During the week which begins on Monday, September 14, the
Brussels International Association for the Promotion of Social Science will be held at Ghent, under the presidency of M. Le Prince de Ligne, Speaker in the Belgian Senate, M. Vervoort, Speaker of the Chamber of Representatives, and M. Charles Rogier, Minister of Foreign Affitirs. There is to be a competition for a prize on the subject of "Morality in Literature," which means the moral rules by which literary men should be guided, either, we presume, in making re- ferences, stating facts, or painting vice. Fourteen essays have been received by the committee' but none from Great Britain, which we regret, as we should almost as much enjoy having Sir A. Alison's criterion of fact as M. Feydeau's theory of morality in fiction. By the arrangements made to render the gathering successful, the members of the Brussels Association, on producing their card of membership, may reach Ghent and return to London at half fare, travel through Belgium in every direction by railway at half the usual fares from 10th to 30th September, except only by the line of Landen and Maestrecht ; they will have the entree to the grand Ghent fetes which have been announced, and they will receive, as final and crowning blessing, a copy of the "Transactions of the Association,' in a volume of from 800 to 1,000 pages. The pecuniary temptation alone is really mag- nificent, and many Englishmen will be induced, we hope, to cast off insularity, and become social and international (if not wholly scientific) at this grand Ghent reunion.
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