Morning journal and courier., 1890-11-19
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.


to, 205 pages. Price one dollar.) This is
a capital book for American girls. The
advice in regard to obtaining sufficient
knowledge of the equestrian art is dis
eliminating and excellent. The would-be
good rider must not despise the first les
sons. Position, balance and handling the
reins are important matters. The author
encourages the woman who would sue
ceed as q rider by these words: "There is
no field of knowledge into which the
American woman has attempted to enter
in which she has not demonstrated her
ability to compete, when she chooses to
put forth all her energy, with her sisters
of other nations, but she must work and
must work steadily. - The Amer
lean woman can learn anything, can do
anything Do you learn to ride, and, hav
ing done it, keep ridingl"
ssThose Raeburn Girls" by Mrs. A.. F..
Raffensberger, author of "Patience Pres
ton, NJ D." Boston; D. Lothrop & Co.,
12 NO., 1898 pages. Price $1.25) A sensi-
BILE, helpful, common-sense story. One
that will encourage those who have youth
and talent to use their abilities, sure that
they can earn livelihood, if they will but
make the effort and "work with q stout
heart and resolute will" Professor Rae
bum died leaving his family with little
means, but the children, mostly girls,
served and cooked for the public, kept
school and raised flowers to sell, and the
boys, who were too manly to go through
college leaning upon their sisters for sup
port, went into the machine shop for usu-
al wages; but they all achieved success
financially and socially, and proved to
those about them that truly noble souls
are not among those who despise manual
labor.
''Stories of the Civil War;" by Alfred
F. Blaisdell. Boston; Lee & Shepard, 12
no.. IA pages. Price one dollar) A
capital gift book to a youth, as nefp to
comprehend the dark and sorrowful days
of the rebellion. The young people of the
| present generation can scarcely realize the
self-sacrifice and patriotism and suffering
of those four years of internecine strife,
| which resulted in the freedom of the
slave and victory for the "dear old flag"
| 1t is we'll that the youth of America learn
| at what great cost the union was pre-
| served The book is well illustrated and
contains wood-cuts of President Lincoln
and several of the noted generals, north
ern and southern, of that period. Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the
Republic" and several other lyrics of the
wartime are also in this patriotic volume
''In and Out of Central America" and
other sketches and studies of travel, by
Frank Vincent, author of "Around and
About South America, etc. New York;
d. Appleton & Co., 12 mo-, 246 pages. }
An interesting book of travels in regions
seldom visited by those who can describe
as well the scenes and wonders they be-
hold. Stephens (the prince of travellers
before Bayard Taylor began to journey
and write), acquainted the world with the
l rarx;ar Of V,,aofon and ca1lad affaution tn
Central America, but Frank Vincent gives
us the more modern picture, and with
maps and illustrations helps us to under
stand his graphic pages. The portrait OF
General Barillas, president of Guatemala,
faces the title page. General Bogran,
PRECEDENT of Honduras, is also shown.
There are representations of a moth eleven
Tsica owl, study of ferns, Contemplating
in Guatemala and the sacred white ele
phant. The chapters describing visits tc
the Antilles, to Cambodia and to Burmah
the land of the snowy pachyderms. There
is an interesting chapter upon the life and
character of Dom Pedro. The book de
serves q place beside the works of othel
writer's. who endure the dissomforts o.
journeying and voyaging, and then give
forth, in varying phraseology, the impress
sions and experiences of their travelling
hours to the stay-at-homes, who find i
easier to sit by the evening lamp and read
| of far-off lands than it would be to pacl
| their trunks and see for themselves 4
traveller who writes with q graphic pen de
serves tine thanks of readers everywhere
and a publisher who will put his pages be
tween covers adorned with red-breasted
green parrots with long white tails.
.School Supervision, by J. L. Pickard
LII. d. CNew York; d. Appleton & Co.
a 12 no., IT'S pages.) This is one of the In
Q ternational Education series, edited by w
!. 7. Harris, whose preface favor superinten
!, dency in schools. The preface contain
also reference to our state, which will b
: of interest. He compares school supervi
sion with the possession of o school fund
s'The state of Connecticut had obtained
1795 a school fund of one million dollar
q from the sale of its Western Reserve
! Connecticut was thus enabled TO provide
and did provide from the beginning G
this century, an elementary common
o school education for all classes free of e1
Q pense. Its backwoods districts held thei
q three months schools, and its more popr
lous districts held schools of six and eigf
months duration, and supplemented th
proceeds of the school fund by rate-billl
Had the law disbursing this fund provide
|, that each district receiving it should raii
Is an equal amount by taxation, there is n
q question that Connecticut would have h
q tanned its supremacy in popular education
for it would have been the first state
: invent or adopt new devices for the pc
@ fection of its system. But its reliance O
n the school fund for the entire support
its schools proved bane in the end. B
! fore 1887 Connecticut surpassed the 9th,
r states in the education Of its people. B,
n the mighty engine of supervision wielde
by Horace Mann immediately turned Il
scale in favor of Massachusetts," Fro
the table of contents one can perceive tn
y the reader who is thoroughly interested
st our public schools will have a feast, an
Q, DIR. Pickard has fulfilled his implied pror
a ises admirably The historical sketch
school supervision in the United States
70 valuable for reference, and represents e.
Of couraging progress. The incidental, pa
Of tial and professional character of such s
\. pervision is delineated. There is an i
- structive chapter ON state supervision, al
~ the qualifications and value of city al
ID county superintendents are describe
n Graduation, course of study, promotion
:, examinations, the superintendent's rel
ton to parents and patrons, and to t
ct physical training of pupils, and the rel
I'd tion of the superintendent to the educ
bs tional board, to the discipline of pupi
:. are among the topics wisely treated.
IL pendix A speaks of the important relati
of the public schools to morality and re
gion. Appendix B asks, sswhat shall
do with our boysf" A fine index clio.
"a. this useful and acceptable contribution
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