The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-06-28
OLE 8ultetin.
MENTAL vENEERlNG.
An Ample Educational Apparatus
with Little 10 SHOW for 1.-THE
Want OF intellectual culture
Ira the Upper Glasses of
English society.
From the London World. ]

riod which may be described a. the great
educational opportunity in society," year
/ The whir OF the London season has al.
ready well nigh begun, and the business oil
pleasure will soon be 50 eXacting in its
claims that all thoughts OF the bisue.s OF
intellectual culture viii have to be laid aside
for another twelve months. Lent. however
| has been the epoch Of not only pcnitential
abstinence. but has also been utilized Us the
convenient occasion for cnricliing the mind
| with the wisdom Of ages, and forti lying the
soul with the precepts ofphiosoph poets,
and teachers, old and new, whom, il the
press and hurry of their ordinary xisterce.
the men and VIC men of the nineteenth cer-
| fury can scarcely find time to notice. Reg
uarly once year we are told how many
| tons of literature have been produced by
| the native authors Of tie British isle. and
| how many there have been imported from
| abroad. This item of statistical intelligence
| is frequently supplemented by an estimate
| OF the number of readers at the British
museum, with the average of thu books
| which they have consulted: while latterly
| Mr.. Nude has been ia the habit Of giving
III a caluhtion OF the part which his library
plays in the education or amusement Of the
upper or middle clas,es 1t would he ex-
ceedingly interesting if to the information
thus supplied could be added a tabular
statement showing the seasons of the year
at which his store OF meutal pahuldm was
chiefly consumed. There Is at least one re-
suit which it may be predicted with conf
deDce it would yield. The polite world
would be- found TO depend almost entirely
for rs knowledge Of curr ne or past litera.
ture, philosophy, or sc.en,e on the facts
which il could master during The forty days
that follow Ash Wednesday. To read DUR
in. the London season is ~ hopeless Us to
cndeaycr TO decipher an neible manu-
script In al express train. When the sea.
son IL oy or, the jadcd system reyolts fro
the thought OF study, VI hile the country
house visits OF autumn and winter are but
rel etiiion OF the chief episodes of the
metropolitan spring and summer.
EDUCATIONAL APPARATUS.
let if orr zeal Tor knowledge bear any
relation to our opportunities for knowledge,
we Ougnt beyond doubt be the most highly
educated people in the world. Our educa-
ti0nal apparatU, grows daily. New ins;itu-
lions are opened: ncw schemes Of lectures
are announced The production of what
NAV be called the literature of informal. on
D.. immensely on tie Increase. Fresh slug-
raphies, fresh books Of travel appear every
week, and if one cen,uits the well.uformed
officials at auy Of the public libraries, one
win be told that the popularity which these
enjoyis altogether In excess of the demand
after novel. and other literary friyoilies
Scientific manuals and theological text.
books are also greatly in request. And
this is bit small part of tue machin-
cry with which society is provided for the
Improvement of it, mind. An eminent
philologi-t c0ndensss. ia lucid and well
planned discourse. the researches Of wears
mo an hour and halt. An historian who,
after half a century devoted TO the eXamin-
alton of the monumental records, corroded
coins aud shapeless tombstones. has sue
eeeded in circumstantialy demonstrating
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SPECIFICALLY OF AITAiNMEN1s.
The education of society should there
fore, it may well be thought. be thorough
and complete. yet, as a matter of fact, il
remains pretty well where IL has always
been. The men and women of the great
world neither know more or less. Ger.