Thirty Years of Teaching. By L. C. Miall. (Macmillan and
Co.)—This book is full of good sense and practical wisdom. We regard education from a somewhat different point of view from that of Professor Miall, but are glad to hail him as substantially an ally, and as one who knows and seeks to practically carry out the true idea of education. "We want to inoculate the curious schoolboy," he says, "with scientific ideas, rather than put him through a systematic course of science." To give ideas, to form habits of thought, that is the teacher's true object, whether he takes the literary or the scientific standpoint. Profelsor Miall does not undervalue the literary element. As long as he is orthodox on this point he is at liberty to prefer the living languages to the dead. And, indeed, the average results in Latin are so deplorably small that we are tempted to try a substitute.
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