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Including Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Wilts, Dorset, Hants, and Gloucester. The Story of the North Country. Including Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, and Westmorland. The Story of the East Country. Including Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Lincoln, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Hertford, and Bedford. The Story of the Midlands. Including Warwick, Northampton, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Stafford, and Worcester. MEN AND MOVEMENTS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY. Illustrated. 250 pages. Small crown 8vo, 1s. 6d. London: EDWARD ARNOLD, 41 & 43 Maddox St., W. THE HEAD MASTERS' CONFERENCE. THE HE Annual Conference of Head Masters was held at Merchant Taylors' School on December 22 and 23. It was attended by about fifty head masters, and on the first day there were present about the same number of assistant masters as visitors. The chair was taken at 2 p.m. by the Head Master, Dr. NAIRN, who welcomed the Conference on his own behalf and that of the Merchant Taylors' Company. On the platform were Dr. James (Rugby), Dr. Gow (Westminster), Mr. Moss (Shrewsbury), Mr. David (Clifton), Mr. King (Bedford), Mr. Gilson (Birmingham), members of the Committee. The Proposed Registration Council. Dr. Gow moved the first resolution : 'That this Conference is of opinion that, in the formation of a Registration Council under the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act of 1907, representatives of the teaching profession should be chosen with reference to the types and grades of existing schools, and not with reference to the several faculties of teachers; and (b) that this Conference calls upon the Board of Education to proceed to the constitution of such a Council without further delay." He said that Clause 16 of the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act of 1907 provided for the extinction of the old Teachers' Registra tion Council in March, 1908, and the creation of a new one representative of the teaching profession. That clause was drafted by delegates from the chief societies of secondary and elementary teachers, and was passed as unopposed after negotiations between Mr. McKenna and the Opposition. In February, 1908, a meeting of representatives of the principal associations of primary, secondary, and technical teachers formulated a scheme for a new Registration Council, which should consist of twenty-five persons, sixteen being representatives of societies named, and the remaining nine places being left for Crown nominees and co-opted members. The general theory embodied in the scheme was that education might be divided into primary, secondary, and technical, that men and women should be represented in each branch, that University teachers should be included, both as teachers of higher, secondary, and technical subjects, and as controllers of degrees, and that some places should be left for anomalous interests. This scheme was not framed with mathematical accuracy, but the technical teachers, who had the best right to complain, did not complain at the time, and were, in fact, not organized in the same way or to the same extent as teachers in the other branches. The scheme, however, was merely tentative, an indication of principles, and open to many amendments in detail. Sir Robert Morant, however, at an interview with some delegates in May, took grave exception to the scheme as a whole, as not providing a Council "representative of the teaching profession." It appeared that, in his view, no Council would be representative unless the teachers of any and every subject were represented. The delegates replied, in effect, that such a Council was impossible, that they had no desire to exclude teachers of special subjects from the Register, but that they wished such teachers to frame their own rules for registration and submit them to the Council. Thereupon, Sir R. Morant had sent to every Teachers' Society he could think of, inviting them to say what they thought of the scheme. In consequence, he, through the Board, had been bombarded with proposals. Six musical and four drawing societies had each demanded representation; of the latter, three demanded direct representation, and the fourth desired an R. A. as their spokesman. The Committee of Delegates had declined to work on Sir R. Morant's lines, and he asked the Conference to endorse the judgment of their delegates. The reasons to be urged against the representation of specialists directly on the Council were briefly these. A Council so composed would be a mob and would consist of members not one of whom understood the business of any other. Furthermore, the most important specialist teachers were not organized in one society. There was no end to the subdivision of faculties. Teachers of music, for instance, might be divided into a hundred groups, such as teachers of singing, piano, violin, flute, &c., and, according to Sir Robert Morant's theory, every one of these groups might justly ask for representation on the Council. The view of the Committee was that all such teachers were technical teachers who must have access to the Register on practically their own terms, and were, for that very reason, useless on the Council. Finally, Dr. Gow pointed out that the Act of 1907 postulated an Order in Council which would have to be drawn by the Board of Education. The teaching profession was not required to tender its advice or the Board to accept advice when tendered. As Sir Robert Morant had ideas of his own, it was time that he embodied them in a scheme of his own and abandoned the merely critical attitude. He had the authority of a leading member of the Opposition to state that the account given by Sir R. Morant in the White Paper of the preliminary negotiations that resulted in Clause 16 was a mere travesty of what actually took place. Canon R. D. SWALLOW (Chigwell School), in seconding the resolution, said that, from what he had seen of the inner working of the negotiations, he considered the whole of the profession was under a |