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  • The remark was suggestive of many things, and it left me picturing the progress of the class and thinking of the way in which, for so many succeeding generations, the classics have been steeped with the peculiar atmosphere of the public schools. What proportion of Englishmen who have learnt classics at school feel that Theocritus or Plato or Thucydides signify, above all, English playing fields, English class-rooms, and the scent of English limes? Of course in such an atmosphere much evaporates - the restlessness of the Greek intellect and many other things. There is even absurdity in the way in which some story of perverted passion is pleasantly droned through a drowsy summer afternoon. But the whole
    Ancient Greek in Camden Town 1920
  • Caerleon Museum 1850
  • Diggory Lawson’s Journey to Gentility… 1845
  • Gilbert Collins, and the Arabic Grammar 1836
  • Mercury at the Birmingham Mechanics’ Institute 1826
  • Thomas Cooper: a Chartist Calanus 1842
  • Walter Crane’s Baby’s Own Aesop 1887