INTELLIGENCE.

Geo. T. Littlefield, for several years Principal of the Franklin School, Somerville, and a teacher of high standing, has entered upon his duties as master of the Prescott School, Charlestown. His P. O. Address is still Somerville.

W. T. Leonard, lately Principal of the Greenfield High School, is now conducting the Highland Institute at Petersham.

A. E. Gibbs, teacher of the Westfield High School has been called to the Superintendency of the Rochester (N. Y.) schools, salary, $2,000.

Andrew E. Rankin, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., and a graduate of Middlebury College, has been appointed Secretary of the Vermont Board of Education.

C. R. Ballard, is the newly appointed Principal of the Vermont State Normal School, established a short time since at Castleton.

Boston. The Rice School, for boys, named in honor of Hon. A. H. Rice, and located at the south end, in the old Franklin school building, was recently established with Lucius A. Wheelock as Master; David A. Caldwell, Sub-Master, Amos M. Leonard, Usher, and Florena Gray, Head Assistant.

A new house is building for the Wells School, at an estimated cost of about $150,000.

A house similar to this is in the process of erection at South Boston, to accommodate a school soon to be organized, and named the Norcross School, in honor of the present Mayor.

Wm. F. Davis and Francis A. Harris are appointed Ushers in the Latin School, and Moses Woolson in the High School.

Edward Southworth, of the Centre Grammar School, Quincy, has been chosen Usher in the Dwight School, and Fred. C. Ellis of Swampscott, in the Bigelow. Bessie T. Capen, Head Assistant in the Wells School, has been transferred to an Assistant's place in the Girls' High and Normal School.

Appointments of female teachers have been made in the several districts since the 1st of September, as follows:

Adams. Flora L. Close, Clara J. Doane.

Bigelow.-W. E. Morse, S. B. Packard.

Brimmer.-M. R. Brigham, Katie C. Martin.

Chapman. Addie A. Spencer.

Everett. Abby C. Haslet.

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Franklin. Georgie E. Abbott, Ellen M. Hughes, Mary S. Russell.
Hancock.-M. L. Macomber, O. M. E. Rowe, Mary E. Skinner, M. C. Halliday.
Lawrence. Lucy M. Cragin, Adeline E. Patch.

Phillips. Carrie A. Morrill, Anna E. Davis.

Prescott.-H. L. Deering, Annie G. De Silva, Lucy E. Ring.

Quincy. Emily E. Maynard, Louisa Bowker.

Rice. Henrietta Jenkins, H. W. Leatherbee, Jennie E. Haskell.
Wells.-Ella A. Baker.

Winthrop. - Caroline Nolan, Mary F. Light, Elizabeth A. Riley.

The graduates of the Latin School propose to erect a marble statue in the hall of the school-building, to the memory of their comrades who fell in the war. Fifty have died in the service. The statue will cost $6,000.

Salaries. At the last meeting of the School Committee the salary of the Superintendent of the Training School and the Head Assistant in the Normal School was raised to $1500; and that of the Assistants to $1000 per annum.

His Honor Mayor Norcross has presented to Mr. James Hovey, Master of the Phillips School, a gift of $250, to be expended in books for the library of the first class.

Williamstown.

A fine graded and high school building has just been completed and organized with four classes, in Williamstown. The teacher of the high school department is Miss Smith, lately of Springfield.

Pittsfield. The new high school-house at Pittsfield, was dedicated two or three weeks since. A large class is in attendance.

New London, N. H.— The edifice soon to be erected for the New London (N. H.) Literary and Scientific Institute, will be 175 feet long, three stories high, and will accommodate 400 students. The cost will be about $60,000, and the money is secured.

A new $15,000 school-house was dedicated in November last, at New Britain, Ct.

A State Teachers' Convention was held at Lewiston, Me., on Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving week. Messrs. Geo. A. Walton, of Lawrence, and D. B. Hagar, of Salem, Mass., were present, and addressed the convention.

Owen Stone, for some time master of the Congress St. Grammar School, Portland, Me., has returned to his former charge, the Warren (Mass.) High School. The abolition of the state normal school by the last Connecticut Legislature. and the general low estate of popular education throughout that commonwealth, have produced a series of three conferences of leading educators at Hartford and New Haven, by which a committee of thirteen persons has been designated to call public meetings, raise and expend money, and to take what other active and practical measures they may deem expedient to improve the common schools of the state. The programme outlined for the winter is a state convention at Hartford or New Haven, with a full discussion of the matter, and at least one public address in every village and neighborhood in the state. The movement is a strong, needful and honorable one, and if prosecuted and continued as begun, cannot fail to be of incalculable benefit to the highest and best interests of the state. The committee has been made up irrespective of political parties or ecclesiastical denominations, and includes Gov. English, ex-Gov. Hawley, President Cummings of Wesleyan University, Rev. Dr. Horace Bushnell, of Hartford, Mr. Daniel C. Gilman, of New Haven, and others whose names are an assurance of earnest labor, wisely directed, and with valuable result.

Prof. J. W. Armstrong, Prof. Hermon Krusi, Mrs. Mary Howe Smith, Miss Ellen Seaver, and Miss Matilda Cooper, of the Oswego Training School, N. Y.,

were employed by the School Board of Cincinnati to hold a Normal Institute during the last week of August. The same teachers were employed by the Cleveland Board, during the first week in September. Many of the leading teachers of northern Ohio were present at the latter place.

John Hancock, formerly a successful teacher in Cincinnati, has been elected Superintendent of schools in that city.

A bill to establish a system of common schools for the District of Columbia, is in the hands of a select committee of five on the part of the House.

Cumberland, the second city in Maryland, has never had until now, a schoolhouse worthy of the name. A noble building has just been fitted up in good style, in which a free school of six hundred pupils is now in successful operation. The Louisiana Convention, now in session in New Orleans, is considering the establishment of free schools, open to all children between six and eighteen years of age, without reference to race, color, or previous condition. Let the work go

on.

COLLEGES. We give the number of undergraduates in our New England colleges as far as we have been able to gather the statistics.

Yale, 505; Amherst, 244; Brown, 186; Bowdoin, 114; Waterville, 64; Harvard, 479; Dartmouth, 229; Williams, 182; Middlebury, 65; Tufts, 46.

BOOK NOTICES.

FRENCH'S ELEMENTARY ARITHMETIC FOR THE SLATE, by John H. French, L.L.D. pp. 220. Harper & Brothers.

We believe the new and practical features of this book must commend themselves to teachers, as well as interest pupils. We will point out one or two only as examples. On the 25th page, a farm is neatly plotted with brook and pond, woodland, pasture, orchard and tillage. The number of acres in each lot, and the length of its boundaries is plainly marked. This picture, for the child will so consider it, furnishes material for sixteen examples in addition. On the fortysecond page, is a map of the Mississippi River, and its valley. Placed by the names of cities upon its bank are numbers showing their distance from its mouth. Twenty-six examples in subtraction are based upon the map. The arrangements of topics is philosophical, and the many unessentials which cumber most of our school arithmetics are wisely omitted.

We shall take this book into the school-room.

THE PUTNAM ARITHMETIC DRILL AND REVIEW CARDS AND KEY, by Francis Cogswell, Principal of the Putnam Grammar School, Cambridge, Mass. Brewer & Tileston.

The object of these cards is to test the thoroughness of pupils, and includes nearly all the subjects treated upon in our arithmetics. The key furnishes an almost endless number of answers based upon the ten cards. Try them.

THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE 19TH CENTURY. By Rev. Albert Barnes. 450 pp. Harpers: For sale by A. Williams & Co.

This book consists of ten lectures delivered in the Mercer Street Church, New York, Jan, and Feb. 1867, before the Union Theological Seminary. It is sufficient to give the name of an author so well known to the Christian public on both sides of the ocean, to attract attention to this work. We have read several of these lectures with deep interest, and commend them to the many who are now thinking upon the great themes of which they treat. We give the subjects

of the lectures:

I. The Limitations of the Human Mind on the Subject of Religion.

II. Historical Evidence as Affected by Time.

III. Historical Evidence as Affected by Science.

IV. The Evidence of Christianity from its Propagation.

V. Miracles: The Evidence in the Nineteenth Century that they were Performed in the First.

VI. The Argument for the Truth of Christianity, in the Nineteenth Century, from Prophecy.

VII. Inspiration of the Scriptures with Reference to the Objections made in the Nineteenth Century.

VIII. The Evidence of the Divine Origin of Christianity from the Personal Character and the Incarnation of Christ.

IX. The Christian Religion as Adapted to the Wants of Man, as Illustrated in these Eighteen Hundred Years.

X. The Relation of Christianity to the World's Progress in Science, Civilization, and the Arts, in the Nineteenth Century.

THE LECTURES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE of INSTRUCTION, 1867. — The last annual meeting of the American Institute was marked by the importance of the subjects considered, the ability with which they were treated, and the earnestness of the several speakers. We are glad to welcome this record of its proceedings, while the interest they excited is still fresh. The lectures delivered, papers read, and the reports of the discussions, will richly repay perusal.

We would call attention particularly to Mr. Elbridge Smith's Lecture upon The Founders of the Institute, and its first President. This was prepared with evident care, and with the accompanying notes, gives information every friend of the Institute will be glad to possess.

The volume can be obtained at BREWER & TILESTON'S.

THE LADY'S ALMANAC for 1868. pp. 128. George Coolidge. Boston.

This little annual, besides the essentials of an Almanac, contains many choice maxims, recipes, and extracts from the poets. Copies mailed for 50 cents. Address the publisher, 3 Milk st.

UNITED STATES MUSICAL REVIEW. pp. 32, $2.00. J. L. Peters. 200 Broadway, New York.

The publisher claims a monthly issue of 10,000 copies, although but four

months have passed since its first appearance. The December No. contains ten pages of good music, vocal and instrumental, and also a Sheet Music Review of six pages, a prominent feature of which is, that not only the name of a piece is given, but the key, compass, difficulty, and adaptation to school use, is marked. The intelligence is fresh and varied. Our musical friends will gladly welcome this monthly review.

PRANG'S CHROMO.- Messrs. L. Prang & Co., 159 Washington st., Boston, have just issued this Journal of Art, calling attention to their exquisite specimens of chromo-lithography or picture painting in colors. Their efforts to reproduce the works of great artists have been most successful, as the " Groups" of Tait, the "Landscapes" of Bricher, and the "Magdalena" of Correggio bear witness. Their illuminated "Beatitudes," Sunday School Cards, Rewards of Merit, and Albums are well known and admired. Principals of high schools and other teachers of advanced pupils, can secure specimens of these chromos, at greatly reduced rates, if being satisfied of their merit, they will in return, bring them to the attention of their pupils.

OUR SCHOOL-DAY VISITOR. J. W. Daughaday & Co. 424 Walnut St., Philadelphia. $1.25 a year.

This sprightly magazine for young people enters now upon its twelfth volume, and justly claims an honorable place among more costly periodicals. Its style, type, and matter are attractive.

THE WATERDAle Neighbors. - A Novel. By the author of "Paul Massie," 8v. Harpers' Library of select novels, No. 302, for sale by A. Williams & Co., Boston.

THE LAWRENCE COLLEGIAN.-This monthly paper, conducted by the students of Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, makes its first appearance. Its salutatory is hopeful. We trust the Alumni and friends of the University will secure its success.

We have just received, from the prolific press of Lee & Shepard, GOLDEN TRUTHS. A beautiful religious gift-book. Tinted paper. 16mo. pp. 240. $2.00.

CLAUDIA. By Amanda M. Douglass. 18mo. pp. 380. $1.50.

TOMMY HICKUP. By Rosa Abbott Parker. 16mo. pp. 254. $1.00.

BILLY GRIME'S FAVORITE. By May Mannering, author of "Climbing the Rope." 16mo. pp. 190. $1.00.

DOTTY DIMPLE AT HER GRANDMOTHER'S, By Sophie May, author of "Little Prudy Stories." 18mo. pp. 190. 75 cents.

The last three are pretty New Year's books for the children.

NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS.

Although we have three more than the usual number of pages, we are obliged to defer to the February number articles by "S. B." and "M.," a Practical Exercise by "J. A. G.," and some miscellaneous matter, all of which we have in type.