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(b-) Water. —Pipes, taps, the fountain. Canals. Air. —The chimney, draughts. Waves and Eafts, boats, anchors. breakers. Winged seeds. Shuttlecock, arrow Solids. —Teeth, nails and claws. Sand-paper, and kite. Pins, needles, awl, gimlet. Hook and eye. Forms of Strength.—The ceiling. The arch. Powders.—Chalk, pencil. Ladders. Pastes. —Mud in streets, brick-making. Things that stretch. —A football. Things porous. —Brick, chalk, springs of water. Things that bend.—Cart-springs. Paper-clips. Things that melt. —Candle-making. Icicles. Spider's web. Water.—Manufacture of salt from brine. Bain- Machines. —Hoop, fly-wheel of sewing-ma-drops, hail, spray, water-dust, the cloud. chine. Mangle. Wagon. Bicycle. Things that dissolve.—The manufacture of Movements.—Swimming, sugar. Musical Toys.—Musical-box. Drum. (c.) Water.—Siphon, pump. Oil, cream. Things that dissolve. — Crystals, hard water, Solids. —Hinges, tires and axles. The grind- varnishes. stone. Screws and screw-drivers. Air.—The popgun, the fire-engine. Winds. A sailing-ship. Fowders.—iilac.k-lead. Forms of Strength. — The roof. Bailway Pastes.—Pottery. bridges. Cranes. Things porous.—Blotting-paper, towels, wicks, Things that bend.—Clock-spring. Chains, earth.. Machines.—The loom. Threshing-machine. ml . ,v t it T j ■■• Boiling iron rails. Coining. Things that melt.—Lead, iron. tv/t i. ' ■ -mi • ° Movements.—Flying. Water.—Salt lakes. Distillation of water. Musical Toys.—Tin whistle. Sounds from Clouds and ram. stretched cord. 7. Measuring, Weighing, and Testing. A two-foot rule. Alcohol—effect of heat on it; its evaporation. Measurements of length—first) -.«- Thermometer, its manufacture. iVloasureby eye, then with rule. j , ■ Thermometer —uses ; readings in ice, in boilEasy measurements of a square! • v t ing water, under the tongue, in schoolroom. —first by eye, then with rule. ) ■■■*' A candle —its composition. The wick. Easy measurements of rectangles. Candle under bell-jar over water ; candle in The wire-gauge. narrow-necked bottle. Callipers. Chalk—where found ; its origin. Scales and weights. Chalk—its treatment with acid. Weighing of common objects —first by hand, Chalk—its reduction to quicklime with blowthen with scales. Weight in ounces only. pipe ; lime-water. Weighing letters. Sugar heated in test-tube; wood heated in Plumb-line. test-tube. Spirit-level. Sulphur heated in test-tube ; lead heated in Steam—observations on boiling water; con- test-tube, densation of steam, &c. Magnet and iron filings. Mercury—weight of ; of, drop of mercury and The compass, drop of water; effect of heat on mercury.

5.-SUITABLE OCCUPATIONS. (Circular 374, to H.M. Inspectors.) Sir,— Education Department, Whitehall, London, S.W., 17th March, 1896. 1. Kindergarten occupations have for some time been used in our infant-schools, and manual instruction has also been given to the elder boys in many schools for older children, while the elder girls have similarly been taught cookery and laundry-work; but the scholars in the First, Second, and Third Standards have, as a rule, had hitherto no manual training, except in so far as it has been supplied in the forms of needlework and drawing. Manual instruction is a valuable part of school training, and my Lords desire to encourage managers of public elementary schools to introduce, where circumstances permit, a suitable course of manual occupations for the three lowest standards. Kindergarten occupations as used in the infant-school are not suitable for the children in schools for older scholars. The mat-weaving, stick-laying, embroidery, tablet-laying, and building with bricks or cubes, which serve to give young children ideas of form and number, as well as to train hand and eye, seem trivial to the ordinary child of nine or ten years of age. On the other hand, few of the common workmen's tools can with safety be put into the hands of children under the age of eleven. 2. An occupation ought to satisfy several conditions : — (a.) It must be educative, and should especially stimulate independent effort and inventiveness. Any work that provides a real training for hand and eye is in a true sense educative ;