On Wednesday Mr. Forster re-opened the new Grammar School at
Bradford, as it has been reconstituted by the Endowed Sthools' Commission and with the help of a noble gift from a local bene- factor, Mr. Brown, who has endowed it with £6,000. Mr. Forster dilated on the good the Endowed Schools' Commission had done in the case of the Bradford Grammar School, which has now 180 pupils, where it had but 58 before the change, and has some reason to hope before long for an attendance of 400. Bradford, it seems, has chosen to stick to its Greek, and will not hear of being made into a " mOdern side" school,—a determination which Mr. Forster evidently approved, saying that science has not yet been sufficiently "organised" to serve as an equivalent intellectual discipline for the study of the ancient languages. We quite agree with Mr. Forster that there is hardly any discipline equal to the study of a dead language that is the key to a rich literature, for the education of the young. Good : —but let the study of the language be thorough enough to Sid to the know- ledge of the literature. If it is not, the study of science is infinitely better even as a discipline, for it puts into the learner's hands a method of investigation which will be habitually deve- loped and repeatedly impressed upon him by the actual experience of life. Greek is the first of studies if it leads to a knowledge of Greek literature. If it only leads to conjugating verbs and spelling out Xenophon, it is naught.
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