Some world-circuit saunterings . ell been describedas having for its special notes, strength, grace, sim-phcity and dignity. It is strikingly beautiful andsets a high standard for the rest of the cathedral,which is also under construction. It had been theprivilege of the Saunterer to meet the chairman ofthe executive committee, Sir WilHam B. Forwood,when at Luxor, up the Nile, and to learn from himmany interesting data as to the cathedral and thewide interest and generosity which made it possible. Mr. Formans trusteeship in the Liverpool BlueCoat School, an old foundation going back to thebegi
Some world-circuit saunterings . ell been describedas having for its special notes, strength, grace, sim-phcity and dignity. It is strikingly beautiful andsets a high standard for the rest of the cathedral,which is also under construction. It had been theprivilege of the Saunterer to meet the chairman ofthe executive committee, Sir WilHam B. Forwood,when at Luxor, up the Nile, and to learn from himmany interesting data as to the cathedral and thewide interest and generosity which made it possible. Mr. Formans trusteeship in the Liverpool BlueCoat School, an old foundation going back to thebeginning of the eighteenth century, enabled us toattend a somewhat unique service conducted en-tirely by the boys of the institution. The scholarsnot only read the office but recited the Scripturelessons, and one of them made an excellent catechiserof his fellows, putting them through with all dignityand directness. There were some two hundred andfifty boys and one hundred girls in attendance, andthe uniform was a quaint one. [132]. Fox How, Lake Country, England—home of the Arnolds Miss Arnold, youngest sister of Matthew Arnold, graciously received us and pointed out to us favorite seats and outlooks of the members of that distinguished family. JAUNTINGS IN BRITAIN Our good hosts, however, had in store for us oneof the most enjoyable experiences of our trip and thatwas a motor ride with them to and through the EnghshLake country. If there is such a thing as the * poetryof motion there is certainly no misnomer in speakingof a lake poetry of motoring. Wordsworth,Coleridge and Southey and the others could, ofcourse, have no chug-chug metres, and possiblywould have satirized and sonnetized the introductionas fairly barbaric in true Ruskinese vigor. MatthewArnold might have been prompted to new protestsagainst philistinism. But all the same as thesecars hterally ride upon air, even though it becompressed into rubber tires, and mend peoplesways in good road movements and carry you in
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