The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-06

ponplace one, and do not remember
a single adventure which has come
into it at any time"
He was bern in Hackney in 1868.
''1iine was a humdrum childhood. [
lived in Hackney till l was r'ue' years
old. l can remember no incidents OF
my life there. [ road 4 great Geal,
but none Of the books read made any
particular impression upon me. I was
a late reader, but when I did know
how to read it was my favorite occu-
patton. Stay. l now remember that I
was greatly impressed by THE Pill
grim's Progress 1 used to take it up
TO bed with me and fall asleep to
dream OF Apollyone"
Boy who Liked Stories and Foot
When Anthony Hope Hawkins, this
being the full name of the writer.
known as Anthony Hope, was nine
years old, his father moved TO Leather
head, where he took over a school for
boys, an establishment known as the
St. Johns school and intended eXclus-
lively for the sons of clergymen. 4 at
tended my fathers school as a day-boy.
My father was q CLERGYMAN so that I
was admissa bic also to St. Johns school
At that time was great reader of
Ballantyne, and perhaps my favorite
eok was The Three Niddles' l had
the usual number of fights with my
school mates, but l assure you that
there was nothing Homeric about
them. I had no ambitions. [ never
once wished to run away TO sea. ] had
no thoughts of becoming a pirate or
htghWayman, or anything Of the sort.
l inst wanted to live my life quietly in
a decorous way and to enjoy myself as
much as possible, whilst woriing at my
lessons as satisfactorily as I could. But
as a boy 1 got quite a passion for foot
ball, a game Of which l have ever Since
been fond. AT the age Of - ] won
scholarship to Marlborough college,
He had no idea of writing and no
taste for literary work at this time in
Ills life.
Anthony Hope at Oxford.
81 remained five years at the school
and during the last two years of my
life there 1 was a member of the col
lege fifteen. I passed from Marlbor-
ough to Balliol college in Oxford with
an exhibition and the year after won
Balliol scholarship. That was in 1881.
7 enjoyed my varsity life immensely,
and I look back on rooms in Balliol
as the place where perhaps my hap
piest hours were spent. l worked for
my examinations and I played games,
but l never wrote. I did not even
write poetry. I do not think that 1
ever wrote a verse of poetry in my
life, with the solitary exception of a
valentine. Indeed, I rarely read poet
ry. 1t seems to me that one should
read for relaxation, and to read poet
ry requires an effort superior to that
required for reading prose; SO when
IN request of relaxation I seat myself
In my chair 1 take up book that will
exact in its perosal the lesser effort
I played hard and got into Ballfol fff-
teen and helped my college to beat all
the other colleges for two years run
ming.
s.At that time I had no other ambi-
ten than TO gain admission to the bar
/ worked fairly hard, but beyond the
ordinary work in essays I did not do
any writing"
He took his degree In 1885. and re-
manned up" during two terms, during
which time he supported himself by
coaching undergraduates From the
age of fifteen, practically supported
myself, by my scholarships and exhi-
bitions and I certainly made more
money from the age Of fifteen to the
age Of twenty than I did during the
five years between the ages of twenty
and twenty-five"
His Life a Lawyer.
He made no particular friends at
Oxford. In 1886 another event occurred
which helped to shape his life I'm
that year L was elected president of
the oxford union, IN succession to
Lord Robert Cecil was a Radical
and had often spoken on political ques-
fions IN the Union debates. The Office
of president gave me readiness, a men
tai alertness, for I had to face the
-hecklers' Of The debating room. 1 left
Oxford In 1885 and came up to London
and read law at Lincoln's Inn and the