If such institutions were encouraged by the landlords, much more could be done.

The convent to which I allude was founded at the close of the year 1861.

There was a national school in the little town (in England it would be called a village), with an attendance of about forty children.

The numbers rose rapidly year by year, after the arrival of the nuns, and at present the average daily attendance is just 400.

It would be very much higher, were it not for the steady decrease in the population, caused by emigration.