"HOME EDUCATION; OR IRISH versus ENGLISH GRAMMAR-SCHOOLS FOR IRISH BOYS."
[To THZ EDITOR OP TIM SPZOT.T0201 SIE,—Your well-known fairness forces me to think that you will allow me to endeavour to remove a false impression under which a reviewer in your issue of October 8th must have left your readers in regard to my book, "Home Education ; or, Irish versus English Grammar-Schools for Irish [not English, as your reviewer puts it] Boys."
In his notice of my book, he states that the only evidence- d give for my views about the morality of English schools is " Tirocinium" and "Eric." His statement is very far from being logically true. I have based my views not only on "Eric" and " Tirocinium," but on the published observations of the late Dr. Posey, the Hon. Edward Lyttelton, assistant-master at Eton. College, Archdeacon Farrar (in" St. Winifred's "), several English and Irish schoolmasters, Professor Mahaffy, Rev. James Pycroft (in "Oxford Memories "), Mr. Hughes, and several others. Your reviewer concludes his notice by declaring,— "We cannot allow him to condemn the morality of a whole nation,, as he practically does, in order that the walls of F— College may be filled." Such a remark as this, reflecting on what the reviewer unhandsomely dhooses to suppose to be the motives of the author of the book discussed, is surely not a fair comment
on the book itself.—I am, Sir, dm, Miasma C. Hate Foyle College, Londonderry, October 11th. -
[Yes ; Mr. Rime quotes from various writers, but his chief witnesses are a tale, and a satire published more than a century ago. We see nothing to retract in our criticism,—that the author was bringing a very crnel charge, which it was much to his interest to prove, on what seemed to us wholly insufficient evidence.—En. Spectator.]
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