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CONTENTS. nerally known, in order that our capabilities Verily an alarming array of scoffers, and of yet greater usefulness may be recognized, we know not how many more." But let us Page and, by wider co-operation, fully developed. look them narrowly in the face. Turn to the In the course of time we may hope donations father of comedy, the great comic poet of and legacies will establish the material pros- Athens. While he vents his caustic scoffs on perity of the College on a firmer basis. Our all the other classes of society before menin General Literature, Class .............................legislature can hardly fail to perceive that, tioned, he certainly does not altogether spare Address delivered at the College of Preceptors, by the Royal College of Surgeons:-Preliminary Examination University Intelligence 101 ........ 105 College of Preceptors :-Report of General Meeting;- The Report of the Medical Council....... with a view to the public good, nay, on the the instructor of youth. But how does he ridiground of mere consistency, the profession of cule the profession? In the person of the education must be protected by those legal purest and wisest teacher of the heathen world 106 safeguards which other learned professions- -in the person of Socrates. The consequence "The Cornhill" and the College of Preceptors....... 108 clerisy, law, and medicine-already enjoy. of which is, that we read "The Clouds" merely 109 That this ought to be done, we are well con- as a clever and amusing libel; we laugh as vinced; that it will sooner or later be done, we the stripes of the witty scourge resound, Shoreham Schools.............................................. 109 may be equally sure; but as to the time and knowing all the while that they leave no scar Educational and Literary Summary of the Month...... 110 mode of achieving it, I give no opinion or on the character of Socrates, or on the profesMonthly Record of Science and Art ................................................................. 111 advice. sion of the educator. They are as harmless as the caricatures of H. B., or the weekly sketches in "Punch." Correspondence: - Oxford Local Examinations Review:-Dr. W. Smith's Dictionaries.. Notices of New Books List of College and School Books. Mathematics................ Answers to Correspondents .... ; The Educational Times. ADDRESS, Delivered at the General Meeting of the College of BY BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, D.D., LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,-I deeply regret that private causes, with which I need not trouble you, prevent my attendance at your annual meeting. Accept, instead of my presence, the expression of my warmest sympathy and my best wishes for the interests of our College. Forty-seven new members have been added to the College during the past Half-year, among whom are residents in Calcutta and Jamaica. The number of school pupils examined by the College at Midsummer, 1861, was 570, exceed ing by more than 100 the number of the preceding year. These circumstances indicate the steadily advancing influence of the College, and tend to confirm that anticipation of its future importance which I ventured to express when I last addressed you. Passing on to the comic poets of Rome, Plautus and Terence, we find a range of ridicule not so wide as that of Aristophanes, yet tolerably extensive. But the educator has no In the lack of other matter, I may, perhaps, place there. The pedagogue appears; but the be allowed to fill the remaining space of my pedagogue (or slave, who escorted his young Address with a few cursory observations on a master to and from school, also called custos) paper headed "Schoolmasters," which appears is a totally different personage from the schoolin the "Cornhill Magazine" for the present master, though in modern parlance scoffingly month. I shall not attempt an elaborate cri- identified with him. But Shakspeare? Yes; ticism of that paper; to do so would be some-in a comedy written for the express purpose of thing like breaking a butterfly on the wheel. ridiculing affectation, the only play so written It contains some truth and much untruth; by him, Shakspeare has introduced an absurd some good, and much evil; and its prevailing pedantic schoolmaster, Holofernes, side by moral tone is languid and low. By trying to side with other absurdities, the silly curate correct its errors, to profit by its truths, and Nathaniel, the vain soldier Armado, and the to place the subject it deals with in a more fantastic courtiers. Though less prone to instructive point of view, we may, perhaps, ridicule classes than were the other dramatists make it the channel of conveying truth more of his time, Shakspeare turns the laugh, more definite and important than its author appears or less, against all ranks, and applies the lash to all professions. Courtiers, knights, squires, "Who shall assign a date," so the paper physicians, apothecaries, parsons, all figure in begins, "to the first ridicule of the school- their turn, and make mirth. Lawyers, for master and the tutor?" Quorsum hæc whatever reason, he has strikingly spared, or, tam putida tendunt? There is neither at most, he only shoots them flying, as when point nor pertinence in the question. Who he makes Timon say :shall assign a date to the first ridicule of the courtier and the parasite? Who shall assign a date to the first ridicule of the statesman and the diplomatist, the rhetorician and the lawyer, the philosopher, the mathematician, the poet, the military and naval captain, the minister of religion, the physician and apothecary, the lord, the squire, the farmer, Evening meetings have been held at the College, for reading papers and discussing the trader, the female sex, and a score more Lawrit of Fletcher, the Voltore, Picklock, and educational topics. Though as yet not largely classes which have, in one age or another, or Practice of Ben Jonson, with a host more. Of attended, they have been interesting and useful, in all ages, served as butts to the comic poet, schoolmasters, I remember none but the Gerrold and their continuance and efficient prosecution the satirist, and the novelist? Among these of Fletcher and the Metaphrastus of Vanbrugh, is much to be desired. it was not likely that the schoolmaster and mere copies of Shakspeare's Holofernes. Ben the tutor should escape; for the sway of Jonson has not travestied the schoolmaster in Momus on earth is hardly less extensive than any of his plays, though our Essayist would that of Cupid. But let us follow our essayist :- lead us to think so; and I doubt whether any The "Educational Times "has been adopted by the Council as the official organ of the College. We venture, therefore, to hope that this journal will receive the support of all our members, and that the friends of education will do their best to extend its circulation and influence. We are well assured that the editor, and those who act with him, will spare no exertions to deserve the confidence and esteem of the subscribers. "There is a schoolmaster "Comic writers have made him one of their passage can be cited from him more personal favourite butts, and even grave writers have be- to our profession than the harmless joke in trayed him. Some have mocked him in his chair" Time Vindicated:". of authority, and some, like Pope and Churchill, have shot at him flying. At home with his pupils, or travelling with them, he has never been safe. With his ferule, he has been a monster; without An effort has been made to augment the it, an impostor, affecting a home and family tenBenevolent Fund, the object of which is the re-derness which he cannot be expected to feel in lief of necessitous members of the College, and of reality. Sidney, Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Beauthose dependent upon them. I fear that this mont and Fletcher, Bishop Corbet, and we know effort has not been very successful-a fact not how many more of our early writers who could which is greatly to be regretted, since the purpose of the Fund is one that cannot but commend itself to every feeling mind. Is turning all his works too into Latin, To pure satyric Latin: makes his boys To learn him; calls him the Times' Juvenal; Hangs all his school with his sharp sentences; And o'er the execution-place hath painted Time whipt, for terror of the infantry." As for the satirists, Pope and Churchill, we command the laugh of the town, have all had their can suffer them. The little crooked bard of fling at him; indeed, of such writers we may ask, Twickenham snapped right and left, as the who has ever said a solitary word in his favour? manner of such is; and Churchill's good word But his discredit is older, far older, than this. was not worth having. Bishop Corbet's "fling" Juvenal in Rome laments over the want of appre-is comprised in the couplet :ciation, and the ill-paid services, not of the sham school speculator, but of the really doctus Palamon, As respects the future there is much to do, who might well have shed tears, not as Isocrates if it be but well done. We have to make did at having to accept a fee, but at having to our existence and our present usefulness ge-accept so very small a one." This is all I have to notice in the latest annals of the College: quiet and slow, but, I trust, sure progress. "Where it should be preferment to endure To tend a schoole, or else to starve a cure;" from which all that appears is, that this merry prelate did not relish either teaching or cu |