steps as would be at once safe and certain. Let no one imagine that the work of educational reform can be effected without centralization. Without a central board, armed not with despotic powers calculated to irritate and influence the public mind, but with sufficient power to make it the interest of all persons connected with schools to adopt improved plans of instruction, little or nothing can be accomplished. An individual might waste a life in reasoning with schoolmasters and mistresses, appealing to committees and their secretaries, and canvassing subscribers, without succeeding in changing the character of more than half-a-dozen schools throughout the country; but a central board operating by means of an establishment for training teachers and annual grants might in a short time produce a change that would appear as the effect of magic." RICHARD CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD-STREET-HILL, LONDON. OBSERVATIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF NATIONAL EDUCATION IN CONNEXION WITH THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. BY THE REV. CHARLES DAY, LL.B. CHAPLAIN TO THE CITY OF LONDON UNION. Βόσκε τὰ ἀρνία μου. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY JAMES NISBET AND CO., BERNERS-STREET. MDCCCXXXIX. ΤΟ THE REV. WILLIAM DEALTRY, D.D. F.R.S. CHANCELLOR OF THE DIOCESE OF WINCHESTER, AND RECTOR OF CLAPHAM. REVEREND SIR, I have much pleasure in dedicating the following pages to yourself, not only on account of the great and merited attention which you have paid to the subject of which they treat, in your own populous and highlyrespectable parish; but also, from my having been encouraged by the favourable expression of your sentiments, after you had given them a perusal, to send forth this little work to the world. My motive can scarcely be mistaken;-I have but one desire; it is that of seeing the boundaries of the Church considerably enlarged, and her members, particularly her ministers, so united upon the subject of Education, as to render it more powerful and more efficient. By these means we shall remove the im putation of negligence, so unjustly charged upon us as a body, and by a felicitous combination of unanimity and uniformity, promote the present and eternal good of the rising generation. That your valuable and highly-gifted services may be long spared to the Church of which you are so distinguished an ornament, is the unaffected wish of |