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noses. Examinations for fellowships, for the Indian and Imperial 
civil services, for the navy, for the army, weigh for little in our 
academical life. The clerical order which in Great Britain covers 
and controls a great deal of the examination ground, exerts in this 
hemisphere very slight influence. In all Australia I suppose there is 
no professional crammer or coach important enough to impress the 
imagination of the public. It should be then to Australasia, where 
learning is very much its own reward, and wherein no special 
pecuniary value attaches to academical prominence, that the protestants 
of 18S8 should direct their eyes. Here it is a case of — Cantabit vacuus ; 
the evils do not exist because there is no antecedent cause. We have 
nearly 4,000,000 of people who, inheritors of the experience, and 
taught by the mistakes of their forefathers across the sea, should 
follow a more excellent way. 
Here the sacred torch of learning should burn high and clear, 
fed by the free oblations of an enlightened people. 
Tormented and strained by no sworn torturers, this Egeria of ours, 
graceful, natural, and easy, should tread her light and airy way like 
some rustic Phyllis, whose charms in contrast with the faded airs of a 
painted and powdered city madam are so potent. Such should our 
Australasian Egeria do amid the meads of Asphodel, wherein the 
Muses sport. But does she ? 
3.— SCIENCE AS A SUBJECT IN GIRLS* SCHOOLS. 
By Miss F. E. HUNT , B. Sc. 
4.— THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS. 
By Miss HELEN E. DO WNS. 
5.— THE RISE OF ENGLISH COMEDY —AN EXAMPLE OF 
LITERARY EVOLUTION. 
By W H. WILLIAMS M. A., Lecturer in Classics and English Literature, University 
of Tasmania . 
6.— ON THE TEACHING OF LANGUAGES. 
By CHARLES H. BARTON , B.A. 
7. -WALT. WHITMAN. 
By WILLIAM GA Y. 
