the Primary School at Monterey, has received an appointment in the City Schools.

George Brown, holder of a State Diploma, has been nominated for County Superintendent of Mariposa County. He is an earnest and capable teacher, and will make an efficient officer.

W. H. McFadden, holder of a State Certificate, has been elected Principal of the San Leandro Grammar School, vice Gen. LaGrange, resigned.

A.W. Brodt, of Tehama, holder of a State Diploma, has been elected Principal of the Petaluma Grammar School, vice E. S. Lippitt, resigned.

Rev. W. L. Jones has been re-nominated for the office of County Supt. of Humboldt County. He has held the office for two terms, and is an educated, competent, and popular officer.

Miss S. M. Gunn, a graduate of the Girls' High School, from the Rincon, has been promoted from the position of Grammar Assistant to that of Special Assistant in the Cosmopolitan School.

David E. Gordon has been re-nominated for the office of County Supt. of Trinity County. He has held the office two terms, and ought to hold it as long as he wants it, if a faithful discharge of daty is taken into consideration.

THE TEHAMA PRIMARY SCHOOL HOUSE-a cut of which we gave in our last number-is situated on Tehama Street, between First and Second Streets. Work was commenced on it in July, 1866, and it was completed, January 1st, 1867. The building is arranged in the form of a cross; the main body is 52 feet front by 75 feet deep, the wings on either side being 291⁄2 by 33 feet; the entire frontage is 111 feet. There is a basement under the entire building, divided in the center, forming two wet-weather play-rooms for boys and girls. The entrances are in the angles of the wings; two on the front, and two in the rear, approached by flights of granite steps. The principal story is fifteen feet high in the clear, with four rooms in the main building 24 by 31 feet, and one in each wing, 18 by 30 feet. The halls containing the stairways, are in the wings, extending through from front to rear, 9% feet wide by 30 feet, with a corridor through the center from one to the other, 8 feet wide. The second story is 15 feet high in the clear, arranged in the same manner as the first floor, having two teacher's rooms, 91⁄2 by 10 feet, over the front entrances. The third, or upper floor, is 13 feet high in the clear; the rooms in the front and wings are the same as below; the two rooms in rear of center, and the corridor, are thrown into one large room, forming an Assembly Hall 41 by 49 feet, with a dome skylight in the center. This story is built under a French or Mansard roof. The rooms are all amply lighted, and the building is thoroughly ventilated throughout. The structure has been erected in the most substantial and workmanlike manner; the walls are heavy and strong, and the materials are of the best quality, equal to those of any school house in the city. This building is one of the largest in the city, having 16 class rooms, and the large hall will accommodate 1,000 scholars. The whole cost, including fences, outbuildings, etc., was $28,300. S. C. Bugbee & Son were the architects. Messrs. Kimball Bros., the contractors.

SANTA CLARA SCHOOL HOUSE.-The new school house at Santa Clara was opened on the evening of Aug. 2d, by an appropriate "house warming." Supt. Swett delivered an address, and remarks were made by Supt. Brierly, City Supt. Webber, Dr. Hamilton, Rev. Addison Jones, and Mr. Medon of the Board of Education. The house is of wood, planned by S. C. Bugbee, of San Francisco, and erected at a cost of $11,000. It contains seven class-rooms, and will accommodate 400 children. It is the neatest and best planned school house in the State, outside of San Francisco, with the exception of the Stockton Grammar School house. The Board of Education deserves great credit for its good judgment in building so fine a house, and the citizens, teachers, and pupils have reason to be proud of it.

SAN JOSE SCHOOL HOUSE.-The frame-work of this house is put up, and the building will be completed in December. It will cost $20,000.

OLIMA SCHOOL.-Miss Bannister, Teacher. Roll of Honor-Elizabeth D. Randall and William Jewett.

SAN FRANCISCO. For the office of City Superintendent of Common Schools, three candidates are before the people: Ira G. Hoitt, Principal of the Lincoln Grammar School, nominee of the Union party; James Denman, Principal of the Denman Grammar School, nominee of the Democratic party; and John C. Pelton, present incumbent of the office, independent candidate, without regard to conventions or to party.

HOLDERS OF STATE CERTIFICATES.-All holders of State Certificates will confer a favor on the Superintendent of Public Instruction, by reporting to him the rate of salaries per month of service, by letter, as soon as practicable.

STATE DIRECTORY.-The State Superintendent desires to keep in his office, a permanent directory of all holders of State Certificates. The "Professionals" will confer a favor by notifying him of any changes of position.

NOMINATED.-Milton Wasson, a professional teacher, has been nominated for County Superintendent of Solano County; and J. W. Anderson, Principal of the Sotoyome Institute, Healdsburg, is the nominee of the Union party for County Superintendent of Sonoma County.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.-In consequence of the great number of applicants, a new class has been formed in this school. Pupils from the interior counties will now be admitted on application.

THE METRIC SYSTEM.-We have received from Taggard & Thompson, the publishers of "Eaton's Arithmetic," in a neat pamphlet form of twenty pages, a summary of the Metric System, prepared by H. A. Newton, Prof. of Mathematics, Yale College, which is to be published in the new edition of "Eaton's Arithmetics."

PROF. W. D. ALEXANDER, President of Punahou and Oahu College, H. I.,

has been spending some weeks in California, greatly to the delight of his old friends; and those who have been so fortunate as to meet him for the first time always desire to be added to his list of friends. We have examined with much interest the last Catalogue of the Institute over which the Professor presides; containing, as it does, an account of the proceedings at the Quarter-Century Celebration, held at Punahou, June 15th, 1866.

Whole No. of Males...

REPORT OF STATE NORMAL SCHOOL FOR FOUR WEEKS, ENDING AUGUST 2D, 1867. 16 Average daily attendance........... 90.3 82 Percentage of attendance on average No. belonging... No. left...

Whole No. of Females..

Total No. enrolled......

Average No. belonging.

98

96

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NEW BOOKS.-We have received the following new books:

THE WORKS OF HORACE MANN. In four volumes. Price $3.00 per volume. Published by subscription alone, for the editor, Mrs. Mary Mann.

The two first volumes of this series contain seven Lectures upon Education, and twelve Annual Reports made to the Board of Education, embracing all the important topics of education, forming a guide for the organization of Schools and thorough instruction in them, as well as for the action of State Governments. The third volume will contain Miscellaneous Lectures and Addresses: as, Thoughts for a Young Man; Powers and Duties of Woman; Effects of Intemperance on the Poor and Ignorant; Effects of Intemperance on the Rich and Educated; Inaugural Address at Antioch College; Demands of the Age on Colleges; First Baccalaureate Address at Antioch College; Address to the Students, or Code of Honor; Letter to a Law Student; Lecture on Knowledge, hitherto unpublished. The fourth volume will contain Anti-Slavery Letters and Specches; Lecture on Liberty, hitherto unpublished; Letter to Mr. Garrison, published only in the "Liberator." If the price of these volumes is inclosed to Mrs. Mary Mann, Cambridge, Mass., the books will be sent by mail, prepaid.

THE LAND OF THOR. By J. Ross Browne. Illustrated by the Author. New York: Harper & Brothers. San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft & Co. pp. 542. Whatever concerns the Russian Empire is of special interest to American readers now, and therefore the republication of the papers of this volume is very timely. Readers of "Harper's Magazine" always turn, or ought to turn first of all to Ross Browne's contributions therein; and they will welcome the appearance of this volume, because they know its value. Persons who are not readers of "Harper," are hereby informed that the social life and the natural scenery of Russia, Sweden, Norway and Iceland, are inimitably portrayed in 44 The Land of Thor."

THE CRITTENDEN COMMERCIAL ARITHMETIC AND BUSINESS MANUAL. Designed for the use of Merchants, Business Men, Academies, and Commercial Colleges. By John Groesbach, Consulting Accountant, Principal of Crittenden's Philadelphia Commercial College. Abridged Edition. Philadelphia: E. C. & J. Biddle. San Francisco H. H. Bancroft & Co. pp. 216.

We commend this little book to every teacher in the State, who wishes to acquire a thorough knowledge of business transactions. It contains an amount of valuable information upon the subjects treated, which is really surprising, and in this respect has no peer among the works designed to occupy a similar place. It is worth fifty dollars a copy, but we presume Mr. Bancroft will sell it to any meritorious teacher for a dollar and a half, or thereabouts. BENCH AND BAR: A complete Digest of the Wit, Humor, Asperities and Amenities of the Law. By L. J. Bigelow, Counselor at Law. With Portraits and Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. pp. 356. This book could not fail to be an amusing one. Saying nothing of the portraits and illustrations, (of which the less said the better) the selection of stories is well made; the facts concerning the Chancellors and Chief Justices are concisely stated, and the general style in which the work is published leaves little to be desired.

NEIGHBORS' WIVES. By J. T. Trowbridge. Boston: Lee & Shepard. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. pp. 318.

We had heretofore supposed New England to be a paradise wherein no serpent ever entered; but either our supposition is incorrect, or Mr. Trowbridge has made a story out of sheer imagination, having no facts to base it upon. There are some shrewd delineations of rural character in this book, but on the whole we cannot recommend our readers to spend much time over its pages. DOMBEY AND SON. By Charles Dickens. With original Illustrations, by S. Eytinge, Jr. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. pp. 501. No. 6 of the "Diamond Dickens:" sixteen Illustrations, among which one is Capt. Cuttle, and another the extraordinary Bunsby; the former alone in his glory, and the latter, alas for him! accompanied by Mrs. Macstinger. We vote for the "Diamond Dickens " every time.

CURIOUS MYTHS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. By S. Baring Gould. Boston: Roberts Brothers. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. pp. 255.

Thisbook is a good one to have. It tells of the Wandering Jew; Prester John; The Divining Rod; The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus; William Tell; The Dog Gellert; Tailed Men; The Man in the Moon, etc., etc. The paper on Fatality of Numbers" is of interest to mathematicians, and the other papers are of interest to everybody else.

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LIBER LIBRORUM: Its Structure, Limitations and Purpose. A Friendly Communication to a Reluctant Skeptic. New York: Charles Scribner & Co. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. pp. 232.

A book which is immensely inferior to "Ecce Homo" or "Ecce Deus," and in our judgment not adapted for general circulation as likely to be of extended interest or benefit.

PRACTICAL HINTS ON THE ART OF ILLUMINATION. By Alice Donlevy. New York: A. D. F. Randolph. San Francisco: C. Beach. pp. 78.

We can fancy the wonder with which the San Francisco Gas Company's operatives would regard this very beautiful volume, devoted as they would naturally imagine to the theory of the art to which their daily labors are devoted. But the operatives would be disappointed. It is not a treatise on anything pertaining to their life-work. It comes rather to assist students of the art so much cultivated in the middle ages by monks in their cells, who devoted years to the adorning of precious manuscripts with delicate or gorgeous designs. The taste for the beautiful in this art seems to be reviving, and this book is the first really practical work on the subject which has come before the American public, so far as we know. We commend it to our lady friends, who may find in its pages many simple directions which may be made available in awakening a sense for the beautiful among their pupils, as well as in making some of their own weary hours pass more rapidly.

COLLEGE LIFE: ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE. By Rev. Stephen Olin, D.D., LL.D., late President of the Wesleyan University. New York: Harper & Brothers. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. pp. 239.

This book contains seven Lectures to Students on College Life, and four Baccalaureate Discourses. They are grave in tone, fatherly in counsel, thoroughly safe in their teachings. Young men will do well to read carefully what President Olin thought of their position in the forming years of character.

THACKERAY'S LECTURES. The English Humorists-The Four Georges. Complete in one volume. New York: Harper & Brothers. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. pp. 449.

Here are eleven Lectures, delivered in Europe and America, to thousands of people, by one whose memory is becoming dearer to men as the years pass on. The eighteenth century is photographed, and the portraits are bound in one volume, easily procured, and thoroughly worth procuring.

A PAINTER'S CAMP. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton. In three Books. Book I. in England, Book II. in Scotland, Book III. in France. Boston: Roberts Brothers. San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft & Co. pp. 348.

We have no fault to find with this book, except that it is too short. It is pleasant to meet a quiet, genial artist, and hear his story of every day thought; what he saw, and how things seemed to him. Mr. Hamerton is such an artist. Americans have not time to bestow on such pursuits; but we look forward to a period when even here there may arise a class of cultivated men for whom it shall not be impossible to give a year or two now and then to country living, and afterwards to tell the story in a simple way.

EARLY AND LATE PAPERS, HITHERTO UNCOLLECTED. By William Makepeace Thackeray. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft & Co. pp. 407.

Between twenty and thirty papers are collected in this welcome volume; each one of them bearing the impress of Thackeray's spirit. Some of them form very quiet reading, and others are so extravagant as to make the reader's