A letter from "A London Clergyman," in a subsequent page,
calla our attention to an important series of lectures, which the Reverend Mr. Maurice is about to deliver to a West-end audience. There are schools for children about the country, more or less indifferent, the majority wretched. This partly arises from the bad training of teachers, but still more from a presumption that children are only allowed time for a wretchedly meagre "education." What becomes of them after they have left the schools for the very young ? This is a question that stares in the face every thoughtful inhabitant of a large town. No man, from his re- searches into education, and into the condition and difficulties of the
working classes, is better able than Mr. Maurice to grapple With that subject ; and besides treating it as a whole, we learn by his syllabus that he Means especially to discuss the combination of teaching with the un- interrupted pursuit of industry, the secondary tuition of those above mere childhood, and the actual foundation of a college for Working Men in London. The course of lectures will cone* of six, to be delivered weekly, at three o'clock every Thursday, in Willis's Rooms; to begin on Thursday next.
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