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This interesting little volume is the result of a visit to France in 1859 by Mr. Arnold, authorized by the Royal Commissioners, who were then inquiring into the state of popular education in England, to seek, in their ''name, information respecting the French Primary Schools. “A very'' interesting dissertation on the system of secondary instruction in France, and on the advisability of copying the system in England.” — .

“In the following pages I have endeavoured to give a simple and accurate account of what I saw during a series of visits to some of the ''Schools and Colleges in the United States. . . . I wish simply to give other'' teachers an opportunity of seeing through my eyes what they cannot perhaps see for themselves, and to this end I have recorded just such parti&shy;culars as I should myself care to know.” —. “Miss Blake gives a living picture of the Schools and Colleges themselves in which that education is carried on.” —.

The ordinary agents of health are Exercise, Diet, Sleep, Air, Bathing, ''and Clothing. In this work the author examines each of these agents''