Crasus Minor : his Education, and its Results. By Austin
Pember, M.A. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—There is much truth in what Mr. Pember urges against modern developments of upper- class education. Sometimes he overstates his case. When Mr. Mark Pattison said that " 70 per cent. of the students at Oxford were idle," he probably exaggerated. Anyhow, he was speaking of a past state of things. The multiplication of honour schools has made, or, perhaps we should say, marks a great difference. Sometimes the writer fails to make his meaning plain, as, e.g., with regard to the "education society" which he suggests on p. 85. Does he mean that boys are to be sent to be treated like dishes in an experimental cookery school ? Often we find ourselves quite in agreement with him, as when he heartily condemns that dis- graceful orgy, the Eton and Harrow match. But surely in this passage (105 seq.) he takes Mr. Andrew Lang too seriously.
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