Journal of Education, March. (W. Rice.)—This number, though with nothing
particularly noticeable about it, is up tattle average in interest. Mr. Jolly publishes a paper on "Prevalent Defects in Schools," read before the Educational Congress in Glasgow. The "defects" are such as concern the material arrangements. Secondary schools are under the disadvantage of not having brought to bear upon them the systematic influence which inspection exercises on the primary. It is of these that Mr. Jolly speaks in the first instance, but his words may be more widely applied. Among other articles we may notice Mr. W. C. Bowen's continuation of his instruotive papers on "The Training of the Fatality of Conception," and "B.Sc.'s" ingenious allegorising of "Alice in Wonderland." But heaven forbid that we should ever read that delightful book as an allegory. Very likely "Lewis Carroll" had some of these things in his mind ; bat he no more meant them to be seen, than the architect means the scaffolding by help of which he builds a cathedral to be visible for ever.
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