The Holloway College for Women was opened at Egbarn by
the Queen last Wednesday with groat state, an address being presented to her in a gold casket by Mr. Martin-Holloway, who has carried out his brother-in-law's wishes, and a gracious reply from her Majesty being received. We cannot but regret that the Queen has been advised to open this institution in person. It is a spacious and very com- modious building, situated in noble grounds, and we do not doubt that it may yet be turned to very good account, though the trust-deed is not a wise one, and though the building would have been five times as useful in the neighbourhood of Oxford or Cambridge, where the best teachers may be easily obtained, as it can be twenty miles from London. But her Majesty should hardly have been advised to lend her sanction to any institu- tion, however good in itself, that owes its origin, as the Hollo- way College does, to wealth gained by a lavish and reckless use of fibbing advertisements, promising that a very harmless pill shall effect cures of diseases which it can never by any possibility even alleviate, advertisements, too, which induce credulous and ignorant people by all sorts of worthless testimonials to attempt the dangerous practice of doctoring themselves. The distinc- tion of Royal approval should be reserved not merely for useful and benevolent institutions, but for useful and benevolent insti- tutions of no mean or ignoble origin. Fibbing puffs are the curse of the day, and if one could elicit some signal act of Royal disapproval of them, it would be worth almost more to the world than even the best-merited approbation of the Crown for what is both good in itself and noble in its origin and associations.
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