322 NOTES AND EVENTS OF THE MONTHS. 



limited indeed is the extent, of a virtuous institution. But if education 

 take in vice as any part of its system, there is no doubt but that it 

 will operate with abundant energy, and to an extent indefinite. 

 The magistrate, who in favour of freedom thinks himself obliged to 

 suffer all sorts of publications, is under a stricter duty than any other 

 well to consider what sort of writers he shall authorise. 



EDUCATION OF THE POOR. During the past and the present year 

 828 schools have been received into union with the National Society, 

 carrying up the amount of schools in union to the number of 2,937 ; 

 and 6,643 have been voted in aid of the building of school-rooms in 

 104 places, the total expense of the buildings being estimated at 

 20,000. The Society has recently made a general enquiry into 

 the state of education under the Established Church in all parts of 

 the kingdom; and an account has been obtained concerning 1,650 

 places, which were found to contain about 1 1 ,000 schools, with 678,365 

 children. It is calculated that there cannot be less in England and 

 Wales than 710,000 children under the instruction of the clergy. 



LITERARY PROPERTY IN GERMANY. Hitherto an unbounded licen- 

 tiousness has prevailed in Germany on the subject of literary pro- 

 perty. Booksellers and authors have appropriated, without the 

 smallest scruple, the productions of others. If an author wrote"one 

 or more pieces insufficient in length to constitute a volume, without 

 hesitation he eked it out with the essays, tales, or poetry of his 

 friends : The Diet of the German Confederation adopted, on the 

 2d April last, a resolution, conformable to Art. 18 of the Act of Con- 

 federation. " The government have agreed that literary piracy is 

 to be prohibited in all the states of the Confederation, and literary 

 property to be regarded and protected on uniform principles." 



G. G. BENNIS, ESQ., THE LIBRARIAN OF PARIS. This is one of 

 the most remarkable characters of the age in which we live. This 

 gentleman, so well known on the European continent, may be 

 said to combine in his own person, not only the suaviter in modo, 

 and the fortiter in re, but the talents which belong exclusively to 

 genius. G. G. Bennis is allied to some of the first, rich, and noble 

 families ; is known and respected by people of all nations ; is at 

 one and the same time the most persevering, prosperous, and clever 

 man of business ; while he is acknowledged by the literati to be a 

 walking monument of book-knowledge. King Louis Philippe lately 

 received G. G. Bennis at the Court of the Tuilleries. No sooner do 

 persons of distinction arrive in Paris, than G. G. Bennis is made ac- 

 quainted with their arrival; he waits on the illustrious stranger in 

 person, whether at Veray's, or any of the hotels of Paris, presents 

 his card and " catalogue," receives the commands of the new visitor, 

 and becomes, in point of fact, the confidant of all persons of condition 

 visiting La Belle France. Such is G. G. Bennis. Those who have 



