This is the third volume of the bound periodical, "American Journal of Education"--established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. This volume includes No. 8, March 1857 to No. 9, June 1857. Articles in this volume cover topics such as: reformatory education; college government; mental science as a branch of popular education; American Association for the Advancement of Science; qualifications of a lexicographer of the English language; public high school; Transylvania University and State Normal School, Kentucky; New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb; C. H. Zeller and Institution at Beuggen (Duchy of Baden) for Training Teachers of Schools for Orphan and Vicious Children; Jacob Vehrli and Normal School at Kruitzlingen (Switzerland) for Training Teachers of Schools for the Poor; natural history as a branch of popular education; the importance of art as a branch of education; special training of women for social employments; and public instruction in Sardinia. An index is included. [The volume is published by F. C. Brownell.]