PUBLISHED BY CROSBY, NICHOLS & CO., 117 Washington Street Boston. VERMONT ENDORSES OUR PRINCIPAL SCHOOL BOOKS. The Vermont Board of Education were appointed by the State to select and publish an "Authoritative List of Text-Books for the District Schools in Vermont." In their published report the following is directed to be used for the next five years : "For ordinary District Schools,-TOWER'S ELEMENTS OF GRAMMAR. Published by Crosby, Nichols & Co., Boston." We also give the following extract from their official report : "Penmanship, History of the United States, and Composition, though of great importance in every District School, are not mentioned in the Act as topics in reference to which the Board are required to select TextBooks, and therefore they have made no official recommendations in these branches. "But I am authorized to say, that the Board, as individuals, concur with me in recommending to the consideration of Superintendent, and Parents, and Booksellers, in Vermont, the following books: "In COMPOSITION Tower & Tweed's Grammar of Composition.' CROSBY, NICHOLS & Co., Boston. 6 "In PENMANSHIP-Payson, Dunton & Scribner's Penmanship, for copy books, (condensed in two numbers.) And Book-keeping adapted to Payson, Dunton and Scribner's Penmanship.' Crosby, Nichols & Co., Boston. "J. S. ADAMS, Secretary." The books to which we particularly ask the attention of Boards of Ed. ucation, Committees, Superintendents, and Teachers, are the following: "A WORK OF SINGULAR MERIT.' TOWER'S ELEMENTS OF GRAMMAR. First Lessons in Language; or, Elements of English Grammar. By DAVID B. TOWER, A. M., and BENJ. F. TWEED, A. M. 16mo. Price 25 cents. Νο This little Grammar is widely used throughout the United States. No school-book before ever went so rapidly and extensively into use. other has received such universal and decided praise; and this opinion has been sustained and confirmed by the practical test of the school room. HANAFORD & PAYSON'S BOOK-KEEPING. For Schools and Academies, adapted to Payson, Dunton, and Scribner's Combined System of Penmanship. BOOK-KEEPING BY SINGLE ENTRY. For Schools. BOOK-KEEPING BY DOUBLE ENTRY. For Schools and Academies. Price 75 cents. Blanks 33 cents. BOOK-KEEPING BY SINGLE AND DOUBLE ENTRY. For High Schools and Academies. Committees and Teachers may be assured that the high encomiums bestowed upon all the above competent persons who have tested them fully, warrant the publishers in claiming for all these books the highest rank in the department of education to which they severally belong, &c., &c. CROSBY, NICHOLS & CO., PUBLISHERS, ... 117 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON. Copies furnished for examination, at two-thirds the advertised price. THE Vermont School Journal AND FAMILY VISITOR Is intended to be what its name imports, a Journal of Educational News, and a welcome Visitor in every intelligent Family throughout the length and breadth of the Green Mountain State. Its columns will be open to a candid discussion of every subject of PRACTICAL INTEREST TO SCHOOLS OF ALL GRADES, from the Family, which is the first and most important School, to the College. It will aim to furnish short and prical articles, so as to give a PLEASING VARIETY TO ITS CONTENTS. Subjects that require lengthy discussion, will be treated in a series of ar ticles. Notices and Reports of Teachers' Institutes and Associations, and of other Educational Meetings, will be welcomed to its pages. It is conducted by a Committee appointed by the Vermont State Teachers' Association, and is intended to be the organ of that body. TEACHERS, PARENTS, SCHOOL COMMITTEES, AND SUPERINTENDENTS, will find it a convenient medium of communication for such subjects and items of interest as they may wish to bring before the public. It will be published monthly, and will contain twenty-four pages, making, for the year, a neat volume of 288 pages. Terms, Strictly in Advance: 1 сору, one year, 10 copies to one address, 20 copies to one address, 50 copies to one address, $1,00 8,00 15,00 25,00 Single copies will be sent to subscribers free of postage after the money is received. Address all business letters and remittances to J. S. SPAULDING, Barre, Vt.; and all articles intended for publication, to A. E. LEAVENWORTH, Hinesburgh, Vt. VERMONT SCHOOL JOURNAL, AND FAMILY VISITOR: Devoted to the Educational Interests of Vermont. JUNE, 1859. MONTPELIER: PUBLISHED BY A COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE VER MONT STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. PRINTED AT THE FREEMAN OFFICE. Address all business letters and remittances, to J. S. SPAULDING, Barre, Vt.; and all articles intended for publication, and Exchanges, to A. E. LEAVENWORTH, Hinesburgh, Vt. VERMONT SCHOOL JOURNAL AND FAMILY VISITOR. Volume I. JUNE, 1859. Number III. UNIVERSAL KINDNESS, THE HIGHEST RULE OF SCHOOL GOVERNMENT. (CONCLUDED FROM THE MAY NUMBER.) Man is a We say, TRY KINDESS: and why try kindness? reasonable being. The child is but the man of a lesser growth. Is not he, then, reasonable? Why not appeal to his reason rather than his dread of punishment? Convince any reasonable being that a particular course of life is unreasonable, and will he not be more likely to amend than if you make your appeal to the lower passions? "Reason is the director of the will," if therefore the child wills to do wrong, nothing short of a change of that will can make him do right. What is the will? Is it material? Can we see it with our eyes? Can we handle it? Can we flog it? Does it not rather dwell within, an invisible agent, seen only through the action which it prompts? Whatever vitiates it, is a wrong thing. Now, we claim that this rigid discipline, which we will designate as pure physical force, does not subdue the will, but, on the contrary, vitiates it. In proof we would point you to the many cases of those who have escaped from the control of the school, and entered upon the duties of active life. Mark the violent outbreaks of that unsubdued will that hates restraint and acknowledges no law, whether human or divine. Treat any reasonable being as a brute and he will sink far below the brute. As an appeal to the passions effects no permanent good, but is |