, 1873-02-09
BRITISH PERIODICALS.
Temple Bar, Fraser's, the Fort
nightly, and Black
woods.
"reminiscences Of Winchester Col.
lege---" A Hundred Years
Ago"

Some Curiosities of Criti-
cisn1---*s Middle
march,"
TEMPLE BAR.
In TemDs Bar Frank Duckland gi7es eome
"REMINISCENCES OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE,
Immediately after chapel tbs old stager boys al
r.me round tie pen arrivals to examine and cricise
HEN. perfectly recolect one boy, Il. to whose
special care my poor confng mother had entrusted
IN most nsSsa Solemn ice, md asEns me- had brought
pith my copy Of the school book "pe.npe moron
sea nee
Eerly, the head MASTER will be to fog you to-
morning, and your college tutor, one OF the
boy who sid be had lent his "Pempe proteron
but he passed to third, he On to fourth; 80
II r most teibie abI panic an Of mia I'll It
tured prafect said, "Const1ue 1t, you Little fool
had never thought Of this before saw It directly:
4ite Of this wonderful book after III vac. Send
fool further" then went to complain to Il; he
s,ly laughed, and slied Donnegants lexicon at my
head. lodged it like a bird, 50 he made ine pick It
up aud bring it to him again, Ike retriever dog
me- us tue 50 shall never forget the TRANSLATION Of
Tempe moron pToter6n-
4 few nights afterwards he drcamt he WAS
wandering On the sea-Bhore, and thai crab was
pinching his foot:
Instantly awakening, 1e1pereneed mcst f1ightful
It became 90 intense that had to jump with howl
OF agony; all quiet but the pull continued, and
lien found b Of wetted xhipcord tight round it
Ja1 tie whipcord was 50 ingenons1y twisted among
the beds TINT it vas impossible to lind out teao 1ad
into shout: "Toe fit ,ied !" by Jovs what ark!"
there is line il Proaody which begins, To fit Il, ut
vert" Hence the origin Of this Winchester Gus
tom.
Eng1ishmen who were well thrashed, or *'tunded,"
as they put it, by older pupils, and are proud
aud glad Of it,
great deal has been said and written about the
cruelty OF "fagging and especially Of "*tund
Ing" at Winchester. As IN almost every case under
Kept Within hounds, tuuding is excellent tnsti
tuition, but Of course .msy b sometimes very much
had temper. Tho boys Of this generation would be
great deal better for Little judcious !" tunding" I
1atel, had . page boy who could work well
tons, such as not cleaning the onteys' night cage
~hen they we're in their day cage,not feeding the
1he room where cast fish left untdy, &c, always
climbing" {sce my definition OF thinking above>-1
!s 3 q m sSs
Enlightened up and he said, "0h, thank you, sir"
n not IN monet thoush nas .nd daid m m1 N
NAAA w
worth fifty pounds to your
All can say in concluding these remarks IL, that
lad at Winchester hare been OF the utmost vslue to
in after nfe and therefore, should be sorry TO
see "fagging and "tnnding' done away with at
IA HUNDRED YEARS AGO"
Is the story Of 1773. Perueing records that are
century old is something better than listening to
ccntenarian, even it his memory could go back
Eo far The records are as fresh as first impres-
xions, and they bring before Us men and things
ns they were, and not as after-histozians sup
posed them to be. The story which 1773 has left
of itself is full OF variety and Of interest. It was
T. hundred years ago our ancestors we're as glad
to hear that Bruce had got eafely back into
Egypt from his attempt to reach the Nile
6ources, as we are to know that Liv-
ingBtone is alive and we'll aud is. in search
ct those still undiscovered head-waters. Just
4 hundred years ago, three British ships,
xreighted with tea to be taxed, entered Boston,
Iarbor, and were boarded By Mohawk Indians,
One Of the great sensations Of the year in Eng
l!sh society WAS the duping OF Charles Fox by
the impostor who called herself the Hon. Mrs.
Groye:
She had been transported, and after her return had
Met ~ sensible wo1nan" giving advice to fools,
4for consideration" A silly Quaker brought her
tfore Justice Fielding for having defrauded him. He
/E,d Paid her money, for which she had undertaken to
Eet him place under Government; but she had kept
The money, and had not procured for him the coveted
tmmoraly stood in the way Of otherwise certain sue
beeause thy saw tho style in which the lived, and
eater The houses Of Ministers and other
G7Gss re1sonages; but 1t camo out that she
Who entertained her Idle questions for gratuity,
while nra Graeses carriage and various dupes, waited
Charles Fo1s cbaro a. srs arieves door, nd thst
gentleman himself entering the houBe-not tE=uing
thssero@ III considerable period had elapzed5they
and keeping his chaot At her door, to further delude
rather common condition Of patriots he vas over
bead aud eaza Ia debt The l.dy had undertaken to
Miss Phfpps, with ESQ 900, that might soften the
hearts Of Its creditors for while. The young Indy
cspricious. She could not abide dark men, and tho
ewart Democratic leader powdered his eyebrows
that he might look firer in the of the lady Of bis
hoEes. An interview between them was always the
Faint q happening, but was always being deferred
Mrs 1hipps was u was coy was not the vein; final
the other grounds Of excuse Meanwhile Mrs. Glicvo
lent the impecunious legislator money, 3O0 there
hy The more vulgar dopea who came to false conclu-
t:ons when they beheld his carriage dsy cfter day ut
expressed his beef that the loan from Slra arieyo
was foolish and improbable story. al have heard [
Eo1 say Lord Holland remarks II The .2lsmorals
EarD Russell, "Ehe never got or asked any money |
from him." She probably knew very we'll that Fox |
Lad to lend. That he should hare accepted any
from such woman is disgraceful enough but there
may be exagger1ton in the matter.
Then the drama of 1773! There was Homes I
" Alonzo, which. says Walpole, "seems to be
the story Of David and Goliah, worse told than
it would have been il Sternhold and Hopkins
had put it to ;music!" But the town really
awoke to new sensation when Goldsmith's /
She Stoops to Conquer" was produced on tnu
stage, beginning course in which it runs as
freshly now ever:
Yet the hyper-dne people Of hundred years ago
thought 1t rather vulgar This absurd as the
then existing prejudice IN France that t vulgar
and altogether wrong for nobleman to write BOOK
rather, to publish one! There is nothing curl
than Nalroles drawing criticism OF this
quiete and natural comedy. He calls it tho lowest Of
farces" He condemns the execution Of the subject
xather than tho "yery vulgar" subject it.
self. He couId in 1t neither |
moral nor edifcation BE allows that tLe situations
5re we'll managed. and make one laugh, in spite Of
the alleged grossness Of the dialogue, the forced