pu 30. What are their habitual relations with the parents of their pils with the magistrates of their town, with the ministers of religion? Pupils. 31. What is the number of the pupils in the primary schools of the district, &c? 32. What is the proportion of the whole number of those pupils to that of the population of the district, &c. 33. What number of pupils is under the charge of the same instructer? 34. At what age are children admitted to the primary schools? 35. Are children of both sexes admitted into the same school, and till what age? 36. Do children undergo, on their entering the primary school, and during their elementary course, examinations suited to produce an estimation of the developement of their faculties, and the progress of their instruction. How do these examinations take place? 37. Is care taken to divide the children of the same school into several classes or sections, and on what basis is this division determined? 38. Are arrangements made which permit the children to aid themselves, and instruct themselves mutually? 39. How much time is employed with an ordinary child, to render him familiar with the elements of reading, writing, and calculation? 40. At what age do children leave the primary schools? Education Physical and Gymnastic. 41. For how long a time are infants in general nursed in the country in the city? 42. What kind of nourishment is given to some infants instead of the milk of their mothers, and what effects do these aliments produce on the health of children? 43. Do the wealthier citizens commit their infants to nurses or do the mothers themselves attend to the office of nursing. 44. How are infants nourished after being weaned? Till what age are they hindered from eating meat, and drinking wine? 45. What clothing is used for infants? 46. Is it customary to clothe infants slightly, in all seasons; or are they kept warmly clad? 47. How many hours are children permitted to sleep, till they have attained the age of six or eight years; and how are the hours of repose distributed? 48. Are the beds of children hard, in order to invigorate their bodies, or are they soft; and of what are they ordinarily composed? 49. During sleep, is the head covered or bare, and on what ground is a preference given to either practice? 50. Till what age, in cities, do children usually remain under the care of females, and what are the observations made regarding children who have been put under the charge of men, earlier than comports with common usage? 51. What attention is given to fortifying children by accustoming them early to the open air, and to cold-and by enuring them to fatigue? 52. What are the ordinary sports of children-whether in the family or at school? 53. Are they accustomed to long walks-before or after eating? 54. What success is there in directing and superintending-in an indirect manner without infringing the liberty of children—their exercises and their sports? 55. By what exercises are children rendered agile? Are they taught to use both hands equally? 56. Are they frequently bathed in cold water-lake or river-or in warm baths? 57. Are they taught to swim, and at what age? What precautions are used to prevent accidents? 58. What pains are taken about cleanliness and neatness? 59. What are the rules of hygiene (the preservation and promotion of health) generally followed with children? 60. Are the children generally healthy, strong, and robust? 61. What are the maladies most common among children? 62. Does the small pox still exist, and is it destructive? 63. Is vaccination generally adopted; and for how long a time has the practice existed? 64. How many infants generally are in one year affected with severe illness, and of what kind? 65. What is the proportion of mortality among children under ten years of age? (Well educated and experienced physicians, and intelligent magistrates, are referred to as proper persons from whom to receive answers to most of the preceding questions.) The author of the pamphlet from which we have translated the foregoing passages, did not anticipate for his work a wider sphere of usefulness, than it might find in Europe. But there seems to be no good reason why his efforts should not extend their influence to America. The very perusal of his questions, will, we think, do much good everywhere. ture number. We shall pursue them farther in a fu REVIEWS. Public Examinations in the English Universities. See No. 6. (Continued from p. 374.) I. Translations from Latin prose and poetry into English: Livii Hist. lib xxvi.-Quod ubi egressus Scipio in tumulum, etc. Ciceronis Epist. lib. vi. 18-Simul accepi a Seleuco tuo litteras, etc. Persii Satir. v. 161 Dave, cito, hoc credas jubeo, finire dolores Horat. Satir. ii, 8 Ut Nasidieni juvit te cena beati, etc. Taciti Hist. iii, 71, 72—Vix dum regresso in Capitolium, etc. II. Greek Prose, to be translated into English: Demosthenes, περὶ τῶν ἐν Χεῤῥονησῳ— Ουδενὶ Φίλιππος μᾶλλον ἢ τῇ πολιτεία πολεμεί, κ. τ. λ. Xenoph. Hellenic. vi, iv, 3—Ἐπεὶ δὲ ήρξατο ἄγειν ὁ Κλεόμβροτος, x. T. λ. Platon. Timai, tom. iii p. 36 D.—'Exti δὲ κατὰ νοῦν τῷ ξυνιστάντι, κ. τ. λ. Herodot. lib. iv. 128-Οἱ δὲ Σκυθέων βασιλῆες, κ. τ. λ. Athenaus, lib. ix. p. 372 Β-Χειμώνος δὲ ὥρᾳ ποτὲ, x. T. λ. Demosth. de Rhodiorum libertate-"Exenv å avdges Adevalos, κ. τ. λ. Thucyd. ii. 76—Οἱ δὲ Πελοποννήσιοι αισθόμενοι, κ. τ. λ. Aristot. de Rhetor. ii. 11—Πῶς δ ̓ ἔχοντες ζηλοῦσι, καὶ τὰ ποῖα, κ. τ. λ. Lysias contra Agoratum, Reiske, tom. v, 506—Пvvdávoμai d'avtòr, x. v. λ. Platon. Phedon, c, 29—Τὶ οὖν; τούτων οὕτως ἐχόντων, κ. τ. λ. III. Greek Poetry, to be translated into English and Latin prose and verse: Aristoph. Acharnenses, v. 509 to 550 "Εγωγε μισῶ μὲν Λακεδαιμονίους σφόδρα, κ. τ. λ. to be translated into English. Euripid. Baccha, v. 370 to 430— Χορός. Οσια πότνα θεῶν, κ. τ. λ. to be translated into literal English; also into Latin verse.-Give the metrical names of the verses. Sophoclis Trachiniæ, v. 469 to 529 Μεγά τι σθένος & Κύπρις ἐκφέρεται, κ. τ. λ. to be translated into English prose; also into Latin Lyric verse. Pindar. Olymp. vii, 1 to 31- VOL. 1. Φίαλαν ὡς εἴ τις α φνιᾶς ἀπὸ χειρὸς ἑλών, κ. τ. λ. 52 to be translated literally into English; also into Latin Lyric verse. Apollon. Rhod. Argonaut. iv, 350 to 393 Ενθα δ ̓ ἐπεὶ τὰ ἕκαστα, κ. τ. λ. to be translated into English. Quote such passages in Virgil, as appear to be imitations of the above: Aiso passages of Homer and Euripides, to which it bears a resemblance. Eschyli Agamem. v. 226 to 255— Επει δ' ανάγκας ἔδυ λιπαδνον, κ. τ. λ. to be translated into English prose and into Latin verse. Quote the passage of Lucretius which appears to be imitated from the above. Aristoph. Thesmoph. v. 1136 to 1155 Πάλλαδα τὴν Φιλόχορον ἐμοὶ, κ. τ. λ. to be translated into English verse. Mention the metres of the different verses. Theocritus. Idyl. xxvi Ίνω, κ' Αὐτονόα, κ' α μαλοπάρῃος Αγαύα, κ. τ. λ. to be translated into English prose, and compared with the description of the same scene as given by Euripides. Homer. Odys. viii, 165 to 185. Τον δ ̓ ὡς ὑπόδρα ἰδὼν προσέφη πολύμητις Οδυσσεύς, κ. τ. λ. to be translated into English verse. IV. English Poetry and Prose, to be translated into Greek and Latin: Milton's Paradise Lost, Book IX, 385 to 411— Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand to be translated into Latin hexameters. Shakspeare's Henry IV, Part I, 23 lines I know you all; and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness, &c. to be translated in Greek lambics. Mitford's History of Greece Pericles confirmed his authority principally by that great instrument for the management of a people, his eloquence, &c. to be translated into Greek. Milton's Comus v. 213 to 243-. O welcome, pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, to be translated into Greek; the blank verse, into lambics; the song, into Anapæsts. Hume's Richard III; an extract from The historians who favor Richard, &c. to be translated into Greek. Dryden's grounds of criticism in tragedy—to be translated into Greek. Sir William Temple's Essay on Poetry; an extract from- The more true and natural source of poetry' &c. to be translated into Greek. Gray's Letters-xxxii-to be translated into Latin. Milton's Sampson Agonistes v. 164 to 193 Chorus. O Mirror of our fickle state, &c. to be translated into the language of Greek tragedy; partly into Anapastics and partly Iambics. Gray's Stanzas to Richard Bentley In silent gaze the tuneful choir among, &c. to be translated into Latin elegiac verse. Bentley's dissertation on Phalaris-Extract--to be translated into Greek. Shakspeare. Romeo and Juliet, Act. II. Scene VI. Friar. So smile the heavens upon this holy act, &c. to be translated into Greek Tragic lambics. R. Porson. Museum Criticism, vol. ii, 113-It may not be improper to say a word of the excellences and defects of Aristophanes &c. to be translated into Greek. V. Exercises of turning different dialects into each other, &c. Aristoph. Lysistrata, v. 1297 to 1322— Χορὸς Λακώνων. Ταΰγετον αὖτ ̓ ἐραννὸν ἐκλιπῶα Μῶα, to be turned into Attic Greek. Quote passages of the Tragedians which are imitated in any of the preceding extracts from Arisophanes. VI. Miscellaneous Questions; of which we select examples from various parts of the work: 1. Grecian History, &c. 'Mention the principal colonies which at different times settled in Greece; with the names of their leaders, the probable dates of the dynasties founded by each. 'Give the circumstances of the dates of the following events, as related by Thucydides. 1. The siege of Platææ. 2. The expedition of Brasidas to Thrace. 3. The defeats of the Athenians at Syracuse. 'Give the dates an the situations of the following battles-Thymbra, Lados, Artemisium, Platææ, Mycale, Tanagra, Arginusæ, Ægospotamos, Cunaxa, Cnidos, Coronea, Leuctra, Granicus, Issus, Arbela, Ipsus. Who were the parties engaged, and the commanders on each side, and what the event of each battle? |