follow a carefully-matured science of pedagogy. If a school is fate to a Swiss child, the vision comes to him in the likeness of a fairy; it is made, by public and private acts, a centre of happy thoughts and pleasant times; it shares the joy of home and the reward of church. The children have tasks to do at home nearly equal to the tasks at school. The hours of study, school-work, drill, and home-work are frequently from ten to twelve a day. Indeed, you may say, these Swiss children must tug at learning in a way that would create a rebellion with the young American. In spite of these long hours and manifold duties, the attention is never unduly strained, and, at intervals, never exceeding two hours, the class disperses for a few moments to the corridors or play-grounds for recreation and a romp. No people can boast of so many schools in proportion to population, or of a system of education at once so enlarged and simplified, so instructive and attractive, so scientific and practical. Healthy, for it takes care of the body as well as the mind; practical, for it teaches drawing, which is the key of all industrial and mechanical professions; moral and patriotic, because it is founded on love of country. In many countries it is a political or governing class which establishes popular schools for the benefit of the masses. In Switzerland it is the people, the Communes, which establish and sustain the schools for their own benefit. The same general equality of conditions prevails as in the United States, and these schools are freely used by all classes. This is as it should be in a free commonwealth, where character and ability are the only rank, and men are thrown together in later life according to the groups they form at school. Every child of superior merit, however humble and poor, has an equal chance to mount the highest round of the educational ladder. This building of human minds means business in Switzerland. Everywhere you find a school,--a primary school, a supplementary school, a secondary school, a day school, evening school, school for the blind, school for the deaf, industrial school, commercial school, linguistic school, intermediate school, gymnasium or high-school, university, polytechnical school, schools of every sort and size, class and grade, with the happy motto carved over many a door: “Dedicated to the Children.” It is a business, standing far ahead of petty politics and hunting after place, or the worship of Mammon; a business that, when nobly done, brings bountiful return in love of order, law, right, and truth.