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Fronea Photo. by THE DRAWENG-ROOM,

It echoed a “ Don't-I-wish-I-was-there-now ” sentiment that was unmistakable.

Before we scttled down to talk we made the customary run through his rooms. M. Welldon is a bachclor, and his sister presides over his housc. Miss Welldon's artistic taste is apparent in the arrangement of “ Nature's decorations.” You cannot enter a room without finding the freshest and sweetest of flowers. The fire-places in the drawing-roomare just great fern banks relieved here and there by peeping blossoms s the tiny vases look as though the roses were crowing out of them. The pictures in the drawing-room arc principally of the Venetian and Ilorentine School, though here 1s an engraving of a portrait of M. (:ladstone, and another of Hol- man Hunt's

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“Shadow of the Cross.” Reminis- cences of his

many travels are also on the walls, as indced they arc everywhere about the housc —In room and on stalrcase —- photo- graphs of Igypt and the Nile, the Yosemite Valley and Niagara, and many others. A dual statuctte of

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Goethe and Schil- fer rests on cabiet at the far end of the room. Yet anothoer fern bank s found 1n the dining - room: a bright rchief to the solemnly mas- stve oak furniturce. The study of the Head Master of Harrow 1s necessarily @ very mteresting apart- ment. IF 1t im- presses the visitor, how much more does 1t affect the boy who timidly taps at the door and knows he 1s “m for it”! Yet, at the same time, the study 1s open to every lad in the school who would scek for advice, or who —a thing scldom needed—-1s duesirous of lodging a complaint. There are two tables onc is the working table, on which are sct out the varied papers associated with school life proper. Mr. Welldon assures me that - “all the affairs of life go into six divisions 7 ; henee the box of half-a-dozen pigeon-holes, The other table 1s entirely devoted to Aristotle, of whom Mr. Welldon 1s a most ardent student. s “ Translation of Aristotle’s Polities 7 and “ Rhcetorie 7 arc standard works, and he has just completed another treatise on the great philosopher. The

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