I900 and 1910. It is true of course that this is part of a general large increase in the secondary schools, and that relatively the number of Latin students is less than in 19io (dropping from about 49.5 per cent to about 39 per cent; yet in 1890 only about 33.6 per cent of the students in the schools studied Latin). The difference is due to the extension of the high school into vocational fields. Latin is still being studied by more pupils than German, French, and Spanish put together. We may expect a falling off in Latin in some of the eastern states in the near future, but this will be counterbalanced by increases in the West. Recent statistics show encouraging gains in Iowa, Kansas, and Wisconsin. The West has had its radicalism and is getting over it. The East has caught it and will have to be nursed until the attack is over. One thing seems clear, that the attendance in the upper years will decrease at least until the junior high school organization has become fairly general. With Latin begun in the seventh grade it is fair to expect that many pupils will continue it for four or fiv years.

Here comes Mr. Spoilsport again. Well, what now? You say that this growth in the number of Latin pupils is not a healthy one and represents only traditional inertia, that it is, in short, so much fat?'Tis a pretty fancy that your words contain, plain though they be, and pretty fancies carry weight with the unthink-ing. But what if I show that the Latin of the future will be so attractive and so valuable that more and more diverse groups of pupils will study it? This is indeed already coming to be the case. In a number of high schools Latin has been introduced into com-mercial courses with great success. Even the educational experts, who as a class have made it their business in the past to be icon-oclasts on all occasions (for advertising purposes?), are beginning to talk in different terms. Most notable are the words of Professor Bobbitt: