3 JANUARY 1891, Page 33

Manua/ Training. By C. M. Woodward. (Walter Scott.)—The proper proportion

between manual and mental training has been, and will always be, a difficult and doubtful question. To combine the two smoothly would indeed be a triumph. The writer thinks that some portions of manual training can train the imagination, and says that manual students can form ideal images of purely ideal things. Nevertheless, we doubt if manual exercises will over enter into early school-life with any success. Schoolboys do not find mental and manual work compatible,—that is to say, true mental education. It seems to take more hold when learnt exclusively.