Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-30
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

walked across the court to the com.
| bination room, where he did not like
to find his usual chair occupied, and
there he read the Times.
| THE rest of the morning he spent
in his library. reading or writing.
| His handwriting was remarka bly,
clear, the letters rather large and
round; he used quill pens always.
| His lunch. like his breakfast, con.
sisted Of his commons--i e.. bread and
| butter; he was somewhat shocked
when he observed that Junior fell
low on his staircase was in the habit
Of eating a hot luncheon.
Then he took walk, generally
alone, and generally along the same
road, by Trumpngton and Grant
chester. He wore a tall hat and a
| black coat with a black or white tie,
walked very upright with no stick.
and often kept his hands behind his
back as he walked.
Afternoon tea was an institution
| he did not recognize, though he could
sometimes be induced by his juniors
to take a cup of that pleasant beV-
| crage.
"He dined in Hall and spent the
rest of the evening in his drawing
room: he might be seen there any
room, sitting on rather high. hard
chair on the left of the fireplace. with
his slippered feet on a footstool and
a book in his hands.
"Then he would talk Of the hook he
was reading. or of college affairs, or
at times of the ancient world--so
real n world to him that he lowered
his voice to n whisper when he spoke
of the scandals at the court of
Tiherius.
Gle never worked after dinner, but
read book for his pleasure. He
was a great lover Of the good old
books and was often reading in Dante,
Goethe and other like heroes of litera-
ture. He did not care much for new
books or often read them.
"He never smoked. though he freely
allowed others to smoke in his rooms.
He said he had only once tried a
cigar and felt exactly as If he had
put his head up the chimney He
never ventured on the further expert
ments which would have proved that
his impression was erroneous"
X X X
This was the man who was to do
one thing, and do it so exceedingly
well that his name finds it's way into
" Pc NtdL dlltI Sttil, W DiOSSOlIl lOl III
in 1927 in a newspaper far across the
sea.
This is the immortality of print
Those who do great things in litera-
ture are never forgotten, but are
cherished. it may be in the most I'M
expected places. to come to life again
generation after generation.
1t is interesting to note that Munro
was the unconscious originator of the
pony" as TRANSACTIONS Of the Latin
and Greek classics are called, since
he included his translation simply as
a part of his edition Of Lucretius.
He even apologized for it. such
TRANSACTIONS are dislilled by school,
masters, because they save trouble to
idle schoolboys; but to real students
| they are most useful" says Duff.
There was no need for Munro to
apologize for his translation" he con-
tinues. ut is not only a most faithful
rendering of the original but remark
able literary achievement. Clever
schoolboys who read it in extracts
are apt to think that they could i'm
prove upon it. but they are mistaken.
Munro endeavored to reproduce the
effect of the original and succeeded
in remarkable degree"