Commenting on its wonderful list of ex amination paper blunders collected in Ameri can State schools, a few gems from which list I quoted last week, the New York Tribune lays all the blame^on cram and " parrot learning." This seems to me hardly fair. If all children in the schools blundered equally, showed the same propensity to give grotesque answers, to questions put in examination, we might justly infer that the teaching is uni formly bad. But in all likelihood most of the children come out fairly well under exami nation. In every school there are drones and dullards, and it is the drones and dullards who make sport for examiners. The mis take, as I conceive it, lies in trying to ham mer book-learning into heads in which nature had made no provision for its reception. Consider, for example, the evidences of im penetrability afforded by the following answers to questions on arithmetic :—

Substraction is the minuend and the sub stracted end.
When there are equal numbers it is called multeplication.
A partial product is one of the things you multiply with.
A quotient is a prime facter and is always a number or some part of .a number. A composite number is just the same aa a prime facter.
Brokerage is the allowance for the brakerage and leekerage of bottles.
Insurance is whon you die or burn up your money and the insurance office pays you for it. Exchange in Europe is when you go through London, Paris, and places. When you exchango money all you have t» do is to get the right change. The payment of a note on the back is called an enforcement.
Accurate interest is according to the number of dates, the days, and the interest.
