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ar. RichuruS BOOK on EtOn.
The sketches Of Lord Rosebery and Lord
Randolph Churchill are particularly good.
"Rosebery Tor Dalmeny, as he then was)
had slight figure and fresh, prim, yourg
ladyish appearance. His family namo of
Primrose suited him to nicely. He
was always on the smile Unurf
Dalmeny's dainty appearance there was some
Scotch hardheadedness He kept out of all
scrapes Walking very erect, with tripping
gait and demure look, he was the pink of
neatness, and seemed wrapped up in himself
until you caught glance of his shrewd eyes,
which showed that he thought of mightier
things than his personal appearance. Such
eyes are like lighted windows, which reveal
that house is not empty"
Randolph Churchill is described rs n
trough and tumble" urchin, merry as
grig, and always in scrapes. Dalmeny never
had any of "those short interviews with the
head master which were fixed by appointment
through the sixth form prepostor," but
Churchill was often favored with them. The
latter was an "casy lower boy to catch when
ever anything had to be done, for his where
abouts could be ascertaned by his incessant
peals of laughter. There was not boy in
the school who laughed so much, or whose
laughter was so contagious; there was scarcely
one so frolicsome, for Churchills preferred
method of descending a staircase was to skate
down it with u rush, and If he had to enter
the room of a brother lower boy he would
sooner bound against the door and force it
open with his shoulder than so through the
stale formality of turning the handle."
Mr.. Gladstone is thus described by Mr..
Mansfield, now police magistrate at Marl-
borough police court, and once one Of Glad
stone fags
~ recall him as good looking, rather deli
cate youth, with u pale face, and brown, curl
ing hair-always tidy and well dresscd-not
given much to athletic exercise, but OCCASION
ally sculling, playing cricket and hockey.
Neither Gladstone nor his friend Hallam, nor
Gaskell, nor Doyle, shone so much in the
scholarship of that day as the Selwyns-the
socalled scholarship consisting solely in max
ing Latin verses. In fact, no school with a
great name could have sunk lower in point
of giving education than Eton in the time OF
Dr. Keate.1
Here is a practical joke played off upon
poor DR.. Keate DIR. Keate actually pretended
not to know that the boys boated on the river.
"In Gladstones second half year-Easter,
1ss2-Dr Keate was suddenly moved to drop
his pretense of ignorance about boating by the
fear that the eight would go up the river at a
time when il was swollen by floods and dan
gerous. But he expressed himself in such
labored paraphrases that J. A. Kiinglake, the
captain feigned not to understand, and joke
was got up by hiring a crew of watermon to
dress themselves like the eight and row up to
Surly with masks on their faces. Keate hear
ing that the eight meant to defy him, started
for the Brocas in great alarm, and, running
along the bank, barked: l know you, so and
so; know you all; I'll fog you; I'll expel
you.' When the watermen lifted their masks
and gave him a cheer he was nightly crest
fallen, and returned to college in the sulks
but even after he relapsed into his old affec'
ton of ignorance, so that his assistant masters
had to go clandestinely to the river side ifthey
wished to sec the fourth of July fireworks"