28 DECEMBER 1895, Page 16

THE HUMOURS OF SCHOOL BILLS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR.".1

Sin,—The above subject is usually as devoid of amusing features as anything can well be. But it was distinctly re- freshing when my two boys came home for the Christmas holidays from a well-known Irish school, to find a charge for "Instruction in Boxing" put down as an extra subject under the subhead "Natural Science." A school-bursar with a taste for humour can evidently do much to alleviate the depressing effect of the documents which parents receive at this season