The circulating library of the Musée Pédagogique has proved of great benefit to teachers by supplying them with professional literature, which aids them in preparation for their examinations. During the five years, 1898 to 1902, the number of volumes loaned to teachers from this library was 11,024. The Musée Pédagogique also promotes the movement for adult education by the distribution of illustrative pictures to be used with the magic lantern. During the lecture season of 1902-3 the number of

views loaned from this center was 31,298.

TABLE X.-Educational statistics of cities of France having more than 100,000 inhabitants.

EDUCATION IN FRANCE.

TABLE XI.-Educational statistics of cities of France having more than 100,000 inhabitants.

INFANT SCHOOLS (ÉCOLES MATERNELLES), 1901–2.

Public schools.

Private schools.

103

8,476

32

10,337

4,978

5, 313

32

2,715

24

5,946

16

5,119

13

1,515

6

4,357

1

1,564

11

5,460

11

1,949

5

3,332

20

2,249

7

Total.

414

1, 484

117,089

267

TABLE XII.--Enrollment in elementary primary schools in cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants in 1891-92, 1896-97.

TABLE XIII.-Educational statistics of cities of France having more than 100,000 inhabitants.

TABLE XIV.--Expenditures for public primary education in cities having more than 100,000 inhabitants. a

The expenditures for building purposes are not as a rule included. Subvention equal to the product of 4 centimes additional to the four general taxes; that is, to onehalf the school tax levied by the State.

Cities of the second order receive from the State simply a sum equal to the amount of their State school tax.

TABLE XIV.-Expenditures for public primary education in cities having more than 100,000 inhabitants-Continued.

a Cities of the third order receive from the State the full amount of the salaries of teachers in their public schools.

SECONDARY EDUCATION.

Lycées and colleges for boys.-The department of secondary education in the French system of public instruction comprises the State lycées and the communal colleges. The lycées for boys, which number 111, are classical colleges of a high order maintained by the State, and intended to prepare the élite youth of the nation, by a well-defined course of liberal education, for entrance upon the specialized university training which leads to professional and official careers. The State appropriates annually a sufficient sum to cover the estimated expenditure for the lycées, and receives through an agent appointed for that purpose the income of the respective lycées derived from board and tuition fees. The departments and municipalities also make appropriations for special expenditures for the lycées.

In 1902 about one-third the pupils attending the lycées (19,666 out of a total of 56,869) were boarding pupils. The total expenditure for the lycées for the year named was 40,733,110 francs ($8,146,622), of which 25,437,457 francs ($5,087,491) were for salaries, school equipment, etc., and the remaining 15,295,653 francs ($3,059,130) for the boarding departments. The State and the municipalities promote attendance upon the lycées by scholarship funds, which cover either tuition fees for day pupils, or tuition and board in full or in part. Including these funds, the income of the lycées in 1902 from the various contributing sources was as follows:

The communal colleges for boys are secondary schools established by the communes (cities and towns) in which they are situated and receiving from the State an annual appropriation to aid in the running expenses. They have, so far as they go, the same programmes as the lycées, but seldom maintain the full complement of classes, as students who intend to work up to the bachelor's degree, the goal of secondary education, generally find it for their interest to finish their studies in some one of the lycées. The 204 colleges of this class enrolled 34,218 pupils in 1902, of which number 12,377 were