"Mr. Robertson received his education in Trinity College, Dublin, and obtained honors both in science and classics; and he was from a very early age engaged as teacher in the higher branches of instruction. "He was appointed by the board, in the first instance, one of the inspectors of national schools, which situation he held until 1838, when he was brought into the central establishment to assist in the management of the inspection department. During the period in which Mr. Robertson was so engaged, he was, upon several occasions, deputed by the commissioners to conduct important and difficult investigations, relating to the management of national schools, and the conduct both of officers and teachers under the board. "In July, 1845, the commissioners deemed it expedient to appoint four head inspectors with increased salaries, in order to give greater efficiency to the system of inspection. Mr. T. J. Robertson was the first person elected to this important office, an office requiring an intimate knowledge of the principles and working of the national system of education, and also the necessary qualifications for forming an accurate opinion of the discipline of the schools, the methods of instruction, the progress of the children, the fitness of the teachers, and the manner in which the district inspectors discharged their duties. 66 The commissioners have much pleasure in bearing testimony to the highly satisfactory and efficient manner in which Mr. Robertson has discharged the responsible duties of these important situations; and they feel assured that the Canadian Board of Education may place implicit reliance upon his integrity, zeal, ability and discretion. The commissioners, therefore, confidently recommend him for the head mastership of the Toronto Normal School. "Mr. Rintoul has, in compliance with your instructions, handed to Mr. Robertson the bills forwarded by you for travelling expenses and the purchase of school apparatus. "Mr. Robertson will leave Dublin, at the latest, in the middle of July next. "We are, sir, your obedient servants, Mr. Robertson arrived in Canada with his family in September, 1847; and by a singular coincidence "The official appointment' (as the minutes express it) "of Mr. T. J. Robertson as Head Master of the Normal School,, was laid before the board and ordered for the signature of the Chairman, the 28th day of September, 1847just nineteen years from the day on which the teachers and students of the school over which he had so long presided, and the officers of the department with which he had been so long connected, followed his mortal remains to their last earthly resting place. Mr. Robertson entered upon his new duties with great skill and energy; and the ability and success with which he pursued them was evident from the fact, that the Normal and Model Schools of Upper Canada soon became through his labors, aided by able colleagues, the confessedly model training institution of America, a position which it occupies at this day in the estimation of American educationalists who have visited it, as well as in that of European travellers. Exemplary in private and domestic life, as he was faithful in his public duties, he illustrated his admirable methods of teaching and government in the thorough and practical manner in which he has educated-ably assisted by Mrs. Robertson-his most exemplary and excellent family of three sons and three daughters. During Mr. Robertson's Head Mastership upwards of four thousand teachers have been trained in the Normal School-many of whom are now members, and some of them leading members, of the different professions of law, medicine and divinity, and hundreds of them are teaching in various parts of the country,-having given tone and character to the common school teaching throughout Upper Canada. One of them is an able master of the English Normal School in Lower Canada, and another (a student of the first session) is the present acting Head Master of the Normal School for Upper Canada-J. H. Sangster, Esq., A. M., M.D.author of several excellent school text books, a most accomplished teacher and administrator of school government. Mr. Robertson's loss of voice and failure of health have prevented him from discharging his official duties for several months, during which he gradually succumbed under the weight of his complicated maladies, with little pain and a devout and entire trust in the merits of his Redeemer, in whose hand he breathed his spirit the evening of the 26th September, 1866, in the sixty-second year of his age. His remains were brought to the Normal School buildings, where the council of public instruction and officers of the department, masters of the Normal and Model schools, and students of the Normal school, with other friends of the family, assembled. A chapter was then read by the Rev. Dr. Barclay, and short aldresses were delivered by the Rev. Mr. Dewart (a Normal school student of the first session) and Dr. Ryerson, and prayer offered by the Rev. Dr. Lillie; after which the funeral cortege proceeded to St. James' cemetery, when the service at the grave was impressively read by the Rev. Mr. Grasett, the rector and pastor of the deceased. Extract from the Minutes of the Council of Public Instruction for Upper Canada, in regard to Mr. Robertson. "This Council records the expression of its deep regret at the decease, after a protracted illness, of Thomas J. Robertson, Esq., A. M., who has, for nineteen years, been the faithful and able Head Master of the Normal School for Upper Canada. During that time Mr. Robertson, by his exemplary private life, affectionate assiduity and skill in teaching, and lectures and counsels to upwards of four thousand Students, who have been trained in the Normal School as Teachers, has largely contributed to improve and elevate the methods and characters of school teaching and government throughout Upper Canada.” Ordered:-"That a copy of the foregoing Minute be transmitted to Mrs. Robertson, for whom and whose family, under their severe bereavement, this Council desires to express the warmest sympathy, in the irreparable loss which they have sustained by the removal of one whom they, with a large circle of friends, so much loved and respected." The public will learn with sincere sorrow of the death of our most esteemed citizen. Mr. T. J. Robertson died last night. For many years the Principal of one of the leading educational institutions of our Province, Mr. Robertson has been prominently before the public, and the high state of efficiency to which his skilful guidance has brought the Normal School shows how complete is the success which has crowned the labours of a long and useful life. A strict disciplinarian, as well as a true scholar, he was peculiarly fitted for the arduous duties of the post he has so well and faithfully filled. Though rigid in discipline, he was yet kind in the discharge of his duty, and among the many that will regret the loss we have all sustained, there will be few truer mourners than the numerous band of students throughout the Province, who can never forget how earnest he was as an instructor-how kind as a friend. But not only will the deceased be missed from the ranks of our scholars; of all manly recreations he was an ardent admirer, and in some of them himself a hearty sharer. Here, released from the cares of the class-room, his genial nature was fully shown, and by his many friends in the Royal Canadian Yacht Club-of which he was so long a zealous officer and member-his welcome presence will be sadly missed. By Mr. Robertson's death, our little band of Canadian authors lose a member, whose place it will be hard to fill. One of the valuable productions of his pen is now in use as a text book in our schools. To own his worth and sincerely regret his loss will be now a mournful pleasure with all those-and how many they are who have benefited by the labours of his useful life.-Toronto Daily Telegraph, 27th September. VII. Miscellaneous. 1. COMING FROM SCHOOL. School is out and they're at play- Rosy cheeks and eyes that sparkle, Laugh that's ringing loud and free, Not a heart but's filled with glee. Roaming here and there 'mid flowers, Naught care they for wealth or fashion, Round the brows so deeply tanned. Little hats are clutched half brimless, Tiny feet are treading homeward, Pausing at each downy bird's nest, Merry shout and songs and laughter, They are weaving childish fancies, Bringing something pure and bright. Life with them is sport and pastime, Tell me not of their delusion, Nor recite some woeful tale, Than to hear them sigh and wail. parison is latent in all, and in most, capable of being developed by suitable teaching in youth; and knowing as I do its vast commercial value, I would most earnestly advise in all our schools, especially in those for the education of the working classes, that much time and careful attention be devoted to the cultivation of this almost invaluable, but at present totally neglected faculty.-James Nasmyth, inventor of the Steam-Hammer. 4. WHAT A TRUE GENTLEMAN IS. A gentleman is not merely a person acquainted with certain forms and etiquettes of life, easy and self-possessed in society, able to speak and act and move in the world without awkwardness, and free from habits which are vulgar and in bad taste. A gentleman is something much beyond this; that which lies at the root of all his ease and refinement, and tact and power of pleasing, is the same spirit which lies at the root of every Christian virtue. It is the thoughtful desire of doing in every instance to others as he would that others should do unto him. He is constantly thinking, not indeed how he may give pleasure to others for the mere sense of pleasing, but how he can show respect for others-how he may avoid hurting their feelings. When he is in society, he scrupulously ascertains the position and relation of every one with whom he is brought into contact, that he may give to each his due honor, his proper position. He studies how he may avoid touching in conversation upon any subject which may needlessly hurt their feelings— how he may abstain from any allusion which may call up a disagreeable or offensive association. A gentleman never alludes to, never even appears conscious of, any personal defect, bodily deformity, inferiority of talent, of rank, of reputation, in the persons in whose In the management of great and complicated negociations, and society he is placed. He never assumes any superiority to himselfalso in those of lesser concern, where there are various interfering his own power or rank or advantages-such as is implied in ridicule or never ridicules, never swears, never boasts, never makes a display of interests, requiring mutual adjustment and accommodation, often with little time to devise expedients, the man nowise substantially tions which may be offensive to others. sarcasm or abuse-as he never indulges in habits or tricks or inclinadeficient in talents, who can only think or act according to a regu-ber of society, that he has no right to trespass upon others, to He feels, as a mere memlar process, is completely outstripped by the ready use of those powers by which men conceive, judge and determine as by intuiti- his brothers-that, as his brothers, they are children, like himself, wound or annoy them. And he feels, as a Christian, that they are Many persons can make a set speech for a public assembly, if of God-members, like himself, of Christ-heirs, like himself, of they have time for preparation, who are altogether thrown out if anything unexpected occur to derange their prepared train of the kingdom of heaven.-Quarterly Review. thought, and their connected chain of reasoning; but how different is this slow and cumbersome process, from the facility and dexterity with which the accomplished orator draws his materials, in the instant, from the most remote sources of his knowledge, or from the readiness with which the man of science supplies himself with appropriate arguments and lucid illustrations, to confirm his theory or his hypothesis! on. 2. PRACTICAL ABILITY IN ITS APPLICATION. 5. THE HABIT OF PROFANE SWEARING. Profane swearing is an evil habit, degrading to the person who indulges in it, and injuring the public moral tone. Men who practise it cannot but feel humiliated, whenever circumstances may lead them to reflect upon their conduct. If individuals will use profane Any system of education, therefore, which promotes the develop-language, it should be at such times and places, that none but their ment of those intellectual energies, which tends to create presence Maker will hear-and thus avoid publicly perpetrating so great a of mind, a ready command of the faculties, a fertility of expedients, moral crime against society, spirit in the attempt, and celerity in the execution, must prove of incalculable benefit. These important processes of mind are apt to be impeded, rather than improved, by the common discipline and the ordinary routine of our systems of public instruction. Many, indeed, have doubted how far these high intellectual energies are at all within the reach of education. But no fair trial has yet been made. Why should not the attempt be hazarded, instead of dreaming on for ever, and slavishly following the beaten track, without any effort at improvement ?-Jardine's Philosophical Education. 3. A CORRECT EYE.-ITS EDUCATION. We often tremble for the man who, in presence of others, and it may be within hearing of youth, or, worse still, in communication with his family, uses language that shocks the moral sense, and lead others, perhaps imperceptibly, to become as oblivious as himself to the proprieties of respectable society, and the duties he owes to his fellows. The practice is often indulged in because it is considered manly to do so. No greater mistake can be made. The writer is now considerably past middle age, and does not remember ever but once having used a profane oath, and that was iu boyhood, and in imitation of others; and that once is still painfully impressed on the memory; and he cannot now hear any man use profane language without losing all respect for that person-and this is no doubt the feeling prevailing in the minds of almost all respectable members of Society. Swearing and lying are both mean practices, which intelligent minds should avoid. to lie to his fellow man. Speaking from my own experience of working men, I am satisfied that could we only pay more attention to educating the eye and bringing forth the often latent faculty of comparison, a most important benefit would result, not only to the workmen, but to the perfection of the manufactures of the country. Nine-tenths of all the bad work and botches that occur in our own business of engi- force to arguments used-it does not do so. A profane oath by the party using it is often considered as giving A man's word should neers and machine-makers results from the want of that mere power always be doubted, so soon as he endeavours to establish it by a of comparison and "correct eye" which is so rare amongst such classes of workmen ; not that the faculty is absent-it is only dor-profane oath; for if he will thus dare his Maker, he will not hesitate mant, having never been cultivated or educated as it ought to be; for it is of all faculties the most useful to a working man. The anOur Volunteers! Our noble Volunteers! brave men for their noyance I meet with, and the vexation and loss I encounter from country? how unseemly has it appeared to hear them indulging in the simple matter of crooked work to be drilled into true is beyond paths and cursing when going forth to meet their enemies-for aught all conception to those who are not practically conversant with the they knew their great enemy, death. How sad that intelligent very limited power of workmen in general in this respect. minds should be so obscured by this disreputable practice. workman has a correct eye, his work is not only executed with far greater despatch, by reason of not having incessantly to stop working and occupy his time in looking if he is working correct or not; but when such work results from a mechanic with a correct eye brought into action, by reason of all the parts being in true and accurate relation to one another, all goes off smooth at once, and is durable in proportion; and I am satisfied that the faculty of com When a Our object in writing, however, is, more especially, to draw attention to this evil practice as it exists in our workshops, amongst our artizans-the bone and sinew of our town populations. Having spent at least twenty-five years at the bench, we feel and write as one of them; and, if asked as a father what we most fear for our sons, who intend learning some mechanical business, we answerthe contamination of profanity in the workshop. Why should this be so? We have filled the various positions from the apprentice to the employer, and we unhesitatingly answer, it is an evil that need not exist if employers would but understand and attend to their duty. accomplishing the object of the Board: and Albert College, to all our interests and necessities, a University, is ours to effect the very purpose for which the "Seminary" was originally erected. New power implies new responsibility.-To a free being before an If any person takes into his service youths, especially bound ap-intelligent community and a just God, power and responsibility are prentices, who are to spend in such service their brightest days just commensurate. The one keeps pace with the other. We would not preceding manhood, it is that person's duty, as far as in his power, then flourish our abilities without feeling our obligations. The men to prevent them from being corrupted by evil communications during who direct our educational affairs, saw that the very work we dethe hour of labour. We know whereof we speak. Where employees signed to effect in establishing a school must after all be undone, if are under judicious discipline-a discipline that tends to make them we would not educate and graduate, and thereby retain our young respectable and respect themselves-they will respect their employ- men, therefore the application for this increase of power. And ers and render them cheerful and profitable service. The employee thankful should we be that it is secured, and determined to make should know that the rules of his workshop do not allow of the use ourselves worthy of it. We lift our heads for keen and vigorous of profane swearing or filthy conversation; and that if he indulges competition. And we are able for it. Young men that we have in it, it is at the risk of loss of his position. These rules we have sent to the Provincial University have passed, in the words of the known to be strictly enforced, and with the most satisfactory results; Registrar, "a creditable examination." By liberality in our pabut to be in a position to enforce such rules, the employer must keep trons, by diligence in our teachers, and by fidelity and care in our his own skirts clean. We would retain no man in our employ for a Senate, we may acquire for ourselves a fair fame and noble rank day that would not submit to so wholesome a discipline, although among sister Institutions. And so we have retained all our former his dismissal should cause us any amount of pecuniary loss or incon- abilities and acquired new ones, we ought to be better able to do venience. our work for the Church. Let us unite then, brethren, and place ours in the van of Universities.-Canada Christian Advocate. Employers, as well as parents, have immense responsibilities resting upon them with regard to our youth, who are to be the men and women-aye the rulers-of the next generation. Let all see to it that they do not, for ease or lucre, shirk these responsibilities. Upon the good moral character of these youths does the future progress and well-being of our country depend.-Journal of the Board of Arts and Manufactures for U. C. 6. EDUCATION OF GIRLS. Desultory and heterogeneous reading is the great evil of all young women. Our education (if education it can be called) is nearly ended by the time that our minds begin to open and to be really eager for information. When you men are sent to college we are left (such of us as are not obliged to gain our bread or to mend our own clothes) to positive idleness without any object, end, or aim to encourage any one employment of our mind more than another. Our imaginations are naturally more lively than yours, our powers of steady attention I think less than yours. What would you have us do? Entire frivolity or any and every book that falls into our hands are our only resources; and though nobody is more aware than myself that this sort of desultory reading during the first years of (mental) life does often much mischief and is attended always with a great waste of time, yet it has at least this good effect-et scio quod loquor-that a love of reading thus natural and thus indulged is often a happy preventive in future life against more serious follies, more pernicious idleness, and it is to be hoped may be counted upon as a real resource in those days when the attractions of the world and of society fade as much in our eyes as our attractions fade in theirs.-Journal and Correspondence of Miss Berry, II. 313. 8. EGRESS FROM PUBLIC BUILDINGS. We have had on our file for some time, and omitted to notice, an Act which was assented to on the 15th August last, and is of considerable importance for the public to know. It is to regulate the means of egress from public buildings, and corporate bodies, or proprietors of such, had better take notice of its provisions. The first section enacts that in all Churches, Theatres, Halls or other buildings in this Province hereafter to be constructed or used for holding public meetings, or for places of public resort or amusements, all the doors shall be so hinged that they may open freely outwards, and all the gates of outer fences, if not so hinged, shall be kept open by proper fastenings during the time such buildings are publicly used to facilitate the egress of people, in case of alarm from fire or other cause. The section enacts that Congregations or others owning Churches, and individuals, corporations and companies owning Halls, Theatres, or other buildings used for the purpose of holding meetings, or places of public resort or amusement, shall, within twelve months from the passing of this Act, be required to have the doors of such Churches, Theatres, Halls or other building, so hinged as to open freely outwards. The penalty for violation of the Act is a fine not exceeding fifty dolllars, and a farther sum of five dollars for every week succeeding that in which the complaint is made, if the necessary changes are not made. And Congregations of every description, Incumbents, Church Wardens, Ministers or Trustees are held liable for their different societies or congregations for any and every transgression of this act.-Montreal Transcript. VIII. Educational Intelligence. YORK MILLS SCHOOL TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.-The teachers of the above association met on Saturday, Sept. 22-Mr. Watson in the chair. The Errors of the School Room formed the subject for discussion, taken from the Journal of Education :-1. Want of order. 2. Teachers generally talk too much. 3. Waste of time at recitation in asking questions. 4. There are too many "is its." 5. Scholars help each other too much. 6. All scolding, threatening, and harshness are errors. 7. Time is waste in coming to order at morning recess. 8. Time is lost in coming to and going from class. 9. Too many studies. 10. Too many hours spent in recitation, too few in study. 11. Reviews neglected. A very animated discussion ensued on number 1 subject, in which all the members present Education partly gives us materials and partly skill to use them. So far as it gives skill by cultivating and training the mind, women's education is ordinarily arrested at the point before which skill cannot seriously be given. It is not true that a girl of seventeen can afford to shut up her books and amuse herself more than a boy of seventeen. It is not true that she is more eager to shut them up and amuse herself. But the modern world requires her to do so and has led her to expect it since she was seven. We think the world makes this requirement mainly because men prefer flowers to fruit. And when men mount their pulpits they term the result of their preference "female frivolity.' Until women are allowed education during the years when education is at once by far more of a pleasure and of a profit, it seems to me simply idle to affirm what nature allows or does not allow them to do in those regions wherein education in the largest sense is an essential pre-re-heartily joined. The main feature, in which all agreed, was—that perfect quisite.-F. T. Palgrave. 7. ALBERT COLLEGE.-Belleville. Once Belleville Seminary; now Albert College: so named in a recent Act of Parliament, after the late beloved Prince Consort, Belleville Seminary, with new dignities conferred and new powers bestowed, takes her place among the Universities of the land. Having power to confer degrees, it remains for her friends to make her what she should be, an honorable and honored University of this Province. Our Board of Management at its late Sessions appointed and empowered a Committee to seek of the Provincial Parliament such an amendment of our Act of Incorporation, as would change our name and enable us to confer Degrees on students that had completed a good and sufficient Course of Study. In pursuance of their instructions, this Committee after considerable effort, has succeeded in silence is secured most effectively when each pupil is diligently employed, and with, at the same time, an object in view by being so engaged. Another view of the same subject was next brought forward, namely:The effect of noise in distracting attention. It was argued that in the busy occupations of life men have to make calculations and compose under all circumstances, and from this fact it was inferred that if, during school hours, a pupil was subject to such annoyances, he would be more fit to encounter the difficulties of actual life. XI. Departmental Notices. NO PENSIONS TO COMMON SCHOOL TEACHERS Public notice is hereby given to all Teachers of Common. A selection Catalogues and Forms of Application furnished to School authorities on their application. Schools, or Teachers of the English branches in Grammar verified by the corporate seal of the Corporation. Schools, who are legally qualified Common School Teachers in of Maps, Apparatus, Library and Prize Books, &c., to be sent, Upper Canada, who may wish to avail themselves at any future can always be made by the Department, when so desired. time of the advantages of the Superannuated Common School Teachers' Fund, that it will be necessary for them to transmit to the Chief Superintendent, if they have not already done so, their subscriptions, at the rate of $5 per annum for each preceding year, commencing with 1854, and at the rate of $4 per annum for the current year's subscription. The law authorizing the establishment of this fund provides, "That no teacher shall be entitled to share in the said fund who shall not contribute to such fund at least at the rate of one pound per annum." No pension will be granted to any teacher who has not subscribed to the fund, in accordance to the preceding regulations of the Council of Public Instruction. GRAMMAR SCHOOL REGISTERS. A new edition of the Grammar School Register is now ready for distribution. Copies of it (and of the Common School Register) will be sent to county clerks on their application -from whom Grammar School Trustees can obtain them. SCHOOL REGISTERS SUPPLIED THROUGH LOCAL SUPERINTENDENTS. School Registers are supplied gratuitously, from the Department, to Common and Separate School Trustees in Cities, Towns, Villages and Townships by the County Clerk-through the local Superintendents. Application should therefore be made direct to the local Superintendents for them, and not to the Department. COMMON SCHOOL MANUAL FOR UPPER CANADA. A copy of the last edition of the Common School Manual for Upper Canada, is supplied gratuitously to all new School Sections in Upper Canada. To other Sections the price is thirty-five (35) cents, inclusive of postage, which is now payable in advance. All Local Superintendents retiring from office, are required by law to hand over to their successors the copies of the School Manual furnished to them by the Department, and all other official school documents in their possession. Extra copies of the Local Superintendent's Manual can be furnished for fifty (50) cents, including postage. INDISTINCT POST MARKS. In the course of the year, a number of letters are received, on which the post marks are very indistinct, or altogether omitted. These marks are often so important, that Postmasters would do well to see that the requirements of the Post-office Department, in relation to stamping the post-mark on letters is carefully attended to. PRE-PAYMENT OF POSTAGE ON BOOKS. According to the Postage Law, the postage on all books, printed circulars, &c., sent through the post, must be pre-paid by the sender, at the rate of one cent per ounce. Local Superintendents and teachers ordering books from the Educational Depository, will therefore please send such an additional sum for the payment of this postage, at the rate specified, and the Customs duty on copyright books, as may be necessary. PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOKS, MAPS, APPARATUS, AND SCHOOL PRIZE BOOKS. The Chief Superintendent will add one hundred per cent, to any sum or sums, not less than five dollars, transmitted to the Department by Municipal and School Corporations, on behalf of Grammar and Common Schools; and forward Public Library Books, Prize Books, Maps, Apparatus, Charts, and Diagrams, to the value of the amount thus augmented, upon receiving a list of the articles required. In all cases it will be necesssary for any person acting on behalf of the Municipal or Trustee Corporation, to enclose or present a written authority to do so, and Apparatus, it will BE NECESSARY FOR THE TRUSTEES TO **If Library and Prize Books be ordered, in addition to Maps SEND NOT LESS THAN five dollars additional for each class of books, &c., with the proper forms of application for each class. The one hundred per cent. will not be allowed on any sum less than five dollars. Text books cannot be furnished on the terms mentioned above: they must be paid for in full, at the net catalogue prices. CANADIAN SCHOOL CHARTS AND DIAGRAMS. by experienced l'eachers and others, resident in Canada, are kept for THE UNDERMENTIONED DIAGRAMS AND CHARTS, prepared sale at the Educational Depository. When ordered with Maps and Apparatus, the One Hundred per Cent, is allowed on them by the Department. 1. A Chart of Natural History.-A beautifully prepared coloured diagram, shewing at one view the various divisions of the Animal Kingdom. By ARCHIBALD MCCALLUM, Esq., M.A., Principal of the Central School, City of Hamilton. With Synopsis, or Hand-Book, of Natural His tory. Size, 30 inches by 87. Price: Mounted, Coloured and Varnished, with Hand-Book, $1 38. 2. Geometrical Diagrams.-Being the whole of the First Six Books of Enclid at one view. By MR. HENRY BROWNE, Principal of the Temperance Street Academy, Toronto. Size, 49 by 42 inches. Price, with Explanatory Sheet, $1 50. 3. A Genealogical Tree of the Royal Family of Great Britain, -A symbolical Oak Tree. By Mr. John Malcolm, Woodstock. With emblematical border, the whole handsomely coloured. Size, 41 inches by 30. Price, $1 50. 4. The Historic Tree of British North America.-An emblematifrom 1492 to the present time. By J. P. MERRITT, ESQ., of St. Catharines. cal Tree, shewing the various periods of British American Colonial History Handsomely printed in tinted colours. Size, 34 inches by 25. Price, Mounted and Varnished, $—. 5. Chronological Chart of Cotemporaneous Dates in the History of Judea, Israel, Nineveh, Babylon, Egypt, Syria, Persia, Greece, Phoenicia, Carthage, Troy and Rome. By T. J. ROBERTSON, Esq., M. A. Size, 24 inches by 16. Price, singly, 13 cts.; Mounted on Rollers, 38 cts. 6. Parsing Tables.-(1) Grammar School Table for Parsing Latin. (2) Ditto. ditto. for Parsing English. By T. J. ROBERTSON, Esq., MA. Size, 34 inches by 22. Price, 8 cts. each. In Course of Preparation: 7. A Chart of Geology.-Designed specially to illustrate the Geology of Canada. With numerous illustrations of Fossils, &c. Compiled from the most recent authorities, by JOHN D. EVANS, Esq., Provincial Land Sur veyor. Size, 49 inches by 33. Price, Mounted on Rollers, §—, 8. A Chronological Chart of British American History— Arranged on a Maple Tree, and characteristically coloured. Size, 42 inches by 30. Price, $— TH SCHOOL INK WELLS. HE following INK WELLS have been manufactured in Toronto and are for sale at the Educational Depository:No. 1. Plain Metal Ink Wells, with covers, per doz..... $1.50 No. 2. Improved Metal Non-evaporating Ink Wells, per doz.. 3 00 No. 1 is a wide-mouthed well, designed to be let into the desk. It has an iron cover to screw over the top so as to prevent the dust falling into the ink. No. 2 consists of three pieces: A circular piece to let into the desk, and to be screwed to it; it has a rim on which the well rests; over this is placed a cap which covers the top of the well. It has a small aperture for the pen, covered with a movable lid. It possesses the following advantages:-1. The ink is not liable to be spilled; 2. It effectually protects the ink from dust; 3. It prevents evaporation, owing to the covers and the small size of the aperture; 4. It has facilities for cleaning, but, the cover being screwed down, does not allow the pupil to take it out at his pleasure; 5. It is not, like glass, liable to breakage. SHORT ADVERTISEMENTS inserted in the Journal of Education for 20 cents per line, which may be remitted in postage stamps or otherwise. TERMS: For a single copy of the Journal of Education. $1 per annum to commence with the January Number, and payment in advance must back vols., neatly stitched, supplied on the same terms. Allsubscriptions in all cases accompany the order. Single numbers, 10 cents each All communications to be addressed to J. GEORGE HODGINS, LL.B. Education Office, Toronto. LOVELL AND GIBSON, PRINTERS, YONGE STREET TORONTO, CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER: I. PAPERS ON MILITARY SCHOOL DRILL.-(1) Military Drill in our Public II. PAPERS ON THE DEFENCE OF CANADA.-(1) British Connection. (2) PAGE 152 Canada. No. 10. tion to be given in our Grammar Schools, and will enable them to become feeders to some Canadian Sandhurst, or West Point Drill in the Schools. (6) Physical Exercises and Recreation for Girls. 145 Military Academy, yet to be established. It does not relate to military drill in the school, but to a preliminary course of elementary military studies, such as military history, drawing, etc. No regulations have yet been prepared on the subject. The government propose leaving the matter to the consideration of the proposed new legislature of Upper Canada. IV. PROGRESS OF EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.-(1) Report of the English V. PAPERS ON SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS.-(1) Ocean Telegraphy. (2) The 154 155 The first paper which we insert is taken from a lecture Culloden Hurricane. (5) Abstract of Monthly Meteorological Results. 158 delivered before the Quebec Literary and Historical Society, by VI. EDUCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE.-Queen's University. Knox's College. VII. DEPARTMENTAL NOTICES.-Grammar School Registers. School Regis- I. Papers on Military School Drill. 160 160 1. MILITARY DRILL IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The subject of military drill in our Grammar and Common Schools has so frequently been discussed by practical educationists among us, and at teachers associations and conventions, that we have gathered together a few papers on the subject, for insertion in this number of the Journal. The question has also been under the consideration of the Government; and the Militia Department has authorised the formation of drill associations in most of our colleges, higher seminaries and schools. It has also under consideration, we believe, a regulation requiring drill to be taught in all schools receiving public aid, as a part of its regular course of instruction. The subject of elementary military instruction in the Grammar Schools-not drill merely-has also been provided for by the legislature; and the following provision for it was made in the twelfth section of the Grammar School Amendment Act of 1865 : E. A. Meredith, Esq., LL.D., one of the Assistant Secretaries of the Province. This able and instructive address so thoroughly discusses the whole subject of "Military and Naval Drill" in our schools, in connection with "Shorter School Time," that we give it almost entire. We would bespeak for this paper the careful consideration of Boards of School Trustees and Teachers. The second paper is also an extract, from an address on "School Drill," &c., delivered in Liverpool, by Rev. J. S. Howson, Principal of the Collegiate Institution of that City. The remaining papers are chiefly extracts from the proceedings of public bodies and others in Canada, on the necessity and importance of military drill in our schools. SHORT SCHOOL TIME, WITH MILITARY OR NAVAL DRILL: IN CONNECTION ESPECIALLY WITH THE SUBJECT OF AN In 1860 a Royal Commission was appointed in England to report upon the state of popular Elementary Education in that country. The Commission included the names of the late Duke of Newcastle, Mr. W. Nassau Senior, and many other eminent educational reformers, peculiarly qualified for a work of such national importance. The results of the Commissioners' labors are contained in six bulky volumes, which form a valuable Repertory on the subject of National Education. "It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to prescribe a course of Elementary Military Instruction for Grammar Without at all undervaluing the importance of the labors of School pupils, and to appropriate out of any money granted for the Commissioners, it may be safely asserted that no part of the purpose, a sum not exceeding fifty dollars per annum to their able and voluminous report is so suggestive, none so any school, the Head Master of which shall have passed a pre- certain to bring about eventually a radical and permanent revoscribed examination in the subjects of the military course, and lution in the whole system of education, as the short and unprein which school a class of not less than five pupils has been tending communication, published in the appendix, addressed taught for a period of at least six months; such classes and by Mr. Edw. Chadwick to Mr. Senior. It is to this paper of instruction to be subject to such inspection and oversight as the Mr. Chadwick, and to a subsequent explanatory letter from Governor in Council may direct." him on the same subject, also addressed to Mr. Senior, that I This twelfth section introduces a new feature into the instruc- am mainly indebted for the facts and arguments which follow. |