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J. C. Braiiii, a German by birth, who not long- before liad 

 come to Lima to settle, and taught Natural Philosophy and 

 Chemistry, accompanied me throughout the extensive build- 

 ing, and specially pointed out a class-room comfortably and 

 even elegantly fitted up, as also a small museum of Natural 

 History, with an excellent geological collection, and a small 

 library attached to it. Singularly enough, the latter com- 

 prises a great number of school-books in much request among 

 Protestant pedagogues. Apparently an order had been sent, 

 without specifying any particular writers, to purchase good 

 school-books at some German publishing-house, and now the 

 Catholic youth of bigoted Lima is taught from the works of 

 Protestant teachers ! Various surveys and maps covered the 

 walls of this class-room, all bearing evidence of their German 

 origin in the names of publishers and places, most of them 

 having been sent out from the distinguished house of Justus 

 Perthes in Gotha. 



One very remarkable and characteristic incident occiuTed 

 at the opening of the school, at which were present the Pre- 

 sident of the Republic, Don Ramon de Castella, so hated and 

 dreaded for his despotism, together with several senators and 

 deputies. The Rector, Don Miguel Estorch, laid considerable 

 stress, in the course of his address, upon the importance of 

 really effective schools in a State, and maintained that, when 

 children are well brought up, there is no longer any need of so 

 large sums being spent for police and standing army to keep up 

 security and order in the country. This remark, which made 



