A week before Easter, I ran down to Harrow to see a series of sports by the boys of that famous school. Winchester and Eaton, Harrow and Marlborough are the four great school nurseries for Oxford and Cambridge, and there is no honest athletic pastime but what is encouraged and enjoyed in these schools, the oldest of which (Winchester) has just celebrated its 500th anniversary. Where is there a school in our country where on a Saturday you can see spirited contests in running, leaping, cricketing, foot-balling, rowing and (mind you) all of this is a part in the physical education of the boy? My experience has been with American boarding-schools, that the faculty does not place sufficient confidence in the lad, and his "honor," part of character is dwarfed. These annual sports at Harrow were very enjoyable. Fine, manly boys, happy as the lark, and perfectly ignorant of the big old fight of life before them. I saw a running match of one hundred yards, one for a quarter of a mile, and a rattling one mile race, by four contestants. Hurdle racing and jumping concluded the first day's exercise. I could not remain the second day, but had sufficient experience at Harrow to urge earnestly the father and mother who read this letter to encourage their boys, by time, money (not much), your own presence and personal interest in such pleasure, and thus behold a splendid development of physical manhood, as the boys grow up to take the paternal place. Good fathers and doting mothers may object to this advice, but the old adage, "all work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy," is a mighty true saying. There is as much need for relaxation as there is for food and sleep. - Spirit of the Times.