19 APRIL 1919, Page 22

Lord Chamwood has an admirable article on " The Problem

of the Humanities in English Education " in the April number of the Anglo-French Review (Dent, 2s. 6d. net). There must, he thinks, be "some curtailment of classics in schools," but it will do no harm to Greek studies. "It is curious to reflect how hopelessly alien to the Greek conception of education would have been the idea of compulsory Greek." Sir Sidney Lee writes on "King Edward's Friendship for France." Pro- fessor Friedel urges with much force that one way of forming a solid base for a League of Nations would be to promote a closer union between the British, French, and American Universities, with periodical Congresses which would interest the public in their work.