A paper on Education for the Iowa Farm Boy, read by Wallace before the Prairie Club of Des Moines, has been printed in pamphlet form.

The author discusses the systems of agricultural education and rural public schools employed in various European countries, and compares them with the conditions, past and present, along the same lines in this country in general and in Iowa in par- ticular.

The great need for improvement is pointed out.

Vida Smith is the writer of a Biography of Patriarch Alex- ander Hale Smith which occupies first place in the January number of the Journal of History published at Lamoni by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

An Open Letter of Charles Wandell to the President of the United States is an- other contribution, and the remainder of the Journal is largely taken up with continuations of biographical sketches, as is also the April number.