Lancasterian, Natio7ial, and Infant Schools. 529 



2W. u^MiL 



Crombie. The cheapness of these tombstones, compared 



to the price of similar erections 

 about London, is so low, that we 

 are persuaded they might form a 

 profitable article of commerce for 

 the proposed metropolitan ceme- 

 tery. To enable those concerned 

 to judge how far this may be the 

 case, we give, through the kind- 

 ness of Walter Newall, Esq., 

 architect, Dumfries, figures from 

 the designs of two monuments, 

 not long since erected at the heads 

 of the graves of two nurserymen, 

 Messrs. Hood, father and son ; 

 that of the father [Jig. 91.) cost 

 38/., and that of the son William 

 {Jig. 92.) 25/. The carriage to 

 London, by Whitehaven, we are 

 informed, would not amount to 5/. 



for each of these monuments. 



Lancasterian, National, and Infant Schools were scarcely 



known when we in 1805 



passed through the tract of 



country which has engaged 



our attention during the last 



three months. There are 



now some of each of the three 



classes in most of the large 



towns ; and Lancasterian or 



National schools in a number 



of villages. Infant schools, 



which are the most valuable 



of all, are not yet fully un- 

 derstood, and we have seen 



but comparatively few of 



them. However, the good 



that must already have been 



done by the Lancasterian 



schools is unquestionably im- 

 mense; and it gives some 



foretaste of what will be the 



consequence of an efficient 



system of national education 



when it shall once be established 

 Vol. VIL — No. 34. m m 



liiiuLiiiL. 



J in. 



