21 AUGUST 1897, Page 16

THE SCHOOLMASTER'S TREATMENT IN BOOKS.

LTO TIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")

was recently told by an Oriental scholar that by the Turkish law a schoolmaster is looked upon as a lunatic. Either be was a lunatic to become a schoolmaster, or, being a schoolmaster, he has since become a lunatic. Surely in books he has not received such hard treatment as this ; in fact, I think it might easily be shown that the other learned pro- fessions have come in for an equal share of ridicule. The English schoolmaster has, however, triumphed over the books and their sayings by upsetting one of the laws of political economy, for, whereas education has steadily become more common, the price of the schoolmaster has steadily risen.—I