their failures, that thus they may set up beacon lights for the guidance of others.

We would bespeak for the journal a more extended patronage. This we would do, not because it has not received fair encouragement and support, for in this respect it has fully equalled any reasonable expectations, but in order that it may fill a wider sphere of usefulness, that it may elicit the thoughts and embody the experience of a greater number of instructors. Some may think that they are too wise to learn, that their own modes of teaching and governing are the best, and admit of no improvement. If their estimate is just, they are peculiarly fit to guide efforts of others; they are the teachers whose communications can do the most good, and to whom the inexperienced and less successful may rightfully look for aid. Nor let the timid and those seeking for light fail, through diffidence, to add to the pages of this work. True, each editor has the entire control of his own number, and may adopt or reject any communication addressed to him; but it is believed that each will exercise a fraternal courtesy, and admit any thing, which, in his opinion, will promote the great cause of education. There are many objects which deserve support and encouragement, on account of the general good that will probably result from them, and among these, education stands preeminent. To the friends of humanity, whether teachers, school committees, or parents, we trust that our appeal will not be in vain.

WHAT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS?-Hear Henry Clay answer the question. In a speech at the National Law School, at Ballston Spa, he said: "Constant, persevering application will accomplish everything. To this quality, if I may be allowed to speak of myself, more than to anything else, do I owe the little success which I have attained. Left in early life to work my own way alone, without friends or pecuniary resources, and with no other than a common education, I saw that the pathway before was long, steep and rugged, and that the height upon which I had ventured to fix the eye of my ambition, could be reached only by toil the most severe, and a purpose the most indomitable. But shrinking from no labor, disheartened by no obstacles, I struggled on. No opportunity, which the most watchful vigilance could secure, to exercise my power, was permitted to pass by unimproved."

Mr. Wheeler of Worcester, to whom the editorial care of the present number of the Teacher belonged, not being able to attend to that duty in consequence of protracted illness, the copy has been furnished by the Resident Editors.