The Educational Journal of Virginia

NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE for November.-Contents: The Boston Symphony Orchestra, illustrated, Louis C. Elson. The Revival of Our Country Towns, Rev. Julius H Ward. Francis Parkman, illustrated, George Willis Cooke. A Church's Retrospect, Charles Francis Adams. The First Church in Quincey, poem, illustrated, Christopher P. Cranch. An Old Connecticut Town, illustrated, William Howe Downes. The Haunted Bell, III, Prof. James K. Hosmer. Homesickness, poem, H Bernard Carpenter. Architectural Competitions, W. Henry Winslow. The Lesson of a Life, Harriette R. Shattuck. Sandwich and Yarmouth, illustrated, Rev. N. H. Chamberlain.. The New England Town, Hon. John D. Long. Edwin Arnold at Harvard, illustrated. The Wayside Inn, illustrated, Edwin D. Mead. The Country Newspaper, Edwin A. Start. Tarry at Home Travel, II, Edward E. Hale, D. D. The Opening of Clark University. Washington's Visit to Boston in 1789. Editor's Table.

ST. NICHOLAS for December.-Contents: Frontispiece, Thackeray at the age of Eleven. The Boyhood of Thackeray, Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Verses, I, A Christmas Letter; II, The Last Cricket, Helen Thayer Hutcheson. The White and the Red, Alice Maude Ewell. The Story of the Iceburg, poem, Harriet Prescott Spofford. Little Alvilda, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. Buffalo Hunting, Theodore Roosevelt. May Bartlett's Stepmother, chapters I, II, III, Nora Perry Dreams, verse, S. Walter Norris. Happy Charity Children, picture. By-and-By, verse, Eva L. Ogden. "I'll Wait for You, Come on!" picture. The Professor and the Patagonian Giant, Tudor Jenks. Intercollegiate Foot-ball in America, II, Walter Camp How the Emperor Goes, verses, M. Helen Lovett. An Autumn Revel, verses, Ida W. Van der Voort. If the Babes were the Bards, verses, Francis Kandall. Daisy's Calendar, Daisy F. Barry. For Christmas Day, H. Butterworth. The Letter-box. The Riddle-box.

Editorial Notes.

THE CENTURY MAGAZINE for December.-Contents: The Duke of Wellington, Frontispiece. Selections from Wellington's Letters, Mary E. Davis-Evans. Perdita, Florence Earle Coates. The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, II, Joseph Jefferson. Night in the Sick-Room, Margaret Crosby. The New Croton Aqueduct, Charles Barnard. Three Christmas Chimes, Constantina E. Brooks. Captain Joe, F. Hopkinson Smith. Two Flowers of Love, William H. Hayne. The Library, Frank Dempster Sherman. Nature and People in Japan, William Elliot Griffis. Olive, Joaquin Miller. Portrait d'une Dame Espagnole, Edmund C Stedman. Friend Olivia, II, Amelia E. Barr. The Paris Panorama of the Nineteenth Century, Alfred Stevens, Henri Gervex. A Burial, Arlo Bates. Pundita Ramabai, Elizabeth Porter Gould. Naked Boughs, Harrison S. Morris. The Nature and Method of Revelation, I, Revelation and the Bible, George P. Fisher. A Dream, Louise Chandler Moulton. The Taming of Tarias, Mary A. Owen. Equations, S. The "Merry Chanter." Part II, Frank R. Stockton. The Flowers of Destiny, Louise Vickroy Boyd. Lincoln-The Fall of the Rebel Capital; Lincoln in Richmond, John G. Nicolay, John Hay. With a Copy of Shelley, Harriet Monroe. The Foes of Civil Service Reform. "The Century Dictionary." Impressions of the International Exhibition of 1889, Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer. The Evolution of the Educator, William J. Desmond. Christmus Thim Times, Orelia Key Bell. Knowledge is Power, Mary E. Wardwell. Mæcenas bids his Friend to Dine, * * *. St. Patience's Day, Kemper Bocock. A Breath, Mary Ainge DeVere.

SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE for December.-Contents: Breton Peasants at a Wayside Cross, Frontispiece. How the Other Half Lives-Studies Among the Tenements, by Jacob A. Riis. In the Valley, Chapters XII-XIV, by Harold Frederic, (begun in September, to be continued). Mrs. Tom's Spree, by H. C. Bunner. Evening, by A. Lampman. Montauk Point July-December, by Lloyd McKim Garrison. The Pardon of Ste. Anne d'Auray, and other Breton Pictures, by William Percy Northrup. Happiness, by Edith Wharton. A Midwinter's Night Dream, by Henry A. Beers. Contemporary American Caricature, by J. A. Mitchell Notes of a Sub-tropic Study, by Edgar Mayhew Bacon. At Les Eboulements, by Duncan Campbell Scott. The Age of Words, by Edward J. Phelps.

THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY for December.-Contents: The Descendants of Palæolithic Man in America, by Dr. Charles C. Abbott. Glass-Making, by Prof. C. Hanford Henderson, III, The Evolution of a Glass Bottle, illustrated. Plain Words on the Woman Question, by Grant Allen. New Phases in the Chinese Problem, by Willard B. Farwell. Governmental Aid to Injustice, by George M. Wallace. Israelite and Indian, by Garrick Mallery, II, (concluded). Mental and Phy sical Training of Children, by Jessie O. Waller. The Struggle of Sea and Land, by Dr. Vinzenz Hilber. The Royal Society of England, by Dr William C. Cahall Speech and Song, by Sir Morell Mackenzie, II, Song Suspension of Vitality in Animals, by M. Victor Laporte. Sketch of Robert Koch, with portrait. Editor's Table: Every-Day Science.-A Comparison in Racial Developments. Literary Notices. Popular Miscellany. Notes.

LIPPINCOTT'S for December-Contents: "All He Knew," complete, John Habberton. The New Troubadours at Airgnon, William Henry Bishop. A Dialogue in December, Maurice Francis Egan. Against his Judgment, Robert Grant. Leon the Exile, Melville Philips. Veiled, Florence Earle Coates. Building Associations, Thomas Gaffrey. Kinship, Helen Gray Cone. Fiddler Rakes's Fiddle, Rosewell Page. My Love, M. G. McClelland. The Power of the Future, Charles Morris. Novelistic Habits and "The Morgesons," Julian Hawthorne. The Evolution of Famous Sayings, William Shepard. An Apostle of "Frankness," Maurice Francis Egan. Book-Talk. With the

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THE FORUM for December.-Contents: Divorce in the United States, Edward J. Phelps. the Race Problem be Solved? Prof. Henry A. Scomp. Religious Teaching in Schools, Bishop B. J. McQuaid. The Possibilities of Electricity, Park Benjamin. Do We Want Industrial Peace? Prof. William G. Sumner. Is Medicine a Science? Dr. George M. Gould. Immigration and Crime, William M. F. Round. The Natural History of Dogma, Prof. C. C. Everett. Experiences with Spiritualism, Rev. M. J. Savage. The Farmers' Defensive Movement, William A. Peffer.

OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT.

J. L. BUCHANAN, Superintendent Public Instruction, Editor.

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Comparative Summaries.

The following summaries will be published in the forthcoming annual report of the Department of Public Instruction. We present them in the JOURNAL for the benefit of those persons who may not receive the report: