CURRENT LITERATURE.
Manual of Continuation Schools. By C. H. Wyatt. (Heywood.) —The increasing efforts to instil some amount of education into our working-class population are well illustrated by this able and clear little book by the clerk to the Manchester School Board. Who a few years ago would have contemplated one hundred thousand of that class learning organic chemistry, electricity, and modelling P If only our people can by such schools, whether day or evening, be induced not to consider their education finished when they leave school at thirteen, we shall yet retain our lead in industrial Europe. Meanwhile, we could wish that School Boards would keep their hands off secondary education under the form of Higher-grade Schools. That is the business of the old Grammar Schools and the new educational authority, the County Councils, who can do it much better and with more freedom.
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