NCUOtll. BAVIMH BANKS
Inspite of the induatri.il depression,^there is u steady growth of aohool aar-^inga bunks tliri'Ughout the country. A^f iw inonllis ago we gave the atatiatics^of this work in the United Slates.^tSinoe that tune thore lias lieen a slow^but steady increase in the number of^schools that hove iatrod.iced the ays-^torn. In an interesting roviaw of the^work in the lost number of tho Annals^of the American Academy of Polttioul^and Social Soienoe. Mrs. S.L. ObfrholUor^gives the numl^er of these acliools ns^three hundred und forty. In all the^system is about the same, the plan of^the French aohoola usually being^adopted.
