 2. The Supplementary Return relating to the School Census more necessary, as the scheme of apportionment on which the and School attendance, also sent to the Inspectors for distribuprogramme is based had been sanctioned last May, and was tion, should be filled up by the Trustees and Teachers in every designed to come into force in one thousand eight hundred and particular, and returned to the Inspectors with the report. Inseventy-six. It was therefore desirable that no further time spectors will please see that these returns are duly made to them, should be lost in giving effect to the entire scheme of High so that the "compulsory education" portion of our School School reform. system shall be properly and faithfully carried out. The absence of the High School representative from the Interim Committee was his own act. He and the other Toronto members were duly notified of the meeting, and were informed that the programme (a copy of which was sent to them) would be presented for adoption. To defer action under the circumstances, when a legal quorum of the Council itself was present, would indeed have been "inexpedient and unsound in principle." By reference to the first page of this Journal, it will be seen that His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor in Council has approved of the Programme and Regulations. AUTHORIZED TEXT-BOOKS.-SPECIAL NOTICE. CORRECTION.-James A. Duncan, reported in December No. of this Journal as having received a Second Class A Certificate should have been printed John A. Duncan. VII. Advertisements. JUST PUBLISHED, The Canada Educational Directory and Year Book for 1876. In reply to inquiries on the subject, we desire to say that no books have been struck off the authorized list of text-books, CON except the following: Peck Ganot's Natural Philosophy. Davidson's Animal Kingdom. The Geographical text-books are undergoing revision, but no change is yet authorized in that subject, or in the French. The list of new books authorized for Public and High Schools will be found in the Journal of Education for May and New lists will be furSeptember, 1875, pages 69 and 144. nished by the Department on application. It is not intended to enforce the change of text-books either in High or Public Schools during the first year, or without the consent of the Trustees and of the Inspectors. It will thus be seen that, with the exception of the three books named above, the same series of text-books prescribed or authorised for use in the Schools have been continued; and that even in the case of the additional books which have been Edited by ALEXANDER MARLING, LL.B. YONTAINING an account of the Elementary, Normal and Secondary Schools, and the Universities and Colleges, with their Staffs and their Courses of Study; Separate Schools; Professional Schools; Schools for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind; Reformatory and Industrial Schools, etc.; together with annals of Legislation, and Digests of the existing School Laws and Regulations; the provisions for Religions Instruction, for School Inspection. and for the Examination of Teachers; Lists of Certificated Teachers, and the Members of Educational Bodies and Authorities; with Miscellaneous School Statistics for Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, British Columbia and Manitoba. 25 Wellington Street, Toronto. HUNTER, ROSE & CO, Publishers. If not called for within one month, the Postmaster will please send to the School Inspector CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. RBORGANIZATION OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT I. EDUCATION IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES.-(1) Education in the United States, 1875; II. EDUCATION IN ONTARIO.-(1) Condition and Progress of our Schools; (2) Ele- III. PAPERS ON PRACTICAL EDUCATION.- (1) How to Teach Little Children; (2) IV. PAPERS ON THE EDUCATION OF FARMERS. (1) The Education of Farmers; (2) V. GOOD BREEDING AND THE YOUNG.-(1) The General Absence of Good Breeding; (2) Words to the Young; (3) A Word to Boys VI. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES VII. MATHEMATICAL DEPARTMENT VIII. SHORT CRITICAL NOTICES OF BOOKS IX. MISCELLANEOUS. (1) The School-Master's Guests (From Farm Legends), &c.. XI. ADVERTISEMENTS PAGE 19 19 No. 2. That the reverend gentleman has won for himself an honour17able and imperishable name in the esteem and gratitude of his countrymen, even those who were wont to differ from him now cheerfully and heartily acknowledge; that he has reared for himself a proud monument of enduring material, and in its erection has displayed some of the highest qualities of the statesman and successful administrator, is, we believe, the heartfelt expression of the enlightened public opinion of the country, as was echoed with great cordiality from both sides 29 of the House in the Legislative Assembly. 23 25 Few of the present generation can realize, not only the low 32 status, but the positively inert condition of the Province in educational matters when the Rev. Dr. Ryerson took charge of the Department, thirty-two years since-in 1844. Men who were fit for no other occupation were considered just the men to teach school; and houses which farmers of the present day would not erect as out-buildings on their farms, were considered as the ideal country school-house. The great and fundamental change in the Executive Administration of the Education Department, which has long been impending, will take place this month, under the Act authorizing it (which we insert), and which received the assent of His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor, on behalf of Her Majesty, on the 10th instant. The writer cannot trust himself to give expression to the deep and heartfelt regret which he feels that the advancing age and other causes have led the venerated Chief Superintendent to recommend a change which involves the severance of his long official ties with those in his Department (most of whom have laboured with him for many years), who have ever regarded him with loving reverence and affectionate esteem. After much discussion and educational agitation, all that state of things has happily passed away; and it is a highly gratifying fact that during the five years which have elapsed since the passing of the School Act of 1871, not less than the noble sum of over $2,000,000 has been spent in the various Municipalities in the purchase of sites and the erection and repair of School-houses alone. We insert the two accompanying tables, which show how. gratifying has been the progress of our country in this great work since 1844 :— COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION IN ONTARIO FOR THE YEARS 1844 AND 1874. Total Value of Maps, Apparatus, Prizes and Libraries despatched to 31st December, 1874, including 100 per cent., $605,338. In his last Annual Report to the Governor, the Chief Super-imposed upon me in 1852 of framing and administering the law intendent thus summarizes the progress of our Schools since 1844: "In concluding this Report for 1874, I may be permitted to note the progress which has been effected in the development of the Public School system, of which I took charge in 1844. At that time there were 2,706 Public School Teachers; in 1874, there were 5,736-increase, 3,030. In 1844, the amount paid for salaries of Teachers was $206,856; in 1874, the amount paid for salaries of Teachers was $1,647,750-increase, $1,440,894. In 1844, the total amount raised and expended for Public School purposes was $275,000; in 1874, it was $2,865,332-increase, $2,590,332. In 1844, the number of pupils in the Public Schools was 96,756; in 1874, the number of pupils in the Public Schools was 464,047-increase, 367,291. In 1844, the number of School-houses was 2,505; in 1874, the number was 4,827-increase, 2,322. The number of log School-houses in 1844 was 1,344; in 1874, 1,115-decrease, 229. The number of frame School-houses in 1844 was 1,028; in 1874, 2,080-increase, 1,052. The number of stone School-houses in 1844 was 84; in 1874, 463-increase, 379. The number of brick School houses in 1844 was 49; in 1874, 1,169 increase, 1,120. These are mere naked figures, which convey no idea of the improved character, furniture and fittings up of the School- "This Report for 1874 is probably my last Annual Report. houses; the improved character, uniformity, and greater cheap- though my own personal work in the Department may not ness of the text-books; the introduction of maps, globes, black-close before the end of the current year, 1875. boards, &c., in the Schools; the improved character, qualifications and position of Teachers and their teaching. In 1844, maps and globes were unknown in the Public Schools, to 1874, 2,785 globes and 47,413 maps and charts been furnished to the Schools, nearly all of which are factured in the country. In 1844, there were no raries or library books; in 1874, there were libraries, containing 266,046 volumes, the Department. In 1844, there respecting this important class of our public institutions. The In "It is by the co-operation of successive administrations of Government and Parliaments, and the noble exertions of the country at large, that this great work has been developed and advanced to its present state. "On retiring from the Department, in the seventy-thin year of my age, I may address a circular of a few parting words to Municipal Councils, Boards of Trustees and Teachers, by whom I have been so nobly seconded in our country's greates work, and with whom I have been associated in the mos cordial relations one year more than the historical generation of man." rewards for good conduct, AN ACT RESPECTING THE EDUCATION DEPART up to 1874, 766,645 MENT. Received the Royal Assent 10th February, 1876. Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts & follows: 1. The functions of the Council of Public Instruction a hereby suspended, and all the powers and duties which the said. Council now possess or may exercise by virtue of any statute in that behalf, shall devolve and are hereby devolved upon the Education Department, which shall consist of the Executive Council, or a Committee thereof appointed by the LieutenantGovernor; and all the functions and duties of the Chief Superintendent of Education are hereby vested in one of the said Executive Council, to be nominated by the Lieutenant-Governor, and to be designated "Minister of Education"; and whenever in any statute, by-law, regulation, deed, proceeding, matter or thing, the term "Council of Public Instruction," or "Chief Superintendent of Education" (as the case may be), or to the like signification, respectively occurs, the same shall be construed and have effect as if the term "Education Department" or "Minister of Education" was substituted therefor respectively. I. Education in Various Conutries. 1. EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1875. Constitutional Provisions related to Education, Literature and Science, in the several States of the American Union. Prepared by Franklin B. Hough.-Bureau of Education, Circular No. 7, 1875. The National Bureau of Education, its History, Work and Limitations. Prepared under the direction of the Commissioner of Education, by Alex. Shiras, D.D. 1875. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION FOR 1874. "We are a republic, whereof one man is as good as another before the law. Under such a form of government it is of the great2. The said office of Minister of Education may be held by est importance that all should be possessed of education and intelligence enough to cast a vote with a right understanding of its meana Member of the Executive Council holding no other office; ing. A large association of ignorant men cannot for any considerable and notwithstanding any salary attached thereto, he shall be period oppose a successful resistance to tyranny and oppression from capable of being elected, and sitting and voting as a member of the educated few, but will inevitably sink into acquiescence to the the Legislative Assembly; or such office may be held in con- will of intelligence, whether directed by the demagogue or priestnection with any other office held by a member of the Execu- craft. Hence the education of the masses becomes of the first tive Council; and any of the powers and duties of the said necessity for the preservation of our institutions. They are worth office may be assigned for a limited period, or otherwise, to any greatest proportion of the population of any form of government preserving, because they have secured the greatest good to the other of the members of the Executive Council holding any yet devised. All other forms of government approach it just in other Departmental office, by name or otherwise. proportion to the general diffusion of education and independence of thought and action. As the primary department, therefore, to our advancement in all that has marked our progress in the past century, I suggest for your earnest consideration, and most earnestthe Legislatures of the several States for ratification, making it the ly recommend it, that a constitutional amendment be submitted to duty of each of the several States to establish and for ever maintain free public schools, adequate to the education of all the children in the rudimentary branches within their respective limits, irrespective of sex, colour, birthplace or religion, forbidding the teaching in said schools of religion, atheistic or pagan tenets, and prohibiting the granting of any school funds, or school taxes, or any part thereof, either by legislative, municipal or other authority, for denomination, or in aid or for the benefit of any other object of the benefit, or in aid, directly or indirectly, of any religious sect or any nature or kind whatever." * 3. In case a member of the Executive Council holds any one of the five Departmental offices established by the sixtythird section of the British North America Act of 1867, and being at the same time a Member of the Legislative Assembly, resigns his office, and within one month after his resignation accepts the said office of Minister of Education, he shall not thereby vacate his seat in the Legislative Assembly, unless the Administration of which such person was a member shall have resigned, and in the interval a new Administration shall have occupied the said offices; or in case such member of the Executive Council is appointed to hold the said office of Minister of Education in addition to or in connection with one of the said five Departmental offices, he shall not thereby vacate his seat in the Legislative Assembly; and in either of the said cases, any increase or change of emolument arising from the said office of Minister of Education shall not cause any vacancy, or render a re-election necessary. REV. DR. RYERSON'S RETIRING ALLOWANCE. Nothing could be more à propos to these remarks of the President of the United States than the official papers and report named at the head of this article. These publications show that from their very foundations, the several States have regarded popular education with the most lively interest, and without exception have sooner or later provided for it, under the guarantees of constitutional rights, and placed it beyond the bounds of change except by a modification of the or Dr. Ryerson will retire from his office with a full allowance-ganic law. Some of the States, in their first constitutions, omitted the consideration of educational interests, but subsequent revisions $4,000 a year. It is unusual for the pension to equal in amount have supplied the omissions, until, at the present time, every State the salary for active service, but Dr. Ryerson's long and faithful in the Union seems to regard Education as it deserves to be relabours in the work of education fully entitle him to this special garded as a State concern of the first magnitude, to be provided for and protected with the most jealous care. mark of consideration.-Hamilton Times. A careful study of the subject leads the Commissioner of Education to remark that "the ideas of one have been adopted by another, according as these several instruments have been consulted and followed in the preparation of new plans of government or in This process of construction and amend the revision of old ones. The supplementary estimates were brought down on Monday. Rev. Dr. Ryerson gets $4,000 retiring allowance or pension-that is, his salary is continued in full. In this the Government has acted generously and righteously. No man in Ontario deserves better of his country than Dr. Ryerson.-Waterloo Chronicle. We observe with exceeding pleasure that the Ontario Government is going on every year, and the study of fundamental princiment, in their supplementary estimates, recommend the grant, as a retiring yearly allowance, of $4,000 to the Rev. Dr. Ryerson, Chief Superintendent of Schools. This is a grateful tribute to the founder and protector of our magnificent school system.-Cobourg World. ples in government becomes, in one part of the country or another, a freqent subject of immediate practical importance with those who may be charged with these responsible duties, or who may feel an interest in the success of the labours of those who are so charged. The merits of these several principles come under the direct personal inspection of every citizen who thoughtfully studies the plan submitted for his approval or rejection; and with the increasing intelligence which it is the province of education to impart, we may reasonably hope that every change in the organic law will be an The action of the Government in placing the sum of $4,000 in the supplementary estimates for this year to provide for the annual allowance to be given to the Rev. Dr. Ryerson, who is about to retire from the position of Chief Superintendent of Education, which he has long and honourably held, will be generally endorsed.-improvement, and that these frames of government will in each Kingston Chronicle and News. Everybody will be pleased to know that Dr. Ryerson will be allowed his full salary for 1876 upon retiring from the office of Chief Superintendent of Education, which he has so long and ably filled. -Hamilton Spectator. The public will be pleased to see by the supplementary estimates that the Government propose to allow Rev. Dr. Ryerson his full salary on retiring from the office of Chief Superintendent of Education.-Toronto Mail. change present a principle justified by experience and well founded in justice and wisdom." Frequent occasions for information as to constitutional provisions in regard to educational subjects led the Commissioner o Education to request Dr. Hough to prepare the Circular compre hending the provisions in the several States. *President Grant's recent Message to Congress. |