THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY TRESS. 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
LECTURES ON TEACHING, 
Delivered in the University of Cambridge in the Lent Term, 1880. 
By J. G. Fitch, M.A., Her Majesty’s Inspector of Schools. 
Crown 8vo. cloth. New Edition. 6 s. 
“ The lectures will be found most in- 
teresting, and deserve to be carefully studied, 
not only by persons directly concerned with 
instruction, but by parents vvho wish to be 
able to exercise an intelligent judgment in 
the choice of schools and teachers for their 
children. For ourselves, we could almost 
wish to be of school age again, to learn 
history and geography from some one who 
could teach them after the pattern Set by 
Mr Fitch to his audience But perhaps 
Mr Fitch’s observations on the general con- 
ditions of school-work are even more im- 
portant than what he says on this or that 
branch of study .” — Saturday Review. 
“It comprises fifteen lectures, dealing 
with such subjects as organisation, discipline, 
examining, language, fact knowledge, science, 
and methods of instruction; and though the 
lectures make no pretention to systematic or 
exhaustive treatment, they yet leave very 
little of the ground uncovered; and they 
combine in an admirable way the exposition 
of sound principles with practical suggestions 
and illustrations which are evidently derived 
from wide and varied experience, both in 
teaching and in examining. While Mr Fitch 
addresses himself specially to secondary 
school-masters, he does not by any means 
disregard or ignore the needs of the primary 
school .” — Scotsman. 
“It would be difficult to find a lecturer 
better qualified to discourse upon the prac- 
tical aspects of the teacher’s work than Mr 
Fitch. He has had very wide and varied 
experience as a teacher, a training college 
officer, an Inspector of schools, and as 
Assistant Commissioner to the late En- 
dowed Schools Commission. While it is 
difficult for anyone to make many original 
remarks on this subject Mr Fitch is able to 
speak with authority upon various contro- 
verted points, and to give us the results of 
many years’ study, corrected by the obser- 
vation of the various schemes and methods 
rursued in schools of all grades and cha- 
racters.” — The Schoolmaster. 
“All who are interested in the manage- 
ment of schools, and all who have made the 
profession of a teacher the work of their lives, 
will do well to study with care these results 
of a large experience and of wide observa- 
tion. It is not, we are told, a manual of 
method ; rather, we should say, it is that 
and much more. As a manual of method 
it is far superior to anything we have seen. 
Its suggestions of practical means and me- 
thods are very valuable; but it has an ele- 
ment which a mere text-book of rules for 
imparting knowledge does not contain. Its 
tone is lofty ; its spirit religious ; its ideal of 
the teacher’s aim and life pure and good . . . 
The volume is one of great practical value. 
It should be in the hands of every teacher, 
and of every one preparing for the office of a 
teacher. There are many besides these who 
will find much in it to interest and instruct 
them, more especially parents who have chil- 
dren whom they can afford to keep at school 
till their eighteenth or nineteenth year.” — 
The Nonconformist and hidependent. 
“As principal of a training college and as 
a Government inspector of schools, Mr Fitch 
has got at his fingers’ ends the working of 
primary education, while as assistant com- 
missioner to the late Endowed Schools Com- 
mission he has seen something of the ma- 
chinery of our higher schools. . . . Mr 
Fitch’s book covers so wide a field and 
touches on so many burning questions that 
we must be content to recommend it as the 
best existing vade mecum for the teacher. 
. . . He is always sensible, always judicious, 
never wanting in tact. . . . Mr Fitch is a 
scholar ; he pretends to no knowledge that 
he does not possess ; he brings to his work 
the ripe experience of a well- stored mind, 
and he possesses in a remarkable degree the 
art of exposition.” — Pall Mall Gazette. 
“In his acquaintance with all descrip- 
tions of schools, their successes and their 
shortcomings, Mr Fitch has great advantages 
both in knowledge and experience ; and if his 
work receives the attention it deserves, it 
will tend materially to improve and equalize 
the methods of teaching in our schools, to 
whatever class they may belong.” — St 
James's Gazette. 
“ In no other work in the English language, 
so far as we know, are the principles and 
methods which most conduce to successful 
teaching laid down and illustrated with such 
recision and fulness of detail as they are 
ere.” — Leeds Mercury. 
“ The book is replete with practical 
sagacity, and contains on almost all points 
of interest to the teaching profession sug- 
gestive remarks resting evidently on a wide 
and thoughtful experience of school methods. 
There are few teachers who will not find 
aids to reflection in the careful analysis of 
the qualities required for success in teaching, 
in the admirable exposition of the value of 
orderly, methodical arrangement both for 
instruction and discipline, and in the pains- 
taking discussion of school punishments 
contained in the earlier section of the 
volume. ... We recommend it in all con- 
fidence to those who are interested in the 
problems with which the teaching profession 
has to deal.” — Galignani’ s Messenger. 
London; Cambridge Warehouse , 17 Paternoster Row , 
