The Ministry of Reconstruction has ceased to have a separate
existence, but the results of its meditations on various subjects continue to appear in twopenny pamphlets. We are surprised and glad to find among them a well-written and vigorous plea for The Classics in British Education :— " Creek and Latin being what we have seen them to be, the foundation and inspiration of all our modem culture, and possessing what we have seen them to possess, a good half of the finest literature of the world, they should not remain the special preserve of one social class in the country. . . . It is for the working classes, now that they are rising to fuller power and more articulate expression, to claim the right of access to this mine of intellectual wealth."
We may- note here that Miss Ashwell's repertory company in France played Professor Gilbert Murray's translation of the Electra to appreciative soldier audiences.
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