ABACUS, use of, in teaching arithmetic, 8
Agronomical Charts, account of, 352
Algebra, advantage of an early use of the
symbols of, 15

Algiers, description of, 198
Almanacs, notice of, 165

American education, legal provision for, 72
Anguilla, state of education in the island
of, 281

Antigua, state of education in, 268
Arithmetic, on teaching, 1; method of
teaching children, 3; method of teach-
ing youth, 14

Armenia, present state of education in, 356

Bahama islands, state of education in, 273
Barbados, state of education in, 271
Barbuda, state of education in the island
of, 271

Barker, Mr., method of teaching the deaf

and dumb by, 381

Bavaria, establishment of popular schools
for mechanics in, 352

Belfast Academical Institution, system of
Hebrew instruction at, 382

Belgium, notice of the universities of, 176
Berbice, state of education in the island
of, 281

Bergamese dialect, specimen of, 253
Berlin, list of lectures in the university of,
182; new rector of the university of,
189; number of students at, 350
Bermuda islands, state of education, 282
Bloomsbury and Pancras School Society,
statement of attendance and classifica-
tion of children at, 63
Bodleian Library, remarks on the manage-
ment of, 288; extract of a letter from
Sir J. Bodley respecting, 291
Bologna, notice of the university of, 359
Bolognese dialect, specimen of, 253
Bombay National Education Society, no-
tice of the reports of, 369
Bonn, state of the museum of natural his-
tory at, 350

Books, analysis of the price of, 170
Bopp, on the influence of the pronoun in
the formation of words in the Sanscrit
and kindred languages, notice of, 27

Borough-road School, course of instruc-
tion at, 55

Bowring, Dr., extracts from the evidence
of, relating to the cultivation of the arts
of design at Lyons, 375

Breslau, number of students in the uni-
versity of, 190

British Almanac, notice of, 165
British and Foreign School Society, ac-

count of, 52; objects of, 53; children
educated by, in London and its neigh-
bourhood, 53; disproportion of the sexes
in, 54; model school of, in the Borough-
road, course of instruction at, 55; good
effects of the system of Scripture read-
ing at, 57; Lancasterian system used
by, 59; improvements on, 60; library,
60; hours of attendance, 61; admission
of children, 61; holidays, 61; examina-
tions, 62; attendance of children, 62;
financial statement of, 64; sums paid by
children, 65; salaries of masters, 66; ex-
pense and method of establishing schools,
67; inquiries instituted by, 205
Buttmann's Greek Grammar, notice of, 24,
294

Carriacou, state of education in the island
of, 274

Christchurch, Hants, state of education in,
206
Christiania, account of the universityof,237;
number of students at, 239; examina-
tions at, 240; degrees conferred by,
241; library of, 241; list of professors
at, 242

College of Industry, institution of, at
Paris, 344
Companion to the Almanac, notice of, 166
Correspondents, notice to, 386
Cotte, Alphonsine Theodolinde, infantine
precocity of, 174

Cousin Marshall, review of the tale of, in
Miss Martineau's Illustrations of Politi-
cal Economy, 148

Cousin, Professor, opinion of, on educa-
tion, 344

Cunningham's Arithmetical Text Book, no-
tice of the plagiarisms in, 129
Cuthbertson, D., Esq., speech of, in favour
of classical studies, 384

Deaf and Dumb Institution at York, exa-
mination of pupils in the, 381
Decimal fractions, use of, in commercial
arithmetic, 221

Demerara, state of education in the island
of, 282

Dissenting Colleges in England and Wales,

Hebrew instruction in the, 384
Dominica, state of education in the island
of, 273

Dublin University, Hebrew instruction at,
384

Dunbar and Barker's Lexicon, notice of, 16

Edinburgh University, alteration in the

examination of medical students at, 386
Education among the poorer classes of so-
ciety, on the necessity of, 222, et seq.;
effects of civilization on, 225; proposed
course of, 228; means of effecting, 229;
probable effects of, 230; crime pro-
duced or increased by ignorance, 232;
superiority of modern times in furnishing
means for general instruction, 233
Emigration, advantages and disadvantages
of, 156

"Encyclopædia of the Nineteenth Cen-
tury," notice of the Belgian, 350
Eton College, account of the revenues of,
371

Etymology, proper application of, 17

Farmers' Series of the Library of Useful
Knowledge, notice of, 164
Foundlings, mode of providing for, in Hol-
land, 349

Fractional arithmetic, on the method of
teaching, 209, et seq.

France, amount of education in, 173; ele-
mentary periodical work established in,
for the promotion of national education,
173; university of, notice of the, 346
Freetown, Sierra Leone, account of the
schools at, 370

French Academy of Arts and Sciences,
notice of, 174; present state of na-
tional education in, 345

Frey's Hebrew, Latin, and English Dic-
tionary, notice of, 112

Gallery of Portraits, notice of, 167

Geneva, notice of the present state of in-
struction at, 357

Genoa, decay of the University of, 359
Ghent, publication of documents con-
nected with, 350

Girls, erroneous opinion that instruction
is less needed for, than for boys, 54;
propriety of encouraging the formation
of schools for, 54

Glasgow University, course of study at in
1577, 77

Glasgow grammar school, distribution of
prizes at, 384

Göttingen, number of students at the Uni-
versity of, 352

Grasso, anecdotes of, 248

Gravatt, Mr., notice of paper of, on the
diving-bell, 381

Great men of France, public tribute to
the memories of, 344

Greek language, on the etymological
forms of the, 16; wide diffusion, and
spoken dialects of, 307

Grenada, state of education in the island
of, 273

Gymnasiast of Swedish Lapland, ac-
count of, 354

Halifax Literary and Philosophical Society,
notice of, a paper read at, 381
Halle, number of students at the univer-
sity of 352

Harp Alley school, attendance of reli-
gious worship by children at, 58;
classes of children taught at, 62
Hebrew instruction in England, state of,
99; teachers of the language, charac
ter and requisites of, 100; necessity
of oral instruction in, 101; public in-
stitutions for teaching, 103; Oxford
scholarships, ib.; Cambridge scholar.
ship, 105; nature of examination pa-
pers in at Cambridge, 106; provision
for at other establishments in England,
107; state of, in the United States,
109; publications for facilitating the
acquisition of, 110; notice of Hurwitz's
Hebrew Grammar, 114; further infor-
mation respecting, 382

Heinecker, Christian Henry, infantine
precocity of, 175

Heywood, B., Esq., notice of the speech of,
at Manchester Mechanics' Institution,
374

High Wycombe, opening of Sunday School
at, 207

Hodges, Mr., evidence of, as to the bene-
ficial results of emigration, 157
Home colonization, inefficacy of, 155
Homes Abroad, review of the tale of, in
Miss Martineau's Illustrations of Poli-
tical Economy, 153

Indian schools in the United States, pre-
sent state of, 200

Infant schools, advantages of, 132; anec-
dote of Mr. Wilderspin's first essay
with, 133; decription of one at Sal-
ford, 136

Inscription on the state-house of Ohio, 202
Interlinear translations, early application

of in the teaching of Hebrew, 101
Italian language and literature, on the
study of, 244, et seq.; notice of the
different dialects of the language, 244;
difference between the oral and writ-
ten language of Italy, 246; specimens
of the dialects, 252; progress of the
written language, 255; present state of
Italian literature, 265

Italy, progress of popular instruction in,
358

Jamaica, state of education in, 274
Jefferson College, Philadelphia, list of the
professors at, 201

Jelf, Rev. W., notice of the pamphlet of,
on the study of Hebrew, 102, 106
Jena, state of the University of, 179
Jewish schools in Poland, establishment
of, 191

Journal of Education, notice of, 166

Kennicott's Hebrew scholarships, regula-
tions of, 103

Kensington schools of industry, establish-
ment of, 380

Kent's Commentaries on 'American Law,
extract from, relating to education, 71
King's Scholars and Town boys, at West-
minster School, distinction between, 30
Köröshy, notice of the travels and object
of, 353

Lancasterian system, well adapted to the
teaching of large numbers, 59; interro-
gative system, an improvement on, 60
Languages, number of known, 355
Leipzig, courteous style adapted by the
professors in the university of 180;
system of instruction in the Nicolai
school at, 180

Lessons on Numbers, notice of, 6

Lessons on Shells, as given to children
between the ages of eight and ten, in a
Pestalozzian school, review of, 313;
extracts from, 318

Library of Entertaining Knowledge, no-
tice of, 164

Library of Useful Knowledge, notice of,
163

Lombardy, state of education in, 196
London University examination papers, 340
Lund, reply of the King of Sweden to the
authorities of the university of, 192

Manchester free grammar school, appli-
cation of funds of, 69
Manchester Strike, review of the tale of,
in Miss Martineau's Illustrations of Po-
litical Economy, 144
Manchester Mechanics' Institution, notice
of the proceedings at the annual meeting
of, 373

Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of
Useful Knowledge, notice of, 167
Martineau's (Miss) Illustrations of Poli-
tical Economy, review of, 142
Martinique, society for promoting educa-
tion in, 344

Matthiæ's Greek Grammar, by Blomfield
and Kenrick, fifth edition, review of, 293
Mauritius, state of education in the island
of, 286

Medals, cabinet of, at Paris, account of,
348

Mental arithmetic, advantages of acquir
ing facility in, 5

Meyer, charitable endowment of, in Wei-
mar, 176

Milanese dialect, specimen of, 252
Mongolian language, earliest vestige of,
356

Montserrat, state of education in the island
of, 270

Moscow, statistics of, 355; number of stu-
dents in the university of, 356
Münich, school for builders at, 190;
number of students at the university of,

352

Naples, institution of normal schools in
the kingdom of, 360
National education, necessity of a system
of, 67

National School Society, notice of the
annual report of the, 203

Neapolitan dialect, specimen of, 252
Nevis, state of education in the island of,

280

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, notice of the pro-
spectus for building a college at, 377
Newport, Isle of Wight, annual examina-
tion of national school at, 380
New York, statements respecting the
common schools of, 367

Northumberland, recent establishment of
schools in, 380

Northwich, establishment of lectures at
the salt-works at, 380
Norway, account of the state of education
in, 234, et seq.; schools for the lower
orders, 234; Latin schools, 235; uni-
versity of Christiania, 237; other schools,
243; number of children taught, 244
Norwegian literature, notice of, 191
Norwich gaol, extract from the report of
the chaplain of, 207

Oriani, Abbate, obituary of, 195
Oxford examinations, account of, 328;
recent alterations in, 331; defects of,
332; copy of examination papers, 337;
compared with that of the London Uni-
versity, 340

Oxford university, systems of education
pursued at, 328; college lectures, in-
efficacy of, 329

Pancras parish, state of education in, 70
Paper, on the invention and use of in
Europe, 346

Parent's Cabinet of Amusement and In-
struction, review of, 323
Pauper colony at Wortel in Belgium, ill
success of, 349

Pawn-bank at Angers, account of, 345
Penny Magazine, notice of, 168
Pestalozzi, notice of, 193

Pestalozzian system, advantages of in

teaching the natural sciences, 315
Piedmontese dialect, specimen of, 252
Plymouth, state of education in, 207
Poland, notice of the comic poetry of, 353
Political Economy, review of Miss Mar-
tineau's Illustrations of, 142
Posen, number of Jews in the city of, 354
Presbyterianism of Scotland, remarks on,
80; effects of on scholastic knowledge,
86
Prophecies of the Old Testament, mistaken
interpretations of, productive of an in-
creased knowledge of Hebrew, 99
Prussia, system of public instruction in,
181, 350; study of the Hebrew tongue
in, 182

universities of, 351

Rome, account of the theological seminary
(Seminario Romano) at, 360

St. Alban's, examination of the Royal Bri-
tish School at, 208; lecture by Mr.
Althans at, ib.

St. Andrew's University, correction of the
statement of the course of instruction in
Latin' at, 98

St. Christopher's, state of education in the
island of, 278

St. Vincent, state of education in the island
of, 281

Salford infant school, description of, 136
Saxony, regulations for national education
in, 179

Scarpa, Antonio, obituary of, 195
Scotland, account of the universities of, 75,

et seq.; present low state of education
at, 75; much superior formerly, 77;
operation of the constitution of the
Scottish Church on, 78; alterations in,
proposed by the Royal Commissioners,
89; proposed university courts, 90;
constitution of at Edinburgh, 91; at St.
Andrew's, 92; at Glasgow, 93; pro-
posed examination for degrees, 94; pro-
posed alterations in the classes of studies,
95; other alterations proposed, 96;
proposed arrangement of degrees, 97
Secession Church, Glasgow, Hebrew in-
struction of the divinity students of the,
384

Sicilian dialect, specimen of, 252

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know-

ledge, notice of the Fifth Annual Report
of, 161; notice of the publications of,
163

Spain, notice of the decree of the Queen
of, for re-opening the universities, 194;
establishment of schools for the arts of
design in, 361

Spade husbandry, statement showing the
unfavourable results of, 155

Stockport free grammar-school, establish-
ment of, 205

Sweden, number of students in the univer-
sities of, 354

Swedish literature, notice of, 355
Switzerland, progress in the establishment
of a national university for, 192, 358
Sydney College, Australia, notice of the
Latin grammar for the use of the students
at, 201

Temperance societies, notice of in the
United States, 362

Tobago, state of education in the island of,
281

Tortola, state of education in the island of,
281

Trinidad, state of education in, 282
Turkey, state of the press in, 361
Tyrwhitt's Hebrew scholarship, regulations
of, 105

United States, statistics of the colleges of,
364; of theological seminaries of, 366;
of medical schools of, 366