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its most commendable features; and I only regret that the boon is in some degree marred by the condition that a boy must have attained the age of thirteen before he can be regarded as available for the capitation grant. As boys cannot be made to stay in the day-school till they are thirteen, this condition interposes a hiatus valde deflendus.

Had I space, I should like, as in private duty bound, to enlarge on the subject of normal colleges, and on the treatment which they receive from the code. Very few words, however, must suffice. Of the limitation in the number of Queen's scholars, I do not complain, for I anticipate an overstocked market. The cessation of grants to lecturersgrants obtained by them after a severe examination-is a great hardship. It is indeed less defensible than the confiscation of augmentation grants on the certificate for in the latter case there is the semblance of an equivalent; in the former there is none.

Again, the arrangements which tend to discourage residence for the full term of two years are open to serious objection; but they are so palpably the result of oversight, that they will no doubt be amended.

But I must hasten to a conclusion. The subject is not only important, but many-sided, and it is impossible thoroughly to discuss it within the compass of a paper of moderate length. The contribution which I offer to the discussion is only fragmentary. Approving of many of the principles on which the code rests, I still see difficulties connected with it which do not simply arise out of faults in the details, but are of the essence, so to speak, of the scheme. So complete an examination of several thousand schools as the code provides for is something new, and may give rise to new complications. There cannot be much embarrassment as to the standard

by which the examiner is to be guided, but there must be a considerable increase in the number of examiners. So far there will be a set-off against any saving in other directions.

Again, payment by results involves some degree of financial uncertainty, and managers must, in arranging their expenditure, provide for the contingency of abatements in the grant. The hardship here is more apparent than real. It is as easy to live within a fluctuating income as it is to live beyond a fixed one. The teacher whose salary is derived partly from school pence must already have solved this problem.

Much has been said about the loss and inconvenience that will arise from irregularity of attendance, and from the tendency which children have to go from school to school, as caprice inspires them. These are serious evils; but, if they are in any degree curable, payment by results will help to cure them. The managers of schools in towns must enter into agreements with one another not to countenance aimless and causeless migration from school to school. To raise the school fee in the case of children who fail to secure any capitation grant will sometimes be found practicable, and will give parents a wholesome interest in regularity of attendance.

On the whole, however, we may be glad that the operation of the code is suspended. Time and opportunity are thus afforded for a thorough consideration of the subject; and it must now be discussed and decided by that great assembly whose verdict alone can justify such radical changes, and whose authority alone can reconcile everybody to them. The revised code can never reappear without very considerable modifications. Let us hope that those modifications will be such as to avoid injustice, to advance education, and, as far as possible, to satisfy objectors.

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