Guernsey.-John McBurney, Cambridge. Hamilton.-E. E. White, C. E. McVey, M. W. Smith, M. S. Turrill, Lucia Stickney, C. S. Bragg, Mrs. C. S. Bragg, Cincinnati; A. B. Johnson, Mrs. A. B. Johnson, Avondale; J. P. Cummins, Riverside; G. L. Beckwith, North Bend.

Hancock.

Hardin.

Harrison.-O. C. Williams, Cadiz.
Henry.-

Highland.-H. S. Doggett, Hillsboro; S. M. Taggart, Maggie Huff, Lenna Simpson, Leesburg; R. B. Barrett, Alice Taggart, Rainsboro; W. G. Moler, Greenfield; D. S. Ferguson, Milton Morgan, Highland; Orpah Johnson, Dallas.

Hocking.-Albert Leonard, Logan.

Holmes.

Huron.-W. R. Comings, Miss M. S. Newton, Norwalk.
Jackson.-

Jefferson.-H. N. Mertz, A. M. Rowe, Lucy Curfman, Jennie Myers, Annie Bustard, Georgie Phillips, Steubenville.

Knox.-Eli T. Tappan, Mrs. L. L. Tappan, Emma E. Wright, Gambier; J. A. Shawan, M. A. Yarnell, Mt. Vernon; D. W. Stahl, Fredericktown; Jos. C. Clow, North Liberty.

Lake.-T. W. Harvey, Mary Harvey, Anna S. Harvey, Mrs. M. D. Mathews, James H. Shepherd, Painesville; C. A. Hodges, Unionville.

Lawrence.

Licking.—J. C. Hartzler, Miss M. A. Simpson, Newark; O. T. Corson, Granville; A. B. Hood, Pataskala.

Logan.-Henry Whitworth, Bellefontaine.

Lorain.-H. M. Parker, Belle Hines, Elyria; Miss E. N. McConnell, Wellington.

Lucas.-J. W. Dowd, Amy H. Brown, Miss S. R. Folger, Toledo. Madison.-J. L. Reeder, Lilly Chapel.

Mahoning.-R. McMillen, Mrs. R. McMillen, Mary D. Campbell, Maggie Roberts, Isabel Bidwell, Miss Manning, Blanche Butler, Sarah Peterson, Josephine McKeown, Miss N. S. McDonald, Mrs. Wm. Bonnell, Mrs. F. O. Arms, J. H. McEwen, Mrs. J. H. McEwen, Mrs. W. J. Edwards, S. H. Lightner, Geo. W. Alloway, Elmer J. Peck, James A. Leonard, Youngstown; J. C. Ransom, F. B. Sawvell, T. B. Paramore, Lucy Hartman, Canfield; M. A. Kimmel, Poland.

Marion.

Medina.-S. H. Herriman, Medina; Sebastian Thomas, Altha S. Adams, Mary A. Richards, Lodi; Arthur Powell, Jennie Hunt, Wadsworth; F. D. Ward, LeRoy.

Meigs.-T. C. Flanegin, Pomeroy.

Mercer.

Miami.-C. L. Van Cleve, Troy; Mary E. Hall, Piqua.
Monroe.-

Montgomery.-J. J. Burns, C. L. Loos, Mrs. C. L. Loos, W. D. Gibson, Louise F. Myer, Emily C. Mentel, Marie Jacque, Augusta Boedecker, Dayton; T. A. Pollock, Miamisburg.

Morgan.

Morrow.

Muskingum.

Noble.

Ottawa.-John McConkie, Port Clinton.

Paulding.

Perry.

Pickaway.-M. H. Lewis, Circleville.

Pike.

Portage.-A. C. Pierson, Ella Patch, Carrie Patch, Hiram; Addie Wilmot, Nettie Blair, Frankie Blair, Mantua; John E. Morris, Garrettsville; Anna M. Nutting, Kent.

Preble.-E. P. Vaughn, West Alexandria; Laura Corson, Eaton. Putnam.-S. F. DeFord, Ottowa; E. Ward, Columbus Grove. Richland.-Margaret W. Sutherland, Bertie Ruess, Frank Jameson,

Mansfield.

Ross.-John Hancock, Jennie F. Winn, Chillicothe; Geo. Rossiter,

Shiloh.

Sandusky.

Scioto.-Emily Ball, Lizzie Cotton, May Cotton, Portsmouth. Seneca.-J. W. Knott, Miss S. R. Platt, Hallie Leavitt, Etta Nyman, Josie McDaniels, Tiffin; W. T. Jackson, Fostoria.

Shelby.-P. W. Search, Sidney.

Stark.-E. A. Jones, Alice Burton, Mrs. J. P. Burton, Mrs. Kent Jarvis, Massillon.

Summit. Samuel Findley, W. V. Rood, Mrs. M. A. Findley, Rena B. Findley, Mrs. M. Harris, Akron; W. H. Rowlen, Cuyahoga Falls; F. Schnee, Norton Center.

Trumbull.-E. F. Moulton, Mrs. E. F. Moulton, Emma F. Way, Warren; M. A. Reed, Ollie Harroff, Mary S. Morgan, Girard; W. N. Wight, E. G. Mansfield, Niles; F. O. Reeve, North Bloomfield; L. P. Hodgeman, Mineral Ridge.

Tuscarawas.

Union.-W. H. Cole, L. B. Demorest, Marysville.

Van Wert.-D. R. Boyd, Van Wert.

Vinton.

Warren.-J. F. Lukens, R. H. Holbrook, Lebanon; Perry V. Bone, J. C. Ridge, G. J. Graham, Waynesville; Addison Ludlum, Morrow.

Washington.

Wayne.-S. F. Scovel, S. J. Kirkwood, Wooster; D. F. Mock, Shreve; G. B. Rhodes, Smithville; J. W. Gillam, Mt. Eaton; B. J. Mills, Creston; J. O. Rohrer, Burton City.

Williams.-
Wood.-

Wyandot.

Other States.-G. W. Walker, Adrian, Mich.; John Ogden, Washington, D. C.; E. O. Vaile, E. A. Dillon, Chicago, Ill.; A. P. Chapin, Rochester, N. Y.; A. Atwater, Bloomington, Ind.; J. D. Bigelow, Windsor, N. Y.; D. A. McMillen, Mexico, Mo.

THE TEACHERS' READING CIRCLE.

BY DELIA L. WILLIAMS.

A trial

The Teachers' Reading Circle is no longer an experiment. of two years has demonstrated the value of combined effort for selfimprovement. A few teachers would undoubtedly have read as much and as thoroughly without such aid, but a very large number do not hesitate to testify their obligation to the "Circle," not only for their continuance in this particular phase of well-doing, but also for the impulse to begin it.

Those who have followed the course from the beginning have read more carefully and critically Longfellow, Lowell or Whittier-one or more-and have begun the study of Irving and Shakspere. They have studied very thoroughly the early history of our country and they have read some of the very best pedagogical works. I submit whether this, in addition to the daily study for school duties, is not a commendable amount of literary work, and I very greatly query whether so much would have been done except for method and co-operation. But the field is still wide. We have gleaned only a flower here and there from it, while as far as the eye can reach the plain is brilliant with bloom.

The course for the coming year is better than that of either of the preceding ones, because the farther inland we get the richer the products. We have in the course choice specimens from Shakspere, Tennyson and Scott. We finish United States History, which will lead us to a future study of general history. We take a short course in phys ics, and we have a very valuable and suggestive work in Pedagogics. No teacher in our public schools can afford to ignore or neglect the advantages to be derived from co-study and its attendant discussions, essays, criticisms and helps. While other occupations have their guilds and unions, why should we not combine for the highest possible end, self-improvement ?

There is no occasion for any one to complain that the course is too short, or too simple; for it can be made the starting point for an indefinite amount of reading. Take, for instance, the United States History. Ten years of study would not exhaust it. So Ivanhoe can be followed to its historical basis and before one knows it he is plunged into the sea of English History. Payne's Lectures suggest and lead to the limitless field of metaphysical study. Any item of knowledge is a single mesh in a boundless net from which one can go in any direction towards all knowledge. It is never so important where we begin and which way we travel, as that we begin somewhere and persistently go forward towards an end.

In a special Reading Circle session at the Saratoga Educational Meetings, we had abundant testimony, from Massachusetts on the east, to Colorado on the west, of the value of the Reading Circle movement. Ten States have already entered upon the work, some of them thoroughly officered and organized, and are doing efficient work. Single counties in Iowa are reported as purchasing 150 copies of one text-book, which means, of course, 150 readers in the Circle for that county. In many counties every teacher is reported as reading the Ohio is at a disadvantage in the lack of county superintendency, but our corresponding members are good men and will gladly and faithfully serve the teachers of their respective counties, for love of their profession. Let not Ohio fall to the rear.

course.

Suffer, fellow teachers, a word of exhortation. You that are strong, bear the infirmities of the weak. Hold out a helping hand to those who cannot or do not help themselves. Spread the feast in your county, township, city, village, and compel the indifferent and the timid to come in. Let me entreat you to make a special effort to help every isolated country teacher in your county. Encourage all such to buy the books and make a beginning. The ownership of good books is a great inspiration to reading. If they find it impossible to meet

with other teachers, assist them in forming circles of the most advanced of their pupils and the literarily inclined among their patrons. Make every teacher understand that by the arrangement which we make with publishers he saves in the purchase of books many times the 25 cents membership fee, and the more readers we have the better terms we can make. So important has the Reading Circle interest already become in some of our sister States that several text-books have been especially prepared for the use of Circles. Whether this be commendable or otherwise, it shows that publishers are ready to favor reading circles as they cannot afford to sell to individual buyers. The cheapest way to get a good library is to keep up relations with the reading circle, buying all the books recommended, and as many more as possible, to be used as helps. Which will be the banner county in Ohio?

For information, circulars, etc., address your County Corresponding Secretary, or Supt. E. A Jones, Massillon, Ohio.

RULES FOR STUDY.

From Baldwin's School Management.

Better study conditions, better learning.

Whatever tends to secure

effective study, tends to elevate the race. The following rules have proved of great value to many hundreds of students and teachers :

I. TAKE A DEEP INTEREST IN WHAT YOU STUDY.-Cold iron can not be welded. The indifferent student fails to weld the new and the old knowledge. Heat the iron, and a few strokes do the work. Interest is mental heat; learning and memory are in proportion to the interest. A cold, slow, repulsive teacher is a dead failure. He who can not create and sustain a deep interest can not teach. The student who does not take an interest in his work does not learn.

II. GIVE YOUR ENTIRE ATTENTION TO THE SUBJECT.-Attention is the condition of knowledge. But for the accumulated power of attention, learning and progress would be impossible. Close and continuous attention enables the pupil to master difficulties and retain results. As the rays of the sun, when concentrated by the burning-glass, produce combustion, so, when the energies of the soul are directed to a single point, the mind burns its way through all difficulties. Newton said: "The difference between myself and others is, chiefly, that I have acquired the power to concentrate my attention more complete