28 MARCH 1835, Page 18

Suggestions on National Education, by JOHN SMITH, is a little

tract, printed, as we understand the author, for distribution rather than sale, with a view of exciting discussion on his pro- posals. In principle the Suggestions are not new—merely con- taining a recommendation to the Government to endow a Normal School ; the novelty consists in the details of the plan, and in the number of departments of instruction it would embrace. To many who examine this little book, the proposals for the out-door management of the school will seem to savour a little of scheming: in all that regards the business of teaching, the author—a " lecturer on education"—is at home. His ideas of what educa- tion is, and of the best modes of imparting it, are clear and judicious, and very ably expressed.