This textbook is the eighth volume of the bound periodical, "American Journal of Education." This journal was established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. This volume includes No. 20, March 1860 and No. 21, June 1860. Among the topics covered in these issues are: school architecture; teaching history; geography; instruction in natural science; geometry; arithmetic; physical education; Christianity in education; public or foundation schools of England; public instruction in Norway; historical development of popular education in Greece; course of instruction in the primary schools of Germany; public instruction in Prussia; primary schools in Prussia; public instruction in the Kingdom of Bavaria; agricultural education; public instruction in Belgium; public instruction in Holland; school discipline; instruction in singing; polytechnic schools; and teachers' institutes. An index is included.