WELL SAID.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 26, 1 September 1911, Page 7

WELL SAID.

A'correspondent lias brought to bur notice an. article in the "School JOuiy nal ,, for June that seems to have some beairing upon, that troublesome question "the teaching of history." It tells "How King George will be crowned," and gives in detail "a scene which breaks for a short time the solemnity of the proceedings." This is nothing less "than the intrusion of "the Treasurer of the King's Household," who provide* an interlude by throwing Coronation medals all over the Abbey. "A great scramble ensues," and all the dignitaries—"high-born lords and ladies, dignified statesmen, : generals, stately dowagers and learned judges" — ' 'tumble over one another and fight fiercely" for the souvenirs, even "diving under benches" in their ardour. Perhaps it does no harm to the rising: generation to fancy that this genial and hearty performance takes place, but we imagined that the "School Journal" aims at giving accurate information when it gives information at adl. Mr. Fowlds's young men seem to have got a little out of hand iix their excitement. — "Dominion. "