We note with pleasure that the Royal Holloway College at
Egham, for women, is making steady though somewhat slow progress. It opened in 1887 with twenty-eight students. It was closed this year for the long vacation with sixty-six. Miss Bishop says in her report to the Governors :—" Most of our present students are working for a London degree in Arts or in Science ; several are preparing for Oxford Honour Moderations in Classics or Mathematics; some for the Oxford Honour Schools of Modern Languages and English ; some (and I am glad that it is so) are working indepenntly of examinations." In music especially the teaching segns to be most efficient. "Physical exercise is well cared for. The gymnasium has large and vigorous classes. Tennis, cricket, and hockey clubs are in a flourishing condition, and in the summer-time we manage to do some amount of boating." "Of clubs and societies," says Miss Bishop, "we have a portentous number." There is a Classical Society, a Choral Society, a Shakespeare Society, a Dramatic Society, a Browning Society, a Botanical Society, and a Political Society. The last has this year abolished capital punish- ment, carried Irish Home-role, and restored the Elgin Marbles to Greece ; so that the young women of this latest of the large Ladies' Colleges appear to be of the " advanced " wing. Miss Bishop speaks of her very great debt to her colleagues, and we are quite sure that her colleagues would speak with equal warmth of their still greater debt to Miss Bishop.
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