DEDICATION.
TO SOME FORMER PUPILS OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, LONDON.
My dear Children, In days when the Universities were not open to women, Queen's College, under the presidency of Dr. Trench, was considered the pioneer of female education. By the time I made the acquaintance of " dear old Queen's " it was beginning to seem somewhat behind the age. Our doors had not yet been opened to the Examiner. We learned contentedly whatever our own professors saw fit to put before us, and never thought of going up for matriculation or degrees. Yet our teachers, the list of whom still contained such names as F. D. Maurice and Stopford Brooke, did somehow contrive to keep yoiu* young minds very full of not altogether uninteresting or profitless thought The questions which you brought to me would have puzzled a wiser head than mine ; and when I could not find answers for you, either in published books, in the suggestive sermons on
National Religion preached at the West London Synagogue,
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