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    350 NOTICES (XF BOOKS.

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    intimate acquaint an ee with the subject , and thus worthy of the best consideration of all . interested in the redemption of the young

    " Arabs" of our cities . Not more distinguished as an earnest and most efficient Mend of

    Reformatories , than as one of the earliest promoters and managers of Ragged Schools _> both cure and prevention of juvenile crime have

    for long years formed the objects of Miss Carpenter's daily and assiduous care and consideration . Her efforts in both fieldsit is

    almost needless to say , have been crowned with that success whi , ch attends the earnest and conscientious carrying out of a sound

    principle , where the thought of to-day becomes the action of tomorrow , and where each succeeding morrow throws fresh light on

    the days to come . For some time , Ragged Schools existed as the result of local and

    voluntary efforts only , the Government taking no heed of their existence , and doing nothing whatever to encourage or protect them .

    An effort was then made to procure Government educational helpand , under the Minute of the Council on Education for _"

    Ele-, mentary Schools / ' trifling grants were in 1855 obtained . By the Minute of 1856 , howeverRagged Schools were again practically

    , excluded , since it was necessary to certify , " that the young persons received into this establishment have either been legally convicted

    of crime , or have been accustomed to begging * and vagrancy , not having any home or settled place of abode , or proper guardianship

    as and Miss having ¦ ¦ Carp no enter lawful observes or visible , " absolutel means of y excluded subsistence Ragged _; " a test Schools which , ,

    from help . " Again , in the instructions given to her Majesty ' s inspectors , of

    parochial union schools , explanatory of the Minute dated December 31 st , 1857 , relating to Certified Industrial and Ragged Schools :

    — " No grants ( except those for the purchase of books and maps ) will be made in aid of the purely scholastic instruction , unless a

    Certified Teacher be employed . " Nowthis sine qua non of a certified teacher again practically

    ex-, cludes Ragged Schools , * for , as Miss Carpenter says— " With respect to certificated masters , we have no objection to themprovided they

    are otherivise fit to undertake a situation requiring much , self-sacrifice and varied qualifications , for which intellectual qualifications are no

    _guarantee" An opinion corroborated by the well-known Recorder of BirminghamMathew Davenport- Hillin his Charge to the

    , , Grand Jury of that Borough at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions , held on the 8 th of October , 1860 , wherein , dwelling upon the

    diminution of juvenile crime , and the increase of educational opportunities provided for the classes " whence that _* of juvenile

    offenders was wont to be recruited" he assia hi army h lace to the Ragged Schools , whose teachers , he , says " gns male and g female p must

    have peculiar and somwehat rare qualificati , ons . They are not ,

    required to be either mathematicians or linguists . Their knowledge

    350 Notices (Xf Books.

    350 NOTICES ( XF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 350, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/62/