22 MARCH 1856, page 13

Books.

MACLEOD'S THEORY AND PRACTICE OF BANKING.. " QUIDQIIID agunt homines " is as apt for the historian as the poet. The progress of society from poverty to riches—the sordid avarice......

Industrial Schools.

The Vineyard, near Hereford, 19th March 1846. Sra—Your correspondent Mr. Oates suggests a means of adapting edu- cation to the working classes by means of teaching children to......

Iffirrs To Tot Etitnr.

INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. Stn—Few people see the real difficulty of education, fewer face it. Mr. John Oates does both like a man. The trilemma is now—a plan such as his, compulsory......