Heie are given I very full particulars of the changes in distribution of population during the last ten years. and of the amount of education still required by its various classes. The report calculates that more than half the Englishspeaking people of the earth live now in the United States. which in size and population has become the fourth nation of the world. Rather more than oneeighth. six and a half out of fifty millions. of its inhabitants are immigrants. and a singularly similar proportion exists between the colored and the white population. Emigration is a stream westward. not only across the Atlantic but across the continent of America. It would seem to an Englishman in his own land that this " unsettled" state of the country must loosen all the feeling of attachment to the soil suggested by the word "home." but it must. as the report describes. tend immensely to consolidate the widespread territories. On no point does England show to such disadvantage by the side of the United States as in the matter of free libraries. * * * * * * * The chief of the four recommendations with which the report ends is the appropriation of more national land for the purposes of education in impoverished portions of the country.
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