THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL STUDIES.
[To me EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?) S1R,—If I read aright Lord Cromer's most interesting article, his view is that the School of Oriental Studios should provide an adequate system of instruction for (1) British administrative officers and (2) com- mercial agents in the languages, customs, religion, and history of the peoples with whom they are likely to be brought in contact. But is there not a third class, that of missionaries, to whom such preparatory knowledge is just as necessary ? Missionaries properly equipped with the training that only such a school can give will be in a very diffeeent position,not only for meeting with natives of the highest class, but also for avoiding a stranger's errors of everyday life, from the comparatively unprepared young men—many of whom it is to be feared have 0 spend early (and invaluable) years in learning in the East whist they might have learnt (to some considerable extent at least) in such a school ai
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