THE SCHOOL BOARD of the village of New Lisbon are model school officers. Neither of them send a child to school, and yet they visit each department of their school about once a mouth. Their names are: Hon. H. F. C. NICHOLS, clerk; Hon. E. C. SAGE, treasurer; ELIAS BOYNTON, director.

TESTIMONIAL.-At the close of Professor BRAND's term of lessons in Elocution in the State University of Wisconsin, the class presented the following testimonial:

"Having attended the instructions of T. H. BRAND, at the State University of Wisconsin, we can express our hearty commendation of him as a teacher and of his system of instruction in Elocution.

Professor Brand is a thorough practical teacher of Elocution, as many can testify, besides the gentlemen above named. We feel under many obligations to him for the excellent instruction received in the important art of speaking.

CHICAGO TEACHER.-We are pleased to learn that this magazine has passed under the sole control and management of JEREMIAH MAHONY, as editor, for we are sure he will make it lively, pungent, readable and instructive. Prof. MA- HONY is not afraid to puncture the wind-bags of pedagogical conceit, nor to expose the shallowness of educational hnmbugs. Success to the Teacher.

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANIZED.

We learn that on the recommendation of Dr. I. A. LAPHAM, the Chief Geologist, under the law of last winter authorizing a Geological Survey of the State, Governor WASHBURN has appointed the following gentlemen as assistants: Prof. ROLAND IRVING, of the State University.

Prof. T. C. CHAMBERLIN, of the Whitewater Normal School.

MOSES STRONG, A, M., of Mineral Point.

We understand that the chemical work of the survey will be in charge of Prof. W. W. DANIELLS, of the State University, (who, by the way, is strangely confounded with by some people with Prof. EDWARD DANIELS, formerly State Geologist.

Prof. IRVING, now Professor of Geology, Mining and Metallurgy in the State University, is a graduate of Columbia College and its school of mines, and is recommended as of rare qualifications for and attainments in the duties of his department and admirably qualified to take charge of this survey.

Prof. CHAMBERLIN, now Professor of Natural Sciences of the State Normal School, is a graduate of Beloit College and pursued a special course in Geology, Mineralogy and kindred sciences at the University of Michigan. In his chair at Whitewater, in papers read before the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and elsewhere, he has demonstrated special fitness for the work of this survey.

Mr. MOSES STRONG is a young man, son of Hon. MOSES M. STRONG, of Mineral Point, a native of Wisconsin, a graduate of Yale, we believe, and has since pursued a very thorough course of studies at the schools of mines in Heidelberg and Freiberg, Germany, to fit himself for a mining engineer. He has also had field experience in the survey of the Wisconsin Central Railroad and Northern Pacific Railroad, and we are assured is eminently qualified for this work.

Of the high character and skill in analytical chemistry of Prof. DANIELLS, we need not speak, as they are pretty well known to the people of this state. We understand that the Commissioners will co-operate in all their work, but Prof. IRVING will give special attention to the iron region in Ashland county where the survey is to commence, and Mr. STRONG to the lead mining region, with which from long residence, he is specially familiar. The Commissioners expect to spend the months of June, July, August and September in the field. Two of the Commissioners are already connected with the State institutions, but we understand there will be no drawing double pay, and the duties of the different positions will be so arranged as not to conflict with each other.

With such a commission, so organized, the best results may, we think, be confidently expected. We hope that while the Commissioners will keep in mind that practical results at an early day are what the people desire, more than a display of scientific learning, the people will not become impatient for results, unt.l sufficient time has elapsed for a thorough investigation.-State Journal.

New Publications.

BOOKS.

THE TEACHER'S MANUAL. By Prof. HIRAM ORCUTT, Principal of Tilden Ladies' Seminary, West Lebanon, N. H. 12mo. 270 pp. Price $1.00. Published by THOMPSON, BIGELOW & BROWN, Boston.

This book contains six chapters, discussing, I. The Discipline of the School; II. The Teacher's Qualifications; III. The Dignity of the Teacher's Work; IV. Concluding Remarks to Teachers; V. The History and Importance of Com mon Schools. VI. Rules and Explanations for the Divisibility and Property of Numbers. It records the results of a long and successful experience in the management, government and instruction of schools, and will be found of special value to young teachers, and will be read with great interest by all. It covers the whole ground of school-keeping, and furnishes practical suggestions upon every topic which will be likely to occupy the teacher's attention. A concise history of the origin and growth of the free school system is also given. It is highly recommended by Hon. NEWTON BATEMAN, State Superintendent of Illinois; Hon. SAM'L FALLOWs, and other distinguished educators.

By an arrangement with the agent for this state, we will send this book and the JOURNAL for 1873 to any person who from this date sends us $2.00 in advance. SCHOOL ECONOMY.-A treatise on the Preparation, Organization, Employment, Government and Authorities of Schools. By J. P. WICKERSHAM, Principal of Millersville Normal School, Pa. Philadelphia: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION, or that part of the Philosphy of Education which treats of the Nature of the Several Branches of Knowledge and the Methods of Teaching them. Same author and publisher.

These two books cover very largely the ground of school education, and are among the most valuable in the somewhat meager list of American works on pedagogics. They should be in every progressive teacher's library. Mr. WICKERSHAM has had long experience, both as teacher and school officer.

A TREATISE ON ELEMENTARY GEOMETRY. By WILLIAM CHAUVENET, LL. D., Professor of Mathematics in Washington University, St. Louis. Philadelphia: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co.

Distinguishing between the Euclidian foundation of Pure Geometry and modern additions thereto, the accomplished author presents a lucid and comprehensive treatise, characterized by the the excellencies of the French mathmematicians. A copious collection of exercises for students, and an introduction to modern geometry are given in appendices. Where it is proposed to teach the science thoroughly, it would be difficult to find a better text book. FIRST BOOK on Analytic Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene. SECOND BOOK-do.

NEW ANALYTIC Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene. By CALVIN CUTTER, M.D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.

These three admirable books furnish a series sufficient for the wants of the common school, the graded school and the academy or college. In connection with the veteran author's Anatomical Charts, they furnish a complete apparatus for popular instruction, in the subjects treated. Dr. CUTTER lived to complete his labors, by putting to press, a few months ago, the First book, which is suitable for common country schools.

AMERICAN READERS, Nos. I, II, III, IV and V. By Lucrus OSGOOD. Pittsburg: A. H. English & Co.

The two marked peculiarities of these readers, that at once arrest attention, are that they do not go beyond the wants and capacities of the bulk of pupils in our common schools, and that they are strictly and carefully progressive. Added to this, the illustrations are all original, and were designed expressly for the lessons. The mechanical execution of the books is also good, and they are deserving the favorable attention of school boards and teachers.

EDUCATIONAL YEAR BOOK-1873. W. B. SMITH, LL.D., Editor. Wm. Wood & Co., New York, publishers.

This is the second issue, and we are glad to learn that its success last year has established the enterprise on a permanent basis. It is just the book needed by every educator, containing as it does photographs of the educational aspects of every state and territory, with some valuable matter in an appendix. Price, $1.25; both years, $2.25; in paper covers, for 1872, 75c.

PERIODICALS.

THE ALDINE for May is the most brilliant number of this superb magazine ever issued. It opens with a magnificent marine picture, "The Lee Shore," by M. F. H. de Haas, who stands, by general consent, at the head of the marine painters of America, and who has never done anything so fine as this drawing. The fury of the winds and waters that have driven the good ship from her course on the terrible lee shore is rendered with wonderful breadth and vigor, and vividly recalls the destruction which so lately overtook the ill-fated Atlantic. We turn from this dreadful struggle of the elements to a delicious drawing after the original of Monginot. It is entitled "Unbidden Guests," and represents a group of kittens on the table of an epicure, and making sad havoc among the dishes. We have next "A Trout Brook," by Casilear; six spirited illustrations of New Chicago; an admirable view of "The Drusenfall," a noted fall in Thuringia; and a charming illustration by Dore. The Literary contents of the May number are as good as usual. Music, Art and Literature are discussed with great intelligence and independence. Subscription price $5 including Chromos "Village Belle" and Crossing the Moor." James Sutton & Co., publishers, 58 Maiden Lane, New York.

A NEW VOLUME.-The number of The Living Age for the week ending April 5 began a new volume, the second of the new series, and, it appears in a new dress of clear and handsome type. It contains the conclusion of "A Slip in the Fens;" an instrument of "The Parisians," by Bulwer (Lord Lytton); an article on Explorations, from Blackwood's Magazine; Mendicity, from a Clerical Point of View, Contemporary Review; South Sea Slavery; Kidnapping and Murder, by EDWIN G. BLACKMORE, Macmillan's Magazine; Enigmas of Life, Blackwood's Magazine; Ivories, Ancient and Medieval, Chambers' Journal, etc. The subscription price of this 64 page weekly magazine is $8 a year, or for $10 any one of the American $4 magazines is sent with The Living Age for a year. LITTELL & GAY, Boston, Publishers.

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.

THIS INSTITUTION COMPRISES

THREE FULL COLLEGIATE COURSES,

Two for Gentlemen and one for Ladies; also special courses in

AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING, GEOLOGY, MINING AND METALLURGY; A PREPARATORY SCHOOL, and a thoroughly organized LAW DEPARTMENT.

Ladies are admitted to all the courses in the University, and have separate instruction, when preferred.

The Laboratories for Chemical Analysis, and the Assaying of Ores, afford peculiar advantages. Libraries containing more than 70,000 volumes are accessible to members of the University, and the current expenses are less than in any other institution in the country which furnishes equal facilities for education.

TUITION is free to "one suitably qualified person in each Assembly District, and to all graduates of any graded school of the State who'shall have passed an examination at such graded school satisfactory to the Faculty of the University or admission into the sub-Freshman Class and the College Classes."

Circulars giving a statement of the condition of the University, of the necessary current ex penses, and of the studies in which examinations are to be held in graded schools. will be forwarded at an early day to the Principals of those schools

For further information, address.

MADISON, May 2, 1873.

JH. TWOMBLY,

President.

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JAMES MCALLISTER, Chairman Teach. Book Com.

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[Speech delivered in the Senate of the United States, June 30, 1872, on a resolution increasing the appropriation for Bureau of Education.]

MR. PRESIDENT:-I trust the Senate will indulge me in one or two remarks on this subject. I am in favor of the additional appropriation disagreed to yesterday, in spite of the objections which we have just heard from the lips of the Senator from Nebraska, and from the mouth of the Senator from Oregon.

I am not deterred from voting for it by the objection urged by the Senator from Oregon, because I believe, in spite of the abolition of the franking privilege, means will be found to get to the people of the United States whatever of valuable information shall be published by the Government hereafter, touching any branch of its service. I believe the people of the country will get such reports as may hereafter emanate from the Bureau of Education, such as may emanate hereafter from the Bureau of Agriculture; although their representatives in Congress may be released from the labor of franking those documents. Indeed, sir, if you see fit hereafter to charge the people of the United States with the postage, at the present rates of postage on printed matter, on these documents, I believe you may safely print, year after year, not four, but ten times the number of documents from these two bureaus that you now print annually. Let the people of the United States understand that they can get copies by asking for them, and be willing to pay the postage on them, and they will all be called for year after year. These documents are worth the postage. The people at least appreciate them at that price. I think they would be abundantly willing to pay not merely the postage, but the cost of publication, rather than go without them.