ABSTRACT
And such work, such culture, cannot be lost. Passing by the striking fact that one woman, in an obscure middle-class suburb, founded a school which has produced some of the most cultured women of the da.y, and which has been the first and greatest of a body of schools which ha.ve transformed female education in England, let us look at the effect on the average girls who never attain celebrity. "If we believe what schoolmasters tell us," said Mrs. Arthur LytteUon in her paper on "Reading," at the Church Congress last October, "there is the greatest possible difference between a boy who has heard matters of outside and general interest talked of at hODle, and one who has been accustomed only to household details or local gossip. . , N ow this depends, perhaps, even more on the woman than the man." Mothers trained in schools of which the North London Collegiate is the type, can scarcely, we may believe, sink to the lower level here indicated, and the effect of their training Oli
. the next generation, if these words be true, ought to be a great increase of intelligent children, both boys and girls, while the " surplus woman" should be far better fitted than her precursors for the struggle of life.
