Dean Stanley made a charming speech on Monday at Marl-
borough College, where a meeting was held to inaugurate a new hall erected as a testimonial to the late Head Master and present Master of University College, Oxford, Dr. Bradley. He said that though he had never been Dr. Bradley's pupil, but only his tutor, he had learnt much from him, for there was no one like Dr. Bradley for putting the most "stimulating and provoking" pressure on all who had any connection with him. And just as the pupil had in this case taught the tutor, so he reminded the Marlborough boys that the time for learning did not cease at any particular period. Last year, in Germany, an inquisitive young German asked the Dean his age. "I committed to him," said Dean Stanley, "the fatal secret, when the lad said, in his charm- ing broken English,—' I am very Berri to hear it, for your best days are past ;' " an assertion which the Dean traversed, declaring his best days were yet to come. Anyhow, the scientific candour of these German babes and sucklings has an unconscious humour of its own. The lad was but imitating Goethe, that "physician of the iron age,"— " Who took the suffering human race
And read each wound and weakness clear, And struck his linger on the place, And said,—Thou ailest here and here."
However, physicians of the iron age who are still in their teens are not to be found out of Germany.
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