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    * 343 NOTICES OF BOOKS

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    Transactions Of The National Association...

    cannot think what it -wishes them to do in its behalf . " This is the more practical of the department ; to create , on questions

    of law , a public purpose opinion which , shall insist on the carrying of every wise reform . Among those advocated in the present volume are

    amendments in the Laws relating to Charitable Trusts . The paper is contributed by Vice-Chancellor Sir W . P . Wood , who filled the chair

    of the department . As showing the necessity for a change in the law , he gives an instance or two of bequests upheld as charitable : —

    be " for One ever testator lie , d not as long a x > since ension , bequeathed to some three who hundred had been pounds unsuccessful a year to person

    in literature app , and whose duty it should be to support and diffuse by liis writings the te directed stator ' s own to . views whether as enforced the testator in the testator _jmblications ' s publications contained . A . anything n inquiry

    was con so-called trary to charity reli as gion was or established morals , and . this being ' s answered in the negative , the half of the income

    of " which In another was to case be distributed a testator gave amongst a fund fifteen to trustees maidens , one of - his parish of the poorer the prettiest sort , , between and should eighteen have been and most twent regular y-five in years their of attendance age , who at should church of be ,

    and the other half among fifteen spinsters , who should be upwards fifty the year " direction The s old , trustees with of the the declined like Court ' qualifications of so Chancery invidious . ' whicli a selection established of objects the , charity except under

    inde-, , pendently , however , of the personal qualifications . " The amendments required in our Property and Commercial Laws

    are further dealt with in a series of able papers . But we must pass on to a department which , if not more important , is at least of wider

    interest , and which will chiefly demand our attention . Education ,

    Two interesting papers on the subject of Competitive Examinations are followed ba most rehensive one " On Some Existing

    Relations of Time and y Circumstances comp to the objects of Education , ' ' bthe Ilev . Barham Zinckein which he expresses his oi _rinion that

    our y systems of education generall , y fail to adapt themselves to the time and circumstances of the classes for whom they are intended .

    who " " takes With regard his child to from our elementary school _wlien schools ten , who s old is in and the ri sets ght him , the to laborer work , year ,

    or the educationalistwho would endeavor . to detain him some years longer ? wei laborer wil I will l ht bo omit with receiving an additi the the parents fact ten on , of th shillings at twe it is two n not ty . shillings per the Thoug cent h un , a it to d week _ivpon lias the , , wage which and which oug s the of their ht the child to practice a have gricultur may , rests much earn al . ,

    to That earn g which their leads dail them bread is , . their If the personal three gro knowledge from ten of the to thirte training en were required subyears

    would tracted he from gained industri for y the al training mind in and the given case of up those to intellectual who must work pass , their very little lives the h continuous work of

    Eng wet able in manual lish incapacity The agriculture parent labor for ; bearing guided the would seeds b be exposure of imp his a lante distaste to d experience our , and alternations for at the j roug udges same of time heat that no and b inconsider the cold age and of

    life ton . his It child U do should ne in , obedie be accustoming nc y e to one own of himself those to gener what , al self will -acting be the y laws work whi of ch his ,

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    * 343 Notices Of Books

    * 343 NOTICES OF BOOKS

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/55/