Sometimes he becomes quite edifying, "keep your moral character unsgullied, and it will be unsuapected." But an unsullied moral character, it appears, is compatible with an' attempt to corrupt a young Imarried lady, The redeeming feature in a bast character was his love for the young, man to whom he gives this infamous advice. Convinced that there is nothing except poetry which cannot be acquired by sedulous application, he subjected the boy to a severe as that which was applied to Frederick the Great or John Stuart Mill. From Leipzig "his tutor writes me word that he has barely time to eat, drink, and sleep." The boy was not only to be proficient in all the chief modern languages, and jin Latin. "It is Greek that roust distinguish you in the learned world; Latin alone will not." In the. intervals of these severe studies he was to inform himself about the French marine at Toulon, and of their commerce at Marseilles. At Rome he was to mix with the Jesuits, from whom there is much to Jearn, Curiously enough, hiv father did not realize that a foreign education was a bad preparation for an Eng-Mish Parliamentarian. Poor young, Stanhope, who at 20 was a prodigy of learning, was a dead failure as speaker in the House of Commons. Nor did he ever rival his father in the disingenuous graces. "The lacing-master is at this time the man in all Europe of the greatest. importance to you. Learn to loll genteelly." Philip could not loll gen-
Phe Double-Head Young Stanhope seems to have been a man of fair ability, and with such powerful backing might have had a successful career; but he died early, after being for some years teeretiy married. His father bare the disappointment stoically, lived to old age, lonely and friend-quite unrepentant and unsoftened.
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