SKETCHES AND ESSAYS.

ADVENTURE SCHOOLS.

WE may take for granted that most people are aware that an Elementary Education Act was passed at the end of the Session of 1870. This Act specially provided for the formation of a School Board in the metropolis, which, among its other duties, "should proceed at once to supply their district with sufficient school accommodation." It consequently devolved upon the London School Board, shortly after its construction, to ascertain the number of elementary schools existing in each division of the metropolis, and so to discover whether or not there was a sufficient amount of accommodation al

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