Rolleston the Classical Scholar
HE author has been to great pains to tell us what manner of man this was who came from a home of plenty and culture in Yorkshire, and from the ties of close friendship with the great scholars of Cambridge, to enter a new land as a colonist, willing and anxious to learn. In 1861 he acquired property
of his own and the book has many interesting things to tell of this period. "It is of historical interest," says the author, "to learn that Rolleston gave classical. names to his surroundings, and these still persist. He called ‘the wooded hill, at the foot of which his hut was built, Mt. _Algidus, from a line by Horace, ; his favourite Latin poet. " Algidus rich in dark foliage"; and
other names, Hydra, and Mt. Ida, and names of small rivers which run into the Rakaia, and streams of Lake Coleridge, bring his classical background to our remembrance. It was said that,he swore at his bullocks in Greek and could be met jolting along the country roads in an old spring cart reading his Horace as he went.-(" William Rolleston," by W. Downie Stewart. Reviewed by Miss G. M. Glanville, 3YA, February 10.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 141, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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203Rolleston the Classical Scholar New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 141, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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