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    EDUCATION IN FBANCE, 877

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    which , in some localities , constitute an important portion of the mistress ' s salary , and which she herself was formerly obliged to collect ,

    more or less successfully , are now collected by the Municipal taxgatherers of each communewhose authorities are thus made

    respon-, sible for that portion of the mistress ' s salary not paid by the State . Third—Of the five classes of Inspectors of Primary Schools ,

    , with salaries ranging- from forty-eight to eighty pounds per annum , -two classes have been abolished ; the salaries of the three existing

    classes now ranging from sixty-four to eighty-eight pounds per annum .

    Fourth , —Re - establishment of the office of Resident - Inspector of Primary Schools in the chef-lieu of each Department , abolished ,

    from motives of economy , in 1854 , to the great inconvenience of all concerned .

    I had hoped to have terminated this sketch by a statement of the exact number of pupils now in attendance at the various Schools of

    France , a general school-census having been undertaken , hy order of the French Governmentat the time when this sketch was

    prepared _. It is supposed that , at least five-sixths of the children and youth of France attend its schools : but this fact cannot be stated .

    with absolute certainty . The census in question is now completed , and its returns are safely lodged in the _hxcreaux of the Minister of

    , Public Instruction ; but the Government , unwilling to incur the expense of reducing to order this mass of returns , has suspended

    the labors of the Commission appointed for that purpose , which thus remain for the present without any definite result .

    The duplicates of the various Public Libraries of Paris are being employed , in virtue of a recent order of the Minister of _Piiblic

    Instruction , in the formation of popular libraries for the use of the laboring classes , in connection with the Communal Schools , in the

    different quarters of the capital . 1860 . A . B .

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    Education In Fbance, 877

    EDUCATION IN FBANCE , 877

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 377, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/17/