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past taken their pupils, and staff, into country districts for a 

 week's survey holiday, or educational excursion, and several 

 guide-books that have been prepared, and which have come into 

 my hands, admirably portray how thoroughly such undertakings 

 are planned and carried out. 



Let me briefly set out one such guide-book, issued, curiously 

 enough, by Kentish Town Road L.C.C. school, which has as its 

 headmaster, Mr G. G. Lewis, one of the pioneers in this really 

 splendid movement, which should never lack funds, and should 

 be State-aided. 



The guide-book before me (Folkestone, Easter 1910) is of 

 handy size (7f ins. by 5| ins. ) and is well bound. On the inside page 

 of the cover " Our Party " (Staff and Pupils) is listed, and the 

 opposite title-page affords the information that in 1906 Chepstow 

 was explored; 1907, Abergavenny; 1908, Shanklin; and 1909, 

 Stroud. " Our Aims " are next enumerated, and these may, 

 with advantage, be given here : 



I. To bring teachers and scholars into closer touch with each other. 

 II. To foster habits of good fellowship, self-reliance, and unselfishness. 



III. To develop powers of observation of natural objects. 



IV. To investigate the causes which produce scenery. 



V. To secure rock, plant, and animal specimens unobtainable on school 



journeys near London. 



VI. To extend the knowledge of mankind, past and present. 

 VII. To gain health and vigour from a week's life at the seaside. 

 VIII. To learn how to spend a holiday intelligently and happily. 



Next comes useful hints on " What to take," then follows a 

 detailed programme for each day's stay. Particulars are given 

 of the railway route to be taken, nature of the soil, important 

 towns, distances from London, notes on railway construction, and 

 a map. A few notes follow devoted to Folkestone and a plan 

 of the town, then Harbours, Lightships, and Lighthouses, with 

 capital illustrations of types of " Ships that pass," illustrated 

 descriptions of Dover, Deal, Walmer, Sandgate, Hythe, Dun- 

 church, and the Warren. There is a page mapped out for Tides, 

 as also the Straits of Dover, Channel Tunnel, Boulogne, Canter- 

 bury (with a Cathedral plan and notes), History of Architecture, 

 plan of Folkestone district, Seashore Animals and Plants, Waves 

 and Pebbles, Capes and Bays, Birds of the Cliff and Hedge (all 

 these sections are excellently illustrated), Notes on Sketching 

 and Simple Seascapes, Contour Notes and Map, Rocks of Kent, 

 Coal and Iron, Gault Fossils (most praiseworthy illustrations on 



