The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-06-27

published than it does when the sun
rises. Then came the Paradise Re
guired, and then the Samson Agoaistes,
the last great cutlery of his passionate
heart; and then at last, ON Sunday,
the Sth of November, 1874, he died
in peace, and was buried in the chan
eel Of St. Giles, Cripplegate. where
t4Qrobably his bones are lying still.
liz x Mas lis IN typical English
man of the most typical and strongest
English time; and this might interest
any one who had red English blood
running in his veins. But he especi-
ally belongs to us-he has his place
here among those who are interested
in education, because this typical En-
glishman was schoolmaster, and one
Of the most suggestive reasoners ON
education that the English race ever
produced. He is near enough to us
to let us understand him, but he is
far enough away from us to let us
look at him with something of roman
tic feeling, as We think of the great
est Englishman sitting with a dozen
boys about him, not merely teaching
them, but reasoning about their
teaching, looking over their heads and
seeing the distant visions of the per-
feet education of the future, as true
a poet when he sat in the teachers
chair rs when before his organ he
chanted lofty hymns and told the
story of eternity. 1t came about in
this way. Milton, returning from
Italy when the civil war broke out,
found in his fathers house two chill
dren of his widowed sister, Mrs. Phil
ips-Edward and John-and he be-
gan to teach them. Soon other boys,
sons of his friends, came in, and his
last biographer, Mr.. Mason, who has
left little for any one coming after
him to learn of Milton, has gathered
up, in all, traces of twenty or thirty
youths who at one time or other were
the great masters pupils. The school
was as always in the teachers house,
first in Aldersgate Street, where it
was what his pupil Philips describes
as ''garden house at the end of an
entry"-a quiet spot, no doubt, with
a little plot Of ground, up a sleepy
court, in what is now the very heart
Of streaming London's central roar"
and then afterwards in house that
was called Barbican, where when he
was once settled, his pupil writes,
"the house looked like house of the
muses., though the access of scholars
was not great" 1t certainly was not
very inspiring. Philips tried hard
to show that bis uncle never was a
teacher.
Possibly his proceeding thus far in
the education Of YOUTH" he says,
may have been the occasion of some
If his adversaries calling him peda-
,ogue and schoolmaster, when as it is
veil known, he never set up for pub
ic school to teach all the young fry of
parish, but only was willing to i'm
'art his learning and knowledge to
citations and to the sons of some gen.
lemen that were his intimate friends"
And DR.. johnson, churchman and
oyalist, who never liked the great in
dependent and rebel, says of his
chOOl, that "from his woodworking
/ do not know that there
yer proceeded any man very eminent
On knowledge" But still the factre-
Mains, that Milton had his school.
nd really taught it, that he wrote .
attn accidence, that he planned from
ime to time a scheme Of q great
chOol, that the strong hand that wrote
he Samson logged his pupils till they
pared, and the genius that conceived
'aradise Lost knew nothing unworthy
incongruous in the schoolroom
rudgery.-From the Late DR.. Phillips
Brooks.
That Terrible Scourge,
ever and ague, and IL, coDgener 'biIioux rpu,;t-