Excerpt from Report of the British and Foreign School Society to the General Meeting, May, 1816: With an Appendix, and a List of Subscribers and Benefactors It is therefore with sensations of great delight, that we turn from a picture so truly melancholy, to review the great and successful efforts which have been made during the last eighteen months. In a former Report your Committee had the satisfaction to state the success of the first efforts of the Com mittee of Instruction in Paris, and the zeal and activity with which they were pursumg their grand object. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.