III. Choral. "Let all men Praise the Lord." - Mendelssohn. IV. Selections for the Great Organ. By Mr. B. J. Lang. The time occupied in these musical performances was exactly one hour. They were listened to with delight by the large and appreciative audience, and gave additional and gratifying testimony to the efficiency and value of this department of instruction in our public schools. ANNUAL SCHOOL FESTIVAL. THE Seventy-first Annual Festival of the Public Schools of Boston, was celebrated at the Boston Music Hall, on Tuesday, the 26th day of July last, at four o'clock in the afternoon. In the preceding years, for sufficient reasons, this time-honored festival had been dispensed with, and more than usual effort was, therefore, made to render the present an occasion of interest and enjoyment to all who are entitled to its participation. The School Board, the members of the City Government, and heads of departments, the teachers of the Public Schools, the medal scholars of the two years, with as many of their parents as was found to be practicable, and a goodly number connected with educational interests at large, were present by invitation, crowding the spacious hall in its every part. The great choir of twelve hundred children, selected from the higher classes in the schools, together with the orchestra, the Chairman of the Festival Committee, the Chaplain, and the speakers, occupied the stage. The only decorations were the customary hangings of this temporary structure, and an appropriate floral display surmounted by the arms of the city, in front of the organ. The musical part of the festival, as |