210 POETRY AND SCHOOLS.

To punish with extremest rigour,

I could inflict no penance bigger

Than, using him as learning’s tool,

To make him usher of a school.

‘_______. Yet, still he’s on the road, you say,
Of learning.’ Why, perhaps, he may;

But turns, like horses in a mill,

Nor getting on, nor standing still;

For little way his learning reaches

Who learns no more than what he teaches."

Dz, Newman, Too severe by half; and like most
highly-coloured pictures, untrue. The last couplet is,
however, good indeed, though full of latent sarcasm.

Mrs. Barry. Father, you will surely not forget
Lloyd’s friend, the gentle Cowper, and his “Tirocinium,”
which is all about education, from beginning to end.

Dr, Newman. Hush, hush, my dear! Don’t you
see that our craft is ruined if you cry up the “ Tiro-
cinlum? For what is it, but a defence of private
education ? |

Mrs, Barry, If itis, it nevertheless is full of whole-
some and delightful truths. |

Dr, Newman. Let us admit it, Helen, as we safely do,
without yielding the advantage of good public schools.

Dr, Smith. Here are a number of schools and school-
folk described to the life in Crabbe’s “ Borough,” and
other tales.

Dr. Newman, Yes ; and, as in all his descriptions,
he has given pictures which have an accuracy like that
of the daguerreotype.