XV 



THE SCHOOL BOARDS : WHAT THEY 

 CAN DO, AND WHAT THEY MAY DO. 



[1870] 



AN electioneering manifesto would be out of place 

 in the pages of this Review ; but any suspicion that 

 may arise in the mind of the reader that the 

 following pages partake of that nature, will be dis- 

 pelled, if he reflect that they cannot be published * 

 until after the day on which the ratepayers of the 

 metropolis will have decided which candidates for 

 seats upon the Metropolitan School Board they 

 will take, and which they will leave. 



As one of those candidates, I may be permitted 

 to say, that I feel much in the frame of mind of 

 the Irish bricklayer's labourer, who bet another 



1 Notwithstanding Mr. Huxley's intentions, the Editor 

 took upon himself, in what seemed to him to be the public 

 interest, to send an extract from this article to the newspapers 

 before the day of the election of the School Board. EDITOB 

 of the Contemporary Review. 



