Secondary Education in Liverpool. Report by Michael E. Sadler. (Eyre
and Spottiswoode. 2s. 6d.)—Professor Sadler, in- structed by the Education Committee of the city of Liverpool, inspected the secondary schools of that city. These numbered fifty-nine in all, of which twenty-one were public, averaging ninety-five scholars in each, and thirty-eight private, averaging fifteen. There is something unsatisfactory in the figures of the latter class, and in their uncertain tenure of existence,—fifty-four schools were addressed, of which four were discontinued before the time came for an answer ; of the forty-three which sent an answer, one disappeared while the inquiry was going on. Again, the general condition of things is not what could be wished. The schools are 'badly off, being almost wholly without endowment ; the masters are ill-paid ; they have too many pupils to teach ; the boys leave too soon,—at the High School of the Liverpool Institute 72 per cent. of those leaving under sixteen had been less than four years in the schools. " Secondary Education "—it is thus that Professor Sadler sums up the case—"means at present far less to Liverpool than it means to Hamburg or to Boston or New York." It is needless to add anything to that sentence.
First Report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum. By the Director, Andrew Balfour,
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