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...School-Days Thomas Arnold is immortalized as the formidable headmaster, rex atque sacerdos. In his son Matthew's ode on Rugby Chapel he stands with "radiant vigor." In Dean Stanley's enthusiastic biography he is the religiously inspired pedagog. And in Strachey's flashing satiric sketch he is the stodgy pedant, a typical Victorian. Strachey thereby incurs the wrath of Arnold's great-grandson and present biographer, who adds nothing further to the portrait, but demonstrates, in a thoughtful, conscientious manner, Arnold's changes in school curriculum as the beginning of educational reform...
...evidence, such as it was, received penetrating scrutiny from would-be-calm General Zertuche. The lines of the sketch, he remarked, were firm and sure, showing no trace of perturbation, and the likeness was recognizable. Scowling thoughtfully...
...charming!" exclaimed Elizabeth, Duchess of York, and promised to carry the sketch to her daughter Princess Elizabeth ("Baby Betty") most popular infant in Great Britain...
...closed your sketch of the able Walter Percy Chrysler: "To save himself reading labor, he had a paper made up for his private use. It is an expensive clipping of magazine articles and economic reports...
...short chapters devoted to each man are half essay, half straightforward biographical sketch. The effect is to paint clear pictures of the candidates in the medium of their political careers, intimating the fitness of each for the office which they missed, and analyzing carefully the forces which settled the fate the each in the race...