ERRATA.

Page 1, line 2, for “July 29” read “July 18.”

Page 29, line 12, for “lighted” read “lifted.”

Page 39, line 25, for “to play” read “for play.”

Page 111, line 27, for “lady on” read “lady in.”


INTRODUCTORY.
THEN AND NOW.

“Educate women, and you educate the teachers of men; if the child is father to the man, the woman forms the man in educating the child. The cause of female education is then, even in the most selfish sense, the cause of mankind at large.”—C. G. Nicolay.

Gracious speech can seldom have been more truthful than when the Prince of Wales said, on July 18, 1879, that few of their many public functions had afforded the Princess and himself more gratification than the opening of the great hall, given by the Clothworkers’ Company to the North London Collegiate School for Girls, a ceremony putting the final touch to the work of so many years.