THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON PHYSICAL TRAINING IN SCOTLAND.
[TO TER EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of March 21st you comment, in noticing the Report of the above, as follows :—" We may, we think, fairly claim that in effect the Commission recommends that compulsory physical education of a military character' which we have so persistently advocated in these columns as the necessary complement to our present compulsory literary education." Copies of the Report have been pre- sented to both Houses of Parliament, but sufficient copies have not yet been printed for public issue : when this takes place I hardly think it will be found that the physical training which we recommend for children is accurately described as being "of a military character."—I am, Sir, &c.,
ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS.
[We shall not be wrong, we trust, if we amend our phrase to " physical education of a character to render men fit for the duty of bearing arms in defence of their country."—En. Spectator.]
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