SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week aa have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The University of Toronto and its Colleges. (The University Library, Toronto.)—An outsider will do well not to pronounce an opinion on the various movements, efforts, and, we might say, conflicts which have ended in the establishment of the University ..f Toronto. The story, told, as it seems to us, with judicial Impartiality, may be read in the first three chapters of this
volume by Mr. N. Burwash, President of Victoria College. Mr. F. A. Moure follows with a brief statement of the finances of the University. The income in 1904 is stated at £46,000 (about), of which about two-fifths comes from a Government grant. This, indeed, appears to vary according to varying needs ; it makes up the deficit. The various Faculties, the constituent Colleges, both of Arts and Theology, the affiliated institutions, and other matters are then described. The number of graduates has increased, we see, from six in 1844 to four hundred and sixty-two in 1904. This increase was rapid in the last two decades for which figures are given, the total for 1885 being a hundred and nine, a number which, it will be seen, has been more than quadrupled. It is worth noting that the multiplication of the kinds of degree con- ferred has been successful. Up to 1885 there were but seven, all in Art, Law, and Medicine; now ten more have been added. These between them account for a hundred and thirty-two in a total increase of three hundred and fifty-three. Paedagogics, indicated by the letters B. Paed. and D. Paed., do not seem to flourish. It is a pity that there is not a more general belief that there is an art of teaching. This is the one thing which is supposed to come by nature.
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