The Castle Howell School Record
by David Davis
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781458977786
Paperback|9781458977786
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: H Q H w 33 H SOME CHANGES IN THE SCHOOL SINCE 1862. By BUDOLF DAVIS, B.A. This is a book for Old Boys written by Old Boys. The form of this first sentence suggests a Memory Picture. Who that was at Lancaster at the time has forgotten the sublime contempt with which we heard, somewhere in the second half of the sixties, I think it must have been, that a certain monthly magazine for Boys was to change its title, and become The Young Gentleman's Magazine, because, forsooth, as was set forth in the prospectus, it was written by Gentlemen for the Sons of Gentlemen And has anyone who was an actor in the scene forgotten how, upon the arrival of the first number of the only copy of the newly- entitled periodical that was kept on (for there was no Paper Club in those days, and other subscribers transferred their subscriptions to the other Boys' Magazine) it was quickly seized at the extreme corner of an inside sheet, and held aloft between the tips of thumb and first finger of one hand of one of us, the corresponding parts of his other hand daintily closing his nostrils, as though the unhappy publication were saturated with pungent poison deadly to true boyhood, while every muscle of his face expressed disgust, which would have been terrible if it had not been supremely ludicrous? Quickly it was snatched by another from the hand of the leader, and sent flying to a group at the other end of the verandah. They opened to let it pass, as though it were red-hot, and it fell to be kicked. Get out ?I don't want the dirty thing: ?send it to an Academy for Young Gentlemen. Ugh Don't touch it. Another takes a drop-kick at it: Look out, you chaps, ?here it goes to somebody's Seminary for the Sons of Gentlemen. Probably none of us had then heard of the Gentleman's Magazin..
| ISBN-13 | 9781458977786 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458977781 |
| Weight | 0.63 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.43 In |
| List Price | $19.94 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 188 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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