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CONFESSIONS OF A SCHOOL-MASTER, by Dr. William A. Alcott. New York: Mark H. Newman. Price 50 cents.

If our teachers will read these confessions of errors of omission and commission, and the record which it gives of real excellencies attained by the steps of a slow and laborious progress, they will save themselves the mortification of the first, and realize earlier the fruits of the last. Few men have the moral courage to look their former bad methods so directly in the face. Every young teacher should read this book.

CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. MY INTRODUCTION TO SCHOOL KEEPING. Section I. Prepara tion and Engagement. Section II. The Examination. Section III. My Cogitations. CHAPTER II. MY FIRST YEAR. Section I. First day of School Section II. General Course of Instruction. Section III Particular Errors. Section IV. Religious Exercises. CHAPTER III. MY SECOND YEAR. Section 1. Course of Instruction. Section II. Serious

Mistakes.

CHAPTER IV. MY THIRD YEAR. Section I. Complaint to the Grand Jurors. Section II. Introduction of a New School Book. Section III. Meeting of the Schools.

CHAPTER V. FOURTH AND FIFTH YEARS. Section I. Modes of Punishing. Section II. At tending to other Employments. Section III. Late Evening Visits. Section IV. Studies and Methods.

CHAPTER VI. MY SIXTH YEAR. Section I. Teaching by the Year. Terms and Object. Section II. Description of the School and School-house. Section III. First Efforts at Improvement. Punctuality. Section IV. Methods and Discipline. Section V. Schools Neglected by Parents. Section VI. School Libraries. Section VII. Improper Company. Example. CHAPTER VII. MY SEVENTH YEAR.

on the Sabbath.

CHAPTER VIII. MY EIGHTH YEAR. Causes of Failure.

Section 1. Divided Attention. Section II. Teaching

Section I. General Account of my School. Section II.

CHAPTER IX. MY NINTH YEAR. Section I. A Novel Enterprise. Section II. Methods of Teaching. Discipline.

CHAPTER X. MY EXPERIENCE AS A SCHOOL VISITOR. Section I. Examination of Teachers. Section II. Special Visits to Schools. Section III. Meetings for Improvement. Section IV. Introduction of a New Reading Book.

CHAPTER XI. MY TENTH YEAR IN SCHOOL. Section 1. Commencement of School. Section II. Spelling, Reading, Writing, etc. Section III. Teaching Geography. Section IV. A Practical Exercise. Section V. Experiment in Teaching Etymology. Section VI. Teaching Orthography. Section VII. Forcing Knowledge. Section VIII. Teaching Pupils to sit still. Section IX. My Moral Influence. Section X. My Ill Health. Section XI. Countenancing the Sports of my Pupils. Section XII. Discipline.

THE SCHOOL TEACHER'S MANUAL, by Henry Dunn, Secretary of the British and Foreign School Society, London. Hartford: Reed & Barber, 1839. pp. 223. Price 50 cents.

The American edition of this work is edited by Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, which is the best evidence that could be given of the general soundness of the views presented by the English author.

TEACHERS' INSTITUTE, by W. B. Fowle. Boston.

TEACHING A SCIENCE: THE TEACHER AN ARTIST, by Rev. B. R. Hall. New York: Baker & Scribner.

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, by Lyman Cobb. New York: Mark H. Newman.

SCHOOL KEEPING, by an Experienced Teacher. Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1831.

THE SCHOOL-MASTER'S FRIEND, with the Committee-man's Guide, by Theodore Dwight, Jr. pp. 360. New York, Roe Lockwood, 415, Broadway, 1835.

THE TEACHER, or Moral Influences in the Instruction and Government of the Young, by Jacob Abbott. Boston, Whipple & Damrell, No. 9 Cornhill, Boston. Price 75 cents.

THEORY OF TEACHING, with a few practical Illustrations, by a Teacher. Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. pp. 128.

DISTRICT SCHOOL, by J. Orville Taylor. Brothers, 1834.

New York: Harper &

LECTURES ON EDUCATION, by Horace Mann, Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Boston: Fowle & Capen, 1845. Pp. 338. Price $1.00.

This volume embraces seven lectures, most of which were delivered before the Annual Common School Conventions, held in the several counties of Massachusetts, in 1838, '39, '40, '41, and '42. They are published in this form at the request of the Board of Education. No man, teacher, committee, parent, or friend of education generally, can read these lectures without obtaining much practical knowledge, and without being fired with a holy zeal in the cause.

CONTENTS. Lecture 1. Means and Objects of Common School Education. Lecture II Special Preparation, a prerequisite to Teaching. Lecture III. The Necessity of Education in a Repub ican Government. Lecture IV. What God does, and what He leaves for Man to do, in the work of Education. Lecture V. An Historical View of Education; showing its Dignity and its Degradation. Lecture VI. On District School Libraries. Lecture VII. On School Punishments.

LOCKE AND MILTON ON EDUCATION. Boston: Gray & Brown, 1830. THE EDUCATION OF MOTHERS, by L. Aimé-Martin. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1843.

EDUCATION AND HEALTH, by Amariah Brigham. Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1843.

DR. CHANNING ON SELF CULTURE. Boston: Monroe & Co. Price 33 cents.

MISS SEDGWICK ON SELF TRAINING, OR MEANS AND ENDS. York: Harper & Brothers.

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EXERCISES FOR THE SENSES. London: Charles Knight & Co. Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

LESSONS ON OBJECTS: as given to children between the ages of six and eight, in a Pestalozzian School at Cheam, Sussex, by C. Mayo. London: Seeley, Burnside & Seeley, Fleet street, 1845.

LESSONS ON SHELLS, as given to children between the ages of eight and ten, and by the author of "Lessons on Objects." London: Seeley, Burnside & Seeley, 1846.

PATTERSON'S ZOOLOGY FOR SCHOOLS. London.

MODEL LESSONS FOR INFANT SCHOOL TEACHERS, by the author of "Lessons on Objects." Parts I. and II. London: Seeley, Burnside & Seeley, 1846.

WILDERSPIN'S INFANT SYSTEM. London: James S. Hodgson, 112 Fleet street.

WILDERSPIN'S ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. London: James S. Hodgson. CHAMBERS' EDUCATIONAL COURSE, INFANT EDUCATION, from two to six years of age. Edinburgh: W. R. Chambers.

PRACTICAL EDUCATION, by Maria Edgeworth. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835.

The following works will exhibit a pretty full view of the progress and condition of education in Europe.

SMITH'S HISTORY OF EDUCATION. Harper & Brothers. Price 50

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This work is substantially an abridgement of the great German work of Schwartz, and is worthy of an attentive perusal, not only for its his torical view of the subject, but for the discussion of the general principles which should be recognized in every system of education.

BIBER'S MEMOIR of Pestalozzi, and his plan of Education. London: I. Souter, 1831.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF DR. FELLENBERG, with an Appendix containing Woodbridge's Sketches of Hofwyl. London: Longman, 1842.

REPORT ON EDUCATION IN EUROPE, by Alexander Dallas Bache. Philadelphia: Lydia R. Bailey, 1829. pp. 666.

REPORT ON ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION IN EUROPE, by Calvin E. Stowe, D. D. Boston: Thomas H. Webb & Co. Price 31 cents.

SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Secretary of the (Massachusetts) Board of Education, Hon. Horace Mann, 1843. Boston: Fowle and Capen. Price 25 cents.

These three reports introduce the teacher into the school-rooms of the best teachers in Europe, and enable him to profit by the observations and experience of men who have been trained by a thorough preparatory course of study and practice at home, to the best methods of classification, instruction, and government of schools, as pursued abroad.

ACCOUNT OF THE EDINGURGH SESSIONAL SCHOOL, Edinburgh, by John Wood. Boston: Monroe & Francis, 1830.

COUSIN'S REPORT ON PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN PRUSSIA, translated by Sarah Austin. New York: Wiley & Long, 1835.

WILLM ON THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE, translated from the French by Prof. Nichol. Glasgow: 1847.

MANUAL OF THE SYSTEM OF PRIMARY INSTRUCTION pursued in the model schools of the British and Foreign School Society. London: 1839. MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION, from 1838 to 1844. London: 8 vols.

STOW'S TRAINING SYSTEM, as pursued in the Glasgow Normal Seminary. Edinburgh: 1840.

AN OUTLINE OF THE METHODS OF TEACHING, in the Model School of the Board of National Education for Ireland. Dublin: I. S. Folds, 1840. COUSIN'S REPort on PrimaRY INSTRUCTION IN HOLLAND. London: 1835.

GIRARDIN'S REPORT ON EDUCATION IN AUSTRIA, BAVARIA, &c. Paris:

1835.

HICKSON'S ACCOUNT OF THE DUTCH AND GERMAN SCHOOLS. London: Taylor and Walton, 1840.

INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE AND ART OF EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION FOR MASTERS OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS, by B. S. Denzel, President of Royal Training College for School-masters at Esslingen. 6 vols. Stutgard, 1839.

This is considered the most complete German Treatise on the subject

LECTURES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION from 1830 to 1847. Eighteen volumes. Boston: Ticknor.

These volumes embrace more than 150 lectures and essays, on a great variety of important topics, by some of the ablest scholars and most successful teachers in the country.

CONTENTS.-VOL. 1, for 1830. Introductory Discourse, by President Wayland. Lecture 1. Physical Education, by John C. Warren. M. D. Lecture II. The Development of the Intellectual Faculties, and on Teaching Geography, by James G. Carter. Lecture III. The Infant School System, by William Russell. Lecture IV. The Spelling of Words, and a Rational Method of Teaching their Meaning, by Gideon F. Thayer. Lecture V. Lyceums and Societies for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, by Nehemiah Cleaveland. Lecture VI. Practical Method of Teaching Rhetoric. by Samuel P. Newman. Lecture VII. Geometry and Algebra, by F. J. Grund. Lecture VIII. The Monitorial System of Instruction, by Henry K. Oliver. Lecture IX. Vocal Music, by William C. Woodbridge. Lecture X. Linear Drawing, by Walter R. Johnson. Lecture XI. Arithmetic, by Warren Colburn. Lecture XII. Classical Learning, by Cornelius C. Felton. Lecture XIII. The Construction and Furnishing of SchoolRooms and School Apparatus, by William J. Adams. VOL. II, for 1831. Introductory Lecture, by James Walker. Lecture 1. Education of Females, by George B. Emerson. Lecture II. Moral Education, by Jacob Abbott. Lecture III. Usefulness of Lyceums, by S. C. Phillips. Lecture WV. Education of the Five Senses, by William H. Brooks. Lecture V. The Means which may be employed to stimulate the Student without the aid of Emulation, by John L. Parkhurst. Lecture VI. Grammar, by Goold Brown. Lecture VII. Influence of Academies and High Schools on Common Schools, by Walliam C. Fowler. Lecture VIII. Natural History as a Branch of Common Education, by Clement Durgin. Prize Essay on School-Houses, by W. A. Alcott.

VOL. III, for 1832.-Introductory Discourse, by Francis C. Gray. Lecture 1. The best Methods of Teaching the Living Languages, by George Ticknor. Lecture 11. Some of the Diseases of a Literary Life, by G. Hayward, M. D. Lecture III. The Utility of Visible Illustrations, by Walter R. Johnson. Lecture IV. The Moral Influences of Physical Science, by John Pierpont. Lecture V. Prize Essay, on the Teaching of Penmanship, by B. B. Foster. Lecture VI. Nature and Means of Early Education, as deduced from Experience, by A. B. Alcott. Lecture VII. On Teaching Grammar and Composition, by Asa Rand.

VOL. IV, for 1833.-Introductory Lecture, by William Sullivan. Lecture I. On the Importance of a Knowledge of the Principles of Physiology to Parents and Teachers, by Edward Reynolds, M. D. Lecture II. The Classification of Schools, by Samuel M. Burnside. Lecture III. Primary Education, by Gardner B. Perry. Lecture IV. Emulation in Schools by Leonard Withington. Lecture V. The best Method of Teaching the Ancient Languages, by Alpheus S. Packard. Lecture VI. Jacotot's Method of Instruction, by George W. Greene. Lecture VII. The best Method of Teaching Geography, by W. C. Woodbridge. Lecture Vin Necessity of Educating Teachers, by Samuel R. Hall. Lecture IX. The Adaptation of Intellectual Philosophy to Instruction, by Abijah R. Baker. Lecture X. The best Mode of Teaching Natural Philosophy, by Benjamin Hale.

VOL. V. 1834-Introductory Lecture, by Caleb Cushing. Lecture I. The best Mode of Fix ing the Attention of the Young, by Warren Burton. Lecture II. The Improvement which may be made in the Condition of Common Schools, by Stephen Farley. Lecture III. Duties of Parents in regard to the Schools where their Children are Instructed, by Jacob Abbott, Lecture IV. Maternal Instruction and Management of Infant Schools, by M. M. Carl Lecture V. Teaching the Elements of Mathematics, by Thomas Sherwin. Lecture VI The Dangerous Tendency to Innovations and Extremes in Education, by Hubbard Winslow. Lecture VII. Union of Manual with Mental Labor, in a System of Education, by Beriah Green. Lecture VIII. The History and Uses of Chemistry, by C. T. Jackson. Lecture IX. Natural History as a Study in Common Schools, by A. A. Gould, M. D. Lecture X. Science of Government as a Branch of Popular Education, by Joseph Story.

VOL. VI, for 1835 --Introductory Lecture, by W. H. Furness. Lecture I. The Study of the Classics, by A. Crosby, Lecture II. Education for an Agricultural People, by Samuel Nott, Jr. Lecture III Political Influence of Schoolmasters, by E. Washburn. Lecture IV. State and Prospects of the German Population of this Country, by H. Bokum. Lecture V. Religious Education, by R. Park. Lecture VI. Importance of an Acquaintance with the Philosophy of the Mind to an Instructor, by J. Gregg. Lecture VII. Euds of School Discipline, by Henry L. McKean. Lecture VIII. Importance and Means of Cultivating the Social Affections among Pupils, by J. Blanchard. Lecture IX. Meaning and Objects of Education, by T. B. For. Lecture X Management of a Common School, by T. Dwight, Jr. Lecture XI. Moral and Spiritual Culture in Early Education, by R. C. Waterston, Lecture XII. Moral Uses of the Study of Natural History, by W. Channing, M. D. Lecture XIII. Schools of the Arts, by W. Johnson, VOL. VII., for 1836.-Lecture 1. Education of the Blind, by Samuel G. Howe, M. D. Lecture II. Thorough Teaching, by William H. Brooks. Lecture III. Physiology, or "The House I live in." by William A. Alcott. Lecture IV. Incitements to Moral and Intellectual Well-Doing, by J. H. Belcher. Lecture V. Duties of Female Teachers of Common Schools, by Daniel Kimball. Lecture VI. Methods of Teaching Elocution in Schools, by T. D. P. Stone. Lecture VII. Influence of Intellectual Action on Civilization, by H. R. Cleaveland. Lecture VIII. School Discipline, by S. R. Hall.

VOL. VIII, for 1937.-Introductory Discourse, by Rev. Elipha White. Lecture 1. Study of the Classics, by John Mulligan. Lecture 11. Moral Education, by Joshua Bates. Lecture III Study of Natural History, by John Lewis Russell. Lecture IV. Comparative Merits of Private and Public Schools, by Theodore Edson. Lecture V. Elocution, by David Fosdick, Jr. Lec

ture VI. Relation between the Board of Trustees and the Faculty of a University, &c., by Jasper Adams. Lecture VII. School Reform, or Teachers' Seminaries, by Charles Brooks. Lecture VIII. Teaching of Composition in Schools, by R. G. Parker. Lecture IX. Evils of the Present System of Primary Instruction, by Thomas H. Palmer. Lecture X. Reading and Declamation, by William Russell.

VOL. IX, for 1838.-Lecture I. Literary Responsibility of Teachers, by Charles White. Lecture II. The Head and the Heart; or, The Relative Importance of Intellectual and Moral Culture, by Elisha Bartlett. Lecture III. Vocal Music in Common Schools, by Joseph Harring ton, Jr. Lecture IV. Model Schools, by Thomas D. James. Lecture V. Observations on the School System of Connecticut, by Denison Olmsted. Lecture VI. Teaching of English Grammar, by R. G Parker. Lecture VII. Mutual Duties of Parents and Teachers, by David P. Page. Lecture VIII. Man, the Subject of Education, by Samuel G. Goodrich.

VOL. X, for 1839-Introductory Discourse, The Education of a Free People, by Robert Rantoul, Jr. Lecture I. Physiology of the Skin, by John G. Metcalf, M. D Lecture 11. Mind and its Developments, by Emerson Davis Lecture III. A Classic Taste in our Common Schools, by Luther B. Lincoln. Lecture IV. Natural Theology as a Study in Schools, by Henry A. Miles. Lecture V. Division of Labor in Instruction, by Thomas Cushing, Jr. Lecture VI. The Claims of our Age and Country upon Teachers, by David Mack. Lecture VII. Progress of Moral Science, and its Application to the Business of Practical Life, by Alexander H. Everett. Lecture VIII. The Comparative Results of Education, by T. P. Rodman, Lecture IX. Physi. cal Education, by Abel L. Pierson, M. D.

VOL. II. NEW SERIES, for 1840.-Lecture I. Intellectual Education in Harmony with Moral and Physical, by Joshua Bates. Lecture II. Results to be aimed at in School Instruction and Disciple, by 7 Cushing, Jr. Lecture III. Duty of Visiting Schools, by Thomas A. Greene. Lecture IV. Objects and Means of School Instruction, by A. B. Muzzey. Lecture V. Courtesy, and its Connection with School Instruction, by G. F. Thayer. Lecture VI. On the Brain and the Stomach, by Usher Parsons, M. D. Lecture Vll. Common Complaints made against Teachers, by Jacob Abbott.

VOL. XII, for 1841.-Lecture I. Best Method of Preparing and Using Spelling-Books, by Hor ace Mann. Lecture II. Best Method of Exercising the Different Faculties of the Mind, by Wm. B. Funcle. Lecture III. Education of the Laboring Classes, by T. Parker. Lecture IV. Impor tance of the Natural Sciences in our System of Popular Education, by A. Gray. Lecture V. Moral Culture Essential to Intellectual Education, by E. W. Robinson. Lecture VI. Simpli city of Character, as Affected by the Common Systems of Education, by J. S. Dwight. Lecture VII. Use of the Globes in Teaching Geography and Astronomy, by A. Fleming. Lecture VIII. Elementary Principles of Constitutional Law, as a Branch of Education in Common Schools, by Edward A. Lawrence.

VOL. XIII, for 1842.-Lecture 1. Moral Education, by George B. Emerson. Lecture II. Universal Language, by Samuel G. Howe. Lecture III. The Girard College, by E. C. Wines. Lecture IV. School Room, as an aid to Self-Education, by A. B. Muzzey. Lecture V. Moral Responsibility of Teachers, by William H. Wood. Lecture VI. The Teacher's Daily Prepara

tion.

VOL. XIV, for 1813.-Lecture I. The Bible in Common Schools, by Heman Humphrey, D. D. Lecture II. The Classification of Knowledge, by Solomon Adams. Lecture III. Moral Dignity of the Teacher's Office, by Prof. I. H. Agnew. Lecture IV. A few of the "Hows" of Schoolkeeping, by Roger S. Howard. Lecture V. Advancement in the Means and Methods of Public Instruction, by David P. Page. Lecture VI. Reading, by C. Pierce. Lecture VII. Some of the Duties of the Faithful Teacher, by Alfred Greenleaf Lecture VIII. Some of the Defects of our Systems of Education, by R. B. Hubbard. Lecture IX. Importance of our Common Schools, by S. J. May

VOL. XV, for 1844.-Lecture 1. The Religious Element in Education, by Calvin E. Stowe. Lecture II. Female Education, by William Russell. Lecture III. Some of the Obstacles to the Greater Success of Common Schools, by Charles Northend. Lecture IV. Some of the Dangers of Teachers, by Daniel P. Galloup. Lecture V. Natural History as a Regular Classic in our Seminaries, by Charles Brooks. Lecture VI. Classical Instruction, by A. H. Weld. Lecture VII. School Discipline, by Joseph Hale. Lecture VIII. Methods of Teaching to Read, by Samuel S. Greene. Lecture IX. The Duty of the American Teacher, by John N. Bellows. Lecture X. The Necessity of Education in a Republican Form of Government, by Horace Mann. VOL. XVI, for 1845.-Lecture I. Dignity of the Teacher's Office, by Joel Hawes, D. D. Address. The Formation and Excellence of the Female Character, by Joel Hawes, D. D. Lec ture II. The Duties of Examining Committees, by Prof. E. D. Sanborn. Lecture III. The Perfect Teacher, by Denison Olmstead, L. L. D. Lecture IV. Physiology, by Edward Jarvis, M. D. Lecture V. Intellectual Arithmetic, by F. A. Adams. Lecture VI. County Teachers' Institutes, by Salem Town. Lecture VII. Geography, by William B. Fowle. Lecture VIII. Vocal Mu sic in Common Schools, by A. N. Johnson. Lecture IX. History, by George S. Hillard.

VOL XVII, for 1846.-Journal of Proceedings. List of Officers. Annual Report. Lecture 1. Home Preparation for School, by Jason Whiman. Lecture II. The Influence of Moral upon Intellectual Improvement, by H. B. Hooker. Lecture III. The Essentials of a Common School Education, and the conditions most favorable to their Attainment, by Rufus Putnam. Lecture IV. The Education of the Faculties, and the Proper Employment of Young Children, by Samuel J. May. Lecture V. The Obligation of Towns to Elevate the Character of our Common Schools, by Luther B. Lincoln. Lecture VI. Importance of Cultivating Taste in Early Life, by Ariel Parish. Lecture VII. On Phonotypy and Phonography, or Speech-Writing and Speech Printing, by Stephen P. Andrews. Lecture VIII. On the Study of the English Language, by D. Huntington.

VOL. XVIII, for 1847.-Journal of Proceedings. List of Officers. Lecture I. On the Study of Language, by Hubbard Winslow. Lecture II. On the Appropriateness of Studies to the State of Mental Development, by Thomas P. Rodman.

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