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THE
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Vol. VII. June 1, 1861. No. 40. .
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XXXY.-AN INTERESTING BLUE BOOK*
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To the generality of readers "an interes...
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The
THE
ENGLISH _WOMAN'S JOURNAL
PUBLISHED MONTHLY .
Vol. Vii. June 1, 1861. No. 40. .
Vol . VII . June 1 , 1861 . No . 40 . .
Xxxy.-An Interesting Blue Book*
XXXY _.-AN INTERESTING BLUE BOOK _*
To The Generality Of Readers "An Interes...
To the generality of readers " an interesting Blue Book" may-« qualification appear a contr to adiction one of in the terms thickest , yet the and words most app voluminous ly , without of any the
season . John , Stuart Mill has said that the national education existinin political society is at once the principal source of its
permanence g any and progressiveness : the former , by the extent to which that education operates as a system of restraining discipline ; the
faculties latter , by . the No degree view less in which large it and calls liberal forth and than invi this gorates will the suffic active e for
the understanding of the present position of popular education in Eng The land first . volume of the Report of the Education Commission
, issued nearly three years ago , is now before the public . That very limited public who ever see the inside of a Parliamentary Report
is may pronounce little hope it of pleasant their tempting as well as the instructive bulk of readers reading to its ; but perusal there .
Yet very the information contained in itvital to the interests of the entire communityvital to the moral , and socialand physical
wellbeing of the whole , nation , to its health , , wealth , , and happiness , will find its abroad . Members of Parliament will scatter it through
leaders their sp ; way _eeches and the ; newspap good seed er of editor educational s will disseminat improvement e it throug will thu h their s be
sown To throug this end hout we the desir land e to . contribute our quota , and to popularize
the . contents of this able , and valuable Report among a class who wield of Eng the land highest We educational shall best succeed influence in g in iving the a country resume — of the its women
volu-. minous and varied matter , and in setting forth its chief points of interestby following the lucid arrangements of the volume before
, us . _Education or the _Independent _Poojj . —At the beginning _,
of . the present century , the first efforts were made for osta-Popular * Report Education of the in Commissioners land appointed to _inqxuve into the state of
vox ,, _vii , Eng , . it ¦ _* »
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/1/
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