their idea of the clergy Would not the Editor

they would otherwise entertain for us. Take an analogous instance. Suppose for a month the ordinary correspondence of the Guardian or Record was transferred to the Times newspaper. Would the great world, seeing the discussion of these little points, have heightened or lowered by the circumstance? treat his clerical correspondents in much the same supercilious manner in which the Editor of the Monthly Paper now treats us? We need not enlarge upon this point, for it is universally admitted. We, therefore,

earnestly exhort all Teachers not to trouble the Editor of the National Society's Paper with any more correspondence, but to forward it to papers which are written for Schoolmasters, and in which they may expect to be treated with courtesy.

Since we have announced our intention of bringing out this paper we have received letters from all parts of the kingdom thanking us for what we have done. We feel sure that we are expressing the universal opinion of the School Teachers of this country. We hope that now we have done with the matter. In the words of A. B., we may inform the Editor that "it is really a very primary duty not to allow the Monthly Paper to be the vehicle" of insulting and bitter words against Teachers. Might we also suggest that the Committee should in some way intimate that their attention has been directed to the matter.

Notices of Books.

An Elementary Treatise on Logarithms. Rev. W. H. Johnstone, M.A. Second Edition. Longmans.-It would be an insult to the Cambridge School of Mathematics even to look for a single original thought in a treatise on Logarithms. The country has been of course long ago explored, and every nook and cranny of it laid down. What can a man mean by publishing such a treatise? Isn't there a chapter on Logarithms, as plain as anything can be, in every treatise either on Algebra or on Trigonometry which has been issued for the last fifty years? What is there to publish which any man can call his? Isn't it rather like publishing the Multiplication Table, with your name appended? We suspect that Mr. Johnstone means simply to be useful. He has no doubt taught the use of Logarithms, until he is convinced that there is really no limit to the power of not-understanding, and has therefore thought it not waste of time or paper to make plain things plainer still, and lay down stepping-stones over brooks four feet broad. Those who find Todhunter or Colenso abstruse on this special point, and who cannot understand Logarithmic Tables by their aid, or who can't either find or make examples to test their intelligence of the principles there laid down, will perhaps find this treatise as useful as it is irreproachable.

Eton French Grammar and Exercise Book: Part I. By F. Tarver, M.A. Longmans.-Tarver's 'French Exercises' have been long in use at Eton College. This is called a new edition of that work, but 'entirely re-arranged and re-written,' which involves what appears to us to be rather a wider definition than usual of the term 'edition.' It aims at being a clear and succinct class-book; and the experience of the author, who is French master at Eton, has enabled him to form a very accurate idea of the limits within which such a book must confine itself, limits imposed not merely on length, but on discursiveness also. French Grammars certainly differ wonderfully from English. With them everything is fixed and definite. Every French master it is true fails to find, for some mysterious reason, in another man's book exactly what he wants: but to the general eye it certainly seems as though teaching French out of one Grammar would lead to the same point exactly as teaching it out of any other. In English, on the contrary, one Grammar makes clear what another muddles. There are a certain few stereotyped definitions, it is true, besides the handful of stereotyped forms which we have saved from the wreck of our inflexions; but these given, all the rest depends on the idiosyncrasy of the author, and the Grammar is sensible or trashy according to his gifts. One blessing at least the student of French has to be thankful for, and that is, he is saved in studying his Grammar, from being sickened by controversialism.

Goethe's Iphigenia at Tauris. With Notes by E. A. Oppen. Longmans, London.-To those who are preparing for the ordeal of an examination, or with any other purpose are bent on a critical study of German, we can confidently recommend Mr. Oppen's series of Annotated German Classics, one of which, 'Schiller's William Tell,' we noticed in a former number. The Notes are not many in number, but we can fairly say that they supply help just where it is needed. They are not intended to supersede the use of a good Dictionary and a good Grammar, but rather to aid those who having these want the further help of a Teacher. An Introduction is devoted to the story of the various woes of the Pelopids, in allusions to which the Play naturally abounds.

Educational Notices, etq.

General Association of Church Teachers.

A memorial, of which an analysis is subjoined, has been presented to the Duke of Marlborough, the Lord President of the Council, by this Association, on the subject of the working of the Revised Code.

ANALYSIS.

The General Association of Church Teachers in England and Wales, seeing that the Revised Code is partially incorporated in the Government Bill on Education, now before the House of Lords, desire to direct attention to the Code.

First,-Its effects on School Teachers.

1. It has lowered the standard of Education.

2. It has made School-work more mechanical, and less intellectual, &c., and is detrimental to true Education, though some improvement in the three R's may have been effected in the lower classes.

3. It has lowered the standard of qualification in Teachers.

4. Its monotony, and the want of confidence in the Council Office, have forced many of the best Teachers to leave the profession:

5. It has crippled the Pupil Teacher system.

6. The facilities for terminating apprenticeships induce many not to complete their education at a Training College.

Recommendation

I. That something must be done to induce persons of higher social position and education to enter the profession.

IT. That as the withdrawal of the promised Pensions is partly the cause of the unsatisfactory state of the profession, something should be done to provide Pensions in old age for Teachers.

III. Greater care should be taken for the instruction of Pupil Teachers, and the standard of their education raised.

Secondly,-Payment for results according to the Code is fallacions; for1. The most valuable work of a School is never tested, viz., the intellectual and moral culture of the Pupils.

2. No account is taken of a Teacher's hardest work, viz., with dull children. 3. The Inspector does not examine all the Pupils; and some of those qualified are not examined, and therefore pay nothing to the School.

4. The irregular attendants cause work, and bring nothing to the School. 5. Owing to these things a false impression of the real state of the School is necessarily obtained.

Therefore suggest

I. That all children attending the same school during the year should be presented for examination, and the grant given if they pass.

II. All children not at regular work should be made to attend some school for a certain number of days yearly.

Thirdly,- The difference in the standard and method of examination, especially in Arithmetic, adopted by H. M. Inspectors is very unjust, as between School and School, and Teachers know not what construction to put on the Code.

Suggest the establishment of an uniform standard and mode of examination.

Fourthly,—It is inconvenient to comply with the condition of 841 of Revised Code requiring two full hours' attendance in afternoons where Schools are only open from 2 to 4 o'clock, and

Suggest one hour and a half as the minimum attendance in the afternoon.

Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.

Mr. Whitworth's Scholarships for Mechanical Science.

At Whitehall, the 5th day of May, 1868.

By the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on Education.

My Lords read Mr. Whitworth's letter of 4th May, 1868, transmitting a memorandum on his Scholarships and on the establishment of sixty Exhibitions

of £25 each for the present year, preparatory to the competition for his Scholarships, and requesting that the Science and Art Department may conduct the necessary examinations and correspondence.

Their Lordships have great pleasure in acceding to Mr. Whitworth's request, and giving every assistance in their power in carrying out his patriotic munificence.

Manchester, 4th May, 1868.

SIR,-Referring to your letter of March 28th, by which you transmit me a copy of the Minute which the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education had passed in acknowledgment of my endowment of Scholarships for promoting Mechanical Science, and to the concluding sentence of the Minute, which invites further suggestions and offers to render assistance in carrying out the intentions of the endowment:

1. I beg leave to enclose for the information of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education a memorandum on the subject of the endowment which I trust will meet with the approval of their Lordships, and that they will cause it to be circulated, and the necessary correspondence arising out of it to be conducted by the Science and Art Department.

2. I would beg leave to ask the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to undertake the examinations for these Scholarships.

3. As respects the preparation of the necessary details for the examinations in the use of tools, I am willing to be responsible myself with the aid of friends, and I propose to obtain the consent of a few gentlemen to advise with me from time to time in whatever may arise in the future for my consideration.

4. In reply to the invitation of their Lordships to submit any suggestions, I venture to submit for consideration whether honours in the nature of Degrees might not be conferred by some competent authority on successful students each year, thus creating a faculty of Industry analogous to the existing faculties of Divinity, Law, and Medicine. I am of opinion that such honours would be a great incentive to exertion, and would tend greatly to promote the object in view.

5. I venture further to express a hope that the Government will provide the nec essary funds for endowing a sufficient number of Professors of Mechanics throughout the United Kingdom.

6. In conclusion, I inform you that the necessary arrangements for securing the endowment have been made, and I have given instructions for the preparation of the Draft of a Deed of Trust, which will be sent for the approval of the Lord President.

To Henry Cole, Esq.,

I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
JOSEPH WHITWORTH.

Secretary of the Science and Art Department.

Memorandum on Scholarships for Mechanical Science.

To be competed for in May, 1869.

1. Having offered to the Lords of the Committtee of Council on Education to "found thirty scholarships of the annual value of one hundred pounds each, to be applied for the further instruction of young men natives of the United Kingdom, selected by open competition for their intelligence and proficiency in the theory and practice of Mechanics and its cognate sciences, with a view to the promotion

of Engineering and Mechanical Industry in this country," I propose that the following should be the general arrangements in the first instance, which may be modified after the first competition has taken place in May, 1869.

II. That the thirty Scholarships of £100 each should be open to all of Her Majesty's subjects, whether of the United Kingdom, India, or the Colonies, who do not exceed the age of twenty-six years, and be held either for two or three years, as experience may prove to be desirable: that ten Scholarships should be competed for and awarded in May, 1869, at the annual National examinations in Science, provided that a sufficient number of candidates prove themselves to be competent that the successful candidates should be required to spend the period of holding the Scholarships in the further satisfactory prosecution of the studies and practice of Mechanical Engineering, and pursue their studies according to the spirit of the endowment, making periodical reports of them: that the Student should state where he proposes to pursue his studies, the Lord President of the Council deciding if the proposal can be allowed, also if the Student's progress be satisfactory, and the manner in which it shall be tested from year to year. In deciding if the plan of study proposed by the Student be satisfactory, as much latitude as possible may be allowed. If the Student wish to complete his general education, instead of continuing his special scientific study, he may be permitted to do so. He may go to the Universities or Colleges affording scientific or technical instruction, or he may travel abroad. The successful artisan should be encouraged to study Theory, and the successful competitor in Theory aided in getting admission to machine shops and other practical establishments. All further details would be hereafter prepared and issued by the Science and Art Department.

III. The Candidates must be of sound bodily constitution.

IV. The first competition should be in the following theoretical subjects:

V. No Candidate should obtain a Scholarship who has not shown satisfactory knowledge of all the following theoretical subjects:

1. Elementary Mathematics,

2. Elementary Mechanics,

3. Practical Plane and Descriptive

Geometry and Freehand Drawing.

with the power to use one or more of the following classes of tools:-
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I propose that the maximum number of marks obtainable in the theoretical subjects and those obtainable by the most skilled workmen should be about equal.

VI. My object in devising the foregoing scheme has been, while requiring a practical acquaintance with a few simple tools as a sine qua non, to render the competition accessible on fairly equal terms to the Student who combines some practice with his theory, and to the artisan who combines some theoretical knowledge with perfection of workmanship.