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History Of English State Education.* 4 ' There Is No...

country in the world where the edu- cation of the poor has been so grossly and infamously neglected as in England." So, in 1806, wrote Sydney Smith, in the course of his smart......

Miss To Mmy.1- When Mrs. Craik Writes In Her Best

and happiest mood—and she has thus written in this her latest volume—a new story from her Pen can never be anything but welcome. A uniformly strong writer she has never been,......