fingers. Ask a child whether it is right to steal, lie, or get angry, and his answer will generally be prompt and correct; or, if he delay to give a direct answer, ten chances to one, it is because his attention is called up strongly to the subject for the first time. He is thinking it over, and to good purpose. Let him think; do not interrupt nor disturb him. Thinking is, just now, far better for him than talking; he may be conscious, for the first time, of "faculties which he has never used.” The importance of aiding the child to form right moral habits, can hardly be over-rated. The habit of prompt obedience, we may perhaps reckon the corner-stone of the pier. Truth lies next the foundation of all that is excellent, lovely, and of good report. Reverence for God, and the great Ideas of Worship, of Right and of Duty, are all foundation-stones, and should be grappled to each other with hooks of steel. Let these foundation ideas be laid broad and firm at the base of character, and we shall not fail to see a noble superstructure arise in after years, on which all gentle courtesies, all christian graces, all refined and elegant accomplishments may be built up, each in its season and appropriate order. CLEVELAND, Sept. 1st, 1854. Anniversaries of Teachers' Associations. H. VAIL. The ninth annual meeting of the New York State Teachers' Association, attended in Oswego during the first week in August, was one of the largest, most harmonious and profitable meetings it has ever held. Some five hundred attended: several interesting addresses and reports were made. Resolutions were adopted approving of the creation of the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, and pledging to that officer efficient coöperation. The question of appointing a State Agent occasioned considerable discussion, but was decided by a strong vote. Mr. R. D. JONES, of Rochester, was elected President, and Mr. T. W. VALENTINE, of Albany, was re-appointed resident editor of "The Teacher." The Association adjourned to meet in Utica on the 1st of August, 1855. The Pa. State Teachers' Association held its second semi-annual meeting in Pottsville on the 1st of August last. The session was opened with an inaugural address by the President, Prof. JAS. THOMPSON, of Pittsburgh, and mainly spent in the reading and discussion of reports. After a pleasant session of three days, the Association adjourned to meet in Lewistown on the 26th of December next. Etymology---No. III. The following table contains, under some thirty heads, most of the important prepositional prefixes in the language. As a part of it was crowded out of the April number, those then given are now repeated, for the purpose of having all appear together: A, be, Prefixes. PREPOSITIONAL PREFIXES. Meaning. On, in, at, upon, A, ab, abs; apo, ap; de; From, away, out, e, ex, A, an; ne, non; in, im; Not, without, un; dis, To, toward, Around, about, Again, apart, Before, Against, opposite, Con, cog, col, com, co; Together, with, Be; en, em; in, im, To make, Cata, Cis, Down, fr. side to side, syn, syl, sym, Examples. Ashore, abed, aside; besprinkle. Adjoin, ascend, accord, affix, navigate; perimeter. Anabaptist, analysis. Antecede, foreknow, precede. Antipathy; counteract, contradict, controvert; paradox; withstand. Becalm; encamp; embellish Connect, cognate, collect, com- Diameter, diaeresis; persist; distract, differ, diverge. Epidemic, ephemeral. Beyond, over, above, Extraordinary; ultramundane; From, Under, beneath, In, on, upon, Between, Within, in, Near, Against, in the way, Like, near to, After, [of, Forward, for, instead To take off or undo, The foregoing list contains some forty words, which may be regarded as prefixes rather than radicals. The importance of acquiring a knowledge of these prefixes, and those previously given, will appear from the following facts: the word unus enters into some 60 words, mono into 140, primus into more than 60, proto into 15 or more; bene is found in more than 30, eu in more than 60; hemi in 20, demi in 30, semi in more than 100; hydro in more than 80; and multi in more than 70, and its equivalent poly in nearly 100 words. A. D. L. MISCELLANEOUS. The Cost of Crime in Ohio. The following statistics are from the report of the Attorney General of Ohio, for last year: Number convicted of murder in the second degree, 7; manslaughter, 20; rape, 9; bigamy, 1; arson, 5; burglary, 34; assault, with intent to murder, 10; to ravish, 2; to rob, 2; grand larceny (17 from Hamilton county), 43; counterfeiting, 17; horse stealing, 17; robbery, forgery, and other crimes, 25: total, 192. Of these criminals, seven were sentenced for life, the others for limited periods; and the cost of their trial, conviction, etc., so far as reported, was $14,999.83, or more than $78 each! But as several counties did not report the costs, it is fair to suppose that the expense was not less than $80 each. Now the school tax levied under our present system, amounts to $1.50 for each youth between five and twenty-one; and as three-fourths of these youth, or 600,000, attend school during some part of the year, the sum expended for the tuition of each is only $2.00. So that the cost of convicting these criminals would have instructed them in common schools for forty years; or it would have paid for their tuition and that of the next three generations of their successors (making 800 in all), for a period of nearly ten years each. If any doubt the connection between ignorance and many of the crimes enumerated in the foregoing list, we refer them to the facts stated on page 258 of our last number, and to the statistics of nearly all the penitentiaries in our own and other countries. A. D. L. School Libraries. It will be gratifying to all the friends of schools to learn that a portion of the books intended for these Libraries are now ready for delivery. Those enumerated in the following list have been forwarded to County Auditors for distribution. The cost of this series is about $15.00: it is to be hoped that an effort will be made to introduce them into schools as soon as practicable. OHIO SCHOOL LIBRARY.-FIRST SERIES. The Swiss Family Robinson. 2 vols. With Engravings. Adventures of Daniel Boone, the Ken tucky Rifleman. Abbott's History of Maria Antoinette. The Young Sailor. By Mary S. B. Sandford and Merton. By Thomas Conquest and Self Conquest; or which Boyhood of Great Men: intended as Abbott's History of Alexander the Live and Let Live; or, Domestic Serv- Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. By B. J. Lossing. Howe's Mechanics. By Henry Howe. 50 Engravings. Hallam's Middle Ages. By Henry Two Years Before the Mast. By R. The Pursuit of Knowledge under Diffi culties. By Geo. L. Craik. 2 vols. Russia as it is. By Count A. de Gurowski. Letters to Young Ladies. By Mrs. L. Layard's Nineveh: Discoveries at Nin- Curran and his Contemporaries. By Life of Sir Isaac Newton. By Sir Da- Lives of Celebrated Female Sovereigns. Life of Francis Marion. By William G. Simms. Engravings. The Merchant: Illustrative of Success in Life. By Mrs. Louisa C. Tuthill. The Sketch-Book. By Washington Irving. Life of General Lafayette. By Wil- Taylor's History of Ohio, to 1787. By Answers to Questions on the School Law. BY THE COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS. QUESTION 71.-In the incorporated village of Greenfield, there is a good Seminary building, which, with a little remodeling, would accommodate all the scholars in the corporation. There is no public school house in which the common schools of the village can be kept during the coming winter. Under the above circumstances, would it be legal for the Board of Education to enter into arrangements with the Principal of said Seminary, for the instruction of all the scholars of the town, agreeing to pay him the public funds applicable to the payment of teachers, and authorize him to charge those sending to the school such tuition fees as would remunerate him and his assistants for the balance of the expense of instructing such scholars? And has the Board the power to provide for keeping the common schools in operation, after the State Funds have been exhausted, by charging parents, pro rata, such tuition fees as would cover the balance of the expense? ANSWER. A negative answer must be returned to both of the above questions; for the present school law contains no provisions authorizing local Direc |