"I began my education," said Mr. Cartmell, "at the country academy. These are private high schools, and have done an immense amount of good in this country. I should be very willing to have George attend such a school as the academy in St. Johnsbury, or the one nearer home in Andover. Graduates from such schools receive a good

preparation for college, or a fair training in an English course."

"Where did you attend school, Miss Gray?" Nellie inquired.

"I was graduated from the Bridgewater Normal School; my younger sister went through the New York City. Normal School."

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What do you study in a normal school?" Florence asked.

"We study the laws of the mind, the history of education, the principles and methods of teaching different branches. We observe how experienced teachers teach in the practice schools. Bridgewater is one of the oldest

normal schools in this country. It is a State institution; there are other State normal schools at Salem, Worcester, Westfield, and Framingham. Almost every State in the land has one or more such schools; Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and many large cities have normal schools, or training schools, of their own."

"Where did you go to school before you went to the normal school, Miss Gray?"

"I went through Wellesley College. Those were four very happy years of my life. I was in the first class which graduated. The college is beautifully situated, a few miles out of Boston, on grounds consisting of groves, lakes, and lawns; the main hall and numerous cottages are picturesquely located near the centre of the grounds."

"What did you study there?" Mrs. Cartmell asked. "I studied about the same studies a young man would take in a college. I took Latin, Greek, French, German, social science, constitutional history, botany, experimental physics, higher mathematics, and English literature. The courses are similar in Vassar, Smith, and Bryn-Mawr."

"As you are beginning to think about college and college life, George, perhaps you can tell us the names and localities of some prominent American colleges."

"The oldest college in this country is Harvard University, whose first class graduated in 1642, containing nine members. The number of students who now yearly graduate is over five hundred, while about fifteen hundred are members of the college and nearly three thousand of the different departments. Other great colleges are Yale in New Haven, Princeton in New Jersey, Columbia in New York city, Brown in Rhode Island, Dartmouth in New Hampshire, Williams and Amherst in Massachusetts, Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Cornell University in New York State, Girard College in Philadelphia, Clark and Boston Universities in Massachusetts, Tulane University in Louisiana, Leland Stanford, Jr. University in California. Thirty different States have State-established colleges."

George's account of the colleges in the country created

so much interest that the children begged their father to take them to see how a college looks. He was well acquainted with several professors at Harvard, so he took

his family to Cambridge. Professor H. first took them all across the college yard, which containes about fifteen acres, tastefully laid out and adorned by many stately elms. Here they saw some fifteen extensive buildings,