ᏢᎪᎡᎢ Ꮩ . Concerning our Thirty-three Great Public Schools Concerning our Theological Colleges Concerning our Schools of Medicine, with a history of each Hospital Concerning the Oxford and Cambridge Local and Higher Local Exams. Concerning the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board Concerning the Local and Higher Examinations at other Universities Concerning the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching Concerning the Conference of Head Masters first-grade and other Schools Concerning the Royal Academy and other Schools of Music Concerning our Endowed and all the leading Schools of Great Britain - Concerning the Roman Catholic Schools and Colleges of Great Britain Addenda, containing a supplemental list of Private Schools The General Index of Names, with Town or Place of Residence indicated 1127 The Index to the Appendices A, B, C, & D Appendices A, B, C, and D, containing official announcements of Army (1191 Tutors, Continental and English Schools, and Publishers' and General to THURLSTONE HOUSE, 118, LANSDOWNE PLACE, BRIGHTON. MRS. H. W. SMYTHE, Widow of the REV. HENRY W. SMYTHE, B.A., Oxon, And her Daughter (late Pupil of Queen's College, Harley Street, London), Receive a limited number of the Daughters of Gentlemen to educate under their personal superintendence, assisted by competent Governesses and Professors of eminence. Mrs. SMYTHE endeavours to unite home influence and comfort with strict attention to education. TERMS. A HUNDRED GUINEAS PER ANNUM. JUNIOR PUPILS, SEVENTY AND EIGHTY GUINEAS PER ANNUM. These Terms comprehend English in all its branches, and the French Language. Laundress, two Guineas, and a seat at Church, half a Gu inea per Term. The notice of one term, or payment of the same, is required previous to the removal of a Pupil, and no deduction is made for occasional absence. The year is divided into Three Terms-Lent Term, ending four days before Easter; Easter Term, extending to the end of July; and Michaelmas Term, ending five days before Christmas Accounts to be paid at the close of each Term. The following PROFESSORS attend on the usual terms: Signor Bianchi Signor Conti Mr. Frank Bodda Mr. Alfred King, Mus. Bac. Mr. John Thomas, Harpist to Her Mr. A. Earp Signora Venosta Fraulein Menster Rev. W. Bentley, M.A. Madame d'Egville Michau Mr. V. Marmery Pianoforte and Harmony. Singing. Harp. Landscape Drawing and Perspective. Italian. German. Latin. Dancing and Deportment. Lecturer on Literature. on Physical Science. Rev. W. Bentley, M.A. Mr. Watson Lecturer on Natural Philosophy. Reference is kindly permitted to The Right Rev. W. D. Maclagan, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield. The Rev. John Robbins, D.D., Vicar of St. Peter's, Notting Hill. The Rev. Edward Ker Gray, D.D., Vicar of St. Michael and All Angels', North. The Rev. Thomas Arundell, M.A., Vicar of Hayton, York. The Dowager Lady Dixie, Bosworth Park, Leicestershire. Lady Blakiston, Sandybrook Hall, Derbyshire. The Viscountess de Chancelleiros, Quinto do Rocio, near Lisbon. Lady Duke, Laughton Lodge, Laughton, Sussex. [Kensington Note.-Captain F. S. Dumaresq de Carteret-Bisson specially recommends this select School as offering all the advantages of a superior home with higher education. PREFACE. ORE than ten years have passed away since "Our M public favour. Between that period and the present time seven successive editions have been published, and the work has grown into such proportions that it has now expanded into a book comprising nearly 1,300 pages of closely-printed matter. In this much enlarged edition we have endeavoured to supply all the necessary data respecting the newlyfounded Institutions known as the "Royal University of Ireland," "Victoria University, Manchester," the "Royal College of Music," the "City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education," "Intermediate Education in Ireland," and the scarcely yet founded Colleges of "Bangor" and "Cardiff," in " North and South Wales. These and other educational institutions of recent creation will be found fully represented in this volume, and an interesting chapter is also introduced on "Continental Education." Many other subjects of importance bearing upon educational progress in this country have been carefully introduced and adequately treated. To accomplish this, requisite space has been secured, by rejecting from the pages of the present edition such matter as changes have rendered superfluous or irrelevant, or by curtailing what, upon a closer examination, proved to be of second VOL. I. b ary moment. The advantage gained by this elimination has been utilised for a fuller development of those subjects which have of late become of increased interest to both teacher and student. With regard to the re-classification of our great Institutions termed "Public Schools," we hope that by incorporating, as we have now done, twenty-four other large schools in that special section of the work which has hitherto been devoted exclusively to the "nine ancient schools," that we have discharged what we hold to be a duty towards such establishments as Marlborough, Clifton, Wellington, Cheltenham, and Institutions of similar standing; which, although of comparatively recent origin, have already nobly won their way to popularity, having achieved the highest educational position for physical, moral, and intellectual training. In this change of classification we are glad to find that our views have been fully supported by the recognised authorities at the leading Universities, who have likewise advanced these great schools of the "Victorian epoch,” and several others of equal importance, to the high level of Eton and Winchester. We are quite prepared to find some objections to this new system of classification, and possibly from a few Head Masters of the cading reorganised Grammar Schools, which, to do them justice, are now playing an influential part in the education of the upper and middle classes. However this may be, we have been guided, in this rearrangement of the great Schools, by what appeared to be the truest and the most accepted popular tests-namely, those of numbers and general importance, as well as by educational results, or the dates of respective foundations. We have, after due consideration, declined to follow, in this section, the principle of classification adopted by the Endowed Schools' Commissioners-for the distinctions they use of "first grade," "second grade," and "third grade" Schools are such as appear, in the eyes of many, to be occasionally arbitrary, and invariably invidious. We have, therefore, preferred to follow the present method of classifying our great schools. The term "grade," however, is still applied to nearly all the other endowed schools which fall into the common category of middleclass schools, and these are placed in topographical order among the private schools in Part VIII., giving, as in most cases has been hitherto done, the full curriculum of studies, the fees and exhibitions, scholarships and bursaries attached, as well as other items of necessary information, to enable the inquirer to form an adequate conception as to the real character, standing, and educational advantages of those schools. The subject of the Higher Education of Girls and Women has been, for some time past, a theme of such deep interest, that it was the Author's wish to publish, simultaneously with this volume, a companion work uniform with it, and treating exhaustively upon the existing systems and institutions for the education of girls and women. The labour necessary in the preparation of so important a book is the chief cause of the prolonged delay in the publication of this edition. It is with unfeigned pleasure we announce that this educational work has received the gracious approval of |