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12. Observations ou groups of subjects:-

ENGLISH SUBJECTS.

Reading showed considerable improvement in phrasing, though mis- pronunciation of common words requires stricter attention. With the exception of the Junior section of Class I, which was generally weak, Dictation was very good. Shakespeare, History, Geography and Composition were exceedingly well done, there being specially noticeable a high degree of intelligence displayed in dealing with these subjects. The results in Conversation were most pleasing, the boys in the Senior section of Class I acquitting themselves so creditably that I regretted there was no one to hear them except myself and Mr. RALPHS. Professor BARNETT, formerly Principal of Borough Road Training College, thus delivers himself on the subject of Grammar, in the preface to a new Edition of Morell. The study of Grammar would not have maintained so close a "hold on the schools if the teachers had not felt its paramonat "importance as an intellectual exercise," and again: "General gram- matical aptitude is of all things necessary as the indispensable minimum of logic, without which we are liable to incorrect thought as well as incorrect speech; for no mau has yet succeeded "in separating the idea and the name." Fully endorsing Professor BARNETT's remarks, I regret once more to be obliged to complain of the low standard attained in the important subject of Grammar. In this, as in many other subjects, there is need of more atten-

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