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DISTANT VIEW OF ETON COLLEGE, FROM THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

Seen from any point of view, Eton College, the chief of all the English public schools, is picturesque; and not the least pleasing glimpse is that obtained from the Great Western Railway. Gray, it will be remembered, in his celebrated "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College," apostrophised the distant spires, the antique towers that crown the watery glade. The trees have a grandeur in keeping with the old school of Henry VI's foundation, and the turf of the playing fields, "whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way," is of an excellent green. In the foreground of our view are house-boats moored in the quiet backwater. The most conspicuous part of the College is the very handsome Gothic Chapel.