This is the second volume of the bound periodical, "American Journal of Education"--established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. This volume includes No. 5, August 1856 to No. 7, December 1856. Articles in this volume discuss topics such as: the American institute of instruction; Milton on education; higher and special schools of science and literature in France; religious instruction in public schools; subjects and methods of instruction in mathematics; modern Greek language; management of public libraries; reformation education; condition of common or public schools in the United States in 1855; home education; Prussian expenditures for public instruction compared with French; science and scientific schools; physical training; drawing in schools of art; Catholic educational establishments in the United States; public instruction in Duchy of Nassau; gradation of public schools; religion and public schools; uses of astronomy; a college of architecture; and Norwich Free Academy. An index is included. [This volume is published by F. C. Brownell.]