girl should be able to ont out her own clothes as that she should know the constituent parts of the atmosphere. As wives and mothers they ought, we admit, to know something of the principles of hygiene, but we submit that buttons and hole-mend ing are also very necessary indeed. We do not underrate the new learning, which the professor of chemistry is desirous of pouring into the minds of the rising generation, oae little bit. It is easy to get a silly laugh ont of the notion of teaching girls all the ologies, while they never learn to cook or wa*h or mend. We do not desire to hold up the two subjects as rivab ; physiology has its place, and sewing has its place. We merely wish to point out that when our girls grow up into women, save in a few favoured in stances, they will spend some considerable part of every day of their lives with a needle in their hands. In a girl's education, for all practical purposes, sewing should come in point of importance after, and only just after, reading, writing, and arithmetic. This is a parent's question, if we may so put it, rather than a schoolmaster's, if ever the two oan be separated. For once, perhaps (masters, as we say, are but human), it U natural that the modest acquirement of being able to cut out and fashion mysterious linen and cotton garments, should not rank very Ligb. in a schoolmaster's mind. Not withstanding which, as fitting girls for the work of life, that despised art must be rec koned to stand very high indeed. In one or two points we must express our cordial concurrence with Mr Stewart. A visitiug sewing-mistress would never, could nsver, teach so successfully as one of the staff. In so far as is possible, it is always inadvisable to bring in visiting teachers. Each school Bhould be self contained. There must be some loss of time under any other arrangement, even though that loss of time may be with care reduced to a mini mum. Also it is undoubtedly true that an outsider never has so good a chance of main taining discipline as a member of the staff. In sewing, we believe, even more than in other subjects, a clasß is very apt to get into confusion. 