e Committee for the Care,
Government, and Management of the College of the
City of New York."_

_The Philosophy of Teaching._

THE TEACHER, THE PUPIL, THE SCHOOL.

BY NATHANIEL SANDS.

8vo, Cloth, $1 00.

An interesting and valuable work, in which the science of teaching is
treated in a philosophical and practical manner, and a sketch is given of
a school to be established on the principles developed in his pages. Mr.
Sands takes the view that education, mental and physical, is but the
absorption of surrounding elements into the mind and body--an arrangement
and assimilation of materials so as to incorporate them into the being to
whose nourishment they are applied, just as the tree or plant assimilates
to its growth and subsistence the materials which it draws from the air
and the soil; and his theory of teaching is based on these truths.--_N. Y.
Times._

He advocates a radical change in the system of teaching youth. He proposes
a school where pupils shall be taught by illustrations from nature as well
as from books; where the museum, chemical laboratory, and workshop shall
find a place; where, in short, the mind of the learner shall not be
forced, but shall have just the kind of food suitable for its age and
development.--_N. Y. World._

Much has been written upon education--much that is both wise and
thoughtful, and much that has been but sound. Among the most thoughtful
and suggestive recent writings is an unpretentious work bearing the title
of "The Teacher, the Pupil, the School," by Mr. Nathaniel Sands. Small as
it is, it contains more ideas than many bulky volumes.--_N. Y. Tribune._

The question with which he mainly concerns himself is whether Latin and
Greek, and certain other branches, shall be taught to the exclusion of
more practical studies. He thinks that what is commonly known as the
"culture demanded by modern life"--chemistry, mining, anatomy, natural
history, political and social economy, the science of government,
etc.--should take the place now usurped by classical studies. Mr. Sands
believes in making no compromise between the useful sciences and the
classics. He condemns "as worse than mere waste of time the years devoted
to Greek and Latin," and would bar them out altogether.--_Journal of
Commerce._

Mr. Sands, who has just been appointed one of the new Board of Education,
has long been known as an advanced thinker on the subject he is now called
upon to deal with. He has