"EDUCATIONAL AIMS AND EFFORTS." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "
ISFECTATOR."1 STR,—I hesitate to criticise my critic. But I should be glad if you would allow me to correct a somewhat misleading inference that might be drawn from the short notice of my " Educational Aims and Efforts" that appeared in your issue of January 7th. Your reviewer says : " We must own that we are not quite satisfied with
what we read about literary education," and in support of this objection he quotes from one of the addresses : " In the near future no head-master will be appointed who is not familiar with workshop methods,"—a forecast which your reviewer must have omitted to notice referred only to public and elementary schools. Since the above was written facilities have been provided for enabling all teachers in training to acquire the necessary knowledge of " workshop methods." As regards " literary education," I think my book shows that there is no subject of instruction to which I attach greater value than the study of our own literature and the art of literary composition.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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