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Rh  through this parish with two London clergy a few days ago, and pointed out to them “E. G.” as a Londoner, which description made them both laugh. There is not a child in my infant school who looks more like a picture of a country child in a Christmas number of an illustrated paper. My experience of these children is that in about a year or so they can hardly be distinguished from the country children round them, except, perhaps, by their quicker answers at catechising. Certainly no one would recognise little “J. H.,” who came to us, aged four, a mass of dirt and bruises (the latter being, he informed us, the result of punches), in the lively, happy little rustic who keeps the whole house alive, singing like a bird from morning's dawn till night.’

“They are two typical cases, but here are a couple more rather different in character:—

“You see in connection with our boarding-out system the physical advantages to neglected children are prominent. Yes, we have extended the system beyond Great Britain. In Ireland it was tried, in