mayor of the latter city in welcoming the illustrious professors and gifted students who composed his audience recalled that Francis I, the founder of the city, also revived the French University, created the first chairs in the Collège de France, and courses of law, of medicine and of the classics. The rector of the Facultés of Caen in his response styled Havre, a "Normand Chicago with the added characteristics of an Athens."

For the new buildings thus auspiciously dedicated the city of Caen has contributed $260,000, the department of Calvados $50,000, and the State $100,000.

The Facultes of Poitiers are also rejoicing in the possession of new buildings which were inaugurated May 13. The Minister of Public instruction who took part in the ceremonies paid a well merited tribute to M. Compayré, the rector of the Academie of Poitiers and one of the most brilliant members of the department of Superior Education in France.

The annual banquet of the Students' Association, Paris, under the presidency of M. Jules Lemaitre, brought together a distinguished company of authors and savants. At the table of honor were seated among others MM. Zola, Lavisse, Michel Bréal, Liard, Colmet de Santerre, and Frederic Passy. All names well known in the literary or educational world. The speech of M. Lemaitre, the principal one of the occasion, was an enthusiastic eulogy of tolerance, which he characterized as "the grace" and "the charity of intelligence."

SPAIN.

From the latest official report relative to public instruction in Spain, it appears that the ten Universities enrolled 9,700 regular students in 1891-92 distributed as follows: Philosophy 917, Science 962, Pharmacy 882, Medicine 2,154, Law 4,785. The number of free hearers, or attendants upon selected courses, is not given; in 1890-91 it was 7,354 on a total of 17,911. Madrid draws more than onefourth of the students, i. e., 2,882 in 1891-92, Barcelona followed with 1,860. Saragossa has the smallest attendance (609). This University which dates from the 16th century celebrated its third centennial in 1893, following this ceremonial, the first of its kind in Spain, with the inauguration of the new building erected for the faculties of medicine and science. This is said to afford the finest equipment for instruction in experimental science to be found in Spain.

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

Official statistics for 1892-93 show a total attendance of 13,573 students in the universities of the empire and of 1,974 in the technical schools.

GERMANY.

The twelve higher technical schools of Germany, (viz. Aix-laChapelle, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Brunswick, Darmstadt, Dresden, Hanover, Carlsruhe, Munich, and Stuttgard) in the winter semester of 1893-94 had a total of 774 professors and teachers and 7,342 students. Berlin-Charlottenburg led with 2,405 followed by Munich with 1,323.

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AMONG THE BOOKS.

To accommodate readers who may wish it, the publishers of EDUCATION will send, post paid on the receipt of price, any book reviewed in these columns.

THE PRINCE OF INDIA is a powerfully written story of the fall of Constantinople, by Gen. Lew Wallace. The author of " Ben Hur" has won an honorable and lasting place among writers of fiction. His characters live before us. They seem like real flesh and blood. The Prince of India is really the Wandering Jew, who having despoiled the tomb, Hiram of king of Tyre, is able to dazzle Constantinople with the splendor of his dress and state. Life on both sides of the Bosphorus is graphically and minutely depicted. The love story centers round the Princess Irene, a kinswoman of the Greek emperor, Constantine, whom Mahommed, the young Sultan, falls in love with and eventually, after he has captured Constantinople, makes his sultana. One of the most important characters is Mirza, Emir of the Hajj, the chosen warrior and friend of Mahommed, who, in his master's interests, comes to live in the doomed city, keeping watch of Irene, but falls in love with her, learns that he is an Italian Count, Corti, and, freed by Mahommed, fights bravely on the Greek side. Another fine character is Sergius, the young priest. Much good historical work is done in presenting the customs, manners and life of the Greeks and Turks of that time. The dissensions in the church between the Greek and Latin monks is powerfully set forth. One also learns much and accurately of the typography and architecture of Constantinople and its environs. This lengthened tale,-1080 pages-may not fascinate the reader as much as "Ben Hur," but it is certainly a strong, entertaining and instructive work of fiction. New York: Harper & Brothers. Price, in a box, $2.50.

ETHICS OF SUCCESS, by Wm. M. Thayer, with an introduction by Samuel B. Capen, is a Reader for the middle grades of schools, illustrated by anecdotes from the lives of successful men and women. The author's book, with the same title, for higher grades of schools, has proved so acceptable to teachers all over the land, that he has been induced to prepare this one for younger readers. His books are founded on the idea that character-building is the great end of teaching, as it is of life itself, and that nothing helps the formation of character in young people like the actual achievements and victories of real men and women, who have risen to distinction and left their mark upon the world. So, with admirable diligence and discrimination, he has collected illustrative inci

dents from the lives of the great and good, and arranged them under such heads as: "Who Wins?" "Keep Your Eyes Open;" ""How Places Seek Occupants;" "Aim High;" "The Devil's Workshop," etc. The stories are so real and illustrative that the attention is at once held, and the principle involved is seen and felt almost without effort. These are excellent books for clergymen and other public speakers, as they abound in "feathers for arrows." We do not hesitate to commend them as among the best of the Readers now before the public. They are sure of obtaining a wide popularity on their merits. Boston: A. M. Thayer & Co., publishers.

SPECIMENS OF WORK IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a volume reproducing the original work in writing, composition and drawing, by the young pupils of a South Hackney (England) school. The work is excellent in its originality of conception and neatness of execution, and reflects great credit alike upon teachers and pupils. Longmans & Company, 39 Paternoster Row, London, E. C.

STEPS INTO JOURNALISM, by Edwin Llewellyn Shuman. Any young man or woman contemplating seriously a sortie into newspaper work will find "Steps Into Journalism," by Edwin L. Shuman of Evanston, Ill., a light unto the path; for in this volume, frankly and impartially, the author has set forth the grave obstacles of disillusion, disappointment and destruction of pet theories which every votary of modern journalism must encounter. In perfect fairness to the craft, its brighter side is told in equally truthful and forcible language. The book pulses with the truthful delineation of a life of feverish excitement and rarest attraction. It sustains the interest to the final syllable of the last page. Neither the woes nor the joys of newspaper life are exaggerated. It is a normal picture. Any one interested in the volume can obtain a copy of the Correspondence School of Journalism, Evanston, Ill.

AN IDEAL COURSE IN ELEMENTARY ART EDUCATION, by Langdon S. Thompson, A. M., Ph. D., Supervisor of drawing in the public schools of Jersey City, N. J., and lecturer in the School of Pedagogy of the University of the City of New York, is an elaborate series of drawing-books presenting a complete course of art instruction according to a logically developed plan. The series begins with primary work and proceeds by careful gradations to advanced aesthetic and industrial drawing. Every essential principle of art education seems to be set forth, each in its scientific relation to every other, and we feel sure that the work of the schools that adopt these books will be thorough and satisfactory in this important branch of modern education. Boston: D. C. Heath & Company, Publishers.

LIFE STUDIES FROM MOTHER GOOSE, by the author of Preston Papers, is made up of judicious directions for the preparation of wax works, pantomimes and illustrated lectures from Mother Goose Melodies. It will afford fun for winter evenings.

MAIZE, A BOTANICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDY, is an exhaustive monograph by John W. Harshberger, Ph. D., Instructor in Botany in the University of Pennsylvania. We acknowledge the receipt of the REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION for the year 1890-'91, just published at Washington. We have also received the SECRETARY'S REPORT and the Regent's Bulletin, REPORT OF EXTENSION Department, of the University of New York. These documents abound in matters of interest to all educators.

THE EARLY REFORMATION PERIOD IN ENGLAND, edited by Edward P. Cheyney, A. M., is Number 1 of a series of translations and reprints from the Original Sources of European History, published by the Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania. This number and the entire series is an attempt to open to the student some of the original sources of historical knowledge. Those interested in university extension, as well as general students of history, will find the efficiency of their class work increased by the use of these texts. Published by the University of Pennsylvania. Price 15 cents.

BETWEEN TWO FORCES, a record of a theory and a passion, is one of those powerful and engaging tales for which The Arena Publishing Company is celebrated. It is safe to say that everyone will not accept the teachings and implications of this story, but it is equally sure that no one can read it without becoming more thoughtful of the possibilities of human life.

It is enough to say of THE SIR ROger De Coverly PAPERS, Parts I and II, and of THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, by John Fiske, that they are Nos. 60, 61 and 62 in the well-known Riverside Literature Series, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston.

The Appleton's issue a new edition of Bayard Taylor's HISTORY of GerMANY, from the earliest times to the present day. with an additional chapter by his widow, Marie Hansen-Taylor. In his introduction to the original edition the author says,-"The History of Germany is not the history of a nation but of a race." It is impossible to understand the history of our modern civilization without going over the ground covered in this work; and the student would have to look long before he would find another volume in which the story is recorded in such pure English and, at the same time, in so clear and comprehensive a way. The book is eminently fitted for use in the higher grades of schools, and also supplies the need of the general reader. New York: D. Appleton & Company. Price $1.50.

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANS, by Harriet Waters Preston and Louise Dodge, is a capital adjunct to the classical dictionaries as an aid to students of Latin. It helps one to get at the daily life of the people about whom he is studying and so makes study interesting. Boston: Leach, Shewell & Sanborn. Price $1.25.

GREAT TEACHERS OF FOUR CENTURIES, by Ossian H. Lang, is an outline history of the great movements and masters of the past four hundred years that have shaped the theory and practice of the education of the present. New York: E. L. Kellogg & Company. Price 25 cents.

Address to the CLERGY AND SKEPTICISM AND DIVINE REVELATION, by John Ellis, M. D., is a thoughtful and devout little book written from the Swedenborgian standpoint. New York: Published by the author.

AN UNOFFICIAL PATRIOT, by Helen Gardener, is the story of a conscientious Southener who was born and bred in the midst of slave ownership, but who became convinced that the system of which he found himself a part was wrong. His efforts to extricate himself and to care for his slaves and his own family, make up the story of the volume. Mrs. Gardener could not write a dull book, and we have found every page of this one full of a thrilling interest. Some excellent stories of Abraham Lincoln are related; and a clear idea is given of the way in which the war of the rebellion was looked at from

the Southern Standpoint. To our taste the book is marred by the author's evident materialism and her inability to appreciate the deeper spiritual experiences of the human heart, as well as by the frequent profanity introduced. Boston: The Arena Publishing Co.

THE JUNGLE BOOK, by Rudyard Kipling, is one of the most thrilling and delightful books we ever read. It would be hard to find a more enjoyable book for the young. The author has a marvellous knowledge of the Indian jungle. Who that has read can forget these stories of Kala Nag, the elephant; Shere Khan, the tiger; and old Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle; of Bagheera, the black panther; and of Kaa, the python, whose blow is like the blow of a steam-hammer. Readers of St. Nicholas will remember the stories of "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," "Toomai of the Elephants," Mowgli's Brothers," and "Tiger, Tiger." These stories, delightful in spirit, are published in the present volume with additional illustrations, and to them are added “Kaa's Hunting," "The White Seal," and "Her Majesty's Servants." Older people, too, will delight in these tales. They are clean and wholesome, and fit for the Sunday school, the school-room or the home. New York: The Century Co.

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ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA, for the use of preparatory schools, by Charles Smith, M. A., is an excellent revision, adapted to American schools, of a work that has achieved a wide reputation on the other side of the Atlantic. It -constitutes a well rounded course in the newer elementary algebra, and includes the subject-matter specified by nearly all colleges in their requirements for admission. New York: Mcmillan & Company. $1.10.

The August number of the Review of Reviews contains articles by Mr. William B. Wallace on the Hon. Wilfrid Laurier, by Attorney-General Longley on "Canada's Political Conditions," and by Dr. Albert Shaw on "Toronto as a Municipal Object Lesson."-Robert Louis Stevenson tells in McClure's Magazine for September how he came to write "Treasure Island," and under what conditions and how the work was done.-The Primary School, a magazine for the primary teacher, makes its first appearance in a bright June issue. It is to be issued monthly, at one dollar per year. E. L. Kellogg & Co., publishers, New York.-A new plan for reaching the north pole will be offered in the September Popular Science Monthly, by Stuart Jenkins; in "Arctic Temperatures and Exploration" he gives his experience in enduring extreme cold as a Canadian surveyor. We are indebted to Public Opinion, Washington, D. C., for a copy of Group No. V, of their series of Albertype reproductions of the photographs of fifty prominent -contributors to the magazine literature of the day.A fine sketch of "Madame Sevigne as a Woman and Mother," by Miss Agnes Stuart Bailey, appears as one of a number of the illustrated articles in The Catholic World for August.-Secretary of the Interior, Hoke Smith, contributes to the August number of the North American Review an able article upon "The Resources and Development of the South."-The American Book Company of New York have sold to the Prang Educational Company of Boston, New York and Chicago, their interest in the White System of Art Instruction, heretofore published by them.-The Monist for July contains, among other things, two brilliant and scholarly articles by the well-known editor, Dr. Paul Carus; one a review of a contribution by Prof. Adolf Harnack on "The Religion of Science," and the other a timely paper called "The Message of Monism to the World."- -John Fiske had conferred upon him, at Harvard's last Commencement, the degree of LL.D. This is a worthy tribute to the historian by America's greatest university. Also, at the Commencement dinner, the Harvard Alumni presented to President Eliot a beautiful gold medal, as a mark of their appreciation of his faithful services to the university for the term of twenty-five years just closed.-Western Reserve University has just laid the foundations for a new Physical Laboratory for the use of its Adelbert College and the College for Women. Mr. Samuel Mather of Cleveland is the donor of the building.-The Forum for August, contains among other able articles one on "The Increase of Crime, and Positivist Criminology," by Henry Charles Lea, and another, which will specially interest teachers, on "The New Psychology as a Basis -of Education," by President G. Stanley Hall.