THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITCTION.
The recent reorganization of this establishment, with Mr. Pepper as resident director, has been followed by a move in favour of the working classes. All persons engaged in factories and workshops, with their families, are to be admitted on Monday evenings at sixpence each on pro- ducing a ticket of identification ; and assuredly, if we may judge by last Monday, the concession is thought worth having, for the Polytechnic was fuller than we remember to have seen it at any except holiday seasons. For these Monday evenings a course of lectures has been just begun, il- lustrated by diagrams and experiments ; the Reverend A. Bath Power opening the series by speaking on "the Advantages of a Knowledge of Science." The Reverend Professor Baden Powell, Dr. Carpenter, Mr. Pepper, and others, are to follow. The experiments to Mr. Power's lec- ture included the "ordeal by fire," or walking barefoot over red-hot bars of iron ; but the nature of the defensive means employed was not ex- plained. The other principal entertainments are M. Duboscq's illumi- nated cascade-an application of the electric light ; and dissolving views, not the best we have seen at the Polytechnic, illustrating the war.
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