The Lord Mayor, while praising the middle-class school in Fins-
bury, lamented the absence of any mention of writing—quite an accident—and affirmed that we were behind in the art. The Press has followed suit, and complains that of the hundreds of letters which reach the journals every day, a large portion are most difficult to read. Is that quite true? It was true ten years ago, but our expe- rience is that female handwriting is decidedly improved, the crabbed "Italian" hand having been replaced by a bold round type ; and that male writing is improving also. The men are compelled to write faster than women, and cramp their hands by the use of small paper and steel pens. Will nobody give us a copper pen shaped like the old " magnum bonum," but more flexible, and tipped, like the gold pen, with some indestructible metal ? What is needed is not a little pen to go into a holder, but a quill requiring no mending, which would last for a month or two, and not cost above sixpence.
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