A NEW SCIENCE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sia,—Referring to the letter under this title in a recent issue, it may interest your readers to know that a similar method of teaching was adopted by the late Professor Samuel J. MacMullan, of Queen's College, Belfast, when he was Head- Master of Cookstown Academy, in County Tyrone, fifty years ago. He chose two senior boys, and allowed them to call sides until all the boys were arranged in two groups in opposition to each other ; Mr. MacMullan sat in the middle of the school with an atlas on his knees; any boy in group A was at 'liberty to name any place on any map, and if a boy in group B was able to point the place out inside a certain number of seconds, the boy in A was obliged to change sides, and become a member of group B. Then a boy in group B would name another place, and if a boy in A found it in the given time group A secured a prisoner from B, and this contiaued for half an hour. After a few Saturdays' practise it was almost impossible to name a spot in the world which could not be instantly found.—I am,
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