We should like to call the attention of those of
our readers who have interested themselves in the project for reforming the University of London, and for associating it in some way with that " Teaching University " in London for which a good many London Colleges are crying out, to a very able and temperate article in the current number of the Quarterly Review on "The University of London." The writer gives a very interest- ing account of the aims which led to the foundation of that University, of its work, history, and progress, reviews the scheme now pressed upon it by the Association for establishing a Teaching University in London, and discusses how far that scheme is or is not compatible with its present aims and achieve- ments. He concludes that it would be simply destructive of the University's present usefulness " to adapt its examinations to the needs of London students as interpreted by their own professors," and still more so to institute a special class of degrees for these academical students, distinct from the degrees which it awards to all who come qualified to pass its examinations. But the Reviewer holds that by giving skilled teachers a more decided influence in the governing body of the University, and availing itself more freely of their sugges- tions, it "would enlarge the area of its present work, and become qualified to do that work better."
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