"Savage Kings I Have Known" is the title of an article in two instalments which Sir Henry M. Stanley, the famous explorer of Africa, contributes to October issues of The

Youth's Companion.

The contents of The Popular Monthly for November, apart from reviews, discussions and notes, are: "On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties," Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace; "The Story of Cahow," Professor A. E. Verrill; "Psychiatry-Ancient, Medieval and Modern," Dr. Frederick Lyman Hills; "The National Control of Education," Sir John E. Gorst; "The Evolution of the Human Intellect," Professor Edward L. Thorndike; "The Origin of Sex in Plants," Dr. Pradley Moore Davis; "The Fishes of Japan." President David Starr Jordan: "The Omen Animals of Sarawak," A. C. Hadden, F. R. S.

W. A. Fraser, who, because of his virile language and fine word painting, has been called the American Kipling, contributes to the November Delineator the best story that has yet come from his pen. It is called "The Offcasting of Nichemous," and it tells how a "Squaw Man" is called back to his desire for culture by some cultured neighbor only to have his aspirations quenched by a rebuff. The remarkable strength of the story is increased by excellent illustrations.

With its November number, St. Nicholas begins its twenty-ninth year and volume, taking the occasion to make a new departure in its manner of publishing fiction. Instead of printing as usual, a large number of short stories, it makes room for a long story, complete in itself, and filling more than half the magazine. The story so published-"Tommy Remington's Battle by Burton Egbert Stevenson, author of "A Soldier of Virginia," "At Odds with the Regent," etc.-is an interesting portrayal of American boy life.

The November Century-in many respects an unusually striking numberwill begin the magazine's thirtysecond year, which is to be a year of American humor. A group of humorous stories, poems, etc., including "Two Little Tales" by Mark Twain, "More Animals" by Oliver Herford, and prose and verse by Carolyn Wells, Paul Dunbar and other well-known humorists, will be preceded by “A Retrospeet of American Humor," by Prof. W. P. Trent, with more than thirty portraits of famous humorists of the past and present, from Benjamin Franklin to "Mr. Dooley."

The leading features of Modern Culture for November are "Emma Goldman and the Cleveland Anarchists," an account from an eye-witness of the meeting of Cleveland Anarchists at which the brain of Leon Czolgosz was fired by Emma Goldman's speech; "Reconstruction and After," by Frederick Austin Ogg; "The Drama and Novel," by Ingram A. Pyle; "Husbands as Portrayed by Women Novelists," by Nina R. Allen; "Glimpses of India" (Illus.), by Bella Hicks Hassett; and "Indion Handicraft" (Ills.), by Nevada Davis Hitchcock.

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"Superstition Trail," a powerful tale of the West, by Owen Wister, and illustrated by Remington, is the opening story in the Hallowe'en number (October 26) of the The Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia. Other attractive features are a new episode in The Love Affairs of Patricia and a striking poem by Holman F. Day. Mr. Day's ballad, "The night of the White Review," tells a weird tale current among Gloucester fishermen. It has all the swing and movement of Mr. Kipling's Dipsy Chanteys, and а strength and originality all its own.

November's issue of the "New" Lippincott Magazine contains a novel bebun and ended in this number-written by a member of New York's "four hundred," Isabelle D. Cameron, the youngest daughter of the late Sir Roderick Cameron, of Scotland. Her perfect knowledge of the social paths in which she leads her "brain children" in "One Woman's Life" and her spicy plot make a fascinating story. heroine is a young American widow with an aptitude for enjoying herself. Flirtations, yachting and love-making at a rather fast pace she indulges in, though she does not live down to the advice she bestows upon a young girl friend, "Be good if you can, and if you can't, be careful, and you will find it answers just as well."

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The November Atlantic opens with

Sydney Brooks' Europe and America, giving the European view of the topics of Reciprocity and the Monroe Doctrine; Paul E. More treats sympathetically The Solitude of Hawthorne; Congressman McCall's Daniel Webster is timely and memorable; J. K. Hosmer's Mississippi Valley exploits that wonderful region, while Charles Bastide's In Argonne sheds much new light on rural France. Henry A. Clapp's Reminiscences continue, treating Salvini, Adelaide Neilson, Nilsson, Janauschek, and others. Forcible stories and sketches are Ellen Duvall's The Lover; Kate M. Cone's A Colonial Boyhood; Edward Thomas' Recollections of November, and Frances A. Mathews' Alee Same. Miss Johnston's Audrey increases in force and interest. A Group of Lyrics and the always entertaining Contributors' Club complete a brilliant number.

Round-Table Meeting

The first session of the Monogahela Valley Round Table for this school year was held at Fairmont, October 18 and 19. About one hundred teachers were in attendance, among them the superintendents of Martinsburg, Parkersburg, Grafton, Morgantown, Fairmont and Mannington, also county superintendents of Marion and Harrison, and four of the university professors. The various topics on the program were earnestly, and, we believe, profitably discussed. In order that some of the many good things said and done at these meetings may have a wider influence, four committees were appointed to formulate, from time to time, the views of this body on educational matters and to report the same to the State Association or for legislative enactment. The committees are as follows: On Desirable School Legislation, on a Course of Study for High Schools, a Course for Graded Schools and on Nature Study. The sessions of the Round Table were held in the county superintendent's office, a fine, large room in the new courthouse.

How to Classify an Ungraded School

With One Teacher

One of the greatest evils in the country schools is the want of classification and the consequent large num ber of recitations a day. In many schools with one teacher there are twenty-five or thirty; in some more. This means ten minutes or less for each recitation. I have known schools in which the average time was five minutes twelve recitations to the hour. Of course, this precludes any attempt at teaching, and reduces the teacher to a poor kind of automatic lesson-hearer. If any teaching is to be done, the recitations must be fewer and the time for each longer. This should average not less than minutes; more for some, less for others. With the usual school dayfrom eight in the morning to four in the afternoon, with an hour and a half for intermissions and fifteen minutes for opening-there should not be more than sixteen recitations. Only a dozen would be better. And, still, each child should have four or five a day. To accomplish this has seemed impossible to most teachers.

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The following scheme is based on the principle that each subject taught may be divided into two parts; one in which the elementary principles and processes of the subject are learned, and one in which these principles and processes are applied. In the first the order of study is determined by the nature of the subject and may be changed; in the second there is no necessary order, that of the book being purely accidental, and, therefore, changeable at will.

PLAN OF CLASSIFICATION

Reading: Four classes

1. Children just learning to read. 2. Children of Second Reader class.

3. Children of the ordinary Third and Fourth Reader classes.

4. All children above Fourth Reader grade.

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1. Class in the geography of home and school district. (All children in school, but not in school hours.)

2. Class in the geography of the State or section in which the school is situated.

3. Class in foreign geography. History and Civics-Three classes: 1. Stories of adventure and pioneer life; biographies. (All children in school, but no recitations.)

2. Colonial life and the Revolution. (Fifth and sixth school years.)

3. The United States since the Revolution. (All children who have finished the work in Colonial life and the Revolution.)

English Composition-Three lessons a week for all children who have learned to read and write.