The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-10-28
The Educational Journal.

We have received the first No. of The Ed
ucational Journal, the organ of the Educa-
tional Association of Virginia. The editors
are Messrs. G.. ii. WINSTON, D. LEE POWELL,
X. VI. SMITH, THOMAS K. PRICE, and JOHN
NJ. STRoTHER, and the :" contributors" as
announced, constitute q large proportion Of
. the most distinguished men Of letters in the
State.
The No. before us is 4 good one. PROBES
sor GILpERsLEEyE's address is worth the
whole cost of the Journal for year. Com
modore MAuRY contributes letter on
"Deep-Sea Telegraphic Cords "Free
Schools in Virginia." by ", is not remarka-
BILE for choice rhetoric Re. g., " one OF the
"most important subjects claiming the at
"tention of the people Of Virginia at pre-
"sent is that the subjecD IN relation 10 free
"schools"l, but contains well-timed sug-
uestions. Professor j. A. TURNER furnishes
good article on "Text-Books and Lee
lures" The editors supply some amusing
paragraphs. Here is one: ...
"THERE's NoTHING New UNDER THE Sun
So it is said Solomon had often heard his
father and grandfather say before him. But
we have fresh Illustration of the truth OF
the saving. The old Confederate army joke,
Come from behind that sword-1 see your
head /" is, it seems, as old as the time OF
Cicero, who had son-in-law. Lentllus, q
man of small stature but gorgeous with his
long sword and home-guard uniform. When
the Consul stepped out, after lunch, to see
the well-dressed city militia march by, he
could not help exclaiming, as he beheld
Lentulus, sQuis meum generum ad gladium
alligayitI'o Which, as ours is not an edu-
cational journal, we may be allowed TO say
means "Who tied my son-in-law to that
sword?"]
The Journal designs to correct, among
other evils, "the stereotyped and uncon-
sidered commentator" which the, . news-
paper press" bestow upon new textbooks,
and, by way Of example, devotes one-third
of the space occupied by its ''Book Notices"
to new work on the General Principles
of Arithmetic" ''just published by one of
"the most successful teachers of Virginia,
"Mr. S. 7. PESDLEToN, of Richmond" As
we have also just received copy of this
book, from Messrs. BATES & WADDY
BgoTHERs,) we do its author the favor to
quote part of what the Journal says oft !:
90 From what we regret to say has been
but hurried and partial examination. Of the
work, we have been most fayorably i'm
pressed with its merits. limo other arith-
metlc have been treated with such exhaust
ing minuteness the Least Common Multiple
and Greatest Common Diyisor, while the
extensive application of the principles of
ratio and proportion in the Single and the
Double Rule of Three, in Interest, Dis
count, Partnerships, Insurance, &C., will be
found Of great value to those who have time
only for. limited course Of mathematical
studies. The generalization of principles,
their practical use, tho simpliiieation Of.
those which have been SO imperfectly and
unsatisfactory presented in the majority Of
the arithnletics thrust upon the public b.
those pets OF the publishers, the compound
srs Of schooLbooks, will, we believe, secnse
iarity." I = -
Dnrown oFinioni that thenew arithmetic
Wfllasyef hec9mea textbook, It isratfer
ap essay than q gehool-book: and the omis