To suggest that such an amination paper conjures up pic: tures of s moss-grown don, gleefully rubbing hie hands, as he evolves each question, at the thought of scoring off some unhappy infant ven thousand miles away—this would be, no doubt, flat blasphemy. We have no wish to intervene in the controversy on either side. But looking at these examination papers from the detached point of view of 'a layman who could not answer a single question set, it does occur to one that education is largely, if not chiefly, beneficial as 4 means of keeping our restless little men and women employed for a few hours per day, and of relieving our grownup selves of their conundrums, by inventing some conundrums for them to guess instead. Further, that one's real education hardly begins until one has forgotten most of what one learnt at school. Whether these things ought to he 80, if they are, is another question, not very flattering from any point of view to the teacher.
March 8.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.