10 DECEMBER 1898, Page 14

THE GORDON MEMORIAL COLLEGE. (To vas EDITOR or Tea "

SPRCTATOR.1 SIR,—Do you really suppose the teaching in the Gordon Memorial College will be in English P Of course it will be is Arabic, and English will be taught, just as French is taught in English schools, and as a compulsory subject. —I am,

Constitutional Club, Northumberland Avenue, December 3rd.

[Our experience is that if an Asiatic College teaches English, it soon teaches in English. The comfort of the teachers is so much greater, and English pays, in appoint- ments, so much more rapidly.—En. Spectator.]