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 remarkable that more than one school has been modelled after it in other places.

In the Victoria High School Europeans, Parsees, Brahmans, Jews, and Mahomedans are successfully taught together, and the numbers attending it are constantly on the increase. At the present time the High School itself has about 150 pupils; but there is also a branch school in connection with it, a large and flourishing kindergarten school, and a department in which older girls are prepared for the matriculation examination of the University of Bombay.

Since the opening of the Victoria High School Mrs. Sorabji has succeeded in establishing three other large schools in Poona. One of these is for children who understand nothing but the vernacular, or Marathi language; another is intended for young Mahomedan girls of good family, who are not allowed to attend mixed schools; and the third undertakes the task of training teachers, and is almost the only institution of the kind in the Bombay Presidency.

In the working of these schools Mrs. Sorabji has been assisted almost from the commencement by one or more of her daughters, and at the present time no less than four of them help her regularly: the eldest is assistant superintendent; the second teaches music; another is head mistress of the High School, 'where she specially manages the upper forms; while