¹ The Monatshefte für deutsche Sprache und Pädagogik, excellent service tho it has rendered in the otherwise unoccupied field, has for various reasons, never become a journal of general appeal to secondary and college teachers. Some of the most important contributions on modern language instruction have been published of late years in The Educational Review, The School Review, Science, and other journals of a general character in which they are in danger of being overlooked by the profession. We have, moreover, no channel of communication whatsoever for those minor matters of information which men working together in a professional brotherhood should have of each other, as for instance, significant new appointments, new foundations of chairs, or libraries, or seminaries, important changes in the requirements for degrees, and so forth.