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as ham not been d for mins in Mho. forms.] Early Associations of Archbishop Temple. By J. C. Snell, M.A. (Hutchinson and Co. Cis. net.)—The second title of this book is "A Record of Blundell School and its Neighbourhood," and it is this part of the book which is the most -interesting. There is not a little that is a long way off Archbishop Temple, though it is sufficiently readable. On p. 71 we are introduced to Major Octavius Temple, and are told various matters about the family —the future Archbishop's ploughing was, it seems, an amusement practised on an uncle's estate—then we digreSs to Bishop Phil- potts. On p. 117 we reach Master Peter Blundell, the founder of the Tiverton School, and hear about its masters and scholars, its fortunes, and so forth ; and later on, about the particular time when Frederick Temple was there. The education given was on the familiar lines of seventy years ago, when the classics were the beginning and the end. Whatever its shortcomings, it sometimes moulded some very robust characters and intellects. What would be said now to an examiner setting the. Te Denim to be turned into Latin elegiacs ? (The " Noble Army of Martyrs " seems to have puzzled the head form. Richard Blackmore suggested Marturiana cohors. It is a little late for a suggestion, but why not Laudat martyrio nobilitata cohors?) Chap. 13 shows Frederick Temple at Oxford, and gives, among other things, a pleasing anecdote of Dr. Jenkyns, to whom, as the authentic founder of Balliol's great- ness, due justice is done. Dr. Jetikyns pressed a £10 note into Temple's hand on an occasion when, as he doubtless knew, the young man's poverty was such that he was thinking of leaving Oxford. In the last chapter we hear of the hero as "Old Boy and Governor." The great man was always eager to acknowledge his debt to his old school.
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