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When in the lower forms at Eton, says a recent English magazine, Gladstone had little severe experience in fagging, and afterward treated his own fags very leniently. One of Gladstone's fags, John Smith Mansfield, now a police magistrate at the Marlborough-street Court, says of him: "He was not exacting, and I had an easy time of it. I cannot remember doing anything more than laying out his breakfast and tea table, and occasionally doing an errand. I recall him as a good-looking, rather delicate youth with a pale face and brown, curling hair - always tidy, and well...
Just before Gladstone entered Eton, in 1821, the Etonian, edited by Winthrop Mackworth Praed, had run its short, brilliant career; and Gladstone, though a Lower Boy, got acquainted with some of the contributors to that periodical, who used to come and breakfast with his brother Thomas. Among these were some who had acquired a real renown through their writings, and as Gladstone rose to the higher forms, the purpose of founding a magazine naturally suggested itself to him as one of the only methods that lay open to him for achieving scholastic distinction...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, slightly warmer, partly cloudly weather, followed by slight showers, southerly to westerly winds, lower barometer...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, warmer, generally fair weather during Saturday, with fresh and brisk easterly and southerly winds, lower barometer...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, fair weather, slightly warmer, southerly to westerly winds, stationary or lower barometer...