MR GLADSTONE AT ETON.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2976, 29 August 1878, Page 2

MR GLADSTONE AT ETON.

, On. July 6 theßight Hon. W. E. Gladstone, . M.P., delivered ■a. lecture to the members and their friends of the "Eton College, Literary Society, in the boys' i library of the college. The library wad crowded, there being not only a large number of the coliege students present* but several ladies,; the provost, the, head master, and many assistant masters of the college,. Mr Gladstone, on entering'this library, was loudly cheered, add again on rising, after a brief introduction from the provost, to commence his lecture. The right hon k gentleman alluded to the fact that half, a century, had, elapsed eincehe was a student at Eton , College,, and-- saidl his attachment to'the College increased with lapse of years. He paid rit the compliment of calling it the queen of all schools, but remarked that it did not follow from that that the fane lions discharged by Dr. Hornby and his assistants were easier than, the corresponding duties performed at other schools, bat, on the cdn*rkry, they were much more arduous. as it was under the "shadow 1/ of Windsor Castle, with traditions r of four centuries passing over it, -and witH all its . animating recollections, there was no > school where, the. Ms pters, had .a more difficult task to discharge, Entering upon the subject of his: leoture.be said it was rather the matter than the language of Homer with' which they had to doi From this' point of view observing that of aM books which they handled, English or foreign;- there was not- one which, within the same compass, contained anything like the same vast amount of of' human knowledge and' experience; addressed 'his audience for over-iiti hour, being'applauded at intervals; and at the conclusion of his address a hearty vote of thenks was passed to the lecturer.