The Public School Year - Book, 1891 - 92. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—The "Three
Public-School Men—Eton, Harrow, and Win- chester "—who, as we learn from the title-page, are the editors of this volume, do not seem to have yet made up their minds as to what is a "public school." This is the third year of publication, and the present issue contains, we are told, ten new names; but it is impossible to form a definition which would include all the schools given and exclude all others. What is the difference between a "public school" and a "grammar school"? Why are foundations of great antiquity and in a most effective condition, that could be named, omitted ? The Pall Mall Gazette published a list of scholarships won, to which certainly objection might be taken, but from which the editors might have learnt something. Any school of respectable numbers, not a private venture, sending up scholars habitually to the University, ought to be included. So it seems to a writer who has no personal interest in the matter. So far as it goes, the volume is of value.
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