Bentley's Miscellany, 1851, Vol. 30 (Classic Reprint)
Author | : William Harrison Ainsworth |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2017-10-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781527635418 |
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Excerpt from Bentley's Miscellany, 1851, Vol. 30 It is notto be supposed that the benefit of the public school system is shared only by the necessitous. The children of respectable citizens, of the platner sort, make up a large part of the attendance. It is computed that only about twenty thousand children of both sexes are found in private schools. There are many free schools Of private charity, some of which receive by law a certain share of public money, as the school of the House of Refuge, various orphan asylums, &c., including, in all, about three thousand five hundred children. The Roman Catholics have some free schools Of their own, but most Roman Catholic children are educated at the public schools. The prodigious amount of immigration (on the day on which we write, we happen to know that the number of steerage passengers arrived in the city is seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, and, on another, within a week, three thousand) - makes this provision for education doubly important; since a large portion Of the hordes thus emptied on these hospitable shores are entirely unable to pay anything for the instruction of their children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.