The triennial election for the London School Board, which is
to take place on the last day of November, will be an important one, if only on account of the weight and experience of the mem- bers who retire, and whose seats will have to be filled up by new Men. For example, amongst others, Sir E. H. Currie, the Vice- Chairman of the Board (who is elected by the Tower Hamlets) ; Mr. S. Morley, M.P. (City of London), Lord Napier and Ettrick, and Canon Barry (both members for Westminster), Canon Crom- well (Chelsea), Prebendary Irons, Mrs. Cowell, Miss Chessar, and Rev. Ll. Bevan (all representing Marylebone), Mr. John Macgregor (" Rob Roy," representing Greenwich), all retire. There are some good candidates in the field,—at least, Mrs. Westlake, for Marylebone, who has already had great ex- perience in administration, and the Rev. John Oakley, for Hackney, would certainly prove valuable members of the School Hoard. We should also desire to see young men whose whole time ia at their disposal, offering themselves, as Mr. Sydney Buxton (a son of the late Mr. Charles Buxton) offers himself for West- aliaster, in the interest of purely educational ideas, without reference either to sectarian or party motives. These are the men who can really bring to the Committees of the Board, which all the best part of the work is done,—the greatest amount of energy and thought. London will do well to ensure not only the re-election of the most mature and sober of those of the present members who offer themselves again, but the selection of a fair number of able young men like Mr. Buxton, who may well become the educational leaders of the future.
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