of the world's most famous books in unabridged form. Several numbers will be double, triple or quadruple, as the case may require. No. 81 is Holmes' "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," a triple number; price (paper), 45 cents; (linen), 50 cents.

GINN & Co. have issued a beautifully illustrated volume of over 700 pages, Vergil's "Eneid," Books I.-VI., with vocabulary. This is a careful revision by Greenough & Kittredge of the edition of 1882. The illustrations have been increased in number and improved, and the notes have been simplified. Typographically this is one of the most attractive text-books of the year. The mailing price is $1.65.

"MYTHS of Northern LanDS," by H. A. Guerber, author of "Myths of Greece and Rome." These tales are intensely interesting, setting forth as they do the distinctive traits of our heathen ancestors and the origin of many of the influences that still affect our customs, art and literature. The analogy between the mythology of Greece, Rome and the Oriental countries, and that of Northern Europe is striking, indeed, but Professor Guerber has shown that the local coloring given by the widely different aspects of Nature in the North and in the South differentiated the original tales until practically two distinct series of myths have been evolved the grim and tragical characterizing that of the North, and the graceful and pastoral characterizing that of the South. The book has over 300 pages, and is beautifully illustrated. Price, $1.50. Published by the American Book Co.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL NOTES.:

STANFORD University has 982 students enrolled.

A TEACHERS' club has been organized in Hanford.

THE Los Angeles Public Library has 42,313 volumes.

CHINO, San Bernardino county, is about to erect two new school-houses.

FIVE hundred and ninety-three pupils are enrolled in the Tulare public school.

ESPARTO High School, Yolo county, has twenty-eight pupils. J. A. Metzler, of Suisun, is principal.

THE new South Side schoolhouse in Santa Monica has been completed, and is already occupied by the school.

PROF. J. H. ROSEWALD, for many years connected with the musical department of Mills College, died October 25th.

THE corner stone of the new college building for the Los Angeles Medical and Surgical Institute was laid October 9th.

MISS ROSE ZELLERBACK, formerly of the Livermore public school, has been appointed assistant teacher in the Alameda High School.

BERKELEY has a truant officer, who visits the schools to obtain list of absentees, and then calls upon parents to find out the reason for absence.

SINCE the creation of the public school system of California by the legislature of 1851, the cost has been about one hundred millions of dollars.

THE Visalia schools are crowded, and additional schoolrooms must be provided to accommodate the large number of pupils who desire to attend school. THE U. S. Geologists who have been exploring Butte county for some time, have shipped the fossils, etc., collected, to the National Museum, Washington.

D. W. BRADDOCK, who for many years has been identified with the schools of Butte county, has accepted the principalship of one of the Stockton grammar schools.

SECRETARY HOKE SMITH has decided that California cannot select indemnity lands for losses of school lands, where the State received grants under the swamp land act.

THE new building for the Santa Rosa High School, a cut of which was published in the July JOURNAL, was formally dedicated October 7th. The school has 185 pupils enrolled.

SONOMA city school trustees have called an election to be held on Saturday, December 7th, to vote on the proposition to purchase the old college building forhigh school purposes.

DR. LEWIS SWIFT, of the Lowe Observatory, has been awarded the Comet Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, for his discovery of an unexpected comet on August 20th, 1895.

THE Supervisors of Santa Cruz county invited the school children of the county to participate in the ceremonies attendant upon the laying of the corner stone of the new Court House in Santa Cruz, November 2nd.

EX-COUNTY SUPT. R. F. BURNS, of Placer county, has entered the Indiana Law School, Indianapolis, Ind. He has been a student of Blackstone for several years, and purposes completing his law studies in the school named.

THE Lemoore public school opened on the 7th of October with one hundred and forty-seven pupils. The teachers are: G. W. Hinkle, principal; Miss Henrietta Treanwell, Miss Nora Scott, Mrs. Frank Cowan and Miss Emma Turner.

THE California School of Mechanical Arts has appointed Matthew Arnold Superintendent of the foundry and machine shop. Mr. Arnold was connected with the Union Iron Works for many years, part of the time as Superintendent.

ON October 15th, County Superintendent Amelia Boyd, of Shasta, married M. E. Dittmar, of Redding, editor of The Searchlight, a bright local paper devoted to political reform as advocated by the populists. The JOURNAL extends its congratulations.

THE Palmer collection of Southern California antiquities, one of the most valuable archeological collections in the West, is now displayed in the exhibit of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and it is intended to make the collection the nucleus of a museum.

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DECEMBER, 1895.

CURRENT EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT.

No. 12

THE California Teachers' Association represents a power, which, measured by its influence in the State and its capacity for good, stands foremost among the great agencies of civilization. Political rulers, magistrates, legislators, deal in the main with man when his mental and moral characteristics are already fully developed and set. You, the teachers of the State, deal with human nature in its elastic condition. You are placed at the fountain-head of society, where the slender stream may be easily diverted into any channel which you may choose to trace. Political rulers stand below, where the broadened waters flow between fixed banks which human power is impotent to change.-HON. D. M. DELMAS, San Francisco.

THE Owner of fine horses will spend a portion of each day with his trainer. This is as it should be. The parent of fine children will visit the school once a year if the teachers will prepare an exhibition. -COUNTY SUPT. JOB WOOD, JR., Salinas, Cal.

Do we as teachers teach enough of the why? Do we not linger too long with the how, unaccompanied with the key word that unlocks the door to future knowledge or investigation? That key, that knotty word why is too often shunned as an unfriendly and trouble