17 MARCH 1917, Page 22

German and English Education. By Fr. de Hovre. (Constable and

Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—This comparative study of German and English education is written by a Belgian priest from Louvain who sees the strong and weak points in both systems. " English education is right and sound but incomplete ; German education is wrong in its very base, but contains much that is true." He admires our insistence on the importance of the individual character, but he thinks that we have not realized to the full the national value of education.