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EDUCATION IN BRITISH SCHOOLS.

THE RESULTS OF A TEST.

WORLD'S GREAT LIBRARY. 37 MILES OF BOOKSHELVES. The library of the British Museum is "There are some for amongst us in-

the first library in the modern worki. spired by a really scarchical spirit' says Dr. O'Doherty, Roman Catholic-We-reproduced a short cable recently Like many other British institutions Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh, saying that, the London Daily Mail is it owes much of its greatness to a for- and Apostolic Administrator for Kill offering £2,000 in prizes to school teachers signer Anthony Panizzi. a. genegade Born at Modena in 1797, fenora, in bis Lenton pastoral let and others concerned in elementary edu- Italian.

Clare eation for the best scheme of curriculum Panizzi became a student at Parma, and Galway apd

They regard

and time-table. That is to say, 'he comthen joined a revolutionary movement in guardians of the peace as their natural petitors are to give their idea of the sub his native duchy. The revolution failed enemies, although these guardians have jects which ought to be taught in public, and Panizzi fled; first to Switzerland and

arriving in Europe.

J interests to servo. But there fementary schools, and of the number

then ACTORS foreign

Es be- should be none among A Godfencing of hours per week which ought to be do- It is hoped to

destitute condition in London. Catholic people who commit outrages. voted to each subject. whatever the motive. They must be made obtain the services of judges of high came a teacher of Italian, received an appointment at the library, and became to feel that they are not heroes, but authority to award the prizes scoundrels, and a menace to all organised

its keeper in the first year of Queen Victoria's reiga. At that time the Bociety."

library, which had been founded in 1731, was languishing for want of intelligent supervision. It contained a valuable collection of 230.000 books. but the cata logsing and arrangements for reference wore bit

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When Panizzi teft its service, some thirty years later, it contained $30,000 volumes, housed under a single dome. to that of St. Peter's, Rome, was one of This dome, which is second only in size the many clever ideas of Panizzi, who altogether a remarkable character. He was knighted in 1979.

wha

On some of the thirty-seven miles of bookshelves are wonderful examples of fteenth century. Bibles from Mainz and Mazarin: MSS. in the hands of Erasmus, Luther, Montsigre, and Durer; books in frourable Sinhalese and Syriae, Sanksrit and Ice- But landia To read the books come people from the four corners of the earth. There paper cor: fewer than are many cosmopolitan centres in Lon- the reading-room of the British Museum.

The latest mail brings the copy of the Speaking of all-night dauces, the Bishop newspaper in which the uffer is made:

The situation to day, says our contem says: "I was hopeful that a public pro-

that exceedingly varied a Bishop of these dioceses porry, is Ceat from would suffice to end the evil craze of opinions are held as to the value of the dancing

As my hopes have been some education provided by the elementary what disappointed. I now formally forbid schools. That there is really something with that system of education is dioceses to

recent- every Catholic in these

examination these

Saturday ganise or take part in

held by the Associated Newspapers, Should this formal pro- night dances. hibition be ignored I shall make the Ltd., of which the results have bean pub reserved sin in the listed in our columns and have attract- offence referred to Brst place, and if that is not sufficiented the widest interest.

The examination was held to select a shall use the. further powers which Christ and his Church have placed in boy of 14 for training as a junior clerk

an administrative department. ray bands"

The meaning of the two last-named

Two simple papery were set by Mr. Harold mesaures is clear to every member of the Cox, who judged the repli Obe con- Roman

Cath"

lic Church. A Preserved sin" is of so grave a character that the tained seven questions in arithmetic and person who commits it can get absolution the other eighteen questions in general

Twenty-six boys only from the bishop of the diocese,

nou knives, and all made From such authority as he invests with

The "farther powars two did the arithme

Impression by their ecial power. which Christ aug in my hands" include excommunication half marks. In the

generál the most terrible punishment that can be inflicted on a member of the Roman paper only one boy answered 75 per

cent. of the questions correctly. Catholic Church.

was perhaps most surprising was that no Dr. O'Sullivan, Roman Catholic Bishop single boy could give the capitals of of Kerry, in his Leaten Pastoral, also

Were such mistakes

ten European countries

untries acqurately, and -dancing. condemn all-night gret," he says, that it is necessary for us Alsace-Lorraine was the capital of Den- to renew our Tohdemaation of night dan mark Of the twenty-six boys only five which has become such a great evil could name four of the countries, allied amongst us, and which is calculated to with Great Britain in the war. bring such disastrous consequences in its train: Denunciations of all-aight danc ing are due to the fact that at many such dances intoxicating drink is sup- plied, there is no proper supervision of the party, and during recent years grave public scandal has been caused by the resultant immorality in many districts.

and His Church have placed and twelve obtained"wledge don, bat oon so varied and strange as

PEDIGREE MATHEMATICS. HOW MANY ANCESTORS CAN A MAN HAVE?

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BOOK FAIR AT FLORENCE. BRITAIN'S REPRESENTATION. What promises to be the most important international collection of books brought together for exhibition purposes the (with the possible exception of] Leipzig Book Fair of 1914) is to be shown this spring in Florence, where the Fiers by the

King of Italy towards the end of The Daily Mail were several teachers, internazionale del Libro is to be opened men and women, ant most of them this month. pointed to the difficulties with which

to the

For a long time the question of an teachers have to cope owing to

official British exhibit hung in the culum imposed on them -by

to their high price, artificially enhanced public authorities, including the Educa- balance, for it was known that owing

the sale of tion Department and the icent cute with by the Continent had been negligible English books committees. Their arguments in

mek R. considerable support from W. Hay, the Vice-Chairman of the London since the war; it was therefore dificul

to argue that shers would WELLINGTON & WARD,LTD-

increased sales for County Council, Education Committee, be recouped by

curriculum the certain expenses of the exhibition. who questioned whether the The problem of how many ancestors does not contain certain frills to the They did not, in fact, regard the fair every human being on earth may claim

to or as a business proposition. The Italians, dinary subjects." If the

however, were so anxious to secure Bri aa his birthright has sometimes occupied detriment of accuracy, ime-table' is German savants in their lighter verloaded with subjects so that the boy tish participation that they reserved for meats. Oswald Spengler, whose claim

cannot learn any one of them thorough us one of the best roots in the permanent

then obviously the -teacher deserves respect as the opinion of an his

exhibition paisce, and in the end all per- torian whole monumental work on

on the handicapped.

ties co-operated happily towards the right civilisation made him! decay of western

For such failures as this test exami- solution. once the most talked-of pessimist in Ger- many, has calculated that as far back nation and other trials have disclosed as nine hundred years ago everybody then we have never supposed that the teachers Though we have alive must have

ave had one milliard ances are entirely to blame. This, according to his reckoning, sometimes had to criticise them, or more German of to-day as ances particularly the National Union of Tea- gave to fors everybody who then occupied the chers, which has often been ill advised in its action and demands, we do not Continent of Europe.

The statemens any called forth woré doubt that among the teachers are mand criticism.

sm. In the Frankfurter Zeitung earnest, hard-working, conscientious, and one writer points out that lonely and alla men and women, who are doing inaccessible spots, such as those in moun their best with the material they have tainous districts have always meant in-under the conditions and regulations laid

Even down for them. the populatio heat termarriage among if only second cousina marry they their

of half their grand- there descendants

Eliminating the innrringe of Darruts. first cousins, w

as, which is more than likely to take place

in such spots the outcome of a persistent intermarriage between first cousins' children can bring that the startling conclusion that there need be,

tors.

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ve

is

The Publishers' Association agreed with the Department of Overseas Trade to share the cost of the exhibit and to re commend the watter oficially to British were notified that the fine room in the publishers. The Florentine Committee palace would he taken for Great Britain. It is now being fitted and furnished with bcck-shelves after the manner of a college library, and already nearly 10,000 volumes heen-promised by our publishers. have h Meanwhile the Italians have reserved for

first of a series of

of celebrations It is probable that among such teachers which will be held by the various na who are anxious to sig-tions concerned throughout

May 4th-nth will be England's week. gest improvements in the present scheme

:he

and are quite capable of doing so. They, and it is hoped that some public man of perhaps, better than anybody know the the first distinction will be found to go weaknesses of the existing time-tables and to Florence then to represent the country. regulations, and could render good service

to the cause of education and to the a famil, only sixtera people between cunntry by giving their proposals to the of the present day and Adam public. This is what the competition will

enable them to do.

bis

and Eve

according to Spengler's critic,' is the lowest possible name of ancestors anybody can have. It implies that every family has two children in each genera tion, son and daughter, who stall periods of history have had exactly, the sume. "It actunity number of grandparents. ignores the possibility of internmarriage of brothers and sisters in the very early days of history.

COLLEGE RAG" IN LONDON, STUDENTS' FIGHT FOR PHINEAS," THE MASCOT.

TOO MUCH LITERATURE. MR. BELLOC ON WORK AND RECREATION.

Lecturing on "Education" nt Manches ter Mr. Hinire Bellos said that litera- ture

ABSTAIN FROM, DRINK." VARIED CAREER OF MINISTER'S SON.

Edward Edwardson (34), labour, Da vid Potts (2), labourer, and Perez Cun- ningham MacKay (30), at the Preston Intermediate Sessions, pleaded guilty recently to breaking and entering a four, overcoats and other articles a

and lock-up shop at Blackpool, and sterling about 30s, in money, of a total

to IH

Edwardson and Potts were cach se

months burd labour, and teneed

MacKay, who was placed on probation for 12 months, was advised by the Chair man to abstain from taking intoxicating drink, which apparently caused him to lose his self-control.

subject was fearfully, ever £15 16s, 3d. I have read hardly any modern he said" and novels with problems make üntil me tired. But can sail a boat, lately I rode a horse, and I can handle a feld

piece. These things not only recreate, they enlarge the mind. Less literature and more of the mechanical arts should universality of

Onity to gain a

Army

for

to understand how he came to be associat haded with the other two. Te came from Blairgowrie, Scotland, and went to schoo

Phineas," the famous wooden mascot of be

Detective Constable Harris of Black- University College, was recently the centre of another rag" quel to the elementary knowledge should be given to col. gave long records against Edward- Rugby football match for the Engineers others beside the rich, said Mr. Belloc, And, on and Potts. Both bad served in the Cup between the City and Guilds and a boy himself should determine what his The man Mackay was a totally differ University Colleges. "Phinens" was tured by the City and Guild a natural beat is, and should be able to cat type, and the police were at Foss

men after, follow it.

Det bad.

natural aptitude mascot mathematics," he

he said. "I the match and carried off in their mascot

•hundreds of

it I Far and

should University College medical students set out to rebe £200 a year,

from Imperial College, to

Elementary knowledge of all

Malay capture him

States, which the City and Guilds students be subjects could not be gained by the greate went afterwards to the

planta live

and became panager of a rubber by daily

until

1914. He en retaining long. Phineas", could be horny perping mass of those who had to

toil. These the balcony, surrounded

things were for fisure. fitters ordon Highlanders as a Aumerous guard.

Neither was it worth while attempting listed in the

and served 19

Later he months. Private, Medien students who attempted to higher education unless there were places obtained a commission in the Cordón rush" the

entrance were met with tor- for the highly educated. As Thomas Highlanders (Territorials) and after 12 rents of water from upwards of a dozen More said, "There should not be moTE hose pipes, the defenders pouring streamselerks than benefices

over.

on their opponerte from the entrance hall

and roof. This attackers had to retire,

practically. all Boaked to the skin.

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been allowed to follo, ranahterile in Aberdeen until he was 17 years of age.

of his

College, Sir..Thomas EXTENDED TO THE END OF 1927. Bent marfied man sparated from hig

mediutely

·He was'a

montbs'

he resigned on account fervice Ten days later he joined the Navy ns an ordinary seaman, and served till Feb lowing several ajmilar raids, which result RENT RESTRICTION AT HOME. 1018, when he was discharged sul- fering from neurasthenia, He was at pre- douded, the od in the entrance hall being doods

of a pension of £1 a weeks Rector

Imperial Holland, came out, and was lifted shoulder-high by the University Col Tho text of the new Rent Bill was

was a man of rather peculiar habits, lege students.. Sir Thomas, whose ever-issued last month-n short docament, to but otherwise he bore a good character cont and hat were dreached, appealed to be called the Rent and Mortgage Interest His parents were highly respectable, his to desist, but at first the (Restrictions Continuation) Act, 1925. father, being a minister of religion in

It prolongs the life of the existing Rent Scotland. force of from June 24th,

the are though many of them received Restriction A beland), when in their Mackny, and very unfortunately when nsorking, they did not interfere, Bir general application these Acts are due to he

Holland Again istervened AN mediator this time successfully, for end, until December

weekly pension of £1 gave 10, to one or Phineas was returned to the medical in, in Scottember 25th, 1997 (May 29th, hend. He went to St. Annes, drew his students, who carried it off,

The five years of grace-from 1925 to other of His other men, and the three of hardly ip triumph. On reaching the main 1930 under the prerent Acts-during which them spent the money in drink. He then road a number of the students com- the courts may refuse possession or eject went along with the men and the offences mandeered motor lorry, while the ment orders, will now extend from Decem were committed..

A friend said that it MacKay was dis leaders stopped a taxi, and, propping ber 95th, 1927, to December 25th, 1012. "Phineas" on the back seat, drove off in The second reading of the Bill was to charged there was a home to which he

could go. be taken.

Thomas

state.

although

Stanley, speaking on behalf of got any drink he

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