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      854 The Publishers' Circular August 15, ...

      854 The Publishers' Circular August 15 , 1887 * *

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      3 Literary Intelligence 854—868 Current ...

      3 LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 854—868 CURRENT EDUCATIONAL LITERATURE .... 856—859

      NOTES AND NEWS 859—862 CONTINENTAL NOTES s 862 , 863

      LIBRARIANSHIP 863 , 864 BALE JOTTINGS . . 8 G 4 , 865

      OBITUARY 865 UPRIGHT PENMANSHIP 865 , 866

      REVIEWS , & c . 866—868 INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT

      BRITAIN BETWEEN AUGUST 1 AND 15 .. 868 , 869

      BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN FROM AUGUST 1 TO 15 869—871

      NEW BOOKS AND BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED 872—877 , 944 EDUCATIONAL BOOKS 4 . 876 , 878-927944

      , MAPS ' AND ATLASES 896 , 919 COPYBOOKS , 915 , 922 , 928 , 929

      MISCELLANEOUS 931—939 BUSINESS CARDS .., \ 936-938 ASSISTANTS WANTED ..- 939

      WANT SITUATIONS 939 BOOKS FOR SALE 939

      BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 939—943

      1 1 •—"? [ St. Dunstan's House, E.C. August 15, 1887.

      1 1 " ? [ St . Dunstan ' s House , E . C . August 15 , 1887 .

      Qtatistics Of The Progress Of Our Nation...

      QTATISTICS of the progress of our national ^ elementary schools show in an effective

      way the immense work that must be done by British publishers in order to meet the

      requirements of the age . When to the numbers attending elementary schools we add the

      thousands of pupils who receive instruction in private , proprietary , and grammar schools ,

      we cannot be surprised at the activity shown in this branch of publishing . Our present

      number illustrates this , as it contains the newest lists of all the chief publishers who

      make educational works a speciality . The many teachers who receive our educational

      number will find a pretty safe guide to modern works in our remarks on Current Educational

      Literature ( page 856 ) and in the numerous advertisements of the publishers themselves . *

      In speaking of statistics of schools we should mention two important Blue-books

      which have recently been published by the Government . From the report of the

      Committee of Council on Education in England and Wales , it appears that the schools in

      England and Wales visited by H . M . Inspectors for the purpose of annual grants , which in

      1870 provided for 1 , 878 , 584 scholars , were in 1886 insufficient for 5 , 145 , 292 scholars ; The

      Commissioners say : * The additional amount of accommodation ,

      in aided schools , which has thus been provided , since 1870 , to the extent of 1 , 574 , 203 seats by

      voluntary effort , and 1 , 692 , 505 in board schools , has been supplied in several ways . In the 12

      years ending on December 31 , 1882 , building grants to the amount of £ 312 , 200 have been

      paid by the Education Department , on the completion of the erection or enlargement of

      1 , 572 schools and 933 teachers' residences , affording new or improved accommodation for

      280 , 14 G scholars . These grants have been

      mot by local contributions to the amount of

      £ 1 , 348 , 169 . The . average cost of erecting

      voluntary schools , with residences for the teachers , has been about £ 5 . 7 s . per scholar .

      This includes , as a rule , the value of the sites , very often given gratuitously in the case of

      schools of this class . The great majority of the remaining 4 , 767 voluntary schools , with .

      seats for some 1 , 294 , 000 children , which have come under inspection since 1870 , have been

      erected , enlarged , or improved , without Government aid , at a cost to the promoters

      of at least £ 6 , 000 , 000 . The school boards have availed themselves freely of the power

      of borrowing , on the security of . the rates , given by the Acts of 1870 and 1873 . Up to

      April 1 , 1887 , we had sanctioned 6 , 776 loans , amounting to £ 19 , 177 , 921 . 14 s . 8 d ., to 1 , 773

      school boards , by means of which new accommodation will be furnished for some 1 , 535 , 741

      scholars . The estimated cost per child is thus about £ 12 . 95 . 96 ?/

      The other Blue-book contains the Report on Education in Scotland for 1886 . Here the

      figures show continuous improvement . Dismissing comparison with former years we may

      say that in 1886 the inspectors visited 3 , 092 day schools to which annual ¦ grants ^ r were made , wwith

      accommodation for 691 , 405 scholars , and with 615 , 498 names on the registersof whom

      , 123 , 936 were under seven years of age , 448 , 355 between seven and thirteen , 29 , 598

      between thirteen and fourteen , and 13 , 609 above fourteen . There were 478 , 152 children

      qualified for examination , but only 434 , 643 were presented , in reading , writing , and

      arithmetic . More than 94 per cent , passed in reading , 91 * 7 in writing , 86 * 78 in

      arithmetic . An extraordinary sfact in connection with

      national school . work is that the number of children of school age in London increases by

      nearly 12 , 000 every year . Indeed , it has been affirmed that even at the present rate of

      increase a new school , capable of holding 1 , 000

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1887, page 854, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081887/page/4/