Mr. Forster made another Educational speech on Wednesday at Bradford,
on the opening of a new endowed grammar-school of a high grade for girls. He insisted on the importance of estab- lishing scholarships, both into it from the primary schools, and out of it to the Colleges where girls are to receive a University education, like Girton College, and Merton Hall at Cambridge. He himself offered to give the first scholarship of £50 a year, tenable for three years at such a college, to any young lady who might gain it on leaving the school. In a public meeting held the same evening, when Mr. Forster's resolution was seconded by Mr. John Morley,—a remarkable illustration of the manner in which the Education movement brings "the lion to lie down with the lamb, and the child to play on the hole of the asp,"—Mr. Forster remarked on the far higher and wider development which high education for girls has attained in the United States than it has amongst us, and on the extraordinary capacity for teaching and for establishing a good discipline, even in classes of big boys, which educated women have there displayed. In a place like Philadelphia, there were at least fourteen female teachers to one male, and that not merely counting only the primary schools, but counting all the schools from the lowest to the highest. Does not this look a little as if the various didactic capacities,—a distinct class of capacities,—were naturally stronger and higher among women than among men?—a supposition not at all im- probable a priori, since, undoubtedly, these capacities depend chiefly on the motherly, the sympathetic, and the persuasive in- stincts, which, of course, appertain much more to women than to men.
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