“No competitive examinations, no study before breakfast, no study after 6 P.M., all lessons to be learned in the morning, no girl to work more than four and a half hours daily. No arithmetic, except the multiplication table for children under ten. No child with curvature of the spine to write more than five minutes a day, until thirteen. Each girl must be certified by two phrenologists as not deficient in conscientiousness and firmness. No child to be vaccinated.” WEARY OF READING THE WILL Nearly a hundred years ago, the Reverend Dr. Van Bunschooten departed this life and entered upon his reward: by his last will and testament, he left a legacy of $20,000 to the Dutch Reformed Church of America; the gift was accepted by that body and very properly expended for church purposes. The testator, doubtless, with a view to posthumous fame and remembrance, made the gift on the express condition that his will should be read at all the official sessions of the Church forever. The Church has ever since been reading this document at all its official meetings. It appears that the testament is of considerable length and much dryness, and its reading has become an irksome task: the Church has recently appealed to the courts of New York to be released from the duty of further reading the will, and it is to be hoped that the proper tribunal will determine that sufficient fidelity and honor have been shown. WILL OF PINEDO, THE PORTUGUESE JEW This remarkable Israelite, well known in Amsterdam for his enormous wealth and liberal donations, died about the middle of the eighteenth century. His will, testifying to a noble and generous nature, and disposing in the most magnanimous and tolerant spirit of the very large fortune he had made, is to be found (in Schutt’s “Memorabilia Judaica,” lib. iv. cap. 18) as follows: “I bequeath to the city of Amsterdam the sum of five ‘tons’ of gold. “I lend to the said city for ten years, and without interest, the sum of a million and a half of florins. “I give to every Christian church at Amsterdam and at the Hague the sum of 10,000 florins each, and to the church in the southern quarter of Amsterdam 20,000 florins. “I give to each Christian orphanage in the two towns the sum of 10,000 crowns. “I give to the poor of Amsterdam forty shiploads of peat. “I give to the orphan who shall first quit the orphanage 1000 florins, and to the one who shall succeed him 600 florins. “I give to the synagogue at Amsterdam two and a half ‘tons’ of gold. “I give to the Portuguese orphanage 30,000 crowns. “I lend to the Government at three per cent. interest, ten ‘tons’ of gold on condition that the interest shall be paid to the Jews domiciled at Jerusalem: the capital to belong to the Government in perpetuity. “I give to the German synagogue 5000 florins. “I give to my nephew Ovis thirty-one ‘tons’ of gold, with all my houses and appurtenances. “I give to my widow ten ‘tons’ of gold.