Sunday-Schools in Bohemia.
It appears that Bohemia contained just one Protestant Sunday-school in the year 186. In the next dozen years, nine more were opened; and it is only during the last four years that the schools have rapidly multiplied, until they now number 131, with 342 teachers and 4,000 children. The need of lesson helps for lesson-study is felt in Bohemia even more than elsewhere, because there the schools, being to an exceptional degree schools of the common people, taught by many who have had but slight education, and who are consequently in constant want of suggestion and instruction, lose in interest and power when the lesson papers cease to circulate. The Bohemian language is spoken by seven millions of people, yet it thus far contains no Bible dictionary, no Bible atlas, no Bible concordance, and only an antiquated and meager Bible commentary,—facts which again add to the importance of the lesson periodicals, to which teachers must, of course, look for needed information, inaccessible elsewhere.—Sel.