BRITISH AND FOREIGN. EDUCATION IN SCIENCE AND ART.-On Monday appeared a copy of an order in Council, passed on the 25th ult., approving a report of the Privy Council, recommending,-1. That in future the Educational Department, (so to be called) be placed under the Lord President of the Council, assisted by a member of the Privy Council, who shall be Vice-President of the Committee of the said Privy Council on Education; and, 2, that the Education Department include (a) the edu cation establishment of the Privy Council-office, and, (b) the establishment for the encouragement of science and art, now under the direction of the Board of Trade and called "The Department of Science and Art." Both these establishments are to be under the orders of the Lord President. The new Education Department is to report on such questions a concerning education as may be referred to it by the Charity Commissioners, to inspect the naval and regimental schools, and to examine into the instruction in nautical science given in the navigation schools connected with the¦ Department of Science and Art.

Mr. Layard, M. P., has been unanimously re-elected Lord Rector of Mareschal College and University, Aberdeen, for the current year. The Duke of Newcastle had declined the nomination, and the Lord Advocate refused to be put in opposition to the hon. member for Aylesbury.

UNITED STATES.

SCHOOLS IN PENNSYLVANIA IN 1855.

There are in the sixty-three counties of the state 10,469 schools; number of schools required 650; average number of months taught, 5; male teachers, 8, 003; number of female teachers, 4, 140: range of salaries of males per month, $22 to $29; range of salaries of females per month, $14 to $19; number of male scholars, 295,889; number of female scholars, 233,120; number learning German, 10,015; average number of scholars attending school, 361,316; cost of teaching each scholar per month, 58 1-3.

Amount of tax levied for school purposes, $1,242,233 10, total amount levied $1, 354,937 04; received from state appropriation, $159,554 17; received from collector of school tax $1,127,992 61; cost of instruction, $1,

041,571 96.

In selecting from the General and Supplementary Catalogues, parties will be particular to give merely the catalogue number of the book required, and the department from which it is selected. To give the names of books without their number and department, (as is frequently done,) causes great delay in the selection and despatch of a library. The list should be written on a distinct sheet of paper from the letter, attested by the corporate seal and signature of the Trustees; or by the corporate seal and signature of the Reeve or Clerk of the Municipalities applying for libraries. See accompanying Form.

SCHOOL MAPS AND APPARATUS.

The Legislature having granted annually, from the commencement of 1855, a sufficient sum of money to enable the Department to supply Maps and Apparatus (not text-books) to Grammar and Common Schools, upon the same terms as Library Books are now supplied to Trustees and Municipalities the Chief Superintendent of Education will be happy to add one hundred per cent. to any sum or sums, not less than five dollars transmitted to the Department; and to forward Maps, Apparatus, Charts, and Diagrams to the value of the amount thus augmented, upon receiving a list of the articles required by the Trustees. In all cases it will be necessary for any person, acting on behalf of the Trustees, to enclose or present a written authority to do so, verified by the corporate seal of the Trus

tees.

A selection of articles to be sent can always be made by the Department, when so desired.*

and apparatus, [or library books.] The [maps or library books] selected are, bona fide, for the use of the school [or municipality] and they hereby pledge themselves and their successors in office, not to dispose of them, nor permit them to be disposed of to any private party or for any private purpose whatsoever; but that they shall be appropriated exclusively to the use of the school, [or municipality,] in terms of the Regu- · lations granting one hundred per cent. on the present remit

tance.

In testimony whereof, the Trustees [Reece, or Clerk of the above mentioned--hereto affix their names and seal of office this

We hereby authorise-above mentioned,

day of

-, 185—, at[Name.] [Seal.]

-to procure for us the -in terms of the foregoing application. [Name of Trustees, &c.] TO THE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION, TORONTO. NOTE. A Corporate Seal must be affixed to the foregoing application, otherwise it is of no legal value. Text-books cannot be furnished on the terms mentioned above. They must be paid for in full at the net catalogue price. The 100 per cent. will not be allowed on any sum less than $5, which must be remitted in one sum.

SPECIAL NOTICE TO TEACHERS.

Public notice is hereby given to all Teachers of Common Schools in Upper Canada, who may wish to avail themselves at any School Teachers' Fund, that it will be necessary for them to transfuture time, of the advantages of the Superannuated Common mit to the Chief Superintendent, without delay, (if they have not already done so), their annual subscription of $4, commencing with 1854. The law authorizing the establishment of this fund provides, "that no teacher shall be entitled to share in the said fund who shall not contribute to such fund at least at the rate of one pound per annum." This proviso of the law will be strictly enforced in all cases; and intimation is thus early given to all Teachers, who have not yet sent in their subscriptions, to enable them to comply with the law, and so prevent future misunderstanding or disappointment, when application is made to be placed as a pensioner on the fund.

VICTORIA COLLEGE. THE next Session will open on Thursday, the 21st of August, 1856. Gazette containing particulars may be had on application. S. S. NELLES, M. A., President.

Cobourg, May 31, 1856.

Annual Examination of Common School Teachers, for the County of York.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Adjourned Meetings of the Board of Public Instruction, for the County of York, will be held at the Court House, CITY OF TORONTO, on Monday, the 4th day of August, next; at RICHMOND HILL, on Tuesday, the 5th August; and at NEWMARKET, on Wednesday the 6th August, at 9 A. M. for the purpose of examining Common School Teachers, whose certificates will expire on the 30th September; when all teachers (excepting those holding first class certificates) are expected to attend.

JOHN JENNINGS, Chairman. N.B. Each Teacher is required to produce a certificate of good moral character, also a certificate from the Trustees of the School last engaged in. Toronto, 24th June, 1856.

WANTS A SITUATION AS SCHOOLMASTER. MIDDLE AGED MAN, who has had several years experience in TEACHING. He has a FIRST CLASS CERTIFICATI

competent to teach the Higher branches of ENGLISH, with the MATHEMATICS and the FRENCH, LATIN and GREEK Languages. He is acquainted with the best methods of instruction, and (what is of no smali importance to a Teacher,) he has had considerable experience in PRACTICAL BUSINESS. Address F. L C, West Flamboro' P. O.-Stating Salary. June 11, 1856.

ADVERTISEMENTS inserted in the Journal of Education for one halfpenny per word, which may be remitted in postage stamps, or otherwise. TERMS: For a single copy of the Journal of Education, 58. per annum; back vols. neatly stitched, supplied on the same terms. All subscriptions to commence with the January number, and payment in advance must in all cases accompany the order. Single numbers, 74d. each. All communications to be addressed to Mr. J. GEORGE HODGINS, Education Office, Toronto.

III. Indiana Township Libraries.

EDUCATION,

IV. How to rise-Biographical Examples 2. The child is Father to the man. 3. Mothers of great men

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V. Comparative view of American Systems, of public Instruction. 1. Massachusetts. 2. Boston Truancy Act. 101 VI. Lady Jane Grey's Schoolmaster. 2. The Education of Woman 103 VIL EDITORIAL.-1. Discipline in Schools. 2. Disputes before Trustees and Teachers 104 VIIL THE SCHOOL ROOM AND ITS DISCIPLINE.-1. Reprove Gently (Poetry.) 2. School Government. 3. School Jurisprudence-an anecdote. 4. Civility and refinement in Schools. 5. Good manners in School-boys. 6. The polite boy. 7. How to be loved. 8. Little kindnesses 104 IX. PAPERS ON. Patterdo. E study out of School hours. 3. A practical School-master. 4. Moral teachings. 5. Teaching and training. 6. Scholars' mottos

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X. MISCELLANEOUS.-I. Twenty years ago (Poetry.) 2. Home. 3. The Domestic affections..

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XI. EDUCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE.-1. Canada. 2. British and

Canada.

No. 7.

LIBRARY OF BROWN UNIVERSITY,

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

Brown University was incorporated in the year 1764. It was originally established in the town of Warren, where, in the year 1769, the first commencement was celebrated. It was subsequently removed to Providence, where the first college edifice (University Hall) was erected, in the year 1770.

The books first obtained for the Library were probably procured in England, through the agency of the Rev. Morgan Edwards. In the year 1768, Mr. Edwards, then in England, was authorized by the corporation "to purchase such books as value." This appropriation, small as it was, formed the nucleus of the library, which now numbers 29,000 bound volumes, exclusive of pamphlets and duplicates.

At a meeting of the standing Committee of the Corporation, of Brown University, held January 10, 1831, it was unanimously resolved:

2. The selection of books and apparatus shall be made by joint committee of the Corporation and Government of the University.

3. One-third of the amount subscribed shall become due on the first day of October, 1832, another third on the first day of October, 1833, and the remainder on the first day of October, 1834.

effort. At this meeting the wants of the Library, and the importance of supplying them, were presented and urged. Previously to this, however, the Hon. Nicholas Brown had with his wonted munificence, subscribed ten thousand dollars towards the fund. The subscription was opened with the following conditions :

1. The whole amount shall be invested in a permanent fund, of which the interest shall be, from time to time, appropriated exclusively to the objects stated in the Resolution.

4. A copy of the subscribers' names, and of the sums subscribed by each, shall be deposited in the Library, and another among the archives of the University.

The sum thus obtained, amounting to $19,437,50, was placed at interest until it had accumulated to twenty-five thousand dollars, and was then invested in a permanent fund, in the stock of the Blackstone and Canal Bank in Providence,

according to the provisions of the subscription, as above specified. The first dividend became due in July, 1889. Since that time the proceeds have been regularly appropriated according to the design of

the donors.

The room appropriated to the Library, at the time when the Library Fund was raised, was an apartment in the University Hall, crowded to excess, unsightly, and wholly unsuited for the purpose to which, from necessity, it was devoted."

To remedy this defect, the Hon. Nicholas Brown erected, at his own expense, a beautiful edifice, for a Library and Chapel, to which, in testimony of veneration for his former instructor, he gave the name of Manning Hall. It was dedicated in 1835, when Dr. Wayland de livered a Discourse on the "Dependence of Science upon Revealed Religion," which was published.

This College edifice, the third which has been erected, is built of stone. Including the portico, it is about ninety feet in length, by forty-two in width. Its height, from the top to the basement, is forty feet. The library occupies the whole of the first floor, and is a beautiful room. In the centre, it is ornamented with a double row of fluted columns. The Library is sixty-four feet by thirty-eight, and is thirteen feet high. The Chapel is on the second floor. It exhibits the most graceful proportions. Its length and breadth are the same as those of the Library. Its height, however, is not less than twentyfive feet. The front of the edifice is ornamented with four fluted columns, resting on a platform projecting thirteen feet from the walls. Manning Hall is situated between University Hall and Hope College, equidistant from each. It is of the Doric order, and is said to be one of the finest specimens to be found in the country.

Soon after the removal of the Library to the new building, it was newly arranged, and in 1843 a full catalogue of its contents was printed. This catalogue was favorably noticed in the North American Review, and in other leading periodicals, and drew especial attention to this important department of the institution. It was prepared by Prof. C. C. Jewett, who was the Librarian of Brown University from 1841 to 1848, when he resigned, in order to take charge of the Library department connected with the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. The catalogue is alphabetical, according to the authors' names, and large, unions and analytical index of subjects. A supplement, much for the press.

Immediately after the publication of the catalogue, Mr. Jewett, having been appointed Professor in in the Department of Modern Languages, visited Europe, partly for the purposes of professional study, and partly to enable the friends of the College to carry out more effectually their wishes for the increase of the Library. Under his direction books in the German, French, and Italian languages were purchased, to the amount of about three thousand dollars. The funds were generously furnished by Mr. John Carter Brown, son of the late Hon. Nicholas Brown, from whom the institution derives its name. This collection, numbering 2,921 volumes, includes a set of French, German, and Italian Classics, in the best and fullest library editions; the principal philosophical, scientific, and historical works of late continental scholars; a complete set of the "Moniteur Universel," from its commencement a clean, beautiful, well bound copy of the original edition, in 154 vols. folio; a set of the memoirs of the French Institute since its re-organization, 81 vols. 4to.; the collection of memoirs relative to the history of France by Guizot and Petitot, 162 vols. 8vo; a complete set of the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, 134 vols. 4to.; and of the Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek, 139 vols. 8vo; Il Vaticano, 8 vols. folio, elegantly illustrated; Il Campidoglio, 2 vols. folio; the Museo Borbonico, 14 vols. 4to., the original Naples edition; the works of Canova and Thorwaldsen; the Musée Français and Musée Royal, in 6 vols. folio; the Description de l'Egypte; Canina's Architecture, and many more illustrated works of great beauty and value, besides rare and costly maps and prints. These books were mostly purchased at auctions in Paris, Rome, Leipsic, Frankfort on the Maine, and Berlin. They are all well bound, most of them newly and elegantly, in half calf, plain gilt.

To supply the deficiencies of the Library in standard English works, a subscription was opened among the friends of the College, amounting to about $5,000, which amount was expended by Prof. Jewett with good judgment and skill. This collection was received in the Library in 1845, and raised the whole number of volumes to nearly 20,000.

Among the English books added to. the Library at this time is a Shakspeariana, in 196 volumes, elegantly bound in full calf, gilt. It was collected by Thomas Rodd, Esq., bookseller, in London, and contains Ireland's copy of his "Confessions" inlaid with marginal notes in his own handwriting, and many original and curious documents: The collection was purchased for the small sum of $500, and was presented to the Library by Moses B. Ives, Esq., a graduate of the College in 1812, and one of its most zealous friends and liberal benefac

tors.

In 1847, several of the clergymen in Providence proposed to the religious societies with which they were connected, a subscription for the purpose of supplying the deficiencies of the Library in the best editions of the Fathers of the Church, and the standard theological writers of the Reformation. About $2,000 were raised, and a superb collection was purchased of the Benedictine editions of several of the Fathers; the Bibliotheca Maxima Veterum Patrum, 30 vols. folio; Har duin's Collectio Conciliorum; 12 vols. folio; besides the choicest and most elegant editions of many of the Fathers not edited by the Benedictines, and a large collection of works connected with patristic literie ture and the history of the Reformation. To this collection of the Fathers valaable editions were made at the recent sale of the Library of the late Rev. Dr. Jarvis.

In 1793 the Library contained 2,137 volumes; in 1826, 5,818 volumes; in 1843, 10,235. The number of bound volumes at present is 29,000; of these about one-half are in the English language, and the remainder in the ancient and modern languages, exclusive of pamphlets and duplicates. The libraries of the two literary societies connected with Brown University contain together upwards of 6,000 volumes.

Since January, 1848, about 19,000 volumes have been added to the Library. During the last thirteen years about $27,000, being the proceeds of the Library fund, gifts and legacies, $27,000 has been expended for the purchase of books. The Library is under the immediate direction of a "Joint Committee of the Corporation and Faculty of the University," to which the Librarian is required to make a written monthly report.

The Library is open, during term time, daily, from 9 A,M. till 1 P.M.; during vacations, weekly, on Saturdays, from 11 till 1. The members of the Corporation, the President, Professors, Tutors, and Register; all resident Graduates; all the Donors to the Library fund ; all the Donors to the fund for building Rhode Island Hall; and all Donors to the Library to the amount of $40, residing in the city of Providence, are entitled to the use of the Library, without expense. Undergraduates, also, are entitled to the use of the Library, and are charged therefor the sum of $3 per annum.

The privilege of consulting the Library is extended, under such restrictions as the Library Committee may prescribe, to all graduates siding in the city of Providence and its vicinity; and to an Better" pef= sons on whom, for the purpose of advancing the Arts, Science or Literature, the Corporation or Library Committee may, from time to time, confer it. Books are occasionally lent to persons at a distance, by special permission of the Library Committee. Reuben A. Guild, A.M., has filled the office of Librarian since Prof. Jewett's resignation in 1848.

THE LIBRARY of Brown University contains at present about 29,000 volumes, besides about 12,700 unbound pamphlets, many of which relate to American history and are rare, In a private donation of 300 volumes from one gentleman during the past year, the following works were included:

1. Muratori; Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, from A.D. 500 to A.D. 1500, in 28 volumes folio. Milan, 1723-51.

2. Continuation of Muratori, by J. M. Tartini, to A.D. 1600, 2 volumes folio. Florence, 1758-70.

3. Journal des Debats et de l'Empire from June 1799, to December, 1836. 74 volumes folio. Paris, 1799-1836.

4. Journal of the Statistical Society of London. 16 vols. 8vo. London, 1830-53.

5. Mariana; Historia General de Espana. 10 vols. 8vo. Madrid, 1794-5.

6. Fleury; Histoire Ecclesiastique, avec la continuation by Fabre and Goujet. 36 vols. 12mo. Paris, 1740-58.

lated into English. 2 vols. folio. London, 1729. 7. Giannone, The Civil History of the Kingdom of Naples, trans

8. Irish-English Dictionary. I vol. 4to. Paris, 1768.

9. Parliamentary Register of Great Britain. 125 vols. 8vo.

FREE PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

The foundation of public libraries has marked an era in the history of the United States. It is a distinguishing feature of our literature, suggesting the thought that the mind of the nation is eminently practical in its literary tendencies, that there is a belief in the utility of popularizing knowledge. Our eye fell yesterday upon a report of the action of the citizens of Portland in reference to the establishment ef a free public library in that city. Some time in April last, a meeting was called at the City Hall in Portland to take this subject into consideration. A Committee was appointed consisting of prominent citizens, to consider the propriety of adopting further measures. The Committee concluded their labors in the latter part of May, and have rendered a report, which, we regret to notice, declares the establish

ment of such an institution impracticable at the present time, solely for the want of funds.

The Committee state that the plan proposed appeared at first sight very feasible, but the amount which the city of Portland is by law authorized to devote to such a purpose is only five thousand dollars, and although additional sums could probably be secured by the subscriptions of citizens, the Committee did not consider it advisable to attempt to found a free library on a basis so limited. The population of Portland is thirty thousand, and the demands of this large number of persons could hardly be met by any institution founded upon a small scale. In this view it is deemed expedient to relinquish, for the present at least, the idea of establishing a free public library, and the project falls through, because the laws of Maine do not permit the expenditure of money in this direction. The gentlemen composing the Committee, headed by John W. Chickering, as Chairman, do not, however, despair of ultimate success, but have appointed a sub-Committee, who are charged with the duty of conferring with parties who may be inclined to co-operate with the movement to an extent which will ensure the proper fulfilment of the original.

The state of New York is more favored than its sister states, in the matter of free Libraries. From the Hudson to the Lake, there is not a school district that is destitute of a set of books to which all may have access. This is one distinguishing peculiarity of our glorious common school system. A separate item in the literature fund provides for the disbursement of $55,000 by the state, for the purchase of books for the use of district libraries; and it is also provided by statute that whenever the number of volumes shall exceed a given ratio, the voters in each district may appropriate all or any portion of the library money belonging to the district for the current year to the purchase of maps, globes, black-boards, or other scientific apparatus, for the use of the school. These are simply the school libraries, intended mainly for the young, and designed and selected for their use. Of the great public libraries in this city, only one is ostensibly a free institution, but all are so accessible at a small rate of yearly payment, as to merit the name of free libraries. The growth of these establish ments continues unchecked. Others of similar character are springing up around us.-New York Publishers' Circular.

INDIANA TOWNSHIP LIBRARIES.

been received and distributed. Of these libraries there are six hundred and ninety-one, containing three hundred and twenty-six volumes each; making in all over 225,000 volumes. $70,000 will be expended this summer in the purchase of books to be added to the aforesaid number. These libraries scattered all over our State, if read, cannot fail of exerting an immense influence for good upon the literary and educational interests of the State. The ouly question in regard to them must be, Will they be used? So recent has been their introduction, that time has not been given as yet to collect statistics for a large portion of the State, but the following in reference to Township Libraries, furnished us by the State Superintedent, will be read with interest, and will afford means of judging with tolerable accuracy of the extent to which they are used and of the work they are doing:

"A brief historical sketch of the library feature of our system may very properly precede the financial exhibit of the receipts and expenditures. The law of 1825 imposed a tax of a quarter of a mill on the property, and an assessment of twenty-five cents on the poll, for the purpose of establishing a library in every civil township in the commonwealth. This tax was limited to the period of two years. The assessments for the aforesaid purpose, during these two years, amounted to $186,327. The amount realized from that levy, was $176,336, leaving a delinquency of only $9,991. The revised school law of 1855 provides for a similar levy for only one year, which will amount, according to the data found on page 54 of the Auditor's Report, viz. $301,858,474 of property, and $178,877 polls, to the handsome sum of $123,183. The uncertainty incident to such legislation is enough to damage the Were a similar reputation and interests of even the best of causes. policy adopted, relative to any other great interest of the State, it would be deemed unwise and ruinous in the extreme. It is, however, to be hoped that such expressions as the following will not be lost on the public mind: 'Nearly all the books have been drawn out as much as twenty-five times, many of them oftener, and quite a number of the books are not permitted to remain in the library an hour before they are withdrawn. Says another: Our library is doing more good than any thing that has ever been done by the Legislature of the State. Great interest is manifested in it here.' The latter remark represents the state of things in a rural district in the oldest vicinity in the State, and the former pourtrays the condition of the library enterprize in a large river city in the 'pocket.'

"One township reports 1,230 volumes taken out in 3 months; another 687 in 4 months; another 1,242 in 9 months; another 1,050 in 6 months; another 700 in 9 months; another 1,540 in 10 months; another 1,127 in 8 months. No two of the said townships are in the

same county, and none of these libraries contained more than 330 volumes."

In reference to these libraries our State Superintendent remarks: "Such an exposé would doubtless convince the most sceptical, that one quarter of a mill property and a twenty-five cents poll tax never accomplished so much for education in any other way, and that it better be left unrestricted in time, or the period of experiment be prolonged to three or four years. Nothing could be more disastrous, impolitic and unwise than the intermittent policy. Chills and fever are not very desirable, whether real or figurative, and their influence on the body politic, as far as educational interests are concerned, is as unhappy as the veritable tertian on the physical corporation.-Indiana School Journal.

HOW TO RISE-BIOGRAPHICAL EXAMPLES.

The great question of the age-the question which is asked on all hands by philanthropists, real or pretended-is, how are the people to be elevated? The extent of the popular ignorance, and of the popular debasement resulting from it, has long been acknowledged; yet evidences of the low moral condition of the majority of the humbler orders of society seem to accumulate day by day, in spite of all that is done by the schoolmaster and the Press to diffuse intelligence and create the desire of improvement-We are convinced that this last mentioned thing-the desire, the determination, to achieve independence and excellence-is the grand desideratum, the one thing most wanting, towards a satisfactory solution of the great question. It is vain for the philanthropist and the preacher to cry out, "Excelsior! Excelsior!" unless the cry meet a response in the hearts of those to whom it is directed. There is no excelling without climbing, and nobody can climb without an effort and a succession of efforts. What is wanting is the inducements, to make the necessary exertion. Let us see if we can supply some of these inducements, not, this time, by reasoning on the subject, but by the citation of some examples which, by shewing that it is possible for a man to raise himself in the social and intellectual scale, may stir up some of us to make at least a resolute and persevering attempt.

About a hundred and fifty years ago, there was running about the garden and grounds of the then Duke of Argyle, a child of eight voare of everything but what grew in the garden or was to be seen in his father's cottage. His parents had no means of giving him an education; but a servant of the duke's household took him in hand out of compassion, and taught him his letters and the elements of reading. Reading grew into a habit, and with the habit of reading grew the desire and love of knowledge. It happened that while the boy was thus storing his mind with information of various kinds the duke commenc ed building a new wing to the mansion. The child looked on curiously at the work as it proceeded day by day, and seeing the architect make use of a rule and compasses to make his calculations, he inquired the meaning of the proceeding, and then learned what he did not know before, that there was such a science as arithmetic; and that he might know all about it in books. He managed to buy or borrow a book on arithmetic, and, setting himself to work, thoroughly mastered its contents. Hearing from the builders that there was another important science called geometry, he procured a book upon that, and soon mas tered that also in like manner. His reading informed him that the best books on this science were written in Latin, whereupon he bought a Latin dictionary, and grammar and laboured diligently till he had acquired the language. Some one told him that there were excellent scientific works in the French tongue; so he got possesion of a French dictionary and grammar, and successfully learned that language also. The curious part of the business is that the boy did all this while learning his trade as a gardener under his father hetween the ages of eight and eighteen, and without suspecting all along that he was doing anything extraordinary. He was eighteen years of age when the duke coming into the garden one day, saw a Latin copy of Sir Isaac Newton's celebrated "Principia" lying on the grass. Conceiving that it belonged to himself he gave orders that it should be carried back to the library. The yound gardener stepped forward"Your Grace the book belongs to me."

"To you!" said his Grace; "do you understand geometry,-Latin, Newton?"

"I know a little of them," said the youth with an air of simplicity arising from a profound ignorance of his own knowledge and talents. The duke, an accomplished man, with a turn for the exact sciences, commenced a conversation on the subject of mathematics. He asked him several searching questions, and was astonished with the force, the accuracy, and the simplicity of his answers. He then questioned him on his past life, and learned from the lad's own lips the details given above. There was nothing like boasting in the young man's narrative, and no apparent consciousness that he deserved praise for what he had done; it only seemed to him a natural consequence that whoever could read might learn whatever he chose.