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MK. A. W. FLUX, M.A., ON CITT GOVERNMENT AND

dealing with pauperism must suffice here, especially as some parts of the numerical details of the working of this department have been described by me elsewhere. Schools .— The entire control of elementary schools is in the hånds of the municipal authorities,. and the only supervision is exercised through the presence of the city’s President and one of the clergy of the city who is selected by the Government, with the responsible burgomaster, on the controlling council of the schools. This consists of these three and two officials called directors, whom we might perhaps equally well, for our own understanding, call inspectors. This council, in the decisions of which the two inspectors have only a consultative share, not a deciding voice, Controls public and private schools alike, these two sections of schools being supervised each by one of the inspectors. Each of the public elementaiy schools has lts council of three— one a clergyman, who is chairman and appointed by Government, one a member of the body of popular representatives, and a third nominated by the schools council already described. At the end of 1898, there were 30 public elementaiy schools in the city, 20 of which were free. With two exceptions, each consists of a boys’ and a giris’ depart­ ment, the largest having accommodation for close on 1,000 of each sex. In all some 37,000 ohildren were attending these schools. In the fee-paying schools the payment is a. krone (ls. lljd.) per rnonth. Each school is controlled by a head-master, who is given such diseretion in selecting his staff (from duly-qualified persons) as the head-masters of our own secondary schools possess. A good head attracts the most eompetent teachers there as in the corresponding case here. In all 1,077 assistant teachers were employed in 1898. All these teachers are adults, and 25 years is, unless in very exceptional cases, the lowest age at which they oan become qualified for their work and find employment. The whole scale of payment has been raised, beginning with the present year. The old scale assignod head-masters a salary rising from .£145 to £210 a year, besides house-room, fire, and