co-operate with other and mightier influences, the Address at the close of the Easter Term was designed to explain. Lest any reader should suppose that it was written to remove injurious impressions respecting us, he is reminded that it was delivered six months before the Article in the Quarterly Review appeared, and that it is printed as it was spoken. CONTENTS. Queen's College, London: its Objects and Method. By the Rev. F. D. MAURICE, M.A., Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn. On English Composition. By the Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY, Rector of Eversley On English Literature. By the Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY, Rector of Eversley On the French Language. By ISIDORE BRASSEUR, Professor of the French Lan- guage and Literature in King's College, On the German Language. By ADOLPHUS BERNAYS, Ph. Dr. Professor of the German Language and Literature in On Latin. By the Rev. S. CLARK, M.A., On Natural Philosophy. By the Rev. M. O'BRIEN, M.A., Professor of Natural Philosophy in King's College, London. On the Principles and Method of Teaching. By the Rev. THOMAS JACKSON, M.A., Principal of the National Society's I. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, LONDON: ITS OBJECTS AND METHOD. BY THE REV. FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE, M.A. CHAPLAIN OF LINCOLN'S INN. T is proposed immediately after Easter to open a IT College in London for the Education of Females. The word "College," in this connexion, has to English ears a novel and an ambitious sound. I wish we could have found a simpler which would have described our object as well. Since we have chosen this, we should take pains to explain the sense in which we use it; to shew, if we can shew truly, that we are not devising a scheme to realise some favourite theory, but are seeking, by humble and practical methods, to supply an acknowledged deficiency. For this purpose, and not that I may prove the superiority of our plan to all others, I have been requested to address you now. Some years ago a Society was established for the assistance of Governesses. Its first object was to afford temporary relief to cases of great suffering; the second to cultivate provident habits in those who [Q. C. LEC.] 1 could afford to save anything out of their salaries; the third to raise annuities for those who were past work, and whose friends or former employers were unable or unwilling to support them. The necessity for the first and last of these efforts has been made painfully evident; the Committee of Ladies, who undertake to investigate applications, are continually meeting with cases of persons who have struggled hardly for years to work and live; the list of Candidates for the small pittance which the Society is able to bestow upon the most aged and helpless, is scarcely to be paralleled by any records of misery which our country, rich in them as in all things else, can supply. The experience of the Society in the other department of its labour is as encouraging as in this it is depressing. As soon as the opportunity was afforded, it was found that Governesses were eager to make themselves independent of assistance by providing for their own wants, if the scantiness of their incomes allowed them to compass this end by personal sacrifices merely; it is equally to their honour, that a great many have taken the risk of future beggary, rather than abandon the present care of relatives still poorer than themselves. Knowing these facts, the Society might hope that they were doing something to elevate a class, as well as to cheer individual members of it; they must have felt, I think, also that measures of another kind were if the next generation of Governesses were necessary, |