5 JULY 1890, Page 32

Thomas Jefferson on Public Education. By John C. Henderson. (G.

P. Putnam's Sons.)—This volume is one of considerable interest. Jefferson's views on education are worth considering ; not less so are his views on slavery. If his voice had been listened to, what would not have been spared to the States ! There are many things to show that the trouble was not excised even by the radical measures that followed the Civil War. Generations of misrule had left effects, there as elsewhere, which are not soon to be done away. Mr. Henderson deserves the thanks of his countrymen, and of all English-speaking people, for having brought this volume within their reach.