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Catalogue of Works on Education, Physical
and Mental, General and Special.

Arnold. — A FRENCH ETON: OR, MIDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION AND THE STATE. Fcap. 8vo. cloth. 2s. 6d.

This interesting little volume is the result of a visit to France in 1859 by Mr. Arnold, authorized by the Royal Commissioners, who were then inquiring into the state of popular education in England, to seek, in their name, information respecting the French Primary Schools. “A very interesting dissertation on the system of secondary instruction in France, and on the advisability of copying the system in England.” — Saturday Review.

HIGHER SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES OF GERMANY. Crown 8vo. 6s.

Jex-Blake. — A VISIT TO SOME AMERICAN SCHOOLS

AND COLLEGES. By Sophia Jex-Blake. Crown 9vo.

cloth. 6s.

“In the following pages I have endeavoured to give a simple and accurate account of what I saw during a series of visits to some of the Schools and Colleges in the United States. . . . I wish simply to give other teachers an opportunity of seeing through my eyes what they cannot perhaps see for themselves, and to this end I have recorded just such parti­culars as I should myself care to know.” — Author's Preface. “Miss Blake gives a living picture of the Schools and Colleges themselves in which that education is carried on.” — Pall Mall Gazette.

Maclaren. — TRAINING, in theory and practice.

By Archibald Maclaren, the Gymnasium, Oxford. 8vo.

Handsomely bound in cloth, 7s. 6d.

The ordinary agents of health are Exercise, Diet, Sleep, Air, Bathing, and Clothing. In this work the author examines each of these agents