PREFACE. THE present compilation was intended in the first instance to consist of little more than a reprint of some articles on our chief Public Schools, which appeared a few years since in a leading newspaper. The publication of the Evidence given before the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Revenues and Management, &c. of those Schools, and of the admirable Report upon that Evidence, rendered a modification of the original plan of the book indispensable. The work accordingly has been entirely remodelled and considerably expanded, and now supplies, it is believed, a variety of information regarding the Institutions it treats of, not devoid of practical value to those interested in the Educational agencies of the country, and not elsewhere accessible in a collected form. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Frontispiece. 62 75 LARGE QUADRANGLE, ETON COLLEGE. AUDIT-ROOM IN WINCHESTER COLLEGE SCHOOL-ROOM IN WINCHESTER COLLEGE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CHRIST's Hospital 462 |