"All the boy gained by the most elaborate system ever devised for the saving of labor," she says, "was that he over-skipped the lower forms in school. What he lost was the habit of mastering his prescript lessons, which he seems to have disliked heartily." But how does any one know that that was all he gained? I should hardly select Montaigne as my model, if I were trying to point out the ill effects of any particular type of education. Besides, whatever its effect may have been on him, I should hate to lose the mental picture of the little lad Latinizing with the "simple folk of Perigord." Charming little lad, and wonderful old father, doing his best to elevate and help his boy. No, decidedly; whatever Miss Repplier may do to dispose of Tony and his ilk, I am glad she had nothing whatever to do with the education of Montaigne! THE LITTLE REVIEW Since it appears to be my duty to read all the critical journals and dissect their contents for these columns, I can't in good faith neglect THE LITTLE REVIEW. I have just devoured the first issue. What can I say about the superb "announcement"? I agree ardently with it. It needed to be said; the magazine needed to be born. There's no quarrel between art and life except where one or the other is kept back of the door. Anyone with a keen appreciation of art can't help appreciating life too, and Mrs. Jones who runs away from her husband can't fairly stand for "life." Besides, why should anybody object to a thing because it's transitorial? Everything is transitorial. It must either grow or perish. Mr. Wing's criticism of _Mr. Faust_ is admirable--direct, unpretentious, sound. But you must let me register a slight objection to Dr. Foster's Nietzsche article. It seems to me there's just too much enthusiasm to be borne by what he actually says. When I came to the end of that third paragraph on page fifteen I sneaked back to Galsworthy's letter and found an answering twinkle in its eye. I felt like going up to Dr. Foster with a grin, putting my hand on his shoulder and saying, "My dear man, a candidate for major prophet doesn't need political speeches. It is really not half so important that we unregenerate should give three cheers for him as that we should live his truth. Won't you forget a little of this sound and fury and tell us as simply as you can just what it is that you want us to do?"