Current Literature
.REMINISCENCES OF A PRIVATE TUTOR. By the ". Rector." (Skeffington and Son: S3.)-This is a little book which should be read by all private tutors and schoolmasters, for under the cloak of anonymity is revealed an inspiring per- sonality through whose hands many of the young men from our Public Schools passed. There are two entertaining chapters on some of the varieties of "ragging 7. the Rector experienced in his long career. He emphasizes the need for infinite patience and the desirability of making as few rules as possible.- The secret of his success in dealing with his pupils was that he had a vocation for private tuition and that all through his life he remembered that what really matters indealing with youth is not so much what yOu say and do as what you are. The Rector possessed a burning -Faith-it Was not. accompanied by any tinge of priggishness. -This is how the " Rector " sums up his religious experiences at the end of his life : ," We shall find then that our real life's work consisted. not so much in anything We could remember, still less record;' not in the one or two efforts we believed were successful ; not in the souls here and there we hoped we had helped ; not perhaps in anthingwe consciously said or did: It may prove, rather, to have been the unconscious and unin- tentional effect on the lives of others of what we were to Christ and of what He was to us."
Previous page
