COMPULSORY GREEK.
(To THE EDITOR Or THM "SPECTATOR."3
Sra,-If Greek should cease to be compulsory for admission to Oxford and Cambridge, in a few years it will disappear from English education. Ten years has been enough to drive it from all schools in Scotland, except some half-dozen. In America the process has gone a step further; not only has it disappeared from most schools, but there are no longer masters able to teach it. Scotland sets more value by intellectual education than England does, and we may expect it to go in less than ten years here. Once gone, it will be no easy task to replace it, when experience has shown that the best part of intellectural education has gone. It does not seem to be a matter for jubilation, such as is expressed An Dr. Macan's letter.-! am, Sir, Sic., W. H. D. Rouse. Perse School House, Glebe Road, Cambridge.
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