This analytical index covers the 31 volumes of Barnard's "American Journal of Education," from 1855 to 1881. This work of Dr. Henry Barnard, the first United States Commissioner of Education, contains thirty-one volumes of some eight hundred pages each. In its publication Dr. Barnard used the best years of his life and all of his private fortune. The complete index to these volumes goes a long way toward furnishing a key to all educational literature.