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Excerpt from The North American Review, Vol. 34 The number'of Lancasterian schools, in the spring of 1829, was twenty-five; and in the spring of 1830, it was sixty-two, containing five thousand four hundred and eighteen scholars. These are all established under the auspices of the Government, and supported more or less at the public expense. There are a few private schools of both kinds; and in the Peloponnesus, there are nearly two thousand Children taught to read on the old method, SO called in distinction from the Lancasterian, or new method. In the old schools the books are in the ancient Greek, which, being nearly unintelligible to the youths, they learn to read, and that is nearly all. The habit, thus created, of reading without thought, is lamentably prevalent among the people of the East, and must be broken up before books will exert their proper influence. The Lancasterian schools, bringing in, as they do, new books in the vernacular tongue, and a new method of ina struction, are a happy innovation and improvement in every point Of view; and should they prevail through the Eastern world, will do much towards reviving the sleeping intellect. At nina, a central school has been established, containing one hundred and seventeen pupils, who are all instructed in the ancient Greek and the French languages, and in history and mathematics. Connected with this is a preparatory school, with two hundred and twenty-seven scholars. The orphan asylum, at regina, with which very many, if not almost all, Of the children of these two schools are connected, contained, at the commence ment Of the present year, four hundred and seven boys, gathered from all parts of Greece. 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.

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