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Educational Evolution.

Are you Interested in the Proper Intellectual, Moral, and Physical Training of the Rising Generation?

JOHNSON'S READERS are based on the right principles. A carefully graded series prepared with the co-operation and aid of the ablest and best teachers in the country. Beautifully illustrated and substantially bound, meeting in every respect the requirements of a first-class series of readers.

LEE'S SERIES OF HISTORIES make the study of history one of the most attractive and popular in the school-room, the only histories that fully and fairly present the facts in connection with the history of the whole country, by Mrs. SUSAN PENDLETON LEE, of Lexington, Va.

SMITHDEAL'S SLANT-WRITING BOOKS are prepared by a man who has given the best energies of his life to the teaching of writing. These books from every standpoint fully meet the requirements of the hour; high in quality-low in price.

THE THOMAS WRITTEN SPELLING BLANKS possess the highest elements of success, and greatly aid in enabling pupils to learn to spell correctly. They are very important adjunct to every school room.

SOUTHERN LITERATURE, LITTLE LESSONS IN PLANT LIFE, MANUAL OF BIBLE MORALITY, JOHNSON'S PHYSICAL CULTURE, WILLIAMSON'S LIVES OF LEE, JACKSON, AND WASHINGTON, and other text-books along this line, form an admirable combination, the whole combining a remarkable series of books that have proved eminently satisfactory.

HART'S GRMAMARS combine in two books carefully and locically arranged plans for the thorough mastery of the English language. These books are wonderful in strong, teachable points and striking features that rivet the attention of the pupil.

CARR'S ARITHMETICS are the most carefully graded series of arithmetics that have ever been published. They possess the happy combination of features that will insure their general use as the standard arithmetics of the rising generation.

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A happy New Year to every JoOURNAL reader. Always give your name, postoffice, and county, in communicating with the JOURNAL. If you reside in a city, give name of street, and number of residence.

Be sure to send in your subscription for the New Year.

NEW YEAR

What are your resolutions for the New Year? To do better RESOLUTIONS. and more thorough work; to teach for the future good of your pupils, and not for examinations; to live up to your highest ideals? At the beginning of a new year the merchant takes an inventory of his stock, and makes his business arrangements for the coming twelve months. The teacher's year does not begin with the new year, yet unconsciously we pause as we write the new date, take account of the gains and losses of the year just passed, and resolve on better things for the future. Better things! For it is one of the most. encouraging qualities of human nature that it always reaches upward towards better things. Whatever, then, may have been your pedagogical shortcomings in the past, let us recall to you the beautiful words of the poet: "Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear, and with a manly heart.”

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at my office early on pay day with the warrants made out ready to deliver, and the county treasurer is here with checks prepared to hand out as soon as the warrants are delivered to him, so that by eleven o'clock every teacher is paid. This is the second year we have adopted this plan, and we find it works admirably. Promptly at eleven o'clock our Association meets in the City Hall. We are now taking the professional course of study in the order recommended in the September JOURNAL. We have divided the first year's course into five parts. At our next meeting we will have essays, short addresses, and discussion of a portion of the course. The exercises also embrace recitations and music. Several of the brightest young ladies and gentlemen of the city and county who are not teachers have joined the Association in order to take the course.

An excellent letter from start to finish, and we thank Superintendent Lynch for it. He is doing a fine work for the schools, and we hope the publication of his letter will move other superintendents and school boards to act along the same lines.

LYNCHBURG'S

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EXHIBITION.

The Art Loan Exhibition of the Lynchburg High School, which was held in the new High School building from November 30th to December 6th, was a pronounced success. Indeed, no more interesting event has occurred in the life of the progressive schools of the "Hill City." The splendid exhibit attracted a large attendance, and the interest of the public was unabated from the beginning to the close. We heartily congratulate Superintendent Glass, and thank him for a copy of the catalogue-a pamphlet of 24 pages and for clippings from the city newspapers containing daily comments on the Exhibit. We promise our readers a full account of the work next month from the pen of the accomplished teacher and writer, Mrs. Orra Lang horne.

Through inadvertence Isle of Wight county was omitted from the list published last month of counties and cities from which we have received handsome subscription lists. Superintendent Rawls is a firm believer in the JOURNAL, and sends a good list every year.

The bill now pending in the General Assembly exacting professional training on the part of applicants for the office of Superintendent of Schools is a wise measure. A companion bill making the salary of the office commensurate with its duties and responsibilities would be another wise measure. Even under the existing order of things, the pay fixed is grossly inadequate for the service rendered.

THE

OF THE

SOUTH.

The Hon. Wm. H. Ruffner, while in Richmond recently,

HORACE MANN called at the Department of Public Instruction, ast is his wont on occasion. He looked every whit capable of his masterly conquests in the educational field, as, inclining in a chair, he recounted some experiences of the memorable struggle for the organization and development, if not the existence, of the public school system of the State. His piercing eyes grew brighter at mention of some victory for the cause he loved so well, and for which he labored with such distinguished success as to win the appellation, "Horace Mann of the South." As he recalled some of the problems of that crucial period, when leading men of the State were assailing and retarding his work, we were lost in admiration of the wonderful power of the man.

A sound and liberal educator, a courageous and sagacious statesman, a born leader of men, possessing the highest executive gifts, Dr. Ruffner was the man above all others to inaugurate a State system of schools. How superbly his work was done! History will accord him full measure of praise, and Virginians will ever hold his name in grateful memory.

The Doctor's visit was an occasion of rare pleasure to the officers of the Department, who united in wishing him many years of sweet retirement in his country home.

RETIREMENT

FUND FOR

TEACHERS.

A bill is to be introduced into the Legislature now in session to authorize the State Board of Education to establish a retirement fund for the benefit of public school teachers. It is proposed to raise the money by assessing each teacher a small monthly sum, and by voluntary contributions from outsiders. No State aid is asked.

There is such a fund in many of the States of our union, and the teachers of Virginia have recently awakened to the desirability of such a provision for the future. Many of our teachers receive salaries so small that it is almost an impossibility for them to lay away anything for sickness and old age, and it would seem imperative that some action be taken to provide for those who have spent their lives worthily in the service of others. Now that public sentiment is beginning to be aroused on the subject, no doubt something will soon be done in the matter.

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