31 OCTOBER 1868, Page 13

MR. FEARON'S REPORT ON SCOTCH SCHOOLS.

(TO TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1

Sllt,—In to-day's Niwelator, page 1227, you say, "The essay [ill the Westminster Review] on Middle-Class Schools' does not im- press us very favourably. The author does not seem to have seen the criticisms which have been passed on a document on which he much relies, Mr. learon's Report on Scotch Schools."

Will you kindly inform me ill what publication I shall find those criticisms to which you refer, and which have apparently given you an uufavourable opinion of the trustworthiness of my report. — [The review to which we referred was, we believe, in the North British Review for June. We have not yet had an oppor- tunity of again referring to the article,—the first, on education, —and it is quite possible we may have exaggerated its im- portance.—En. Spectatur.1