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152 village schools in the Empire; the increase to more than twenty-two thousand in thirty years shows how rapid has been our progress. We have great hopes for the future, and at the end of another thirty years I trust you will find us not much behind the other countries of Europe."

Doctor Bronson asked about the higher instruction in Russia, and how it compared with that of other lands.

"One of the drawbacks to higher education in its broad sense," said the professor, "was the custom that prevailed, and still prevails to a great



extent, for rich people to educate their children at home. Every nobleman who could afford it had a tutor for his boys and a governess for his girls. There is no country where tutors and governesses were more