. Review of reviews and world's work . August; a weeks pedestrian excursioncosting, to members, £3. (7) Dublin and Killarney.—Two fortnightly par-ties, staying at Dunloe Castle, costing, to Polytechnicmembers, £4. 5s., and 7s. 6d. extra to meals a day. It is perhaps -worthy of remark that both the Toyn-bee Travelers Club, and the Polytechnic trips werefounded by Etonians. Eton, to the average demo-cratic mind, suggests all that is exclusive and Tory,and yet she has been the indirect parent of a far-reaching and thoroughly democratical educationalmovement, furnishing the means o
. Review of reviews and world's work . August; a weeks pedestrian excursioncosting, to members, £3. (7) Dublin and Killarney.—Two fortnightly par-ties, staying at Dunloe Castle, costing, to Polytechnicmembers, £4. 5s., and 7s. 6d. extra to meals a day. It is perhaps -worthy of remark that both the Toyn-bee Travelers Club, and the Polytechnic trips werefounded by Etonians. Eton, to the average demo-cratic mind, suggests all that is exclusive and Tory,and yet she has been the indirect parent of a far-reaching and thoroughly democratical educationalmovement, furnishing the means on the one hand ofacademic education in art and European history toworking men and women, comparatively limited innumbers, who need but to be furnished with theopportunity to claim it gladly ; and, on the other, ofrecreational education to several thousands of theworkers in the artisan and so-called lower middleclass dwelling in those great towns which are com-monly regarded as hide-bound in Philistinism. u THE REJ/IEW OF H. R. H. THE INFANTA OF SPAIN.(From a photograph by Marx, Munich.) A ROYAL CHARITY ALBUM IT is likely that so remarkable a volume has neverbeen issned in the cause of charity as that whichHer Royal Highness the Infanta of Spain has issuedin order to secure support for an orphan asylum inw^hich she is interested. The album is entitled Caritas, and is published for the benefit of the Asylum, for the education of poor children andorphans. It is a large folio, sumptuously bound, andadmirably gotten up. As a book for the drawing-
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