We would recommend to readers generally, and especially to such
as may have a personal interest in one or other of the subjects dealt with, a series of little volumes entitled "Public School Life" (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 2s. net per volume). The four now in our hands are, to give them in the non-committal alphabetical order. Eton, by an old Etonian ; Harrow, by Archibald Fox ; Rugby, by H. H. Hardy; and Westminster, by W. Teignmouth Shore. We cannot deal with them in detail; that could be effectively done by four experts only, and the present writer is not qualified to be one of the four. But we can speak warmly of the books as being just what is wanted in such a subject. Mr. Hardy's Rugby strikes us, we may be allowed to say, as particularly good. We see in the Harrow that Parr's venture at Stanmore, where he started a school after his disappointment at Harrow in 1771, lasted for five years only. Curiously, it was for many years in the first half of the last century a flourishing private school.
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