become the creed of every civilised nation under heaven. Whence had these men their wisdom? How, according to the usual course of events, is the seeming inadequacy of the means to be reconciled with the prodigious magnitude of the result?'
EDINBURGH.-By a recent alteration, the examination of the medical students at Edinburgh University is ordered to be in English, and not in Latin as formerly.
We have received a communication, which will be seen below, requesting us to recommend a certain book, the name of which we do not think it necessary to mention. The writer of that letter, if he be, as he says he is, a reader of the Journal, ought to know that no notices, such as he has sent, have ever appeared in this work. The little book itself, whose name we keep in secret, is such as we should take the liberty of warning parents against using, if we thought there was any danger of their making the experiment:
We have much pleasure in recommending this little work. We should like to see it generally used. It is admirably adapted for cultivating the memory and exercising the judgment of children. There are questions proposed on many interesting subjects; those of a simple nature are left unanswered, thus affording an opportunity of calling forth the energies of the youthful mind. This, we think, is a manifest improvement in the system of education, and calculated to render instruction both easy and agreeable. This excellent little Catechism consists of two parts; the first embraces subjects of general knowledge, arranged with great judgment; the second contains a brief but highly interesting account of the contents of the sacred Scriptures.-[All this in fifty-two 24mo. pages.]
The selection and arrangement indicate the experience and good taste of the compiler; and we hope his labours will meet the encouragement to which they are so well entitled.'
ABACUS, use of, in teaching arithmetic, 8 Agronomical Charts, account of, 352 Algebra, advantage of an early use of the symbols of, 15
Algiers, description of, 198 Almanacs, notice of, 165
American education, legal provision for, 72 Anguilla, state of education in the island of, 281
Antigua, state of education in, 268 Arithmetic, on teaching, 1; method of teaching children, 3; method of teach- ing youth, 14
Armenia, present state of education in, 356
Bahama islands, state of education in, 273 Barbados, state of education in, 271 Barbuda, state of education in the island of, 271
Barker, Mr., method of teaching the deaf
Bavaria, establishment of popular schools for mechanics in, 352
Belfast Academical Institution, system of Hebrew instruction at, 382
Belgium, notice of the universities of, 176 Berbice, state of education in the island of, 281
Bergamese dialect, specimen of, 253 Berlin, list of lectures in the university of, 182; new rector of the university of, 189; number of students at, 350 Bermuda islands, state of education, 282 Bloomsbury and Pancras School Society, statement of attendance and classifica- tion of children at, 63 Bodleian Library, remarks on the manage- ment of, 288; extract of a letter from Sir J. Bodley respecting, 291 Bologna, notice of the university of, 359 Bolognese dialect, specimen of, 253 Bombay National Education Society, no- tice of the reports of, 369 Bonn, state of the museum of natural his- tory at, 350
Books, analysis of the price of, 170 Bopp, on the influence of the pronoun in the formation of words in the Sanscrit and kindred languages, notice of, 27
Borough-road School, course of instruc- tion at, 55
Bowring, Dr., extracts from the evidence of, relating to the cultivation of the arts of design at Lyons, 375
Breslau, number of students in the uni- versity of, 190
British Almanac, notice of, 165 British and Foreign School Society, ac-
count of, 52; objects of, 53; children educated by, in London and its neigh- bourhood, 53; disproportion of the sexes in, 54; model school of, in the Borough- road, course of instruction at, 55; good effects of the system of Scripture read- ing at, 57; Lancasterian system used by, 59; improvements on, 60; library, 60; hours of attendance, 61; admission of children, 61; holidays, 61; examina- tions, 62; attendance of children, 62; financial statement of, 64; sums paid by children, 65; salaries of masters, 66; ex- pense and method of establishing schools, 67; inquiries instituted by, 205 Buttmann's Greek Grammar, notice of, 24, 294
Carriacou, state of education in the island of, 274
Christchurch, Hants, state of education in, 206 Christiania, account of the universityof,237; number of students at, 239; examina- tions at, 240; degrees conferred by, 241; library of, 241; list of professors at, 242
College of Industry, institution of, at Paris, 344 Companion to the Almanac, notice of, 166 Correspondents, notice to, 386 Cotte, Alphonsine Theodolinde, infantine precocity of, 174
Cousin Marshall, review of the tale of, in Miss Martineau's Illustrations of Politi- cal Economy, 148
Cousin, Professor, opinion of, on educa- tion, 344
Cunningham's Arithmetical Text Book, no- tice of the plagiarisms in, 129 Cuthbertson, D., Esq., speech of, in favour of classical studies, 384
Deaf and Dumb Institution at York, exa- mination of pupils in the, 381 Decimal fractions, use of, in commercial arithmetic, 221
Demerara, state of education in the island of, 282
Dissenting Colleges in England and Wales,
Hebrew instruction in the, 384 Dominica, state of education in the island of, 273
Dublin University, Hebrew instruction at, 384
Dunbar and Barker's Lexicon, notice of, 16
Edinburgh University, alteration in the
examination of medical students at, 386 Education among the poorer classes of so- ciety, on the necessity of, 222, et seq.; effects of civilization on, 225; proposed course of, 228; means of effecting, 229; probable effects of, 230; crime pro- duced or increased by ignorance, 232; superiority of modern times in furnishing means for general instruction, 233 Emigration, advantages and disadvantages of, 156
"Encyclopædia of the Nineteenth Cen- tury," notice of the Belgian, 350 Eton College, account of the revenues of, 371
Etymology, proper application of, 17
Farmers' Series of the Library of Useful Knowledge, notice of, 164 Foundlings, mode of providing for, in Hol- land, 349
Fractional arithmetic, on the method of teaching, 209, et seq.
France, amount of education in, 173; ele- mentary periodical work established in, for the promotion of national education, 173; university of, notice of the, 346 Freetown, Sierra Leone, account of the schools at, 370
French Academy of Arts and Sciences, notice of, 174; present state of na- tional education in, 345
Frey's Hebrew, Latin, and English Dic- tionary, notice of, 112
Gallery of Portraits, notice of, 167
Geneva, notice of the present state of in- struction at, 357
Genoa, decay of the University of, 359 Ghent, publication of documents con- nected with, 350
Girls, erroneous opinion that instruction is less needed for, than for boys, 54; propriety of encouraging the formation of schools for, 54
Glasgow University, course of study at in 1577, 77
Glasgow grammar school, distribution of prizes at, 384
Göttingen, number of students at the Uni- versity of, 352
Grasso, anecdotes of, 248
Gravatt, Mr., notice of paper of, on the diving-bell, 381
Great men of France, public tribute to the memories of, 344
Greek language, on the etymological forms of the, 16; wide diffusion, and spoken dialects of, 307
Grenada, state of education in the island of, 273
Gymnasiast of Swedish Lapland, ac- count of, 354
Halifax Literary and Philosophical Society, notice of, a paper read at, 381 Halle, number of students at the univer- sity of 352
Harp Alley school, attendance of reli- gious worship by children at, 58; classes of children taught at, 62 Hebrew instruction in England, state of, 99; teachers of the language, charac ter and requisites of, 100; necessity of oral instruction in, 101; public in- stitutions for teaching, 103; Oxford scholarships, ib.; Cambridge scholar. ship, 105; nature of examination pa- pers in at Cambridge, 106; provision for at other establishments in England, 107; state of, in the United States, 109; publications for facilitating the acquisition of, 110; notice of Hurwitz's Hebrew Grammar, 114; further infor- mation respecting, 382
Heinecker, Christian Henry, infantine precocity of, 175
Heywood, B., Esq., notice of the speech of, at Manchester Mechanics' Institution, 374
High Wycombe, opening of Sunday School at, 207
Hodges, Mr., evidence of, as to the bene- ficial results of emigration, 157 Home colonization, inefficacy of, 155 Homes Abroad, review of the tale of, in Miss Martineau's Illustrations of Poli- tical Economy, 153
Indian schools in the United States, pre- sent state of, 200
Infant schools, advantages of, 132; anec- dote of Mr. Wilderspin's first essay with, 133; decription of one at Sal- ford, 136
Inscription on the state-house of Ohio, 202 Interlinear translations, early application
of in the teaching of Hebrew, 101 Italian language and literature, on the study of, 244, et seq.; notice of the different dialects of the language, 244; difference between the oral and writ- ten language of Italy, 246; specimens of the dialects, 252; progress of the written language, 255; present state of Italian literature, 265
Italy, progress of popular instruction in, 358
Jamaica, state of education in, 274 Jefferson College, Philadelphia, list of the professors at, 201
Jelf, Rev. W., notice of the pamphlet of, on the study of Hebrew, 102, 106 Jena, state of the University of, 179 Jewish schools in Poland, establishment of, 191
Journal of Education, notice of, 166
Kennicott's Hebrew scholarships, regula- tions of, 103
Kensington schools of industry, establish- ment of, 380
Kent's Commentaries on 'American Law, extract from, relating to education, 71 King's Scholars and Town boys, at West- minster School, distinction between, 30 Köröshy, notice of the travels and object of, 353
Lancasterian system, well adapted to the teaching of large numbers, 59; interro- gative system, an improvement on, 60 Languages, number of known, 355 Leipzig, courteous style adapted by the professors in the university of 180; system of instruction in the Nicolai school at, 180
Lessons on Numbers, notice of, 6
Lessons on Shells, as given to children between the ages of eight and ten, in a Pestalozzian school, review of, 313; extracts from, 318
Library of Entertaining Knowledge, no- tice of, 164
Library of Useful Knowledge, notice of, 163
Lombardy, state of education in, 196 London University examination papers, 340 Lund, reply of the King of Sweden to the authorities of the university of, 192
Manchester free grammar school, appli- cation of funds of, 69 Manchester Strike, review of the tale of, in Miss Martineau's Illustrations of Po- litical Economy, 144 Manchester Mechanics' Institution, notice of the proceedings at the annual meeting of, 373
Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, notice of, 167 Martineau's (Miss) Illustrations of Poli- tical Economy, review of, 142 Martinique, society for promoting educa- tion in, 344
Matthiæ's Greek Grammar, by Blomfield and Kenrick, fifth edition, review of, 293 Mauritius, state of education in the island of, 286
Medals, cabinet of, at Paris, account of, 348
Mental arithmetic, advantages of acquir ing facility in, 5
Meyer, charitable endowment of, in Wei- mar, 176
Milanese dialect, specimen of, 252 Mongolian language, earliest vestige of, 356
Montserrat, state of education in the island of, 270
Moscow, statistics of, 355; number of stu- dents in the university of, 356 Münich, school for builders at, 190; number of students at the university of,
Naples, institution of normal schools in the kingdom of, 360 National education, necessity of a system of, 67
National School Society, notice of the annual report of the, 203
Neapolitan dialect, specimen of, 252 Nevis, state of education in the island of,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, notice of the pro- spectus for building a college at, 377 Newport, Isle of Wight, annual examina- tion of national school at, 380 New York, statements respecting the common schools of, 367
Northumberland, recent establishment of schools in, 380
Northwich, establishment of lectures at the salt-works at, 380 Norway, account of the state of education in, 234, et seq.; schools for the lower orders, 234; Latin schools, 235; uni- versity of Christiania, 237; other schools, 243; number of children taught, 244 Norwegian literature, notice of, 191 Norwich gaol, extract from the report of the chaplain of, 207
Oriani, Abbate, obituary of, 195 Oxford examinations, account of, 328; recent alterations in, 331; defects of, 332; copy of examination papers, 337; compared with that of the London Uni- versity, 340
Oxford university, systems of education pursued at, 328; college lectures, in- efficacy of, 329
Pancras parish, state of education in, 70 Paper, on the invention and use of in Europe, 346
Parent's Cabinet of Amusement and In- struction, review of, 323 Pauper colony at Wortel in Belgium, ill success of, 349
Pawn-bank at Angers, account of, 345 Penny Magazine, notice of, 168 Pestalozzi, notice of, 193
Pestalozzian system, advantages of in
teaching the natural sciences, 315 Piedmontese dialect, specimen of, 252 Plymouth, state of education in, 207 Poland, notice of the comic poetry of, 353 Political Economy, review of Miss Mar- tineau's Illustrations of, 142 Posen, number of Jews in the city of, 354 Presbyterianism of Scotland, remarks on, 80; effects of on scholastic knowledge, 86 Prophecies of the Old Testament, mistaken interpretations of, productive of an in- creased knowledge of Hebrew, 99 Prussia, system of public instruction in, 181, 350; study of the Hebrew tongue in, 182
Rome, account of the theological seminary (Seminario Romano) at, 360
St. Alban's, examination of the Royal Bri- tish School at, 208; lecture by Mr. Althans at, ib.
St. Andrew's University, correction of the statement of the course of instruction in Latin' at, 98
St. Christopher's, state of education in the island of, 278
St. Vincent, state of education in the island of, 281
Salford infant school, description of, 136 Saxony, regulations for national education in, 179
Scarpa, Antonio, obituary of, 195 Scotland, account of the universities of, 75,
et seq.; present low state of education at, 75; much superior formerly, 77; operation of the constitution of the Scottish Church on, 78; alterations in, proposed by the Royal Commissioners, 89; proposed university courts, 90; constitution of at Edinburgh, 91; at St. Andrew's, 92; at Glasgow, 93; pro- posed examination for degrees, 94; pro- posed alterations in the classes of studies, 95; other alterations proposed, 96; proposed arrangement of degrees, 97 Secession Church, Glasgow, Hebrew in- struction of the divinity students of the, 384
Sicilian dialect, specimen of, 252
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know-
ledge, notice of the Fifth Annual Report of, 161; notice of the publications of, 163
Spain, notice of the decree of the Queen of, for re-opening the universities, 194; establishment of schools for the arts of design in, 361
Spade husbandry, statement showing the unfavourable results of, 155
Stockport free grammar-school, establish- ment of, 205
Sweden, number of students in the univer- sities of, 354
Swedish literature, notice of, 355 Switzerland, progress in the establishment of a national university for, 192, 358 Sydney College, Australia, notice of the Latin grammar for the use of the students at, 201
Temperance societies, notice of in the United States, 362
Tobago, state of education in the island of, 281
Tortola, state of education in the island of, 281
Trinidad, state of education in, 282 Turkey, state of the press in, 361 Tyrwhitt's Hebrew scholarship, regulations of, 105
United States, statistics of the colleges of, 364; of theological seminaries of, 366; of medical schools of, 366
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