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THK KMPini-, COIiHKSI'ONDENCE COLLEGE. 



" Cod helps them that help themselves."--BEXjAMix Fi-.anklin. 



HE great American statesman and patriot only crystalised into a telling phrase a truth which everyone 

 admits. But the stumbling-block with many is how best to start '' helping themselves —how to 

 make certain that their energies are not largely being wasted in efforts in the wrong direction. 



Readers of the " Review of Reviews " are of course thinking folk, men and women who in most cases 

 have already "'made good" in the world. But many of them are striving to improve their positions, or 

 arc anxious' to set their children on the right path to success. Consequently, from every quarter of the 

 ,,lobe— for there is no country in the world without " Review " readers— I receive letters asking for 

 advice as to what is the best thing to do to " win " in the battle of life. Usually these requests are 

 from parents who want to know how they can best prepare their boys and girls for various professions, 

 but quite often they come from active workers anxious to improve their own positions. 



I have been casting about for some time to see if I could not do something beyond merely giving 

 advice to these readers. At first sight the problem was a difficult one. It was obviously impossible to 

 get people from Canada and Xew Zealand. .Australia and South Africa, China and India, Japan and Egypt, 

 Chili and the Argentine, and from the uttermost parts of the earth, under one roof. Even if it were 

 achieved, the requirements of each would probably be different from that of his fellow. 



The solution was clearly the post. All these people, or the majority of them, could be instructed 

 by correspondence. I therefore decided that I would have to start a department which could undertake 

 the tuition by mail of those who were anxious to " help themselves.'' I speedily found that to run 

 such a department upon the lii>es I wished was a pretty big proposition, for, above all, I desired to 

 avoid the purely automatic instruction which turns out machine-made pupils who have never been in any 

 really personal touch with their tutors. I wanted to have the best instructors available for each subject, 

 who would coach every pupil separately, explaining his special difficulties and taking extra pains with 

 each one wht) needed it. In fact, I wanted a human staff of teachers in my department, not a cold 'n- 

 struction machine. 



In the course of my inquiries 1 came in touch with Mr. Clephane, who was for twenty-one years the 

 director of the Civil Service department of the Polytechnic, and who founded in igoq a special Business 

 College where he has prepared thousands of successful pupils for the Civil Service, for the Army, for 

 scientific and artistic professions, and for business careers generally. He has all the technical knowledge 

 which I lack, and has a record of successes with pupils extending over twenty-two years. I have ar- 

 ranged with him to superintend the special department, which will be known as the " Empire Corre- 

 spondence College," with headquarters at 143, 145, 147 and 140 Great Portland Street, London. There 

 experts in each subject will take charge of the various courses required to fit the student for different 

 jjfofessions, or to enable him to advance in that in which he is already working. 



A list of the principal courses is gi\cn overleaf, but this by no means exhausts the possible require- 

 ments of my readers. I should be glad to hear from any of them who wish to " help themselves," even 

 if the particular line they think of taking up is not mentioned in the list. 



It is hardly necessary for me to point out the great advantages that tuition by post presents over 

 oral instruction, espeiially for those residing abroad. It practically means that your teacher comes to 

 you at regular inter\'als through the post and imparts knowledge to you at a fraction of the cost which 

 would be involved if you had to arrange for a teacher to actually visit you in the flesh. To attend 

 a class is often quite impossible, as other work keeps vou busy almost all the time. You can do the 

 work set by vour correspondence tutor during any odd spare time you may have. You can tell him 

 vour difficulties, and he will write you personally explaining everything. It is this utilisation of odd spare 



