I am glad to see the Bishop .of Plymouth's plea
for the teaching of local history. Just as geography teaching is made real by beginning with local features so the social, and in . many cases the political, history of a
country can be converted from dull record into living happenings for the pupil by a demonstration of what it meant in the life of his native town. And I have always been ready to maintain the thesis (which no doubt will be challenged from many quarters) that there is no city in the kingdom more rich in illustrative experience for that purpose than the historic borough in whose name Dr. Masterman speaks. One of the things I have always wanted to do and never shall is to write a history of Ply- mouth on these lines. No man, incidentally, could take up that task better than the Bishop himself. Why not ?
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