Christ’s Hospital: from a Boy’s Point of View, 1864–1870

Abstract

THE appointment of Mr. Hamilton Fyfe as the head of a university in Canada and of Mr. Flecker as his successor recalls one’s mind to the famous school which the one is leaving and the other taking over. The Blue Coat School has always held a special place in the affections of English people, partly from the picturesque dress to which the boys remain loyally and proudly attached, partly from its old situation in the heart of London, partly from the lustre which a long array of distinguished ex-scholars have shed upon it. What school would not shine brighter in the light of Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge? It has since 1902 been housed in the most magnificent group of buildings provided for any school in England, and its efficiency in education reached its highest point under the able direction of its late chief.

Christ’s Hospital: from a Boy’s Point of View, 1864–1870.

late Rev. W. M. Digues La Touche. Edited by his Brother. Pp. xii + 82 + 2 plates. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd.; London: Simpkin Marshall, Ltd., 1928.) 3s. 6d. net.