Educ P hig pozy HARVARD UNIVERSITY 1.3 GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATI Having determined to close my present business, Thave transferred the Ameries Journal of Education to Mr S. G. Goodrich, who will hereafter be the Proprietor of the work, and in whose favour I ask a continuance and increase of patronage, in the belief that it will be rewarded by efforts on his part to make it worthy of a liberal support. 829 The public will no doubt be gratified to know, that although the proprietorship has been changed, the editorial department will continue in the hands of the same gentleman who was originally employed as the editor, and who has since conducted the work. THOMAS B. WAIT. Boston, Jan. 17, 1827. ARREARAGES FOR THE JOURNAL. In consequence of the above arrangements, subscribers who have not yet paid their subscription for the first and second volumes, will perceive that an immediate settlement is rendered indispensable. Payment of arrears may be made to WAIT, GREEN, & Co. 13, Court-street. FOUR Dollars a year, payable on delivery of the March number; five dollars payable on delivery of the June number. A subscriber who takes one number will be considered as holden for twelve numbers. No subscription will be taken for less than a year. The work will be forwarded to agents, who will supply the subscribers in the towns where they reside and the immediate vicinity, without postage. The Journal when sent by mail, will go at the risk of the Subscribers. For list of agents see last page of the cover. The postage of this number, as it contains 44 sheets, is 7 cents under 100 miles;-114 cents over 100 miles. PROSPECTUS OF THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. This work will hereafter be published on the 15th of every month; it is devoted exclusively to education, and is designed to promote improvement in the various branches of instruction usually embraced in Primary and Common Schools, in Academies, and other preparatory Seminaries, as well as Colleges and professional institutions. The Journal is arranged under the following heads MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES, embracing the more important facts and suggestions in the departments of public and private education—whether of males or females. REVIEWS of works on the general subject of education and of valuable books particular branches. INTELLIGENCE, furnishing a view of the progress of improvement in education in the United States, and in foreign countries. NOTICES of School Books, and works in the various departments of domestic instruction, as well as critical remarks on Books for Children. The Journal will hereafter contain an advertising sheet, embracing notices of School Books published and for sale by various booksellers in the United States together with notices of Schools and Seminaries in the principal towns, with the peculiarities and the terms of each. The importance of the subject of education need not at the present day be insisted upon. It would be difficult to find an enlightened individual, who does not regard it with deep interest, and, at the same time, warmly desire is advancement. As one of the instruments by which improvement in education is to be promoted, the Journal of Education may fairly claim a distinguished rank. It was the first, and is still the only journal in the country solely devoted to this object. The light in which it is regarded in this country, and the estimation in which it is held in Europe, may be gathered from the subjoined notices. In inviting the continuance of the patronage already bestowed upon the work, and in asking for increased support also, upon which the existence of it must depend, the publisher would respectfully urge the foregoing considerations; at the same time pledging himself to use his best endeavours to make it still more useful and valuable, by arrangements here and abroad calculated to enlarge the resources, and add to the strength and interest of the work. The Journal will continue to be edited by Mr RUSSELL, under increased advantages for conducting the editorial department. It is the determination of the present proprietor that no efforts shall be wanting to render the work useful to parents and teachers, and worthy their patronage. EXTRACTS FROM A NOTICE IN THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. A principal purpose of the Journal, according to the Prospectus, and one which seems to be in a successful course of execution, is to collect and record facts, in regard to the state of education in the United States and foreign countries, and consequently to give some account of Schools, Colleges, and Universities in all their varieties and gradations. This part of the plan we consider very important, and one which will prove to be interesting to a great number of readers, and will be the means of extending the improvements in education, which originate in one portion of our great republic, to every other part. 'We cheerfully recommend this Journal to all heads of families, to instructers of youth, and to pupils who have made any considerable advances in knowledge.' The following extract expresses the sentiments of one, whose views of education, and whose contributions to the cause of improvement, have ranked her among the benefactors of her own country. Since the above preface was written, we have seen the December (1826) Number of the Journal of Education-a very useful periodical published in Boston, in the United States; and, to the shame of England, the only Journal in the language devoted to that most interesting and extensive subject.'-First Two Books of Charles the Twelfth, &c. London. Hunt and Clarke. 1827. A. C. FLAGG, Esq., Secretary of State, and Superindent of Common Schools in the state of New York, in his Report of January 1827, says:~ "It is somewhat remarkable, that amidst the great profusion of periodical publications, in the departments of Law and Medicine, Religion and Politics, there has not existed,, until recently, a publication devoted exclusively to the advancement of Public Instruction. This obvions defect in the list of useful publications, has recently been supplied hy the establishment of the "American Journal of Education," at Boston. This work is published monthly, and is designed "to furnish a record of facts, embracing whatever information the most diligent inquiry can procure, regarding the past and present state of education in the United States and in foreign countries. An opportunity will thus be afforded for a fair comparison of the merits of various systems of instruction." The introduction of such a work will tend to excite public attention, and to produce more just and enlarged views of education. The Public School Society in New York furnish this publication to each of their schools. Teachers and all persons who take an interest in improving the standard of popular education, would derive much useful information from this work. The press, which is the organ and the advocate of every leading interest in the country, has not been as much devoted to the subject of improving our system of public instruction, as it has been to furnish useful facts connected with agriculture, domestic manufactures, internal improvements, and the other great interests which are blended with the prosperity and the reputation of the state.' Highly favourable notices of the Journal may be found in other reputable periodical works, both English and American, among which are the Monthly Magazine, the Sunday School Magazine, the Missionary Herald, &c., &c. The following notice is from the Revue Encyclopedique for October, 1826. 'Ordinarily, writers who undertake a journal have a certain stock of thoughts which they are eager to communicate; so that the first numbers are the best: this work will not have this test to undergo. It is designed chiefly to collect facts; not only in the United States, but in all places where education has made sufficient progress to merit the attention of observers. Thus, in relation to Europe, the American Journal will render the same services which the European Journal will render to America.' 'Methods of instruction and works on education will be analysed and criticised in this new Journal. Writers who are occupied in Europe on these two great means of social improvement, will no doubt be curious to know what is thought of their works in America: they ought to be still more so to collect the instructive facts which they will find in this Magazine.' |