- An edition of 10,000 copies of the Ohio University catalogue recently came from the press and is now being distributed.

-The edition of Shakespeare, edited by William J. Rolfe and published by the American Book Co., has been completed and will form. a valuable addition to any library, whether public or private.

Miss Wilhelmina Deissle who went from Logan to the Canton high school has demonstrated her ability to fill with complete satisfaction the position to which she was elected.

- Ralph W. Buck, teacher of science in the Xenia high school, has lately exhibited his mechanical genius in transforming an old stereoptican into one that has microscopic and reflectroscopic attachments and all at comparatively small cost.

Supt. W. W. Borden, of Fredericktown, and Supt. H. C .Fickel, of Centerburg, have both been reelected for a term of two years. Boards of education up in Knox county believe in holding fast to a good man.

Supt. R. E. Tope of Oak Hill has seen many changes for the better in his six years in his present position. He has seen a high school organized and expand through all the gradations up to first grade. He has seen the old building supplanted by a new one that is thoroughly up to date. He has seen a library collected, apparatus accumulate, and best of all, a fine school sentiment created, himself having much to do in the creation.

-Supt. S. K. Mardis of Toronto deserve a large bouquet from every teacher in Ohio for his persistent and rational efforts in favor of school legislation. Elsewhere we have noted what bills he advocated especially but no one but himself will ever know just how much time he devoted to the interests of the school and teachers of Ohio.

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Senator Duvall and Supt. Mardis worked shoulder to shoulder and won a great victory.

-A. B. Heath, for several years superintendent at Eldorado, is this year a student in Earlham College; Richmond, Ind., preparing for that larger career which surely awaits him. He is the sort of man that the schools will be eager to get when his college course is completed.

- Supt. S. H, Maharry of Shelby has been re-elected for a term of four years at a salary of $1,500. Behind this action of the Board of Education must lie the conviction that Supt. Maharry is the man for the place.

-A fine new grade building is soon to be added to the Mt. Vernon equipment and a bond issue has already been provided for to meet the expense.

-Supt. H. E. Denig and Prin. H. H. Reigley will graduate six girls, May 3. Dean H. C. Minnich will present the diplomas.

· Prof. Nelson Sauvain of the University of Wooster has been elected superintendent of schools at Dell Rapids, S. D., at a salary of $1,200. We are sorry to lose him from Ohio for he is an excellent teacher and a high grade gentle

man.

-Supt. J. G. Leland of Mt. Vernon receives a salary plus a "parsonage." By recent action of the

Board this "parsonage" is to undergo extensive repairs in vacation and Supt. Leland will be forced to rock the baby "in the shade of the old apple tree."

-A delegation from the Newark board of education made an in

spection of the Mansfield school buildings April 6 under the guidance of Supt. C. L. Van Cleve.

Supt. H. M. Lowe of Nevada reports a recent musical entertainment, under the direction of Prof. T. R. Neilson, which netted a neat sum for the schools.

-The sympathy of all our readers will go out to Prin. G. Ľ. Ely of the North High School, Middletown, who is bowed down with grief by reason of the death of her who became his bride only last Au gust.

Sup t. Edward Brantner and the teachers of the Selma special district are rejoicing in the occupancy of their elegant $15,000 building. The formal dedicatory exercises were held April 4. Centralization is popular now in that community. Of 185 enumerated there are 147 in attendance. Four girls and one boy will graduate May 11. This fine building and the school have placed Selma on the map in capitals.

features is the publication of several sections of school law with which everybody should be acquainted.

-President James of the University of Illinois announces the appointment as head of the department of Modern Languages in that institution the distinguished Germanic scholar, Dr. Gustaf E. Karsten. In addition to his work in this position Dr. Karsten will continue as editor of the Journal of Philology which will be published hereafter at Urbana, Ill.

-Prof. C. M. Parker has been giving lecture recitals in various places in Ohio the past winter and has scored a success in every place. The Wooster Republican says: "The lecture-recital by Prof. C. M. Parker was something entirely new and was greatly enjoyed. It was a finished and polished literary effort delivered with grace and fluency, instructive and highly entertaining."

-The North Central Association adopted the following rules governing athletics: Any person representing a school in any athletic contest whatever with any other school of this Association must (1) be a bona fide student of the school which he represents; (2) he must have been a student at least one year before such contest; (3) he must be carrying full work; (4) he must be maintaining a passing standard in scholarship in the

said work; (5) in the secondary school he must not be more than twenty (20) years of age; (6) he must not have played more than four years in the secondary school contests; (7) he must be an amateur sportsman; he must never have acted as an instructor in athletics; (8) no graduate of a secondary school shall be eligible to play in any interscholastic contest between secondary schools.

The fond mother told her

neighbor that her son is a member of the refreshment class in college and that they intend to make a civilized engineer of him.

-Prof. W. W. Boyd, Supt. E. M. Van Cleve of Steubenville, and Supt. R. P. Clar.ke of Ashtabula are still smiling over the success of their excursion to Washington, D. C., with nearly 150 teachers during vacation week.

Supt. J. P. Sharkey of Van Wert reports a graduating class of thirty-five for June 5, the date of commencement. Of this number there are nineteen boys, a pretty fair per cent.

- D. Appleton & Co., New York, have published a new book entitled, "The Mind and its Education" in whose green pastures our pedagogical friends will revel.

- Teachers' Institues! Don't you wish an interesting lecture? Here are some subjects, each fully illustrated with the stereopticon:

Greek Pottery, Sculpture, Architecture; The Yellowstone Park. For particulars write W. J. Seelye, Wooster, Ohio.

-"American Hero Stories" by Eva March Tappan and published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, is just the book for boys whose teachers and parents want something that will lead them pleasantly into the green vales of history.

Miss Adda L. Hannan has

done a good year's work in the high school at Elmore- and that because she has untiring industry and always does her work in accordance with well-matured plans.

-Charles Scribner's Sons, New

York, have published "The Philippine Experiences of an American Teacher" by William B. Freer who spent three years in the islands and gives us a frank, impartial record of his experiences.

- Miss Bertha Swope, supervisor of physical training at Parkersburg, will next year take advanced work at the School of Physical Culture at New Haven, Conn.

-"Dynamic Factors in Education" is the title of a new book by Prof. M. V. O'Shea of the Univer

are styled Language-Readers and, as the name implies, are designed to teach the reading and the language at the same time and from the same book.

Miss Juliette Sessions, head of the department of history in East High School, Columbus, spent vacation week in Washington, D. C., visiting friends, and incidentally, witnessing the process of making history in connection with the making of laws.

Miss Effie Millar has been appointed principal of the Spring Street School, Columbus, to succed Miss Effie Burkline, resigned.

Supt. S. A. Gillett of Bridgeport has issued his revised course of study for the high school together with a roster of the teachers. The high school course of four years is solid from first to last just good straight hard work.

-Supt. J. W. Swartz of Parkersburg is on the program for the West Virginia State meeting in June, and will read a paper on "How to Secure Teachers for City Schools and their Proper Training."

-There is something new under the sun after all. The MacMillan Company have just published a set of books which will set the school people a-thinking. These books

self for a broader sphere of activity. He is one of the most promising young men in Ohio and success awaits him in school work if he resumes it after completing his college course.

-The following schools are on the accredited list of the North Central Association: Akron, Ashtabula, Bellefontaine, Bowling Green, Canton. Cincinnati: Hughes Walnut Hills, Woodward. Cleveland: Central, East, Glenville, Lincoln, South, West. Columbus: Central, East, North, South. Delaware, East Cleveland, East Liverpool, Elyria, Fostoria, Gallipolis, Greenville, Hamilton, Lakewood, Lima, Mansfield, Marietta, Marion, Middletown, Mount Vernon, Oberlin Academy, Newark, New Philadelphia, Painesville, Piqua, Portsmouth, Salem, Sandusky, Steubenville, Toledo, Troy, Van Wert, Warren, Washington C. H., Xenia, Youngstown.

-Prin, H. E. Beatly, of Urbana, will discontinue school work at the close of this year to take a more lucrative position in the railway mail service. The schools of Urbana will feel the loss, for he is an excellent teacher.

- Prin. W. M. Townsend, of Central High, Columbus, was elected Vice President of the North Central Association at the Chicago meeting, March 24.

-Miss Effie McKinney, of Greenville, will probably teach in her home town, Mechanicsburg, next year, as the board of education have tendered her the principalship of the high school at an attractive salary. She is one of the ver best in Ohio, and Mechanics

burg will be fortunate to secure her. services.

-Prof. J. V. Denney declined re-election as Secretary of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools at the annual meeting at Chicago, March 23, 24, and, instead, was elected to membership on the executive committee.

C. G. Olney, formerly in the Akron high school, is now connected with the department of English in the high school at Toledo.

-The Journal, of Jamestown, in the issue of March 30 contains a two-column article on the progress and efficiency of the schools. Supt. Geo. H. Eckerle and all the teachers come in for their full share of praise. There will be nine gra uates, four girls and five boys.

-The Western Ohio Superintendents' Round Table at Dayton, March 30 and 31,was a success. H. G. Carter, of Greenville, presided admirably. The discussions were earnest, practical, and spiritual. It always pays to attend this meeting. No report of any length can do it justice, and the feeling of good fellowship can not be recorded with printers' ink.

There are two kinds of scen

ery in Colorado · the kind you can see and the kind you can't see. Of the latter there is a great deal represented in pictures, but it lies. away from the railway and might