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This work is prepared with questions for exercise, arranged in connexion with the matter to which they refer; the book is constructed on a plan calculated to make it convenient in Schools, and easy as well as instructive to the learner. THE AMERICAN COMMON-PLACE BOOK OF PROSE, consisting of Selections of beautiful passages, from American writers. THE TALES OF PETER PARLEY ABOUT EUROPE ; THE CHILD'S BOTANY; With Engravings. S. G. GOODRICH, 141 Washington Street, Boston. Boston, Sept. 1820. The Journal will be sent by mail to any part of the United States;-subscribers paying postage and taking the risk of conveyance.No copies will be sent south or west of the District of Columbia, unless payment is made in advance. ** Communications of every kind pertaining to the work may be addressed to the publisher. TERMS OF THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. FOUR Dollars a year, payable on delivery of the March number, or five dollars payable on delivery of the June number. 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It is proposed to open in this city, as early as in the month of October as practicable, a School for the instruction of Boys, between three and seven years of age. The plan of tuition to be suited to the ages and capacities of the pupils, and to embrace the leading features of the Infant and Pri mary systems. A fuller exposition is given in the Journal of Education, articles, "Outline of Instruction' Nos. 25, and 26- Elementary Instructions' 30 and 31-and Infant Education,' 31 and 32.-References to the Editor of the Journal-George B. Emerson-Dr John G. Coffin-and Samuel Greele. Boston, Sept. 1828. Arrangements made under the Imperial and Royal Governments. PUBLIC instruction having been thus organized,* no further change was contemplated. Those who managed the affairs of the nation were satisfied, while those not in power had little to say upon the subject. But in a short time a new face was given to the government. A monarchy had been destroyed, the experiment of a republic had failed, and an empire was established to be equally soon crushed. If the republic showed a wish to avoid every thing bearing resemblance to a royal institution, the empire showed no less dislike to everything republican; and already, in the month of May, 1806, a proposal was brought forward, and a law passed, to create an imperial university. This law was put in force on the 17th of March, 1808, and determined the future organization of this body. When the royal authority was once more established, the university changed its title from imperial' to 'royal;' it suffered little alteration, however, in its internal organization. With the exception of a few partial modifications, its constitution remained the same; and, in the following account of its present state, it may be seen that the decrees of the imperial government have in most cases been ratified by royal authority. As it is now constituted, the public instruction throughout the whole kingdom is exclusively confided to the royal university of France,' which has the charge of the education of the people * During the era of the Republic. See last No. ED. VOL. III.NO. X. 73 |