6 MARCH 1909, Page 27

The Public Schools Year Book (Swan Sonnensehein and Co., 8s.

Eld. net) appears for the twentieth time. The term "public school " is liberally interpreted, for the list contains about a hundred and twenty names, giving all particulars about their working, fees, staff, honours gained, dm As for the origin of the schools, we may reckon that rather more than a third are of the nineteenth century. The sixteenth comes next in its numbers ; the eighteenth has only two or three; and about thirty go back beyond the sixteenth. A list of preparatory schools has been added.