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Famagusta, Cyprus.

The Old Fort, Garry Gate, Winnipeg.

Lake Louise, early morning.

The frozen St. Lawrence looking towards St. Helen's Island from Montreal. Lumbermen's Camp on Frog Lake Drive, King's County, Novia Scotia. Singapore, The River.

Kandy from above the Lake.

The Hindoo Temples in C Street, the Pettah, Colombo.

Under the White Tower, Srirangam Temple. Srirangam, mango leaves

hanging on cross strings.

Trichinopoly, The Rock, morning.

Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, The Moat.

Katha, ou the Irawaddy.

Entrance to the Shive Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon.

Toddy Palm Avenue, Kampani Bazar, Calcutta. Kinchinjunga, from Darjeeling (afternoon).

At Quetta.

The Golden Temple, Amritsar.

The preparation of the blocks is being proceeded with as rapidly as possible, and when they are completed the original sketches will be returned to you.

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No. 5.

ST. ANDREW'S PROVINCIAL COMMITTEE FOR THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS to SIR J. STRUTHERS.

(Private.)

Training College, Dundee, 1st February, 1912. Visual Instruction Committee's Slides-Lectures on India.

DEAR SIR JOHN,

am

DURING the present session I have made arrangements for circulating my Committee's set of the Visual Instruction Committee's series of slides, with accom- panying lectures on India, throughout various secondary schools in the Province.

This arrangement has met with most unqualified success, and this morning in receipt of a letter from the Senior English Master of Dunfermline High School, which am forwarding for you to read. This letter has come to me entirely unsolicited, and as evidence of the educational value of the scheme I thought it right to forward it to you. Will you kindly return it at your convenience?

Yours most faithfully,

I am,

JAMES MALLOCH.

I am, &c.,

R. BLAIR.

Education Officer.

Enclosure in No. 5.

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ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

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No. 3.

VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to MESSRS, NEWTON & CO., LTD.

GENTLEMEN,

Downing Street, 30 January, 1912. I AM directed to inform you, with reference to your letter A of the 21st of December, 1911,* that the Visual Instruction Committee proposes to take no further action, for the present, with regard to the hiring of slides.

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I am, &c.,

W. E. NOALL.

No. 4. VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to MESSES. LONGMANS, GREEN, AND COMPANY. [Answered by No. 6.]

GENTLEMEN,

Downing Street, 30 January, 1912.

WITH reference to your letter of the 10th of May, 1911,† in which you stated the terms on which you were prepared to undertake the reproduction of a series of wall-pictures from the originals painted by Mr. A. Hugh Fisher, I am directed to inform you that, (a) the Visual Instruction Committee is not now in a position to bear any of the cost of touching up the originals; (b) the Committee have granted the London County Council permission to reproduce a selection of the pictures as reward cards, and may perhaps make further use of these cards; and (c) that owing to the passage of time it is not now certain that, as your representative. Mr. Allen, was informed, the London County Council would be prepared to purchase a quantity if they were satisfied with the pictures.

The Committee would be glad to learn that you are prepared to reopen negotia- tions, but it has been thought right to place these three considerations before you.

No. 147 in Miscellaneous No. 213.

I am, &c.,

W. E. NOALL, (Secretary, Visual Instruction Committee).

† No. 111 in Miscellaneous No. 219.

DEAR SIR,

Lady's Mill Cottage, Dunfermline,

29th January, 1912.

As Senior English Master in the High School here, I have had most of the responsibility of arranging about the delivery of the lectures on India, illustrated by the admirable slides issued by the Visual Instruction Committee.

I am sure your Committee will be gratified to learn that the lectures have been a splendid success.

The three masters mainly responsible for the teaching of geography in the school divided the lectures amongst us, and the rector made generous arrangements for our having at convenient hours the use of the science lecture room—a room into which we can put some 90 pupils without overcrowding, so that we could mass three or four classes and get over the whole of the senior school with five deliveries of each lecture. (To take one class at a time would have been quite impracticable, and would have interfered unreasonably with the work of the teachers of botany and chemistry.)

All the pupils in the senior school, except a few absentees, have now had the benefit of all the 480 slides (and in every class there are many actual or prospective junior students); and the lessons have been followed with the keenest interest throughout. The younger students frequently remember details in the slides, and even the order in which they are thrown on the screen, better than the teachers; and some of my own junior pupils illustrated a composition by a plan of Calcutta at least as accurate as I could have produced myself. And even if details had not been imprinted on the young folks' minds the mere general impression made by the pictures would have been worth much trouble. "What fine buildings," said one lad, and the story books would make you imagine the peoples of India were mere savages!"

We must not, of course, talk politics-except King's politics or sectarian theo- logy in school (or on Educational Committees), but I am confident that these lectures will foster in the rising generation that sane imperialism which is as much impressed by the responsibilities as the glories of wide dominion, and encourage also the growth of that rational toleration which treats with respect any and every form of creed that is known, by its fruits, as helping to make good citizens.

I trust I may take the liberty of ending with a suggestion, a suggestion which I should like to reach the Visual Instruction Committee and Professor Mackinder. but which will be much more likely to have practical results if your Committee find they can send it on with their endorsement. I should like to see in circulation a series of series of slides illustrating other parts of the world, especially other parts of the British Empire. Canada would make a fine subject for the next set (and the Dominion is so keen on advertising itself that its Government might be counted on to

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