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the imaginative type, and in the greater joy that teacher and pupil alike gain from the English lesson. This newer type of teaching calls for higher qualities of taste and scholarship than did the old, but the reward is rich for those who possess these qualities. The success that has attended the introduction of phonetics in the early stages of the teaching of French has created an interest in the science generally. Teachers of English are looking to it to help them to correct faulty speech in the mother-tongue. Great interest was shown in the proposed vacation school ill French and English phonetics and speech-training which had been planned for May, 1926. The secondary schools are now paying more attention to music than in past years. In most cases the services of a visiting teacher have to be engaged, but some of the best work in music has been accomplished in schools which are fortunate in having on their own staffs one or more capable musicians. The advent of the high-class gramophone, it may be added, has done much to make the teaching of musical appreciation possible even where there are 110 experts available. We conclude by remarking that in spite of a trying year all ranks of the service have shown a buoyant spirit in the problems that affect their schools. They feel that the next few years will be ones of great interest and development, and that change is necessary and inevitable in many features of the work and organization of their schools, and they are eager to throw their weight into any reforms that are brought about as a result of the recent Commissions' reports. We have, &c., E. J. Pare, \ H P Kidson i I lls P ec t° rs secondary bchools. The Director of Education.

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