THE HON. MR. LEGGE AND THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “SPECTATOR:1
Sus,—Obscurity certainly has the disadvantage of rendering those who are sunk in it liable to strange misrepresentation.
I was, I confess, more amused than troubled to find myself dragged out of my obscurity by the Spectator to be coupled (even laypothetically) with Canon Gregory as an "almost revolutionary denominationalist." A denominationalist undoubtedly I am, for I believe that no uniform system of education (including, of course, religious instruction in the term) can be truly national in this country. But while criticising the expenditure of the late School Board for London, I have everywhere frankly admitted that much of their work was necessary and was well done. I am sure that the worthy Canon himself would, from the little he knows of me, be the first to disclaim the absolute coincidence of
P.S.—As the necessity of enforcing attendance at school by compulsory measures in rural districts has frequently been main- tained in your columns, allow me to call attention to a short pamphlet entitled "School Attendance Secured without Compul- sion," by Rev. W. D. Parish, Vicar of Selmerston, Sussex, which appears to me to suggest a "more excellent way" of attaining the desired end.
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