not every thing necessary to make it a frog hunter? See how long its legs are! With them it can walk in the water and search for frogs. See how long its bill is. With that the stork catches the frogs, and picks them to death. If the stork was made like the dove or the hen, the frogs would be of no use to it, for it could not catch them. You saw your father's regiment. Can you recollect what kind of weapons the Hussars had?

J. Let me see. First, a great short broad sword, then a pistol at each side, and a carbine slung over behind the back.

SCH. It must have been a fine sight, when a thousand men rushed forth, all having the same kind of broad sword and arms. If I had seen them I should have believed that this broad sword was made on purpose for them. If you should see a thousand storks drawn up and marching, you would find that they are armed as much alike as the regiment of Hussars, to which your father belonged; they all have great and strong wings, long bills, and long legs.

The old man then went on to say much more about the wise contrivances which we see everywhere in nature. This dialogue had such an effect upon the mind of Joseph, that he saw there must be a commander under whose authority every thing is transacted in this world. He began to look upon the world with different eyes. Whenever the sun or the moon arose, whenever it thundered or rained, whenever he saw a beehive or an ant's hill, a tree, or a flower, or a bird, he thought of God, who orders all things.

MISCELLANY.

JUVENILE MUSIC.

WE rejoice in the increasing usefulness and activity of the Boston Academy of Music, and the influence which it has exerted in assisting and exciting others to action on this interesting subject. In addition to the Juvenile Schools which it has established in the city of Boston and the vicinity, its Professors have trained a choir during the year past, whose performances of the works of the great masters, are said by competent judges, to be of the highest character of excellence. Its reports, correspondence, and the 'Manual,' prepared by Mr. Mason, have excited great interest in this subject, in various and distant parts of our country. Juvenile schools on the Pestalozzian plan are established, and well sustained, in many of the principal towns of New England. In addition to the successful efforts made in Philadelphia, on this subject, by the gentlemen to whom this system was first communicated, the friends of education and of

music in New York and Baltimore are roused to inquiry and action on the subject, and we cannot but hope that all our principal cities will provide this delightful, salutary amusement for the leisure hours of their children and youth, so often wasted, or devoted to the worst of purposes.

We also learn, that the Professors are constantly receiving applications for direction and advice, and for instructors competent to teach upon the Pestalozzian plan, as well as encouraging accounts of the results of experiments which have been made. We think the Academy owe it to the public and themselves, to give frequent accounts of their progress; and we are persuaded, that a monthly paper like those issued by some other of our societies, which should contain their proceedings and correspondence, with information for persons who wish to aid in this great object, together with occasional essays on the most common defects, and the most neces sary improvements in the training and performances of our choirs, and one or more pieces of Social and Juvenile Music, would do much to promote the influence of the Academy, and the progress of the cause. We annex to this number a new piece of Juvenile Music taken from the German; and intend to insert something of the kind in every number of the present year.

The progress of Juvenile Music in our country, in order to be salutary, must not be too rapid, and we have been pained to hear of a competent judge, who, after witnessing the results of a premature and ill-conducted effort on this subject, was compelled to say, that if he found other schools like this, he should oppose Juvenile Music to the utmost of his power. Let those who attempt to use this powerful instrument on the human mind, remember the responsibility and danger of their task. They might as safely touch the ark, with unhallowed hands. But how delightful to all who have been engaged in this cause, if we could but witness a musical revolution in our country, like that in Switzerland, which was described in our last number.

LEGACY TO YALE COLLEGE.

Dr. Alfred E. Perkins, of Norwich, Connecticut, who died recently, gave among other legacies to public and benevolent objects, 10,000 dollars to the library of Yale College. This is said to be the largest donation ever made by one individual to that institution.

SCHOOL FUNDS.

The governor states that the literary fund of Virginia, amounts to a million and a half of dollars. The annual receipts from this capital, after defraying the annual charges upon them of $60,000, and all the expenses of the corporation, have generally left a surplus much exceeding $30,000 annually, to be added to the capital.

The amount of the School Fund of Connecticut, is 1,929,738 dollars and 50 cents amount of monies distributed by the state, during the year end

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ing April, 1833, 79,461 dollars 80 cents. The whole number of children in the state, between four and sixteen years of age, is 83,641.

The amount of the school fund of New Jersey, at the present time, is 230,881 dollars and 64 cents. The whole is safely invested in stock and other securities, yielding an annual interest of five and six per cent.

This fund must increase very slowly under existing circumstances. It requires nearly all its interest to be added to the tax on banks, to make up the sum of 20,000 dollars, appropriated and paid annually in support of common schools. It is only the surplus of each year, that is added to the principal. The amount to be added this year is about 3,700 dollars.

Vermont has a small fund for the support of schools, composed of bank dividends, licenses to pedlars, debts due the state bank, &c. The fund appears to have amounted, at the close of the last year, to 52,544 dollars.

MESSAGES OF GOVERNORS In Reference TO EDUCATION. Pennsylvania. The provisions of the act passed at the last session of the Legislature for establishing a general system of education by Common Schools throughout the Commonwealth, have been adopted by all the school districts in some counties, partially in others, and in a few, they have been rejected altogether, as was the case in some of the sister States, when they commenced such a system-36 counties for it-14 against it.

New Jersey. The Message of Gov. Vroom distinctly and frankly states, that the mere elements of knowledge are taught in the common schools, and that very defectively, in many cases, by unqualified and unpaid teachers. The State has expended one hundred thousand dollars for this object within five years; and yet, sufficient information has not been collected, concerning its use and results, to furnish materials for a single report. More was done in 1828 by a few public-spirited individuals, than the laws have been able to effect. Does not this afford evidence of the necessity of private associations for this great object?

Ohio. The utility of the system of Common Schools, which, at first, was unpopular in some parts of this State,' says the Governor of Ohio, 'is now acknowledged, and by a steady attention to its improvement, I have no doubt, but that in a few years, this may be so perfected, as to diffuse its benefits in a more eminent degree than those derived from internal improvements.' The Deaf and Dumb Institution of Ohio is in a state of forwardness, the main building completed; forty pupils in attendance.

MEASURES OF THE VIRGINIA INSTITUTE.

Among other proceedings of the Virginia Institute of Education, which met at Hampden Sydney College on the 23d of September, a committee of three was appointed to procure a full and accurate account of the schools in Virginia, and to report at the next meeting of the Institute, of which President Cushing is chairman; and a second committee to corres

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pond with colleges, and men of learning in the United States, in order to devise the best scheme for assembling a convention of colleges, of which Prof. Goodrich is Chairman. We hope these Committees will succeed in their inquiries, and that some account of the history and proceedings of the Institute will be published with Mr. Garnett's lecture.

PRIZE ESSAY IN FRANCE.

The Academy of Sciences at Lyons has offered a gold medal, of the value of 600fr. for the best essay on this question- What is the best system of Education and Public Instruction in a Constitutional Monarchy ?'

ADDRESSES ON EDUCATION.

We observe in the newspapers, copies or extracts of several interesting addresses on the subject of education, but have only room at present, to insert their titles. 'A Speech delivered before the Education Convention, in Frankfort, Kentucky, January, 1834, by Rev. John C. Young, President of Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, on "Universal Education a pecuniary gain to the country."' 'Address delivered by S. P. Pressley, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Belles Letters, before the Demosthenian and Phi Beta Kappa Societies, in the University of Georgia.' 'President Colton's Address, delivered at the inauguration of the Faculty of Bristol College, Pa.' 'Lecture delivered by E. D. Mansfield Esq., before the College of Professional Teachers, on the necessity of the Study of Mathematics.' 'Address by R. D. Key, of Virginia, on the advantages of Physical Exercise connected with Mental Attainments.' 'A Lecture before the Boston Lyceum, on the subject of Reform in Education, by the Rev. E. M. P. Wells.' A course of Lectures before the same Lyceum was delivered the last month, by B. B. Thatcher Esq., on 'Self-Education.'

NEW MEASURES.

In the Andover Theological Seminary, the preparatory study of the Hebrew has been dispensed with by a vote of the Trustees, at their late anniversary. In the Oneida Institute, the Greek and Latin classisc have been laid aside; and the study of the Hebrew substituted.

GALENA.

Meetings have been held at Galena, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, on the subject of introducing the system of common schools into that region. Resolutions were passed, approving the system, and recommending the adoption of measures to promote its establishment there.-A St. Louis paper, of recent date, says that the Legislature of Missouri, will spend a considerable portion of their time, during their approaching session, in endeavoring to devise a general system of common education for that State.

A bill to establish a seat of learning in Georgia, for the exclusive education of females, to be called the Female University of Georgia, has been rejected in the House of Representatives of that State-yeas 56, nays 89.

SPAIN.

Primary schools are about to be established in all the towns in Spain, to be open to the most indigent classes. The Lancasterian Plan is to be adopted in them by order of the government.—Merc. Journal.

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

ELEMENTS OF PSYCHOLOGY, included in a critical examination of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding. By VICTOR COUSIN, Professor of Philosophy of the Faculty of Literature at Paris: Peer of France, and Member of the Royal Council of Public Instruction. Translated from the French, with an Introduction, Notes and Additions, by C. S. Henry. Hartford, Cooke & Co. 1834. 8vo. pp. 355.

What would be thought of the physician who should undertake to direct the treatment of the human body, and the cure of its diseases, without any knowledge of its formation? And yet, how many undertake the management of the human mind without any study, and almost without any thought, of its structure and faculties. If teaching is ever permitted to take the rank of a profession, the philosophy of the human mind will be considered as necessary to the instructor, as that of anatomy to a physician. Every discovery is highly important in both cases. The work before us is by one of the first philosophers of the age. It is a translation of the second volume of Cousin's course of lectures on the history of philosophy, containing a critical examination of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, in which he attempts to refute some of the errors, to which the origin of the sensual philosophy is ascribed. We welcome every work of this kind as a contribution to the cause of education; and we rejoice that it has found a translator and publisher, of sufficient enterprise to attempt a work whose sale must be limited to the few who have time and disposition to study. The execution is worthy of the work.

THE DISTRICT SCHOOL. Harper & Brothers, 1834.

By J. ORVILLE TAYLOR. New York, 12mo. pp. 336.

We have looked over this volume with uncommon interest. Twenty one out of the twenty six sections into which it is divided, relate to the duties of parents in regard to common schools, the claims, duties, objects and qualifications of teachers, and the principles and methods of instruction and discipline. In the other five sections, the author treats of the evils of ignorance, the value of knowledge, &c. The work is full of good thoughts and useful suggestions, on the importance of common