9 JUNE 1894, Page 15

ELE HENTARY EDUCATION.

[To TER EDITOR OF THE "Srsoveros."] SIR,—If Mr. Hunt's intention when he related his adventure, in the Spectator of June 2nd, with the Wesleyan schoolboy, was to provide us with another "howler," I must congratulate him on his success. Permit me to state, however, as being for three years Clerical Secretary to the Wesleyan Day Schools in Worcester, that we have never used our privilege as educationalists to teach in elementary schools the facts concerning John Wesley. The boy's surprise at the questions was, I presume, equal to the Bishop's when he was asked, "How many legs has a caterpillar got ? "—I am, Sir, &c.,