19 JUNE 1920, Page 15

A NEW SCIENCE.

[Taeirs EDITOR OF THE " EPEOTLTOR."] Sin,—It is interesting to find that " A New Science," under which title you review Mr. E. A. Craddock's Class Boom Republic, is, at any rate in some of its practical devices, not so entirely new. The scheme there referred to, of dividing the class into A's and B's, and pitting one side against the other, was adopted and made to take a prominent part in his govern- ment of the school by John Brinsley, who was Head-Master of Ashby-de-la-Zouch Grammar School three hundred years ago, and le fully set out in his book Ludes Literarius, published in 1612.-1 am, Sir, &c., J. H. JOYCE. Woodville, W. Burton-on-Trent,