higher branches of knowledge. In order to give them the same advantages as tho. boys, and at the same time to train up and qualify teachers, the GIRLS' HIGH AND NORMAL SCHOOL was instituted in 1852. The course, at first limited to two years, was afterwards extended to three-the scholars passing through a Junior, Middle, and Senior year. The instructors are now fourteen in number, a master, nine female assistants, and four male teachers who have charge of the departments of Drawing, French, German, and Vocal Music. An examination of candidates for admission is held on the two days following the Annual Exhibitions and Festival in July; when the candidates, the greater part of whom are graduates from the Grammar Schools, are required to prepare written answers to printed questions in Geography, Arithme tic, Grammar, and History. They are also examined in Reading, Writing, Spelling, and Oral Arithmetic. More than one thousand pupils have been admitted to this school. At the examination in July, there were one hundred and fifty-six applicants; ninety-nine were admitted unconditionally; thirty-seven on the condition of passing a second examination in one or more studies, and twenty were rejected. At the second examination in September, several new candidates presented themselves, with those conditionally received; and the whole number admitted this year is one hundred and fifty-two. The number of scholars has increased from one hundred and ninety in 1858, to three hundred and forty, twenty of whom have completed the prescribed course, and are permitted to continue their connection with the school, as an advanced class.

The pupils, after carefully reviewing their previous studies, are carried through an extended course of Natural, Intellectual, and Moral Philosophy, Astronomy, Chemistry, History, English Literature, Drawing, and Music, and the Latin, French, and German languages. They are encouraged to pursue the investigation of subjects beyond the limit of text-books, to form their own views, to express them freely and clearly, and to maintain them firmly. One of the most instructive and interesting exercises of this school is the analysis and criticism of the thoughts and sentiments of standard English authors, by the classes, under the supervision of their teachers. Questions of philosophy, points of history, and matters of taste are freely canvassed. There is no better method than this for bringing out the hidden powers of the mind, giving quickness and activity to the thoughts, and communicating the ability of expressing the ideas readily, and without coufusion or hesitation. Not only is there a most thorough and complete education given in this institution; but, by the peculiar methods of teaching in use here, the pupils are eminently fitted to impart knowledgo to others. The training of all the mental faculties is found to be the best preparation for instructing children. It requires a large amount of learning, remarkable clearness of thought, a firm grasp of ideas, a well-disciplined mind, a thorough knowledge of the English language, and accuracy in the use of words, to teach properly even the youngest pupils in our schools. Believing that a good Normal School, in which assistants for the Grammar Departments, and instructors of the Primary Schools are prepared for their several duties, must be a High School, the projectors of this institution appropriated the greater part of the course to the higher branches. A portion of the time, however, is given to the Normal Department. Special instruction in the theory and practice of teaching is imparted to all the young ladies; and they are allowed to be absent in some cases for a few days, in others for several weeks, in order to act as substitutes for the instructors in the city schools. Three hundred and twenty-two have, at different times, availed themselves of this privilege. At the examinations of candidates for the office of teachers, graduates from this school invariably stand among the first; and their success in the various positions which they have held, and the promotion of sixteen of them already to the post of head-assistant, prove that the school is admirably fulfilling both the objects for which it was instituted. The assistant teachers of this school are all graduates of the school. In October, 1859, when it became necessary to appoint new instructors on account of the increase in the number of scholars, an examination was held after public notice given in the newspapers. The eight young ladies who stood highest at that examination, had been educated at this school; and from their number the four assistants, since appointed, bave been selected.

By the Report of the City Auditor for 1861, it appears that the salaries of the teachers for the Girls' High and Normal School for that year, amounted to $8,287.50.

The following Regulations of the Girls' High and Normal School, are taken from the "RULES of the School Committee and Regulations of the Public Schools of Boston for 1861."

REGULATIONS OF THE GIRLS' HIGH AND NORMAL SCHOOL, 1861.

SECTION 1. This school is situated in Mason Street. It was instituted in 1852, with the design of furnishing to those pupils who have passed through the usual course of studies at the Grammar Schools for girls, and at other girls' schools in this city, an opportunity for a higher and more extended education, and also to fit such of them as desire to become teachers. The following are the regulations of this school, in addition to those common to all the schools.

SECT. 2. The instructors shall be, a master, and as many assistants as may be found expedient; but the whole number of assistants shall not exceed the ratio of one for every thirty pupils.

SECT. 3. The examination of candidates for admission to the schools, shall tako place annually, on the Wednesday and Thursday next succeeding the day of the annual exhibition of the Grammar Schools in July.

SECT. 4. Candidates for admission must be over fifteen, and not more than nineteen years of age. They must present certificates of recommendation from the teachers whose schools they last attended, and must pass a satisfactory examination in the following branches, viz.: Spelling, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Geography, and History.

SECT. 5. The examination shall be conducted by the instructors of the school, both orally and from written questions previously prepared by them, and approved by the Committee of the school. It shall be the duty of the said Committee to be present and to assist at the examination, and the admission of candidates shall be subject to their approval.

SECT. 6. The course of studies and instruction in this school shall be as follows:Junior Class. Reading, Spelling, and Writing continued. Arithmetic, Geography, and Grammar reviewed. Physical Geography, Natural Philosophy, Analysis of Language and Structure of Sentences. Synonymes. Rhetoric. Exercises in English Composition. History. Latin, begun. Exercises in Drawing and in Vocal Music.

Middle Class. Natural Philosophy, continued. English Literature. Algebra. Moral Philosophy. Latin, continued. French, begun, (instruction given by a native French teacher.) Rhetoric, with exercises in Composition, continued. Physiology, with Lectures. General History. Exercises in Drawing and in Vocal Music. Reading standard English works, with exercises in Criticism.

Senior Class. Latin and French, continued. Geometry. General History. Intellectual Philosophy. Astronomy. Chemistry, with Lectures. Exercises in Composition. Exercises in Drawing and in Vocal Music. Exercises in Criticism, comprising a careful examination of works of the best English authors. Instruction in the Theory and Practice of Teaching. Such instruction in Music shall be given to all the pupils as may qualify them to teach Vocal Music in our Public Schools.

SECT. 7. The sessions of the school shall begin at 9 o'clock, A. M., and close at 2 o'clock, P. M., except on Wednesday and Saturday, when the school shall close at 1 o'clock.

SECT. 8. The plan of study shall be arranged for three years. Pupils who have attended for that period, and who have completed the course in a manner satisfactory to the teachers and the Committee on the school, shall be entitled to receive a diploma or certificate to that effect, on leaving school.

IV. FEMALE EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF OHIO.

Compiled from Report of School Commissioner (Anson Smyth,) August 31, 1862.

1. Out of 928,890 youth between five and twenty-one years of age, 723,669 were enrolled in the Common Schools, in the year ending August 31, 1862. Of this number (723,669) 348,147, were females.

2. Of the 21,390 teachers employed in the Common Schools during the year, 10,931 were females.

3. In twenty-three incorporated institutions, styled Colleges and Seminaries, (all designed to give to females an education superior to that given in the Academies and High Schools for boys, and several claiming to give an appropriate and equivalent instruction to that given in colleges for male youth,) there were 1,636 pupils in the regular courses, which extended through four, and in two institutions to five years, besides 1,169 in partial and preparatory courses. These institutions have large buildings, many possess extensive grounds, and some are well equipped with the best apparatus of instruction, and the best facilities of residence. These grounds and buildings cost $876,000, approximating closely to the value of the colleges for males, which are returned at $932,000. Of these institutions, for female pupils, we give the tabulated statements of the Commissioner.

Of the organization, studies, and discipline, including the residence and domestic training of the pupils, of the Female College at College Hill, the Western Female Seminary at Oxford, and the Female Department of Oberlin College, as types of the studies and aims of female education in one of the largest and most advanced communities of the country, we hope to give a detailed account hereafter. These institutions for female education have marked peculiarities which distinguish them from seminaries having the same general aims in the Eastern States and in Europe.

4. These statistics of female education do not include a large number of private institutions of different grades, academic, and otherwise, of which, several numerously attended, are under the auspices of the Catholic Church.

FEMALE SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES IN OHIO, FOR THE YEAR 1862.

March 27

150 June 24 June 26

175 July 9 Aug. 25

June 18

160 June 18

June 20

160 June 24 90 July 16

V. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

THE experience of every country where the schools, public, parochial, or private, have attained any high degree of excellence, and the teachers are respected for their personal and professional worth, has demonstrated that early and continued success in the work of instruction, and in the management of educational institutions generally, demands not only certain qualities of mind and character, and an amount and kind of scholarship equal at least to the standard aimed at in the schools, but special preparation in knowledge and methods, and continued efforts at self and professional improvement to obviate the inevitable tendencies of an isolated and monotonous occupation: To secure this preliminary training, and progressive improvement in individual teachers, to exclude from the profession unworthy and incompetent members, to give opportunities of a generous genial culture as the basis of all special studies, and the source of a powerful unconscious tuition in manner, character, and daily life, to protect all who follow the business of teaching from pecuniary anxiety, and increase their means of per; sonal happiness and social influence, various institutions, agencies, and measures, legal and voluntary, have been resorted to, at different times, and in different countries. We here briefly enumerate some of these Institutions and Agencies, which will be more particularly described elsewhere.

I. Religious Communities, or Associations of persons, who, having served a severe and prolonged novitiate, or preparatory course to test their vocation, devote themselves for life, and without pecuniary fee, or worldly reward, to the business of instruction. Such were the Benedictines, the Hieronymians, or Brethren of the Common Life, the Oratorians, the Brothers and Sisters of St. Francis of Paola, and other religious orders which have done their work, and given way to the Jesuits, the Ursulines, the Brethren of the Christian Schools, (Institut des Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes,) and other teaching communities, whose schools are found in every country where the Catholic Church is established. The Mother House of