Miss Selma Rosenhaupt was recently appointed an additional teacher in Grammar No. 57, Miss Montfort's department.

Miss Marion Potter has been a permanent substitute in Grammar No. 47, the Twelfth Street School, of which Miss Griffin is principal.

Miss Amelia Henkil, a bright young lady of this year's class of Normal College, has received an appointment in the Grammar of No. 50.

Miss Barbara Kuhn, an Eighteenth Ward permanent substitute, has been assigned to one of the vacancies in Miss C. C. Wray's department of No. 40.

department. One of the officers, Mr. Fleming died last week, and two others, John S. Ketchum and C. W. Baum, have been prostrated by the work.

Miss Sara J. J. McCaffery, principal of Primary School No. 16, is an ardent advocate of the bicycle for physical culture. In company with ten of her teachers, she may be seen twice a week riding the wheel on the Boulevard, or in the Parks. Their little circle is an exclusive one. No gentlemen riders are admitted, and they are abundantly able to take care of themselves, or to fly away from any wrath that may come.

Superintendent Jasper left his office early on

for the same will be made at the subscriber's convenience.

Miss Louise Johnston, a substitute of Grammar No. 40, has temporarily taken charge of a vacancy in the Primary of No. 70 until a regular appointment is made.

Miss Nina Norman Adams has been appointed special teacher in German in Grammar No. 10, and Miss Elizabeth Roche teaches phonography in the same school.

Miss Euphemia C. R. Sullivan, a graduate of the Normal College, class of '95, has been appointed a permanent substitute in Grammar No. 21, of which Miss Maria J. Sweeny is principal.

Miss Anna M. Brotherton, an excellent teacher in No. 3, has been ill the past week, but is now improving. Her class has been in charge temporarily of Miss Estelle Kelsey, permanent substitute in the school.

Miss Jennie B. Whitney, permanent substitute in Primary No. 25, has been transferred to No. 35, Mr. Maguire's department. Miss Helen Rice, a permanent substitute in No. 35, has been appointed a permanent teacher in Miss Purdy's de. partment of No. 25.

Miss Jessie B. Fraser of Miss Robert's department of No. 10, has been transferred to the Grammar department of which Dr. Berkins is principal. Miss Estelle F. Weismann has been appointed by the vacancy caused by Miss Fraser's transfer, and Miss Elsie Furing was made a permanent substitute in the Primary department.

The women appointed to the Truancy department are entering on a busy field of labor. The preliminary census work is occupying all the attendance officers as well as the superintendent's

reaching home he was taken with a sudden vertigo that for the time prostrated him, and caused much alarm in his family, until the arrival of a physician. He recovered rapidly and was promptly at his desk the next morning, though showing trace of the attack, which was the result of the unusual pressure of work recently.

Miss Adelaide Haight, principal of Primary No. 28, will now have charge of Primary No. 23, of which Miss Hester A. Roberts, for some time principal, made for the school a high reputation. Mrs. Nora C. Lenihan, who was Miss Haight's first assistant in Primary No. 28, is in the line of promotion and will probably be nominated prin cipal, to succeed Miss Haight, by the trustees. Mrs. Leniban is now in charge of Primary No. 28.

Miss Jennie Jacobs was appointed last month in Miss Smith's department of No. 72 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Frances Hughes. Miss Hattie H. Stueler of Miss Fanning's department of No. 72 also resigned last month and was married, and the vacancy in the department was filled by the appointment of Miss Mary Barritt. Miss Mary Hewlett was appointed regular substitute in the same department.

Miss Ida Bell Woods, head of department in No. 34, Brooklyn, of which Mr. Frank Moore is principal, recently resigned her position, and was married last week to Mr. George Rowe of the Brooklyn Eagle. A large number of Miss Woods's numerous school friends were present at the wedding, and she received many handsome remem. brances. Among them was a set of solid silver from Mr. H. T. Dawson, an old friend, and the representative of a leading publishing house which has a universal habit of doing such handsome things.

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One of the most interesting lectures of the course in the schools, to workingmen, is one delivered by Col. G. Douglas Breverton, who is so widely known in the day schools of the city. The lecture is entitled "A Ride With Kit Carson," and it embodies an interesting bit of the Colonel's own experience in a career full of the most varied experiences, and the incident is one also of a period now passing into history and tradition. Colonel Breverton, although nearing his seventieth year, is a vigorous and active man, who never fails to entertain his auditors.

THE ANNEX TO NO. 54.

The annex to Grammar No. 54, at Amsterdam ave. and 104th st., is a typical structure of the additions recently made to schools. No 54 is a comparatively new building, not more than seven years occupied, but it soon became to need more room, and the annex was completed a year ago, and is comfortably filled.

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Pedagogics of the Kindergarten,

Froebel.

The Psychology of Number, McLellan

& Dewey.

The Mottoes and Commentaries of Froebel's Mother Play, Susan E. Blow.

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The Story of Washington, Seelye.
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The Log House on the Columbia, But-

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The Patriot School Master, Butterworth.

Paul Jones, Seawell.

Stories of Columbia, Glascock.

The Attic Philosopher in Paris, Sou

vestre.

Longmans' Object Lessons in Elementary Science-By David Sal-
mon and Dr. John F. Woodhull, of the New York Teachers' College.
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Morris' The Teaching of Drawing-675 Illustrations
The Beginning of the Middle Ages-By the Very Rev. R. W. Church,
M.A. (Epochs of Modern History.) Fcap. 8vo...
The Crusades By the Rev. Sir G. W. Cox, Bart., M. A. (Epochs of
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A History of Painting-By Professor John C. Vandyke, of Rutgers College. With frontispiece and 100 iilustrations in the text. (Col lege Histories of Art.) Crown 8vo....

The Normans in Europe-By the Rev. A. H. Johnson, M.A. (Epochs Essays in American Education - By Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D., 12mo

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Other Worlds than Ours, Proctor.

Astronomy With an Opera Glass,

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Physiography, Huxley.
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The Story of the Stars, Chambers.
The Story of the Primitive Man,
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The Story of Plants, Allen.

The Songs and Music of Froebel's Mother Play, Susan E. Blow.

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HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.

Stories of American History, Wright. Stories of American Progress, Wright. The Making of New England, Drake. The Making of Virginia and the Middle Colonies, Drake.

The Making of the Great West, Drake.

The Making of the Ohio Valley States, Drake. The History of the United States, Andrews, 2 vols.

Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, Doubleday. The United States; Its History and Constitution, Johnston.

The Colonial Era, Fisher.

The French War and the Revolution, Sloane. Napoleon and His Marshals, Headley, 2 vols. Washington and His Generals, Headley, 2 vols. Cæsar, A Sketch, Froude.

The Dawn of History. Keary.

*Beginnings of the Middle Ages, Church. *Normans in Europe, Johnson.

The Crusades, Cox.

French Revolution, Carlyle, 3 vols.

Marie Antoinette and the End of the Old Regime, Saint-Amand.

Marie Antoinette at the Tuileries, SaintAmand.

Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty, Saint-Amand.

The Court of Empress Josephine, SaintAmand.

Citizeness Bonaparte, Saint-Amand.

Wife of the First Consul, Saint-Amand. SCIENCE OF EDUCATION AND TEACHERS' AIDS.

Primer of Psychology, Ladd. *Herbart and the Herbartians, De Garmo. Froebel :and Education by Self Activity, Bowen, Aristotle: and the Ancient Educational Ideals. Davidson.

Alcuin: and the Rise of the Christian Schools, West.

Abelard: and the Origin and Early History of Universities, Compayre.

Loyola: and the Educational System of the Jesuits, Hughes.

Outlines of Physiological Psychology, Ladd. Physiology of the Senses, McKendrick and Snodgrass.

English Composition, Wendell.

Language and the Study of Language, Whit

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First Aids in Illness and Injury, Pilcher.
ART AND MUSIC.

Elementary History of Art, D'Anvers.
The Fine Arts, Brown.

Philosophy of the Beautiful, Knight, 2 vols.
Architecture: Classic and Early Christian,

Statesmen, Brooks.

Among the Law-Makers, Alton.

Essays on German Literatnre, Boyesen. History of German Literature, Hosmer. Short Stories on Great Subjects, Froude, 4 vols., each.

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Little Lord Fauntleroy, Burnett.
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Little Saint Elizabeth, Burnett.
Little People and Their Homes, Hook.

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MEMORIES.

As a perfume doth remain

In the folds where it hath lain,

So the thought of you remaining

Deeply folded in my brain,

Will not leave me; all things leave me;

You remain.

Other thoughts may come and go,

Other moments I may know,

That shall waft me, in their going As a breath blown to and fro,

Fragrant memories; fragrant memories Come and go.

Only thoughts of you remain

In my heart where they have lain,

Perfumed thoughts of you remaining,

A hid sweetness in my brain,

Others leave me; all things leave me; You remain.

-Arthur Symons.

PLAINTS AND QUERIES. QUALIFICATIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN TEACHERS. Editor of School:

DEAR SIR;-Whenever the subject of the salaries of teachers is touched upon, the interest of some of us is aroused to an unwonted degree. I plead guilty to the impeachment when I write you for the purpose of calling attention to an important fact which seems to have been lost sight of in the pending discussion, not only by your correspondents, but also by his Honor the Mayor. Salaries in any case are not regulated upon principles of justice and equity, but by the unrelenting law of supply and demand, influenced, perhaps, by traditional custom. It is idle to point out the injustice of paying a woman less than a inan for the same work; idle to refer to the supposed greater needs of the male; idle to prate of the equality or inequality of the sexes. The salaries of women are generally lower than those of men, because of the limited fields of activity open to women, and the growing number of women seeking entrance thereto. Especially is this so in the teaching profession, in which the character of the work renders it particularly attractive to the gentler sex, and to which no Salic prejudice bars the way.

Yet, one may freely admit the influence of established custom, without impairing the main argument. Indisputable it is that teachers, men and women, are to-day embarrassed, in a pecuniary sense, by the traditions of an age, when the teaching trade was the last resource of broken down scholars and literary hacks, or, still worse, of ignorant menials. The "hedge-school" and the old field schoolhouse" have, in no small degree, molded the attitude of the public mind toward the teacher's calling. Indisputable it is that women to day are suffering under the disabilities of a social system long since obsolete-when woman was the slave of a slave. The schoolmaster and schoolmistress, removed as they are from the current of economic progress, feel its impulse but remotely and tardily. The contemporaneous movement which is opening the long-closed doors of almost every vocation to the intelligence and enthusiasm of woman, must eventually result in the increased demand for her services, and, consequently, in an increased compensation therefor. The spectacle of a woman engaged as bookkeeper, or saleswoman, or typewriter, or clerk, receiving a larger remuneration than one who, after a longer and severer course of preparation, enters the profession of teaching, is an object lesson to which the most obdurate Commissioner of Educa tion cannot long be indifferent.

Yet the law of supply and demand ultimately controls; if at present it operates to the disadvantage of the woman-teacher, it has but recently operated to her advantage at the expense of her male co-laborer. For, what are the facts? Women have displaced men as teachers only because they have been ready to accept employment at a

lower salary. On the authority of John D. Philbrick, we may say, "It is, however, a principle well recognized in pedagogy that, where the salaries of the sexes are equalized and the rate is high, the men displace the women, and where the rate is low, the reverse happens; the women displace the men."

Sentiment has little influence in the matter of salaries, and school officials, in framing salary schedules, are not guided by it; they deal with the primary question, "What is the minimum sum for which the services of capable teachers can be employed? Much as commissioners of ed ucation may flatter themselves, on the one hand, for their liberality, or, on the other, for their economy in administration, they are, whether unconsciously or not, controlled by the primary question. The Board of Education raised the salaries of the teachers in the Evening Schools a few years ago, because a sufficient number of capable teachers could not be secured at the salary previously offered-and for no other reason. For the same reason, we may expect the salaries of the male teachers to be raised in the immediate future. But, as yet, I see no signs of a paucity of female teachers.

Fortunately, in the New York schools, there is no competition of men against women for position. The sphere of the sexes is fixed. In conclusion, I hope to be pardoned for saying: If the women teachers would in their memorials point out the disproportion between their salaries and those of women in other callings, instead of confining themselves to comparisons with their brethren in the profession, they would at least be more logical, while they could not be more unsuc cessful. If we must be levelers, let us level upwards, not downwards.

JAS. C. BYRNES, Gram. School No. 7.

NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 1895.

[Contributed.]

A SUMMER NIGHT. DEDICATED TO MARGARET A. RILEY. Twilight shadows deepen into night, Ling'ring echoes mock the distant sounds; Crickets, owls, and beetles, toads and frogs delight At daylight's decession; loud resounds Chirpings, hootings, pipings shrill and croakings From crevice earth and brook, and caverns wild and deep,

Katydids from tree tops, and bats from secret lurkings,

Come forth to join the nocturne and night its vigils keep.

Fireflies from marshes and fens are scintillating Their tiny golden lanterns, like fairies in the dell, As if to aid the starlight till the moon advances From the East to add her beauty to the spell. From nooks and crooks and crannies, from mossgrown rocks and ditches,

From ponds and stagnant pools, and creeks and running rills,

Voices all commingle, though in discordant pitches, And swell the midnight chorus in inharmonious trills.

TEACHERS' CONFERENCES.

The conferences of Teachers with the Assistant Superintendents to be held next Thursday afternoon, December 5, are as follows:

First District, Grammar No. 31, Superintendent Leipziger, History and Civics; First to Fifth Grammar Grades.

Second District, Grammar No. 58, Superintendent Davis, Reading; Sixth to Eighth Grammar Grades.

Third District, Grammar No. 75, Superintendent Godwin, Arithmetic; First to Fifth Grammar Grades.

Fourth District, Grammar No. 19, Superintendent Schauffler, Music; Fourth to Sixth Primary Grades.

Fifth District, Grammar No. 76, Superintendent Bagen, Object Lessons; First to Third Primary Grades.

Sixth District, Grammar No. 39, Superintendent Lee, School Hygiene; First to Third, Primary Grades.

Seventh District, Grammar No. 85, Superintendent Jameson, Drawing; Sixth to Eighth Grammar Grades.

IN MEMORY OF MR. FLEMING. At a special meeting of the attendance officers held on October 26th, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:

WHEREAS, The sad news has just been-conveyed to us of the death of William Fleming, who for many years has been associated with this department.

Now be it resolved, That we, as attendance officers, express our sense of the loss which we have sustained in his death, and our appreciation of the sterling qualities of heart and mind which endeared him to every member of this body.

Be it further resolved, That the sincere sympa. thy of this department be extended to his sorrowing relatives, and that we attend his funeral in a body as a mark of respect and esteem in which we hold his memory; and that these resolutions be spread in full on the minutes and a copy trans. mitted to his bereaved sister.

Respectfully submitted,

ELLIS MORRIS,
WILLIAM DOANE,
WM. H. KIRBY,

ANTONIO C. MARTINEZ, Secretary.

Committee.

THE VACATION SCHOOLS. William W. Locke has made his report as superintendent of the vacation schools of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.

The Association maintained six vacation schools in co-operation with the Board of Education last summer. There was a total average attendance of 3,319 scholars, nearly four times as large as last year. The cost of each pupil was 5.6. cents, as opposed to 11.7 in 1894. $5,583.40 was contributed to maintain the schools, and the total expense of the six was $5,775.96.

During the term of thirty days of three hours each there was a total attendance of 98,880 pupils, besides 5,225 who applied during the three days of registration, making a total attendance of 104,105.

The vacation school children were able to use the seaside homes of the association for a single day's outing, where class groups with teachers went for the special study of shells, seaweed and marine life, using their collections for object lessons and models for clay work on their return to the school classrooms. These outings were not excursions, as the children paid a large proportion of their transportation expenses, and carried their own lunches. The children also paid their own car fare on several trips to the Natural History Rooms and the Metropolitan Art Museum, being accompanied in each case by a teacher.

Bobbie-They can raise a tree from a peach-pit, can't they, pop?

Pop-Yes, my boy.

"Well, what can they raise from a rifle-pit ?" "A disturbance, my boy."-Yonker's Statesman.