to us that this open competition produced a spirit of confidence and energy in the students, as great, if not greater, than any we met with elsewhere. The whole of the above system of education is directed by the Fourth Section of the War Department. In all the schools we found traces of its activity; and the energy and system which prevail in the Military Teaching of Austria appear in great measure to result from its being directed by this single head. THE following works, issued separately, and under the general title of PAPERS FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS, and devoted to a practical exposition of Methods of Teaching and School Management in different countries, are compiled, from "The American Journal of Education," edited by HENRY BARNARD, LL. D. I. AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE OF EDU- II. OBJECT-TEACHING AND ORAL LESSONS ON SOCIAL SCIENCE AND COM- III. GERMAN EXPERIENCE IN THE ORGANIZATION, INSTRUCTION, AND DISCI PLINE OF PUBLIC OR COMMON SCHOOLS; WITH TREATISES ON PEDAGOGY, DIDACTICS, AND METHODOLOGY, by Professor Raumer, Dr. Diesterweg, Dr. Hentschel, Dr. Abbenrode, Dr. Dinter, and others, One Volume, 482 pages, Octavo, bound in cloth, $2.50. IV. EDUCATIONAL APHORISMS And Suggestions Ancient and MODERN WITH AN INDEX. One Volume, 200 pages, Octavo, bound in cloth, $1.50. V. ENGLISH PEDAGOGY; or Treatises and Thoughts on Education, the School, and the Teacher. By Roger Ascham, Lord Bacon, Sir Henry Wotton, John Milton, Samuel Hartlib, Sir William Petty, John Locke, Thomas Fuller, William Shenstone, Thomas Gray, William Cowper, George Crabbe, Herbert Spencer, and others. One Volume, 480 pages, $2.50. VI. PESTALOZZI AND PESTALOZZIANISM, with Sketches of the Educational Views of other Swiss Educators. One Volume, 480 pages, Octavo, bound in cloth, $2.50; (in goat, with Portrait, $3.00.) VII. GERMAN EDUCATIONAL REFORMERS-Sturm, Luther, Melancthon, Ratich, Comenius, Basedow, Francke, Herder, and others. One Volume, 586 pages, Octavo, $3.00. VIII. FRENCH SCHOOLS AND PEDAGOGY; the Organization and Instruction of Public Schools, both for General and Special Education; and the Pedagogical Views of Abbe de Lasalle, Fenelon, Montaigne, Rousseau, Cousin, Guizot, Wilm, Marcel, and others. One Volume, 576 pages, Octavo, bound in cloth, $3.00. IX. SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION IN NORTHERN EUROPE, viz., Holland, Belgium, Hanover, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Russia. One Volume, 416 pages, Octavo, bound in cloth, $2.00. X. SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION IN GREECE AND ITALY; both Ancient and XII. SUPERIOR EDUCATION-AN HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNIVER- JUNE 1, 1863. GERMAN EDUCATIONAL REFORMERS; Memoirs of Eminent Teachers and Educators in Germany, from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century, with contributions to the History of Education from the Revival of Classical Learning. From the "Geschichte der Padagogik" of Karl von Raumer. Republished from "The American Journal of Education," edited by HENRY BARNARD, LL. D. 586 pages. Price, $3.00. CONTENTS. Preface,..... Memoir of Karl von Raumer,. I. INTRODUCTION. Revival of Classical Literature in Italy,.... 1. The Middle Ages-Condition of Studies, Teaching and the Arts,...... 2. Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch,..... 3. Greek Scholars from Constantinople, John of Ravenna, Chrysoloras,.............. 35 4. Italian Teachers-Guarino, Philelphus, Poggius, Valla, Landinus, Politianus, Picus, 49 5. Transition to Germany,............. 62 II. DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE NETHERLANDS AND NORTHERN GERMANY,. 65—130 1. Gerard of Daventer-Rudewin-Gerard of Zutphen-The Hieronymians,. 2. Wessel-Rudolph Agricola-Hegius-Lange-Busch,.. 3. Erasmus, 65 72 89 101 School of Schlettstadt-Dringenberg-Wimpheling-Reuchlin,.......... Autobiography of John Platter; A-B-C-shooters and Bacchants,. 1. Verbal Realism-Erasmus-Melancthon,...... 2. Real Realism-Influence of Lord Bacon's Philosophy,........ 3. Real Schools. Hecker, Halm, Semler; Modern Development of Realistic Instruction, 302 4. Michael Montaigne,...... .... V. THE RENOVATORS, OR PROGRESSIVES,.. 1. New Ideas and Methods of Education,.. 2. Wolfgang Ratich,.. 3. John Amos Comenius,... 4. Schools and Education in Periods of Peace and War,........ 317 335-520 335 343 371 413 1. The Thirty Years' War; 2. The Century after the Peace of Westphalia,...... 416 5. John Locke and Influence of his Pedagogy on German Education............. 427 6. Augustus Hermann Franke, and the Pietists,.... 441 7. Jean Jaques Rousseau and his Influence on the Philanthropinists,.. VII. PESTALOZZI AND THE COMMON, OR PEOPLE'S SCHOOLS,....... .... 561 575-586 |