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number of teacliers is not sufficient in proportion to the children attending school, 

 and their salaries are altogether inadequate.* 



Of intermediate schools there are 1,043, with 177,400 scholars. The 21 

 universities of the empire have a staff of 1,300 professors and 430 Privat-Docentcn, 

 and are attended by 20,229 students. In addition to them there exist numerous 

 technical institutions. The Choral and Gymnastic Societies should likewise be 

 mentioned as an important element in the education of the people, for they count 

 their members by thousands. The German book trade produces annually nearly 

 14,000 new works, and there are published 1,591 periodicals, besides official and 

 advertising sheets. 



If we would know Germany thoroughly we ought to enter into its moral 

 statistics, but materials are wanting to enable us to do this satisfactorily. Vice is 

 rampant, no doubt, in the large cities, but if we seek to become acquainted 

 with the life of the people we must leave the scenes where cupidity and vice 

 are excited in a thousand ways, and great wealth displays itself in the midst of 

 the most distressing misery. If we thus study the German we may not be able to 

 admit that he is in all cases entitled to the praise for straightforwardness, courage, 

 and honesty so frequently lavished upon him, nor are we able, on the other hand, 

 to agree with those who assert that he has the mind of an accomplished subject, 

 whose highest ambition it is to serve his master well. 



* There are 109,000 elementary teachers in Germany, or 1 to every 60 school children. The average 

 salary of teachers in 1874 was £52 10s. in the towns, and £33 in the country. The 60,000 elementary 

 schools are attended by 6,160,000 scholars, or by lôO to every 1,000 inhabitants, the proportion being 

 highest in Wiirttemberg, and lowest in Mecklenburg. 



