Professor of the Institutes and History of Education, University of Edinburgh AUTHOR OF PRIMARY INSTRUCTION IN RELATION TO EDUCATION," 66 JOHN AMOS COMENIUS," ETC., ETC. KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1882 PREFACE. THE following papers, having been written on different occasions, contain inevitably some repetitions and do not offer a continuous or adequate treatment of any one Educational topic. They are also somewhat polemical in tone-a defect for which I would apologize were not the questions with which they Ideal still subjects of debate. In truth, it is simply because the various addresses and papers refer to still vexed questions that I have thought it desirable to reprint them. S. S. L. UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, January, 1882. P.S.-I have to thank the Messrs. Longman for permission to reprint the paper on Montaigne and the article entitled "The House of Lords and Popular Education" which originally appeared in "Fraser's Magazine." |