Pott's Euclid 4 A Treatise on Mer. 5 suration (Irish 54 Board); The Tate's Exercises in Mechanics. 2 Tate's Elements of Mechanism. 47&4 Manual 4 4 5 55 of Model Drawing(Williams); Instruction in Drawing (Williams). 24 6 tem. The classes are able generally to make a simple freehand drawing from the flat, a drawing from a solid model, such as a hexagon, and a perspective drawing, such as a cube or pillar placed obliquely to the plane of the picture A short course of linear geometry has been gone through, and a course of perspective teaching the laws of appearance. The more advanced students have proceeded about as far as the middle of Hullah's Gram mar and Exercises, and the lower division through the Manuals. A large number have made such proficiency as to be able to read a glee or chorale of moderate difficulty a sight. A portion of the time allotted to this subjec has been employed in giving public criticism lessons. One of the great advantages derive from the extensive practising schools of th institution has been, that twenty-four such lessons have been given weekly, throughou the year, without any undue encroachmen upon other branches of study. The masters and mistresses, viz., Messrs. Bell, West, Langler and Holloway, and Mistresses Rogers and Smetham, as well as the late Mr. Rogers, have thus brought their skill and experience mos effectively to bear on the professional training of the students. The other portion of the time has been occupied in a series of con versational lectures on the history, principles and methods of popular elementary education. The lectures of Mr. Langler have been spe cially directed to infant education. Such a degree of skill is expected as to enable them to teach a class of children how to cut out, and make ordinary articles of apparel well and neatly. The extensive practising schools of the institu tion are most advantageous to the students this respect; and from the peculiar arrange ment of them, they have the advantage of the supervision and example of six able and ex perienced teachers,besides such portions of time as the head master can devote to this purpose The above plan of 110 10 School Cornwell's Chamber's British Wilson's Chemistry McCulloch's Course Tegetmeier's Manual Drill Exercise for All topics requiring fuller illustration than these text books supply have been made the subject of lectures for their special elucidation. In the course on physical geography many topics connected with astronomy and geology have been explained. Considerable attention has been given to the sketching of outline maps. In addition to the outlines of civil and military events contained in these manuals, the chiet periods of English history, and especially of our constitutional history, have been more amply illustrated by occasional lectures. The earlier portions of the text book specified have been gone over and experimentally illustrated, as far as the compounds of nitrogen. This it is hoped will form a useful foundation for future study, even to those whose residence is for one year only, while a considerably more extended courte will be completed with those who are about to remain a second year. It is pretty generally known that this popular school book contains a brief but carefully selected series lessons on the chief topics of physical science, which have been revised by several scientific persons of eminence. These have been taken as a covenient basis, and the information contained has been extended by a series of conversational lectures by the head master. In addition to the contents of the manual, in connexion with this class a considerable amount of knowledge of popular physical science has been given in such a form as was thought most likely to be useful. Besides the above course of instruction, an hour and a half weekly has been devoted to the writing of examination papers, testing the attention, and attainments of all the students. Much incidental information has been gained by a careful selection of subjects for criticism lessons, thereby largely increasing the information of the students on natural history and other subjects for which there is here no regulary assigned period of instruction. study was formed, and has been carried out, upon he supposition that the students would remain just one year in the institution, and go regularly through this one year's course. After January 1855, however, the period of residence will usually be two years; and, in consequence, a considerable change will be necessarily introduced into the whole routine. To meet the wants of the second year's students, in advanced course of study has been already prepared, and the services of another master of sound literary qualifications secured. The female lepartment will, at the same time, be almost wholly separated from the male, so that a complete course of instruction, adapted to the wants and equirements of both sexes, will be going on simultaneously throughout the next year. The plan of study proposed, according to the new arangements, is given in the following tables : In looking over the above schemes, particularly that for male students, the question naturally arises, how far it is adapted to secure the end that is kept in view,—namely, to prepare, by means of two years' study, an efficient staff of teachers for the primary education of our towns and villages? The principal elements to be considered are the religious, the professional, and the intellectual. 1. With regard to the religious character of the students, this is not only carefully watched over by the principal, but is guarded by a fundamental law of the institution, that each one of them shall be a member of the Wesleyan Society, and a full communicant with the same. For myself, I should have thought it, for various reasons, more advantageous to have depended entirely upon good personal testimonials of moral and religious character previous to admission, and careful superintendence during the course of study. As I am assured, however, that there is a denominational as well as an educational end to serve in the whole procedure, I have nothing more to do than tor egret that so many of the most efficient and conscientious of the pupil-teachers in the Wesleyan schools which I have the happiness to inspect are precluded from the chance of finishing their training in connexion with that branch of educational effort to which they belong, and for which, of course, they would be the best fitted in after years. 2. With regard to the professional education of the students, and their facilities for acquiring a comprehensive knowledge of school-keeping in its principles and practical details, the to be singularly arrangements here made appear to me complete and efficacious. In addition to the direct instruction communicated respecting the fundamental principles and methods of pædagogy, there are the utmost facilities offered for seeing those principles carried out into daily operation. The practising schools present examples in every grade of school development, from the first lessons of infant discipline up to the most advanced classes which are to be found within the ordinary range of primary education. Beside the lectures of the head master on school management, there are six experienced masters and mistresses superintending these various practising schools, all of whom, in their turn, both by giving examples of teaching themselves, and by their criticism lessons on the teaching of others, cause their knowledge, experience, and tact to bear upon the professional education of the students. The model village school, at the same time, brings the personal experience of the students down to the actual circumstances in which they will themselves be placed, when called upon to organise and conduct a school made up of chil |