fifteen miles an hour, and its volume and turmoil equal to the Whirpool Rapids of Niagara." "For only a few hundred yards is the tortuous stream visible, but its effect upon the senses is perhaps the greater for that reason. Issuing as from a mountain side, it slides with oily smoothness for a space and suddenly breaks into violent waves that comb back against the current and shoot unexpectedly here and there, while the volume sways tide-like from side to side, and long curling breakers form and hold their outline lengthwise of the shore, despite the seemingly irresistible velocity of the water. The river is laden with drift (huge tree trunks), which it tosses like chips. in its terrible play." But it is now growing late and the time for return is at hand. Quickly our footsteps hasten toward the top with many a backward glance, and a great feeling of awe comes over us as we think of the great masterpiece we have seen. "Having returned to the plateau, it is found that the descent into the canyon has bestowed a sense of intimacy that alomst amounts to a mental grasp of the scene. The terrific deeps that part the walls of hundreds of castles and turrets of mountainous bulk may be approximately located in barely discernible pen-strokes of detail, and are apprehended mainly through the memory of upward looks from the bottom, while towers and obstructions and yawning fissures that were deemed events of the trail will be wholly indistinguishable, although they are known to lie somewhere flat beneath the eye. The comparative insignificance of what are termed grand sights in other parts of the world is now cleverly revealed." "Still, such particulars can not long hold the attention, for the panorama is the real overmastering charm. It is never twice the same. Al though you think you have spelt out every temple and peak and escarpment, as the angle of sunlight changes there begins a ghostly advance of colossal forms from the farther side, and what you had taken to be the ultimate wall is seen to be made up of still other isolated sculptures, revealed now for the first time by silhouetting shadows. The scene incessantly changes, flushing and fading, advancing into crystalline clearness, returning into slumberous haze." "Long may the visitor loiter upon the verge, powerless to shake loose from the charm, tirelessly intent upon the silent transformations until the sun is low in the west. Then the canyon sinks into mysterious purple shadow, the far Shinumo Altar is tipped with a golden ray, and against a leaden horizon the long line of the Echo Cliffs reflects a soft brilliance of indescribable beauty, a light that, elsewhere, surely never was on sea or land. Then darkness falls, and should there be a moon, the scene in part revives in silver light, a thousand spectral forms projected from inscrutable gloom; dreams of mountains, as in their sleep they brood on things eternal." "Behold the realm where Colorado flows! Here countless centuries have wrought their will In forms majestic with impellant skill; Cathedrals reared their naves from this repose, With pomp of giant pinnacle where glows The sunset; and a stream, that scarce might fill WE WILL PAY for good lists of names of young people who might be San Jose Business College Second and San Fernando Streets, San Jose. 6 Months Course $50. W. Boucher, Principal. President Roosevelt says that the is the one great sight every American should see" All the Way Santa Fe You may visit this world-wonder en route to the East on the Santa Fe. For copies of Grand Canyon and California Limited booklets, address Journal of Education January, 1905 CONTENTS EDITORIAL The New Year-A Year in the Schools-The State Teachers' Meeting-Some PAGE 1 13 F. A. 15 19 DEPARTMENT OF METHODS Easy Steps in Subtraction, D. R. Jones-Some Useful Pictures in Composition, AN EDUCATIONAL PILGRIMAGE G. A. Gordon. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES 41 43 The Underlying Principle-The Need of Different Types of Schools-Six OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT 51 Address of Thomas J. Kirk-Extract from Gov. Pardee's Annual Message on 63 WESTERN SCHOOL NEWS THE WESTERN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION Volume X No. 1 $1.50 per Year Single Copy 15c |