Thus languages, and especially modern languages, are assuming more and more importance in the education of children, not only with us, but in most other countries of Europe.

In some of them the methods are distinctly in advance of ours.
Much has been written of late years in the course of educational discussions as to the value of classical studies in education.

As the best authorities are not yet in agreement among themselves it would be obviously out of place to add anything here on the subject.

But the controversy principally belongs to classics in boys' schools; as to the study of Latin by girls, and in particular to its position in Catholic schools, there is perhaps something yet to be said.
In non-Catholic schools for girls Latin has not, even now, a great hold.
It is studied for certain examinations, but except for the few students whose life takes a professional turn it scarcely outlives the school-room.

Girl students at universities cannot compete on equal terms with men in a classical course, and the fact is very generally acknowledged by their choosing another.