Organisation at Hazelwood School. (Biggs and Co.)—Hazelwood School was the
place where the brothers Hill carried into practice their theories of education. They published an account of these theories and of the rules and methods by which they were applied to practice, at first anonymously, and after the book had attracted some attention (shown by an article in the Edinburgh Review, and other notices) with their names. It is the second edition that is mere reprinted. It is full of interest to any one who is, or has been, a teacher, and, indeed, to all who, without practical ex- perience of this kind, care for the subject. Some of the details seem curious. The boys rose at 6 a.m. (during December and January at 7, during November and February at 6.30). They did not breakfast till 9.10, but had a piece of bread to saatain them. The school-hours were not over long,—in- cluding preparation, they amounted to below seven and eight hours. There was but one half-holiday in the week. The discipline was of a highly elaborate kind, with a good deal of -drill, and a system of rewards and fines. One great rule that every one should really work when he was the e sch ool
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school- room. Some of the regulations are curious in the extreme. Fighting was not forbidden, but was placed under a rigorous system of rules. No spectators were allowed to be pre- sent. Six hours' notice had to be given, and a tax paid in advance. During this interval, the " Magistrate " was bound to attempt to reconcile the parties. A day-boy appealed against conviction as a spectator, on the ground that the fight took place on his father's land, and that he was not amenable to school laws outside the boundaries. The appeal was not allowed (the jury was composed of boys). There was a currency of marks which could be earned in various ways,--e.g., by a boy reading the news- paper aloud to his companions at a meal. He selected the most interesting portions (? the sporting intelligence), and received "a handsome salary."
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