The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-19

It was an agreeable surprise, and all the more
| SO that an admiring friend Of the late Dean had
annotated it for me and given me delightful
/ literary precis of its best chapters. , dis
missed the Tory Minister and the suggestions oil
trouble ahead with which his conversation
bristled, and turned to the quiet story of the
| dear Old liberal-minded cleric.
| The name of the Stanieys forms little vein
in the history of England. A Stanley was present
at Bosworth, another did duty at Flodden. AL
| derley, in Cheshire was the family home. In his
| had a passion for the sea. 1t is said that he
| wept at the sight of ship which he was not
allowed to board, and slept Oh a shelf in the
| wardrobe in order to fancy himself on the ocean.
| But good clerical income Of ESQ year from a
! family living in the church was too large bait
to let pass. and when about twenty six years of
af age Edward Stanley became the rector of
Alderley. Here is one of the most picturesque
! spots in England Arthur Penrhyn Stanley tine
late DEAN was born Dec. IS. 1915. the famous
! year of Waterloo. He was a delicate little
creature, and gave his young mother great anx-
iety. Precocious in his mental development, from
| his earliest years he gave very early evidence
! OF perfect passion for poetry and historical
| investigation. He had a similar love of draw
| ing; pictures and birds also gave him excessive
| delight. His youthful mind was full of the
| legends of the neighborhood and 'while his
more active brother. Owen. was building and
sailing ships on the clear brook which dashed
| through the rectory garden, Arthur was dream
| ing of the wizard of Alderley Edge, who, with a
| hundred horses, was sleeping in an enchanted
cavern under the blue fields of water, haunted
by the mermaids and fishes of gold and silver !"
| Little Stanley was poet. There are lines of
| his written when eleven years OF age; 1T is a
little poem seeing the sunshine from the top
| of Alderley Church towers; and at twelve years
| he wrote another witnessing the departure
! of the Ganges, bearing his brother owen
c. tor
| efforts two years later were long poem on
| 1.-The Druds and some verses entitled the Ma
MAC of Betharow" Presently the lad went to
school at SeafOrth, near Liverpool. Here he
made many friends. Mr.. Rawson, his school
master, says ''he never had a more amiable at
tentive clever boy than Arthur Stanley" His
mother in 1923, writes: ooh! it is SO difficult to
know how to manage Arthur He takes having
to learn dancing so terribly to heart and enactS
Prince Pitifu and will am afraid do no good
at it. Then he thinks / 90 not like his reading
because try to draw him also to other things,
and as he reads by stealth, and lays down his
books when he hears people corning; and having
no other pursuits or anything he cares for but
reading, has lstless look, and am sure is
often unhappy I suspect, however, that this is
| Arthurs worst time, and that he will be hap
| pier man than boy"
Augustus Hare was consulted as to the best
! schoohouse for the boy and said "Are you
| aware that the person of all others fitted to get
on with the boy is just elected master of Rugby9
His name is Arnold He is just the man to take
fancy to Arthur and for Arthur to take fancy
to-" In January, 1929, the lad entered the
school. The early days of school life were APP
parently not too happy. Writing three months
later, his mother says: owe arrived at Rugby
exactly at IL, waited to see the boys pass, and
soon spied Arthur with his books on his
| shoulder. He colored up and came in looking
very well, but cried good deal on seeing us,
| chiefly, | think, from nervousness
Still there were happy days, and in time the
boy got to be styled the poet of the school, and
his little study bore the name of Poets Corner.
Stanley worked hard, and bore off many prizes.
| On speech day he more than once nearly
buried in books, and it was no uncommon thing
to see him, such occasions, literally stagger-
ing under the load of his well-earned laurels,
But his greatest prize was winning scholarship
at Ballid. You may think of my JOY" he
writes home, 1.-The honor of Rugby is saved, and
am a scholar of Ballid." Settled at Ballid,
Stanley pursued his studies with great Zest,
winning honors, and making close friends. His
views however, were too broad for the then Bal
lid folk. and at the end of terms" he sought
election to fellowship in another body-Universi-
ty College.
Following these peeps at Stanleys early life
come accounts of his labors in literature at col
| lege, and in the church Canon Of Canterbury.
| Then the chronicle runs briefly over his travels
and researches in the East, emOodying the idea
that of all the places in the whole world Rome
was the only one that he found absolutely mex
| nduSLUe. Anu So lllo Speu OH III ldUOIS dllcI
| his own heart, till the time came when he was
| appointed Dean of Westminster. And here,
under the stately pile founded 800 years ago by
| Edward the Confessor, Stanley may be said to
| have garnered in his life of rich experiences.
| On Jan. g. 1864, Stanley took up his residence
| in the deanery Three years after he became
| Dean he published the Historical Memorials
| of Westminster Abbey" rich store of curious
| information that illuminated not few forgot
ten corners and shed a ray on not few neglected
| spots
| He spent many of his shorter holiday trips in
| Scotland. The 1uaintness of the people inter
ested him, and he would often quote such stories
| as that of the old Tesee Kirk pastor who ground
out, 'Oh! that we were all baptized into the
spirit of disruption!' His last long journey was
| to America The Dean himself thus summed
up his experience: 1.-The two months which
| spent on those shores seem to me two years in
actual work, or two centuries, rather, for in
| them have lived through all American history
| The book draws to a close with description of
| Stanley's last hours" and concludes with a
brief summary of his life Stanley was rather a
man of substance than shadows. He rarely put
forward a proposition without first being some
in his work, his life was to large extent useful
ter that is dealt with in Miss Grace divers
monograph and although the world must wait
| for the story in all its details this new biog
raphy fills worthy place among the histories of
| the worlds workers. JOSEPH HATToN.
| Little Things.