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HISTORICAL SERIES.

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ANTE LIMEN.

A New Latin Book for Younger Beginners, based upon LIMEN. Compiled, under the Guidance of Professors WALTERS and CONWAY, by Miss R. H. REES, B.A. Is. 6d.

ANTE LIMEN has been written in response to requests received from teachers who are using LIMEN and approve of its methods, but desire as well a book suitable for younger beginners. The lines of the parent book have been closely followed, though the arrangement is different: the Reading lessons, Exercises, and Vocabularies have been arranged in three parallel divisions. The oral method is employed from the start, and the simple nature of the earliest questions ought to disarm any teacher who is diffident about his powers of using it.

A KEY TO ANTE LIMEN has been published, and may be obtained by authenticated teachers. Price 2s. 8d. post free.

LIMEN: A FIRST LATIN BOOK.

By W. C. F. WALTERS, M.A., Professor of Classical Literature in King's College, London; and R. S. CONWAY, Litt.D., Professor of Latin in the University of Manchester. Third Revised Edition. 2s. 6d. Also in

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A KEY TO LIMEN has been published, and may be obtained by authenticated teachers. Price 2s. 8d. post free.

LIMEN is now in its third large edition. The publisher has been in correspondence with some hundreds of teachers, and no one who has given it a trial has reported otherwise than favourably on the results obtained by its use in class: it will be admitted that this is notable evidence of the soundness of the lines of the book.

A New Work by C. R. L. FLETCHER.

THE MAKING OF WESTERN EUROPE.

Being an attempt to trace the fortunes of the Children of the Roman Empire. By C. R. L. FLETCHER, so.netime Fellow of All Souls and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford. With Maps. Demy 8vo. The Dark Ages. 300-1000 A.D. 7s. 6d. net.

ELEMENTARY GEOMETRY.

By A. E. LAYNG, M.A., late Head Master of Stafford Grammar School. Complete, 3s. 6d. Also in parts.

As regards the fundamental part, this book follows the lines indicated in the Circular on the Teaching of Geometry issued by the Board of Education in 1909.

The Theorems and Constructions enunciated in the Syllabus on Elementary Geometry issued by Cambridge University constitute the "book-work." The order in which theorems are placed has been chosen with the view of grouping together, as far as possible, closely allied theorems: for instance, the three fundamental theorems relating to congruent triangles. Among the exercises are included nearly all the questions set in the Cambridge Local Examinations during the last eight years.

THE ROMANCE OF WORDS.

By ERNEST WEEKLEY, M.A., Professor of French and Head of the Modern Language Department at University College, Nottingham. This work deals in a popular fashion with the latest results of modern philology. Special attention is given to the unexpected in the history of words, and, while demolishing several of the fables which are usually found in works on etymology, it shows that in word life, as in human life, truth is stranger than fiction.

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THE STORY OF THE EMPIRE.

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LECTURES SCOLAIRES.

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This new series of reading books, divided into three grades, consists for the most part of new and interesting stories hitherto unpublished in England, and specially written for the young by the best French authors.

One of the chief features of the books is that the questions are facing the text. These questions are divided into two parts, the first being questions on the meaning, while the remainder deal with the grammar of the page facing them. Both the questions and the notes at the end of the book are written entirely in French.

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OCCASIONAL NOTES.

HE Times tells us that Mr. C. Montague Barlow I will shortly introduce an Amending Bill into the House of Commons designed to remove the disabilities under which certain secondary schools suffer with regard to the receipt of Government grants. The regulations of the Board exclude from participation in grants secondary schools which give religious instruction save on the written demand of parents; schools which require a religious qualification for teachers or trustees; and schools in which the majority of the governors are not chosen from elected authorities. Mr. Barlow's Bill would remove these disabilities. It is backed by Lord Robert Cecil, Mr. Alfred Cripps, and others. In ele

sent together the interests of about 12,000 teachers engaged otherwise than in elementary schools. Numerous promises of support have been already received, and meetings in different parts of the country to make the scheme known have been already arranged. The Society ought to be exceptionally strong, as it will evidently be able to offer exceptional benefits, inasmuch as the teaching profession has a magnificent health record, and at present secondary schools are mainly staffed with men and women in the prime of life. We feel confident that the new society can be recommended from a business point of view; and, incidentally, it will prove of no little service in developing an increased sense of professional fellowship, for it will unite a large number of individuals, including teachers in private families and in proprietary schools, for the purpose of mutual help in sickness and old age. It is the idea of the promoters

MR. F. H. COLSON, in the last Times Educational

An Apology for Cambridge Locals.

Supplement, defends the Cambridge Locals as sufficient for the needs of schools, and on this ground condemns the examination scheme of Consultative Board as supererogatory. As a schoolmaster of long experience, both as Assistant and Head, Mr. Colson is a weighty witness; and we can quite believe that in the schools where he has served the teachers have not been tempted to play at hide and seek with the examiners, and that the Locals have been used to gauge the standard of a form's work from year to year. But we should like to know the proportion of schools in which a whole form is sent in, and whether Mr. Colson considers that the number of passes and distinctions obtained is any test of the comparative merits of schools. And we doubt whether the Cambridge Syndicate will welcome their advocate, for the reforms he desires would reduce by half the number of entries. He would prohibit the publication of "results" for advertisement purposes; he would not allow the examinations to be used "sporadically," and he considers the limit of age prescribed by the Board of Education for presenting pupils for an external examination-" not under fifteen -too low.

denominational and council schools; and the same principle may well be applied in the secondary sphere. But the present temper of the House of Commons is opposed to the financial support of denominational schools, so that the Bill has little chance of becoming law.

Divinity Degrees.

the proposal of the Senate of Durham University to admit Nonconformists to Divinity degrees, he is clearly dying in the last ditch. At Oxford, as an Oxford correspondent of the Times reports, such a proposal would undoubtedly be carried by Convocation if it were not for out-voters. During the last twenty years thirty-nine members of Mansfield College have taken University prizes in theology, and the same College has obtained nine first classes in the theological school, yet none of these men can take theological degrees, however distinguished. The anomaly affects a comparatively small number, but it enforces the conclusion to which the recent vote on the question of compulsory Greek led us, that the Government is bound before long to take measures for reforming the constitution of Oxford and Cambridge.

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Penny-Wisdom of L.C.C.

N the Education Committee of the London County Council a cheese-paring policy is still in the ascendant. The reduction in the size of classes proceeds at the rate of less than 1 per cent. per annum, and, as Mr. Gautrey warned the Committee, unless the pace was quickened, they stood in danger of incurring another £10,000 fine by the Board of Education. Miss Wallas and Miss Adler pleaded in vain for an additional £500 for the scheme of dental treatment, and a motion to increase by the same amount the grant for nursing treatment was likewise rejected.

MR. PATON is often picturesque in his language.

A Pair of Shoes.

If education be likened to a pair of shoes, then it is clearly not right that two feet should live in one pair of shoes, and not know each other all the time. "It does not conduce to progress when the right foot does not know what the left foot is doing, and the left foot does not care in which direction the right foot is going." The two feet are, of course, the elementary and secondary branches of education. In Manchester Mr. Paton has done something to keep the movements of the two feet in accord by accepting the presidency of the Manchester Association of the National Union of Teachers. In his presidential address Mr. Paton said: We are all teachers. We are working for the same end, on the same material, in the hope of the same harvest. As such we cannot know too much of each other." Most teachers in both branches of the profession will endorse this expression of feeling, though the Head Masters' Conference may complain that Mr. Paton has declined to put the right foot into the right shoe.

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THE HE sum needed (£100,000) for the building, equipment, and endowment of Queen Mary's Hostel has been subscribed; and this most important scheme for the education of women in the science of the Queen Mary's household is assured a successful future. Hostel. The object of the scheme is not merely to provide an outlet for the energies of women with scientific proclivities, nor merely to train teachers of domestic economy. It strikes far deeper. A scientific

age has long been shocked at the persistence in the home of unscientific methods of cooking, cleaning, and nursing. Many efforts have been made to bring scientific knowledge home to the domestic worker and organizer. In the words of a circular issued by the promoters, the object is to foster a sounder knowledge of the laws which govern health, sanitation, and household economy. The moral and physical welfare of our country depends primarily on the training and healthy upbringing of its children." It is hoped to raise the whole standard of home life and to substitute trained experience for instinct

believe, upwards of three hundred students, and inevitably the number will increase with increased accommodation. But, if girls are to have the same opportunities as boys, there is still one thing lacking. Hardly an old endowed secondary school but has its valuable scholarships to the Universities. Such helps to study are largely to seek in secondary schools for girls. Here is an opportunity for men of wealth who wish to serve their country. Girls' schools need funds for scholarships, in order that no pupil capable of profiting by a University education should be debarred by poverty from doing so.

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The Rights of the Father.

R. CLIFFORD'S criticisms upon Cardinal Bourne's speech have produced a letter in the Times from Mr. W. S. Lilly which indirectly raises a point of great importance. Mr. Lilly says that the Catholic Church has always most emphatically recognized the right and duty of the father to determine and direct the religious education of his children." The law of England, he adds, is precisely that of the Catholic Church, and he quotes Lord O'Hagan as follows: The authority of the father to guide and govern the education of his children is a very sacred thing, bestowed by the Almighty." The point to which we wish to direct attention is this: the Catholic Church, as it appears, and also the law of the country, assign to the father the right of control over the education of his children. There are cases where the mother and the father do not agree as to the education, religious or otherwise, suitable for the children. In these cases the law ignores the mother, and apparently the Catholic Church does the same.

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Equal Salaries for Men and Women.

ROM advertisements in the newspapers we gather that a large number of appointments under the new Insurance Act will be offered to men and women. The salaries offered to men clerks range from £60 to £150. Men managers begin at 150 and may rise to £300. The salaries offered to women clerks range from £60 to £150. Women managers begin at £150 and may rise to £300. These facts are very significant. Whoever are responsible for them deserve congratulations both for their sound views of economics and for their recognition of woman's claim to equal pay for equal work. If the work can be done equally well by either men or women, then the pay should be equal. If men can do the work better, then men will get the appointments. Employers by using the services of women merely because they are cheaper, often bring it about that the man tramps the streets looking for work, the children are neglected, and the house is maintained on the meagre earnings of the wife.

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disproportion between the earnings of men and

women.

The Cheaper Woman.

A few authorities-e.g. the London County Council and the Central Welsh Boardmake no distinction in payment between men and women Inspectors and examiners. The inequality of payment in the case of men and women Inspectors under the Board of Education is most marked. No doubt it is the Treasury that exercises the power, but we hope that before long the Board will be able to convince the Treasury of the need of equitable treatment for men and women Inspectors. In schools there is a distinct, but slow, movement towards making