As may be imagined, the exposures at St. Paul's Industrial School are very freely canvassed in the papers now to hand. It was supposed that the days of Dotheboys Hall and its presiding Sque and Squeersesses had long since passed away; but it is at least satisfactory to think that, niven the existence of such barbarities, they have been brought to light, and that the whole subject is being thoroughly sifted. Talking of schools and education, Vanity Fair vives some most remarkable instances of combined wit and ignorance which wore displayed at a recent school-examination. The wit was of course unconscious, but that by no means robs it of its zest, We reproduce the paragraphs in extense Newton shot the apple off his so1 head. Achilles was killed by Hannibal, f whicl Ophth: la. the eyes of the Intter were put out by Queen An hypothesis is an instrament for drawing thing which happens to letters of the alphabet are of two kinds, positive, comparative, and euperle sort of Roman Catholic a answer to a question on Greek history The Rowan law of the twelve tables forbade What is the Gi person singular?
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Tutor (reads).—© Holland is cut up into network of canals, into which numerous windmills are coutiaually pmnping water."
"Bat what is the use of pumping water into network?"
Tutor.—* Five per cent, is the rate of in-torest given for each huudred—as five oranges for the use of one hundred oranges."
But I didn't know that' they put oranges in the Banle2"
Specimens of spelling Their are partre rbarious custome of sacrificing The tutor, adds Vanity Fair, has taken to drink since the examination, and the pupil, aged seventeen, is going to enter for one of the Universities, The same paper has some rather good doggrel. 'Here are a fow lines, which have a very medigval ring about them, on Mr. Gladstone Dietin, ished greatly for his common sense, Bor scholarahig, and wondrous' eloquence, He does possess amazing versatility, Berforme his work with marvellous a He has great gen Possesses an indomitable wile But more than t pei 1s free from blemish—hasn't got a slur, Farther on we find the interesting intelligence that At Rev, William Jones's, Lis p00), jain and his three brothers went to Vast staree of information did obtain cats
And did the favour of his tutora gain, The Spectator has a good article on William Rathbone Grog, in whom, it justly says, the literary world has lost one of its most distinctive writers and the political world one of its shrewdest critics." Our readers need not be told that on these [theological and ethical] subjects, our own conclusions for very widely from Mr. Grog's, who, indeed, always seemed to us to exaggerate greatly the force of the historical difficulties which he found in revelation, and to attenuate the force of the moral and spiritual arguments for faith in revelation. But differing from him or agreeing with him, no one can deny the rare qualities of discrimination and true eloquence which Mr.
Greg brought to these high themes. The volume on the Enigmas of Life, especially, gave powerful expression to the floating thoughts of thousands of minds, anxious for faith, and yet unable to secure anything that could be said to be more than a tremulous hope. In this region, too, there was a delicacy in his personal observation and delineation which is hardly to be found in his political essays." Among the rews, Democracy; an American Novel, by unknown author, is praised in the highest terms. The heroine is a Mrs. Lightfoot Lee, who, having lost child and husband, "goes in" for politics. This lady is made the vehicle for a good deal of shrewd humour. She had rejected the idea of Swift, that he who made two blades of grass grow where only one grow before deserved better of mankind than the whole race of politicians. She could not find fault with the philosopher, she said, had he required that the grass should be of an improved quality. But she could not honestly pretend that she would be pleased to see two New York mon where she now saw one; the idea was too ridiculous; more than one and half would be fatal to her." Mrs, Lee is further said
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