author has given (in French) brief biographical and critical comment, questions, and selections from the standard French writers from Malherbe to Daudet. Considerable portions are given of Molière's "L'Avare," Corneille's "Polyeucte" and Racine's Athalie." An Introduction to the French Language. Being a Practical Grammar with Exercises. By Alphonse N. Van Daell. 12mo, pp. 256. Boston: Ginn & Co. $1.10. Mr. Van Daell's work is the result of several years' thought and teaching. It includes reading exercises, themes for translation into French, grammar and grammatical practice, and extensive vocabularies. Livere de Lecture et de Conversation. By C. Fontaine, B.L. 12mo, pp. 249. Boston: Ginn & Co. 95 cents. Professor Fontaine states that he is "ni un partisan enthousiaste ni un détracteur acharné de la 'méthode naturelle." Although his present book is written entirely in French, it contains from the start grammatical and reading lessons, as well as questions upon which to base conversational exercises. Episodes from François le Champi. By George Sand. Edited, with notes, by C. Sankey. 16mo, pp. 142. A series of Episodes from Modern French Authors," edited by Mr. W. E. Russell, of an English college, is being published by Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. These selections from François le Champi "are united by an "argument in English when necessary, so that the continuity is unbroken. Practical Elements of Elocution. By Robert I. Fulton, A M., and Thomas C. Trueblood, A. M. 12mo, pp. 474. Boston: Ginn & Co. $1.50. This book appears to the uninitiated to be an admirably logical and scientific treatise covering the whole ground of elocutionary instruction. The authors state that it is the summary of fifteen years' experience in teaching and study of the subject and is, as a whole, an attempt to harmonize the older systems of Rush and others with the newer theories of Delsarte. In an appendix of some thirty pages Dr. James W. Bashford, the president of the Ohio Wesleyan University, gives an analysis and defense of the art of oratory. The text is supplied with considerable illustration. Outlines of Rhetoric. By John F. Genung. 12mo, pp. 339. Boston: Ginn & Co. $1.10. Professor Genung's able work in his chosen field of rhetoric is well-known to his fellow teachers. This new textbook from his pen is fresh and stimulating and covers both the essentials of theory in the form of rules with exposition, and extensive, progressive work in practical construction. In an appendix there is given a valuable glossary of some thirty pages of words, synonyms, idioms and phrases which are in frequent misuse or concerning which some peculiarity needs to be pointed out." Advanced Lessons in English. By Mary F. Hyde. 12mo, pp. 206. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co. 65 cents. Eminently simple and practical and intended for pupils of high schools, advanced grammar grades, etc. It belongs to Miss Hyde's "Language Series." The Absolute Participle in Middle and Modern English. By Charles Hunter Ross. Paper, 12mo, pp. 64. Baltimore: Modern Language Association of America. A dissertation for the degree of doctor of philosophy, following the most recent methods of philological research in English. This pamphlet is a reprint from one of the publications of the Modern Language Association of America. Heroes. By Edna Dean Proctor. A Critique. By A. P. Marble. Paper, 12mo, pp. 18. Worcester, Mass.: A. P. Marble. A critical analysis of one of Edna Dean Proctor's poems, by the superintendent of the Worcester, Mass., schools. The True Grandeur of Nations. By Charles Sumner. 12mo, pp. 132. Boston: Lee & Shepard. 75 cents. Teachers in several branches, civics and rhetoric espe cially, will find this classic oration of Sumner's of service in the classroom. It is excellently printed in neat, convenient form, and for private reading may be carried in the coat pocket. Biography: The Phillips Exeter Lectures. By Phillips Brooks, D.D. Paper, 12mo, pp. 30. Boston: Ginn & Co. 12 cents. We remember very distinctly picking up by chance a volume of lectures from a friend's table a number of years ago and from it reading for the first time this address of Phillips Brooks upon Biography. It is the noblest kind of utterance, full of the best spirit of humanity, and it ought to reach, as matter and as style, the understanding of every pupil in our schools. Handy Helps in the History and Literature of the United States. By Annie E. Wilson. 12mo, pp. 48. Louisville: John P. Morton & Co. 35 cents. The most important events in U. S. history from 1497 to 1893 are arranged in one column, with contemporaneous items of foreign history in a parallel column. Cabinet members are also given, and lists of American writers with princi pal works are inserted for every administration. Commercial Law: An Elementary Text-Book for Commercial Classes. By J. E. C. Munro, LL.M. 12mo, pp. 199. New York: Macmillan & Co. 90 cents. Mr. J. E. C. Munro, an English barrister, has prepared an elementary work upon commercial law, in which he has aimed at brief and simple statement. He discusses, from the standpoint of English statutes, "Mercantile Persons and Mercantile Property,” “Contracts," "The Leading Commer cial Contracts," Bankruptcy," and "The Application of Law." A brief glossary is appended, and questions given upon the various subjects explained. High School Laboratory Manual of Physics. By D. G. Hays, C. D. Lowry and A. C. Rishel. 12mo, pp. 154. Boston: Ginn & Co. 60 cents. The 113 "exercises " in practical experimentation of this manual cover sufficient laboratory work to fit a student for the Harvard entrance requirements in physics. The righthand pages are left blank for the pupils' notes. The Elements of Solid Geometry. By Arthur L. Baker. 12mo, pp. 136. Boston: Ginn & Co. 90 cents. The particular merits of this geometry, according to its author, are "improved notation," "improved diagrams," "clear statements," "generalized conceptions," and "condensation." The typography and binding are excellent. Inorganic Chemistry for Beginners. By Sir Henry Roscoe and Joseph Lunt. 12mo, pp. 254. New York: Macmillan & Co. 75 cents. The one hundred and thirty-seven experiments of this chemistry, with the necessary correlated matter, give detailed instruction about a comparatively small number of non-metallic elements. More than a hundred illustrations are incor porated into the text. A General Outline of Civil Government in the United States. By Clinton D. Higby, Ph.D. 16mo, pp. 133. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 30 cents. It seems a pity to one who has had any practical experi ence in teaching civics that there should be a demand for a text-book so small as Dr. Higby's. But granting such demand, his "Outlines" seem serviceable and he has given references to more extended works on national, State and local governmental subjects. The Limited Speller. By Henry R. Sanford. 12mo, pp 104. Syracuse: C. W. Bardeen. 35 cents. "Comprising an alphabetical list of words which are in common use, but are frequently misspelled, together with hints on teaching and studying spelling." A Text-Book of Domestic Economy.-Part I. By F. T. Paul, F.R.C.S. 12mo, pp. 223. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 75 cents. This is a text-book written in the spirit of the best modern technical instruction in the affairs of the household, and paying particular attention to physiology, the hygiene of cooking, clothing, etc. It is fully illustrated. Arithmetic by Grades for Inductive Teaching, Drilling and Testing.-Book I. 12mo. Boston: Ginn & Co. 20 cents. The Economic System of Penmanship. In three numbers. By T. J. McConnon, Ph.D. New York: Potter & Putnam. American Amateur Photographer.-New York. September. Glimpses of the Fair through a Camera. F. C. Beach. David Sands, "The Quaker Preacher." J. H. Tarbell. Instantaneous Photographs. G. Oppenheim. Combined Saturator and Jet for the Lantern. A Suggestion in Optics. George M. Hopkins. Legality of the World's Fair Stereoscopic Privilege. American Journal of Politics.-New York. October. Some Elementary Questions Concerning Money. G. H. Smith. Ultimate Solution of the Negro Problem W A. Curtis. Scientific Validity of the Protective Policy. T. Cox. Congress at Work. Edward P. Lee. Tendency toward the Disarmament of Civilized Nations. The Free School System. Clara D. Cowell. The Gospel of Bimetallism. F. J. Scott. Single Tax in its Relation to Socialism. C. E. Benton. The Administration of Justice. G. W. Wakefield. The Nation's Duty toward Her Citizens. V. R. Andrew. Religious Liberty. J. G. Hertwig. Should War be Abolished? W. H. Jeffrey. Historical Presuppositions of Dante's "Divine Comedy." W. An Elizabethan Mystic. Gamaliel Bradford, Jr. The Realistic Novel. As Represented by J. M. Barrie. Sarah Atlantic Monthly.-Boston. October. The Undertime of the Year. Edith M. Thomas. The Isthmus and Sea Power. A. T. Mahan. The Tilden Trust and Why it Failed. James L. High. Two Modern Classicists in Music.-I. W. F. Apthorpe. Board of Trade Journal.-London. September 15. Development of the World's Telephones. German Economy in Iron Manufacture. The Cork Forests of Spain and Portugal. The Oil-Producing Plants of Formosa. Californian Illustrated Magazine.-San Francisco. October. Fiesolana. Grace Ellery Channing. Around the Garden of the Gods. J. J. Peatfield. The Professional Beauties of Japan. Helen Gregory-Flesher. The Wild Woman of San Nicolas Island. J. M. Gibbons. An Old Provincial Statute Book. Professor Russell. Fruit-Growing in the Annapolis Valley. J. W. Longley. Consumption: A Hopeful Outlook. John Ferguson. Influence of the French School on Recent Art. W. A. Sher- Origin of the Social Crisis in the United States. With a Fishing Tug on Lake Superior. H. J. Woodside. Emerson's Choice of Representative Men. Jean Mellwraith. Cassell's Family Magazine.- London. October. The Simplon Pass. A J. Butler. My First Salmon. Animal Playfulness. Alex. H. Japp. In Parliament Assembled. A. F. Robbins. Cassell's Saturday Journal.-London. October. Do Clergymen Make Mistakes at Marriages? A Chat with Mr. J. A. Picton. The Greatest Conjurer in the World: A Chat with Mr. J. N. Maskelyne. The Clerk of the Council and His Duties: A Chat with Sir C. Lennox Peel. A War Artist's Perils and Trials: A Chat with Mr. Frederick Villiers. Cassier's Magazine.-New York. October. The Manufacture of Bricks. C. H. Schumann. The Life and Inventions of Edison.-XII. A. and W. K. L. Mathematics as an Educational Factor. F R Hutton. Improvements in Electric Cable Making. Emil Guilleaume. A Coal Calorimeter. George H. Barrus. Needs of Humanity Supplied by the Catholic Religion. Cardinal Gibbons. Intemperance: The Evil and the Remedy. James M. Cleary. The Great Monument at Mount Loretto, Staten Island. J. J. O'Shea. The Truth about the Jews in Spain. Manuel Perez Villamil. The Supreme End and Office of Religion. Walter Elliott. An American Artist (James E. Kelly). Alfred Trumble. Gladstone. J. MacVeagh. Letter from Tarsus, the Birthplace of St. Paul. A. F. Hewit. Col. Don Piatt. Samuel B. Hedges. Theory and Practice of Profit-Sharing. Century Magazine.-New York. October. Life Among German Tramps. Josiah Flynt. Plague on a Pleasure Boat. J. Stuart Stevenson. Frederick Law Olmsted. Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer. Béranger. C. Coquelin. Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini. Concluded. Chambers's Journal.-London. October. The Royal Irish Constabulary. A Siamese Pageant. David Ker. A Secret of the Solomon Islands. J. F. Hogan. The Chautauquan. -Meadville, Pa. October. A Half-Century of Italian History.-I. Alex. Oldrini. Artificial Reproduction of the Diamond. Leo Dex. Landsdowne House. Eugene L. Didier. Value of Maize as Human Food. I. I. Murphy. Child Laborers and their Protection in Germany. W. Stieda. The Story of Some Rejected Manuscripts. Charles Robinson. Christian Thought.-New York. (Bi-Monthly.) October. The Bible and Higher Criticism. Howard Osgood. The Age Needing a Larger Conception of Christ. G. R. Pike. Church Missionary Intelligencer.-London. October. The History of the Church Missionary Society. Rev. C. Hole. The Depressed Classes in India. Rev. A. F. Painter. Recollections of a Bengal Missionary, Rev. A. P. Neele. In the Far West of China. D. A. Callum and Rev. O. M. Jack son. Contemporary Review.-London. October. A Story of Crooked Finance: Imperial Subvention in Relief of Local Rates. An Early Aspirant to the German Imperial Crown: Duke Ernst of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The Banditti of Corsica. Caroline Holland. The Message of Israel. Julia Wedgwood. The Holy City of Phrygia: Hierapolis. Prof. W. M. Ramsay. A Note on Panmixia. George J. Romanes. Cornhill Magazine.-London. October. What Men Call Instinct. The Cosmopolitan.-New York. October. The Papyrus Plant. Georg Ebers. How to Avoid Taking Cold. Charles E. Hough. Rome the Capital of a New Republic. F. Marion Crawford. Curious Bread & inners of the Deep. Charles B. Hudson. Demorest's Family Magazine.-New Vork. October. Silver from Mine to Mint. Anna Jaffray. Familiar Talks on the Different Schools of Art.-VI. A. Field. Siam's Capital. Jackson Stone. Economic and Statistical Studies at Chicago. J. J. Halsey. Literary Tributes to the World's Fair. Economic Journal.-London. September. Report of Annual Meeting: Ethics and Economics. G. J. Goschen. The Agricultural Problem. W. E. Bear. Labor Federation.-II. Clem Edwards. Some Controverted Points in the Administration of Poor Relief. C. S. Loch. The Rise of the English Post Office. A. M. Ogilvie. The Suspended Rupee and the Policy of Contraction. Dana The Indian Currency Committee's Report. F. C. Harrison. "Syndicats Agricoles." H. W. Wolff. A French Co-operative Society at Villaines. Leslie F. Scott. Education.-Boston. October. The Study of Pedagogics. Thomas M. Balliet. How Home and School Help or Hinder Each Other. W. M. Thayer. Suggestions to Herbartian Teachers. C. B. Gilbert. Education vs. the Gold Fever. Estella V. Sutton. Psychology and Ethics in the High School. Colin S. Buell. What My Pupils Read. M. B. C. True. Educational Review.-New York. October. Mental Defect and Disorder. Josiah Royce. Different Methods of Admission to College. Lucy M. Salmon. W. B. Shaw A Foreigner's Impressions of the Chicago Educational Congresses. Gabriel Compayré. Educational Exhibits at the Columbian Exposition. R. Waterman, Jr. The Teaching of English Literature in Schools. J. Wells. The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. W. O. Sproull. Entrance Examinations in English at Stanford. H. B. Lathrop. Educational Review.-London. September. Religious Education: Ways and Means. Rev. Prebendary Harry Jones. The Cambridge Historical Tripos. Oscar Browning. Francis K. Shenton. Maude Egerton King. The Engineering Magazine.-New York. October. The Real Currency of Commerce. George S. Coe. Effect of Subsidies on Shipping. Thomas Rhodes. English Illustrated Magazine.-London. October. The Coburgers and the English Court. C. Lowe. The Race for Wealth in America. Edgar Fawcett. Should Women Smoke? Lady Colin Campbell and Mrs. Lynn Canada and Her New Governor. P. A. Hurd. Fortnightly Review.-London. October. The Causes of Pessimism. Dr. C. H. Pearson. The Unemployed. Arnold White. Atoms and Sunbeams. Sir Robert Ball. The Royal Road to History. Frederic Harrison. The Industrial Position of Women. Lady Dilke. Notes of a Journey in South Italy. J. A. Symonds. The Downfall of Certain Financial Fallacies. David A. Wells. Medical Etiquette, Quacks, and Secret Remedies. E. Hart. Charles S. Gentleman's Magazine.-London. October. The Crime of the Templars. James E. Crombie. Life in Modern Egypt. C. B. Roylance Kent. Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786). Rev. Dr. Joseph Strauss. The Massacre of Chicago. James Milne. The Stock Exchange and the Public. H. J. Jennings. Geographical Journal.-London. September. Journeys in French Indo-China. Curzon. Concluded. Hon. G. N. Flodden or Branxton? W. Scott Dalgleish. Great Thoughts.-London. October. Interviews with the Earl of Winchilsea, David Christie Murray and Rev. H. Russell-Wakefield. With Portraits. R. Blathwayt. W. E. Henley, the Poet-Editor. With Portrait. John Ruskin on Education Wm. Jolly. Christian Socialism. Rev. S. E. Keeble. The Green Bag.-Boston. September. Jasper Yeates. B. C. Atlee. Trial and Condemnation of Jesus as a Legal Question. E. W. Hatch Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.-III. S. S. P. Patteson. Cross-examination as an Art. A. Oakey Hall. Harper's Magazine.-New York. October. From Trebizond to Tabreez. Edwin L. Weeks. A French Town in Summer. Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Undergraduate Life at Oxford. Richard Harding Davis. Harvard Graduates' Magazine.-Boston. September. College Athletics. F. A. Walker. The Winter at the American School, Athens. J. R. Wheeler. Homiletic Review.-New York. October. The Minister's Literary Culture. T. H. Pattison. What is True Preaching? W. C. Newell. The Chronology of the Kings of Babylon and Persia. W. H. International Journal of Ethics.-Philadelphia. October. My Station and Its Duties. Henry Sidgwick. What Justifies Private Property? W. L. Sheldon. Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies.— Chicago. August. Reconnaissance of Pacific Extension, Great Northern Railway. Reduction Formula for Stadia Leveling. J. L. Van Ornum. Journal of Political Economy.-Chicago. (Quarterly.) Scotch Banking. J. Shield Nicholson. Has the Standard Gold Dollar Appreciated? Simon Newcomb. Economic Condition of Spain in the Sixteenth Century. B. Moses. Silver Debate of 1890. Robert F. Hoxie. Knowledge.-London. October. The Life History of a Solar Eclipse. E. Walter Maunder. X A Heroine of Nice: Catarina Segurana. W. J. Gor Lend a Hand.-Boston. September. Training of Indians. Mary E. Dewey. Relation of Hospitals to Public Health. J. S. Billings. age, he finds, practically closes with the death of Paul. A very considerable portion of the book turns naturally about the labors of this Apostle and follows rather closely the New Testament narrative. Mr. Thatcher has not rested content with a bare statement of facts. but has made an examination of the causes which gave rise to the marvelous extension of Christianity, to its escape from the bonds of Judaism, and to its inevitable (to the author's mind, disastrous) fusion with Greek philosophy. The Pilgrim in Old England. By Amory H. Bradford, D.D. 12mo, pp. 362. New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, $2. An able study, partly of the history, but mainly of the present status. of the Congregational (Independent ") Church in England. The many differences between the English and American bodies of the same name will interest many readers, and the discussions of the relation of Independency to the Church of England and the probability of a disestablishment at some future day bear upon topics in which most thinking men are more or less concerned. FICTION. Ivar the Viking. By Paul du Chaillu. 12mo, pp. 331. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50. M. du Chaillu calls this piece of fiction a "romantic history," and in it his aim has been to picture faithfully the actual life of the old Norse Vikings about the beginning of the fourth century, A. D. His belief that these hardy ocean-rovers and not their kinsmen, the Angles and Saxons, were the ancestors of modern Englishmen was fully presented in "The Viking Age," and he recurs to a discussion of that point in the introduction to "Ivar the Viking." The purely story element is perhaps rather slight in this volume, but there is a vast amount of most interesting information regarding the social structure of the early Norse communities, about sports, war, dress, love, marriage, education, seamanship, religious beliefs and habits of thought. Out of the Sunset Sea. By Albion W. Tourgée. 12mo, pp. 462. New York: Merrill & Baker. $1.75. Mr. Tourgée's new novel is an historical romance of the days of Columbus, and especially of his voyage of discovery, supposed to be told a half century after the eventful year by an English gentleman who had been a companion sailor of the Admiral. The author's style has many brilliant qualities, and his reconstruction of the characters, habits and events lying within the scope of the narrative is very carefully made. A large number of historic personages besides Columbus himself are introduced. The excellent illustrations are by Aimée Tourgée. Irish Idylls. By Jane Barlow. 12mo, pp. 317. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25. These sketches give one such an overpowering sense of reality that a reader hardly knows whether to call them fiction or not. The book is not a novel, yet the same characters appear and reappear in the successive chapters. The dismalness of the Irish peasant life is impressed very strongly upon our minds, and the nature and human nature which obtain midst the "boglands of Connaught " seem to be close to us as we read. Dialect is freely and effectually used and all the dominant traits of Irish character are faithfully portrayed as they appear in the daily history of a typical village. The Home; or, Life in Sweden. By Fredrika Bremer. Two vols., 16mo, pp. 334-342. New York: G. P. Fredrika Bremer has been called the "Jane Austen of Sweden," and at a time when interest is so strong in the domestic novels of the early part of our century, there will doubtless be a large demand for the popular "The Home, or Life in Sweden. This exceedingly attractive two volume "Fredrika" edition belongs to a little group which Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons have ventured to call "Representative Novels." The translation is that of Miss Mary Hewitt, whose name was so intimately associated with Miss Bremer's at the height of that novelist's fame, a half century or more ago. The work is just in time for the holiday season. Independence: A Story of the American Revolution. By John R. Musick. The Columbian Novels, Vol. IX. 12mo, pp. 480. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. $1.50. After more than a year's steady production in his series of Columbian Novels, Mr. Musick may perhaps be glad, as his readers are sorry, that only three more volumes remain to complete the narrative. In Volume IX the author has had the difficulty of a particularly hackneyed subject, but he has re told in a fresh way, interweaving history and romance, the old story of Concord, Long Island, Trenton, Wyoming, Saratoga and Yorktown. It was certainly an original idea to introduce a Hessian soldier as one of the characters of the story in order to show that his countrymen, whom a shallow patriotism has taught our school boys to despise, were perhaps after all not entirely villainous. The illustrations are numerous and as spirited as usual. Drolls from Shadowland. By J. H. Pearce. 16mo, pp. 166. New York: Macmillan & Co. $1.25. In these semi-mythical little sketches a moral usually lurks, yet there is an artistic simplicity and directness which might remind some readers of Hawthorne's "Ethan Brand Some chapters are plainly allegorical, some few are written partly in Cornish dialect. The frontispiece, representing the man who could talk with the birds," gives a pleasant introduction to these odd bits of fiction. Chinese Nights' Entertainment. By Adele M. Fielde Octavo, pp. 194. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. $1.75. The author believes that these folk-tales are now for the first time rendered into English. It has been her goor fortune to hear them related in a Chinese vernacular by persons ig norant of the art of reading, so that they are certainly from the original sources in popular tradition. In themselves they are highly interesting and often amusing, and the two dozen illus trations which have been prepared by Chinese artists under the author's supervision are a very important addition to the tales. The novelty of the volume, which belongs to the "Fairy Tales of the Nations" series, is sure to attract many readers. ATHLETICS. Walter Camp's Book of College Sports. By Walter Camp. Octavo, pp. 329. New York: The Century Company. $1.75. At this time of year, when every college and university and secondary school has a small host of young men desirous of winning a place in the athletic life of the student world. this volume of the well-known Yale expert and trainer will be particularly welcome. By a perusal of the chapter upon "Football in America" the general public may prepare itself for an intelligent enjoyment of the great games of the season in various parts of the country. The other departments of athletics of which Mr. Camp treats in these pages are Rowing," ,""Baseball" and the various sports of the Track." and his advice is of such a nature as to be of as well as to those of some training. t to a beginner, are many fullpage and lesser illustrations, and the book has an appropriate covering of buckram. Indian Clubs. By G. T. B. Cobbett and A. F. Jenkin. 16mo, pp. 115. New York: Macmillan & Co. 50 cents. An elaborately technical and abundantly illustrated manual by two English students of the gymnastic arts. EDUCATION AND TEXT-BOOKS. The Public School System of the United States. By Dr. J. M. Rice. 12mo, pp. 308. New York: The Century Company. $1.50. The educational public is already familiar with the series of courageous and instructive articles which Dr. J. M. Rice recently contributed to the columns of the Forum, as the result of a special, detailed research into the workings of our public school system in many important cities from Boston to St. Paul and St. Louis. These articles have now been gathered into a volume. It will be remembered that Dr. Rice brought very grave charges against the narrow and mechanical spirit -anti-scientific-in which much of our school instruction is conducted. In the spring of this year he made a second trip of five weeks, again going as far west as the twin cities near Lake Itasca, for the sake of proving that an enlarged curric ulum, if properly managed, does not lessen the pupil's prog ress in the old fundamental "three R's." In the latter part of the volume he gives us his evidence upon this point in the shape of a series of school essays, with a few accompanying illustrations, from pupils in Indianapolis, Minneapolis. La Porte and the Cook County (Illinois) Normal. Dr. Rice's investigations may be somewhat disillusionary as to the actual status of our pedagogical system, but they are important to every public-spirited man |