Great Public Schools. By Various Authors. (E. Arnold.)—We have no
particular fault to find with the selection of "Public Schools" for the purposes of this volume, except, indeed, that Shrewsbury does not appear in the list. Merchant Taylors' and St. Paul's, as day-schools, do not lend themselves to picturesque descriptions of life. Cheltenham, Clifton, Marlborough, and Haileybury have the claims of what may be called possession. Still, one might put in a word for Bedford, which has outstripped all but Eton in numbers. As for the descriptions and narratives, they are greatly varied, and all the more interesting for that. Perhaps Eton, which has for its vales sacri Messrs. Maxwell Lyte, Sidney James, A. Lyttelton, and Mowbray Morris, is the most fortunate ; but Harrow, for which Dr. Montagu Butler, Mr. Percy Thornton, and Mr. P. H. Martineau have laboured, has no reason to complain. Indeed, every school has been well served, though in varied ways. One of the most interesting and entertaining articles is that by Mr. Frederic Gale on" Winchester." Those who are curious about links that bind the present to a remote past will like to hear that Mr. Gale often enjoyed the hospitality of Dr. Goddard, who entered the school in 1771.
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