_Tuesday's Letter_.
Sir,--In your issue of to-day I read with interest an account of an
interview with Mr. Dexter, the popular novelist, and I observe that
gentleman thinks it 'rather late in the day' to discuss the Higher
Education of Women. One can only be amused at this flippant dismissal of
a subject dear to the hearts of many of us; a movement consecrated by the
life-energies--I had almost said the life-blood--of a Gladstone, a
Sidgwick, a Fitch, and a Platt-Culpepper. Does Mr. Dexter really imagine
that he can look down on such names as these? Or are we to conclude that
the recent successes of 'educated' women in fiction have got on his
nerves? To suggest professional jealousy would be going too far, no
doubt.
Yours faithfully.
'HIGH SCHOOL'