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persons. This costs $74, and is lighted by an oxyhydrogen lamp. If 
has the advantage of presenting the views without interruption and with 
double effect, and can be used by day as well as by night. 
The Havre society has a triple apparatus with which scientific experi- 
ments can be illustrated and natural phenomena shown, such as volcanic 
sruptions, active geysers, etc. The price of this is $240. 
The Havre society has for its object the diffusion of knowledge by means 
of the magic lantern in connection both with school exercises and with 
popular lectures. All the conferences are free, and the views. which 
aumber eight thousand, are loaned gratuitously. 
The society fosters the work both in France and in foreign countries. 
[n 1891 M. Buisson was delegated by the Minister of Public Instruction to 
preside over the annual distribution of prizes. This festival was a verit- 
able demonstration in favor of instruction by the magic lantern. It isa 
means of moral influence, for when the teacher sets up the apparatus the 
school is too small for the company and the saloon is deserted. The 
views are chosen also with a purpose of giving the scholars ideas of the 
good, the true, and the beautiful. 
The society has supporters among all the friends of public instruction, 
teachers, professors, inspectors, pastors, etc. In March, 1893, it had 
branches in sixty-two departments of France and in nearly all the French 
colonies. In foreign countries, also, several societies have been created 
ander the auspices of that at Havre—in Belgium, in Switzerland, in Rus- 
sia, in Austria, and even in the New World, in Louisiana and in the 
Argentine Republic. 
In March last the number of free loans from the collections were four 
thousand one hundred and forty, each set comprising, on an average, 
twenty-five views, The annual contributions from members are, at the 
minimum, ten francs. The amount which had been received by the presi- 
dent of the society, M. H. Jardin, in subscriptions and in dues, up to 
December 31, 1892, was sixty-four thousand francs (about $12,800). 
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SCHOOLS FOR NEGLECOTED CHILDREN. 
BY JAMES STORMONT SMALL, TRUANT INSPECTOR, AUCKLAND, NEW 
ZEALAND. 
To attain a perfect system of education is a very difficult matter when 
the incongruous elements to be dealt with are considered, and no more 
difficult problem presents itself than that of the best course to adopt 
with regard to the education of the children of city slams; and yet a 
thoroughly workable and successful system would prove the foundation 
of a noble structure.