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THE DIRECTORY cover the notable avan ports and cities of the Far East, from Nether lands India to Siberia, in with Europeans rarida.

Not only is the Directory as fall and complete in each case as it can be ado, lut emoh Colony, Port or Settlemant is prefaced by a DESCRIP TION, carefully revised each year, most of which will serve a scourate GUIDE YOU THI Touz, giving every detail in connection with the places, their History, Topogaphy, etc.

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ST. PAUL'S" AND ITS BUILDER.

THE DIFFICULTIES OF WREN'S TASK.

DECAY OF ENGLISH.

EFFECT OF SOCIAL CONDITIONS.

At the North of England Education Conferghoe resumed at Blackburn on January 6th, the outstanding subject discussed was the teaching of English in England.

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Mr. J. E. Haley, secretary of the TERBRUARY for the purchase of the "TENDERS invited up to the 28th service at St. Dunstan's-in-the-East.

He said that while Christopher Wren, of English, who opened the debate, AND VARIOUS AUXILIARY MACHINERY ON Departmental Committee of the Teaching above named vessel WITH ENDINES AND BOLL the bicentenary of whose death we ex

remarked that generally speaking schools Bo STEAMSHIP AGÜNTS AND SHIPBROKERS. pected to celebrate next February, was

Fall Particulars of the vessel and conditions For the Purchase, Sale and Charter of Vessels engaged on the very complex task of d not make it their business to actua of any Tonnage, Passenger and/or Cargo, New restoring the old St. Paul's, fortune gave the pupils had a resciable grasp of of sale, and permits to vier may be obtained and/or Old, with delivery China at Very Low him the golden opportunity, which had English That was a defect which ought forms will be issued on payment of

on application to the undersigned, and tender seldom fallen to any man'a lot, of replacing moed. Some splendid work was of 3500, returnable when decision on the ten- ing one of the noblest buildings in Europe being done in the teaching of English, ders has vous reacted, with a successor which should be not but for what he might call the average an school tradition and dircumstances werd unworthy, in either a religious or artistic sense, of sustaining a great still too strong. To sine English people tradition. It might well be that, in Engish was almost a forsiga tongue. building as he did. Wren accepted some of the risks which usually attend the Education at Liverpool University, suid valta

ducation Campagaac, Professor of ated that met end of line 12,000

A twin screw steel steamer of LHP, course of creative genius, and certainly there were English children without Eng. we ought to try to understand the conslish, and the reason was to be found in ditions under which he worked and the the decay of bone life and the simpler difficulties which he had to face.

forms of social intercourse. From small As Wren surveyed the wilderness of and bver-crowded houses parents could St. Paul's Churchyard after the Great not be blamed for sanding children out Fire, there was one thought which rose of doors. Inside there was no space for in his mind as the master-thought of all speech, which for children could not be his dreams. It was that of a Dome. He properly conducted without the physical must have a Dome. The Dome would be not movement of drama, Even from large and only the central fact in the landscape of well-appointed houses children were 30 London-of the new London as he planned thrust out to the streets. it: it would also make possible great acts themselves to places of public entertain They belcok of public worship. Wren was a religious

ment, Home for rich and poor alike had mana democrat if I may so say, in religion; the medieval type of Cathedral come to mean a place where, they slept, had never been congenial to him; he place where they sometimes ate and would build for a multitude, or he would where they rarely assembled for talking not build at all. Like Colet, greatest of and distoning. The basis, flower, aud the Deans of St. Paul's, he had a tender pinnacle of English was conversation, a heart for the common people. So the domestic art which could not be cultivated Dome soared over the City, more beauti- without quies, security, and leisure. Tho

capacity per hour ...500 "Tona ful than any that Florence, Rome.

or broken sentences of the street, the half Vertical Triple Expansion, Paris had seen; and yet even then its Anished phrase of the restaurant, the

surface condensing bout Not breathless explanations made and caught Boilers-Oylindrical Return Tube 3

2,500 I.H.P. builder's purposes were thwarted. for a century and a half was his vision of and tossed this way and that in public a great multitudo worshipping week by ploes, where intimacy is changed for week beneath the Dems to find its vulgarity, confidence for carelessness, and realisation.

affection for affrontery-these are as unlike" conversation as the noises of the jazz band are unlike music. (Cheers.)

Mr. J. G. Altham, of the English His torial Association, said grammar as it was now taught ought to be abolished. "Personally,' he declared, "I would clear it out of the curriculum, for I feel sure the future of our English teaching lies along humanistic lines."

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Mr. Hales, in replying, said he would augmented by After Punk Tank, to about 150 Vorel is fitted with spacious Officers Quar- hardly go so far as to abolish grammar. There ought to be room for both literarters, also good crew accommodatico, ture and grammar, for after all, there was a science of language,

On the question of the relation of technical education to industry Mr. Paley Yorke. London County Council School of Engineering, Poplar, argued that the need for utility could not be separated from the need for culture. There was no ground to fear that our technical training would flood our works and factories with directors (not in the company sense) of commercial activity. For example, if in engineering they afforded for trebled the facilities now" technical education, the number would still be small as compared with engaged in engineering

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THE KEY TO GROW RICA., below the level of the crypt oor. Beneath the strip of earth on which they rest there lies a bed of THE CHINA INDUSTRIES and and gravel, with the blue London DEVELOPMENT BANKING | clay für below. We are assured that CORPORATION, LIMITED. there need be no special anxiety about the foundations at present; but Wren, of DUDDELL STREET, gives to all its Depositors course, could tot have foreseen that the a Handsome Rate of Interest,

time would come when, as in 1831, great quantities of sand would be pumped out from beneath the Cathedral with a view Ia discussion on the secondary school to constructing a deep sewer near the curriculum, Mr. C. W. Bailey, Liverpool, south porch. He could not have foreace said people with the instincts of bargain the elaborate drainage system modern times: the vibration of motor traffic, with sale hunters would always be dis

THE 'Progressive Series of Piano Lessons is a complete text work for piano study, an effect upon the building which is still appointed with the immediate resulta a matter of dispute between the theore of education as a cash transaction. The

principles. tical physicist and the practical architect Board of Education wore apparently will ranged in accordance with approved teaching It saves time and expense. It saves the and engineer: the atmosphere of modern ing to sanction educational experiments

One could fancy the drudgery of adatelligent practice. It saves London, destructive alike of stone and of without risks. metal; or the risk of his foundations being Board sanctioning trips on an aeroplane endless repetition of oral instruction. It deve andermined not only by the tunnels of to Mars on receipt of official informa-lops the intellect. It aids in memorizing. tube railways but even by the basements tion from the authorities on that planet of neighbouring warehouses. To one of absoluto safety. Had geographical PROF. DANENBERG IS AUTHORISED U danger indeed, which we think he might exploration been as officially controllad have foreseen, he does not appear to have an education experiment, half, the world given sufficient thought, and that was the would have yet been undiscovered peri) of rusting iron. He made a noto somewhere that iron should not be em- ployed within sin, of the air; yet we have found it largely used throughout the

impossi-TADIES and GENTLEMEN Soffering ble. We are thinking not of to-morrow,

from any kind, of Discase, however building, and with disastrous results.

somplicated and long-standing the case may It has to be remembered. also, that but of the years to come.

be, are requested to write present condition of Wren, compelled to convey hie Portland

in'SHAMEEN. I once suggested that a memorial to the disease. Full particulars of treatment, Yorke, stone by sea, found the greatest difficulty Christopher Wren should be placed some vivice, etc., free under cover. "SEI" Wo is maintaining a regular and adequate where in the City, on which his genius Beadon quare (H.P.), Calentta (India)." supply had it been otherwise, the Dome has left so deep a mark; and a friend

(106 night. have stood unshaken; as it was, guaranteed a princely sum sufficient to his great piers were filled with rubble, carry out the design on a noble scale, so and the Portland stone on their surface that the people might know how great is in places but a few inches deep. And, aman had walked their streets. Then as he was curtailed for material, became the war; and the structural needs was continuously handicapped by want of of the fabric loomed so large that it means. The cost of such a cathedral was seemned unfitting to divert time and money immense, and, in spite of Sancroft's and effort to something purely ornament assumption that money will be had to a The best memorial of Wren is still the accomplish it funds came in but slowly. Dome, which lifts its misty splendours Wren himself contributed the sum, not above the curves of the river, with the inconsiderable for those days, of 200. His Cross shining" back to the setting sun, committee did not help him greatly; it As, in a quiet corner of the crypt, wo W DRAUGHTSMAN. Apply stating

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