Public Schools for the Middle Classes. By Earl Fortescue. (Longman
and Co.)—A rather rambling and discursive pamphlet, in whioh Lord Fortescue advocates the establishment of a county college for the middle classes, on the model of the Devonshire county school, of which he is patron. He doubts the success of the Oxford and Cambridge middle-class examinations in making the private schools efficient, and would, therefore, have a distinctive system for the middle classes, which should be to them what the public schools and Universities are to the upper, and the Privy Council schools to the lower classes. Its generic feature he would make the careful teaching of at least one modern language in lieu of the classics, and he would unite all the county col- leges into a middle-class university. The great difficulty at first will be to find competent teachers, and a difficulty always will be to make the farmers value education. Lord Fortescue's idea is, nevertheless, a good one.
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