The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18

peasant lad travelling to a famous
hedge school 10 get the prelimi-
nary instruction tor Maynooth, and who
is held as bedesman Of God. is fed and
endowed as he passes. has his counterpart
in many poor Scottish lad struggling 70
the austere Scotch universities 10 win his
training for the ministry. The Scotch
universities have not residence which is
the very soul and spirit of the Old prosper
Gus universities. They are gray examina-
ton halls, and the lads fed at such an
ausiere bosom OF learning endure incred-
IDLE hariships often in keeping body and
soul together during the time Of student
ship. Barrie's brother was at Aberdeen, a
university more in favor with poor stu
dents than Edinburgh. His stories deeply
impressed his gifted brother. In the Not
tinghsm Journal he repeated some Of those
tales:
I knew three undergraduates who lodged to-
gefher IN dreary house at the top OF a dreary
street, two OF whom used 10 study until in the
morning. while the third slept When they
shut Mp their books they swoxs number three,
VINO arose. dressed sud studied until breakfast
time. The CHIEF advantage o. this arrangement
was thai as they were Greadtully poor one bed
did for the three TER bic prvations? Fright
ful restitution? Not bit of il. The nilen-
mum was in those days. II LIE was at the top
Of LOO steps, II students occasionally died of
hunger and hard worx combined, II the mid
night oil only ourned 10 show ghastiv face. If
lodgings were cheap an dirty. and dinners few
and Jar between, LIE " as still real aud earnest
in many cases il did not turn out an empty
dream
Far less democratic is Edinburgh uni
versity, and the graduates take their de-
grees in evening dress. a condition which
would effec;uaily debar many men at
Aberdeen, and twenty years ago would
have disqualified % per cent Mr.. Barrie
has written Of his college in An Edin-
-, , l. l. --l L =
with Better Dead" is comparatively
ignored. As might be expected in those
days, he lived by admiration, and the
special object o. II was Professor Mason.
In Massou's English literature he took 3
high place and was proriHlc decessit for a
scholarship. The minister OF the Free
church which he attended. DR.. Whyte,
was, and Is. man Of large and kindly
literary sym pathies. He Is also a kirrie-
muir man. and Barrie tells Us IN miscel-
laneous article that while the inhabitants
OF Ihrums Will discuss any topic with
vOu from the ontolocy of being TO Robert
Louis Stevenson, the favorite topic OF all
: Rev. Dr.. Whyte Another Thrums man.
W. K Lawson. was editor Of the Elm
burgh CoarGHt. and 20 this paper Barrie
contributed desuitorlly, his mind ar the
time being given 10 his college work. In
l>>2 he graduated and for some weeks lay
ial.oS. He meditated at that time book
on the ElEaoethan satirists, all unwilling
that his great book was lying awaiting
him in Thrums Then he saw an adver-
tIsement for leader writer on a provin-
cial newspaper at a salary Of 8 guineas a
week. and, making application for II, was
Installed on the Recommendation OF Drs.
Mason ana Whyte.
The Nottingham Journal was an old
fashioned, eccentric paper, which has
since ceased 10 have 8 separate existence
NJ. Barrie vas nos editor, but roamed
where he would over rs pages. He was
fond OF work, for he was lonely, and
though he often wrote four columns day.
found time hang heavy upon his hands.
VITA MS touch the old paper took on
certain literary grace. He wrote an arti-
Gle every VI onday on some sosslpy subject;
on thursdays he had q column OF notes.
hen he got M the reviews, and We find
afnong his a1mlrstlons two Americans
table and Burroughs. the notes are very
caA>tIc and amusing: but he has done no
other work comparable 10 that the scene
OF watch = laid in Thrums. Daring the
laSt months OF his stay IN Nottingham he
n5d been sending artlc IS 10 various Lon
don newspapers. The first 20 Re accepted
was one on the making Of penny dread
IN :, which Mr.. Stead printed in the PnH
&d3t GdsctfS. But something TAR more i'm
port3At 10 himself and the reading world
otclrTel hen ne sent MS very nrsT Aud
L-ch; sketch 20 Mr.. Green wood, Of the
=. JGmcs'' G1-stte. who published il on the
Ian Of NoYeD Ger, ISL. Frederick Green
WOOD has been the MeceBas Of many
young writers. and the maker of newsps-
pers. though MS Own latest venture, the
-AHsl-Jac0.ia, mas died. untimely He has
always been an editor Of keen dlscTinln
Lon and ready and gracious generosity.
10 Mr. Greenwood. Barrie afterwards ded-
lcated Aud L}chs Idylls-" This hrst
layi. Of al has the exquisite and gentle
p0mor OF Its many famous SUCCESSORS.