THE STUDY OF HISTORY.
ITO THE EDITOR OF THE ."8ezerwroa.")
SIR,—Your well-informed and sympathetic article on " What the Public Schools are Doing " would suggest that " public ignorance " on the subject is even wider than that which the writer deplores. For it is not science alone—nor even modern languages, English and geography— that is coming into its own ; history is being taught and studied as it was never taught and studied before. As Dr. Pollard (Professor of English History in the University of London) has recently urged : " History deals with what man has done and how he has done it ; and that knowledge is at least some guide to what he can do in the future and how he should seek to do it." This function of history our educa- tionalists are beginning to realize. So shrewd an observer as the Spectator will doubtless support a further contention of the same eminent authority when he declares : The dangerous revolutionist is commonly a person with little knowledge of history."—I am, Sir, &c.,
Skinners' School, Stamford Hill, N. ETHEL M. BARNES.
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