: Youth Vol. I No. 4 June 1902 An Illustrated Monthly Journal for Boys & Girls by Various Coggins Herbert Leonard Editor - Children's literature Periodicals

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INTRODUCTION PAGE

IN THE PAS-DE-CALAIS

IN THE PAS-DE-CALAIS--

Boulogne--Arthur Young and the Boulonnais--Boulogne and Quebec--The English and French types of civilisation--A French ecclesiastic on the religious question--The oppressive school law of 1886--The Church and the Concordat--Rural communes paying double for free schools--Vexatious regulations to prevent establishment of free schools--All ministers of religion excluded from school councils--Government officers control the whole system--Permanent magistrates also excluded--Revolt of the religious sentiment throughout France against the new system--Anxiety of Jules Ferry to make peace with the Church--Energy shown by the Catholics in resistance--St.-Omer--The Spanish and scholastic city of Guy Fawkes and Daniel O'Connell--M. De la Gorce, the historian of 1848--High character of the population--Improvement in tone of the French army--Morals of the soldiers--Devotion of the officers to their profession--Derangement of the Executive in France by the elective principle--The 'laicisation' of the schools--Petty persecutions--Children forbidden to attend the funeral of their priest--The Marist Brethren at Albert--Albert and the Mar?chal d'Ancre--A chapter of history in a name--Little children stinting their own food, to send another child to school--President Carnot and the nose of M. Ferry--French irreligion in the United States--The case of Girard College--Can Christianity be abolished in France?--The declared object of the Republic--Morals of Artois--Dense population--Fanatics of the family--Increase of juvenile crime--American experience of the schools without religion--A New England report on 'atrocious and flagrant crimes in Massachusetts'--Relative increase of native white population and native crime in America--An American Attorney-General calls the public school system 'a poisonous fountain of misery and moral death'--A local heroine of St.-Omer--The statue of Jacqueline Robins--The Duke of Marlborough and the Jesuits College--A curious sidelight on English politics in 1710--How St.-Omer escaped a siege 23-43

IN THE PAS-DE-CALAIS--

IN THE PAS-DE-CALAIS--

IN THE SOMME

Amiens--Picardy Old and New--Arthur Young and Charles James Fox in Amiens--'The look of a capital'--The floating gardens of Amiens--A stronghold of Boulangism--Protest of Amiens against the Terror of 1792--The French nation and the Commune of Paris--Vergniaud denounces the Parisians as the 'slaves of the vilest scoundrels alive'--Gambetta and his balloon--Amiens and the Revolution of September 1870--The rise of M. Goblet--The 'great blank credit opened to the Republic in 1870'--What has become of it--The Prussians in Amiens--Warlike spirit of the Picards--A political portrait of M. Goblet by a fellow citizen--A Roman son and his father's funeral--A typical Republican senator and mayor--How M. Petit demolished the crosses in the cemetery--M. Spuller as Prefect of the Somme--The Christian Brothers and their schools--M. Jules Ferry withholds the salaries earned by teachers--The Emperor Julian of Amiens--How the Sisters were turned out of their schools--The mayor, the locksmith, and the curate--Mdlle. de Colombel--A senatorial epistle--Ulysses deserted by Calypso--Why Boulangism flourishes at Amiens--The First Republic invoked to justify the destruction of crosses on graves--The Cathedral of Amiens and Mr. Ruskin. 73-94

IN THE SOMME--

IN THE AISNE

St.-Gobain--Paris and the Ile-de-France--Reclamation of the commons--Mischievous haste in the Revolutionary transfer of lands--The evolution of property and o

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