has been very much extolled for a manure; I believe that a great deal
more has been said of it than it deserves; it certainly destroys
insects, but I do not believe what has been said of its value. We are
not to infer that because a manure is found to be useful on one soil in
a certain climate, that it shall prove equally useful in others;
experience must direct us in this particular."


STROLLING SCHOOLS.

In Prussia there exist, what are termed _Strolling Schools_, having no
fixed place. The teacher, with his scholars or his classical furniture,
establishes himself in all the houses or a village successively, where
he affords instruction; and his stay is determined by the number of
persons he is called upon to instruct under each roof, a week being the
allotted term, for each child, during which period the parents supply
all the wants of the _Domine.--Athenaeum._

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RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS

The following extracts from a "roll of the expenses of Edward I., at
Rhuddlan Castle, in Wales, in the tenth and eleventh years of his reign"
(1281 and 1282), may perhaps amuse our readers, as showing the rates of
wages paid to different workmen, tradesmen, archers, &c. at that period.
Under the head of _necessaries_, are some curious items. Rhuddlan Castle
was the head quarters of Edward, during an insurrection of the Welsh,
under Llewellin, Prince of Wales, at which time it had many additions