LONDON ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLMISTRESSES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "
SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—May I ask for space in your columns for a very brief account of an Association which, though much valued by its members, is probably unknown to some who might be glad to share its advantages and take part in its work ?
The London Association of Schoolmistresses arose out of a desire on the part of schoolmistresses in London and the neighbourhood for some means of drawing together on common ground. It was formally constituted under its present name in 1867, and a body of rules was adopted, in the first of which the object of the Association is stated to be "to promote the higher education of women." Two meetings are held during each school term for the reading and discussion of papers on subjects specially interesting to teachers. The Association partakes of the nature of a dab, and has occupied itself chiefly in the elucida- tion of questions having a direct practical bearing on school teaching and management; but membership is notlimitedto heads of schools or teachers, and there has been no lack of sympathy with public educational movements. The Association has a library, consisting mainly of books of a more or less educational type. The Students' Library of the Women's Education Union was, on the dissolution of the Union, presented to this Association and incorporated with its own library, arrangements being made by which ladies who are not members of the Association may, on certain conditions, become subscribers. The library is kept at the office of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women, 22 Earners Street, W., where also the meetings of the Association are held. Country members receive the papers issued by the Association and share in the use of the library, books being sent to them on payment of carriage. If any of your readers should desire farther information, I shall be happy
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