GETTING TO WORK.

If the first school weeks prove, as they do so frequently in September, unusually hot and trying for pupils and teachers who have been for two months unrestrained by school walls and regulations, there will still be the recollection of a cool and fragrant summer, to strengthen and stimulate. After a holiday it is not easy to settle oneself down into harness again. Who has not felt the irksome restraint; the temptation almost irresistable to throw all care to the winds; the envy for the life of a bird that has apparently no cares or serious duties! But, if it were known, if the bird itself knew, there would probably be serious duties to relate. The search for worms would not always be found remunerative; grasshoppers and crickets not always plentiful, and berries at times so scarce or dried that the bird palate would find them tasteless, or the bird stomach would often be vacant. The bird, then, if it could think and could look into a schoolroom window-at

luncheon time would probably be quite willing to doff its coat of feathers for the chance of becoming for a time, at least, a pupil or a teacher.

Schools in Brooklyn and Jersey City began their year's work this week. In Brooklyn it is stated that, notwithstanding the increased accommodations of the past year, there is still a lack of room for all who would wish to attend. In New

York the work on the new buildings has not been so rapid as Superintendent Snyder had wished and expected it would be. There is always wait and delay on the part of contractors, and no school is sure until the principal finds himself at his desk with his pupils before him. There is no reason to doubt, however, that a few weeks, and in all probability the present month, will see the new buildings that were expected, completed and occupied by the several departments.

President Maclay and the new Board of Education now begin their work in earnest. There was enough experience in the few months that preceded the vacation to acquaint the new members with their duties, their general extent and character. In some things the Board could not then be held responsible, but it has now inaugurated and settled its policy, and the responsibilities will rest with it. There are likely to be but few changes in the membership the coming year, and the work of the Board should be more continuous and effective for this

reason.

The press in some quarters does not seem to take kindly to the efforts of Mr. Maclay, approved by the Board of Education in securing sites for schools in the new parks recently provided in the thickly settled parts of the city. It may perhaps not be within the scope of the statute under which these parks are provided, but the idea is certainly in accord with the spirit of the proposition that has come from Bishop Potter and those who are interested and working for school interests in those districts. The plan is certainly more feasible than that first outlined, requiring all schools to be located in park grounds, a plan that would swallow up so much of the city's funds that it would soon be brought to a stand. In the new parks which come to the city in the upper districts, there are also abundant opportunities for providing school sites now, that will realize for the future some of the most extravagant ideas of those who would reconstruct the schools of the city.

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The new schools in the newly annexed district of the city have been divided by the trustees of the Twenty-fourth Ward, under whose jurisdiction they are, among the several members of the board. They are now, under the statute,

schools of the city, and subject to all the regulations of the Board of Education, and they will have to be provided for as such. The provision for them appears as yet to be uncertain, and the committee, of which Commissioner Strauss is chairman, will probably report at the meeting next week some action with regard to them. Mr. John E. Eustis, one of the trustees of the Twenty-third Ward, states that some of the schools are lacking in supplies for the pupils who will assemble next Monday. The city will, of course, be required to provide these supplies.

All the schools in the District will probably be opened next week, including the Wakefield School. Superintendent Snyder has had further examination made of the condition of this building, and the reports confirm the first exami

nation. In all probability there is no absolute or immediate danger to pupils in the building. The superintendent has recommended that the walls and roof be strengthened, but there appears to be no appropriation available for this purpose. The examination by Superintendent Snyder has given rise to much alarm on the part of the parents in the vicinity of this school, and they are justly entitled to have the building made entirely safe without taking any chances for the lives and safety of their children. There appears to be little doubt that if the building were located in the lower part of the city the Building Department would declare it unsafe, and unless it is absolutely secure there should be no chances taken.

The committee, of which Commissioner Ketchum is chairman, will report at an early date the outline of a bill to be presented at the coming session of the Legislature. The care of the schools in this district is one of the most urgent needs that the Board of Education now has before it. There is ample space for one or two new wards in this new territory, but what all the schools need is to get away from ward lines. A bill that would provide for dividing the city into School Districts would meet not only the needs of this new district, but also what has long been needed all over the city.

In nearly all the municipalities of the country the school jurisdiction is by districts as distinct from wards or other mere political boundaries. Trustees appointed from these districts would be conveniently at hand to look after and to administer to the needs of the District Schools. In this new territory just acquired, there are numbers of able and

competent men among the school officers who have been retired. They are familiar with these schools, and they can look after their needs much better than any one else.

A new bill should not provide for too much reform. If the present Board of Education is successful in effecting no other general reform than a thorough reorganization of the city schools on a basis of equitably divided school districts, under the jurisdiction of local trustees, it will have effected a work of greater value than any single measure that has been secured for the schools during the present generation.

FOR THIRTEENTH WARD TRUSTEE. Among the candidates for the vacant trustee

ship in the Thirteenth Ward is Dr. Robert Abrahams, a prominent physician. Dr. Abrahams appeared before the committee well recommended. Moses H. Grossman and Mr. Magen, a Grand st. dry goods merchant, are also candidates.

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

NEW SCHOOL SITES TO BE SECURED.-SITES IN

THE CITY PARKS.

The special meeting of the Board of Education called on August 14th was for the purpose of taking measures to secure sites for seven new schoolhouses.

The members present were Commissioners Holt, Hubbell, Hurlbut, Ketchum, Mack, McSweeney, Prentiss, Van Arsdale, Meirowitz, Kelly, Beneville and Wehrum, Goulden, Hunt, Montant and President Maclay. The following communication sent to Mayor Strong by Bishop Potter, and referred to the Board of Education.

DEAR SIR:-If a committee come to you in regard to a new public schoolhouse in Rivington st., I hope you will give them a warm welcome and vigorous backing. Dr. Robbins, of the College Settlement, wishes to secure adoption by the Board of Education and Park Commissioners for a really worthy scheme of a school, with adequate playground and baths. Here is a chance to build the finest schoolhouse New York has ever dreamed of, and to associate your administration with a good, noble and monumental work, which I hope you will seize and approve with your usual amount of vigor. Believe me, always faithfully yours. H. C. POTTER.

The proposed sites are at First ave. and 91st st.; St. Nicholas ave., between 126th and 127th sts.; south side of 20th st., between First and Second aves.; Rivington st., between Forsyth and Eldridge sts.; block bounded by Varick, North Moore and Beach sts.; block bounded by East Broadway, Scammell, Henry and Gouverneur sts.; East 149th st., from Beach to Mount Vernon It was unanimously resolved to petition the Supreme Court, through the Corporation Counsel, for the appointment of commissioners to condemn for school sites the property described.

aves.

The Board passed a resolution requesting the school trustees of the several wards where small parks are being laid out to make application to the Board of Education for the erection of schools in such parks when they are established. The privilege of erecting schools in these parks is provided for in Chapter No. 293, Laws of 1895. The new parks are being established at Corlears Hook, Mulberry st. and East River Park.

OBITUARY.

MISS KATE A. ROGERS.

Teachers in all parts of the city will hear with sorrow of the sudden death of Miss Kate A. Rogers, principal of the Primary department of No. 79. Miss Rogers had been spending the summer in Connecticut with her family, and was, to all appearances, quite well. She had not been seriously sick recently, though last winter she had a severe attack of the grip, which did not, however, keep her from school duties. She was an earnest worker, and had been principal of this depart ment since the school was organized, some fifteen years ago. Her death was the result of a stroke of apoplexy. Her funeral services were held at her home in Plainfield, N. J., where she was buried.

ELIZABETH M. STUART.

Miss Elizabeth M. Stuart, a capable teacher in Miss Hannah A. Sill's department of No. 25, died during the summer vacation. Miss Stuart had been ill since last January, when she was obliged to give up her school work. She taught for some years in this school, which she attended as a girl and from which she went to the Normal College.

Commodore Samuels as commander of the steamer City of Lowell during the yacht races, beginning Saturday of this week, is determined to show that he has the fleetest vessel on the coast. It will be interesting to see if the "Fast Clipper Line" can transfer its vitality to a modern steel, twin screw steamer,

THE FIRST DISTRICT.

Mrs. H. Dorothy Beach, who was recently appointed a School Inspector in the First District by Mayor Strong, was for seven years a teacher in Grammar School No. 38, of which Miss Mary J. Gallagher is principal. It was there she was discovered by Mr. Homer P. Beach, who was then a trustee in the Eighth Ward, and there and then he surrendered unconditionally, in recognition of her superior qualities. Mrs. Beach is particularly fitted for this appointment, not only by her experience, but from her natural tastes and her acquaintance with this part of the city. She became a teacher from her love of the work, and made an excellent record in the school. While of a domestic disposition, she is fond of children and is not afflicted with fads She was a pupil in the Greenwich Avenue School in the Ninth Ward. Miss Cavannah is principal of this school; her influence is always left on her pupils, and her school is recognized as one of the best girls' schools in New York. Mrs. Beach went from there to the Normal College, from which she was graduated in the class of '81. What she does not know of the schools of the city, Mr. Beach will be able to instruct her in, and the First District, which includes the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Wards, has in her one of the best equipped school officers in New York.

MCCREERY'S NEW STORE.

The new store of James McCreery & Co. on 23d st., near Sixth ave., notice of which appeared in the last issue of SCHOOL, is to be ready for opening on Thursday, September 19. This store will be of the same character as the well-known house at 11th st. and Broadway. The entire building will be occupied, and it will be fully equipped in all its departments with stocks in the widest variety, and of the finest quality. Messrs. McCreery & Co. expect to make this house one of the largest centres for fine goods, at reasonable prices, in this country.

[Contributed.]

REMEMBERING AN ASSOCIATE.

It is well known among the teachers that one of their number is an inmate of the insane asylum at Poughkeepsie. Years ago she was rescued from an obscure retreat by one of her co laborers. Her claims were presented to and recognized by the Teachers' Association. Dr. Elgas, Mrs. Emily White and others have been unremitting in their efforts for her comfort.

A committee of two, Miss Josephine Rogers and Miss Mary Dillon, were appointed to visit the institution July 5th. They were accompanied by Miss Sarah Buckelew and Dr. Robert Keyser. One of the party had been a schoolmate of the unfortunate lady. They had not met for many years, but as the visitor entered the corridor she was singled out and warmly accosted by her Christian name. They were left alone for a while, and opportunity given for unrestrained converse or for complaint if necessary. But the committee will undoubtedly report that the lady is receiving the most fitting care for her malady. The visitors were shown through the parlors, halls and refectories, all adorned with blooming plants and flowers. They especially admired the air of home comfort and of exquisite cleanness by which all were pervaded.

At

The asylum is an imposing edifice surrounded by three hundred acres, on an eminence overlooking the Hudson. From her dormitory this river can be seen gliding like a silver thread between verdant banks; also the railroad bridge by which it is spanned. The schoolmate left behind in this room suitable clothing and many articles of comfort. All honor to her that she has thus ennobled the outset of her vacation by visiting and clothing one who was "sick and in prison. departure, when the grated door was closed between the two worlds, as one of the visitors said, "A lump came into my throat. We turned from time to time and saw her standing at the bars, stately in posture, benign in visage. Her wistful gaze alone betokened the little rift within the lute. Farewell, until we meet again; soon, it shall be, even if not on this side of the river. We will meet and hold converse; the sweet bells no longer jangled and she herself in her 'right mind.'" X.

SCHOOL TOPICS.

Primary School No. 22, in the Seventeenth Ward. is almost complete, and it will probably be ready to accommodate the applicants this month.

The new Grammar School at Fox and Simpson sts. in the Twenty-third Ward is to be fitted up with the Pease Combined Steam and Air Heater, the first of this kind that has been used in New York schools.

All the repairs of the schools will be completed this week. Primary No. 22 and Grammar No. 10 will be opened for pupils on Monday, and Grammar No. 5 later in the month. The Normal College chapel repairs will also be completed in the course of the week.

PLAINTS AND QUERIES.

CONDITION OF THE WAKEFIELD SCHOOL. Editor School:

DEAD SIR:-In your paper of the 15th of August I see an account of our school building, which you claim, among other misstatements, of being dangerous and unfit for the purpose. I can easily conceive who gave you the report. There is not a true statement in the report, except the names of trustees. In the first place, the build. ing did not cost within $6,000 of your statement, and there was no lax state of affairs as reported. There was a report started about the roof being unsafe, by some people that were soreheads and disappointed contractors, and the Board had an expert to make examinations, and your Board have his report. He advised some repairs, which were made to satisfy these people, The report in regard to janitor is in part true; the only part of truth is that the janitor is an assistant at present. The report on old building is untrue. The report that we owe about $2,000 to contractor is also untrue. We owe him nothing. We owe about $1,000 on repairs and supplies, and turn over to your Board about $18,000 (eighteen thousand dollars) to offset the above claims, which I think is as good showing as any other district in the an. nexed district has reported. I know, on the whole, the report is the basest and wholesale pack of misstatements that I ever saw in print, and I think the grossest insinuation to the Board of Education that I ever read in print, and it calls for a retraction through your paper, as the report, to say the least, gives the impression to the public that the Board has been robbing the district and is liable to prosecution, if your statement is true; if it is not true, somebody else is guilty of slander and defamation of character.

Yours, etc.,

S. J. HENRY.

WAKEFIELD, N. Y. City, Sept. 2.

We have received a number of similar letters from Walter Serviss, a former trustee and others; and other letters condemning severely the Wakefield school, the trustees, their architect, and the manner in which the school was built. The article referred to was copied by SCHOOL from a New York paper, and was so credited. As one

of the party who visited the district at the time of which it speaks, its statements appear to us correctly repeated, as they were made by the officers in charge of the schools. If they made misstatements we shall be pleased to correct them. The trustees of the school, so far as we are informed, are men of standing and character in the community. We have no reason to believe that they or their architect dealt dishonorably in the trust imposed on them; and the article mentioned makes no such reflection. But the fact remains that this new building in question, is the only school in the district which is reported unsafe by the Superintendent of School Buildings. It would probably be condemned by the Building Department of the city; and in view of the recent Ireland building disaster, we think the parents are justified in taking no risks. What Mr. Henry and his associates trustee should do, is to insist that the

building should be made absolutely safe by the city, before it is used for school purposes, and to exert their efforts to have it done. What would be their position if the lives of a score or more children were sacrificed? This is still a part of their duty, as school officers, although they are no longer in office.-Editor SCHOOL.

THE ROLLING PARTITION. Rolling Partitions for schoolrooms have become a recognized necessity in the public schools of large cities Formerly in New York as in other small towns the assembly room of the school was only made use of for general purposes. Now the demand for increased accommodation and a more liberal air space for sanitary purposes bring into use every available portion of the school building for classroom use. The use of the Rolling Partition has been especially effective. It is not only better than sliding doors, for it economizes space, but it is also much more salutary, and may be much more effectively treated in the sub-division of schoolrooms.

The Wilson Rolling Partitions manufactured by James Godfrey Wilson, No. 74 West 23d st., have become known throughout the entire country, and their use has been applied not simply to schoolrooms, but more than two thousand churches and public institutions have adopted them. This product of American ingenuity has also met with favor in other countries, and in India, China and the West Indies, the orders for them are continu. ally increasing, it having been found that they are no less adapted to the tropical climates than to the temperate and colder zones. The partitions are composed of narrow wood slats, skilfully fitted with joints and threaded on steel bands so that they become as flexible as a piece of leather, at the same time light and permanent. In some instances the smooth surface of the partition when unrolled is prepared for blackboard use in the classroom. A most valuable feature of the Wilson Partitions is their durabilty. The slats are so adjusted as to accommodate themselves to atmospheric changes and they are practically unaffected by dampness or dry weather, and are rarely warped or twisted out of shape. When repairs are to be made damaged sections can be quickly removed and a whole partition taken apart or put together again within a few moments.

The factories of Mr. Wilson are located at Olean, New York, and pamphlets containing a full description of the partitions and the arrangements for making use of them can be had on application to the office in West 23d st. In connection with the partitions Mr. Wilson manufactures Rolling Venetian Blinds, Block Flooring for hardwood floors, and Steel Shutters.

A TRIBUTE TO A TEACHER. Excise Commissioner Julius Harburger, in a recent address upon the liberal enforcement of the Sunday closing law, paid a glowing tribute to Mr. James J. McCoy, vice principal of No. 15, under whose care the Commissioner laid a foundation for his present greatness. The Commissioner, in the course of his remarks, said: That gentleman and scholar always held up to us the motto, 'Boys, be honest; and if you have any convic tions give them honestly.' The love of country, the respect for our starry banner, the love that a patriotic citizen has for liberty, these and other patriotic sentiments, inculcated in my youth, have never left me. They are to-day more strongly imbedded in my being."

The Commissioner is one of the city's most public spirited citizens. A Hebrew, he is one of the leaders of his race in this country, and his utterances upon various questions find their way to the remotest parts of the country. Among the teachers of the city the Commissioner has hundreds of friends.

NEW BOOKS.

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Stiffer's "Das Heidedorf," Seidel's "Die Monate,' ," and "Der Lindenbaum." Prepared for school use by Dr. Ernest Richard, R. Arrowsmith and Max Lentz. These stories by classic writers are arranged for the reading of advanced students in German.

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AT A SUMMER RESORT.

At the "Gorge," Black Rock Beach, Conn., a recent newspaper paragraph says, a morning musicale was given. Two hours of melody were enjoyed by the guests. Miss Adelaide Haight, contralto, sang a number of songs and received several encores. Miss Haight also sang Mrs James R. Franklin's (John Lloyd Whitney) composition, "Supplication." Mrs. Franklin then sang in Italian a waltz song, "Queen of the Night," composed by Mrs. Torrey. For an encore she gave the little song, "Love Go Hang," in English, and, by request, one of her own latest compositions, "Bear Thou My Greeting," a love song. Miss Haight is the excellent principal of Primary No. 28, in East 124th st.

A VACANCY IN NO. 75. The candidates for the position of second assistant in Grammar No. 75, recently made vacant by the transfer of Mr. Wm. J. O'Shea to the Twelfth Ward, are William T. Ryan, the present third assistant in No. 75, who is in the line of promotion; James C. Byrnes, second assistant in No. 7, and Edward Mandel, third assistant in No. 20. Mr. Ryan has not yet received his license, and will probably not be promoted. Mr. Byrnes, of No. 7, is an excellent teacher with a strong record. Mr. Mandel is a lawyer, and has made a good teacher.

(Continued from page 3.) were more or less accurate. He and Professor Stratford left for Yellowstone Park.

But this year the New York city teachers did enlighten their colleagues from the platform. Your modest correspondent discussed in the Art Department Prof. Ives' paper on "Art Objects and Museums-their Use as Aids in Elementary Schools," and let the assembled art instructors know what New York city was doing in the direction Director Ives and Librarian Dana of Denver had pointed out in the papers presented.

Dr. Rice read a paper on "The Next Step in Our Elementary Schools," which he conceived as being: a. Substitution of teacher for text book; b. Improvement of our normal schools.

Mr. Schneider, of Grammar School No. 90, got the floor and showed the doctor, to the great amusement of the audience, that he had failed in his own address to carry out his own recommendation of substituting teacher for text book, inasmuch as he read his address from type-written sheetshis text-book. He also proved that D. R. Page, in his "Theory and Practice of Teaching," published in 1847, had anticipated the doctor's recommendation to abolish the text-book from the recitation, the only new point being to abolish it from the classroom and pupil's hands-a very doubtful extension of the idea of D. R. Page, the Empire State's pioneer of the so-called "New Education."

Mr. Schneider's remarks were so interesting to the assembly that the chairman was forced to extend his time twice, and thus gave him a chance to prove that our College of the city of New York is the best kind of Normal School, meeting the doctor's recommendation of a Normal School with good teaching and good methods in its regular departments with the proofs that if these two recommendations were the "Next Steps in Elementary Schools, those steps had already been taken.

To furnish new ground for the succeeding speakers, he advanced the proposition that the next step for our elementary school teachers was to rise in their newly felt consciousness of the dignity of their holy office and to resent such officious recommendations of "experts" and college professors until they, the common school teachers, had practically tested their value in their classrooms. Prof. Butler might know the mind of the young man at college, he did not know the mind of the child while at school-therefore any and all of his recommendations must be carefully tested before allowing their introduction into a whole city system.

For this reference to the ill-fated Pavey Bill, Col. Parker declared "the New York City teachers, in refusing the plan proposed by Prof. Butler, who is devoting his life to the cause of education (sic), are reactionists." Mr. Schneider replied, that while Col. Parker might be trusted to propose a plan for reforming or reorganizing New York City schools because of his practical knowledge of the child mind, yet we teachers or "reactionists" of New York City could not trust Prof. Butler or any of the advisers of the Committee of Seventy because they not only had no practical acquaintance with the city schools, and not only did not consult any teacher in them, but also because they had no practical knowledge of the mind of the child in the elementary school period from six to fifteen years.

Principal Friedberg of No. 95 is visiting his brother in the city, and Edgar Vanderbilt of No. 55 is making an extended stay in Denver and the mountain resorts of Colorado.

Mr. Louis Sommers, formerly of No. 77, is a great political power in the city of Denver.

Dr. Simon, Graduate of the College of the City of New York, '89, is on the staff of the County Hospital. To their kindness, I owe much of the pleasure of my stay at Denver.

The Twenty-third Ward schools are well represented at Denver, seven teachers of No. 90, one of No. 62 and 2 of No. 85, whose names are found on the accompanying list. The down town schools are also well represented, though not in such large numbers.

This year's Convention then, was a remarkable success in properly placing our city schools before the tribunal of the nation, for perhaps the best impression was produced by the New York contingent in the little conversations on the trains, in hotel lobbies, and the numerous trips to the different resorts with which Denver and the whole State of Colorado abound.

Here is a field in which our New York Society of Pedagogy can work to good advantage through correspondence with similar organizations throughout the United States, and by the election of corresponding members in the different city systems. Though unauthorized by the Executive Committee. I have paved the way for such an alliance with teachers in cities scattered all over the country, and shall be happy to place the corresponding secretary of the society in communication with similar organizations of teachers, as outlined in the report I made in 1888 as corresponding secretary.

Of President Butler I may say, that the N. E. A. members can tell of some actions of his as president that pleased them as little as his actions as engineer of the Compromise Bill pleased us, the teachers of New York city, but of this I shall speak hereafter.

If the Denver Convention be a fair example, I should not hesitate in giving every teacher who can afford the outlay, the advice to go and hear what the fellow-teachers all over the country are doing. Perhaps the very best help will be gotten, not from the learned, profound disquisitions of the college president or professor, but from the conversation with the earnest workers, who like ourselves, have had the practical experience in the classroom. He or she cannot fail to come away with an increased sense of the dignity of the profession and a higher resolution to continue earnestly in the difficult work of training our children's mind.

E. D Farrel, Assistant Superintendent, read a paper on "Correlation," that was commended as a thoughtful, practical view of the subject, viewed in the light of schoolroom experience. His paper was read at a general meeting of the association, and was warmly applauded. New York teachers attend all the department sessions from Art down to Physical Training, the newly organized division of the ten sections.

In the Art Department, Henry G. Schneider, special teacher of drawing in Grammar School No. 90, explained what methods are in use in our city schools, and how some of the teachers use the grand Museum of Art Collections to instruct their pupils. Following is a list of teachers of the city schools now attending who have registered at headquarters:

Nich. Murray Butler, President, professor Columbia College; Chas. R. Skinner, Department of Public Instruction; C. F. Wheelock, Regents' Office, Albany; Geo. E. Hardy, Wm. Stratford, College City of New York; M. E. Finley, New York City; Mrs. G. Van Aken, Cynthia Lagomarsino, Assistant Superintendent Ed. D. Farrel and wife: Superintendent A. Schauffler and wife; Miss E. T. Aherne, Primary No. 30; Miss S. A. Aherne, Miss L. R. Dunn, Primary No. 1; Misses M. L. Hammel, E. A. Hayes, M. Brennan, No. 20; E.

NOTE ADDRESS:

Ried, Cornell, No. 59; A. M. Bissell, Martin, Can-
non, No. 62; A. N. Beale, No. 11; Davis, P. D.
No. 56; Wm. F. Hughes, No. 35; Annie Thomson,
No. 20; M. E. Donaldson, No. 47; Kate P. Mc-
Dona, Laura Skinner, Henry G. Schneider, Cath-
erine Helion, Emanuella McGrath and sister,
Mary I. Cotton, Carrie Turner, No. 90; D. B. Fris-
bee, principal No. 4; H. D. Frisbee; Sarah Goldie,
Emma Goldie, G. S. No. 25; Mrs. M. A. Goldie,
Sarah E. Kirk, Robert J. Gray, Emily A. Waters,
F. J. Fessenden, Misses Walker, F. M. Flanly,
No. 51; R. M. Flanly, No. 84; Mrs. M. T. Bauch-
mann, No. 17; A E. Downing, Adelaide Sheak,
C. T. McFarlane, Principal W. B. Friedberg, No.
95; Miss S. Freystadt, James G. McMurry, Misses
Mary McCormick, Josephine Gibney, No. 85; T.
W. Coughlan, Principal Edgar Vanderbilt, No. 55;
Jennie Caldwell, Mrs. E. Vanderbilt, Miss G.
Vanderbilt, Francis R. Clair, Miss Addie Duncan,
No. 59; A. A. Sowarby, A. L. Kip, Jane A.
Schemerhorn.
HENRY G. SCHNEIDER.
Grammar School No. 90, New York city, or 610
West 47th st.

THE MAGAZINES.

The novel in the September Lippincott is A Case in Equity, by Francis Lynde. The scene is a "boom" town in the South, with the adjoining country, to which a young Northerner went in search of health, and found it and some other things. Morning Mists is one of Julien Gordon's strongest tales, though it has a very mature heroine and a very young hero. Charles Newton Hood tells How the La Rue Stakes were Lost, in a way highly creditable to the losers. Helen Fraser Lovett, in A Mute Milton, gives a revised version of a classic fairy tale. The Literary Woman at the Picnic, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, evidently contains more truth than fiction. Charles Stuart Pratt relates the history of Napoleon and the Regent Diamond, which was of importance to the conqueror and to the fate of Europe in more ways than one. Ellen Duvall writes on Moliere. Edward Fuller has a sharp article on The Decadent Drama.

The Atlantic Monthly for September contains the first installment of a three part story, by Charles Egbert Craddock, entitled The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain. The second of Dr. John Fiske's historical papers has for a subject John Smith in Virginia. Bradford Torrey contributes another Tennessee sketch, Chickamauga, which will be of special interest in view of this summer's memorable gathering at Lookout Mountain. The paper in the August issue by James Schouler, upon President Polk's Diary, is ably supplemented in this issue by President Polk's Administration, by the same author.

The September number of St. Nicholas opens with a poem, A Battle on Wheels, by Edwin Asa Dix. This is appropriate to the present widespread interest in bicycling, for the hero, an inventive genius, contrives a wonderful unicycle which had only one fault. It made remarkable speed, but the brake failed to work at the critical moment, so the wheel may still be spinning along somewhere in the world. More successful than this was a mail service by carrier pigeons, established between the island of Sant Catalina and Los Angeles in California. This is now in daily operation, and is described by De Witt C. Lockwood. James Baldwin contributes a story of the founding of the city of Athens, and of the part therein taken by a horse. Theodore Roosevelt writes of the storming of the Alamo, while W. T. Hornaday adds another chapter to his Quadrupeds of North America. An Onteora Visitor was a huge black bear, that climbed into the garden of Mrs. Candace Wheeler, in the Catskills, and ate up all her jelly. Charles B. Hudson tells of the Paradise fish, which builds A Real Air-Castle of bubbles for its nest.

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