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content myself with broad lights and shades. 

 The following answers are extracts, and, in some 

 few cases, abstracts ; they convey the general 

 tone of the several replies as nearly as possible. 

 The groups under which I have sorted them 

 are these : 



Merits : 



Education praised throughout, 



or nearly so . .10 replies 

 ,, Variety of subjects .10 

 A little science at school 3 

 Simple things well taught 3 

 Liberty and leisure .3 ,, 

 Home teaching and en- 

 couragement . . 8 

 Merits and demerits balanced .4 ,, 

 Demerits : 



Narrow education . . 32 

 ,, Want of system and bad 



teaching . . . . 10 



,, Unclassed . . . 4 



Total . .87 



