SUNDAY

First set on foot by Mr. Robert Parkes of Gloucester. According to Mr. Hill, in ' his recent work on national education, the number of children at present frequenting Sunday schools varies from 800,000 to 900,000. The average length of a Sunday school education he estimates at four years; the education given is almost uniformly confined to reading alone; 1089 SCIURINES. but many Sunday schools appear to have evening schools connected with them, open two or three times a week, in which writing and arithmetic are taught. [s. 1102]