Identifier: reviewofreviewsw06newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t his old friends or his old friendssons to the third and fourth generation. Lord Hough-ton, who is Viceroy of Ireland, is an old friends son,and so is the Postmaster General. But, as the Irish-man says, even if he had never had a father, Mr.Arthur Acland would have deserved recognition. Heis a philanthropist, an educationist, a co-operator, auniversity extensionist, and. in short, just the kind ofman to form a committee of three with Mr. Mundellaand Mr. Fowler to undertake in earnest the regenera-tion of rural England. As vice-president of theCouncil, he will have to try his hand at licking intoshape the chaos of secondary education, and at en-deavoring to bring some practical common sense intothe practical instruction of the children of our vil-lages. I have a kind of dream that Mr. Acland isdestined to universalize the use of the magic lanteraas an educational agent, but whether he does this ornot, he can hardly fail to leave his mark impresseddeeply on the education of the nation.
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RIGHT HON. ARNOLD MORLEY, M.P. Postmaster-General. RIGHT HON. A. H. DYKE ACKLAND, M.P., /ice-President of the Committee of Council on Exiucationi THF YOUNGER MEMBERS OF THE CABINET. MR. (JLAI)STONHS NtilV CABINEI HOT MR. AKNOl.l) MOKl.EV. Mr. Arnold Morley, the son of Mr. Samuel Morley,is Postmaster-General. He is a handsome hacthelor,whose ambitions are more social than i)()litical orreligious. His father was a kind of lay Nonconform-ist Pope. He was Liberal Whip and is part proprie-tor of the Daily Notes. No one expected to see him aCabinet Minister, although the haughtiness of hismanners would have i)repared members to hear thathe had been made a duke, or at least an archangel.As Postmaster he liiYs got to establish penny postagethroughout the English-speaking world, to decide thateverything published peiiodically at intervals of amonth is a newspaper, and as such entitled to be car-ried at newsj^aper rates, and generally to sit upon SirArthur Blackwood until he consents to bring E

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