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done more good and less harm than the common school lands.

We have already remarked the satisfaction with which the men of New England, early in the century, regarded their common schools. We might also have

remarked the severe shock that was given to such as could feel it, when the fact was brought home to them that their boasted schools were inferior to the best schools in the Old World.' We may now ask what is the distance between our schools and foreign schools to-day as compared with what it was at the beginning of the Revival. Have we shortened or lengthened the interval ? The facts are that we have shortened it, but that we are still in the rear, as before. Our best schools are as good, no doubt, as the best of Germany, but we have no system of schools that is equal to the Saxon or the Prussian system. While our educational complacency is less marked than it was, it is still a considerable obstacle to our progress.

It is often charged that we Americans, in our appreciation of the material side of life, estimate too highly the practical elements of education. The best parts of mental cultivation, these critics say, dwindle in comparison with our prodigious educational statistics. It is sometimes said that our schools run altogether to brick and mortar. These criticisms touch the national character on its weak side. It would be

1 Rev. S. J. May, speaking in 1855 of this painful revelation, says: "I well remember how stung we were by the unfavorable comparison. We had heard from our childhood and had grown up in the assurance that, as free schools originated in New England, so they were better cared for here than in any other part of the world."-The Revival of Education, etc., p. 13.

strange, indeed, if our educational development were not congruous with our development considered as a whole. Still, it is far from true that this development has been wholly one-sided. On the other hand, it has been measurably harmonious, all things considered. Since 1837 we have made great progress along all the lines of growth,-school grounds and buildings, apparatus and libraries, school books and courses of study, methods of teaching and modes of discipline. Much still remains to be done in all these directions. But all the progress that we have made in the past has not changed our central educational question. That is still what it was in the days of Carter and Mann, Olmstead and Kingsley. And such this question promises to remain. In fact, it is determined, in the long run, by the very nature of education. We can imagine a state of things as existing that for a time will render the material factors of education of more pressing interest than the spiritual ones. But that is an abnormal state of affairs. There is little probability that we shall see it actually existing in the United States. The provision of good teachers will be the vital educational question of the twentieth century, as it has been of the nineteenth century.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE titles here given have been selected from the Bibliography of Horace Mann, prepared by Mr. B. Pickman Mann and published in the Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1895–96, vol. i., pp. 897– 927. While incomplete, Mr. Mann's list contains more than seven hundred titles. A few duplications will be found below and a few political titles, chiefly Mr. Mann's speeches in Congress. The attempt to distinguish between Mr. Mann's own titles and those of other writers has not been fully successful. The titles relating to the controversy with Boston schoolmasters and religious sectaries have been given in footnotes, Chaps. VIII, IX, and are not here repeated.

MR. MANN'S TITLES

Reports of Secretary of Board of Education. Mr. Mann's reports appeared annually, together with the reports of the Board of Education, 1838-49, and were published by the State.

Report of Secretary of Board of Education on schoolhouses, supplementary to first annual report, 1838. Published by the State. Abstracts of Massachusetts school returns, 1838-49. Published by the State.

Common School Journal, The. Boston. Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb; Wm. B. Fowle and N. Capen; Wm. B. Fowle, 1839-48.

Lectures and annual reports on education. Mann, Mary, editor, "Life and Works of Horace Mann." In five volumes. Vol. ii. Cambridge. Published for the editor, 1867.

Annual reports of the Secretary of the Board of Education of Massachusetts for the years 1837-38, including the first annual report of the Board of Education, to which are prefixed lectures on education. "Life and Works of Horace Mann," vol. ii. Boston. Lee and Shepard, 1891.

Annual reports on education. Mann, Mary, editor. "Life and Works of Horace Mann." In five volumes. Vol. iii. Boston. Horace B. Fuller, 1868.

Annual reports of the Secretary of the Board of Education of Massachusetts for the years 1839-44. "Life and Works of Horace Mann," vol. iii. Boston. Lee and Shepard, 1891.

Annual reports of the Secretary of the Board of Education of Massachusetts for the years 1845-48, and oration delivered before the authorities of the city of Boston, July 4, 1842. "Life and Works of Horace Mann,” vol. iv. Boston. Lee and Shepard, 1891.

Mann, Horace. Educational writings of Horace Mann, containing contributions to The Common School Journal and addresses of the president of Antioch College, with an appendix containing a review of Horace Mann's works and writings, by Félix Pécaut. "Life and Works of Horace Mann," vol. v. Boston. Lee and Shepard, 1891.

Lectures on education. Boston. William B. Fowle, 1848. Two lectures on intemperance. 1. The effects of intemperance on the poor and ignorant. 2. The effects of intemperance on the rich and educated. Syracuse. Hall, Mills, and Company, 1852.

A lecture on the best mode of preparing and using spelling-books, delivered before the American Institute of Instruction, Aug., 1841. Boston. William D. Ticknor, 1841.

man.

Lectures on various subjects, comprising: Thoughts for a young Poor and ignorant. Rich and educated. The powers and duties of women. Demands of the age on colleges. Baccalaureate address. New York. Fowler and Wells, 1859.

The necessity of education in a republican government. American Institute of Instruction. Lectures delivered . . . at Portland, Aug. 30 and 31, 1844. Boston. Ticknor, 1845.

A few thoughts for a young man. A lecture delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Association on its 29th anniversary. Boston. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Need of a uniform and comprehensive system of education. Proceedings of the national convention of the friends of public education, held in Philadelphia, Oct. 17, 18, and 19, 1849. Philadelphia. E. C. and J. Biddle, 1849.

Schoolteachers and superintendents. Convention of teachers and superintendents of public schools, held at Philadelphia, Oct. 17, 18, and 19, 1849. "American Journal of Education," 1873, vol. xxiv.

Baccalaureate delivered at Antioch College, 1857. New York. Fowler and Wells, 1857.

An oration delivered before the authorities of the city of Boston, July 4, 1842, by Horace Mann, Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Boston. Wm. B. Fowle and Nahum Capen, and Tappan and Dennet, 1842.

Lecture on education. Boston. Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and
Webb, 1840.

A lecture on special preparation a prerequisite to teaching, 1838.
"American Journal of Education," Sept., 1863, vol. xiii.
Remarks at the dedication of the state normal schoolhouse at
Bridgewater, Aug. 19, 1846. "American Journal of Edu-
cation," Dec., 1858, vol. v.
Demands of the age on colleges.
Horace Mann, president of
Christian convention at its quadrennial session, held at
Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 5, 1854. New York. Fowler and
Wells, 1857.

Speech delivered by the Hon. Antioch College, before the

Report and resolutions on the "code of honor," falsely so called; also report and resolutions on intemperance, profanity, and the use of tobacco in schools and colleges. Columbus, 1857.

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