Reviews. 391 
The Contemporary Review. London: Strahan. 
THE February number of this serial is on our table, con- 
taining, for those who are admirers of Robert Browning, 
a second paper on his poems. Perhaps its most salient 
feature, however, is its article by the Rev. Thomas Markby 
on “ Public Schools,” gleaned as it is from the report of 
Her Majesty's Commissioners of 1864, and the “ Public 
School Calendar” of 1866. We know what public schools 
are ; we know that there are all but double the scholars at 
Eton as there are at Westminster, and an equal number of 
the former as at Winchester; but we are desirous of 
knowing what the ulterior results of Foundation Schools 
are with respect to future academical training. We learn 
from page 151 of this Review that “It is amusing to com- 
pare the two first-class men and one wrangler, which it 
cost Winchester tex years to produce, with fourteen first- 
class men and seven wranglers, which it cost Shrewsbury 
in the same time to furnish.” We will now dive into the 
pecuniary expenses which the able writer has set before us 
of the comparative expenses of public schools—say, for the 
sons of laymen, including every expense, half-yearly :-— 
Lo serd. 
Shrewsbury 47-18 © 
Marlboro’ College e (the cheapest) 43 16 6 
Rugby ; OF OF Os O 
Winchester : Hes 56 12606 
Of Eton, quoting from fie pages before us the following 
will serve as a guide :— 
“The cost of the board and tuition of a little boy in the 
lower school is £100 a year. The highest bill sent in at 
Christmas, 1861, on account of a lower schoolboy, was 
£67 14s. 8d. (It should be observed that at Eton the year 
is divided into three, not two, portions.) This very young 
gentleman had managed in the course of rather less than 
three months to spend nearly 410 on his tailor, and 
£4 6s. 6d. on hats and gloves. The lowest at the same 
time was £44 4s. Id. In this case the tailor got but 7s. 6d., 
the hatter and glover 2s., the hair-cutter nothing at all. A 
thrifty boy that! <A boy living in the house of an upper 
school assistant-master cost his father at Easter, 18509, 
£72 9s. 8d. This was a high bill. But this youth spent 
much less on the adornment of his body than the little 
Absalom of the lower school. An ordinary bill of the 
same date comes to 455 19s. 7d. In the upper school, 
