rsued, and of testing the work by examinations,
rather than daily records, provision is made for the differences of
power and aptitude between different students, and for the occasional
variations in physical vigor, which are likely to occur with any except
those who possess the strongest constitutions--and this, with the
athletic habits and general care for health that pervades English life,
is likely to prove a pretty good safeguard against excessive mental work
for both men and women; though, of course, individual cases occur where,
driven by ambition or necessity, one incautiously puts more strain upon
his powers than they can bear.

The English sentiment in regard to the advisability of encouraging young
women to pursue precisely the same course of study as young men, would
be expressed in this way: "It is rarely advisable for any two young men
to pursue an identical course of study. The chief aim of education is to
develop the mental faculties, to enable us to observe accurately, and
judge correctly; the practices that secure these results are various;
one set of practices may be better adapted for the training of one mind,
and another set better adapted for training another mind, and no one set
will fail to give good results, if pursued with energy. In the choice,
we are, as a rule, safest to follow the individual inclination. As yet,
women have been so limited in opportunities, that they have had little
chance to discover their mental inclinations, either as a class, or as
individuals."

The statement would, I think, go no farther. The question of
co-education has as yet scarcely come into the popular mind. Small
experiments, prompted usually by convenience, have been made, so far as
I have heard, with uniform success, and the practice is making its way
into the higher education of the country. Women are already admitted to
the Political Economy class, and one or two other classes in University
College, London; as I have said, the lectures and classes organized
under the recent plan of Cambridge University, for carrying university
education into the towns, are open to men and women in common; and the
various governing bodies are now discussing the question of admitting
women to degrees in London University, to both classes and degrees in
Queen's College, Belfast, and to classes in Owen's College, Manchester,
and a bill is likely to be introduced into the next session of
Parliament, to empower all the universiti