ASSISTANT-MASTER AT HARROW, LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND SECOND EDITION. London: MACMILLAN & CO. 1868. [The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved.} No.. 9714 PREFACE. THE principles and methods of Liberal Education are at the present time undergoing considerable discussion, and it cannot be otherwise than useful to direct general attention to the changes already in progress, and to other reforms which have become either imperative or desirable. Liberal Education in England is not controlled by the Government, nor is it entirely in the hands of tutors and schoolmasters; it is an institution of national growth, and it will expand and improve only with the expansion and improvement of our national ideas of what education ought to be. We have endeavoured, so far as lies in our power, to hasten this expansion and improvement by showing in what light some of the most interesting |