equal blood to her own. She obeyed the laws imposed by caste. D'Alroy. Caste again! That caused a separation between us. My brother lives abroad and I do not see him. I confess that as to my mother, I—I look upon her with a kind of superstitious awe! Hautree. Ya-as! She is a sort of Grand Brahman priestess! D'Alroy. Just so. Now I know I am a fool-I have a thick tongue and a lisp—which makes me appear more of a fool than I am. You are clever, Arthur, perhaps a little too clever! You are paying your devoirs-I believe that is the correct word—paying your devoirs to Florence Carberry, daughter of the countess. She is of higher rank than you. Is she to forget caste? Hautree. Ah! that argument does not apply! D'Alroy. "Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood!" Hautree. Oh, cut that! If you are a-going to look at it from the point of view of poetry-going off to No-Man'sLand, I won't follow you! D'Alroy. No gentleman can be ashamed of the woman he loves! Whatever her original station, he raises her to the same position he holds himself! Hautree. Ya-as! He raises her-her! But, her connections-but, her relations! How about them? (Voice of ECCLES.) Polly Polly! Why the (enters) devil couldn't you Eccles. Mr. D'Alroy, I-I didn't see you. Good-evening, sir! The same to you and many of them! D'Alroy (to HAUTREE). This is the father. Hautree (aside). The drunken father! Ah! D'Alroy (to ECCLES). I suppose Miss Esther and her sister have not yet returned from rehearsal? Eccles. Not yet, sir. I expec' 'em in every minute. I 'opes you 'ave been quite well since I seed you last? D'Alroy. Quite, thank you! By-the-bye, this is a friend of mine I took the liberty of bringing with me. Eccles (bows). Any friend of the Honourable Mr. D'Alroy-I'm sure! D'Alroy. And how have you been, Mr. Eccles? Eccles. Well, sir (sighs), I haven't been the thing at all. My 'ealth and spirits is broke. I'm not the man I used to be I'm not accustomed to this sort of life. Ah! gentlemen, I'm a man what has seen better days-most like gone for ever! It's a drefful thing for a man at my time of life to look back on better days gone most like for ever! D'Alroy. I dessay. Eccles. Once proud and prosperous, now poor and lowly! Once a 'spectable tradesman, I am forced by the pressure of succumstances over which I have no control, to seek for work and not to find it. D'Alroy. I dessay. Eccles. But the poor and lowly is hoften 'ardly used. What chance has a working-man? Hautree (aside). None-when he won't work! Eccles. I'm sorry, gentlemen, I can't offer you any refreshments. Ah! luxury and me has long been strangers -long been strangers! D'Alroy. Sorry to hear your misfortunes, Mr. Eccles! Eccles. Ah, sir! I've had many on 'em-many on 'em! D'Alroy (offers ECCLES coin). Perhaps you will permit me to offer you a trifling loan? Eccles. You're a gentleman, Mr. D'Alroy! a real gen tleman! Hanybody can tell a real gentleman with 'alf a sovereign-I mean, with 'alf an heye! A real gentleman and understands the nateral emotions of the working-man! Poverty-poverty's a thing that should be encouraged! And pride should be put down by the-the strong hand of pecooniary necessity! Thank 'eavens, we are all equal in mind and feelings! Hautree (aside). I should hope not. Eccles (abruptly). I've a neighbour I want to speak to awaitin' for me houtside. The gals'll be in presently. Sorry to leave you, gentlemen-sorry to leave you! D'Alroy. Don't mention it! Eccles. But business is business! Good-evening, gentlemen! Good-evening, gentlemen, good-evening! (Exit.) Hautree (railing). So this is Papa Eccles! But “Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood." Poor old boy! I wonder what the most noble your mother the Marquise de St. Maur would think of Papa Eccles!" Caste." Matthew Arnold About Compulsory Education "BUT," continued Arminius, "you were talking of compulsory education, and your common people's want of it. Now, my dear friend, I want you to understand what this principle of compulsory education really means. It means that to insure, as far as you can, every man's being fit for his business in life, you put education as a bar, or condition, between him and what he aims at. The principle is just as good for one class as another, and it is only by applying it impartially that you save its application from being insolent and invidious. Our Prussian peasant stands our compelling him to instruct himself before he may go about his calling, because he sees we believe in instruction, and compel our own class, too, in a way to make it really feel the pressure, to instruct itself before it may go about its calling. Now, you propose to make old Diggs's boys instruct themselves before they may go bird-scaring or sheeptending. I want to know what you do to make those three worthies in that justice-room instruct themselves before they may go acting as magistrates and judges." "Do?" said I. "Why, just look what they have done all of themselves. Lumpington and Hittall have had a publicschool and university education; Bottles has had Dr. Silverpump's, and the practical training of business. What on earth would you have us make them do more?" "Qualify themselves for administrative or judicial functions, if they exercise them," said Arminius. "That is what really answers, in their case, to the compulsion you propose to apply to Diggs's boys. Sending Lord Lumpington and Mr. Hittall to school is nothing; the natural course of things takes them there. Don't suppose that, by doing this, you are applying the principle of compulsory education fairly, and as you apply it to Diggs's boys. You are not interposing, for the rich, education as a bar or condition between them and that which they aim at. But interpose it, as we do, between the rich and things they aim at, and I will say something to you. I should like to know what has made Lord Lumpington a magistrate?" "Made Lord Lumpington a magistrate?" said I. "Why, the Lumpington estate, to be sure." "And the Rev. Esau Hittall?" continued Arminius. "His English energy and self-reliance," I answered very stiffly, for Arminius's incessant carping began to put me in a huff, "those same incomparable and truly British qualities which have just triumphed over every obstacle and given us the Atlantic telegraph! And let me tell you, Von T., in my opinion it will be a long time before the Geist of any pedant of a Prussian professor gives us anything half so valuable as that." "Pshaw!" replied Arminius contemptuously, "that great rope, with a Philistine at each end of it talking inutilities! But in my country," he went on, "we should have begun to put a pressure on these future magistrates at school. Before we allowed Lord Lumpington and Mr. Hittall to go to the university at all, we should have examined them, and we should not have trusted the keepers of that absurd cockpit you took me down to see, to examine them as they chose, |