6i4 THE POPULAR SCIEXCE MONTHLY. 



value of sucla a report in determining the lines whicli -woman's college 

 education should follow, in the dearth of information upon the topic, is 

 at once seen. 



III. Specific Data for Futuke Movements. — These should be 

 based upon confidential revelations made by the graduates themselves, 

 together with the testimony of college officers and physicians. It 

 should not be limited narrowly. They should go far beyond the 

 question of bodily health. The statement of what each had found the 

 greatest aid and the greatest hindrance in her collegiate training would 

 be of much value. Experience alone can decide the exact form which 

 these inquiries should take, but their importance can hardly be over- 

 estimated in the moral and social aspects of the case. 



Education must follow the example of the special sciences. It 

 mtcst organize. There is organization, and to spare, in the schools 

 themselves ; what we want is organized recognition of the problems 

 of education ; organized study for the discovery of methods of solu- 

 tion ; organized application of these methods in the details of school- 

 life. Co-operation in research and application is the key to the problem. 



PKOEM TO GENESIS: 



A REPLY TO PEOFESSOR HUXLEY. 

 Br WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. 



'TTOUS avez une manihre si aimahle cfannoncer les plus manvaises 

 nouvelles, qu^ dies perdent par Id de leurs desagremens.* So wrote, 

 de haul en has (from above down), the Duchess of York to Beau 

 Brummell, sixty or seventy years back ; f and so write I, de has en 

 haut (from below up), to the two very eminent champions who have 

 in the "Nineteenth Century" of December entered appearances on 

 behalf of Dr. Reville's Prolegom^nes, with a decisiveness of tone, at 

 all events, which admits of no mistake : Professor Huxley and Pro- 

 fessor Max Miillcr. My first duty is to acknowledge in both cases 

 the abundant courtesy and indulgence with which I am personally 

 treated. And ray first thought is that, where even disagreement 

 is made in a manner pleasant, it will be a duty to search and see if 

 there be any points of agreement or approximation, which will be 

 more pleasant still. This indulgence and courtesy deserves in the 

 case of Professor Huxley a special warmth of acknowledgment, be- 

 cause, while thus more than liberal to the individual, he has for the 

 class of Reconcilers, in which he places me, an unconcealed and un- 



* You have 80 gentle a way of telling the worst news that it thereby loses its unpleas- 

 antness. 



f " Life," by Jesse. ReTiscd edition, i. 260. 



