During the session of the British Association at Bradford, a
meeting was held there under Lord Houghton's presidency to promote the higher education of women, at which the most admirable views were elaborated, but whether with the result of actually promoting that higher education or not, we are not sure. Certainly no subscription was made, and it is money and example which are really wanted. Mr. Forster said very truly that in applying local endowments to the establishment of good girls' schools, the Endowed Schools' Commissioners meet with much local obstruction, and are decidedly in advance of the views of the various localities about girls' education. We believe the true remedy is to be found in a serious effort to get a large supply of efficient women teachers for the rising generation of girls, who will then be sure enough to influence the public opinion of the next generation. The existing institutions for the higher education of girls are very ill-supported. At the present moment, for instance, Girton College, Cambridge, is sadly in need of funds to complete the building and endow it ; and Bedford College, Lon- don, is also in want of some temporary aid to obtain an adequate new building in the place of that whose lease is now expiring. On this subject, which is well enough threshed out in theory, we want perhaps less talk, and certainly more substantial sacrifices.
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