ETON COLERIDGE SCHOLARSHIP.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—Would you be so kind as to allow me to draw attention to the Scholarship Examination at St. Augustine's College ? These scholarships are specially intended to meet. the needs of young men from the public schools, whose calling to Colonial or to foreign-missionary work cannot, for lack of means, take effect by way of a University course, and who are not intellectually up to the standard of University scholarships : such young men, we believe, exist, and it is such young men whom, in this way, we seek to serve. One scholarship, the Eton Coleridge Scholarship, has been founded by the generosity of Eton and of Eton masters in memory of the late Mr. Edward Coleridge, one of the founders of St. Augustine's. College, who was for many years. Lower Master at Eton.. It is not necessary for me to recall the enthusiasm, the self- sacrifices of Mr. Edward Coleridge in the cause of foreign missions ; but I am anxious to draw the attention of his kindred, of his old friends and pupils, and of old Etonians generally, to the existence of the Eton Coleridge Scholarship. Fund, and to beg of them generously to support it. This is a case in which the needs of poor gentlemen are involved ; their, needs as servants of Christ and of His Cluirch in the Colonial. or in the foreign mission-field. Would those who are willing to support the scheme kindly communicate with the Rev. R. C. Radcliffe, Eton College, Bucks., or with myself 2—I am, Sir, 4.1x., .
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