LLLUSTRATLED INTERVIETLS.

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BYRON'S SEAT-—TOMB IN HARROW CHURCHYARD,

Hecuba 75 some Tatin exereises written by Sir Robert Pecl when at Harrow in 180, and lcetters from Wellington, Faraday, T.and- scer, and Sydney Smith. An archer’s dress of white satin and silver lace worn at Harrow on the day of shooting for the silver arrow is preserved, together with a couple of the silver arrows competed for.

We cross the road, up the steep stony mcline to the church, and stand for 2 moment by the tomb now railed in— on which Byron used to sit and dream. IFrom the place of poctry to the spot of pugilism is but a few steps. The latter is the old milling ground where Byron fought his battles.

The streams where we swam and the ficlds where we fought.

“ At Harow ]

lought my way

very fairrly. 1

think Tlost but onc

hattle out of seven,”

Byron wrote to a

friecnd. But the

place of milhing 1s no more. T'he courtyard i1s no

longer used as a

arand stand by From Ihoto. by]

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the boys ' the masters no longer have Lo shut their eyes to a pugilistic encounter, The days of fights are o'er, and the patch of once famous land now grows very long arass and s used as a practice ground for the Morris tube.

A that remains of the old school stands heree Here s the old fourth form, with its oaken benches and

pancls; tiny win- dows, and huge Elizabethan man-

telpiece - its quaint old desks and chairs. It forms the Harrow scroll of fame, for on the walls and benches, on the doors - aye, ~= cverywhere — the pen-knife of many a famous man has cut mnto the wood. ! £ “',/ : Here is “Byron,” A / and m the next 7 pancl to the poct /. 15 “H. Temple, 1500.7 R, Peel” is in big lctters near the Head Master’s seat; “ Haddo * (1ord

Abcerdeen), “R. B. Sheridan 7—until very recently a direct descendant of Sheridan was i the school-—and near the floor, in very small letters, “H. Ii. Manning, 1824”7 No walls were ever so famously decorated as these. The old fourth form is now only —m0o—— used for prayers and birching, A

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THE OLD MILLING GROUND. Jetliolt & Fry,