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SCHOOL CELEBRATION. The schools in the town of Lenox, Madison county, held an impromptu celebration on Saturday the 19th ult., at Wampsville. There must have been at least 800 children present, accompanied by a goodly number of parents and friends of education. The whole affair was arranged by the Female Teachers, and placed under the direction of Mr Chapman, their efficient Town Superintendent of Schools. "At an early hour, a procession numbering 310 children properly arranged in carriages, with their banners gaily floating to the breeze, enlivened the Clockville road, while less lengthened lines of joyous youth were meeting them in every direction as they arrived.

One school in the village of Clockville, in charge of Miss J. L. Douglass, was represented by 109 scholars, with 23 banners. The train from this district consisted of 150 persons, filling 26 wagons. The scene was thrillingly interesting when all were marshalled in due order in front of the village church. Escorted by the Sconondoa Band, they marched to the beautiful grounds in front of the residence of CHARLES DE FARRIER, Esq., where they were soon properly arranged upon seats prepared for the occasion.

By Miss Dics.-The Rod-A thing used by Aaron to open the waters of the Red Sea that the children of Israel might pass through unharmed, but by modern teachers it is used to afflict and punish the children of men as they pass through the Red Sea of knowledge.

By Roswell Randall.-The Teachers of our Country-A peace-army infinitely more valuable than the war-army which invaded Mexico. May their days be as prosperous as their profession is honorable and useful.

By Sophia Loomis.-Integrity without knowledge is weak and worthless, but knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

A large number of sentiments, interspersed with music from the band, were presented, and responded to in an appropriate manner; and the exercises closed without one occurrence to mar the pleasures of the occasion, and only to add to the impetus given to the cause of education by the faithful and energetic teachers of that town. We wish them the success due to their enlightened efforts, and hope the community among whom they labor will reward them liberally and respect them for their good works.

TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.-We would remind Town Super. intendents and Teachers, of the necessity of making the pre

The exercises consisted of Prayer by Rev. Wm. H. Cooper, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Wampsville, and ad dresses by Edward Cooper, of Syracuse, B. F. Chapman,liminary arrangements for organizing Teachers' Institutes, Town Superintendent, Charles De Farrier, and others, with music from the band between the several speakers. During the time occupied in speeches, the closest attention was given by the large concourse of children, and the hundreds of citizens who participated with them in the pleasures and benefits of the occasion.

A collation, liberally provided and elegantly arranged, was disposed of with right good zest and becoming decorum, after which sentiments were given and responded to in the usual manner. The toasts were all pertinent to the occasion, and like the mottos upon the banners, were rich in the truths conveyed.

Through the politeness of one of the teachers, we have been furnished with several of the sentiments, which we are reluctantly compelled to omit. We select a few to indicate the spirit of the occasion and the zeal with which the teachers enter upon the duties of their profession.

Miss Sarah Loomis, a graduate of the Normal School, made the following appropriate reference to her late gifted instructor: "The lamented D. P. PAGE-the great Teacher-the zealous advocate and firm friend of universal education. His influence will never cease to exist, but extend in widening and glorious results to be felt long after those on whom it was personally exerted shall have gone to the same bourne, and the names of Alexander and Napoleon shall have vanished from the memory and praises of man. kiad."

The deep emotion with which this sentiment was received indicate with what reverence society cherishes the memory

of its real benefactors.

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in conformity with the law, with as little delay as possible.The filing of the certificate of a majority of Town Superintendents in each county, and the designation, by the County Clerk, an advisory committee to manage the Institute, should be done in time to give general notice of the time and place of meeting. The law requires the attendance, in counties of 40,000 inhabitants, of 50 teachers, or persons intending; to become such, at the Institute during ten working days; hence the necessity of early action in regard to organization.

If committees charged with the management of Institutes, will communicate to us an outline of their arrangements, we will cheerfully assist in giving them publicity.

BOOK REVIEWS.

LIFE AND TIMES OF SILAS WRIGHT, late Governor of the State of New York, by JABEZ D. HAMMOND, and published by HALL & DICKSON, Syracuse.

This work exhibits the same impartiality and sacred regard for truth which distinguish the author's Political History from the year 1789 to 1841-a work which has been so extensively circulated and generally approved as to create the most favorable impressions in regard to the author's integrity of purpose and its faithful execution in the work before us.

The author, in his preface, very properly observes, in regard to the Life of Mr. WRIGHT, "that, in my judgment, to describe the man as he really was, and his actions, both in public and private life, as they truly were, was the imperious duty of his biographer; and that a simple narrative, ‘a plain tale,' embracing those objects, is the best eulogy of a great and good man."

Mr. Wright's conduct and fortunes as a public man, and his views as a statesman, are truthfully and impartially recorded, and although the feelings of the author are evidently prepossessed in favor of the Hero of his story, we can perceive no desire to bestow upon him servile and unmerited praise.

from the most reliable sources, of Silas Wright at home, is to The author's description, which it appears he obtained

us the most interesting part of the biography.

he is. It is there, where impatience, envy, irascibility, and "It is there," says our author, "where you see the man as all the bad passions to which poor human nature is subjec

are too often displayed without restraint; and it is there where the kindly emotions of the heart are exhibited, and where they exist unadulterated with sinister motives. It is by the domestic fireside-it is in the social intercourse with one's family, and neighbors, and intimate friends, where there is no inducement for affectation and disguise, that the beams of "the soul's calm sun shine" are most conspicuously and most sensibly felt. To see Silas Wright as Silas Wright, we must look at him in the family of the old neighbor and friend of his father, Capt. Moody, in the remote and quiet village of Canton."

From the birth of Mr. Wright in 1795, to the year 1841, the labors of the author are confined to the subject of his biography; but in continuing the account of his life, Mr. Hammond says in his preface, 'from the year 1840 to the close of his administration of the government of New York, the history of the political parties which existed during that period, is naturally and alnost necessarily resumed and continued.After he retired from the gubernatorial chair, there remains to his biographer little other labor than the painful task of recording his death." Accordingly Judge Hammond resumes his political history, where his second volume, to which we have before referred, closes and continues it down to the adjournment of the Constitutional Convention, and the death of Gov. Wright. This part of the work is very ample. and may, by some readers, be considered too diffuse. The action of all the parties and fragments of parties from the year 1846 and the characters and movements of all the distinguished partizans, including, of course, the more conservative and radical whigs, the hunker and barn-burning democrats, the abolitionists, the native Americans, the anti-renters and national reformers, appear to be impartially and faithfully de lineated, thus preserving, in one connected view as it were, a grand panorama of political operations in the State of New York, and to some extent in the nation, during the interesting

period to which we have alluded.

Chapter 15 gives the proceedings of the Democratic Convention at Baltimore in 1844, and contains many important facts not heretofore generally known. They were obtained it appears, from a delegate to that Convention, and are given by the author as reliable. We could not but observe, that although the author, in all other parts of his work, has not afforded evidence of personal feeling cr prejudice, he betrays in his remarks on the action of this Convention, a strong aversion to the policy which governed on that occasion.

The analysis of Messrs. Croswell and Sutton's Report of the Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of this State in 1846, constitutes a very valuable portion of this work. Its arrangement is simple and lucid. The history of the Convention is brief, but presents distinctly its action on all the important questions which came before that body, and the reasons upon which such action was founded. We have no hesitation in expressing the opinion that a student of Constitutional law, by reading the twenty-first chapter of this work, will obtain as much useful information in two hours as he would derive from reading ninetcen hundred closely printed columns of the regular reports of the convention, loaded as they necessarily are with all the formal proceedings of an organized deliberative assembly.

We fear out remarks on this new work have been extend ed to an unreasonable limit-certainly much more than we anticipated when we commenced. We therefore conclude by saying that the two volumes of Judge Hammond's Political History, published in 1842, and the one now published by Messrs. Hall & Dickson, furnish a complete body of the political history of this State, from the year 1789 to the time of the adoption of the new Constitution in 1846, together with the biography of one of the most distinguished Statesmen cf the age.

The three volumes are bound in a uniform and durable manner for public and District School libraries. The neces sity of having such a work where reference to it can be made by the mass of our citizens, is too obvious to require a word from us. Those entrusted with the duty of selecting books for school libraries, will readily see the importance of giving due attention to this work. We have no hesitation in recommending it as being as reliable and accurate a political history as can be written, and we hope it may find a ready sale and many careful readers.

The work is finely embellished with portraits of Governors Wright, Bouck, and Young, and is printed and bound in a style that reflects great credit upon its enterprising publishers, MODERN FRENCH LITERATURE. BY L. RAYMOND DE VERICOUR, revised, with notes alluding particularly to writers prominent in late political events in Paris, by WM. STAUGHTON CHASE, A. M. Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln. 1848. To understand the character of any people, their literature should be studied; but who can read all the valuable works which a prolific press daily throws upon society? The na tional progress of France has been 100 generally viewed through the medium of her fictitious writers and the never. ending descriptions of Parisian manners-by the hack-writers appended to the literary machinery of the country. The appetite for this floating trash has been fully glutted, and consequently many have supposed that France has furnished nothing but this literary offal during the last quarter of a century; but those who suppose that she has degenerated in patient learning, fruitful science and varied knowledge, are greatly mistaken, as they will perceive by a perusal of the work before us. The author gives a brief history of the literature of France, making reference to the most eminent writers of the past age. This is succeeded by a review of the Intellectual Philosophy and the Political Tendencies of the country. History, romance and poetry are severally treated of with reference to French authors, and with a fairness and ability that should commend this book to the favor

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An elegant steel-engraved portrait of the renowned poet, orator and historian, whose influence as a politician has been alike conservative and valuable upon the destiny of France -the patriotic Lamartine-embellishes the work. This. with the excellent notes of the American editor, adds much to the value of the book. It may be found at the Bookstore' of Stoddard & Babcock, Salina street.

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CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, Philadelphia, June 15, 1917. GENTLEMEN, I have examined with unusual satisfaction the First Book and Class-Book of Etymology, by Mr. James Lynd. These books both in their plan and execution. give evidence of having been prepared by one practically ac-1 quainted with the difficulties of the subject, and able successfully to meet them. I have long considered the study as one of primary importance, and I am free to say, that I think Mr. Lynd's work the greatest advance that has yet been made towards a practical and efficient method of teaching it. The conviction has been for some time gaining ground, that the study of the analysis of words into their elements, of the meaning of these elements and the method of combining them-in other words, the study of Etymologyis essential, especially to the mere English scholar, to a proper and intelligent comprehension of the language. These exercises, also, like all rational exercises connected with the study of language, have been found to be one of the most lish, and or every pupil added to an established school. Teachers efficient means of diciplining the youthful mind. But hither- furnished on application. The best recommendations are requir to serious difficulties have been experienced from the wanted. All communications must be post paid. of text-books precisely adapted to the necessities of English E. H. WILC X, Proprietor. scholars; and many teachers have omitted what they be126 Nassau-st., New-York lieved to be an important branch of primary instruction' because no method of teaching it had been presented that!

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seemed suficiently practical. Mr. Lynd's books, I think, H just published and, or sale, price $225, by

will go far to remove this difficulty, They are evidently

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