CHEERFUL ECHOES FROM THE KINDERGARTEN. For children from 3 to 10 years of age. Written and compiled by Mrs. Louise Pollock, Principal of Kindergarten Normal Institute, Washington, D. C., published by Henry A. Young & Co., Boston, Mass.

These songs are doubtless excellent for regular Kindergarten work; but they do not seem to have practical value apart from the tools and implements of that system, and cannot be advantageously used in connection with the work of common primary schools, At least, this is the opinion of a primary teacher of excellent judgment and large experience to whom we submitted the book for trial.

By D. F. Ames, editor of Price, 50 cents.

COPY SLIPS, for the use of Teachers and Self-Learners.
the "Penman's Art Journal," 205 Broadway, New York.
We return thanks for a complete set of these valuable helps to the art of writing.

We have from Dr. J. L. Buchanan, the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Virginia, with accompanying documents-packed full of valuable information to all school officers and teachers, and indeed to all who take any interest in the progress and prosperity of the old Commonwealth.

THE LOMB PRIZE ESSAYS.-No. 1. Healthy Homes and Foods for the Working Classes, by Victor C. Vaughan, M. D., Ph. D. No. 2. The Sanitary Condition and Necessities of School-Houses and School Life, by D. F. Lincoln, M. D. No. 3. Disinfection and Individual Prophylaxis against Infectious Diseases, by Geo. M. Sternberg, M. D., U. S. Army. No. 4. The Preventable Causes of Disease, Injury and Death in American Manufactories and Workshops, and the Best Means and Appliances for Preventing and Avoiding Them, by George H. Ireland.

These essays are not speculative disquisitions on theoretical questions concerning modes of life, but plain, intelligible lessons of the most practical character, relating to the homes we live in, the food we eat, the care of our children in their school life, the means of protection from disease, and the avoidance of the special dangers of our workshops and factories. They are all matters of every-day concern-matters in which all classes and all communities are directly or indirectly deeply interested.

The prices of these essays are as follows: No. 1, 10 cents; Nos. 2, 3, and 4, 5 cents each. In book form, well bound in cloth, 50 cents. To be had at the book-stores, or by addressing Dr. Irving A. Watson, Secretary American Public Health Association, Concord, N. H.

Publishers' Notes.

-Senator Hoar, in his recent oration at the Marietta Centennial, spoke of the Ordinance of 1787, by which the Northwest Territory was established, "as one of the three title-deeds of American constitutional liberty." "It belongs," he said, "with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution." Yet how many Americans, even good scholars, have ever read the Ordinance of 1787? Few would know where to look for it, and, looking, would probably find it only in the appendix to some obscure and dusty volume. Many, therefore, at this time will be glad to know that the directors of the "Old South Studies" have incorporated it in their new general series of "Old South Leaflets," which are published for schools and the trade by D. C. Heath & Co., Boston, and that it is now ready for distribution. These "Old South Leaflets," which sell for the small price of five cents a copy or three dollars per hundred, are the means of bringing a great number of important original documents into the service of our historical students.

-The February and March numbers (33 and 34) of the Riverside Literature Series (published monthly at 15 cents a number by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston) contain the first two parts of Longfellow's widely famous "Tales of a Wayside Inn," with interesting und

helpful introductions and notes. The February number contains "Paul Revere's Ride” (the Landlord's Tale), "The Falcon of Ser Federigo" (the Student's Tale), "The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi" (the Spanish Jew's Tale), "King Robert of Sicily" (the Sicilian's Tale), "The Saga of King Olaf" (the Musician's Tale). The March number contains "Torquemada" (the Theologian's Tale), "The Birds of Killingworth" (the Poet's Tale), "The Bell of Atri" (the Sicilian's Tale), "Kambalu" (the Spanish Jew's Tale), "The Cobbler of Hagenau" (the Student's Tale), "The Ballad of Carmilhan" (the Musician's Tale), "Lady Wentworth" (the Poet's Tale), "The Legend Beautiful" (the Theologian's Tale), "The Baron of St. Castine" (the Student's Second Tale).

The May number (No. 36) contains interesting papers by John Burroughs, entitled "Sharp Eyes," "The Apple," "A Taste of Maine Birch," "Winter Neighbors," and "Notes by the Way." The "Notes by the Way" comprise interesting anecdotes about muskrats, squirrels, foxes, and woodchucks.

In order to meet the demand for a Natural History Reader, by an author of eminent literary power, this number of the Riverside Literature Series has been bound in board covers with No. 28 of the same series, the latter containing four interesting papers by Burroughs about birds and bees.

-"The Old Northwest" (MacCoun's Historical Series No. 2) is a work of national interest, illustrating and teaching American history and geography.

The author boldly seizes the Northwest of one hundred years ago as an abstract geographical and historical unit, and draws the salient features of its history. Much attention is given to the causes of things, particularly to those geographical conditions which have done so much to shape historical developments.

West of the Alleghanies this work will be all the more valuable, coming, as it does, with the Centennial Anniversary of the opening of "The Old Northwest" to civilization. The large share that the New England, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia colonies have in its pages will find for it many appreciative readers in those States.

-Mr. George Kennan will tell in the May Century how he came to go to Siberia on the Century expedition. Mr. Kennan had spent some time in Siberia already in connec tion with the overland telegraph scheme, and in the summer of 1884 he made a preliminary excursion to St. Petersburg and Moscow for the purpose of collecting material, and ascertaining whether or not obstacles were likely to be thrown in his way by the Russian Government. He returned in October, fully satisfied that his scheme was a practical one.

-Judge George C. Barrett, of the Supreme Court, New York, before whom the "boodle" aldermen and Jacob Sharp were tried, has written an article on " Miscarriages of Justice," which will appear in the Forum for May. The same number will contain "Obstacles to Good City Government," by ex-Mayor Seth Low, of Brooklyn; "Appropriations for Public Works," by Senator S. M. Cullom; and a strong article by Michael Davitt on "Irish Landlordism."

-The next volume of The Century, beginning with May, will contain a series of chapters in the Lincoln Life of great interest and importance. The subject of the Border States will be dealt with in May; and in subsequent numbers will be published the inside history of Fremont's relations with the President—an astonishing letter written by Greeley to Lincoln after the battle of Bull Run; also details as to the Trent affair, Fort Donelson, the Shiloh Campaign, Yorktown, Williamsburg to Fair Oaks, etc., etc., with especial refer. ence to Lincoln's part in these events.

-Prizes to the amount of two hundred and fifty dollars have been offered by the editors of Treasure-Trove to the pupils of public and private schools for the best original short stories. First prize is one hundred dollars in cash; second prize, fifty dollars; third prize, twenty-five dollars, etc. Three prominent school principals have consented to act

as judges. Particulars may be learned by addressing Treasure-Trove Company, 25 Clinton Place, New York.

-Cupples & Hurd will publish immediately two books of unusual interest. The first, "Stray Leaves from Newport," by Mrs. Wm. Lamont Wheeler, which is not unlikely to create considerable stir on account of the author's position-in one of the most exclusive circles of American society; the other, "Social Life and Literature Fifty Years Ago," by a well-known Salem litterateur, whose name is witheld.

-There is a serial now running in St. Nicholas, entitled "Drill," which deals with the 'Military School" problem from various points of view-all of interest to teachers.

-The Woman's Temperance Publishing Association have issued a neat little leaflet containing the Constitution and Rules of the Loyal Temperance Legion, with full instructions for the formation of local divisions, order of exercises, suggestions, etc. If all the boys and girls can be enlisted heartily in the temperance movement, the reign of King Alcohol will soon come to an end.

-NEWSPAPERS IN 1888.-From the edition of George P. Rowell & Co.'s "American Newspaper Directory, published April 2d (its twentieth year), it appears that the newspapers and periodicals of all kinds issued in the United States and Canada now number 16,310, showing a gain of 890 during the last twelve months, and of 7,136 in ten years. The publishers of the Directory assert that the impression that when the proprietor of a newspaper undertakes to state what has been his exact circulation he does not generally tell the truth is an erroneous one; and they conspicuously offer a reward of $100 for every instance in their book for this year where it can be shown that the detailed report received from a publisher was untrue.

-The Old South Leaflets, which have been published during the last five years in connection with the annual courses of historical lectures at the Old South Meeting-House, have attracted so much attention and met such a real need that the directors of the Old South Studies have determined upon the publication of a general series of leaflets, with the needs of schools, colleges and private clubs and classes especially in mind. Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co., of Boston, will, by special arrangement, publish the Leaflets for schools and the trade. These Leaflets will be largely reproductions of important original political and historical papers, accompanied by useful notes. They will consist, on an average, of sixteen pages, and will be sold at a very low price, not more than three dollars per hundred copies, the aim being to bring them within easy reach of everybody. Some idea of the character of this general series of Old South Leaflets may be gained from the following list of the subjects of the first dozen numbers, which will be published immediately: The Constitution of the United States, The Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, Washington's Farewell Address, Magna Charta, Vane's "Healing Question," The Charter of Massachusetts Bay, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Franklin's Plan of Union, Washington's Inaugurals, Lincoln's Inaugurals and Emancipation Proclamation, the Federalist, Nos. 1, 2 and 3.

-THE THREE HOTTEST DAYS IN 1888.—In his article on " Where to Spend the Summer," in Scribner's for April, General Greely, chief signal officer, makes a prophesy as to the hottest days in the year 1888. The Detroit Journal, taking the matter up, has offered a prize of $500 to the person guessing correctly, before June 1st, what the three days will be. General Greely immediately telegraphed his guess to the paper, in accord with his reasons in Scribner's for April.

-A wonderful interest has been shown throughout the West in Professor James Baldwin's paper, "The Centre of the Republic," in Scribner's Magazine for April. It is an inspiring account of the rise and progress of the Ohio Valley, suggested by the centennial

celebration soon to take place at Cincinnati. Professor Baldwin's account of what has been accomplished produces a glow of patriotism and makes his readers proud of their birthright.

-David A. Wells's discussion of the "Economic Outlook," in The Popular Science Monthly, will be closed in the May number of that magazine, with a masterly review of the whole situation. It is regarded as hopeful; wages have increased, and the prices of goods and living have diminished. The inconveniences are only temporary. The means of comfortable subsistence are commanded with less effort, and the end of necessary poverty is nearer than ever before. The first of three remarkable articles on "Darwinism and the Christian Faith," reprinted from The Guardian, will also appear. The articles are anonymous, but are understood to be written by an Oxford tutor, and their appearance in the leading church journal of England stamps their orthodoxy. The writer regards Darwinism as an accepted doctrine, and discusses its relation to religion with a clearness and a just appreciation of the tenable ground of both the clergy and the men of science which are too rarely displayed in treating this question. The question, "Is Combination Crime?" will be answered from the side of the combiners by Mr. Appleton Morgan, in an incisive article. Mr. Morgan undertakes to show that combinations of capital and of labor, so far from being necessarily wrong and mischievous, are legitimate outgrowths of modern conditions of trade, and, on the whole, for the general good. Mr. Arnold Burges Johnson will publish an article of great interest on "Sound-Signals at Sea.” In it he will describe in full a number of ingenious devices for facilitating communication between vessels, and for obtaining knowledge of the proximity and direction of dangerous objects.

The Magazines.

THE CENTURY.-The April number of THE CENTURY closes the thirty-fifth half-yearly volume. The first article is by Edward L. Wilson, the well-known photographer, and is descriptive of the natural and other features of Palestine "from Dan to Beersheba." Theodore Roosevelt describes, with the aid of Mr. Remington's well-informed pencil, that decidedly American institution, "The Round-up." An illustrated article on "The American Inventors of the Telegraph" tells the inside story of the invention, especially bringing out the services rendered to the enterprise by Alfred Vail. Two articles of especial literary interest are Henry James's paper on Robert Louis Stevenson, with a sketch of Stevenson's very individual face by Alexander, and a brief essay by the Rev. T. T. Munger on "The Works of Elisha Mulford." Dr. Eggleston's story of "The Graysons" has some very exciting chapters; and James Lane Allen's story, illustrated by Kemble, is a pathetic account of "Two Kentucky Gentlemen of the Old School.' A series of papers by Simeon Pease Cheney (the father of the poet, John Vance Cheney), is begun in the April number. The present instalment of the Life of Lincoln is on "The National Uprising" for the preservation of the Union; the political and military relation of Baltimore to the situation is also fully described. A further chapter is devoted to the condition of things in Washington itself at the outbreak of the Rebellion. Mr. George Kennan's article is on the Russian Penal Code, the astonishing provisions of which are here briefly explained. Among the poems of the number are "Thefts of the Morning," by Edith M. Thomas; an illustrated dialect poem, "Marse Phil," by Thomas Nelson Page, and the last poem written by Emma Lazarus, which is addressed to "Carmen Sylva," and is an appeal to the Queen of Roumania in behalf of the oppressed Israelites of that country. "Memoranda of the Civil War" contains short articles on "The opening of the Atlanta Campaign," by Colonel William C. P. Breckenridge; "Kershaw's Brigade at Fredericksburg," by General J. B. Kershaw; an extraordinary account of "The Last Victim of the War," by Judge W. M. Dickson; an unpublished letter by General Hooker on the Chancellorsville Campaign; and a note on the "Strength of the Confederate Army at Chickamauga." The "Topics of the Time are entitled, "Shall Fortunes Be Limited by Law?" "President or King?" and "Postal Savings Banks." In " Open Letters" there are two contributions on the Diplomatic service; one on "Moral Teaching in Our Schools"; and others on "Christian Union," and "The 'Ach!' School of Literature."

THE FOUNTAIN, Edited and published by W. H. Shelley, York, Pa.-Contents for May: Emperor William; Military Records of the Presidents; The Ruby; The Arts and Industries of the Mound-Builders; Blue Jays; The Kinkajou; Penelope's Web; The Houstonia; Italian Artists-V; Letter from Mexico; Random Notes of California; The Sailor's Story; The May Queen; Bird Songs; Marjorie's Party; Current Events; Notes and Comments; Drawing; Questions, &c. Our Literary Social; Music-The Streams.

SCRIBNER.-Contents for May: Alexander Pope, Frontispiece, from a portrait by Kneller, 1716; engraved by J. Smith, 1717, [Etat. 28.] In the Steamers' Track, by William Perry Northrup, with illustrations by M. J. Burns and W. F. Halsall. The Bitter Sweet of Spring, by Edith M. Thomas. The Hill Path, by Duncan Campbell Scott. Alexander Pope, with portraits and illustrations reproduced from contemporary prints collected by the author. A Dialogue to the Memory of Mr. Pope, by Austin Dobson. A Child of Light, by Margaret Crosby. Modern Explosives, by Charles E. Munroe, Chemist U. S. Torpedo Corps, with illustrations from drawings and photographs furnished

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by the author. Salmon Angling on the Restigouche, illustrated by A. B. Frost. Of Love and Death, by Maybury Fleming. The Centre of the Republic, by James Baldwin, second (concluding) paper. Morning in Venice, by Bessie Gray, with a full-page illustration by F. Hopkinson Smith. The Decoration of Vases, by William P. P. Longfellow, with illustrations by Sidney L. Smith, Harold Warren, and others. Arraignment, by Helen Gray Cone. First Harvests, chapters XVI and XVII, by F. J. Stimson, (To be continued.) Comradeship, by James Herbert Morse. Gentlemen, by Robert Louis Stevenson.

LIPPINCOTT'S-No Name Number-May Contents: The Old Adam, A Novel. From Bacon to Beethoven. Ding Dong. Mr. Sonnenshein's Inheritance. The House of Hate. Among My Weeds. A Little Boy's Talk. The Portrait and the Ghost. Nebuchadnezzar's Wife. Old Delaware. Our Monthly Gossip. Book-Talk.

THE HEALTH AND HOME LIBRARY.-Table of Contents for April: Literary Department: All Sorts of Blood; Children's Diseases; Chronic Diseases; Food and Drink; Food for the Sick: "Home, Sweet Home:" How to Fall; How to Feed the Baby; My Sister-in-Law's Daughter; Scientific Basis of Faith; Vitapathy-What is it? Woman: Her Susceptibilities. Health Department: Air, Pure; Asthma; Bed Sores; Biliousness, Cure for; Cancer; Chilblains; Cleanliness; Cold: Dandruff; Diarrhoea, For; Diptheria; Disinfectant, A; Dropsy; Drunkenness; Dysentery, etc.; Earache; Epilepsy; Fallacies, Popular; Fear; Felons; Fever and Ague; Freckles; Headache: Hiccough, For; Indigestion; Jaundice; Kidney Difficulty; Liver Spots; Lockjaw; Lumbago, etc.; Milk, Polluted; Moles; Mole, A; Mouth Wash; Nearsightedness; Neuralgia; Oysters; Persistent Coughs, etc.; Pin-Swallowing; Pruritis Ari; Rheumatism, For; Scarlet Fever; Sciatica, Treatment of; Scrofulous Difficulties; Sleeplessness; Snake Bites, Poisonous; Spinal Irritability; Sunstroke, etc.; Sweats, Consumptive; Tape Worm; Tonsils, Catarrh of; Toothache; Ulcers, Scrofulous, etc.; Varicose Veins; Warts; Water Cure; Water, Drinking; Whooping Cough; Worms. Home Department: Apple Cake; Bacon, Curing; Blankets, To Wash; Brush, A; Butter, To Test; Cake, Fruit; Castors; Charcoal Fires; Cheese, Head; Chicken Croquettes; Chicken, To Cook; China, To Mend; Coke Fires; Color, To Restore; Custard, White; EggNogg: Eggs, Fresh; Furniture, To Clean; Furniture Stains; Gelatine; Glue, Fish; Herbs, Keeping; Ice Cream; Ink, To Remove; Insecticide, An; Jelly, Currant; Jewelry, Cleaning; Kitchen, A Clean; Lemons; Muffins; Ostrich Feathers; Oysters; Paint, To Remove; Pancakes, Buttermilk; Panada, Cracker; Plants; Plants, The Care of Pork, Salt; Pudding, Bird's-Nest; Pudding, Bread; Pudding, Graham; Pudding, Rice; Pudding, Sago; Soup, Vegetable; Stockings, To Wash; Stove Polish; Tomatoes, Stewed, etc.; Tripe, Broiled; Tripe, Fried; Tripe, Stewed; Ventilation; Windows, To Clean. Editorial Department: A Growing Evil; A New Idea; Chronic Invalids; How to Secure Practice; Magnetism in Medicine; Mental Healing; Nature's Penalty Proprietary Medicines; Science of Suffering; Should Physicians Advertise? The Coming Children; Traveling Doctors; Unhealthful Occupations; Unsanitary Water Supplies.

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ST. NICHOLAS.-Contents for April: Frontispiece, "An April Day," drawn by Harry Fenn. What Makes it Rain? George P. Merrill. Now She's Off, picture, drawn by W. P. Bodfish. A Rhyme for a Rainy Day, Julia M. Colton, head-piece and initial by Katherine Pyle. The Red Partridge Tells His Story, Maria Ellery MacKaye (from the French of Daudet), illustrated by I. R. Wiles. Child-Sketches from George Eliot, IV, "Silas Marner," Julia Magruder, illustrations by R. B. Birch and Katherine Pyle. Easter Morning, pictures, drawn by Lizbeth B. Comins. An April Bill of Fare, picture, drawn by Margaret Johnson. The Tables Turned, A Wolf-Story Reversed, Glaucus," illustrations by J. A. S. Monks. Trudel's Siege, Louisa M. Alcott, illustrations by George Wharton Edwards. A Little Coffee-tot, Jingle, Alice Wellington Rollins, illustrated by Albert E. Sterner. Edward Athoy, Part II, Roy McTavish, illustrated by W. H. Drake. Pictures for Little French Readers, No. III, drawn by Lizbeth B. Comins. From My Window, verses, Emilie Poulsson. The Wreck of the "Lizzie J. Clark," Louie Lyndon, illustrated from photographs. An Amateur Agriculturist, an Aztec Fragment, J. G. Francis, illustrated by the author. Drill, Chapters V, VI, John Preston True, illustrated by F. T. Merril. First Steps, verses, M. M. D., illustrated by Mary Hallock Foote. Ben's Proxy, William O. Stoddard, illustration by C. D. Bush. "Ham" Estabrook's CanOpener, George P. Whittlesey, illustrated by H. A. Ogden. The Ballad of the Rubber-Plant and the Palm, Alice Wellington Rollins. The Brownies in the Academy, Palmer Cox. Housekeeping Songs, No. II, Washing Day, Mary J. Jacques, music by T. C. H., and illustrated by Mary L. Humphreys. What the Butcher Boy Said, II, Julian Ralph. Manny's Sketching, verses, Alice P. Carter, illustrated by Rose Mueller Sprague. Handiwork for Girls (illustrated). Jack-in-the-Pulpet. The Letter-box. The Riddle-box.

The following is the table of contents of THE CHAUTAUQUAN for May: "Nervous System"; Education and Sleep," by C. Fred. Pollock, M. D., F. R. S. E., F. R. C. S. E.; "Bicycling and Tricycling," by Maurice Thompson: "Sunday Readings"; "The Causes of Poverty," by the Rev. Washington Gladden, D. D.; Contemporary Russian Literature," by Nathan Haskell Dole: "Literatures of the Far East," by Justin A. Smith, D. D.; "Floral Structures and their Uses," by Byron D. Halsted, Sc. D.; "How Gold is Extracted from Ore," by Coleman E. Bishop; "Life and Manners," by the Rev. Lyman Abbott, D. D.; "Famine and Harvest," by George Parsons Lathrop; "Explorations in Unknown Territories," by General A. W. Greeley, Chief of the United States Signal Office: "Books and Book-Writers at the National Capital," by Frank G. Carpenter; "Village Parks and Gardens," by Roger Riorden; "The Traveler," by J. M. Buckley, D. D; The Emperor William and his Mother," by Mary McArthur Tuttle; "The Angel Guide," by Margaret J. Preston; "Neal Dow at Home," by Frances E. Willard; A Cargo of Alaska School Teachers," by Sheldon Jackson, D. D. The usual departments receive full space.

THE FORUM for April.-Contents: Civil Government and the Papacy, Professor E. De Laveleye; The Hysteria of Sectional Agitation, Henry Watterson; What Shall the Public Schools Teach? Dr. Austin Flint; The Union of English-speaking Peoples, J. D. Champlin, Jr.; Cerebral Localization, Dr. C. E. Brown-Séquard; The Dawn of Electricity, Park Benjamin; Creed, Craft and Cure, Dr. Meredith Clymer; The Tenement-house Problem, Alice W. Rollins; Socialism and the Catholic Church, Monsignor T. S. Preston; The Element of Life in Fiction, E. P. Roe; Could Mr. Blaine Carry New York? John Foord.