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The London Quarterly Review, Vol. 60: April and July, 1883 (Classic Reprint) by Unknown Author (Paperback / softback, 2015)

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Excerpt from The London Quarterly Review, Vol. 60: April and July, 1883 Mr. Maxwell planned all the buildings and improvements on his estate, and superintended all domestic matters, even to the cutting of the last for his own square-toed shoes. And as James was his one companion and care, it is t an exaggeration to say that those mechanical and mathematical proclivities which he manifested at a quite juvenile age, and which found their consummation in the planning of the Cavendish Laboratory during his Cambridge professorship, were the direct products of his father's example and training. As his biographers say, The Galloway boy was in many ways the father of the Cambridge man; and even the 'ploys' of his childhood contained the germ of his life work (p. 429). The necessities of education led to James being sent to Edinburgh Academy at the age of ten, his father taking up his abode again at Edinburgh, except during the summer season, when he repaired to Glenlair. He was thus enabled to take the oversight of his son's studies, and also, which was more important, of his recreation. Some slight oddities in dress and manners did t tend to make the boy's introduction to school-life smooth and agreeable. Tunics of hodden gray tweed, and shoes clasped and fashioned after the somewhat bucolic ideas of his father, were t likely to escape the keen observation of frolicsome schoolboys, to whom round jackets and shoe-strings were de rigueur. But his fine natural gift of irony, combined with his geniality of disposition, saved him on many an occasion from provoking merriment, and established him eventually as a general favourite. The very first time he was questioned as to the maker of his shoes, he replied in broad Scotch patois: Din ye ken, 'twas a man, And he lived in a houseIn whilk was a mouse. At school, though at first he seems to have found more pleasure in watching humble bees than in the motony of Latin grammar, yet he soon applied himself with vigour to his books, and placed himself in the first rank among his compeers. His ingenuity is evidenced by his framing a system of mnemonics based on the positions of the windows in the school, and by his humorous sketches and hieroglyphic letters to his father. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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27/09/2015
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