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duct those busy spheres of intellectual life, so that harmony 
shall be the grand resultant of social progress. 
But as theory, though constructed on principles the most 
philosophical, is often apt to lead to failure, it would be 
futile and puerile to endeavour, in so short a compass, to 
enter even into the very elements that are required to 
be the harbingers of a University Reform. It is a well 
known fact that most boys attending our public schools 
and belonging to the senior forms without additional study 
could easily obtain their B.A. degree. Latin, Greek, 
Mathematics, Philosophy, and Science, might be acquired 
in London or any of the large provincial towns, quite 
adequate for anyone possessed of common. intellectual 
abilities to enable him to participate in academical honours, 
and at a far less cost than that acquired at our leading 
Universities. Why, then, should such a price be paid for 
an Oxford or Cambridge tuition? The answer is probably 
to be found in the maintenance of that system of disci- 
pline and association which stamps such a tone of everlast- 
ing inseparability between student and student that leads 
to the grand fact that the literate peasant isas good as the 
landed peer. | 
' (To be continued.) 
REV PE ws. 
Letters from Flell, London: Bentley. | ‘ 
AN ominous title, forsooth, and one which will perhaps 
militate against its appearance in the libraries of the 
fastidious. After all, what is in a name, redolent though 
the book before us is of aught but a pleasant one, we can- 
not ignore it on its name alone. The title is sensational 
enough: the matter equally so. We have. carefully 
perused its contents, and all we can say is, that its Title is 
its worst feature. It may be depressing, but it is true to 
nature; no jaundiced vision obscures its pages; it is indis- 
putably a work which in its sphere must do good. Nothing 
immoral, little of obscurity and less of imagination are to 
be found in it. We congratulate Mr. Bentley in having 
courage to produce a work which at first sight appears too 
bad, but which, on maturer deliberation, stands in a posi- 
tion, whether religiously or morally, of much importance. 
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