BOOK NOTICES. WORCESTER'S QUARTO DICTIONARY of the English Language. Boston Hickling, Swan & Brewer. 1860. pp. 1856. Price, $7,50. : Our limits will not allow us, if we were able, to speak of the particular merits of this excellent work; it is sufficient for us to say that in every instance in which we have had occasion to refer to an English Dictionary, our wants have been supplied, by finding, in the work laid on our table by Dr. Worcester's publishers, a full and satisfactory definition of the technical terms used in the arts and sciences, in which the teachers of our higher schools are required to give more or less instruction. We have been much pleased, also, in tracing out the origin and history of some words in our language-for which account we are entirely indebted to Dr. Worcester, inasmuch as no other Dictionary or work on philology within our reach, has furnished us with the proper means. To the teachers of our common schools, Dr. Worcester's Quarto Dictionary must prove a great help, and we hope they will immediately avail themselves of its assistance. S. THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW for January, 1860: These Reviews, together with the Edinburgh, Westminster, and Blackwood, form a rich repast for every scholar who is desirous of keeping himself informed in regard to the general affairs of Europe. They are laden with the products of the best writers in English Literature, and well deserve a niche in every library. New vols. commence with January. Now is a good time to sub>cribe. Price of the four Reviews and Blackwood, $10. S. PRIMARY SCHOOL TABLETS.-By J. D. Philbrick, Superintendent of the Public Schools of Boston. Brown, Taggard & Chase. 1860. Mr. Philbrick has done much to promote the cause of education--but it appears he has now laid his are at the root of the whole system of popular instruction, and given to the little children the means by which they may be interested, and at the same time receive all the aid necessary to teach them to read, write and draw. These lessons are printed on tablets of thick paper, twenty in number, and designed to be suspended on the wall of the schoolroom, so that the whole class can receive the instruction at the same time. In our opinion, in those districts where there are a large number of small scholars, no other expenditure of money could be so profitable as to send an order to the publishers of these tablets, and secure a set for their schools. S. LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENT.-Messrs. Brown, Taggard & Chase of Boston, have in press a new and complete edition of Carlyle's Essays, revised, enlarged and annotated by the author. The work will be in four volumes, printed at the Riverside press, on fine tinted paper, in the style of the Boston edition of the "Curiosities of Literature." It will have a copious index and new portrait, and will be altogether the finest edition of Carlyle ever issued on either side of the Atlantic. WEBSTER'S PICTORIAL DICTIONARY IN SOUTH AMERICA.The Merriams have just received an application from the "director of the collegiate institution at Nova Friburgo," Rio Janeiro, for twenty sets of their "Pictorial illustrations only." The professor says, They would be useful to me in some of the classes of the sciences." The illustrations are never sold separately from the body of the work, but this application indicates a high appreciation of their beauty and utility.-Springfield Republican. 66 REPORT OF TOWN SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, LUDLOW.— This is a neatly printed pamphlet of twelve pages, and gives a brief yet full account of the state of the schools in Ludlow, and the official movements of its efficient Superintendent, Moses Burbank, Principal of Black River Academy. The good and evil, both as regards teachers and their employers, are plainly and fearlessly stated. Query. Would it not be well for each town to cause its Superintendent's Report to be printed for circulation and future reference? LAMOILLE COUNTY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.-By request of "A Member," we publish the following addenda to the Report which appeared in the March number: The "A primary meeting of Superintendents of Schools in the County, convened at Johnson, in December. Rev. J. Dougherty was appointed Chairman of a Committee to take the initiatory steps toward the formation of a Teachers' Association. Chairman procured a copy of the Chittenden County Teachers' Association, and presented it on the 14th of January. This was adopted, as in your last, whereupon the following officers were chosen in organizing the Association: Rev. J. Dougherty, President; A. J. Blanchard, Corresponding Secretary; Phillip K. Gleed, Secretary; George Squire, Treasurer." CATALOGUE OF NEWBURY SEMINARY AND FEMALE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, 1859: Rev. F. E. King, Principal.—Ladies in Collegiate Institute, 83; Ladies in Seminary, 165; Gentlemen in Seminary, 200: By Terms-Winter, 82; Spring, 211; Summer, 70; Fall, 240. Collegiate Honors are awarded to young Ladies who graduate at the Institute. AN EXAMPLE WORTHY OF IMITATION.-We clip the following extract from a letter enclosing the writer's subscription for Vol. II. If any of our old subscribers cannot conscientiously follow his example, they will please return the present number (unsoiled) with notice to that effect, giving name and Post Office. "Without aiming to set myself up as an example, I think I can safely express the wish that the readers of the Journal would follow me this once, and send on the dollar, and not feel, as I fear a good many will, that, having given the thing a start, they have done their duty, and can now quietly sit still and see if it can live without their aid. I have got my dollar's worth, and I feel all the more willing to invest another dollar in a similar way.” We believe every candid reader of the Journal will come to the same decision. Says the St. Albans Messenger,-" Now is a good time to subscribe, and no teacher of Vermont can afford to be without it." |