This textbook is the 16th volume of a bound periodical. The "American Journal of Education" was established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. Among the topics covered by articles in this issue are: public instruction in the Austrian Empire; the nature and value of education; the dignity of the schoolmaster's work; documentary history of normal schools in the United States; female education as it was; history of educational associations in the United States; National Bureau of Education; and advice on studies and conduct. [This volume was published by Henry Barnard. It represents n17 of the "New Series."]