Eton, by extending for twelve months Mr. Claud Elliott's head-
mastership, gives itself that much longer to look for a successor. That, I imagine, is the chief reason for the extension, though no one would suggest that Mr. Elliott will be any less efficient in his sixty-first year than in his sixtieth. But headmasters are difficult to find these days, as Rugby recently discovered ; it is hardly to be supposed that the possibilities of the scholastic world were completely ignored before the law was laid under contribution in the person of Sir Arthur fforde. Now Clifton is vacant, through the translation of Mr. Hallward to Nottingham University College ; I hear of one interesting possibility there. At Haileybury, too, the inexorable calendar will soon make a vacancy. Headmasters, of course, spring in the first instance from school staffs, which is one more reason for making the teaching profession more financially attractive.
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