-A new and promising magazine appears in the ECLECTIC TEACHER, of Carlisle, Ky.-Michignn Teacher.

-Prof. W. H. Smith, of Ann Arbor (Mich.) has been elected Professor of Natural History in the University of North Carolina.

-Kindergarten tracts are sent by E. Steiger, of 22 and 24 Frankfort Street, New York City, to all who desire to receive them.

-The Connecticut State Teachers' Association will hold the next meeting on the 19th, 20th and 21st of this month, in New Haven.

A few months ago it was announced that only four of the aboriginal Tasmanians were then living. The race will evidently soon be extinct.

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-Geo A. Gates, principal of the third district school, Covington, Ky., been spending his summer vacation in Indiana, representing the interests of Wilson, Hinkle & Co.

-Canadian teachers are allowed by an order in council of August 30th, to visit the Centennial Exhibition without forfeiture of pay when permission is granted by the Board of Trustees.

-After the close of the Centennial Exhibition, the educational exhibit Indiana is to be taken to Indianapolis and placed on exhibition at the State Teachers' Association which will assemble there holiday week.

-The University of London is the degree-giving body for the alumni of a considerable number of Great Britain colleges that have not the power of granting degress. It is not connected with any religious denomination.

-The teachers of Crittenden county, Ky., are up and doing. They will print a thirty-two page pamphlet of the proceedings of their annual Institute, held July 17-22.

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-Dr. Geo. B. Winship, the noted lifter, died on the 12th of last month at age of forty-two. We believe he succeeded at one time in lifting about three thousand pounds.

-A. M. Gow, of Evansville, Ind., author of "Good Morals and Gentle Manners," has become Superintendent of the Public Schools of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Salary $2,500.

—Col. D. F. De Wolf, for thirteen years Superintendent of the Toledo schools, has accepted the chair of Rhetoric and Modern Languages in Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio.

-John B. Peaslee, of Cincinnati, is the best looking superintendent in the United States, and is the only one who had the courage to exhibit his "countenance" by the thousand at the Centennial.

-C. C. Chatfield publisher of the New England Journal of Education, died at his home in New Haven, August 22. We learned when in Philadelphia, the last of June, of Mr. Chatfield's failing health.

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-In a private letter, Mr. M. A. Warren, editor of Carolina Teacher, Columbia, S. C., says: "I think your journal, in many respects, the best I've seen. feel better for telling you so; for before, I was envious."

-Dr. E. Cutler, in the Boston Journal of Chemistry, suggests that the alarming extent of impaired vision among children, 703 out of 1,000 in a New York school, is owing to a free consumption of candy.

-It is said that the trustees of Ohio County, Ind., have decided not to employ teachers that do not attend teachers' institutes and take school journals. If this rule were adopted in Ohio thousands of teachers would have to reform or leave the State to get employment.-National Teacher.

-Charles Davies, the well-known author of numerous mathematical works died at his residence at Fishkill Landing on the 17th of last month, at the age of seventy-eight. He was born in Connecticut. He graduated at West Point in 1813, became Assistant Professor there in 1816 and full Professor in 1823, resigning in 1837.

BEST BOOK FOR EVERY BODY.-The new illustrated edition of Webster's Dictionary containing three thousand engravings, is the best book for every body that the press has produced in the present century, and should be regarded as indispensable to the well-regulated home, reading room, library, and place of business. Golden Era.

-Cornelius Vanderbilt has carried his donations to Vanderbilt University up to a round million! Now let prayers be offered there that no student may imitate his faults, and no University eulogist quite forget all his errors. When a millionaire does a grandly good thing his act too often "blinds the eyes" of even good men, and tempts the young to emulate all his life.

-Wm. Wood, President of the School Board of New York City, favors the establishment of a school to be called "City School, No. 100," in a building large enough to accommodate 150 boys and 50 girls with dormitories and instruction rooms, and serve for the residence of the family of the head instructor and manager, with not less than one acre of land attached, the school being intended for habitual truants.

CYNTHIANA, KY., Oct. 13, 1876.— Gents: I have read with interest and profit the September and October numbers of the ECLECTIC TEACHER. I am a reader of several of the more prominent educational journals of the country, and it is only just to say that THE ECLECTIC TEACHER is one of the best, if not the very best accessible to American readers. It contains not the crude guesses of inexperienced writers or feeble old ones, but the best articles of the best school journals, selected by educated judgment and refined taste.

Yours truly,

L. G. MARSHALL, Principal Graded High School.

QUESTION. DRAWER.

ANSWERS.

Grammar-1. "Grammatical error" comes from the pens of good writers. C. C. Jencks, in National Teachers' Monthly says: "Grammatical text-books." It is certainly better to say "an error in grammar," "a text-book on grammar," etc. 2. "As" is used as a preposition. "Shakespeare as a dramatist was not excelled"---i. e. in the relation of.

Miscellaneous-1. White, males 4,020; females 1,610. Total, 5,630. Colored, males 216; females 122. Total, 338. White and colored 5,968.

2. White $49 40 per month.

QUESTIONS.

NASHVILLE, TENN., Oct. 9, 1876.3. Please to explain the cause of the change from "old style" to "new," in dates, and the difference between the two.

E. O. M. BOWLING GREEN, KY.., Oct. 3, 1876.-4. The papers of late have a great deal to say about the Turks. Will you give a short sketch of their origin? Where did they come from? A SUBSCRIBER. BERRY'S STATION, KY., Oct. 12, 1876.-5. Is it correct in parsing to parse any adjective as "a modifying adjective?" MARY MAKLEM.

GEORGETOWN, O., Oct. 13, 1876.-6. Can the following problem be solved? If so please to publish the solution. A board is six inches wide at one end and eighteen inches at the other. The taper being regular, where must it be cut, transversely, so that half the board will be in each piece? T. J. H.

During the month a number of questions have been answered by mail, and we still have a few on hand which we will answer in the next issue. Send on your questions and answers, friends.-[ED.

BOOK TABLE.

Peck's Complete Arithmetic. A. S. Barnes & Co., New York and Chicago. Almost every change of the season brings a new arithmetic. The number of books on this subject is legion. This fact, of itself, is sufficient proof that the science has not been satisfactorily treated. The copy we have before us bears date, 1874. Like all others it has points, good, bad and indifferent. We call attention to a few of them: It is superior to most books of its kind, in that it illustrates the fact, that a rule is the outgrowth of analytical operations, vide : Pages, 19, 37, 113, etc. The author has been more precise in forms of expression in some instances, than his competitors, e. g. Page 20, rule for addition, the usual phrase is, "under each other." Our author says "in the same column." In division of fraction, we are left, as usual, to wonder why in the world it is that we "invert the divisor." In square and cube root we are asked to admit, the false theory, that the pupil cannot understand these subjects unless he has a considerable knowledge of algebra.

Appleton's Journal, is among the very best of our standard monthlies.

Scribner's Monthly, for October is brim full of good things. If you enjoy sporting with the finny tribe, read "Notes on Salmon Fishing."

Harper's Monthly, has 160 pages of choice reading; much of it being illustrated.

Popular Science Monthly, seems to grow better every time we get a new number. The American Naturalist, has a well written article from the pen of Prof. J. D. Whitney on the much disputed subject of "Plain, Prairie and Forest" formations.

The Atlantic, never falls below our expectations. The October number is rich in good reading.

CORRESPONDENCE.

WE take the liberty of inserting the following private communication from Dr. H. A. M. HENDERSON, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, as it brings forth our ideal relationship of teachers. We know it will be read with interest by all those teachers who are enthusiastic in the work in which they are engaged. The communication was received just on going to press but it is deemed proper to insert it, even out of its proper place, as we have but one more edition before the time proposed for meeting:

PROF. VANCE.-The suggestion made at the Mason County Teachers' Institute, and alluded to by you in an editorial note in the September number of THE ECLECTIC TEACHER, concerning a connecting link between the County Associations and the State, meets my hearty approval. I think the District Associations should meet semi-annually and be so arranged that they would rotate, so the Superintendent could attend them alternately. Let each county form a Teachers' Association to meet monthly at different points. Let these elect one delegate for every twenty teachers, and every fraction of twenty, with the understanding that all would be privileged to seats and speech in the District Association-but not to vote on business questions. I think there should be at least five District Associations.

1. THE NORTHEASTERN-To be composed of all the counties North and East of, and including Mason County.

2. THE MIDDLE-To be composed of the counties of Robertson, Clay, Rockcastle, Knox, Jackson, Bracken, Nicholas, Pendleton, Kenton, Grant, Campbell, Boone, Harrison, Bourbon, Clark, Madison, Montgomery, Fayette, Laurel, Jessamine, Estill, Mercer, Powell, Scott, Bath, Woodford, Menifee.

3. THE METROPOLITAN-To be composed of the counties of Jefferson, Oldham, Trimble, Owen, Shelby, Franklin, Anderson, Washington, Marion, Boyle, Garrard, Bullitt, Meade, Nelson, Simpson, Hardin.

4. THE GREEN RIVER-Including the counties of Warren, Hart, Green, Taylor, Allen, Russell, Monroe, Metcalfe, Edmondson, Franklin, Butler, Ohio, Daviess, McLean, Muhlenburg, Breckinridge, Hancock, Hopkins, Henderson, Union, Webster, Logan, Simpson.

5. THE PURCHASE-Composed of the counties of the "Jackson Purchase," together with Trigg, Todd, Christian, Caldwell, Livingston. (I have probably omitted some counties as I have no map before me.)

The boundaries could be permanently fixed at the next State Teachers' Association and preliminary meetings be held this winter. Let the Presidents of each of the District Associations be ex-officio Vice Presidents of the State Association, and the Secretaries, Assistant Secretaries, the Executive Committee and the Committee on Programme to have a member selected by each of the District Associations. Let each County Association elect a delegate to the State Teachers' Association, constituting the House, and each District Association three representatives, constituting the Senate.

If we can induce thorough organization under this plan, we will be able to make the teachers of Kentucky a power in public affairs. What do you say to an educational meeting to consider this, to be held, say at Maysville, or Paris, during the Christmas holidays?

I will appoint meetings for other parts of the State and communicate with the Commissioners urging the organization of County Associations as preliminary to the general scheme. What we need in Kentucky is thorough organization of our educational public, and the cordial co-operation with the Superintendent of Public Instruction in his efforts to put forward the system of common schools.

IN answer to the question propounded by Dr. Henderson on the propriety of holding an educational meeting, either at Maysville or Paris, with a view of effecting a district organization, we would say, it meets our hearty approval. From private correspondence we can vouch for a full attendance, many teachers having freely expressed their views and willingness to attend the first meeting. As to the place of meeting, we are in favor of Paris, believing it to be the most accessible place within the limits of the "Northeastern" district. We solicit correspondence on the subject from the city superintendents and principals of schools, of Paris, Covington, Lexington, Frankfort, Maysville, Cynthiana, and Catlettsburg. Let us hear from you at once that we may be able to announce the time and place, in our next issue.

WHEN shall we hold our next annual meeting of the State Teachers' Association? We have a communication on the subject received too late for this issue but will appear in our next. It is suggested that our next meeting be held at Put-in-Bay, Ohio. We think the idea a capital one and therefore we shall vote in the affirmative. The most successful preparation of the teacher is contact, association with his fellows. He should not be satisfied to spend his vacation in his own county or state but ready to embrace such an opportunity as the one suggested. We reserve further notice for next issue.