its
range of material as much of the curious and useful as any other known;
the whole tending to one great lesson: that every thing should be
insured and that _no insurance should be taxed by Government_.

TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Boston: William White. 1862.

Apart from the vastly important testimony which these works bear to the
efforts annually made in our good State in the cause of education--the
great source, let us trust, of the politics to be--we seldom fail to
find in them many useful hints as to the practical business of teaching,
of which any writer on the subject would be glad to avail himself. Many
such, at least, we detect in the volume before us, and sincerely trust
that all will in due time bear their good fruit.

CONCORD FIGHT. By S. R. BARTLETT. Second edition.
Concord: Albert Tracy. Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co. 1862.

A poem of thirty-two pages, devoted to setting forth the incidents of
Concord and Lexington fights, in the Revolutionary days, and therefore
very appropriate to our own time. The 'plan' is excellent; the incidents
well devised, while many little lyrical touches here and there are truly
admirable. For instance, 'The White Cockade.'

'Firm hearts and true, strong bands to do,
For liberty;
The fierce old strain rings once again:
'Come death or victory!'

'The lips that woke the dawning note
Are passed away;
But the _echoes_ of the 'White Cockade'
Ring round our hills to-day.'

Long may they ring, and long may the descendants of the men of '76 prove
that they still hear in spirit 'the dawning notes.'

EDITOR'S TABLE

The English journals and statesmen, in their excessive anxiety to
regulate every thing for the world in general and for America in
particular, quite lose sight of the fact, that before interfering in a
neighbor's affairs, it is best to know what the state of affairs may
really be. Of late, we have seen these makers of public opinion making
mischief through gross ignorance, to a degree well-nigh unparalleled in
history. On the strength of flying rumors, unfinished events imperfectly
reported, and through Secession slanders, their great leaders, both
representative and editorial, have ventured to spread before the masses
statements which must unavoidably tend to greatly exasperate and
alienate the people of our respective nations. They are blindly running
up scores of hatred, w