Teachers and prophets have strange after-histories; and that of
Dr. Arnold has been no exception. The earnest enthusiast who
strove to make his pupils Christian gentlemen and who governed
his school according to the principles of the Old Testament, has
proved to be the founder of the worship of athletics and the
worship of good form. Upon those two poles our public schools
have turned for so long that we have almost come to believe that
such is their essential nature, and that an English public
schoolboy who wears the wrong clothes and takes no interest in
football, is a contradiction in terms. Yet it was not so before
Dr. Arnold; will it always be so after him? We shall see.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dean Stanley. Life and Correspondence of Dr Arnold.
Thomas Hughes. Tom Brown's Schooldays.
Sir H. Maxwell-Lyte. History of Eton College.
Wilfrid Ward. W. G. Ward and the Oxford Movement.
H. Clough. Letters. An Old Rugbaean. Recollections of Rugby.
Thomas Arnold. Passages in a Wandering Life.
The End of General Gordon
DURING the year 1883 a solitary English gentleman was to be seen,
wandering, with a thick book under his arm, in the neighbourhood
of Jerusalem. His unassuming figure, short and slight, with its
half-gliding, half-tripping motion, gave him a boyish aspect,
which contrasted, oddly, but not unpleasantly, with the touch of
grey on his hair and whiskers.
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