YE BICYCLE MAID.

Sing high, sing high, for the peerless maid,

Who rides forth on a bicycle.

In all the pride of youth arrayed,
And as cool as an Arctic icicle;

Who spins along with an eager zest,
And trills her pet song merrily;
Who ne'er has a fall to the earth confessed,
Because she wheels so warily.

Sing high, sing high, for the glow of health
That blooms the cheek so cheerily

Of the maids alike who roll in wealth,
Or who toil all day unwearily;
For the sinews firm, the strength like steel,
For the muscles large, dimensional,
That come to the maid who rides the wheel
Despite all rules conventional.

Sing high, sing high, for the lady fair,
Not quite untouched by yanity,

And who knows her chic and her dashing tir
Bewitch all male humanity;

Whose eyes shine bright with a lustre glad,
And whose voice rings out so girlishly;

The lovely maid with the cycling fad,
Whom prudes decry so churlishly.

Sing high, sing high, for the wheeling craze
That holds as captives presently

The girls of the fin de siecle days

And makes their time pass pleasantly; With the buggy old and the coach away! Away with the ancient tricycle !

While the world bows down 'neath the potent sway

Of the nineteenth century bicycle.

-New Orleans Times Democrat.

PERSONAL.

Miss Martha Binion was recently appointed a teacher in Miss Devereaux's department of No. 71. Superintendents Henry W. Jameson and A. T Schauffler examined the classes in Grammar No. 13 last week.

Miss Sarah Wieser of the Grammar department of No. 71, has been transferred to Dr. Beer's department of No. 15.

Miss Marie E. Thoma has been appointed a permanent substitute in Miss H. Louise Clarke's Primary School No. 26.

Commissioner William H. Hurlbut has returned to the city for the winter, and will make his home at No. 703 Park ave.

Miss Carrie A. Hard, formerly of Grammar No. 54, is living in Lyndonville, N. Y., and is greatly improved in health.

The Teachers' Mutual Benefit Association has received from Mr. Peter Doelger, through Miss

Louisa Probst of Grammar No. 89, a check for $65.

Miss Caroline Pfortner, a Normal College graduate of 1895, has been appointed in Mr. Elijah D. Clark's department of No. 60.

Miss Laura E. Osborn of No. 77 has been transferred to No. 6, of which Miss Katherine D. Blake is principal, as first assistant.

Miss Julia Meany of Grammar No. 23 has been transferred to Grammar No. 5, the new school of which Mr. Henry Cassidy is principal.

Assistant Superintendent Shauffler is to lecture at the Normal College on November 13th to the teachers on "Go-Carts and Crutches."

If you wish to subscribe to SCHOOL, send a postal to this effect to No. 154 Fifth ave. Collection for the same will be made at the subscriber's convenience.

Miss Anna H, Bell, a permanent substitute for some time in No. 37, with an excellent record, has been appointed a teacher in the Primary of Grammar No. 42.

Mr. William M. Simmons, of Grammar No. 11, was married last Tuesday to Miss Louise M. Weaver, an excellent teacher in Miss Carrie S. Monfort's department, in No. 57.

Miss Elvira Du Bois, a permanent substitute in No. 8, was transferred last month to the Primary department of No. 33. Miss Catharine Duffy has been appointed permanent substitute to fill the vacancy.

The trustees of the Eighth Ward have unanimously recommended Mr. C. F. Suhling for re-appointment. Mr. Suling has made an excellent school officer in the Eighth Ward and a failure to appoint him would be a public loss.

Miss Agnes M. Fall, a graduate of the Normal College class of '95, has been appointed a regular substitute in No. 62, of which Mr. William B. Silber is principal. Mr. David Layton, a graduate of Rutger's College, has also been appointed in this school.

Miss Josephine E. Fassin, one of the most experienced and capable teachers in the Primary department of No. 50, tendered her resignation last month on account of marriage. Miss Barbara Kohn was appointed a permanent substitute in that department.

Among recent changes in the Twenty-third Ward are the appointment of Miss Anna C. Mansfield of Miss Cooper's department of No. 85 to Primary School No. 33. Miss Daisy Bell, a college graduate of '95, has been appointed to the vacancy in No. 85.

Miss Agnes McSweeney of the Primary of No. 15 has been transferred to Miss Secord's department in No. 71, to fill a vacancy there. Miss Mary E. Van Pelt has been appointed to the vacancy in No. 15. Miss McSweeney is a capable and experienced teacher. She is a niece of Commissioner McSweeney.

Miss Sarah L. Scott, for several years connected with Superintendent Jasper's office, was married last Tuesday, October 29th, to Mr. Charles T. Fish, at the bride's home, by the Rev. Dr. Virgin. Mr. and Mrs. Fish will be absent from the city during November on a wedding trip to Washington and the South, stopping for a time at the Exposition, at Atlanta, when they will return to their own home in the city.

The numerous friends of Dr. George F. Jackson, school inspector of the Seventh District, will learn with sorrow of his continuous and serious illness. Dr. Jackson is one of the oldest school inspectors in the city. His interest in the schools has led him to devote much of his spare time for the past twenty years to them, and his absence the past few weeks has been noted generally among teachers and pupils of the upper part of the city.

Ex-Commissioner Hosea B. Perkins has never been to the wars, and is not a G. A. R., but few persons have uttered more patriotic sentiments, and when the occasion called for it, have shown steadier nerve and greater personal courage. The other day, while driving, there was a sudden flash under his horse, and the animal went down as if struck by a thunderbolt. Mr. Perkins' companion was alarmed, but the Commissioner remarked: "It's a 'live wire' from the trolley;" and he walked home like a younger man. ·

PRIMARY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. The Class in Psychology will meet at City. College, Lexington ave. and 23d st, next Tuesday, November 12th, at 4 P. M. Dr. Edgar D. Shimer, is director.

Special arrangements are made for members of this, and the Female Grammar Teachers' Association. John E. Archer, corresponding secretary; M. A. Magovern, president.

AN UNNECESSARY PRECAUTION.

An artist gave his last work to a porter to convey to the academy.

"Be careful," said he, "the picture is scarcely dry.""

"Oh, never mind," exclaimed the porter, "my clothes are old."-Golden Penny.

CANNOT SUSPEND A TEACHER.

The following opinion has been given by Corporation Counsel Scott, in regard to the suspension of Edgar Knickerbocker, a teacher of No. 36, charged with striking a pupil:

Hon. Robert Maclay, President Board of Education:

SIR.-I am in receipt of a communication of the 18th ultimo of Arthur McMullin, clerk of your Board, transmitting the following resolution:

"Resolved, That Edgar Knickerbocker, first assistant teacher in Male department No. 36. be and he is hereby suspended from duty, without pay, for twenty-one days from the passage of this resolution," with the statement that the said resolution was laid over in order that the opinion of the Counsel to the Corporation might be obtained as to the authority of the Board of Education to take the action set forth in the resolution as presented.

It has been decided by the Court of Appeals in the cases of Gregory vs. The Mayor, 113 N. Y., 416, and Emmett vs. The Mayor, 128 N. Y., 117, that the power to remove does not include the power to suspend, and in the case of People ex rel. Hoffman vs. Board of Education, 143 N. Y., 62, it was held that the Board of Education did not possess the power to impose a fine upon a teacher, either payable in money or by forfeiture of a salary for a specified period.

The court said, however:

"If the Board had adopted by-laws for the regulation of the schools and the teachers therein, and the relator had assented to them, then they might have become binding upon her as part of her contract with the Board, and under such bylaws it might have had power of discipline and control over teachers which it could not otherwise have or possess. But here there was no bylaw, rule or regulation known or assented to by the relator under which any fine could be imposed upon her."

It does not appear from the manual of the Board of Education for the year 1895, that there is any by-law providing for the suspension from duty of a teacher without pay. If there were such a bylaw, the knowledge or assent of the teacher to the same would be necessary.

I am therefore of the opinion, and beg to advise

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you, that the Board of Education has no power to suspend a teacher from duty without pay. Yours respectfully,

FRANCIS M. SCOTT. Counsel to the Corporation. This opinion was referred to the Committee on Teachers.

TO SCHOOL ON WHEELS.

The Misses Ely, principals of a boarding and day school for girls, on Riverside drive, have a large room completely equipped for the stowing of bicycles. Fifty of the boarding pupils own their own machines, and a man is hired specially to keep them clean, while an expert comes up from one of the academies two or three times a week to see that they are in good repair.

A large number of the day pupils come to school on their wheels. Their bicycles are taken into the wheel-room. Two gray-haired governesses in the school are expert wheel women and very enthusiastic over the sport. They each take a party of eight or ten young ladies out for a road trip every afternoon, and teachers and pupils come in with new life in them.

The faculty of La Salle Institute, on West 59th st., encourages the day pupils to come to school on their wheels, and allows them to stow the machines in the corridor leading from the main entrance of the building.

Many teachers use the wheel in going to and from school. Mr. John Doty, of No. 91, at High Bridge, rides ten miles from his home, daily, and back at night.

THE MAGAZINES.

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ADDITION TO THE LIBRARY LIST.

BOOKS THAT WILL BE Added for NEXT YEAR. The Committee on Course of Study of the New York Board of Education presented last week the following report in addition to the Library List for 1896, which the Board of Education approved:

Resolved, That the following books be, and they, hereby are, added to the List of Books for School Libraries, for purchase under the Act, Chapter 573, Laws of 1892.

BOOKS OF REFERENCE.

Fulton and Trublood's Elements of Practical Elocution: Davidson, Reference History of U. S.; The Century Dictionary and the Century Cyclopedia of Names; Dana's Manual of Geology, 4th ed., new; Gray's new Botanical Text-book; vol. 1, Physiological Botany; vol. 2, Structural Botany; Willis' Practical Flora; History for Ready Reference and Topical Reading, cloth; Handybook of Literary Curiosities; Allibone, New Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Allibone, Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay; Allibone, Great Authors of All Ages; The Index Atlas of the World, 2 vols.; Pulpit Bible, French Morocco; The Book of Psalms, double pica, octavo venetian, gilt edges; The Narrative and Critical History of America, 8 vols.; Yeo's Physiology; Dictionary of U. S. History, Jameson; The Riverside Natural History, 6 vols., cloth; Political Cyclopedia, 3 vols.; Pfife's Seven Thousand Words Mispronounced, and Five Thousand Words Commonly Misspelled."

BOOKS ON ART.

Goodyear's History of Art; Sculpture, Egyptian, Assyrian, etc.; Sculpture, Renaissance and Modern; Vandyck, Art for Art's Sake; Day, the Anatomy of Pattern; Day, the Planning of Ornament; Day, Application of Ornament; Jackson, Lessons on Decorative Design; Outlines for the Study of Art, Abbott; Theory and Practice of Design; Ferguson, A History of Architecture in all Countries; Lubke, Outlines of the History of Art, 2 vols; VanDyke, Painting; White's New Course in Art Instruction, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Prang's Complete Course in Form Study and Drawing, No. 1 to 10; Teachers' Manuals of same.

BIOGRAPHY.

Garnett, Heroes of Science, 5 vols.; Bower, How to make Common Things; Bower, Simple Experiment for Science Teaching.

EDUCATION, ETC.

Herbart and Herbartians; Ladd, Primer of Psychology; Woodward, Manual Training; Elements of Psychology; Wiltse, Stories for Kindergartens and Primary Schools; Wiltse, The Place of the Story in Early Education; Macvicar's Principles of Education; Children's Rights; The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten; Legouve, The Art of Reading from the French; Prince's Methods of Instruction in German Schools; Froebel's Mother Play and Nursery Songs; Baldwin's Elements of Psychology; Jame's Psychology, briefer course; Froebel's Pedagogics of the Kindergarten; Hart, American Education; Physical Education, Morris; Elements of General Method; In the Child's World, by E. Poulsson; Ends and Pur

poses of the Kindergarten; Parker's Theory of Concentration; The Psychology of Number: The Mothers and Commentaries of Frederick Froebel's Mother Play, Eliot & Blow.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Bain's English Composition and Rhetoric; Bain's English Composition and Rhetoric; Every Day English; Words and Their Uses; Hill's Foundations of Rhetoric; Lounsbury, History of the English Language.

FRENCH LITERATURE.

Saint Pierre, Paul Virginia; ErckmannChatrian, Histoire d'un Conscrit de 1813; Staafe, La Litterature Francaise depuis les origines jusqua mos jours; Fenelon, Adventures de Telemaque ; Hugo, Quatre vingt-treise, 2 vols.; Littre, Histoire de langue Francaise, 2 vols.; Verne, Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours; Verne, Le Docteur Ox; Corneille, Le Cid; Corneille, Polyeuct; Molière, Le Malade Imaginaire; Molière, Le Medicin Malgrè Lui; Racine, Athalie; Bulwer, Les Derniers Jours de Pompeii; Hawthorne, La Maison Sept Pignons; Collins, La pierre de lune, 2 vols.

GERMAN LITERATURE, ETC.

Duden's Orthographisches Worterbuch; Vilmar, Goeschichte d. d. National literatur; Schiller, Gedichte, Illustrated (Grote); Neffe als Onkel; Die Räuber; Lessing, Minna Von Bàrnholm ; Goethe, Gedichte, Ilustr. (Grote); Wagner's Entdeckungreise in d. Wohnstube; Nierita, Betty and Toms; Nierita, Wunderpfiefe; Grimm, Kinder und Hausmarchen; Wildermuth, Jugendschriften, 16 numbers; Simrock, Nibelungenlied; Ebers, Homo sum; Münchhausen, Wunderbare Reise, Ills.; Polke's Musikalische Märchen, 2 vols.: Maryatt, Jacob Ehrlich; Cooper, Lederstrumpf Erzahlungen; Anderson, 26 Märchen; Dicken's Heimchen; Dicken's, Gaimeinchaftlicher Freund, 2 vols. ; Bulwer, Pompeii; W. Irving, Skizzenbuch.

GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan; DuChaillu's Equatorial Africa; Eclectic Physical Geography, Hinman; Home Geography, C. C. Long; The Story of our Continent, Shaler; The World and Its People, Books 1 to 5, F. E. Coe; Stanley, My Dark Companion; Custer, Following the Guidon.

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, ETC.

Fuffe, History of Greece; Creighton's History of Rome; Wendel's History of Egypt; Wilkin's Roman Antiquities; Fowler, Julius Cæsar and the Organization of the Roman Empire; Archer, Story of the Crusades; Brook's Abraham Lincoln; Plutarch's Lives, Illustrated; History of United States, 2 vols., Andrews; The Making of the Ouio Valley States; Johnston, U. S., etc.; Mallet, The French Revolution; Carlyle, French Revolution, 3 vols.; The Beginning of the Middle Ages, Church; The Normans in Europe, Johnson; The Crusades, Cox; Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; American Commonwealths, New York, Connecticut and other States; The Beginnings of New England; Japan, in History, Folk Lore and Art; Brave Little Holland and What She Taught Us; Our Young Folks' Josephus and Plutarch; Prescott's Works, Mexico, Peru, Ferdinand and Isabella, 8 vols.; Battlefields of '61, Abbott; Battlefields and Camp Fires; Battlefields and Victory; Griffis, Sir William Johnson; Schouler, A History of U. S. Under the Constitution; Drake's Watchfires of '76; Freeman's General Sketch of History; Seelye's Story of Washington and Story of Columbus; Great Commander Stories, Scott, Grant, Sheridan, Farragut, etc.; Great Men and Famous Women.

John Fiske, etc., Presidents of United States; Maclay's History of the Navy, 2 vols.; Lodge's Eng. lish Colonies in America; Higginson's Larger History of the United States; Creasy's Decisive Battles, Coffin, Boys of '76; Coffin, Old Times in the Colonies; Tales from English and Scottish History; Campbell's, The Puritans, 2 vols.; Coffin, Abraham Lincoln; Warner, English History in Shakespeare's Plays; Witts, Retreat of the Ten Thousand; Historic Towns, Boston, Lodge; History of the Civil War; History of America; Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, Eggleston; Pilgrims and Puritans, Moore; From Colony to Commonwealth, Moore; Stories of the Old World, Church; Plutarch's Lives; Stories of Colonial Children; Pioneer History Stories, Mississippi Valley, McMurray; History of the United States, Thomas; Epochs of American History, 3 vols.; Epoch Maps of American History: McMaster's History of the People of United States; George Washington Day by Day, Elizabeth B. Johnson; Sinclair, United States America, 2 vols.; The Story of Washington, Seelye; The Log House on the Columbia, Butterworth; Paul Jones, Seawell; Story of Columbia, Glascock; The Patriot School Master, Butterworth; The Attic Philosopher in Paris, Sylvester; Ad miral Farragut, Uraban; General Taylor, Howard; General Jackson, Parton; General Johnson, Hughes; General Thomas, Coppee; General Scott, Wright; General Washington, Johnson: General Lee, Lee; General Hancock, Walker; General Sheridan, Davies; Other Worlds than Ours, Proctor; Astronomy with an Opera Glass, Serviss; Physiography, Huxley; The Psychology of Numbers, Maxims of Washington; The Story of the Stars, Chambers; The Primitive Man, Clodd; Plants, Allen; Pedagogies of Kindergarten; The Songs and Music of Froebel's Mother Plays.

GENERAL LITERATURE.

Skinner's Schoolmaster in Literature; Sarah Crowne, Burnett; Little St. Elizabeth; Henty, In the Heart of the Rockies; Henty, When London

Burned; Henty, In Freedom's Cause; Henty, The Young Carthaginian; Lanier, Boys of King Arthur; Lanier, The Boy's Percy; Mitchell, About Old Story Tellers; Page, Two Little Confederates ; Plato, Talks with Athenian Youths; Plato, Socrates; Plato, A Day in Athens with Socrates; Carlyle, Sartor Resartus; Barr, The Humor of America; Six Centuries of English Poetry: The Famous Allegories; The Book of Elegies; Gayley, Classic Myths in English Literature; Litchfield's Nine Worlds; Pushing to the Front; The Story of a Bad Boy; Alice and Phoebe Cary's Poems; TwiceTold Tales; Mosses from an Old Manse: The House of the Seven Gables and the Show Image: Stories from Old English Poetry; Homer, The Iliad; Homer, The Odyssey; Virgil; Cheser, Chats with Girls on Self-Culture; Mabie, My Study Fire; My Study Fire, Second Series; Sa nt Pierre, Paul and Virginia; Our Children's Songs; Goldsmith's Select Poems; Browning's Select Poems; Wordsworth's Select Poems; Macaulay's Lays of Rome; Fairy Tales in Prose and Verse; Tales of Chivalry; Guerber's Myths of Northern Lands; L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, Lycidas, Milton; The Second Essay on the Earl of Chatham, Macaulay; An Essay on John Milton, Macaulay; Life and Writings of Addison; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare; The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers, Addison; Orations, Bunker Hill Monument: 1st vol., The Character of Washington; The Landing of the Pilgrims, Webster; American Literature, Watkins: The Abbot, Scott; Woodstock, Scott; Arabian Nights; Kingley's Greek Heroes, Tetlow; Adventures of Ulysses, Lamb; Masterpieces of American Literatures; Masterpieces of British Literature; Longfellow's The Children's Hour and other Poems; Speech and American Taxation, Burke; Elaine, Tennyson; The Story of the Eneid, Church; The Story of the Iliad, Church; An Essay on Burns, Carlyle; The Iliad (Bryant's Translation), Houghton; The Odyssey (Bryant's Translation), Houghton Fairy Tale and Fable; Lang, Yellow Fairy Book; Stories of the Old World; Open Sesame, vols. 2 and 3.

SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE, ETC.

Pitcher, First Aid in Illness and Injury; Frye, Child and Nature; Birds and Poets, With Other Papers: Signs and Seasons; The New Astronomy; Abbott's The Birds About Us; Animal Life of Our Seashore; Hardinge, With the Wild Flowers; Samuel, The Amateur Aquarist; Hall's First Lessons in Experimental Physics; Chamber's Stories of the Stars; Clodd, Primitive Man; Matthews, Familiar Plowers of Field and Garden; Chapman, Birds of Eastern America; What Mr. Darwin Saw; Other Worlds than Ours, Proctor; Pleasant Ways in Science; School Zoology, Burnett; Glimpses at the Planet and World, Bergen; Little Flower People, Hale; Reader in Botany, Part 1, Howell; From Seed to Leaf; Flower and Fruit; Elementary Lessons in Physics, Gifford; Natural History Readers, 1 to 6: Appleton's School Physics; Boys-Soap Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them; Cooke, Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms.

SOCIAL SCIENCE.

DeTocqueville's Democracy in America; Adams' Mediæval Civilization; Croker's Manual of Procedure; Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton; Walker's Political Economy, Briefer Course; Draper's Intellectual Development of Europe; State and Local Government of New York; American Government, Hinsdale.

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DISCUSSING MANUAL TRAINING.

At the meeting of Emile held on Saturday evening of last week an interesting paper on "Manual Training in Our Public Schools" was read by one of its members, Mr. A. Fischlowitz, of Grammar No. 40. The paper dealt in detail with this subject, from its introduction in the lowest grade in the Primary to the first grade Grammar. The author showed his familiarity with this topic.

The paper was discussed by Assistant Superintendent Lee, Principal Hugh O'Niel, Mr. Bryan Riley and Mr. James Burns. The guest of the evening was Mr. Henry Cassidy, principal of the new Grammar School No. 5, at 141st st., in which there is a Manual Training department.

A TEA AND MUSICALE. The teachers of Grammar No. 23, Male departments, met at the residence of Miss M. L. Keon, on Saturday, November 2d. The occasion was an informal tea and musicale, tendered to Miss Jane McInroy, lately retired, and Miss Julia Meany, who has been transferred to No. 5.

Handsome souvenirs were presented to them by their old associates. The time flew on the wings of good cheer, music and sociability. Mrs. Henrietta Neylan, the lately appointed trustee of the Sixth Ward, was present, and added much to the pleasure of the evening. Thanks are also due to the genial hostess, who has the faculty of making every one comfortable.