The Journal of Education. (William Rice. 7s. 6d.)—This volume keeps
up the excellent tradition of its predecessors. Among the many good things which it contains there is nothing better than the " Notes on Education in 1901," by" An Old Fogey." Not a little of them applies to " Education in 1902." What could be more true than that there has been " an immense amount of move- ment and very little order. The movement has been chiefly of the tongue " ? Some of us, again, for all the talking that there has been during the past year, " do not agree that the condition of elementary schools is the most pressing of the educational problems of the hour." It is, of course, with secondary schools that we, in these columns, are chiefly concerned. In this con- nection we emphasise the opinion quoted by the " Old Fogey," that education is "too much peptonized." What with vocabularies, notes that supply ready-made renderings, &c., most of the whole- some labour of the learner is dispensed with. The writer of this notice learnt his classics from bare texts, grammars written in Latin, and a Greek-Latin lexicon. That would hardly do now, but "lightly got lightly goes." We cannot mention a tenth or a hundredth part of the good things in the Journal, but we may say a word in general praise of the reviews, competent and pointed. What could be better than the sober reproof adminis- tered to the intemperate language of Mr. H. G. Wells in " Antici- pations"?
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