It was to them he attributed the whispered gibes about his illiteracy; his shady business methods; the awful story of his handiwork in the ruin of Richard Perley, the spendthrift brother of the Misses Perley.

" His illiteracy and lack of polish were the secret grief of the rich man's life.

"But what would you say was the first thing needed in the fight against the almost total illiteracy of the freedmen?" "Why, teachers, I suppose," said J.W.

" "I should add that Viscount Harberton sees a chance for his own order in the circumstance that, while the poor man's child is driven to school by the inspector, the rich man can 'boot the spy out,' and so confer on his children the priceless boon of complete illiteracy.

Under German influence illiteracy will disappear from among them.

In places where the blacks once had the privilege of getting an elementary education, only an inconceivable fraction of them could rise above illiteracy.

In view of this renewed interest in the education of the Negroes of the South we are anxious to know exactly what proportion of the colored population had risen above the plane of illiteracy.

The report on illiteracy shows further the differences resulting from the divergent educational policies of the two sections.

In all such commonwealths except Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida, and Mississippi there was an increase in illiteracy among the free blacks.

Notwithstanding the increase of persons of color resulting from the influx of the migrating element, there was in all free States exclusive of California, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania a decrease in the illiteracy of Negroes.

In the Northern States where this condition did not obtain, the benevolent whites had, in coöperation with the Negroes, done much to reduce illiteracy among them during these years.

Hence princes, chiefs and members of the noble families in India have seldom been educated and until recently this illiteracy was not considered a discredit, because it was so common.

"Well, it's just as well, my dear, that you should know at the very beginning what a perfect monster of illiteracy he is!

English bishops were deprived of their sees for illiteracy, and French abbots were set over monasteries of Saxon monks.

The corresponding Old English terms were forgotten during the age of illiteracy, and when, generations later, the speaker of English came again to deal with such subjects, he had to do like Layamon, when he knew no longer tungol-croeft, and could refer to it only as 'the craft ihote astronomie in other kunnes speche.' Also Medulla Grammaticae, or usually Grammatice.

HUSE, H. R. The illiteracy of the literate; a guide to the art of intelligent reading.

A Dog's best friend is his illiteracy.

Without close examination and thorough tests, illiteracy generally passes as subnormality.

"Women know as well as, and perhaps more than men, the evils which result from the illiteracy of people and their unsanitary conditions.

There is more illiteracy now than at the close of the war, because education has not kept pace with the increase of the race.

How strange, that in localities in which there is such frightful illiteracy the school authorities should fail to welcome, with large-hearted cordiality, teachers who come among them.

The white people, as well as the colored, need missionary schools, as the illiteracy among them is appalling.

Education; illiteracy and general ignorance; in hands of clergy; new interest in; first college; schools.

There is a wide diversity in human beings ranging from herculean physical strength to pitiable weakness; from the mental power of genius to the nonentity of imbecility; from outstanding and unquestionable talent in arts and letters to illiteracy and clumsy inefficiency.

It reproves the abbots for their illiteracy, and exhorts them to the study of letters; and although its effect was less than its purpose, it served, with subsequent decrees of the king, to stimulate learning and literature throughout all Germany.