The Institute is supported by Legislative appropriations, with the design of furnishing to the young blind of the State, whether native or foreign born, the same facilities for education as are enjoyed by seeing youth under her liberal system of public instruction.

The school course comprises all the branches which are necessary to a good English education, together with vocal and instrumental music. Instruction is also given in a variety of mechanical employments, whereby many will be enabled to procure a competent support after leaving the Institute; and especial attention is paid to the formation of personal habits so that the plan of education pursued, has reference to the moral and physical as well as the intellectual powers.

In the boarding department of the Institnte every thing needful for the promotion of the health, comfort, and convenience of the inmates is provided, and no pains are spared by the officers to make them as happy and contented as they could be at their own home. In case of sickness they receive prompt medical attendance, and are watched over with parental solicitude by the Superintendent and Matron.

No charge is made to citizens of the State for either boarding or tuition; but the friends of the pupils are expected to provide them with clothing, and defray their traveling expenses to and from the Institute.

The school session occupies about ten months of each year, commencing on the 1st Monday in September, and closing on the last Wednesday in June, thus leaving a vacation of over two months, which is spent by the pupils at their homes.

The rule pertaining to the ages of pupils embraces only those who are not under eight, or above twenty-one years, but exceptions are sometimes made in peculiar

cases.

No person of confirmed immoral character is knowingly received into the Institution.

Persons wishing to make application for the admission of pupils, or to gain further information concerning the Institution, will address their communications to W. H. CHURCHMAN, Supt. of Institute for the Blind, Janesville, Wis.

WE have inadvertently neglected to notice the North-western Home and School Journal, a weekly quarto devoted to Literature, Education, Temperance and Gen. eral intelligence, published at Chicago, by J. F. Eberhard.

Its tone is earnest and elevated, and the wide range of topics treated of in its columns, makes it a welcome visitor. Terms, single copy, $2,00; ten copies, $15,00.

The Atlantic Monthly for April is on our table, and is, we think, the best number of this volume. "L Bulls and Bears," "The Minister's Wooing," and "The Utah Expedition," are continued. The Professor at the breakfast table gives one of his best and spiciest articles, and the remainder of its ample pages are filled with sound able, and interesting articles in prose and verse.

We learn from a Boston paper that the Atlantic has reached a circulation of 40,000, which is still increasing, and that Mrs. Stowe's new serial, "The Minister's Wooing," is being republished in England immediately upon its appearance here. We rejoice in the success of the magazine, because it richly deserves it, and our subscribers can not expend two dollars to better advantage than in procuring the Atlantic for a year.

The Public School Advocate, for March, is received. It is a neat and attractive eight paged quarto, "issued under the editorial care of the teachers and pupils of the Racine public schools," and is published by Sandford and Tapley, at the Advocate office, at $1 per annum, in advance.

Barnard's American Journal of Education for March is upon our table, and fully sustains its reputation. This is the first number of Vol. 6, and contains 19 articles, comprising histories of schools and school systems, biographies of distinguished educators and promoters of education, essays, etc. In the prospectus it was stated that each number would contain 256 pages, and be embellished with at least one portrait; this number contains five portraits (Mrs. Emma Willard, Seth J. North, Thomas H. Burrowes, Stephen Van Renselaer, and Wilbur Fisk), and 320 pages filled with valuable and interesting matter. Published quarterly, by B. F. Perkins, Hartford, Conn., at $4,00 a year in advance, or $4,25 postage paid.

Mr. Barnard's health is quite poor yet, and he is not expected in Wisconsin till settled weather.

ERRATA. The author of the article on "Errors in the mode of teaching English Grammar," published in No. 6 of this volume, requests us to make the following corrections: On page 173, 19th line from bottom, for "practical " read "practicable;" On 175th page, insert "of" after neglect in 10th line from bottom; on 178th page insert "mind" after boisterous in the line of poetry. There are a few typographical mistakes also, which we regret very much, as it is too good an ar ticle to be thus mutilated. We shall pay more attention to proof reading in fu. ture.

Literary Notices.

The House. A Pocket Manual of Rural Architecture; or How to Build Country Houses and Out-Buildings. Embracing the Origin and Meaning of the House; the Art of House-Building, including Planning, Style, and Construction; De

signs and Descriptions of Cottages, Farm-Houses, Villas, and Out-Buildings, of various cost, and in the Different Styles of Architecture, etc.; and an Appendix, containing Recipes for Paints and Washes, Stucco, Rough-Cast, etc.; and instructions for Roofing, building with Rough Stone, Unburnt Brick, Balloon Frames, and the Concrete or Gravel Wall. By the author of "The Garden," "The Farm," etc. With many Original Designs. New York: Fowler & Wells, Publishers, 308 Broadway. Price, in paper, 30 cts; in muslin, 50 cents.

This work closes the popular series of manuals to which it belongs, and is destined to meet an extensive patronage. It presents, in a small compass the substance of what is contained in many large and costly works, and is written in a style which will commend it to those for whom it is designed. It gives designs, accompanied by descriptions of houses, barns, poultry-houses, piggeries, ash-houses, ice-houses, and other out buildings of every size, style, and price, and is really a valuable work.

The series of "Rural Manuals" to which this belongs-"The House," "The Farm," and "Domestic Animals"-will be furnished to subscribers ordering them all at once, in paper for $1, in cloth for $1,75.

The whole series, bound in one large handsome gilt volume, under the title of "Illustrated Rural Manuals," may be had for $1,50. Address:

FOWLER & WELLS, 308 Broadway, New York.

The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the year 1859 Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co.

This well known annual visitor now makes its thirtieth appearance, and presents, as usual, a vast amount of information relating to the government, finances, legislation, public institutions, internal improvements and resources of the United States and of the several States. Nowhere else can be found such a variety and amount of information on topics of interest to all our people.

The Common School Arithmetic. A practical treatise on the Science of Numbers. By Dana P. Colburn, Principal of the Rhode Island State Normal School, author of Arithmetic and its Applications. Philadelphia: H. Cowperthwait & Co.,

1858.

A plain practical treatise, especially adapted to classes in common schools. It presents, in the compass of two hundred and seventy-five pages, all of arithmetic that is necessary to be learned to fit the pupil for the business of life. Every principle and process is clearly demonstrated, every statement is clear and accurate, and the whole work gives evidence of a complete knowledge of the subject, and great care in its preparation on the part of the author.

We have been favored, by the same firm, through their agent, Mr. C. Peavy, with a copy of Warren's Primary Geography, a beautiful little quarto, of nearly one hundred pages, designed for classes in primary and intermediate schools.

It is written in an easy familiar style, is beautifully illustrated, and contains nineteen maps, giving the outlines of the principal countries on the globe, with capitals, rivers, and a few chief towns, etc.

A Practical Guide to English Pronounciation for the Use of Schools, and Alphabetical Recitation List to accompany the pronouncing guide. By Edward J. Stearns, A.M. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co., 117 Washington Street.

These small, unpretending works contain a large amount of useful matter, and would be of great service if introduced into all our schools.

The former contains over five thousand words in common use, which are liable to be mispronounced, accompanied with rules and directions for their correct pronunciation. Also, an alphabetical list of the words given in the body of the work, divided into syllables, and the accent marked. The latter work consists of the same alphabetical list without the division of the words into syllables, or the accents, and is to be used by the student in reciting his lesson after having learned it in the other work. The use of these books would do much to break up bad habits already formed by older pupils, and prevent their formation by the younger pupils in our schools.

Elements of Mechanics, for the use of Colleges and Academies. By Wm. G. Peck, M.A., Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Columbia College. New York: A. S. Barnes & Burr, 51 and 53 John Street, 1859.

This new work, from the hands of Professor Peck, is designed to occupy an intermediate position between the elementary works on Natural Philosophy and the extendes treatises on mechanics hitherto used in colleges.

In the preface the author, in stating his experience in teaching Natural Philosophy to college classes, says:

"The higher treatises were found too difficult to be read with profit, except by a few in each class; and the simpler treatises were found too elementary for advanced classes, and, on account of their non-mathematical character, not adapted to prepare the student for subsequent investigations. The present volume was designed to occupy the middle ground between these two classes of works, and to form a connecting link between the elementary and the higher treatises. It was designed to embraced all of the important propositions of elementary mechanics, arranged in logical order, and each rightly demonstrated."

A careful examination of the work has convinced us that the author has suc、 ceeded in his design, and has presented in this work an amount of information in regard to the elementary principles of mechanics, illustrated by copious examples, which commends the book to all our high schools, academies, and colleges, as just the thing they want. It is got up with the neatness and taste which characterize the publications of the well known firm (late A. S. Barnes & Co., now A. S. Barnes & Burr) whose imprint is on the title page

Subscribe for Arthur's Home Magazine. Every family should have it.

A very poor Patent Medicine requires a very strong "WRITING UP" to Make it go.

We candidly statel a fact in an advertisement in this Journal for January, 1859, concerning the manner in which W. B. Smith & Co. did, in a circular, make Hon. Lyman C. Draper's recommendation of School Books for this State, read so as to place their books first on his list, whereas the recommendation of the Eclectic Books was only SECONDARY in every instance. W. B. Smith & Co. do not deny their unfairness in the matter, but become rabid in reply in the February Number of the Journal, and rail at us in most miserable taste.

Had we hashed over and changed the numbers of our Readers, naming the 2d the 3d, the 3d the 4th, aud so through the series, ad ding only a few pieces for the sake of appearance, and called them "New Readers" had we changed the type and the covers of our Arithmetics, and left the text untouched, calling them "Revised Arithmetics," we might deem it necessary to write them up as well as we could, in flaming advertisements, and savage attacks upon every thing of the kind; but having made our books new and UP TO THE TIMES in all respects, having employed the best talent upon them, and spared no expense to render them worthy of attention, and use on their own merits, we are willing to leave the books to speak for themselves, which they are doing every day.

The NATIONAL READERS AND SPELLERS are rapidly being adopted by the best schools, not only in Wisconsin, but throughout the Union.

DAVIES' MATHEMATICAL SERIES still stands at the head in this department of text books, in the colleges, academies, and common schools of the whole United States. This series has received a valuable addition in the NEW UNIVERSITY ALGEBRA, just published-a book all who examine admire

We only ask Teachers and Boards to procure these books, examine and compare them, in respect to lsterary merit, durability. and price with others of the same kind, and we feel not the slightest "Alarm" as to what will be the result.

We wish to state, further, that in onr Advertisement in the Journal, in which W, BS & Co. complain that we did not print the whole list recommended, we only proposed to insert such of our books as were in Mr. Draper's list, and so fairly stated.

For Descriptive Catalogue, or any books of the NATIONAL SERIES, please address,

A. S. BARNES & BURR, 51 and 53 John St., N.Y.