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    young men go out of the College every year , prepared for the Christian ministry ; and the number of students in the last session was 146 ; 72 of philosophy , and 74 of theology . Of these not more than twenty or thirty have apartments in the College , and all the Professors , except one , live in the town . The session lasts nine months , beginning with November . This institution is entirely supported by the government , at least with the assistance of a few thousand francs which it receives from different consistories

    and from private individuals . The students pay no fees ; some of them even receive bursaries of four or five hundred francs a year from the government , and each of the Professors has 6000 francs from the same source , so that it costs the government about 40 , 000 francs , i . e . £ 1600 a year . When the College was revived in 1808 , it was presented with 6000 volumes from the remains of some old libraries at Paris : 'but the selection was

    made with so little judgment , that the gift is of comparatively little value . There is , however , a library which has been lately formed by the students , and to which the Professors have made a grant of a thousand volumes , comprehending all the works which have been either bought or presented since the year 1816 . For the purchase of books , and for the accomplishment of

    several other important objects , it were much to be wished that this College had more extensive funds at its -disposal , especially as it is the only establishment of the kind in France , besides Strasbourg . Many of the Protestant clergy are educated at Geneva , but the distance must often operate as a serious obstacle .

    26 th . This day I spent half an hour in the Lancastenan school . It was one of the first days after the holidays , and it was also the season for sowing the grain , so that the scholars were not all assembled ; but there are on the list 135 boys and 120 girls . The Commune pays for the instruction of sixty boys , and the rest pay a frank per month for themselves . I was much pleased with the order and system which appeared to prevail , and was glad to hear that the school was flourishing , notwithstanding the ill-will of the

    Catholic priests , who do not like that the common people should possess more knowledge than what they can gain in the wretched { seminaries of which they have themselves the direction , and from which the children go out nearly as ill-informed as they were when they entered . The master lent me the " Guide de V Enseignment Muty , el 9 avec des Gravures et des Tableaux . " This work contains very clear and ample directions for the establishment and regulation of these schools . It seems from the Preface , that neither Be ]] nor Lancaster can justly claim the merit of the original

    invention , though the latter deserves great praise for having reduced into a more practicable form what he found in the works of his predecessors , and more especially for his zeal in introducing his system to the notice of the public . It is to Herbault that we owe the economical invention of large sheets of letters or words pasted on boards , with tocJs to point out what is to be read , and the division of the scholars into classes ; to the Canon Cherrier we are indebted for the plan of teaching children to read their letters by writing them , as well as for the system of monitors .

    In the afternoon I walked out into the country , and was tempted to stroll on farther and farther , by the pleasantness of the day , by the beauty of the landscape , and by the snug , inviting appearance of tfre pretty white-washed houses , which every where met my eye . Every thing a ^ bout me was bright , and cheery , and pleasing—with some considerable approach to the neatness and trunnesa of Englanjd , yet combined with all the gay luxuriance of

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    10 Journal of a Tour in the South of Trance .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1828, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2556/page/10/