COND
OF THE

OF

AMERICAN

Journal of Education.

EDITED BY

HENRY BARNARD, LL.D.

VOLUME III.

HARTFORD, F. C. BROWNELL.

LONDON: TRUBNER & Co., 12 PATERNOSTER ROW.

1857.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

HENRY BARNARD, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut.

THE

Jmerican Journal of Education.

No. VIII.-MARCH, 1857.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

PORTRAIT OF Jonx HENRY WICHERN

1

Founder of the Rough House, or Institute of Rescue at Horn, near Hamburg. 1

1. J. H. WICHERN AND THE Rougu House......

5

Illustrations-Figure 1. Perspective of Grounds and Buildings.

7

2. Plan of Sites and Walks....

9

II. REFORMATORY EDUCATION..

10

The Rough House near Hamburg

10

Parkhurst Prison for Juvenile Criminals

19

JII. ROGER ASCHAM......

23

Biography...

23

Landor's Imaginary Conversation between Roger Ascham and Lady Jane Grey..

39

IV. Toxophilus: or the Schole of Shootinge. By Roger Ascham

41

The Recreations of Scholars......

41

V. CULTIVATION OF THE FACULTIES OF EXPRESSion. By William Russell, Normal

Institute, Lancaster, Mass.

49

VI. COLLEGE GOVERNMENT-or the Student's Code of Honor. By Horace Mann, LL.D. 65

VII. LETTERS TO A Young TEACHER. By Gideon F. Thayer, Boston, Mass. .........

Moral Education.......

71

VIII. DUTY OF THE STATE IN REGARD TO EDUCATION. By D. Bethune Duffield, De-

troit, Michigan........

81

IX. PMLOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. By Prof. Josiah W. Gibbs, D.D....

101

English Conjugation....

101

X. MENTAL SCIENCE-AS A Branch or POPULAR EDUCATION. By Prof. Joseph Ha-

ven, A. M., Amherst College, Mass.

125

IX. WILLIAM RUSSELL...

139

Portrait

139

Biographical Sketch..

139

List of Publications..

144

XII. AMERICAN AssociaTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF Science.

147

XIII. THE SCHOOL AND THE TEACHER IN LITERATURE...

155

Rev. Thomas Fuller, D. D...

155

The Good Schoolmaster

155

Oliver Goldsmith

158

The Village Schoolmaster.

158

James Delille..

158

The Village Schoosmaster in France..

159

Robert Lloyd.....

160

Wretchedness of a Poor Usher.....

160

XIV. QUALIFICATIONS OF A LEXICOGRAPHER OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE....

A Review of Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language. By

Isaiah Dole, A. M., Gorham, Muine..

161

XV. Public High School

185

Its Objects and Advantages.

185