architecture. The building is three stories high and embraces lecture rooms, offices, laboratory, society halls and chapel. It is heated throughout with steam, will be supplied with water and electric lights, and furnished with all the modern conveniences of comfort. There are also two brick dormitories, and a dining or mess hall.

The geological and mineralogical cabinets contain a large variety of specimens. A handsome series of maps and charts and engravings illustrate lectures on geology, physiology and astronomy. The college has also, a good chemical, mathematical and philosophical apparatus. There are in connection with the college, and in successful operation, two literary societies.

All students, over fifteen years of age, are required to join the college cadet corps, which is drilled not more than an hour a day. The cadet uniform is not more expensive than civilian suits.

The courses of study embrace: school of English; school of Latin; school of Greek; school of modern languages; school of mathematics; school of physical science; commercial school; school of psychology and moral philosophy.

The expenses are: Collegiate tuition, per term, 830; board per month, $12.50; furnished room, fuel, servant's attendance and washing of bed linen for room, per month, $3. Sub-collegiate, tuition, per term, $24; board per month, $12.50; furnished room, fuel, servant's attendance and washing of bed linen for room, per month $3. These expenses are payable September 6, and February 1, strictly in advance.

The sons of ministers engaged in the active work of the ministry pay one-half of the tuition fee.

Students who comply with the regulations of the ministerial board, at Montgomery, are furnished $130 per session to assist in the defrayment of their expenses for board at Howard college. Such students are given tuition free.

Other ministerial students who may desire to pay their own board, will be furnished tuition free upon the presentation of licenses from their churches.

Such as may desire to enter the college as ministerial students, must correspond with the president of the ministerial board, Hon. J. G. Harris, Montgomery, Ala.

The scholastic year is divided into two terms, commencing September 15, and February 1. The last term ends the second Wednesday in June. Number of students, session ending June, 1892, was 196.

For full information and catalogue, address the President at East Lake, Ala.

EAST LAKE ATHENEUM.

This institution, located at East Lake, six miles from Birmingham, in Jefferson county, was established in 1890; opened its doors for its first session October 7, 1890, and was incorporated December 5, 1890, the object of its founders being the establishment of an "institution of learning of high grade for the education of young women in the arts, sciences, and practical industries." It is a private corporation, and receives no financial aid from the State, but relies for its success upon the character and high qualifications of its faculty and the thorough instruction it imparts. The management of the institution is under a board of trustees.

East Lake is a town of 2,000 inhabitants, but rapidly increasing; situated on high, rolling ground, and surrounded by the spurs of the Appalachian range of mountains. Springs of pure and never-failing water gush from beneath these spurs of the mountain, affording an abundance of the very best water for drinking and culinary purposes, making the town one of the healthiest in the south.

Being on the southern extremity of the Appalachian range of mountains, it has the advantage in summer of balmy breezes during the day and cool, refreshing nights, equal to those enjoyed in the mountains further north, without suffering the rigor of their cold winters.

The main Atheneum building, which, with its equipment, cost $30,000, is 90 feet long and 75 wide, containing a chapel that will seat at desks for study 140 young ladies, a primary room that will seat 35 children, four recitation rooms, sufficient music rooms, and one large, well lighted art room. It contains a dining hall, kitchen, a parlor, sitting room, and bed rooms sufficient to accommodate 50 boarders. It is situated in a

grove of native umbrageous oaks, on a commanding site, mre than half a mile from Howard College, and more than a quarter of a mile from the pavilion and lake. The building is well. furnished with new furniture and all modern conveniences, including blackboards, wall maps, charts, globes, apparatus, and reference books. Whenever there is a demand for other buildings, arrangements are perfected for their erection. College and boarding departments are under the same roof. A more picturesque, delightful and health-giving location would be hard to find. The building crowns an eminence overlooking the town of East Lake, the city of Birmingham, and the Jones valley for ten miles away. This elevation is more than 900 feet above sea level, and above the water's level of the lake 140 feet. So elevated is the location that during the midsummer the nights are delightfully cool. There is nothing to cause malaria in or near the town; the consequence is that it has become proverbial for its healthfulness, and a favorite location for health seekers. No epidemic has ever visited it.

Boarding pupils are received into the home of the president as members of his family, and every effort is made to make this home pleasant and refining. Pupils from a distance are required to board in the Atheneum, unless by special arrangement with the president.

While the institution is not under the supervision or control of any particular religious denomination, special pains are taken by the president, his family and faculty, to secure the most effective moral and religious culture.

The faculty is an able one, and the president is Hon. Solomon Palmer, who for a long period was Superintendent of Education of the State of Alabama, a position which he filled. with distinguished ability and to the great advancement of the cause of education in the State.

The literary course is divided into four departments: Primary, intermediate, preparatory and collegiate. Besides this course, beginners are trained in the kindergarten method. There is also a department of music and a department of art. Embroidery, hair work, needle work, wax work, bead work, blending of colors so as to give the finest effect, also receive attention, and are taught to those desiring such instruction at a cost not exceeding $5.00 per term. Stenography, bookkeep

ing, and other practical industries will be taught as the demand for them arises.

Certificates of proficiency and diplomas are conferred in in each department.

The session, divided into three terms, begins in September and ends in June.

To promote economy in dress, as well as to prevent unseemly rivalry and extravagance, the young ladies are required to wear a uniform when they go without the limits of the college on public occasions.

The expenses, per term, are: Tuition-In primary department, $4.50 to $6.00; in intermediate department, $7.50 to $9.00; in preparatory department, $10.50 to $12.00; in collegiate department, $15.00 to $18.00; modern languages, each, $5.00; elocution, in class, $3.00, individual lessons, $15.00; music, on piano, organ or guitar, $12.00 to $15.00; vocal lessons, in class, $3.00, individual lessons, $15.00; art, $12.00 to $15.00. Board, lodging, fuel, lights, and washing, per term, $45.00.

Tuition in regular course is free to daughters of ministers in the regular pastorate.

The number of pupils in attendance during the session ending June, 1892, was 189.*

For full information and catalogues, address the president.