16 NOVEMBER 1889, Page 44

The Sacrifice of Education to Examination. Edited by Auberon Herbert.

(Williams and Norgate.)—Here are massed together some two hundred letters from "all sorts and conditions of men," edited, or rather collected, by Mr. Herbert, who adds a contribu- tion of his own, which, as may be supposed, is as readable, if not as valuable, as any. Mr. Herbert's remedies for the evil he and his friends complain of seem a little unpractical. It is simply idle to talk of handing over all college and school endowments to primary education. It will not be done,—and why should it ? Very few things more disastrous could be done, or more unjust. As for the notion that the Universities and endowed schools were founded for the classes that use the primary schools, it is baseless.