An English magazine has devoted three columns in a recent number to the evils of examinations, most of which applies mainly to preparatory and grammar schools. A few remarks, however, may be quoted with some bearing on the evils of the system here. It says: "It is no uncommon thing to find examination papers which an accomplished literary man would not undertake to answer unless he had two or three days and the aid of a good library. That too much is often required, that subjects are given which cannot be properly treated, and that much harm is done to boys and young men by the forcing process to which they are subjected, can hardly be disputed. It was said a good many years ago of a legal examination that not one of the examiners could have passed it. Strong in his own subject, each would have failed in one of the others. Might not a hint be taken from this that in future those who conduct the more severe examinations shall be required to pass them? Such a regulation would possibly be found to produce a marked effect, excluding the excessive zeal of examiners."