In addition to the money donations already mentioned, towards the formation of a library, other valuable donations were presented. The Wesleyan Book Committee in London made a large and liberal grant. Mr. W. H. Petty, of Harrogate, presented a handsome copy of the latest edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. A most valuable donation of philosophical apparatus, costing nearly one hundred pounds, was also given by Mr. Isaac Holden.

Visit of the Rev. Dr. Clarke.

During the early part of my career at the Grove, Dr. Clarke paid a brief visit to the school. We were informed beforehand of his expected visit, and were of course put on our best behaviour. As the sons of Wesleyan ministers, we had learned to reverence him highly, as most of our parents did, for there is no doubt of the high esteem in which he was held by our fathers and mothers. We were consequently on the tip-toe of expectation to see so great a man. He came during the afternoon, when we were in school engaged in learning. He was not tall, somewhat thick-set, with a large head and short neck, and had some colour in his cheeks. But his appearance differed altogether from our ideal picture of him as the writer of a great commentary on the Bible. Instead of being dressed in ministerial black cloth, like our fathers, he wore coloured clothes, knee-breeches, and coloured stockings, the whole being of a dark tint. To our thinking he looked more like a farmer than a noted theologian and a Doctor of Laws. His visit was very brief, and after exchanging a few words.

with the head master he departed, preceded by the governor, who had introduced him.

Fatal Accident.

A sad and fatal accident occurred in 1848. There were two brothers at that time at the Grove name Tindall, William H., now in our ministry, and a younger one. The two brothers were devotedly attached to each other, and were constantly seen walking together with their arms. enfolding each other. Mr. J. Lawson Strachan, then a scholar, says: "One Saturday afternoon, whilst attending to my duties as shoe-monitor, I heard a heavy fall in the covered playground, which was flagged. On raising my head, I saw a boy named Tindall stretched on the ground, and ran to the assistance of one of the masters who had witnessed it. We found he had fallen on his head from the trapeze, and ve carried him indoors. I was immediately despatched to 3radford for Dr. Beaumont, but to no purpose, for he died Imost immediately after his fall. Six of us carried him to is grave. His death, being so awfully sudden, greatly ffected the whole school."

Other Deaths.

Two other deaths occurred from 1863 to 1870. In anuary, 1864, immediately after the Christmas vacation, ttle George Smith, a new boy, was taken ill and died.

"We never knew," says Mr. Sugden, "what was e matter with him; but it was evidently something ngerously infectious, for we were not even taken to the

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funeral. About three years after, a youth named Carr died of brain fever. We all went to his funeral, when a very serious impression was produced on us all. Both boys lie buried under a small stone obelisk near the chapel door."

The Rev. Dr. Moulton says: "The first and most painful incident in my Grove life was the death of four of my schoolfellows, Dernaley, Hornby, Ellidge, and Gregory, in my first year; three of brain fever, and one of typhus. I have no doubt that the small ill-ventilated dormitories of that time were responsible for this terrible mortality." Soon after this one of the new wings was built, affording more sleeping room.

It is only fair to state that during my six years at the Grove not a single death occurred, though one bedroom contained forty-eight cribs, all occupied.

A Somnambulist.

During Mr. Morley's governorship, one night everyone in the house had retired to rest excepting Mrs. Morley, who was sitting in the parlour, anxious to finish some work with which she was busy. Before going upstairs she went into the kitchen to see that all was right, when to her astonishment she saw a light in the pantry, the entrance to which was in the kitchen. On opening the door she found one of the boys in his nightshirt, comfortably helping himself to whatever good cheer he could find. On Mrs. Morley's entrance he was fairly caught, but his boyish cunning did not desert him. Mrs. M. said, "C., what are you doing here at this hour of the night, you naughty boy?" There

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was no response. C. had suddenly become a somnambulist, and looked at the questioner with a vacant stare. “O," said Mrs. M., "you are asleep are you? It is a very dangerous thing for boys to light a secreted candle in their sleep, and steal down into the pantry at midnight. I had better awake you, lest you should acquire the dangerous habit of sleep-walking." She left the pantry, turning the door key behind her, and shortly returned armed with a birch-rod. C. found that his pretended somnambulism would not succeed. Appeals for forgiveness accompanied by numerous promises as to the future were poured forth; and C. was glad to escape to bed.

The Great Rebellion.

This event took place during the early part of Mr. Morley's governorship, and whilst he was absent from the Grove, attending the Liverpool Conference. Mr. Parker, the head master, had left the Grove during the vacation of 1832 rather unexpectedly, and no one being appointed to succeed him, Mr. James Brownell, who had succeeded Mr. John Farrar as second master, during Mr. Morley's absence naturally took the reins of government into his hands. His authority in the school or out of it was never questioned, but by some of the older boys he was perhaps more feared than loved. When it was necessary to censure, he could do so with biting sarcasm. It has been already mentioned that in the summer time the boys were occasionally taken down to the river Aire, and were permitted to bathe in the river, but never without the

consent of the governor, and the presence of two or three teachers. To bathe without permission was considered a grave misdemeanour. There being at the time neither governor nor head master in charge of the school, several of the senior boys stole away one noon to the river, without the knowledge of any of the masters. Before they returned the dinner bell was rung, and the rest of the scholars took their places under their respective numbers against the playground wall. It was at once discovered that many of the seniors were missing. "Where were they?" The truth came out that they were gone to bathe in the river. On their return they were informed that their disobedience would be followed by punishment in one form or another, but that probably it would be deferred until the governor's return. They resented the threat, not in the first instance by open defiance, but by a sullenness of look and manner. In a large school, the younger boys are easily influenced by the counsel and example of the elder ones. During the next two days the spirit of insubordination began to shew itself more openly. A few of the older boys stood aloof, but their influence was not sufficient to extinguish the spirit of disloyalty, which like a fire was fast spreading all around. Under the generalship of the bigger boys the rest were formed out of school hours into regimental order, were equipped with as many sticks as could be obtained, were marched out in line, and went at a running pace round the playground, singing a kind of Marseillaise song composed for the occasion, sometimes halting under Mr. Brownell's bedroom window. On the third day the rebellion reached its climax. After the boys'