n, or village, or hamlet, you will find that there are
"dame schools," as they are termed, at which about one half of the
children are educated.

The subject of national education has not been warmly taken up in
England until within these last twenty-five years, and has made great
progress during that period. The Church of England Society for National
Education was established in 1813. Two years after its formation there
were only 230 schools, containing 40,484 children. By the
Twenty-seventh Report of this Society, ending the year 1838, these
schools had increased to 17,341, and the number of scholars to
1,003,087. But this, it must be recollected, is but a small proportion
of the public education in England; the Dissenters having been equally
diligent, and their schools being quite as numerous in proportion to
their numbers. We have, moreover, the workhouse schools, and the dame
schools before mentioned, for the poorer classes; and for the rich and
middling classes, establishments for private tuition, which, could the
returns of them and of the scholars be made, would, I am convinced,
amount to more than five times the number of the national and public
establishments. But as Mr Carey does not bring forward his statistical
proof; and I cannot produce mine, all that I can do is to venture my
opinion from what I learnt and saw during my sojourn in the United
States, or have obtained from American and other authorities.

The State of Massachusetts is a _school_; it may be said that all there
are educated, Mr Reid states in his work:--

"It was lately ascertained by returns from 131 towns in Massachusetts,
that the number of scholars was 12,393; that the number of persons in
the towns between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one who are unable
to write was fifty-eight; and in one town there were only three
persons who could not read or write, and those three were dumb."

I readily assent to this, and I consider Connecticut equal to
Massachusetts; but as you leave these two states, you find that
education gradually diminishes. [See Note 1.] New York is the next in
rank, and thus the scale descends until you arrive at absolute
ignorance.

I will now give what I consider as a fair and impartial tabular analysis
of the degrees of education in the different states in the Union. It
may be cavilled at, but it will nevertheless be a fair approximation.
It must be remembered that it is not intended to imply th