New York in 1857 was about 650,000, and in that year it
is stated that there were 135,000 pupils in the schools. By this it
would appear that one person in five throughout the city was then
under process of education,--which statement, however, I cannot
receive with implicit credence. It is, however, also stated that the
daily attendances averaged something less than 50,000 a day--and this
latter statement probably implies some mistake in the former one.
Taking the two together for what they are worth, they show, I think,
that school teaching is not only brought within the reach of the
population generally, but is used by almost all classes. At New
York there are separate free schools for <DW52> children. At
Philadelphia I did not see the schools, but I was assured that the
arrangements there were equal toWednesday, April 23, 2014: Maximum Shelf: Euphoria

Euphoria

by Lily King

Lily King (Father of the Rain) renders three young anthropologists in 1930s' New Guinea with nuance, tenderness and charming ambiguity in Euphoria. King draws on the life of Margaret Mead and her relationships with her second and third husbands (Reo Fortune and Gregory Bateson, respectively), but the novel is only loosely based on their lives and work.

Nell Stone is an American, and has recently written a book that is receiving much attention for its controversial subject matter: the sex lives of children in the Solomon Islands. She is an up-and-coming young anthropologist being talked about around the world; when we meet her, she is just emerging from a year and a half in the field in New Guinea, alongside her