26 MAY 1923, Page 20

The Life and Work of Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth. By Frank

Smith. (Murray. 18s. net.)

The subject of this conscientious memoir, who was born in 1804 and died in 1877, is remembered as the first secretary of the Committee of Council on Education, which developed into a Department and is now a Board. He held this post from 1839 to 1849, and the account of his work will be instruc- tive to special students. He is remembered, too, as a friend of Charlotte Bronte, and as an active philanthropist .in his own county of Lancashire. Lord Shuttleworth contributes some interesting reminiscences of his father's private life.