We are glad to hear that the Professors of University
College, London, have undertaken to commence courses of lectures for women on the same plan as those which have had so great a suc- cess in Edinburgh,—lectures, that is, not ornamental, just skimming off the popular and easy portions of classical and scientific subjects, but thorough courses, intended to teach, and not amuse. Two courses will be commenced in February,—probably English litera- ture, and either Physics or Chemistry. At the beginning of the next session new courses will be added. We hope they will succeed,—but London is much more sluggish in such matters than the great provincial cities,—Manchester and Edinburgh,— if Edinburgh will pardon our including her under such a cate- gory. In London there is always too much going on that really does amuse women, to drive them into the arms of true study.
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