[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Sin,—Many of
your readers must have read "U. P.'s" timely warning on "Free Education" with much pleasure. I for one can only wonder that the subject has not ere now been noticed in your editorial columns. In very truth, with political leaders
ready to act on no principle but that of purchasing power at any price, it is time that a warning voice should be raised against the dangerous tendency which seems now to be setting in with full force. Is it a result of the changed system in modern education—that I mean which places so little value upon classical learning, as compared with study of natural science, that we should so thoroughly ignore the lessons of the past? If so, the sooner we return to the dead languages the better for the people.—I am, Sir, &c., A. J. F.
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