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EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.

London.
Berlin.
Amsterdam.
Paris.

to take holy orders than to follow, for life, the erally the members of the government, represent
occupation of teachers. He also showed how the voluntary system. Either two parties united,
unfairly government money is at present distri- as Mr. GIBSON has remarked, would overthrow
buted in different parts of England, so that many the third. It is quite probable that a union or
of the richest districts receive the largest, and compromise will be effected between the seculars
many of the poorest receive the smallest amount and the Manchester and Salford party. Some
of appropriations. These difficulties, he thought, unanimity of views is to be desired by every
would be obviated, in part at least, by having friend of humanity, in order that the lamentable
a Ministry of Education responsible to the House want of education, which now prevails among
of Commons.
the lower classes of Great Britain, may be
speedily removed.

ART NEWS FROM BERLIN.

But this is not the only important change. Much more must be done, in the aggregate, for Leave was given to Sir J. PAKINGTON to bring public instruction than ever heretofore. To in his bill, and after Easter, the discussion of his illustrate this position, Sir J. PAKINGTON pro-views will be earnestly resumed duced an immense number of facts, to show that An interesting discussion took place in the a large part of the children in Great Britain reBritish House of Commons, on the 16th of March, ceive no school education whatever; that many in reference to National Popular Education. who are nominally taught, are really kept in We learn from a gentleman who has recently This important subject has been almost dropped extreme ignorance; that England is in a worse visited the studio of Professor RAUCH, in Berlin in the public council since the present war com- condition, in this respect, than almost any other that this venerable sculptor, now seventy-eight menced. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, indeed, while Pre- civilized country, and that deplorable conse-years old, is constantly engaged upon new sident of the Privy Council, early in the present quences will inevitably ensue from prolonging works of art. From early morning until dark, session of Parliament, did give notice of a bill the present state of things. he may daily be seen in his rooms, moulding for the promotion of education, which he intend- The bill which he asks leave to introduce is dead clay, or carving rough marble into forms ed to introduce; but his lordship's sudden retreat designed to secure to every child the benefits of life and beauty. In native genius and varied from one Ministry, his acceptance of a portfolio of a good education. He proposes that the sys- achievements, as well as in advanced age and in another, his departure for Vienna to negotiate tem of local boards, adopted, not long ago, in re- prolonged activity, Professor RAUCH deserves to for peace, while, at the same time, nominally ference to the care of the poor in England, shall be ranked with three other distinguished scholdirecting in London the administration of fifty be applied, as in America, to the administra-ars of Berlin, HUMBOLDT, RITTER, and GRIMM, colonies, must have so absorbed his attention, as tion of the common local schools; he proposes who, late in life, preserve the full maturity of to make him quite oblivious of such matters as that rates shall be levied to defray, in part, the their powers, and labor still with that unceasing common schools for the people, which can be expenses of education, while appropriations shall diligence which is usually confined to men of attended to at any time. Notwithstanding the also be made by the general government; and younger years. pressure of war debates, Sir J. PAKINGTON has he proposes, also, that the schools shall be free succeeded in gaining an evening for the discus- to all. sion of Public Education, and, without waiting for the return of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, he has asked leave of the House of Commons to introduce a bill for the promotion of Popular Instruction in Great Britain. This request he urged in a speech of great length and power, and whether his precise views be adopted or not, he deserves the thanks of every friend of education, for the earnest and effective manner in which he urged the consideration of this subject upon the House of Commons. Our limits do not allow us to give a long sketch of his remarks, but as we have already introduced the matter of English Public Education to our readers, and as we hope to follow the debates, which are now resumed, in reference thereto, we briefly refer to the recent discussion, which may properly be regarded as introductory to more close investigations.

In reference to the great question of religious instruction, which divides the friends of education in England, he takes the following position: As England is a Christian land, it will not be acceptable to the mass of the people to have no religious instruction; as the Established Church is greatly in the majority over any one other denomination, a majority of the people would prefer that its doctrines should be taught to those of any other sect. But England is a free land, and the rights of men of different religious persuasions must be respected. He accordingly proposes that religious instruction shall be given in schools according to the doctrines of the majority of the families among whom the school is established. At the same time, no parent shall be required to keep his children at school during the hours of that sort of religious instruction from which he conscientiously dissents. Sir J. PAKINGTON alluded to the American system of giving religious instruction in Sunday schools; but he argued that, under existing circumstances, the system could not be adopted in England. As a whole, his views undoubtedly commend themselves to a large number of supporters, but this matter of religious instruction is one upon which further compromises must yet be made.

Sir J. PAKINGTON urged, in the first place, the establishment of a ministry of Public Education, like that which is found in every other country of Europe. At present, the funds appropriated for instruction in England, amounting, of late, to some hundred thousand pounds a year, are distributed by a committee of the Privy Council, who are only responsible to the Crown. The advantage of a change will be that the Minister will be directly responsible to Parliament for his Of the three great parties into which English conduct, as much as the First Lord of the Trea- educationists divide themselves, the voluntaries, sury, or the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The the seculars, and the friends of the Manchester Right Honorable baronet also insisted that the and Salford bill, Sir J. PAKINGTON may be conpresent system of normal schools was not adapt-sidered as representing, very nearly, the views ed to the ends for which it was designed. The of the latter. Mr. COBDEN, Mr. BRIGHT, and Mr. wrong kind of education is given within their MILNER GIBSON, are at the head of the secular walls, so that the pupils are much more inclined movement, while Lord JoHN RUSSELL, and gen

Professor RAUCH sends several contributions to the approaching exhibition in Paris. Among them will be a large model, finely executed in plaster, of what is, undoubtedly, his greatest work, the monument of Frederic the Great, erected in 1851, under the Lindens, in Berlin. It may be interesting to remark, in this connection, that in the atelier of the Professor, may still be seen the various models for a monument to that illustrious sovereign, which he made, before arriving at the conception of the present finished statue. Each step was one of progress from the simple figure of the monarch standing upon a pillar, copied from that of Trajan, like the monument of the Great Napoleon, in the Place Vendome, at Paris, to the equestrian statue finally adopted, based upon a pedestal of original design, adorned with scenes, in relief, from Frederic's life, and with incidental commemorations of the distinguished men who flourished in his reign.

Among other things to be sent to Paris by Professor RAUCH, will be a fine bust of the late King of Prussia, Frederic William III, and also, one of the celebrated Philosopher Schleiermacher.

Professor RAUCH is now engaged on a statue of Moses, who is earnestly engaged in supplication, while his outstretched arms are supported by his friends, Aaron and Hur.

It is designed for the Friedens Kirche at Potsdam, which the present King of Prussia, a distinguished lover of the fine arts, is causing to be most beautifully embellished with scriptural statuary.

Among other items of art from Berlin, we learn that Professor Wolff has nearly completed his model of a warrior striving with a lion, to

be cast in bronze, and placed in front of the old Museum at Berlin, opposite to the Amazon of Professor Kiss, which attracted so much at tention in the exhibitions at London and New York.

The students of the Gewerbe Institut, a sort of royal polytechnic school, have also completed an elaborate full length figure, in ornamented bronze, of the last King of Prussia, which will likewise be sent to the Paris Exposition. The last statue for the warlike groups which adorn the bridge before the Royal Castle, at Berlin, is also completed, and will soon be placed upon the empty pedestal.

The arrangement of the New Museum, at Berlin, is rapidly progressing. Three of KAULBACH's great wall paintings are already completed, and the fourth will receive the finishing strokes of the artist, upon his return, during the present spring, from Munich. The cartoons of the wonderful cornice, which is full of his peculiar genius, and which is a sort of running commentary upon the greater pictures below, are to be sent, it is said, to the Paris Exhibition. Professor Kiss is already in that city, superintending the arrangement of some of his own recent works, including a spirited statue of St. George and the Dragon.

With all these contributions, Prussia will hold a distinguished place in the department of Fine Arts. We regret to learn that America, in works of both the fine and useful arts, is likely to be very poorly represented.

KAULBACH'S SHAKSPEARE GALLERY. The celebrated German artist, WILLIAM VON KAULBACH, whose frescoes in the Royal Museum of Berlin, and in that of Munich are widely renowned, and whose illustrated publications, particularly of the Reineke Fuchs, are well known in this country, is about to acquire still greater fame by his illustrations of the works of Shakspeare.

just as the physician announces to him the death matic works of Sophocles, forty-seven comedies of Lady Macbeth. The terrible thoughts which of Menander, the comedies of Philemon, the are torturing his brain are pictured on the clouds lexicon of Cheremon, and eleven folio volumes above, where stand in awful array, the spirits of of a catalogue of the Alexandria library, "left old King Duncan, of Banco, and of Lady Mac-in Greece." These forgeries recall, says the duff.

This plate is thirteen inches by seventeen, and was engraved by Herr Hoffman, in Berlin.

A third engraving, not yet quite ready, represents the wandering of Lady Macbeth in her sleep. (Act V. scene 1.)

Athenæum, the memory of Cicero's work, "De Consolatione," fabricated by Sigonio, in the sixteenth century; of Catullus, by the Venetian, Corradino, in 1738; of Petronius and Catullus, by Marchena, 1800-6; of the tragedy Tercus, attributed to Lucian Varus, by his editor Heer

Two other drawings, illustrative of the Tem-kens (1787); of the fragments of Berosus and pest, are already in the hands of the engravers, and the cartoons of two other scenes, taken from King John, have been drawn by the artist.

others, by Viterba (1498); and of Wagenfeld's notorious hoax, by which he imposed upon several German men of learning, in his admirably executed Greek translation of Sanchoniathon, attributed to Philo of Byblos.

Notes and Reviews.

It is probable that no artist has ever lived so well fitted for the illustration of Shakspeare as Kaulbach. The Germans have long been remarkable for what they have done in the study and elucidation of our great English poet, but one hazards little in predicting that the work we are now announcing will hold the foremost rank among all such productions. Retzsch's talent, high as it is, will appear common-place A WEEK'S CONVERSATION ON THE PLURALITY OF by the side of Kaulbach's genius, and Boydell's collection of plates, with all its excellencies, will hold a far subordinate rank.

The price of these prints will be six, five, and four thalers, and in regard to their publication further information may be obtained from the Nicolai'sche Buchhandlung, in Berlin.

THE NEW GREEK MANUSCRIPTS.

We noticed in a late number the fact that some pretended MSS. of ancient Greek works are now offered for sale in Paris. The French Athenæum cautions the public against them. Respecting their authorship, we are able to present some facts not stated in the Athenæum, which have come to us from an authentic source. The manuscripts were offered about seven years ago, though the Athenæum says they are only three and a half years old, to the University of Athens, by a Greek, who has studied in Germany: he is a man of much ingenuity, and of great facility in the restoration of fragments. His name is Samoniades. The MSS. were examined by professors of the University, at the time, and the fraud was detected. The Professor of Latin in the University, Koumanoudes, wrote several articles in one of the journals of Athens, against Samoniades, saying, among other equally flattering things, that he was "the chief of modern imposters." This same Samoniades was the reputed author of a vile tract against Dr. King, entitled "The Orgies," in which he invented atrocious calumnies against this excellent missionary. This was at the time of Dr. King's first persecution. He is also the author of a treatise in modern Greek, in which he tries to show that the ancients were

A correspondent in Berlin informs us of the great delight he has recently had in seeing two of the plates which are now almost ready for publication. The scenes of both are taken from Macbeth. One represents the first appearance of the Witches to Macbeth and Banco (Act I. Scene 3). At the left of the picture are seen the two generals, in full armor, mounted upon noble horses, which start back from the awe-bringing sight of the witches. The three sable sisters appear at the right, not standing upon the ground, but floating above the runic stone in a cloud of smoke and flame. Two of them are decrepit and hateful, but the third, who offers the crown to Macbeth, shows traces of former beauty, even in her demoniacal expression. The countenance of Macbeth displays the eagerness with which he would receive the crown which is extended to him, while Banco stands filled with astonish- acquainted with many of the modern invenment, and with eagerness to know whether the fates have also any thing to make known to him. This plate, nineteen inches by thirteen, in size, has been engraved on copper, in the highest style of the art, by Prof. Eichens, of Berlin. The second of the scenes now finished, represents Macbeth as arming himself for the last battle,

tions. Having failed to dispose of his MSS. in Greece, it seems that he has turned his attention to the Parisian market.

The manuscripts which are now offered there, correspond with those which Samoniades had at Athens, which is a reasonable proof of their identity. They pretend to contain all the dra

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THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS. With an Introduction by EDWARD HITCHCOCK, D. D. A new edition, to which is added a Supplementary Dialogue. 12mo. THE UNIVERSE NO DESERT, THE EARTH NO MONOPOLY. pp. xvi. 868. Boston, 1855. Preceded by a Scientific Exposition of the Unity of Plan in Creation. Two vols. in one. 12mo. pp. xii. 239, 180. Boston, 1855. SCIENTIFIC CERTAINTIES OF PLANETARY LIFE; or Neptune's Light as Great as Ours. With various other hitherto unconsidered facts connected with the residence of moral agents in the worlds that surround the stars. By T. C. SIMON. 18mo. pp. xxiii. 288. London, 1855. THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS. The Positive Argument from Scripture, with answers to some late objections from Analogy. 12mo. pp. 158. London, 1855.

MORE WORLDS THAN ONE-the Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian. By Sir DAVID BREWSTER, K. H., D. C. L., etc. 18mo. pp. 265. New York, 1854.

As the natural sciences advance, the spiritual world, to the eye of many, seems to recede. One strong tendency of those who cultivate the science of nature is to reduce every thing to its laws-to explain every thing by its special methods. Comte will allow no mode of investigation but the inductive, to be legitimate. The ingenious author of the "Plurality of Worlds" argues against the existence of rational beings in other spheres, on the general ground that physical laws must be the same there as here, and that such beings as men could not exist in the extremes of heat and cold, with the different degrees of light, with the differences of weight, and of solid structure, which science teaches us must be found in the other planets and in the stars. The whole force of his argument is in the assumption that, if rational beings exist in those extramundane bodies, they must exist under the same

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