Statistical The (Report of the of Education, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education' (Washington 1915, pp. 711-717) includes the following sta tistics of education in Italy: The number of pupils in infant schools in 1907-08 was 343,563 and 34,900 in orphan asylums; in elementary public schools 3,002,168 and elementary private schools 148,081; in evening and holiday schools (new style) 182,373 enrolled and 127,948 in constant attendance. In 1911-12 the number of pupils (including auditors) attending normal schools was 20,961 (boys 3,727 and girls 17,234); in complementary (girl's) schools, 24,254; in egimnass,s 48,406; in licei, 15,867; in technical schools, 94,031; in technical institutes, 22,181; in nautical institutes, 1,730. In 1912-13 the number of students in special and practical schools of agriculture was 1,716; in mining schools, 59; in industrial schools 50,550; in in stitutes of fine arts, 4,362; in institutes of music, 5,569. The universities and university schools annexed to royal licei were given as 24 in number, with 23,376 students; the university institutes, schools of higher education for women, and special higher institutes, 28 in number, had 7,251 students. Military schools
(12) had 3,630 students or cadets; the four naval schools, as a total, 586. Organized efforts were made in 1915 to attract •more foreign students' to Italian universities or other institutions of the higher learning. Other items in the education report, 1915 (above cited), of special interest to American readers, are the following: pictures are now coming to be used in Italy for educational pur poses. A moving-picture establishment (for such uses) was opened last November in Rome in the of the Thermal Baths of Diocletian under the auspices of the national in stitute (Minerva.) Again, "Between 1872 and 1911 (statistics from Annuario statistico italiano for 1913, the latest published, issued by Direzione Generale della Statistica e del Lavoro) illiteracy was reduced from 68.8 per cent to 37.6 per cent. Recent advises indicate that the decline in illiteracy in Italy has been accelerated, but no statistics are available." Vrrrosto Puirrorrt, Rector of the Royal University of Bologna.