of the ECLECTIC desire to try it for six months, they can send seventyfive cents, directed to the paper, and it will be mailed to them regularly. WE have recently had some excitement in school circles over a severe case of corporal punishment, inflicted by a teacher in the second ward school. The result of the case is that a rule was passed at the last meeting of the school board, forbidding any teacher the use of the rod, except in the presence of the principal. It is thought by the principals, generally, that it will result in causing some degree of demoralization in the schools. With human nature as it is, the time is prob ably far distant when corporal punishment will not be necessary in our large city schools. This, however, is true, that the more skillful and experienced the teacher, the less it is required. Tact-active and continual tact-will act as the " ounce of prevention" obviating the necessity of the "pound of cure." OUR annual election of members of the board of school trustees resulted in the retention of most of the old members, who, having served for two years, are able to do more than strangers could do in the time for which they are chosen. Hon. W. W. Morris, who has been connected with the schools as trustee for sixteen years, declined a re-election. For six years he served as president with great credit to himself and usefulness to the schools. At the last meeting of the City Educational Association highly complimentary resolutions were adopted and ordered to be recorded and sent to Mr. Morris. Mr. G. A. Yates, of Covington, in accordance with an invitation extended to him, appeared at the meeting above referred to and delivered an able address upon "Educational Empyricism." A very satisfactory lesson in drawing was given with a class of pupils from the fifth ward, under the charge of Miss Nannie Cochran. Good vocal music was furnished by pupils of the third ward school. Dr. H. C. Lloyd was unanimously re-elected president of the new board of school trustees for 1881. This is a deserved compliment. Dr. Lloyd is a thorough parliamentarian, cool, discreet and firm. Under his administration the system will be sustained intact. No fanciful experiments and no extravagance will make the schools unpopular during his term of office. At the same time he is a consistent friend to all earnest teachers. He values their labors for their results, and judges without favor or prejudice. BOOK TABLE. In this department we shall promptly acknowledge the receipt of all books which come to our table and make a brief review of the same. Primary Fridays, S. R. Winchell & Co. Price twenty-five cents. Edited by Helen Gilbert. This is a pamphlet of recitations for the little ones, and just the thing for the teacher who desires to drive away the monotony of his routine work. The Education of the Negro, its rise, progress and present status, being an address delivered before the National Educational Association at its Chantauqua meeting, by Hon. Gustavus J. Orr, L.L. D., state school commissioner of Georgia. We had the pleasure of hearing this able paper, and wish that thousands of copies were thrown broadcast to the country. It should also be made a part of his annual report to the general assembly. The Orthopist, D. Appleton & Co., N. Y., by Alfred Ayres. This is a pronouncing manual, containing about three thousand words, including quite a number of the names of foreign authors, artists, etc., that are often mispronounced. It would astonish many of our best public speakers if their mispronunciations were pointed out to them. We are disposed to judge of the education of any one by his use of languages orally. This is not simply a collection of words, but throughout the work is an independent discussion as to the proper pronunciation of words, together with many authors quoted and cited. It is by far the best work of the kind that has met our observation, is bound in cloth with gilt stamp, and contains two hundred octavo pages. Bradbury's Eaton's Practical Arithmetic, Thomas H. Bush, Agent. Thompson, Brown & Co., Chicago, Ill. Price, sixty cents. We see nothing new in this work other than the desirable feature that the author deals largely with the art of the subject and avoids any lengthy discussion of the science. We commend the work especially because it almost ignores rules, giving none only where it appears to be absolutely necessary. It is an excellent work, and gotten up in "apple-pie style." Outlines of United States History, J. E. Sherrill, Danville, Ind. By R. Herber Holbrook. This is truly a work of rare merit, or a companion volume when using any author on history. It is intended as an aid by giving a bird's eye view on history as a whole or of any part of it. It has stood the test of the school-room many years before appearing in book form. Price, seventy-five cents. Happy Songs, and plenty of them for ten cents. Address Thomas Kane & Co., Our Books and Reading for the Young, being a reprint from a state report, by Hon. James H. Smart, superintendent of public instruction, of Indiana. This is one of the most valuable pamphlets that has ever come before us. As an instructor of teachers we suggest that it be bound in cloth and duly an. nounced as one of the invaluable text books for a normal school, and for the teacher's library. In an appended note is the following: Note-A limited number of these pamphlets will be sent gratuitously to those interested in the subject, on application to J. H. Smart, Indianapolis, Ind. Western Farmers' Almanac, John P. Morton & Co., Louisville, Ky. Price, ten cents. This is the fifty-fourth year of one of the most instructive of farmees' almanacs. It is chuck full of valuable selections, but above all, The Tramp's Story, a poem by Will. Carleton, which alone is worth $1, in the usual holiday form, Education, an international magazine. Bi-monthly. This magazine enables us to point with pride to its pages as standard authority. Give us vigorous editorials on the more vital issues of the day in each issue, that we may quote them as coming from the true fountain. The November and December numbers contains contributions from a dozen eminent scholars. Easy Experiments in Chemistry, J. E. Sherrill, Danville, Ind., by G. Dallas Lind. This is a most valuable compend of one hundred pages, adapted to the wants of beginners. Price, forty cents. St. Nicholas, with an issue of one hundred thousand for America and five thousand for England, is the magazine for boys and girls, edited by Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, has increased so much in size and number of pages during the year past that the publishers have been obliged to issue the yearly volume in two parts, instead of one as heretofore. As to its circulation, they report a gain of ten thousand in the average monthly editions of 1880 over 1879. The Railroads and the People. Mr. F. B. Thurber, of New York, furnishes to the December Scribner a paper which will be widely read, and which bids fair to create considerable excitement. It is entitled The Railroads and the People, and it presents most forcibly the recent exposures of corruption in the great railroad monopolies of this country. The December number of Scribner contains also many striking illustrative as well as literary features. The November issue was the largest number ever printed; it contained one hundred and seventy pages, and was crowded with brilliant pictures and articles of more than usual interest. Of the success of Scribner's in England, Mr. Jennings writes as follows to the New York World: "What I was going to tell you about was the wonderful way in which American magazines are getting on in London. Scribner's has had a very large sale here for some years past, and its circulation must now be, I think, fully as great as that of any English magazine, and it would not surprise me to hear that it is greater. Its illustrations have made its way easy for it. A very distinguished wood-engraver once told me that no work done in England in his line nowadays is worthy to be compared with what he saw every month in Scribner. If I mentioned his name, there is no one on either side the Atlantic who would dispute his fitness to pronounce an opinion on such a subject. The rapid advance of Scribner's is easily accounted for, and is thoroughly well deserved." EXCHANGE CLUBBING LIST. We have noticed the prominent features of the following named papers du ring the past year quite fully. We can most fully endorse each in its specialty, and shall take pleasure in aiding our readers in securing any of them at reduced rates. Subscribe through us and thus save money: Popular Science Monthly, D. Appleton & Co., New York. $5 a year. With Ec LECTIC, $5. Lippincott's Magazine, J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. $4 a year. With ECLECTIC, $4 25. Scribner's Monthly, Scribner & Co., New York. $4. With ECLECTIC, $4 25. The Scientific American, Munn & Co., New York. $3 20. With ECLECTIC, $4. Godey's Lady's Book, J. Hannum Jones, Philadelphia. $2 a year. With Ec. With Ec Demorest's Illustrated Monthly Magazine, W. Jennings Demorest, New York. $3 a year. With ECLECTIC, $3 75. Arthur's Home Magazine, T. S. Arthur & Son, Philadelphia. $2 a year. With ECLECTIC, $2 75. Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky. $2. With ECLECTIC, $2 50. The National Sunday School Teacher, Adams, Blackmer & Lyon Publishing Company, Chicago. $1 25 a year. THE ECLECTIC TEACHER AND Southwestern Journal of Education. FOR TEACHERS AND FRIENDS OF EDUCATION. Vol. V. FEBRUARY, 1881. No. 6. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN OUR COMMON SCHOOLS. ELIZABETH LLOYD. THERE HERE is an old saying which, like most maxims, is partly true and partly false, "As is the teacher, so is the school." It therefore follows that he who would encourage industrial pursuits in his pupils must be himself a worker. If the teacher is diligent in his own profession and all that pertains thereto; if, when a thing needs to be done, he is not afraid to put his own shoulder to the wheel; if he honors those who work in other fields, and shows that he honors them; then he is ready to instruct his pupils in that grandest of all lessons, the dignity of labor. Let him teach, first of all, that labor is not a curse, but a blessing; that work is noble, and idleness a crime-for the great universe which fills all space, this beautiful earth upon which we live, and even we ourselves, are but the handiwork of God, our father and creator; the |