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8. Education in Hungary.-— The Catholic population of 

 Hungary amounts to about seven millions, and it appears that 

 in 1824, the number of students which frequented the latin 

 schools were 21,540. Of the Reformed Religion, the popu- 

 lation is about 1,500,000 and the number of latin scholars 

 7,200. Of Lutherans, the population is 700,000, and the 

 number of students 3,800; making the whole number of 

 Catholic and Protestant students in Hungary, exclusive of 

 those of the Greek ritual, about 32,000. 



In general, there is no village in Hungary destitute of a 

 school, and it is very rare that any person is found, either Cath- 

 olic or Protestant, that cannot read. This observation does 

 not apply to the peasantry of the Greek church, who, how- 

 ever, constitute only one eighth part of the population of 

 Hungary. 



From these facts one may judge of the correctness of the 

 Edinburgh Review, republished in the following terms in an 

 article of the British Review : " Almost all the inhabitants 

 of Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, and Bukowina, are unable 

 either to read or write." The heedlessness of men who de- 

 claim against the ignorance of others, while they are them- 

 selves ignorant of the beings they are speaking of, is certainly 

 to be pitied. — Rev. Ency. Mars, 1827. 



9. M. De Fellenberg — has founded near Meykirch, two 

 leagues from Bern and Hofwyl, a colony formed of twelve boys 

 of the age of twelve to fifteen, to whom has been given the 

 name of the little Robinsons, and who present in miniature, 

 an image of the life and employments of the clearers or settlers 

 upon new land in the woods of North America. These pu- 

 pils, taken from the school of Vehrli, are directed by Pfiffer, 

 a young countryman of the canton of Glaris. A few farming 

 implements, some provisions, and two goats, composed, at 

 first, all the wealth of the little colony ; their domain consist- 

 ed, last spring, of a small piece of uncultivated ground, upon 

 the side of a hill, crowned by a wood of pine, with a misera- 

 ble hovel, which simply afforded them a shelter, and was entire- 

 ly unfurnished with goods or utensils. Here the little colonists 

 established themselves in the month of March 1826. The 

 colony has already the aspect of a little farm, and satisfaction 

 sparkles in every eye ; they do not refuse the occasional assist- 

 ance of their old companions at Hofwyl, and the Count Capo 

 d' Istria, who visited them a short time before I did, made 



