with the geography of the world, and especially of those parts which offer à sphere for the operations of enterprising industry, particularly the British Colonies, should be conveyed. A book on geography, based on an accurate account of physical features of the country described, written with the requisite simplicity, and rendered attractive by the illustrations which might be interspersed through its pages, would command an extensive circulation in workhouse and parochial schools. It is essentially requisite to remember that the geography of an elementary school is the geography of industry and commerce.

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In seaports the workhouse school ought to contain a maritime class, in which both the industrial and other secular instructions should prepare (such of the children as volunteer) for the merchant service. more enlarged and accurate knowledge of geography, skill in drawing maps, and an acquaintance with the elements of the art of navigation, appear important in this department of instruction.

In the Prussian, Dutch, and German schools, and recently in some English and Scotch schools, singing has been introduced as a branch of instruction, with signal advantage. The children are practised in such psalmody as is appropriate to the devotional services of the household. The routine of school discipline is also beneficially interrupted at the point where weariness and disorder ensue, by an exercise which diffuses new energy and harmony through the school.

The children march into the school from the garden, the workshop, and the playground, singing such moral songs as have been introduced into infant schools with success; the intervals of any change of lesson or occupation are filled up with singing. We are also assured, that in Germany the cultivation of vocal music has had a most beneficial influence on the habits of the people; they have been, to a large extent, reclaimed from debasing pleasures by this innocent amusement.

In the prison for the correction of juvenile offenders at Rotterdam, I was informed that music was valued as an important element of the moral agencies employed. I heard the national anthem and some beautiful hymns sung by the boys in this prison, in a most impressive manner, from notes, with which each was furnished.

The playground and gymnastic exercises are inseparable from a well-conducted juvenile school. The playground is well described by Mr. Stow as the uncovered school, where the master has the opportunity of training the children in correct habits, and thus fostering in their development the principles with which he is careful they should become acquainted in the school. The playground of the school should therefore stand in the strongest contrast with the playground of the street or lane. The moral atmosphere of the school playground should be so purified by the careful exclusion of all vicious in

fluences, that in the moment of the most unrestrained mirth there should be an unseen, but effectual screen from the contagion of bad example; and the errors which occur should be made the means of deterring the children from their repetition.-DR. KAY: Report on the Training of Pauper Children, 1841.

CONCLUSION.

To make all sure, here is your course :- -Wrestle with God by your fervent prayers, and wrestle with Him too by your faithful endeavours; and He will not for His goodness' sake, and for His promise' sake He cannot, dismiss you without a blessing. But omit either, and the other is lost labour. Prayer without study is presumption, and study without prayer atheism; the one bootless, the other fruitless. You take your books in vain into your hand, if you turn them over, and never look higher; and you take God's Name within your lips in vain, if you cry Da Domine, and never stir farther. The ship is then like to be steered with best certainty and success, when there is oculus ad cœlum, manus ad clavum; when the pilot is careful of both, to have his eye upon the compass, and his hand at the stern.BISHOP SANDerson.

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