In the dearth of schoolmasters, which is a feature in every infant educational system, he refused to reject a candidate who mistook "Argos for Corinth," and backed the claims of aspirants of respectable character who could "read, write, and work a sum." "By all means accept the King of Oude's present; though, to be sure, more detestable maps were never seen.

One would think that the revenues of Oude, and the treasures of Saadut Ali, might have borne the expense of producing something better than a map in which Sicily is joined on to the toe of Italy, and in which so important an eastern island as Java does not appear at all." "As to the corrupting influence of the zenana, of which Mr.Trevelyan speaks, I may regret it; but I own that I cannot help thinking that the dissolution of the tie between parent and child is as great a moral evil as can be found in any zenana.

In whatever degree infant schools relax that tie they do mischief.

For my own part, I would rather hear a boy of three years old lisp all the bad words in the language than that he should have no feelings of family affection--that his character should be that which must be expected in one who has had the misfortune of having a schoolmaster in place of a mother." "I do not see the reason for establishing any limit as to the age of scholars.

The phenomena are exactly the same which have always been found to exist when a new mode of education has been rising into fashion.