was perhaps the most important; in addition to discussions, with which the meeting concluded when time allowed, no less than seventy-five separate papers were read on this one subject alone. Tt was divided into eleven parts or sections, commencing with the Psychology of Childhood and going through the entire system of education an the training of teachers. One of the most able papers was read by Miss Beale, the head of Cheltenham College; she made a rear point of the fuct that every school, down to the very smallest, ought to be registered. No one,".she said, would dream of employing a doctor or lawyer of whose qualifications she had not ample guarantees; why should not the same be required of a man or woman who makes the instruction of the young their profession?" Another aint was that she thought the governing dies of our large "schools ought to be able to show some credentials of fitness for their posts, They demanded them of the head master o1 mistress but were they always themselves qualified to judge of the umuest fitting can didates for the ofice? Mrs. Hart Davis read a paper on "Parental Authority" in which she said: "We are often met by the assertion that the rate at which we Live in the present day is too ra for parents to keep pace with it, Hut she opined that the true! difference between this age and those which preceded it lay in the fact that Woman's position.in the world had entirely altered. Years og othe main idea of parents was to "Educate. the boys well; the girls don't matter." low we realised that the only satisfactory method to work upon was to give to both equal advantages; in this matter other countries were in advanc: of our own, and from them we must learn in order tu'sueceed. The subject of co-edueation received a good deal of attention, the ing idea being that it was good, especially in the early stages and at the universities. Many speakers argued that from the ages of eleven to eighteen it was advantageous to the pupils to have a teacher of their own sex; but upon this there was a diversity of opinion. Papers on the subject of modern educational experiments were to hare been read by Dr. Kahn and [is Kang from China; but owing to some mistake they were not present. Miss Mary Bhar (whois now a pupil at Somerville College, Oxford) gave a most interesting account of the progress of education during the past thirty years in India, and her pronuneation of English was' perfect—quite a lesson to every one present. During the entire meeting we have seen a good deal of Mrs. Shen and her English interpreter C. Yen frum Foochow. They seemed to take the greatest interest in the subject of education; and Mrs. Shen told me she hud a niven at the American school in Shanghs
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