-77.157 Idar 1212ıl Educ 168.2 212.3.10 1894-95 1894, SRVARD UNIVERSITY 895 Jul, 6 GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION GRADUATE The Public-School Journal. DEVOTED TO THE THEORY AND ART OF SCHOOL TEACHING AND CLOSE SUPERVISION. TERMS $1.50 A YEAR: 15 CENTS A NUMBER'. PUBLIC-SCHOOL PUBLISHING CO. BLOOMINGTON. ILLINOIS. Entered as second-class mail matter at Bloomington, Illinois. A NOTABLE EVENT... The publication, On August 25, 1894, of John Fiske's History of the United States FOR SCHOOLS. With Topical Analysis and Suggestive Questions and Directions for Teachers by FRANK A HILL. With illustrations and maps. 12mo, half leather, small pica type, 482 pages, $1 net. Correspondenee Solicited. A Deseriptive Cireular containing Sample Pages will be Sent to Any Address on Application. RIVERSIDE LITERATURE SERIES. FIFTEEN-CENT READING BOOKS. OVER SEVENTY BOOKS SUITABLE for use IN PRIMARY, GRAMMAR, AND HIGH SCHOOLS. Containing Five Hundred of the Most Interesting and Instructive Masterpieces of Famous Authors. With Introductions, Notes, Historical Sketches, and Biographical Sketches. Each single number, in paper, 15 cents, net. In many cases Single Numbers have been bound in cloth at 25 cents, net, and combinations of two and three numbers at 40 cents, 45 cents, and 50 cents, net. The following table shows what selections from this series have been chosen for the different grades in the public schools in eleven selected cities: The Masterpieces of American Literature is made up principally of complete selections from the Riverside Literature Series. Price, $1.00. two parts. 29. Hawthorne's Little Daffydowndilly, and otter stories. [29 and 10 also in one volume, stiff covers, 40 cts.] 17, 18. Hawthorne's Wonder-Book. In two parts. 2', 23. Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales. A second Won. der-Book. In two parts. 7, 8, 9. Hawthorne's True Stories from New England History. Grandfather's Chair. In three partst with questions at the end of each part. Part I1620-1692. Part II-1692-1763. Part III-1763-1803. 13, 11. Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha. With a Vocabulary. In two parts. F. Longfellow Leaflets. Poems and Prose Passages for reading and recitation. Illustrated, with an Introduction and a Biographical Sketch. Double number. 30 cts. Cloth, 40 cts. 11. Longfellow's Children's Hour, and other selections. 37. Charles Dudley Warner's A-Hunting of the Deer, and other papers.* 28. John Burroughs's Birds and Bees.‡‡ 10. Hawthorne's Biographi al Stor es. Biographical Sketch by R. W. Emerson. Wittier's Sno v Bound, Among the Hills, and Songs of Labor.++ 51, 52. With a 19, 20. Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. 53. Scott's Lady of the Lake. Edited by W. J. Rolfe. Whittier's Mabel Martin, Cobbler Keezar. Maud 5. 51. Bryant's Sella, Thanatopsis, and other poems. Sir Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Crom*Also bound in cloth, at 25 cents. Also in one volume, cloth, 45 cents. Also in one volume, cloth, 40 cents. 128 and 36 also in one volume, cloth, 40 cents. A descriptive circular, giving the table of contents of each number of the series will be sent to any COMPANY, HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & 4 Park St., Boston. 11 East 17th St., New York. 28 Lakeside Building, Chicago. George Howland has not lacked biographers. I have ventured to speak of him in an informal manner, trusting to the impressions made upon me by a somewhat intimate acquaintance, which extended over many years. I saw him first in December, 1865, at the meeting of the State Teachers' Association of Illinois. It was my first glimpse of the educational notables of my adopted state, and the impressions made upon me were very vivid. Many of them have lost none of their freshness. I was a young teacher, having barely finished my first term, and looked with all of the quick interest of a novice upon the men and women who had already established themselves as leaders among the school people of the young and vigorous West. Should I call the roll you would hear the names of several who have filled conspicuous places in this organization and have won merited recognition in the larger circle outside the limits of the state which then claimed them as peculiarly her own. His But no other person then present made so marked an impression upon my youthful imagination as George Howland, the principal of the Chicago High School. He was then in the early forties. genial face and abounding good humor singularly attracted me, and I became, at first sight, what I never ceased to be, a devoted admirer. The president of the association was the late Samuel U. Etter, whose life reached its end under circumstances peculiarly pathetic. He was not a graceful speaker, and wisely selected the accomplished academician from the metropolis to respond to the welcoming address of a local celebrity. Mr. Howland was in his quaintest vein, and made the occasion memorable by an impromptu speech that at once took an abiding place in the traditions of the organization. Some of his eccentric conceits were annually repeated and are still current among the older generation of schoolmasters in the prairie state. So my first insight into the nature of this peculiarly interesting man was from the humorous side. When a few years later he admitted me to a prized intimacy, I found that the playful instinct was most easily excited, and that the phase which he quite habitually presented to the world. was lighted with a gentle merriment that was at once an invitation and a foil. His humor was never broad; it was delicate and silky. It suggested depths of good will and tender regard, in a shy sort of way that seemed trying to disguise the esteem in which he held his friends. It constantly lurked in the background of his public addresses, giving them a suggestion of smiles. that rarely reached the borders of laughter, although they were sometimes unequivocally mirthful. I have alluded to his shyness which, for a man of his breeding and experience, always surprised me. That it was one of his characteristics, no one will deny who knew him well. I have seen him tremulous with timidity before an audience of students, and singularly diffident in addresses before assemblies where custom denies the privilege of the manuscript. It explains also a certain inoffensive irony quite habitual with him, and that sentineled the approaches to a sensitive and somewhat shrinking na *A memorial read at the recent meeting of the N. E. A., at Asbury Park. |