A great many good candidates are now canvassing for the
Metropolitan Education Board, amongst them Mr. Hughes, (M.P. for Frome), and Lord Edward Fitzmaurice, (M.P. for Caine), both of them for Westminster ; and both profess themselves willing to withdraw if their claims should be thought by a competent arbi- ter unequal to those of their rivals. Miss Garrett and Professor Huxley are both actively canvassing Marylebone, and both, we hope, likely to succeed. Miss Garrett's friends have put out a list of generally sound reasons for her election, enumerating her knowledge of medicine and of all sanitary matters, her special knowledge of two of the poorest districts in. London, and the help she would give in the management of the girls' schools. But one reason given is not so good,—that women are more in favour of economy than men. No doubt they are, but it is too often apt to be a niggling sort of economy, such as we do not exactly want on our • School Boards, and from any tendency to which we have little doubt Miss Garrett is quite free. And is it true that women are "less likely to be influenced by party and political motives "? Possibly. But if they are BO influenced,—and women in public life generally are,—they are likely to be very much more influenced by them than men. We speak of women in general, very likely not of Miss Garrett, who certainly ought to be returned.
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