anglica,'" continued the scholar. "My Scholarship is for
reading that. I have it outside, in three packing-cases."

"The Scholarship?" asked the Tutor, weakly.

"No," said the scholar; "the 'Encyclopaedia Pananglica.'"

"Well," the academic dignitary resumed, "and what have you read? To
prepare yourself for a university career, I mean."

"The 'Encyc--'"

"Of course, of course; but anything else? I wish to know so as to advise
you with respect to the direction of your studies. Have you, for
instance, read any Homer?"

"Homer!" the youth replied--"Oh, yes, I know about Homer. There is a
picture of Homer, drawn from life, and very well reproduced, among the
illustrations of the article 'Education.' There is one there of
Comenius, too. Homer and Comenius--"

"Were both educationists, I know," said the Tutor: "but not, properly
speaking, in the same way. However--you have not studied the father of
poetry in the original, it would appear. Any Xenophon, perhaps? or
Caesar?"

"I don't think I know much about Xenophon," replied the young man, "but I
have a friend who failed in Caesar for the Cambridge Locals, and he said
it was pretty easy."

"Do you know _any_ Greek or Latin at all?"

"Well, as I came along I bought a Delectus: I was told it might be
helpful for attaining the highest honours."

"Exactly. You thought it might be helpful--of course, of course. You
were quite right--perfectly, perfectly correct," the Tutor murmured, with
a faraway look in his eyes. Then he collected himself, and turned to the
other aspirant. "And you, sir--pardon me, I didn't quite catch--eh? Oh,
thanks!--what, may I ask, are the conditions on which you hold _your_
Scholarship?"

"My education," replied the heavy young man, "was completed at the Jabez
H. Brown University of Thessalonica, Maine, U.S.A. I am a recipient of a
Scholarship under the provisions of the will of the Right Honourable
Cecil J. Rhodes, the eminent philanthropist. No doubt, Professor, you
will have heard of him."

"Ah! a Rhodes Scholar," said the Tutor. "That is better--much better.
You will, no doubt, study the Classics. There are those (I am well
aware) who are disposed to object to modern American Scholarship as an
excessive attention to minutiae: but personally, I confess, I am no enemy
even to a meticulous exactness, which alone can save us from an incurious
and slipshod rhetoric! . . . And what, then, are the points of
scholarship whic