stand, a good deal of repetition might have been avoided,. but this repetition has at least the advantage of bringing out points which seem to me important; and as no one will read the book as carefully as I have done, I hope no one will be as conscious of this and other blemishes. in it. I much regret that in a work which is nothing if it is not practically useful, I have so often neglected to mark the exact place from which quotations are taken. I have myself paid the penalty of this carelessness in the trouble it has cost me to verify passages which seemed inac- curate. The authority I have had recourse to most frequently is Raumer (Geschichte der Pædagogik). In his first twovolumes he gives an account of the chief men connected with education, from Dante to Pestalozzi. The third volume contains essays on various parts of educa-tion, and the fourth is devoted to German Universities. There is an English translation published in America, of the fourth volume only. I confess to a great partiality for Raumer-a partiality which is not shared by a Saturday Reviewer and by other competent authorities in this country. But surely a German author who is not profound, and is almost perspicuous, has some claim on the gratitude of English readers, if he gives information which we cannot get in our own language. To Raumer I am indebted for all that I have written about Ratich, and almost all about Basedow. Elsewhere his history has been used, though not to the same extent. C. A. Schmid's Encyclopædie des Erziehungs und Unterrichtswesens is a vast mine of information on everything connected with education. The work is still in progress. The part containg Rousseau has only just reached me. I should have been glad of it when I was giving an account of the Emile, as Raumer was of little use to me. Those for whom Schmid is too diffuse and expensive will find Carl Gottlob Hergang's Pædagogische Realencyclopædie useful. This is in two thick volumes, and costs, to the best of my memory, about eighteen shillings. It was finished in 1847. The best sketch I have met with of the general history of education is in the article on Pædagogik in Meyer's Conversations-Lexicon. I wish some one would translate this article; and I should be glad to draw the attention of the editor of an educational periodical, say the Museum or the Quarterly Journal of Education, to it. I have come upon references to many other works on the History of Education, but of these the only ones I have seen are Theodore Fritz's Esquissse d'un Systéme complet d'instruction et d'éducation et de leur histoire (3 vols. Strasburg, 1843), and Carl Schmid's Geschichte der Pædogogik (4 vols.) The first of these gives only the outline of the subject. The second is, I believe, considered a standard work. It does not seem to me so readable as Raumer's history, but is much more complete, and comes down to quite recent times.* For my account of the Jesuit schools and of Pestalozzi, the authorities will be found elsewhere (pp. 19 and 199). In writing about Comenius I have had much assistance from a life of him prefixed to an English translation of his School of Infancy, by Daniel Benham (London, 1858). For almost all the information given about Jacotot, I am indebted to Mr. Payne's papers, which I should not have ventured to extract from so freely if they had been before the public in a more per-manent form.† I am sorry I can not refer to any English works on the history of Education, except the essays of Mr. Parker and Mr. Furnivall, and Christian Schools and Scholars, which are mentioned above, but we have a very good treatise on the principles of education in Marcel's Language as a Means of Mental Culture (2 vols. London, 1853). Edgeworth's Practical Education seems falling into undeserved neglect, and Mr. Spencer's recent work is not universally known even by schoolmasters. * [A translation by Prof. W. H. Payne of Compayre's History of Ped-agogy has recently been published at $1.75. Prof. Payne is also author of "A Short History of Education," 50 cts.] [They are now published in his "Lectures on the Science and Art of Education," complete English edition, $1.50; Reading-Club edition, $1.00.] |