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    224 MADAME LUCE, OF ALGIERS.

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    XXXVI,—MADAME LUCE/OF ALGIEBS.

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    * For another month Madame Allix struggl...

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    To The Generality Of Readers "An Interes...

    scholars paying' threepence each weekly ; one penny more than is paid at most National Schools . This is Is . 9 d . ; she receives from

    the union 2 s . 6 d ., and this is her whole income . " She was very grateful , " says Dr . Hodgson , " for the small donation of Is .

    Shecomplains of inability to buy meat , and without meat her strength fails . "

    There are of course private schools of a higher class , taught hy . highly respectable and even admirable teachersbut the want of

    , special training for their work is apparent among even the best specimens of the class . The Commissioners recommend that an

    effort should be made to raise the character of private schools , in the direction of giving certificates to such teachers as are deserving ,

    . and extending to them a share of the grant . Pupil-Teachers . —Three defects of the Privy Council system

    are pointed out with regard to jnxpil-teaehers : the insufficiency of . their wages ; the great labor imposed on them , especially on the

    girls ; and the too mechanical nature of th , e training they receive . The charge of overwork seems to be the most seriousand we have

    , reason to believe it is rather underrated in the Report . School duties for six hxmrs a day , which means six hours of the severest strain

    on the mental and bodily powers ; six hours' standing , speaking , commanding attention , and exercising authority is too great a tax on the

    health and strength of a young girl : add to this two hours for her own training , and the time required for preparation and studyand

    , the anxiety caused by frequent examinations on which her future is made to dependj and we think it is _apjDarent that the young

    _jDupilteacher is terribly over-taxed . The _RejDort states that the only remedy .. for this would be the shortening of school hours . In the succeeding

    section upon Training Colleges we find that the effects of this overtaxing appear . " Both Mr . Baker and Mr . Cook examined minutely

    into the subject in 1856 and 1857 , and arrived at the result that a large proportion of the Queen ' s scholars were in weak health on

    the We ir entrance have dwelt into at the great Training leng Colleges th on the . " sanitary aspects of our

    subject , we hope from no undue estimate of their importance , and must now go on to other divisionspassing over those which can be *

    , simply presented in a few statistics at the close . I . C .

    ( To be continued . )'

    224 Madame Luce, Of Algiers.

    224 MADAME LUCE , OF ALGIERS .

    Xxxvi,—Madame Luce/Of Algiebs.

    XXXVI , —MADAME LUCE / OF ALGIEBS .

    * For Another Month Madame Allix Struggl...

    * For another month Madame Allix struggled on , paying her way with the greatest difficultyand at lengthon the 26 th of January , ,

    , , she attacked another functionary _, M . Pouches , the JDirectenr General ? ,

    in the following letter : —

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 224, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/8/