Dr. Hornby is to be the new Provost of Eton,
after all. The delay has been so great, that we should think it likely that the 'Government must have wished to make some other and more original arrangement ; for the Public Schools Commission were distinctly averse, if we are not mistaken, to the cut-and-dried practice of promoting the head-master to the Provostship, hold- ing that some fresher blood should be imported into the govern- ing body, in filling up the chair of that Council, than could be supplied by an ex-head-master. However, the Provostship is given to Dr. Hornby; and the mbre important question remains, whether the Governing Body, with Dr. Hornby at its head, will fill up the head-mastership by appointing one who is attached to the Eton of the past and present, and wishes for no change, or one who has an ideal Eton in his mind, which is greater than the Eton of the past and present. Those who wish for the former kind of appointment, wish for Mr. Warre, one of the senior Eton masters. Those who desire the latter, wish for Mr. Welldon, the brilliant head-master of Dulwich, and an old Etonian of great celebrity. For our own parts, we hope the choice may fall on Mr. Welldon.
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