Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . schools for the exclusive teachingof foreign languages, in one of which French,English, German, Russian, and Chinese, aretaught, and in another the English language;alone. In their exhibited model school were agymnasium, a school library, the apparatus ofFroebel adapted to their special requisitions,maps, anatomical, zoological, and botanical spe-cimens, etc. Their text-books are copied afterthose of the best European schools; they fol-low English methods in science and Germanmethods in languages. They learn to use
Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . schools for the exclusive teachingof foreign languages, in one of which French,English, German, Russian, and Chinese, aretaught, and in another the English language;alone. In their exhibited model school were agymnasium, a school library, the apparatus ofFroebel adapted to their special requisitions,maps, anatomical, zoological, and botanical spe-cimens, etc. Their text-books are copied afterthose of the best European schools; they fol-low English methods in science and Germanmethods in languages. They learn to use theabacus universally in calculations, and acquiregreat skill in its employ. Education is oblig- atory in certain districts of Japan. Of , Pennsylvania and Massachusetts madethe fullest educational exhibits, while most ofthe other States exhibited the workings oftheir systems of public instruction. The Kin-dergarten system was illustrated by two mode]school-houses, in which instruction was im-parted to classes of little children by two ex-perienced lady WOMEN S PAVILION*. The Womens Pavilion, 208 feet square, cov-ering about an acre of ground, was designedto receive the products of female industry andingenuity of every class. The American ex-hibitors occupied three-fourths of the floor-space. The other nations represented wereGreat Britain, Ireland, Canada, and the col-onies, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Swe-den, Norway, Italy, Germany, Spain and hercolonies, Brazil, Mexico, Tunis, Japan, andEgypt. This was the first collective displayof womens work ever attempted, and muchof its incompleteness was due to its novelty:nor was it a complete collection of all feminineproducts exhibited, as many of the best pro-ductions of female art and invention were in-cluded in the other collections. In the centreof the building, grouped about a flower-bor-dered fountain, was an abundant display ofornamental needle-work. The Royal Schoolof Needle-work, patronized by the Q
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