10 MAY 1902, Page 15

'[To THE EDITOR OP THF. "SPECTATOR."] STE, — "Is it not the

fact that what the Education Bill proposes to do for the Church of England and other still existing denominational schools has already in many cases been done for themselves by the managers of what used to be known as British schools ? These were, to all intents and purposes, denominational schools, teaching doctrine with which Non- conformists were satisfied. But many of them, if not most, have been transferred to School Boards, and practically are worked on the same lines as before, at the entire expense of the ratepayers. It would be interesting to know whether in any of these cases the former managers undertook the maintenance