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The author makes a deep study of solitariness and the emotional responses that this state provokis in man. Solitariness schows two faces a sad one and a glad one. Weariness, spleen and anguish are the expressions of its first aspect. But man has the possibility of drawing good from bad situations. In order to do that, man must be able to speak o things with himself and with God. The schoolmaster in rural areas meets with two kinds of weariness, the personal and the professional one, wich, besides spleen and the fact of being the objetc of the countrymen's

In order to make his article more comprehensible the author presents the philosophies of education that predominated at the end of the last century and the evolutive development of the scientific mind in Pedagogy. To this end he makes a distinction between experimental Pedagogy and empirical Pedagogy. This distincion leads to blame the lack of scientific mind of several modern schools. Besides he clearly explains the debated problem on the relationships and differences among Psichology, Educational Psichology and experimental Pedagogy. After pointing

The actor intends to determine the knowledge of Spanish ortography that must be specially known by the pupils of the primary and secondary schools. He makes a critical study of the directions followed in this didactic division of ortography: study of rules, learning of incidental vocabulary and mastery of the usual vocabulary. The first point, knowledge of the ortography rules is an application of the generalized experience principle about the transfer of learning. The author does not admit that the Spanish language has rules enough of general validity