Lord Kitchener acts quickly. On September 2nd he con. quered
at Omdurman, and this week, in a correspondence with Lord Salisbury and a speech at Edinburgh, he brings forward a proposal to found a Gordon College at Khartoum. He asks the public to subscribe £100,000, with which he will establish a College in the Soudan, where from the first the children of the Sheikhs will be taught English and such elementary subjects as geography. Later on other classes will be admitted, more advanced subjects will be taught, and technical education will be included in the curriculum. Ninety thousand pounds of the money will be care- f ally invested, so that the teachers' salaries may be " guaranteed." The proposal is an admirable one, and with Lord Kitchener's exceptional ability in organisation, is sure to be carried out with energy and success. It has greatly attracted the British public, which has already subscribed £50,000. The only criticisms we feel inclined to offer are that the sum to be raised is far too little, and that, as we explain elsewhere, we hold it an error to make English, instead of Arabic, the basis of the higher education in Ethiopia.
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