The Annu! Prize-giving took place ay the above School, Range Road, on Woinveday morning Inst, the Rev. J. B. Ost presiding. Among tha visitors present were thi. A. J. Walker, W. G. Walshe, and E. Box. Several ladies were also present.
The Head Master, Mr. W. A. H. Moule, read the Report for the year, in which he: observed that it was tie second annual Prize-giving since the School had been re- 1 subjects alone, and mother of books! dealing with Egyptian lore. Were I not—well, what [am—I should he the grotest bookworm in the world.' Dress the Czir im Asiatic dress and probably he would appear an Asiatic. Again, 'I should like to live half my life completely in Russia, hear only Russian spoke", and see things that Joly Russian, then spend the rest of ime in running over the world and bringing back its treasures to my darling' country. But then one can never real se the good or the evil that may result from his arbitrary administration, but on the success which attends his endeavours to keep the Czar in countenance and to persuade the wayward monarch that auto-ery is safe in his bands. The massacres jo ws, the persecution of Poles, the exile of Russisn nobles, the toguing of Bosita workingman, the establishment the imprisonment and butchery
of a widespread system' of espion and the abolition of law, are all ares all one's castles in the air, nnd duty is a w hich the inister suggests and the Czar beautiful thing simply because it is gilded heartily sanctions. over with the light of personal sacrifice.'"
She describes his exp ossian at that time He is ever struggling with phantoms, as intense yet dreamy, and pronounces fighting with windmills, com sing with that our own Prince of Wales ought never saints, or consulting the spirit of the to be mistaken for him, because of his dead.' Books he has long "go ceased to thoroughly English expression. Both read, and sound advice he is incapable of Jistening to. His Ministers he receives with Danish mothers in appearance.
men evidently take after their grent formality and dismisses with haughty condescension.
It is difficult to see anything of the They a often kept in the dark about matters which it behoves young man Mille. Vacaresco describes in the somewhat gloomy character them to know thoroughly and early. scription by a Russias oficial of high When these Ministers implored the Czar to rank in the " Quarterly Review" of July evacuate Manchuria and safeguard th peace of the world, he answered 1904:—* An inexperienced prince who i not only deficient in the qualities requisite! well.' To one of the Grand Dukes, hall keep the peace and my own counsel ton raler, but even devoid of the tact! who, on the day before the rupture with necessuy to enable him to keep up ap- Japan, vaguely hinted at the possibility of Nicholas IT war, the Emperor anid: Leave that to moved from Museum Road, and that the Present promises have many advantages over the old School. Library had been well used during the year, and Mr Walshe had kindly premixed a' grant of books through the Diffusion Society.—M: Moule mentioned that some "old boys" held prominent p trust in Shanghai, and of three who had grue to England two were soon huping enter Cambriige University.
The Rev. A. J. Walker then gave an address on "The Secret of Learning and how to Use it"—followed by the Rev. W. G. Walshe, who gays some very useful advice to those boys who were nbuut to enter business life. Other apexkers addressed the gathering, witer which the handed to the succesatul he Chairman, who heartily congratulated the Head Maator and Teaching Staff on the very encouraging report which had been read,
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