39 Hester's boats are always kept in excellent trim. At Eton exercise on the water is much practised, and many of the scholars are very expert watermen: they have recently taken to boats of an amazing length, forty feet and upwards, which, manned with eight oars, move with great celerity. Every Saturday evening the scholars are permitted to assume fancy dresses; but the practice is now principally confined to the steersman; the rest simply adopting sailors' costume, except on the fourth of June, or election Saturday, when there is always a grand gala, a band of music, and fireworks, on the island in the Thames. 40 Miller and Hall, two famous preservers of birds and animals; an art in high repute among the Etonians. 41 A famous boatman, duck-hunter, dog-fighter; or, according to the London phrase--good at everything. ~75~~ Tom New {42} in manly sports is old, A tailor, and a trump, sir; And _odd Fish Bill_,{43} at sight of gold, Will steer clear of the bump,"{44} sir. A list of _worthies_, learn'd and great In every art and science, That noble youths should emulate, To set laws at defiance: The church, the senate, and the bar, By these in ethics grounded, Must prove a meteoric star, Of brilliancy compounded. Ye lights of Eton, rising suns, Of all that's great and godly; The nation's hope, and dread of _duns_, Let all your acts be _motley_. Learn arts like these, ye oppidan, If you'd astonish greatly The senate, or the great divan, With classics pure, and stately. Give Greek and Latin to the wind, Bid pedagogues defiance: These are the rules to grace the mind With the true gems of science. 42 Tom New, a great cricketer. 43 Bill Fish, a waterman who attends the youngest boys in their excursions. 44 The BUMP, to run against each other in the race. ~76~~ APOLLO'S VISIT TO ETON. ~76~~ This whimsical production appeared originally in 1819, in an Eton miscellany entitled the College Magazine; the poetry of which was afterwards selected, and only fifty copies struck off: these have been carefully suppressed, principally we believe on account of this article, as it contains nothing that we conceive can be deemed offensive, and has allusions to almost all the distinguished scholars of that period, besides including the principal contributors to the Etonian, a recent popular work: we have with some difficulty filled up the blanks with real names; and, at the suggestion of several old Etonians, incorporated it with the present work, as a fair criterion of the promising character of the school at this particular period.