I. EDWARD EVERETT.

EDWARD EVERETT, under whose administration, as Governor of Massachusetts, her Board of Education and her Normal Schools were established; who has distinguished himself in every department of a teacher's occupation, from the charge of a district school to the presidency of our oldest university; whose remarkable powers as an orator have been exerted promptly and effectively on every opportunity for the advancement of education, in all its departments, from the primary school to the lyceum, the university, and the wide diffusion of books to the public, has probably had no object in view so steadily in his active life as the universal education of the people. We devote this article to a condensed sketch of his experiences and exertions in that direction.

We are already accustomed to speak of the New England systems of public instruction as being parts of a well-ordered plan of education established long since, and tested by time. For it is impossible for the great mass of the rising generation to bear in mind the fact that our present arrangements for education, such as they are in New England, are the creation of active men still on the stage; and that those men themselves, in their early training, had scarcely any other advantage than the unwilling schoolboy of Shakspeare's seven ages. With a view to illustrating the rapid growth of our system of education, and of doing some little credit to the principal actors in it, we introduce a sketch of Mr. Everett's work in the improvement of educa tion, by some account of his own earlier life. We shall thus have, within the compass of one biographical sketch, the material of the contrast between what the education of New England was and what it is. In the improvement he has had no small share. And, though. his distinction before the public results perhaps from other causes, he probably believes himself that the work which he has attempted for American education has been with a view to results more vast than any other of his public efforts have aimed at.

We wish the success.