SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.]
Life and Letters of Edward Thring. By George R. Parkin. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—This is a second edition, abridged, and cheaper. The omissions have been of matter chiefly interest- ing to Uppingham men ; what is left is of general, educational, and, indeed, human interest. Mr. Parkin has been careful to leave out nothing that served to illustrate Thring's principles, and there never was a man in whom principles were more strongly marked and more dominant. We reviewed the first edition some eighteen months ago, and heartily welcome this book in its present form. Thring was a noble figure. If he had not been a great schoolmaster, he might well have been a great general. The migration to Borth when Uppingham, by the lashes of those who were charged with the care of its sanitation, became unin- habitable, was a marvellously managed exodus. What courage, exactly in the direction where courage most often fails, did not Thring show I And how inspiring was his influence on his col- leagues! He was a hero, and his heroism was contagious. Of latter-day biographies few are more admirable than this.
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