No. 2. The following plan represents the ground floor of a building twenty-three by thirty-four feet, one story high, thirteen feet in the clear, and pitch of roof nine feet. It differs from No. 1 in having an outside lobby, made at the entrance, which gives an additional room, appropriated for library and recitation: No. 3. Plan of a School House for fifty-six scholars. DDD D-Doors. E E-Entries lighted over outer doors, one for the boys and the other for girls. T--Teacher's platform and desk. R L-Room for recitation, library and apparatus, which may be entered by a single door back of the Teacher's desk, as represented in the plan, or by two, one on either side of the desk, as in the following plan, No. 4. SS-Stoves, with air tubes beneath and metal casing. K K-Aisles, four feet wide. The remaining aisles are each two feet wide. CV-Chimneys and Ventilators. I I-Recitation Seats. B B-Black-board, made by giving the wall a colored hard finish. G H-Seats and Desks, four feet in length. The seat and desk may be made together, as represented at X, in the following plan, or as in Plate No. 1, in article on school furniture. Instead of being permanently fastened to the floor, they might be advantageously attached in front by a strap hinge, which will admit of their being turned forward while sweeping under and behind them. (The size of the Room is 36 by 54 feet. The scale of the cut, 12 feet to the inch. A-Entrance for boys to High or Gram mar School on second floor. If there be no second floor, it may represent lobby, or clothes room for boys of Primary and Intermediate or Primary and Grammar Departments, in which case, the other entrance, P, may be dispensed with. C-Entrance for girls to High or Grammar School. Same remarks apply. P-Entrance and lobby for boys to the Primary and Intermediate Departments. Q-Entrance and lobby for girls to the same. D D-Doors. W W W-Windows. T-Teacher's platform and desk. G H-Desk and seat for two scholars, a section of which is represented at X in the Primary Department, whereof a is the seat and b the desk, made together. II-Recitation seats. B B-Black-boards. S S-Stoves in casing, with air tubes be neath. cv-Chimneys and Ventilators. R-Room for recitation, library and apparatus, and other purposes. PRIMARY AND INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT ON SAME FLOOR. No. 4. The preceding plan represents the manner of arranging a graded School-the Primary and Intermediate Departments on the first floor. Provision is also made, as shown by the flight of stairs represented in the lobbies, A and C, for a Grammar School on the second floor. If only two grades are contemplated, the building need only be one story in hight, and then the plan will answer either for Primary and Intermediate, or Primary and Grammar Departments. ARRANGEMENT OF SEATS AND DESKS. The pupils should be faced toward a wall containing no windows, or if any, they should have close blinds or curtains. If possible, this should be the north wall. The Teacher's platform should be across the end, and not the side of the room. Seats and desks should be of different hights, for the convenience of pupils of different ages and sizes. In such cases, the smaller seats for the younger pupils should be placed in front-nearest the Teacher's desk— that he may have them more under his eye and control. Seats and desks should never touch the wall, that the pupil near it may have the free use of his arm, and not come in contact with the damp, cold wall. The following plate represents a new mode of arranging seats and desks, intended to save floor space without the use of the double desk. It is the invention of Mr. Woodcock, of New Hampshire, to whom a patent has been granted. It has the additional advantage of allowing more room for passages, and particularly for a wide middle passage and for outside passages along the walls. The dividing or partition board may either be used or not, as convenience shall direct: 66 By this new arrangement two rows of desks are combined together, with a separating partition between them; or, with a standard at each end, the partition may be dispensed with. Two rows of desks, A A and C C, are shown, connected to each partition board, D. The Teacher's desk is represented at E; B are the seats of the scholars at the desks; a a are the desk standards. Each scholar's desk is arranged opposite the seat space of the opposite scholar, thus separating them and preventing playing and whispering in school. "By this arrangement, as many scholars can be seated at |