Excerpt from Memories of John Westlake: With Portraits John Westlake was an only son, having an only sister, Mary Elizabeth, some fifteen months his senior; she died of cholera at Sandgate in 1854. His and his sister's early education was mainly his mother's Work: her plan was not to make her children learn anything by heart - not even hymns saying a lesson meant repeating its substance in the child's own words. At four years and seven months the boy began to learn Latin from his mother, she, in turn, learning from his father. The old 'eton Latin Grammar and the 'delectus were the vehicles of instruction. At the age of seven he began to go to the Lostwithiel Grammar School, an old school then maintained without any permanent endowment by means of an annual grant by the public-spirited corporation of the little Cornish town. At the Grammar School the boy was plunged at once into Phaedrus. 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 technology 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.