CLASSICAL EDUCATION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am
afraid that Mr. L. H. Scott is again vexed with me, this time for missing the point of his first letter, which he plaintively tells us he put in italics. I have not got this letter by me, but if it was like his second letter in which he uses italics seven times and inverted commas twenty-three times, I must have lost my way among so many sign-posts. Since he has referred to my advanced age and experience in such flattering terms, I am sure he will permit me to tell him that our knowledge of Athenian education is not, as he says, at all scanty. If he will read K. J. Freeman's Schools of Hellas, and look up the references, he will know quite a lot about it. And then, I trust, he and I will be quite at one.
Finally, he speaks most warmly about an article called " Classical Education " which appeared lately in your columns
and was signed with my name. Mr. Scott thinks this curious, and begs me to study it. But is he serious, or is lie guilty of scholastic irony ? If the latter, he ought (when Dr. Lyttelton is not looking) to go to see the play called Young Woodley. He will find there an Awful Example of it, which I am sure will prevent him from doing such a thing again.—I am, Sir, &e., [We cannot continue this correspondence.—En. Spectator.]
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