ABSTRACT
78 Events of tlte Month; [Fxn. at Mettray; the Rev. Dr. Clutterbuck, school inspector, who gave powerful support, and that from an official source, to the opponents of the district schools; Mr. Nettleship, :Mr. J. D. Llewelyn, the former chah-man of the Swansea Union-a warm advocate of the boardingout system-and othel's; throughout the professol' elected the boarding-out system as the best. But after aU had been done that could be done in the way of boarding-out, there remained in the schools a residuum of children, in most unions a small one, to whom that method was not applicable; and the question aroseHow was that residuum to be provided forT To that Mr. Llewelyn replied: "Send them away from the walls of a union house to a country school more or less self-supporting, and assimilate, as much as possible, to the conditions which are found so succesSful in the cottages of our country districts." That pointed, he thought, to the light method. It fell in exactly with Mrs. Senior's proposal l'especting the metropolitan schools-namely, that the schools should be broken up, and that whilst the orphans in them should be boarded ·ont in cottage homes, for the remaining children, schools should be provided of a more home-~e character" arranged on the Mettray system. That appears, without doubt, what they were coming to-and, so far, the plans of Mr. Doyle and Dr. Clutterbuck, seemed to tend in the right direction. But they certainly en'ed in discountenancing boarding out, as they understood it, for the orphans; the natural home, if well chosen, was the best of all, and fulfilled most completely all the ends to be attained; the artificial home was next best, and ought to be resorted to only for those who could not be provided with real homes. Boarding out, first, as far as It was available-this was what he would emphasize, as the most important point; and when it was not available, the nearest possible approach to it. Power, he thought, should be given to detain casual children for a cert.ain period, if they had come several times with their parents loto the wodroouse--so that they might derive some benefit by a stay of a certain duration in the school. The schools, Mr. Llewelyn urged should be, in unions like his own, of a simple inexpeIlSive kind-consisting,
