least one hour each day. We learn from one of the teachers that the school is in a very flourishing and hopeful condition. The anniversary occurs July 8th, when four young ladies will graduate. RACINE COLLEGE.-We learn from the annual Catalogue that there are 140 students in attendance at Racine College. The number of students and the remarks upon the condition of the College, indicate a high degree of prosperity. A gold medal is presented each commencement to the best behaved scholar from St. James' Church, Chicago, also one to the best boy in conduct and studies from Milwaukee, and one to the best in conduct and studies in the College. The following healthy rules are enforced : 1. No tobacco shall be used. 2. Bounds shall not be broken. 3. Buildings not to be defaced. 4. No debts shall be contracted. 51 No bad language shall be used. 6. No books that are not approved shall be read. The College has a good gymnasium. BELOIT COLLEGE. -Commencement occurs July 13th. The graduating class numbers 17, the largest class that has yet graduated. LIPPINCOTT'S PRONOUNCING GAZETTEER OF THE WORLD.-Messrs. Lippincott & Co. have issued a new and enlarged edition of this work, bringing it down to the present time. See advertisement. E. II. BUTLER & Co. have a new advertisement of their Geogra phies and Histories. CALIFORNIA.-The Revised School Law provides for a State Board of Education, to consist of the Governor, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Principal of the State Normal School, Superintendents of Public Schools of San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Joaquin and two professional teachers, to be nominated by the Superintendent and confirmed by the Board. The Board have power to adopt a course of study, rules and regulations for the schools, prescribe books for the libraries and text-books for the schools, etc. The Superi endent is elected for four years, County Superintendents are elected for two years. They may enforce proper repairs on school-houses and out-buildings. Trustees shall require teachers to attend County Institutes: Children under eight years are not to be kept in school more than four hours daily. The State Snperintendent is to subscribe for a monthly journal of education to supply each County Superintendent, District Clerk and District School library. We We have extracted the above from the New York Teacher. can but congratulate the teachers of California as well as the citizens upon this wise provision the legislature has made for them. We wish the Wisconsin Legislature would show the same generosity, especially as regards an educational journal. GREEN'S GRAMMARS, Warren's Geographies and Colburn's Arithmetics are published by J. B. Cowperthwait. See advertisement. SCHOOL FURNITURE.-A. H. Andrews has constantly on hand all kinds of school furniture. See advertisement. SCHOOLS FOR THE FREEDMEN.-We learn from the American Freedman, a monthly journal devoted to the promotion of "freedom, industry, education and christian morality in the South," and which is the central organ of the Freedmen's and Union Commission, that the number of schools established by the various Freedmen's Associations, East and West, for the education of freedmen at the South, is 307, taught by 773 teachers, and having 40,744 pupils. The amount of money collected for their support last year was $402,928; value of supplies collected; $367,709; money and supplies from abroad, $84,597; value of supplies shipped, $498,255; money expended, $328,670. NASHVILLE.-A private letter informs us that the citizens of Nashville, Tennessee, have shown their good sense by returning, since the close of the war, to the maintenance of good public schools. Before the rebellion these institutions were the pride of the people. The teachers now employed (two of the principals being graduates of a Northern college) are determined that the schools shall merit in the future the same support which they had in the past. The city is said to have made an investment of $200,000 in the schools, and it maintains them at a yearly expense of $60,000. The whole number of scholrrs is about 2,000. Onaof the graded schools numbers 700 pupils. A. S. BARENS & Co. have a new advertisement in this number. ATWATER'S SCHOOL GOVERNMENT is an excellent aid in the gov ernment of a school. See advertisement. SARGENT, WILSON & HINKLE advertise their complete series of school books. PIANOS, SCHOOL OR CHURCH ORGANS AND MELODEONS.-Any one in want of a piano or other musical instrument, will find it to their interest to communicate with the publisher of the WISCONSIN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. NEW YORK State Teachers' Association will hold its annual meeting at Geneva, commencing July 31, 1866. PENNSYLVANIA State Teachers' Association will hold its annual meeting at Gettysburg, commencing July 31, 1866, and continuing three days. THE National Association of School Superintendents will meet at Indianapolis, Ind., the 13th day of August next. THE National Teachers' Association will hold its annual meeting at Indianapolis, Ind., commencing August 15th. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION.-The annual meeting of this body will be held at Burlington, Vt., commencing Aug. 7. ALFRED L. SEWELL advertises in this number The Little Corporal, an excellent child's paper. COLORED NORMAL SCHOOL-A Normal School for the training of colored teachers, has been opened in New Orleans. WORCESTER'S DICTIONARIES AND HILLARD'S READERS.-See adver tisement of Brewer & Tileston. SCHOOL AGE. By an act of the legislature of Maine, children under five are prohibited from attending school. SCHOOL FOR COLORED CHILDREN.-The Friends in Philadelphia have donated $125,000 in aid of the instition for colored youth in that city. BOOK NOTICES, &C.. PARKER AND WATSON'S READERS.-A. S. Barnes & Co., Publishers, 111 and 113 William Street, New York. This series, together with the Spellers, are deserving the attention of all teachers and school officers. The Fifth Reader contains all rules that are necessary, neither is there a surfeit of them, as is the case with some readers. The exercises selected for reading are some of the best selections that can be found in English literature; they are such that they cannot fail to attract the attention of the reader-settiug aside their desire for improvement. The Fourth Reader contains less matter, and is adapted to classes of a lower grade.. The rules on pronunciation, accent, emphasis &c., are good and practical. The Third, Second and First Readers and the Primer are illustrated; the print is larger, the rules are fewer and are stated in simpler terms than in the Fourth and Fifth. The matter designed for reading excercises in these is chosen with as much taste as in the higher, that of each being adapted to its peculiar grade. THE NATION.-Published by Joseph H. Richards, New York, at $5,00 per annum.. The Nation is a semi-weekly paper devoted to a candid discussion of the topics of the day. Its contributors are able and noted men. PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL for June-Contains portraits of Hon. Solomon Foote, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, Constance Emily. Kent and Jenny Lind, with upwards of twenty illustrations and sketches of character, also much other interesting and useful reading. The 44th Vol. begins with the July No. Address Fowler & Wells, New York. THE WISCONSIN FARMER.Published by Walter B. Davis, Madison, Wis. Price $1,00 per annum. This Magazine is devoted to Agriculture, Hotticulture, &c. It is a good work and interesting to all. Every family should have it... HARPER'S MONTHLY.-Published by Harper & Brothers, New York.--Price $4,00 per year. This magazine has reached its 33d volume. It has the largest circulation of any magazine of the kind in America. It is prized for the variety of its literature. The reason of its unexampled prosperity is the fact that it is adapted to every one in all circumstances. If you are depressed with cares or troubles, you have but to open the Editor's Drawer, and your cares suddenly disappear; if you wish to read a short story, an interesting novel, concerning travels or natural history, you will find articles by the best of American writers in Harper's Monthly. A more agreeable companion can hardly be found. ATLANTIC MONTHLY.-Published by Ticknor & Fields, Boston. The Atlantic Monthly for June is an unusually interesting number. 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