GREEK TESTAMENT CLASSES.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I can bear out Mr. Andrewes Reeve in his testimony to the eagerness of persons of small education to get at the originals of the Scriptures. My grandfather, a Puritan of the straitest sect of the Quakers, whose own "schooling," as things were some eighty years ago in the ranks of middle-class Dissent, had not gone very far beyond "the three R.'s " and a smattering of "useful knowledge," made a point of my father learning Greek at school, solely in order that he might be able to read the Greek Testament, —for to him the great classical writers would probably have:been anathema, as ministering to the "pride of intellect" and the vain delight of the children of this world. At any rate, there is a story of his addressing a letter of indignant [remonstrance to the schoolmaster on hearing that his son was being introduced to the profane works
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