PREFATORY NOTE. In the plan of the American Year Book, as originally projected, the editor of the American Journal of Education was to have furnished the statistics of schools of different grades, and of charitable institutions, anticipating the pleasure, as his compensation for this labor of love, of being able to send a copy of the Year Book to each subscriber of the Journal for 1869. Although he was obliged to transfer the labor of compilation to another hand, he has arranged with the publishers of the Year Book, to bind up a sufficient number of copies, in the usual style of the Journal, to supply those who continue as subscribers, with this valuable manual of the statistics of area, population, government, religion, and resources of the different countries of the world. H. B. |