General Bramwell Booth, who has just returned from a three
months' tour in India, has referred to the improve- ment in the Indian situation. The General gave an interesting interview to the Paris correspondent of the Times. He spoke of the kind of education which should be given to the children of the villages—and India is above all a country of villages :- "Farming has perhaps reached the stage which was reached In the days of Noah, and the Government is doing little to encourage progress. It was pathetic to me to see some of the little children being stuffed up with dates about the deaths of kings which have no relation to their future life. They learn to write quaint English, and become unwilling to soil their hands."
General Booth did well also to emphasize the dangers of the " lure of the city," which he regards as one of India's greatest problems, just as it is in the United States, Great Britain and Australia.
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