It was the writer's privilege this morning to visit a new school of Western I-arning la Chinkiang located near the Golden Island" pagoda. The buildings are new, nnd presenta clean and open appearance, the study-rooms being located Chinese ixshion ea the four ides of an open court The study-rooms were bright avd clean, with plenty of glass front, and were furnished with blackboards, and maps, etc. The buildings seemed to be much more suitable for the Chine-e than most of the foreign-coustencted buildings. In the large courtyard were flowers, and the rupgement <eemed to he well purposes in band versation with a Chinese gentleman we learned that the school had just opened one month ago; that they use books printed in Japan, and T noticed on the fly-leaf of one the store mark of a bookseller ranking; that the school is to teach English, geography, arithmetic, physiology "Jet; and is in the nature of a preparatory school. taking only boys from ten to be- sevente years old; that no one is com elied to worship Confucius; that they have four teachers; that the Cuiuese Classics are not taught; that there are examinations [twice a yest, with mid-winter and mid-
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