CAPTAIN CRAIGI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will publish as a Parliamentary Paper all the correspondence which, has reached the National Board of Education in Ireland on the subject of Brown and Nolan's Sixth or 292 Advanced Reader, as well as the Memorandum from the Chief Inspector, a protest from the Elementary Education Committee of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Memoranda from individual Commissioners, a letter from the editorial secretary of the Imperial Protestant Federation, copies of minutes of the Board on the subject, and any other memoranda or protests; and whether any steps are to be taken to withdraw the reader.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Commissioners of National Education inform me that they do not consider that any useful purpose would be served by the publication of the correspondence and other documents referred to in the Question. Brown and Nolan's Advanced Reader for the sixth standard is not one of the books which have been sanctioned by the Commissioners for use in National Schools, and in all cases in which it has come to the knowledge of the Commissioners that the book was in use they have called on the managers to have such use discontinued.
CAPTAIN CRAIGMay we take it that every precaution will be taken to prevent its being used in the future?
§ MR. BIRRELLI have no doubt the Commissioners will do their duty.