In our paper of last week on "Chivalry in the
City," we referred to the fact that London does not possess "a single decently endowed public school for the secondary education of girls." This is strictly true, but it is also true that there is one such school recently established, and not yet " decently endowed," which is in every way entitled by its merits to be liberally endowed. The North London Collegiate School and Camden School, at Camden Town, were only last year turned into Trust Schools. But their success, under the able management of Miss Buss, has been very remarkable, and the two schools together are now giving exceedingly good education of that kind which is described in the Middle-Class School Commission's Report as second-grade and third-grade education respectively, to some five hundred girls, whose number might easily be doubled if sufficient money could be obtained to provide proper accommodation for the constantly increasing number of applicants,—especially for the third-grade school, which is now carried on in Camden Street, Camden Town, under the very great disadvantage of being distributed over three separate houses, only two of which are situated together. It is estimated that about 1.5,000, only a few hundreds of which are as yet raised, would be needful to put the third-grade school in proper condition to avail itself of the constantly increasing demand which it has elicited. The Board of Trustees managing these two schools is of the highest possible character, full of able and practical men and women, with the University of London's Chairman of Convocation (Dr. Storrar) at its head. The Camden Collegiate Schools bank at the National Bank, Camden Town Branch, the Honorary Secretary to the Trustees being the Rev. A. J. Buss, B.A.
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