sorry to find from what I
have read to-day that this is being increasingly done on the
Continent. Many institutions there, seem to be rich in the
different inventions for the blind; but as far as I can see, all
seem to derive more or less profit from the manual labour of the
pupils. It has this moment occurred to me that the right use of
this labour would be to realise thereby a fund which should be
spent in some way for the benefit of each pupil when he or she
should leave the institution; or, in cases where it should be
deemed advisable, it should be made over to the pupil to be used at
his or her own discretion. Perhaps it would be well always to allow
the pupils to appropriate a certain portion of their earnings; this
would teach them the value of money, and would educate them in the
management of it. No doubt the answer to these suggestions would
be, want of funds. I should reply that much more real good would be
done by lessening the number of pupils, so as to be able to effect
it in proportion to the funds at command. I do believe such a
system would go far towards giving the blind workmen a better start
in the race for a livelihood than institutions have hitherto shown
themselves able to give.

The importance of systematically training and developing the
remaining senses of their pupils cannot be too strongly impressed
on those who educate the blind. I am delighted to find that
Monsieur K., the blind director of the institution at Breslau, has
succeeded in obtaining permission for his pupils to _feel_ the
specimens of natural history contained in the Museum of that city.
How glad I should be to hear of such permission being given in
England. I think, as I have heard Mr. D. Littledale, a blind
gentleman, say, that in schools there ought to be classes formed
for the special object of exercising the touch. He himself has
begun to form a Museum of objects with this view for the York
School. But here I must say that I think the education of the blind
will never attain the perfection of which I believe it is capable,
unless teachers are specially trained for the work, and also unless
at least a proportion of these are themselves blind. Among the
blind I think individuals would be found capable of commencing and
carrying on such training sch