A clever boy turns out a prig; a boy of feebler intellect turns out a well-behaved young lady in trousers.

Nothing muscular in the system.
Decidedly the namesake and descendant of Kenelm Digby should not go to a private seminary." "So far as I gather from your reasoning," said Sir Peter, with characteristic placidity, "Kenelm Chillingly is not to go to school at all." "It does look like it," said the Parson, candidly; "but, on consideration, there is a medium.

There are schools which unite the best qualities of public and private schools, large enough to stimulate and develop energies mental and physical, yet not so framed as to melt all character in one crucible.

For instance, there is a school which has at this moment one of the first scholars in Europe for head-master,--a school which has turned out some of the most remarkable men of the rising generation.

The master sees at a glance if a boy be clever, and takes pains with him accordingly.