The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-08-06 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.  - - The public schools of Englund (the Daily Kan remarks) were probably, in their roughest days, places whose worst fault was the too unflinching application of the law of the survival of the fittest. Strong and bravo boys ozone out of them robust seinhirs, and fitted for the battle of life at its hardest. The schools of today are pleasanter to live in, and.probably there is no happiness in the world like the happiness of a popular and successful member of the Eleven or the Eight. Me will never again, never elsewhere, find people to say of him that he is not proud, and does not mind speaking to any fellow." In the same way, a clever boy will be lucky indeed if his cleverness ever, ln later life, gains him such honour and glory 413 when he has just won the Balliol or the Corpus 1 scholarship. The chief danger that besets modern I schools is the risk of overdoing this harmless sort of I enthusiasm and earnestness. A lad who is worked or I to a tremendous pitch of moral thoughtfulness as a I prepositor or monitor—a lad who "associates with I other boys for their good," as one of their own poets I has put it, is not unlikely to end as a prig or a cynic. l If he carries out his programme of associating with people for their good in after life, he becomes a prig if he yields too natural disillusion, he becomes a cynic. ! Again, how of ten does one see in real life tin fulfilment of that sad sentence which is frequen, in Mr. Lilly-white's " Cricketer's Guide ''—" Si, and 30 does not come up to his schoolboy profuse.' His mental or physical icrength hoe been too early and too severely fried; and just us an ancient authority says that few athletes who won the boys' race succeeded - later in the sports of men, no lads waste in premature and forced study mental powers which never come to their maturity. To love and snake much of an "infant i[ phenomenon," to urge a willing horse, is the besetting • temptation .pf head-masters. The pressure of modern life is trying to take possession of our schools, where, , however, an excessive industry is never likely to be very infectious. The charm and interest of youthful life has ; been recognised, and there is a danger of laying too such stress on school life, and of ON erdoing the public ; interest in sports and studies.  A bronze statue is about to be erected at narrow], Connecticut, in memory of Dr. llorace Wells, the "discover of anwethesia."  M. Halansier is pressing forward the preparations for M. Merinet's "Jeanne &Arc," which will be ready for the beginning of next year.  The Liverpool coopers are about to strike in consequence of the masters refusing an increase of wagm, and larger payments for overtime. Mr. Alfred Belleville telegraphs from Zanzibar to the Atheneum that Stanley is reported to have lost one hundred men in a fight with the natives.  Rose Brown, whose execution was fixed for the ltrd int. at Derby, for the murder of her husband, no old man ninety years of age, was reprieved on Saturday.  _ Two youths, named Peter Murray and John Walsh, hare been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for a gram assault on a police-constable at Churley.  The Kele,ley guardians refuse to make a vaccinstiou return, or to order a prosecution for non-vaccination. A legal process bus been served to compel them.  Mr. Thomas Fraucis Denim M.A., late Fellow 0/ Quoen's College, Oxford, has bewn. elected to the Professorship of Rhetoric, founded by Sir Thomas Gee, sham.  The bust of Beethoven, by NI, de Saint Vidal, that was exhibited in the last Salon, has beea bowtht by in Administration of Fine Arts tor the new Opera liam-e in Paris.