SOME BOOKS OF THE 1VEEK.
[Under this heading tee notice such Bodo of the week as have not been reserved for ravine in other forms.] A Day at Dulwich. By A. H. Gilkes. (Longmans and Co. ls. net.)—The Master of Dulwich College allows us a most interesting glimpse into the inner working of the great school over which he presides. He takes us into-the classrooms, and he takes us into the playing fields. We may venture to congratulate him on the condition of things which prevails in both regions. Happy the Chief who can command the services of such a master of the "cross-examining elenchus " as we see in Mr. Smith ; happy, too, if inefficient colleagues follow the example of Mr. Rubeley, and resign when they cannot keep their classes in order. Nor is he less to be congratulated on having a " Head of the School" who does exactly what he ought to do exactly as ho should. What a change is there here from the Dulwich of much less than a century ago, when the school consisted of twelve boys, who might be seen surrounding the bed of the Head-Master as he sat up, and, with his long clay pipe at hand, instructed them in what the statutes of Edward Alleys required.
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