text:  Few portions of poetical biography contain a purer or more touching interest than the chapter describing the school or college friendships of illustrious men; and the innumerable allusions to Lyceum comrades and Lyceum happiness scattered so profusely over the pages of Pushkin have an indescribable charm to the imagination not less delightful than the recital of Byron's almost feminine affection for "little Harness " or the oft-recalled image of the Noble Childe's boyish meditation in the elm-shadowed churchyard of Harrow