SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
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The Quarterly Review for April opens with a frank and interest- ing article on " Eton : the Old and the New," by Mr. H. E. Lux- moore, who recalls the long history of the school, and reviews the changes that have come about since he first knew Eton. If in Mr. Gladstone's time " a boy need not learn unless he chose," to-day that is " simply untrue," and " there has been a steady increase of work throughout the school." Mr. Luxmoore thinks, as many do, that there is undue absorption in games, but he recognizes the diffi- culty of providing an alternative. He does not wholly agree with Dr. Lyttelton in blaming parents for the defects of our Public School education ; he suggests that young masters might be trained for their work instead of having to learn by sad experience. Two articles, " The Grievances . and Aims of Labour," by " A Skilled Artisan," and " The Evolution of Revolution," by Mr. H. M. Hynd- man, are suggestive by contrast ; the anonymous workman is strictly practical and hopeful, while Mr. Ilyndman, dealing broadly with the social unrest that he sees everywhere in Europe, distrusts the ability of the " vast mass of wasteful and incompetent bureaucratic departments," with which the war has burdened us, to steer Great Britain through the troubles that peace may bring. Canon Glaze- brook's instructive article on " Church Reform " is well worth read- ing. He thinks that the promoters of the " Life and Liberty " movement are gravely mistaken in their readiness to accept Disestab- lishment. " England has sects enough ; what she needs is a Church which represents and unites the Christianity of the whole people."
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