“I have been a member of the German class in the Chautauqua Correspondence School of Languages for two years, and I consider this plan of study, including the six weeks’ instruction each year at Chautauqua, superior to any other. The method is not only more comprehensive, it also advances the pupil much more rapidly, makes him more thorough, broadens his culture, enables him to become familiar with history, with literature, with art, and better than all, teaches him how to acquire knowledge.” We add two statements of fact which can be verified as proofs of popular opinion regarding correspondence schools: FIRST—That the Director of the Department of New Testament Greek in the Chautauqua School of Theology has students to the number of almost four hundred who rely for instruction entirely upon correspondence lessons. SECOND—That the Dean of the Department of Hebrew in the same institution has under instruction by the same methods, in the different enterprises with which he is connected, about seven hundred students. Could there be anything more significant? EDITOR’S OUTLOOK. “MINOR MORALS.” The importance of good breeding can not be too diligently insisted upon. But what is good breeding? This is hardly to be understood as synonymous with good manners, though certainly involving them. Nor is it quite the same thing as exemplary or agreeable behavior, though likely to insure it. The latter is entirely the product of constant practice. Good manners, polished behavior, are the fruit of long discipline—perfection herein being reached only when these manners become habitual, natural, instinctive. True courtesy, meanwhile, involves something deeper than mere manners or motions. It has its seat in the heart—its root in the moral nature. Fundamentally it consists in an inward kindly, neighborly, tender feeling toward every one, an interest in, and a desire to promote everybody’s welfare. Genuine courtesy, in a word, is born of love, springs from a benevolent disposition, a brotherly, chivalric impulse. But what is good breeding? It consists in this inward principle of good will, and the outward _habit_ of graceful demeanor combined—it consists in the aforesaid inward gracious impulse, rooted in the heart, and finding natural outward expression, or interpretation, through that disciplined elegance of deportment of which I have spoken. To the inward impulse, or sentiment, duly awakened, the outward, educated habit naturally, instinctively responds; and we have the deportment, or carriage, of the truly polished or accomplished gentleman or lady. These twin principles, the inward nurture and the outward culture or training, working together, underlie what in the highest sense is to be understood as good breeding.