Abstract

Special Correspondence

The article reports on various recent developments in Europe. The British Parliamentary session now concluded has been singularly disappointing in legislation relating to Ireland. The report of the Irish Land-Acts Committee, however, redeems it in no small measure. It is the contention of the majority of Irishmen that, underexisting conditions, ameliorative measures, oven, when passed for their country, are in their administration cramped in their application, or shorn of benefits intended to have been conferred by them. The preparation of women for, rather than their admission to, the universities is at present the paramount question with all Germans who advocate the higher education of the sex. The universities have all along intrenched themselves in their refusal to admit women or to grant them degrees behind the fact that, having no gymnasia, women could not properly prepare for university study. This argument, the faculties' chief bulwark of defence, is now being met and undermined by the establishment of such gymnasia or classical preparatory schools.