58. When was the battle of Charonea fought, what armies were engaged and what were the consequences of the battle? 59. How long did Philip of Macedon reign, when and in what manner did he die, and by whom was he succeeded in the monarchy? 60. Describe the principal events of the reign of Alexander the Great prior to the expedition against Persia. 61. When did Alexander march into Asia and by what route? 62. Describe the principal events of the Macedonian invasion from the battle of the Granicus to the final defeat and death of Darius. 63. What countries were afterwards subdued by Alexander, and by what route did he return with his army to Babylon? 64. When and where did he die, and what was the extent of the Macedonian empire at the time of his death? 65. How was the Macedonian phalanx constituted, and what were its advantages and defects in military operations? 66. What was the nature of the government of Alexander the Great? 71. Relate the principal changes in the government of Macedonia from the partition of the empire to the death of Cassander. 72. When and by whom was Antioch founded? 73. Who was Demetrius Poliorcetes, and what were the principal events of his history? 74. What was the Achæan league, and during what period did it exist? 75. Name the kings of Macedonia and the length of their reigns from the death of Cassander to its conquest by the Romans OUR BOOK TABLE. THE MIND AND HEART. By William B. Fowle. Boston: Morris Cotton, 120 Washington Street. The original and selected articles which grace the pages of this little volume are of a character that elevates the youthful mind, and of a tone that not only interests but instructs the youthful reader. It is carefully compiled, and is worthy a place in every home. We have also received from the same publisher, THE SCHOOL HARP, and SCHOOL MELODIES, being a collection of pleasing and instructive songs and popular airs adapted to the use of schools and singing classes. We cheerfully recommend the above works to the attention of our readers. NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, April, 1857. Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co. This Prince of Magazines has paid its regular quarterly visit to our table, and as ever is the case, we enjoyed "a feast of rich things," as we sat in our arm chair, and pondered over its pleasant pages. We have been informed on reliable authority, that the second article in the work, entitled "Influence of the English Literature on the German," is from the accomplished pen of Professor James B. Angell, of Brown University. It is truly gratifying to read a magazine like this, which does not pander to the vitiated and morbid taste which is so prevalent among too many of of our reading community. SCHOOL AMUSEMENTS; OR HOW TO MAKE THE SCHOOL INTERESTING. By N. W. Taylor Root. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. This work contains rules for military and gymnastic exercises, with hints upon the general management of the school-room, with illustrative engravings. We commend this work to the serious consideration of all school teachers, for 76. When and under what name did Greece we opine they all will find some valuable hints in become a Roman province ? PROBLEMS. A man leaves Providence and travels toward Boston, the distance between the cities being 40 miles. During the first day he travels half way to Boston; the next day he turns about and goes half-way back to Providence; again, on the third day, he turns and travels half-way to Boston. Should he continue, thus, to change his course each day, and travel just half-way to the city before him, it is required to determine the whole distance traveled in n days. L. B. its perusal WE have often taken the liberty to recommend to teachers the study of MENTAL AND MORAL SCIENCE; and we now feel that we cannot do them a better service, than to call their attention to two other books, published by Ivison and Phinney, 321 Broadway, New York, We allude to HICKOK'S SCIENCE OF THE MIND, and HIKOK'S MORAL SCIENCE, both excellent works. They look at these great sciences from the proper stand-point, as seems to us, that of conscious ness. We cannot enter into a long review of their merits. But we must be allowed to say that their method is the natural one, and is developed with great clearness and power. We cordially commend them both as books, and their topics as subjects for thought and study to all teachess. WE take occasion to call attention to CORNELL'S SERIES OF GEOGRAPHIES, published by D. Appleton & Co. These books are finely got up and are admirably adapted to use in the school-room. The High School Geography has not been in use long, but many of its features are decided improvements on any other book that we know. We advise school committees to give this series an examinatian before making any changes in the geographical text-books in use in their schools. of Education. It is well illustrated. We do heartily commend this journal-Dr. Barnard's last and we believe best work-to the favor of teachers and educators. Cannot our Rhode Island men get him up a very large subscription for it. Price $3.00 a year-wonderful cheap. Send to F. C. Brownell, Hartford, Conn., or to the Rhode Island Schoolmaster. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND COLLEGE REVIEW is published by Calkins & Stiles and edited by Dr. Peters, Hon. S. S. Ramsdell and Dr. Wilder, at 348 Broadway, N. Y. The March number is very interesting and full of useful matter. We commend it to all teachers and to all engaged in the work of education. TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE YOUNG MEN'S MERCANTILE ASSOCIATION, of Cincinnati, gives a good account of a very useful should be made matters of public pride, and be remembered in the wills of all wealthy citizens. MCNALLY'S SERIES OF GEOGRAPHIES is pub-institution for any city. These associations lished by A. S. Barnes & Co., No. 51 William Street, New York, and is said by a very excellent teacher, for whose judgment we have great respect, to be the very best one out. We have had no time to examine it; but we can cordially endorse anything that might be said of the beauty and elegance of its workmanship, and good arrangement of its lessons and questions. SMITH'S DEFINER'S MANUAL. New York: A. THE NORTH CAROLINA COMMON SCHOOL JOURNAL, published quarterly, and edited by C. H. Greensboro' and Raleigh, N. C. We have reWiley, State Superintendent of Common Schools, ceived the March number of this journal. THE EDUCATIONAL HERALD for April has been S. Barnes & Co. This work will prove a valuable received. The reading matter it contains is good, acquisition not only to the scholar and student, It is published at the rooms of the American and its typographical appearance is excellent. but to the public generally. It is not only a De-School Institute, New York city, by Smith & finer, but every word therein has the correct pronunciation given with it. We like the work Boyd. Price, 50 cents per year, in advance. much, and have laid it carefully by for future reference. VIVIA; OR, THE SECRET OF POWER. THE BORDER ROVER.-We noticed these works last month, and since that time we have had the pleasure of perusing their pages more attentively; and every time we open these volumes, we find something new to admire in them. They well sustain the character of all the works that are issued from the well-known publishing house of T. B. Peterson & Co., 102 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, edited by Henry Barnard, LL. D. The March number of this excellent educational magazine is before us. It contains twenty well written articles, and two portraits—one of John Wichern, founder of the Rough House, or Institute of Rescue at Horn, near Hamburgh, and the other of William Russell, Editor of the first series of the Journal THE April No.'s of THE CONNECTICUT COMMON SCHOOL JOURNAL, THE ILLINOIS TEACHER, and THE VOICE OF Iowa, have been received, and we extend to them the hearty welcome their merits deserve. THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO, for the year 1856. in this Report, for the cause of Education in the We are glad to hear such good news as we find thriving city of Chicago. WE have received the first number of THE SCHOOL VISITOR, a quarto monthly paper published at Steubenville, Ohio. Also, THE STUDENT AND SCHOOLMATE for April, and HARPER'S WEEKLY for April 11th. WE have received the April number of that children's delight-THE SCHOOL-FELLOW, published by Dix, Edwards & Co., New York. THE MASSACHUSETTS TEACHER for April well sustains the credit of its predecessors. The R. J. Schoolmaster. VOL. III. MAY, 1857. From Dickens' Household Words. My Brother Robert. CHAPTER I. His was a disappointed life, I have heard people say; but I, who have lived with him from the beginning to the end of it, can assert that it was not a disappointed life nor an unhappy one. Certainly not. What can a man want to see more in this world than the accomplishment of his plans, for which he has toiled early and late, expneding on them all his youth, hope, health, and energy? That others profited by his inventions, and grew rich on them, while he remained poor, neglected and obscure, is a mere secondary consideration. It was his work that he looked to, and not any possible rewards that it might bring him; and as he brought his work to a fair completion, and did his share of good in his day and generation, he had no right to be dissatisfied. I know it for a fact-he has told me so many a time. He would say: Don't complain, Mary. You might complain if I had failed altogether, but I have done my work, and that is enough. I declare I feel a proud man sometimes when I see what grand things my invention is helping others to do." I was less easily satisfied for him than he was for himself; but when I saw that murmuring really troubled him, I tried to keep my tongue quiet. People come now and look at his grave under the yew-tree, and go away and say they have seen it; and that is all the honor and profit my brother, Robert Janson, ever reaped NO. 4 from his life's labor. A year or two back some strangers came and proposed to put up a monument over his grave; but I warned them not to meddle with it as long as I lived. He would have been an old man now; but he died at thirty-seven; young, certainly-I grant that, and poor; because in his last broken-down years I had to support him-but not disappointed. He would never allow it living, and I will not allow it since he is dead. His was not a disappointed life. It will do no one any harm to tell his story now; and it will give no one any pain. I am the only personl eft in the world who ever had any interest in him. CHAPTER 11. We were a large family altogether, living in the farm-house at Alster Priors; my grandfather and grandmother, my father and mother, aunt Anna, and five children. This period, of course, dates as far back as I can remember. I was the eldest and Robert was the youngest. The others were Charles, who succeeded to the farm-Mark, who enlisted for a soldier, and was, we believed, but were never sure, killed in Spain, fighting with the French -and John, who died a boy. We got our first schooling in the village; reading, writing, and cyphering, and nothing more that I can call to mind. It was thought learning enough in those days amongst the yeoman class of farmers to which we belonged. From quite a little one, Robert seemed different from the rest of us, who were homely, contented folks, and everybody but my mother and me-aunt father, especially, was a lover of all things Anna especially-made a point of discourag- old: old books, old customs, old fashions, and ing his studious ways and ridiculing his fan- old-fashioned manners. Sir Roger and the cies. Perhaps there was no greater trial in his | Widow, uncle Tobey and Squire Western, much-tried life than the consciousness that might have been the personal friends of his his own family had no faith in him. Nobody youth, from the figure they made in his talk. but we two had patience with him. His He always addressed my mother, as dame, and grandfather, father and brothers, regarded him the servant women as lasses, speaking in a as a fool and idle ne'er-do-well. loud voice and broad accent that often made my mother wince. She was south country born and bred, and had been left as ward to the care of my grandparents, who, not knowing what else to do with her, married her to their son. She was younger than my father and pretty; but so quiet, delicate, and reserved, that Anna was mistress of the house much more than she. Aunt Anna was a big, strongfeatured woman, of great decision, and, as our family considered, of great learning also. She knew the names and properties of plants, was cognizant of signs in the weather, an interpreter of dreams and mysterious appearances in the sky; she was the oracle of Alsterdale, besides being a cunning hand at rising a pie and making conserves, jellies and custards. My brother Mark—the wild one-was her favorite; Robert she had not any love for, nor he for her. She was very foud of power, and always seemed most at ease with herself when she was either ruling or thwarting somebody. I very well remember his asking my grandfather one night, "Have you ever been to London, grandfather, or seen any of the great steamships or manufactories?" And "No, thank God!" was the fervent answer. This emphatic thanksgiving might be regarded as an epitome of the family sentiments: the gratitude of our elders for similar blessings was hourly expressed. They were strongholds of prejudice, and it was as difficult to effect a change or introduce an improvement amongst them as it is to overturn the fixed idea of a monomaniac. They had all, except my mother, been born in Alsterdale, and had vegetated there contentedly in unimpeachable respectability, never travelling more than a dozen miles from home: there they would die, and there be buried in a good old age. They were proud, too, and that with the most impracticable pride; for they gloried in their ignorant prejudices, and would not have exchanged them for the wisdom of Solomon. Living from generation to generation on their own farm-lands of Alster Priors, in the midst of a scanty and illiterate population of laborers, Robert was fond of the wheelwright's and above the small farmers and beneath the great carpenter's shops much more than of birdgentry-on a sort of debateable ground be- nesting and nutting, like his brothers; and tween both-they were isolated almost entire- Willie Paxton had often said that at ten years ly from society, and secluded in a dignified old he could handle his tools like a man. insignificance, which their hereditary integrity was in those places that he got his first knowlalone kept from being ridiculous. They felt edge of mechanics; the school-master, who, contempt for all new-fangled ideas; being for the time and place, was a well-instructed unable to bring their own to any other stand-person, brought him on in mathematics; and ard than that which allows worth only to what has been long established. Sometimes, like a puff of wind beyond the Fells, the story of some great invention came to disturb the calm torpidity of their existence. Then they would rouse up, wonder what the world was coming to, and hope it was not a tempting of Providence for mortal man to attain to such a knowledge, and to work such strange and powerful devices. My CHAPTER III. It our rector, who always would have it the lad was a genius, and worth his three brothers put together, lent him books and papers that gave accounts of inventions and things in science, as well as biographical sketches of men who had been distinguished in such matters. Robert used to like to call our attention to the small beginnings some of them had risen from; and aunt Anna would always try to spite him by saying that he need not let his mind hanker after those folks, for he was to be a farmer, and farm the Little Ings land. But Robert was the pleasantest tempered creature in the world, and never would be led into retorting on her. Sometimes, in his waggish way, he would draw on her to talk of herself; and would try to enlist her in his own pursuits; but she was too wary to be flattered by a boy, and he made no way with her. One morning, aunt Anna, Robert and I, were all three in the garden picking camomile flowers, a large bed of which supplied the pharmacopeia, when one of these talks took place. Robert asked aunt Anna how far from Alsterdale she had ever traveled? She replied that when she was young she had been at the Richmond balls, and that once she had gone with her father to the place where they hang folks, which she explained as being York. "You ought to be thankful you live in Alsterdale, Robert. Don't be always hankering Are you to receive as gospel every word old Tate says? Just let me state the case to you." Aunt Anna dropped basket and scissors, as she rose erect in her oratorical attitude. "Your father and Paul, when they came of age, each got some money under their grandfather's will. Marmaluke kept to his farming, but Paul gathered his substance together like the Prodigal Son, aud went and spent it—not in riotous living, certainly, but to just as little purpose among felons in jails and paupers in hospitals. Then he must needs publish to the world a host of abuses that he had discovered, and make himself enemies; so all his fine schemes came to naught, and he died as much from heart-break as neglect." "No, aunt Anna; his schemes have not come to naught: for what he begun other people have taken up and finished. Dr. Monson says so." "Don't be Dr. Anybody's mouthpiece; give after great, wicked towns," she said; "Ime your own words or none." rejoined my never want to see one again as long as I live-aunt, stooping to her task again. never!" The last generation of the Janson family had produced an unsuccessful poet, whom our grandmother said Robert was like in almost every point. We had no personal recollection of him, because he had died before any of us were born, but to my fancy and to Robert's uncle Paul had been heroic. Robert, always on the watch for aunt Anna's genial movements, now ventured to say: "I would rather be a man like uncle Paul than a farmer, aunt Anna; this seems such a sluggish life." "Trash!" was my aunt's contemptuous ejaculation. "Your uncle Paul was a poor weak creature. What good ever came of his philanthropy and book-writing? If he had taken the Little Ings Farm that you are to have, he might have been alive now, and worth money, instead of lying in Alsterdale churchyard. Poor Paul had a good heart, but not the spirit of a mouse; don't you take him as your model, Robert, if you don't want to come to his end." "Mr. Tate showed me a book of his, and said he was not only a fine genius, but a pious, devoted and truly admirable man.” "Learn to appreciate the relative value of things, and have an opinion of your own. 66 They are my words, too." "Very silly ones they are, then. I don't want to see any of you better men than your father or grandfather before you. They have always been respected, and Paul was more laughed at than anything else." "People don't laugh at him now. They honor him." "Lip-worship. What is it worth, when he has been dead these thirty years? He would have starved to death, if your father had not fetched him home. What is the good of looking at a man's grave? He is a warning, not an example, nephew Robert." "Was he happy, aunt Anna?" "Happy? I can't tell. He said to me, the night before he died, that nobody should take the post of an apostle of reform whose heart was not prepared for martyrdom. He did hope to do good at first, and hope kept him up while it lasted; but he had not pith enough; he was soon worn out.” "The camomile gathering was over, and, with a retrospective sigh to the memory of her brother, aunt Anna took up her basket, and went into the house. Robert and I, after strolling a few minutes longer in the garden, passed through the wicket-gate and across the bridge, to the church, which stood about five |