A small school of 400 souls in a British colony on the edge of a continent was, in the context of the world, an insignificant item. But in the minds of the young, and the aspirations of families, Bishops was a maker of destiny. _ Girls were selected early; from the age of ten or eleven, their future, or the esteem in which they held themselves, was set. Valued, sorted, and graded by whatever talent, intellect or grace, they were found to lack or possess,...