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Show A Classical Scholar. "Some yesrs ago." says Archbishop Ireland, "I met in Rome a most distin-aruished distin-aruished British statesman. Sir William Vernon Harcourt. It was his first visit to the Eternal City; his winters had been spent in discharging his parliamentary parlia-mentary duties, and his summers had been passed at home. I expressed the hope that he would enjoy his stay in that city so full of classic memories. Next day I noticed him upon the Vis Sacra, Intently reading a book; he told me it was his old colleee Horace. A week later, we met again, in Naples. I suggested to him to get the sixth bonk of Virgil. 'Get the sixth book of Virgil!' Vir-gil!' he exclaimed; 'why, I'll recite it for you.' There was a busy man who kept :ip his classical studies all his life, and consequently displayed in parliament the sweetest of culture. Gladstone, too, was a constant reader of Homer, whose immortal lines he turned into English verse, and of the Satires of Horace, and fhis went far to enable him to wield with effect the unlimited power of statesmanship." |