I paid for 12 numbers. Gillette's speech of welcome, Camp's Introductory, "Attention," "Charity," &c., all were most excellent.”

Another from the same county writes: "I have taken the Journal five years and wish to renew my subscription. I consider the Journal an indispensable aid to teachers and feel that I have profited much from its teachings."

Still another from the same county writes: "I believe the Journal to be indispensable to the truly progressive teacher, for without it, he would fall behind in the march of education."

A lady from New Haven County writes that she subscribed for the Journal a few months ago,-not because she felt that she needed it but because she was importuned to do so at an Institute. In sending a dollar to renew her subscription, she says: "I do not now subscribe to get rid of an agent, nor because of my duty to the State Journal, but because the practical suggestions I find in it are an aid to me as a teacher, that I cannot do without.”

We

We might publish a score of such, but the above must suffice. thank our friends for their kind expressions and will do what we can to make the monthly visits of the Journal both acceptable and useful. We inclose bills in the present number to all who have not paid. An early remittance will oblige us.

BOOK NOTICES.

ARITHMETICAL PROBLEMS, for the use of advanced classes in schools, by W. H. Farror A. M. Boston: Swan, Brewer and Tileston.

This little work contains one thousand well selected questions in arithmetic for purposes of review &c. It is accompanied by a key. We think such a work may be found very useful in our schools for weekly or review exercises. It is well printed.

We are in posession of a copy of "Allen's Classical Hand Book" published by Messrs Swan, Brewer and Tileston, Boston. It is a compendium of classical literature that should be in the hands of every teacher. It presents an extended amount of instruction and information in a condensed form and cannot fail to meet a demand which has long existed.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL VISITORS OF HARTFORD. This document of 24 pages, prepared by the Hon. Francis Gillette, Acting Visitor, gives a clear statement of the schools of the city. It is written in a good style as will be seen by the extract we give in

another place. From the report we learn that there are twelve schools, the number of pupils registe ed in the smallest being 29, in the largest 1261. In closing his excellent report, Mr. Gillette thus nobly and truthfully speaks:

"In Connecticut, to-day, the people are loyal and true, because educated and enlightened. They can not be seduced nor coerced from their allegiance, because free schools have saved them from that "barbarism" which our Pilgrim Fathers so much feared, and which, having covered and brooded over Virginia, has, at length, darkened into a "sorrowful night" of terror and blood.

Success then to the cause of popular education and free schools! Thanks, eternal thanks to our provident fathers for the rich and priceless inheritance! They have been our defense in the past; they are our stronghold now in time of trouble, and our firm reliance for the future. Let it be our aim to transmit them improved and augmented in power to mould the character and exalt the destinies of the generations to come. Christ being leader, let them occupy the foreground in the march of the new civilization, and be pillars of light to go before us in all the dark night of the future, and lead successive generations on and on to the promised land of perfect Light, Liberty and Love."

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. This popular Journal for February has been received. It is an excellent number,-one of the very best we have ever seen. We will send this Magazine to any of our present subscribers for $2, or our Journal and the Atlantic to any address for $3.

THE CONTINENTAL for February is a very good number, an improvement even the January No. The contents are, in part, as follows: "Our War and Our Want;" Brown's Lecture Tour; The Watchword; Tints and Tones of Paris; The True Basis; The Black Flag; The Actress Wife; Self-Reliance; The Huguenot Families in America; The Black Witch," &c. We will send this Journal on same terms as the preceding.

PETERSON'S LADIES NATIONAL MAGAZINE. This is one of the best Magazines for the ladies,-each number being well filled with interesting matter. The cuts and plates are worth the price of the work. We will send this to any of our subscribers for $1.35.

THE ALPHABET MADE EASY AND ATTRACTIVE. F. C. Brownell, 25 Howard St. New York, and George Sherwood of Chicago, have sent us a sheet bearing the above heading. It is a beautiful sheet,

covered with pretty letters and pretty pictures.

We have hung it up look at the pictures; This sheet contains

in our office, and when tired of writing we can the alphabet we tried to learn many years ago. the Alphabet illustrated by cuts, &c. Many years ago the alphabet lessons were accompanied by cuts. Brownell & Sherwood give three cuts to each letter. We knew a teacher who often gave a dozen cuts to a letter, wood cuts they were, but nevertheless they made an impression, and sometimes they were attended by line engravings on the hand or some other part of the body, or by a box on the ear, always accompanied by music,-and therefore properly a music-box. But we greatly prefer these new cuts of our friends. They will surely take the eye of the learner and help make a dose of the alphabet very palatable. Ye who have occasion to teach the alphabet send to Brownell, or Sherwood, or both, and procure the "Alphabet made easy." It is a pretty thing and a good thing, and really a pretty good thing. Send 25 cents and you will receive a very pretty assortment of very pretty pictures and the alphabet, all nicely painted. (See advertisement.)

VOL. II.]

The Fifth Reader of the School and Family Series. (No w Ready.)

In the April, May, and June Numbers of the Bulletin, we have given specimen illustrations taken from the following departments of the Fifth Reader: "Physiology and Health," "Herpetology, or Reptiles," "Botany," "Ichthyology, or Fishes," and "Geology." We here give a few specimens from the department of PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHYa subject which is now introduced, as a regular study, into many of our best schools.

From the first illustration given above, the reader will perceive that there are about three times as much land north of the equator as south of it, and that nearly one half of all the land is in the northern temperate

zone.

Of Cataracts, or Falls, which are highly interesting features in the physical geography of a country, the most noted, not only in America, but in the world, are the Falls of Niagara, a drawing of which we have given.

Connected both with the subject of Physical Geography, and with Geology, are the Coral formations, which form reefs in the Pacific and Indian seas, the longest of which, the Australian, is more than one thousand miles in extent. The whole of the Pacific

Ocean is crowded withislands of the same arch

itecture, the produce of the same insignificant architects, whose stony cells or habitations we have represented in the annexed engraving.

These little animals, though barely seeming to possess life, are actively engaged in creating the habitations of men, of animals, and of plants; and, in the vast Pacific, they are slowly but sure

THE FALLS OF NIAGARA, as viewed from th Canada side. On the right of the picture, an also partially in the foreground, are seen th Horseshoe Falls, on the Canada side of th stream; beyond, and separated from the forme by Goat Island, are the Falls on the America side. The view down the stream has been abridged in orde to bring in the Suspension Bridge, which is seen in the dis The effect of every such picture is greatly increase by looking at it through a tube, which shall shut out the view of surrounding objects. One formed by partially closing the hand will answer.

The representations given below are the united stony cells or habitations of the coral-build ing zoophytes, each species having its own peculiar structure. Every minute portion of thi calcareous or lime rock is more or less surrounded by a soft animal substance (the zoophyte) capable of expanding itself, but otherwise fixed to its habitation; yet, when alarmed, it ha the power of contracting itself almost entirely into the cells and hollows of the hard coral. Thes soft parts become, when taken from the sea, nothing more in appearance than a brown slim spread over the stony nucleus. Yet these jelly-like animals are the builders of the coral reefs

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THE EDUCATIONAL BULLETIN.

The Illustrations contained in the Fifth, From Rev. M. L. HOFFORD, Principal of Collegiate and