Note 578 — Chapter XII · Classical Studies.

There exists a vast literature on this subject. Of more recent publications we mention only those of a man whose opinions must be of special interest to American educators, viz. those of the United States Commissioner of Education, W. T. Harris: A Brief for Latin—On the Function of the Study of Latin and Greek in Modern Education—Place of the Study of Latin and Greek in Modern Education, and Herbert Spencer and what to Study (Educational Review, September 1902). In this last article Commissioner Harris very ably refutes Spencer’s attacks on the study of the classics.—Of older works we wish to call attention to one of an American ecclesiastic, which is almost unknown: Bishop England’s Address on Classical Education (Bishop England’s Works, vol. V, pp. 13–31), in which the advantages of a classical education are set forth with admirable force and lucidity.