The National Quarterly Review (Volume 7) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1863 Excerpt: ... recommended are not made during the current year, they are recurred to the year after, and urged in a spirit of zeal and earnestness proportioned to their importance. This is true, for example, of the proposed Normal School for girls, in favor of which new and convincing arguments are adduced in every succeeding report. In that for 1862 four pages are devoted to it, but from which we can only extract the very truthful remark, that " It is of the utmost importance that the seventeen hundred teachers daily engaged in the work of instruction in our city should be thus completely and systematically trained for the performance of their duty." But we must close for the present. We refer those wishing to be further informed on this important subject to the Annual Reports, at which we have been able to give a mere cursory glance. A large amount of additional multifarious information may be found in the "Manual of the Board of Education of the City and County of New York," compiled by Mr. Thomas Boestf, the intelligent and efficient Clerk of the Board. The names, grades, and salaries of all our teachers are given in the " Manual;" also the names and positions of all the school officers, an abstract of the "laws relative to public instruction in the City of New York," &c, &c. If, in our future efforts to form a definite opinion of the actual working of the system, by visiting the schools and hearing recitations, we see any serious defects or malpractices, our readers may rely upon it that we will "not shrink from exposing them. Art. VIII.--1. The Gael and the Cymbri. By Sir Wm. Bentham. Loudon. 2. Conquest of England by the Normans. By M. Thierry. 3. Mallei's Northern Antiquities. 4. The Ueimsklinga, or Chronicle of the Kings of Norway, translated. from the Icelandic...