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mentary Commissions on Galleries and Public Institutions, besides 

 his museum at Sheffield he has arranged collections in various parts 

 of the country, and the beautiful book reviewed in another part of 

 this number reminds us how large a share he took in the establish- 

 ment of the Oxford Museum. This latter was indeed an earnest- 

 hearted attempt to produce a building, which, though devoted to 

 Science, should be a true temple of the Muses, worthy in all respects 

 to be called a House Beautiful, The attempt failed, many will say; 

 failed before a concerted opposition and an unworthy economy. And 

 yet we think that they who have on a summer evening walked in the 

 meadows of the Cherwell, and have seen the pointed outline of the 

 Museum dark against a sunset sky, have then beheld, among all the 

 beautiful sights of Oxford, one that is second to none in either 

 grandeur or beauty. 



Winchester College. 



One word more on Museums. In this number we are pleased 

 to present our readers with the second article of our promised series 

 on School Museums, in which that of Eton College is described by 

 its present Curator. We hope it will not be long before we deal 

 with the Museums of other of our great schools. But we fear that 

 we shall have to wait long for any account of the Museum of 

 Winchester College. In December last we alluded to the admirable 

 scheme by which it was proposed to commemorate the quingentenary 

 of the School. We regret now to learn that the proposal is not 

 meeting with the warm acceptance that the patriotism of 

 Wykehamists led us to expect. Up to the end of last year only 

 230 persons had subscribed. It is indeed to their credit that they 

 contributed ;^3,367 between them, and since then a few more people 

 have promised some ^700. This, however, will not go very far, and 

 one cannot help wondering what the many thousand old 

 Wykehamists, who must be in existence, are thinking about. We 

 cannot suppose a want of esprit de corps in so united a body ; rather 

 we infer a want of sympathy with modern educational needs, 

 similar to that which accounts for the deficiency we have next 

 to notice. 



Absence of Experimental Psychology in England. 



Some time ago, in reference to a preposterous magazine started 

 by Mr. Stead, sensation-monger-in-chief to the British Philistine, we 

 directed the attention of all interested in problems of mind and con- 

 sciousness to the scientific organs for the discussion of these problems. 

 In our Reviews for the month is noticed the first number of a worthy 

 addition to these organs, — The Psychological Revieiv, edited by 

 J. McKeen Cattell, of Columbia College ; and J. Mark Baldwin, of 

 Princeton University, with the co-operation of many well-known 



