Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848

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Various. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848

THE CAXTONS. – PART II

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

EDUCATION IN WALES

THE SILVER CROSS. – A CAMPAIGNING SKETCH

HEIGH-HO!

REPUBLICAN PARIS

THE SPANIARD IN SICILY

CRIMES AND REMARKABLE TRIALS IN SCOTLAND

THE REPEALER'S WISH GRANTED. – AN IRISH TALE

THE LAST WALK

MAN IS A FEATHERLESS BIPED

THE REVOLUTIONS IN EUROPE

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When I had reached the age of twelve, I had got to the head of the preparatory school to which I had been sent. And having thus exhausted all the oxygen of learning in that little receiver, my parents looked out for a wider range for my inspirations. During the last two years in which I had been at school, my love for study had returned; but it was a vigorous, wakeful, undreamy love, stimulated by competition, and animated by the practical desire to excel.

My father no longer sought to curb my intellectual aspirings. He had too great a reverence for scholarship not to wish me to become a scholar if possible; though he more than once said to me somewhat sadly, "Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. One slave of the lamp is enough for a household; my servitude must not be a hereditary bondage."

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"Um," said my father – "there's a great deal to be said on both sides of the question. You see, my boy, that Mrs Primmins has a great many moulds for our butter-pats; sometimes they come up with a crown on them, sometimes with the more popular impress of a cow. It is all very well for those who dish up the butter to print it according to their taste, or in proof of their abilities; it is enough for us to butter our bread, say grace, and pay for the dairy. Do you understand?"

"Not a bit, sir."

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