their number was more than doubled, oaths, lies, and quarrels had become rare occurrences among them, and not a few had been repeatedly intrusted with small sums of money, of which they never failed to give a correct account. These moral results were accompanied by others of an equally gratifying description. At certain stated hours, when they had gone over their lessons, at which they are making good proficiency, they shoulder their spades and away to work. It was at first feared that their previous habits of idleness would have unfitted them for anything like steady industry; but this has been proved to be a mistake. They are, indeed, remarkably fond of working, and soon learn to use the spade or hoe to good purpose. Neither are they at all frightened at hard work, but willingly undertake any kind to which they are put. They have been employed, for example, in reclaiming a small piece of waste ground, which, owing to its great steepness, had to be formed into terraces before it could be cultivated. This was all done by the boys, and was performed in a very satisfactory manner; and thus green kail and Swedish turnip now occupy the place of docks and nettles. On the whole, it may with truth be asserted that, so far as it has hitherto gone, the experiment of a boys' farm has been eminently successful.Perth Advertiser. To Correspondents. AMICUS is recommended to address a letter to the Reverend the Principal of the Training College, Battersea, before he takes any other step. A NATIONAL SCHOOLMASTER, having four principal teachers, asks for a time-table for their instruction during the winter months: two are in their fourth year, and two in their second. A. C.-There seems no other remedy for the case but dismissal. A READER is referred to the article "On Teaching Latin" in our number for June, 1849. For a first reading book, Robson's First Latin Reading Lessons will be found useful. T. T. B. is recommended to apply to the clergyman of his parish: he is the most likely person to afford advice and assistance to a deserving person. J. A. M. asks some one to suggest better lights for an evening than candles, where gas cannot be obtained. RENIKOLL.--There are few teachers who know enough about the Crude-form System of Teaching to be competent to give an opinion; we append the opinion of an able teacher, who has tried it and is by no means a partisan ::- -"Its principles no doubt are true, and as a mode of conveying a correct knowledge of language to boys, at a very early age, I believe it to be far superior to any other." INDEX. www ABRAHAM'S Lenten Lectures, 26. Answers to mathematical questions, 36, 66, Battersea College-certificates of merit granted Bible, the, of every land, 99. Bishop's Introduction to the Study of the Black board for schools, 213. Employers, responsibilities of, 30. Examinations, on, 288. Examination papers for training schools, 16, Examination papers, Greenwich Hospital, Family Economist, the, 29. France, examination for Bachelor's degrees in, French Literature, statistics of, 176. Geography of Africa, 185, 284. Boarding school for poor girls, 134, 171, 204, German versus French children, 392. Bolton's Drawing from Objects, 259. Books suitable for a boys' and girls' school, Bradford Schoolmasters' Association, report Canada normal school, 176. Certificates, examination for Easter, 1850, 215, Certificates, letter to candidates for, 174. Cheltenham Normal Training School, 71. Church Schoolmasters' Association, 179. Cook, Captain, memorial school, 38. Crude-form method of teaching the classical Grammar, on teaching, 323. Greenwich Hospital examinations, 367, 408. Haas' French Grammar, 100. Hall's Elementary Atlas, 65. Hopwood on the Church Catechism, 461. Intellectual labourers, 141. Investigation of the Laws of Indices, 214, 299. Johnston's Physical Atlas, 28. Kennedy's Latin Reading Book, 174. Lancashire cotton factories, “ cheap Language, observations on, 235, 305. Diary of a Master of a Ragged School, 5, 77, Laws of Indices, 214, 299. Duty of combining industrial and religious 240. Early training, 95. Early education, 91. Education of the poor in rural districts, 269. Educational meeting at Willis's Rooms, 102. Ellis's (Mrs. Conyngham) Conversations on read- Lennoxville College course of study, 58. Loughborough schools, 316. Lyttleton, Déjeuner to the Bishop of, 386. Malkin, Dr., his character, 464. Mathematical questions, 37, 69, 102, 137, 179, Method of giving lessons on objects, 95, 131, National Society's meeting, 267. On teaching Latin and Greek, 251. On teaching arithmetic, 359, 405, 441. Oxford, new form of examination, 34. Palestine, Geography of, 48, 83, 158, 274. Parochial Union Schools, report on, by E. C. Parsing and paraphrasing, specimens of, 14, Penny maps, 336. Perth Ragged School, 469. Perversion and corruption of words, 318, 449. Physical geography, ideas on, 126, 153, 194. Plan for certificates of merit being granted by Primary instruction in Paris, 432. Public nurseries, 334. Punishment of children, 94. Pupil teachers and Queen's scholarships, 383. Queen Dowager, death of, 25. Ragged school, diary of the master of a, 5, 77, Richmond Grammar School, 334. Rugby School, (instruction in science), 348. Specimens of parsing and paraphrasing, 14, 163, Spelling, ignorance of, 419. St. James' School, Devonport, 227. Sullivan's Literary Clas-book, 99. Tate's Experimental Chemistry, 209. Training schools examination papers, 16, 52, Tufnell's (E. C., Esq.), report on parochial University commission, 220, 468. University Hall, Gordon Square, 143, 144. Virgil's Georgics, translated by Bathurst, 29. White's History of Great Britain, 30. 25. Words, perversion and corruption of, 318,449. School buildings, construction of, 298. Stevens & Co., Printers, Bell Yard Temple Bar. |