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390 THE EAGLE Ward, D. C. , Kingston Grammar School, for History (Mullinger Exhibition). Bacliliouse, D. R., Blackburn Grammar School, for Modern Languages. Morris, G., Manchester Grammar School, for Modern Languages. Dodds, R. H., Sedbergh School, for Modern Languages. Bray, D. Stockport Grammar School, for English. THE EAGLE Hallam, A., Gateway ].,Secondary School, Leicester, for Geography. Gurney, H. A., Yeovil School, for the General Examination. Major Scholarship fo r Music: � :;Wagazine Gwilt, D. W., Sedbergh School. SUPPORTED BY MEMBERS OF

CLOSE EXHIBITIONS AND CHORAL STUDENTSHIPS, John's College 1951 Sf Close Exhibitions: Baker: Lowe, D., Durham School. Dolman: Muir, R. K., Pocklington School. Lupton and Hebblethwaite: Bromley, W. J., Sedbergh School. Munsteven: Crisp, R., The King's School, Peterborough. Somerset (March): Dunn, G. D., Hereford Cathedral School. Somerset (Wootton Rivers): Shelley, B. L., Marlborough Grammar School. Vidal: Wilson, J. M., Exeter School. Choral Studentships: Harman, M. P., Fitzwilliam House. Perry, D. J., Cranbrook School. Prince, J., Queen Elizabeth's School, Crediton. Scott, C. G., Haileybury College.

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Henry Jessey PAGE I ikfater 1)010rosa 7 Psalm . 7 The Professor 8 Little Poem 8 Nashe's Verses from Ecclesiastt'cus 9 On Writing an Essay . 15

Some Neglected Johnian Poets 17 All contributions should be sent to the Editors of The Eagle, In a Strange Land 22 clo The College Office, 8t John's College. Light . 27 The Editors will welcome assistance in making the College On First Coming to England 30 Notes as complete a record as possible of the careers of Four Poems 35 members of the College. Illegal Entry 38 Bookshelves 40 Cambridge University, 1949 41 " Parnassus", 1949 42 Recital of Johnian Poetry and Music 44 "Christ's Comet" 47 Holistic Science 49 Reviews 50 Johniana 60 College Notes 62

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HENRY JESSEY

learning and charity joined to a fervently religious spirit are Fqualities which merit both admiration and some degree of fame for their possessor, then Henry Jessey deserves a place among the honouredI members of his College. Palmer, in his Non-Conformist's Memorial, writes of him thus : "That man of God, Mr Jessey, an anti-paedobaptist of long standing ; as holy I conceive as any, of good learning,and a very tender conscience ; of an healing and uniting spirit-I wish there were more such anti-paedobaptists as he." The details of Jessey's early life and parentage are not of any great interest, except for the fact that he was entered at 8t John's College as a Constable 8cholar* on 6 November 1622, when he signed himself Henricus J acie Eboracensis. He had matriculated in the Easter Term of 1619, and followed a course of logic and philo­ sophy. In 1622 he resolved to enter the ministry and was episcopally ordained in 1627. Of his theological training at 8t John's we can learn something from the remarks of Palmer that he became well versed in the Hebrew tongue and the writings of the Rabbis. He also understood 8yriac and Chaldee. While he was at the University he had the misfortune to lose his father, and the result to J essey was a drastic drop in his income ; he had but threepence a day at this time, but managed not only to live upon that sum but also to hire books for his studies. 1949 L.M.B.C. THAMES CHALLENGE CUP BOAT AT HENLEY, * The Constable Scholarship held by Jessey was one of four left by the will of Sir Marmaduke Constable. This benefactor left provision for one Fellow and four poor Scholars. The advantage of the bequest was, first, for any members of his own family; secondly for natives of York County or Diocese; thirdly, for " such as be most a le and apt in the University of e b Cambridge after th discretion of the Master and Fellows". Jessey qualified the second category. in ELIV HENRY JE SSEY 3 2 THE EAGLE n he was tion of an Independent Puritan congregatio in his conscience while on the forma germs of dissent were stirring esolved up held, and The of his a number of conferences were in the last few pages on. To this end yet at the University, a fact illustrated �n Lond and a church was sworn among the adherents, Advanced: a Covenant Exceeding Riches of Grace finally is thus described: Those he performance of covenanting deep despairing formed. T being a scholar, of whose in the undertaking Also a young gentleman, be wished to have a share perswasion that he should who saved, and of his strong of ever being Love, and the each with other Brother and stood Whitakers, Master Chr. together joyned both hands damned, Master Case, Master joyning of the had notice and being declared, H. J acob and each other Preachers and Christians, a Ringwise: their intent Relator, with many in of their faith and Re­ a gentleman in the countrey, brought made some Confession or Profession sad observation. His father, Rest Then they to him, and to pray for longer and some were briefer. to procure some to speak pentance, some were him up to London as he had revealed or Christian duty was solemnly together to walk in all Gods ways them present with them. This Covenanted him, having several solemn named, and by others, in should make known to them. performed by those before and chief first moving and Prayer. The beginning with the daies of Fasting and to Virginia, where traditio� connects was, because of the Oaths Jacob went �� of those so sad perswasions IS Impro able cause which of Jamestown, and died there 1624 . It by the Governors in the University, foundation 1� . ? . Subscriptions'*' imposed as IS made of lm 111 stuck not at them) though that Jessey ever knew him, and such mentlOn to (with the multitude that � he submitted or against 1625 the congregatlO at him; yet thus doubtingly Jessey's Memoranda is traditional. In � he had his conscience warning of his Superiors. But over by John Lathrop, an Independent Pun�an he yeelded to the Ordinances Southwark was taken his conscience, and on his sorrow on his own soule, preacher from Kent. While he was in charge the congregatlOn his thus doing, brought great him. Amongst others, the In 1636 Lathrop friends, that sympathized with suffered many persecutions and imprisonments. parents and in regard herein, than many others, in prison, left the country for New Engla :ld, Relator could more sympathize himself, after a period ' in spirit, for his University Oaths the congregatlOn himselfe had been much afflicted and for two years, until the arrival Henry Jessey, though his sinne abounded of and yet had found that was without a pastor. and Subscriptions: a relucting) a staggering, (or worse, with therein, (it being done with the more abounded, and been Upon the 18th day of the third month called May, 1640, they divided yet the Grace of God had conscience) so foul manifesting that he had forgiven themselves equally, and became two congregations, the one whereof magnified towards him, in many moe of like nature continued with Mr lessey, the other joyned themselves to Mr Praise ...these sad examples (and and hainous sins and suffice for a Warning to Heads God Barebone, each of the churches renewing their Covenant and that might be produced) may Corporations; and to all Magistrates, choosing distinct officers of their own from among themselves. Governors in Universities and Superiors whatsoever; Husbands, and Parents, all Officers, Masters, or This was the second secession of Baptists from the congregation of burdens, by Oaths, Subscriptions to beware of laying on heavie when they are dis­ Independents, and shows the presence within the group of a growing on any persons; whose consciences Commands, continuall radicalism. It was, however, another five years before J essey adopted relieve or release from Hellish tressed, they are never able to Baptist views and accepted immersion at the hands of Hansard feares and torments. Knollys in June 1645. That the intervening period had not passed Riding of of Aughton, in the East without disturbance In 1633 Jessey took the living is shown from a note among the Could MSS. before being deprived for but held it only for a year Yorkshire, 1641. d moves, Also 6 month 22 at the L owels house and removing a crucifix. Mter various N ye same L Mayor discussing ceremonies of lohn Wright came violently he undertook in the summer S.r on them, beat, thrust, pinched and a proposal to visit New England, kicked and such men or women as fled not his handling, among others of Separatists assembled at South­ the charge of a congregation Mrs Berry who 1637 Jacob miscarryed and dyed the same week and her Child. originally formed by Henry He This congregation had been COml-. tte d to the Counter wark. in 1616 H. lessey Mr Nowel " Mr Ghosten and years' exile in Holland, returned tha t nI. ht ' who, having suffered a ten ? bound them to answer at ye House of Comons where they appearmg he the poor let it fall. which caused such pain to '" The Oaths and Subscriptions would include the Three evidently to Jessey himself, Apart this young man, and by all taking recorded incident while meeting at Queenhithe on to be declared (after 1616) from ' Articles to which adherence had Fe br ary Supremacy in matters 21 ' � 1638 the whole congregation was removed at the involved admission of the Royal .IS '. degrees. The Articles and the hop' s Ins the Book of Common Prayer, B tlgatlOn; this was repeated in May of the ecclesiastical and temporal, the use of same year. On Articles. unreserved acceptance of the Thirty-Nine 1-2 4 THE EAGLE HENRY JE SSEY 5 21 April 1640 several members of Jessey's congregation were com- . Bibliography has an entry under his name for the year mitted to the Tower. The Baptist relation of a very strange and wonderful thing that Between 1650 and 1660 Jessey was able to devote himself to works 1658: "A true October the twelfth, by many hundreds of of scholarship and charity. In 1652 he was a member of the com­ was heard in the air, " mittee of approval of Biblical translations. He visited congregations people. in the Annus Mirabilis, the following two and preached extensively in the north and east in 1650 and 1653 Of the marvels recorded respectively; and in 1655 answered a call from " the saints in Bristol" are sufficiently representative: to visit a number of churches in the west. In 1657 he occupied himself Colledge in Oxford By a letter from a very good hand from Magdalen with the collection of £300 for the relief of distressed Jews in a spectrum appeared it is certified that about 10 Novem. last, 1660, Jerusalem which he forwarded thence "with good wishes for their relation to one Alien of that Colledge, which according to his own conversion ". Palmer writes of his charity : was as followeth, he heard in the night when he was in bed, a noise out of his Mr J essey chose a single life, that he might be the more entirely like the noise of Geese, he arose from his bed and looked but going to devoted to his sacred work, and the better enabled to do good. Besides window which opened over the bridge, but saw nothing, the floor, in his own alms he was a constant solicitor and agent for the poor with his bed again he saw a man as it were grovelling upon At first others whom he lmew were able to supply their wants. Above his Pontificalibus, attired like a Bishop in his Lawn sleeves. called to it and adjured it to speak, 30 families had all their subsistence from him. Nor did he limit his he was not much affrighted, but charity to those of his own congregation and opinion; he did good the Bishop immediately rose up and approached towards his bed, at . to all. And where he thought it no charity to give, he would lend, which the young man was exceedingly terrified,and crying out murder, without interest or security. murder, it vanished, he since says that he saw and heard something which he will discover to none; upon the report of this strange appari­ At the Restoration his fortunes turned, and his name is duly tion in the Colledge, the next night five or six SchoIlars watched in recorded by Calamy among the ej ected ministers. entry in the that chamber, and about midnight, on a suddain the candles went out An and immediately State Papers (Domestic) records that Jessey : upon it was heard a great noise as of Children cryin out, which so affrighted them, that they all run out of the chamber'� Has long been in the habit of collecting notes of remarkable events; this is a Thing generally known and talk't of by the Students in tha� gave one sheet of them in Nov. 1660 to Mr Stanbridge and another house, though as it is reported the subpresident did his uttermost to was taken on Dec. 1660 when his house was searched, and he taken suppress the rumour of it, and by his menaces, hath so awed the by order of the Duke28 of Albemarle; his last sheet containing a note S�holar, that except it be to some special confidents he dares not own of the strange death of Major Orde in the Bishopric of Durham, which dus to any. was in the Annus Mirabilis:* particulars of wonderful things men­ tioned in his notes. Knows Lt. Col. Danvers, and has seen Francis A second marvel- Smith, and talked to them about prodigies that had happened. Also Master visits Mr Cockain and has written out prodigies for him and heard Bartholomew, the late Minister of Camden in Gloucester­ shire who was them from him. Heard that a book of prodigies was to be printed, sometime a zealous stickler for Presbyterian Reforma­ tion, and and since it came forth a copy has been given him; will not say by did exceedingly oppose and preach against the Common­ Prayer-Book, was whom. yet prevailed with to read some part of it, as it is feared, much against his Light and Principles; But the very first Lords day that he " The Annus Mirabilis is worth a note whether it actually contains any­ read it, he was struck with sickness and died before the thing by Jessey or is by quite another hand. The edition of 1661 is a quarto next morning. pamphlet of 88 pages. The full title-which explains why Anthony Wood described it as an "imposture of a most damnable design"-runs as follows: Cambridge does not seem to have suffered, having, at "Mirabilis Annus, or The year of Prodigies and Wonders, being a faithful perhaps that time and impartial Collection of several Signs that have been seen in the heavens, , a better tradition. in the Earth, and in the Waters; together with many remarkable Accidents The English-Greek h Lexicon, in the preparation of which J essey and Judgments befalling divers Persons, according as they have been testified ad a part, is a small volume divided into seven sections of significant by very credible hands; all which have happened within the one year last �ords, names, dialects and so on. The section of All Proper past, and are now made publick for a seasonable warning to the People of attrib Names � uted to Jessey three Kingdoms speedily to repent and turn to the Lord whose hand is eb on the title-page of this book, and gives their rew as well lined up amongst us." as their Greek and English forms. The few pages 6 THE EAGLE 7 of Directions for the Unexpert Reader contain this interesting information: MA TER DOLOROSA To this knowledge of Greek (of late years) a competent measure silken ladders of the stars have many atteined, even Apprentices, Tradesmen,in yea and divers E HLure me to a bright forgetting. Gentlewomen, which now they would not want, no, not for all the I touch the night's obscurest peak world. Mat. 16. 25, 26. Mat. 13· 44, 45· AndT mock the moon's deceitful setting. Henry Jessey died on 4 September 1663, four or five thousand Blind eyelets in the purple curtain people being present at his funeral, many of whom had no doubt Stare on me from behind the night, heard his preaching or witnessed his generosity. State Papers Where tremulous, unseen and distant, (Domestic) tell us that Jessey's dying words were "that the Lord Gleams a fringeless screen of light. would destroy the powers in being, and he encouraged the people to help the great work". The Dictionary of National Biography gives But wicked witchery of moonbeams more details of his life than are here recorded, and also a list of his Knows no guile to cheat my sorrow. works. A glance through one or two of these latter, brief as they are, I scale the silken starry steps is sufficientto persuade the reader of Jessey's piety and sincerity, and And tumble bruised upon tomorrow. to make him feel that he was a memorable scholar of this College who J. R. B. preserved himself from bitterness or rancour at a time of exceptional December 1946 religious disturbance ; and one, also, who by his whole personality did much to diminish differences of sect and creed. A. H. D.

PSALM

wash the hills in moonlight WOULD And garland the stars with tulips ; Make a city of the starry solitude, ThatI the sun might bear fruit, And the night be petalled with roses.

Let the desert blossom into music, And lonely Mars be glad with songs of children. Let the rainbow be tuned as a harp, And bird-song sound in caverns of the sea. Let no word cloud the sky of mystery, But music and mystic silence ripple on the shores of space.

I dreamed a dream, and called it peace. Walking above the stars in gentle grace of sleep ; Caressed by the tender music of the world, Sealed in silence by the kiss of holy love. J. R. B. Michaelmns 1947 8 THE EAGLE 9

THE PROFESSOR NASHE'S VERSES FROM the night were my blackboard ECCLESIASTICUS FThe chalky stars would preach a wiser sermon, accounts of Thomas Nashe, his own Quoting apt planets, making muddled clouds precise. some bI' bliographical ' "seven ye re together ac kmg' a quarter" DiagramI of truth, not sketchy beauty, Nsta tement that he spent I . . knowledge" in all Cambn ge, IS glven, With moon as shapely footnote, at the "sweetest nurse of � . approached M.A. status even If he did not Timely, terse, and topical. aIs eVI'd enc e 0 f his having references to 8t J 0 hn' s C 0 11 ege, procee d to that degree. His other . . . But I am pupil, and the magisterial world, substantial elp m deterr llnmg t h e however, do not give us much . ? . : . r m de�uclfig hiS relatlOn­ Master of all arts and doctor of all laws, kind of life he lived while at Cambndge, ? at his own and other Cheats and delights ; ships with his immediate contemporanes A formal garden and a wilderness. colleges. e and Kennel, college, kitchen, cave, cathedral. We can only surmise, for instance, tha: h� knew �arlo� personally while still in statu pupzll�rz: tl:ere �s nothmg to I go back to nature, or turn my back to nature ; Greene show conclusively that his literary collaboratlOn With either of them Nature imitating art, dog and don by turns. partner in the production of began at the University. Who his . I have taught the universe too much ; Terminus et non terminus· can have been, remams a mystery. But Enjoined on the starry heavens the moral law within. the conviction that the other person (if not Nashe himself as well) Now degraduate to ignorance from folly, was expelled as a result of the play's appearance has worried literary In statu pupillari to tutorial time, historians ever since the seventeenth century. J. Bass Mullinger I sit at the feet of chaos, hear evidently had in mind the image of the "roystrous" Tom Nashe The universe proclaim its university. R. when he wrote that Nashe "recalcitrated at the discipline, but he J. B. reverenced the learning" at his college. t There is nothing at all in August 1948 Nashe's utterances about 8t John's to support the former part of that assertion. It is true enough that the Trimming of Thomas Nashe gives him out as having led a disreputable college career : but the testimony of that tract, which was probably written at the direct LITTLE POEM instigation of Gabrie1 Harvey toward the end of his controversy with N�she, is about as valuable as the latter's tilt at Harvey in Have in the leafy hours !i'zth You to Saffron Walden: " ...when he was but yet a fresh-man But when the blossom m LEEP CAMBRIDGE, he set up SIQUISSES sent his accounts to his & Tinkles at the wind's touch father in those joulting Heroicks . . . S Listen. Nas . "t he's allusions to his College are unfortunately . . . . . lacking in those divertmg partlcu antles wh' Ich make Work in the hungry days . . 1 his extended observations on life m general so fascinating. But when the orchard When he speaks of 8t John's he merely expresses the kind of enthusiasm Answers to the corn's cry one would expect from a former student. His allusions Listen. to the "thricefruitfull 8t Johns" in his Four Letters Confuted (1592), for example, and to "that most famous and Love in the lazy years See the article on "The College Plays" in Eagle, vol. no. (A+ug ust The LIIl, 235 But when fulfilment 1949), p. 167. Orchestrates the sunset tt JW' orks ' of Nashe, ed Listen. "a ' . . . .R B McKerrow, vol Ill, p · "SI qws"- bill en qUl . . 7 . . B. M J. R. B. rmg for anything ullinger, History June 1949 lost: a public announcement or proclamation. " of St John's College p. 97. 10 THE EAGLE FROM ECCLESIASTI CUS II E VERSES N A SB '5 fortunate Nurse of all learning" in his preface to Greene's Menaphon .' kind of danger, g them , and are beset by no (1589) are the retrospective comments of an old alumnus using une oppressm misfort is a terrible thing: to those brought up ons1 ht f death aug 0 worn-down expressions of approbation rather than freshly created the bitter by the rigours of external 1 1 surround 1'ngs and unruffled epithets. In the Menaphon preface, it is true, we have a mention of rtab e . ' in COllUO seems a thmg to gneve over : _> 0 f final dissolution e prospect . . the College as a university within itself which is of some historical nature, th of peace, t h e d bra easy referment at hand m tIme interest ; the College is described as "shining so far above all other to t hos e who find . P ghastly terror ; and to those favoured of deat h IS an 1'mage of houses, Halles, and hospitals whatsoever": and Nashc's claim that h� n d ark mortal Ity' luxuries and the riches of Croesus, s � undergraduates could be found busy at work by four o'clock in the WIth Arabian . poets could tortures." Any one of a dozen Latm morning serves to remind us that in the sixteenth century it was threatens atrocIOUS . this performance : thoug h'It IS have serve d as N aShe's model for nothing unusual for lectures to commence at six or seven a.m. . 11us or P ro- have been OVld than, say, Tl'b u Nashe does not tell us what we would most like to know about his muc h more likely to . . of a hundred quotatIOns f�om 0 VI. d m career at Cambridge, however. It would be enlightening to have his ertius (there are upwards . As a literary accomplIshment t e hnes compare opinion of the curriculum at that time, and to learn his attitude ashe's later work). � . . � wrote m hi elg�teenth unfavourably with the elegies which Milto� � . towards the various intellectual disputes which sprang into existence the Carmma Elegzaca year '. and it is interesting to set them beSIde now and again. As things stand, we are hard put to it to see quite and found in the same poet's Commonplace Bookt what Nashe means when in Have Wi th You he boldly affirms that hi it can be date from the time when he was still at St Paul's if he had wished he could have become a Fellow of his College. :hi�h probably School. There is, however, one item of information concerning Nashe's McKerrow observes that in the folio of the State Papers where residence at St John's as a Lady Margaret Scholar which enables us Nashe's poem is to be found there are ten other sets of verses also to dispense temporarily with uncertainty and conjecture. In his by St John's College men. All but three of these writers indicate­ edition of Nashe's works, R. B. McKerrow printed a reduced fac­ as Nashe did-the county of their origin: for instance, there is a simile of a sheet of Latin verses by Nashe which is preserved among Gulielmus Baillie, Salopiensis, and Robertus Mills, Lincolniensis, the State Papers in the Public Record Office. "' Nashe's authorship etc. McKerrow has gone to some pains to identify these contem­ of these verses is proved by the appended signature, "Thomas poraries of Nashe : and he has gathered a number of particulars from Nashe, discipulus Divi Johannis. pro illustrissima domina Margareta two manuscript lists of Cambridge scholars in the years 1581 and Fundatrice, An. Dom. 1585 Suffolciensis".t The manuscript con­ 1588 which form part of the Lansdowne manuscript collections in tains eight lines of elegiac verse (hexameters followed by pentameters the British Museum. These documents are of great value because in couplet formation) on a text from the forty-first chapter of they give the names of the tutors under whom some of the discipuli Ecclesiasticus: "0 death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to were studying at that time-though, as McKerrow points out, they a man that liveth at rest in his possessions .. .." The eight lines for would be even more valuable if they related to the years between which Nashe is responsible are as follows: those two dates. We learn, however, that Joannes Archer, the first Quos mala nulla premunt, quos nulla pericula cingunt, name to appear in the Record Office folio, was in 1581 taking hos rapide cruciat mortis acerba dies; Dialectics under Mr Johns: in 1588 William Mottershed and William Orwell were both Quos nutrit alma quies, quos jactat nulla procella, . studying philosophy with a Mr Rowly. dura videtur iis mors miseranda viris. Nashe, It appears, was also registered as coming under Mr Rowly's supe Quos jucunda quies, quos omant foedera pacis, rvision-though whether he was in residence for the whole of hos mors nigra movet, tristis hora premit: 1588 is by no means ascertained. & This Mr Rowly's identity is also Quos Arabi fortuna favet, quos copia Croesi, something of a mystery. J. and . J. A. Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses hos mors pallenti perculit atra metu. makes no . . mentIon 0 f a selllor member of St John's under that name unng That, obviously, is not a very distinguished composition. A very � the years concerned. A Ralph Rowley was made a Fellow of embrok free prose translation of it might run: "To those who have no e in 1584, taking his M.A. degree in 1586. It may not be

, .. See E M . .. See a reference in the State Papers (Domestic), Addenda, vo!. 1580-1625 . 1 yard ,Mdton, Ed. . W 1"11 166. Horwood, The Commonplacep. 19· Book of John Mdton (Camden SOCit ety A . p. t McKerrow, Nashe, vo!. u b' IIcatJ. lO P ns, 1876), 62 . Ill, p. 299. p. 13 FROM ECCLESIASTICUS 12 THE EAGLE E VERSES N A SB 's . ; whose stipends were impossible that the "Mr Rowly " referred to as Nashe's tutor was lated that the Scholars e donor st IpU equest t h urteen days before the payment in reality Laurence Ryly, also of Pembroke College, who was elected b must each year fo gm ented Id b e to be au necessary sum of money wou to a Fellowship at St John's in 1563 and proceeded M.A. two years fram whi ch the . he rents sentences 0 f sCripture later. Of the other Lady Margaret scholars of t . verses some of these mentioned in connexion . "put Into I a t eyn enved is from the book of with the Latin verses, the John Archer listed in the Venns' work was d . ' eight texts set, one ge .. "O' f the follo�n . Corinthians, one from the second mo , of B.A. status in 1585 and was ordained priest in December of the rom the first book of Y list. r mtah one f . . " . . ", etc.) is the sixth on the Je e of Ecc estastzcus. Th e text N :wrote I 0 Mors. same year. William Mottershed, a Northamptonshire man (and the t th nd three from the book I h ( book of r' only graduate of that name to appear in the Alumni Cantabrigienses) h as . from whi c . reqUIre t h at . ' the Indenture goes on to became a Fellow in 1589 (M.A. 1590): but nothing further is known glVlng these quotations . After scollers s h a severaII y of William Orwell, except that his signature shows him to have come said foure and twentie 11 . "so as every 0 f the or more exameter or Iamblke verses from Norfolk As a matter of interest, it is curious to note the number in latyne and write fo ur . makine the day of the before his proper name, and of graduates about this time who proceeded to fellowships subscribing the same with shall be yerely pre- our lord which said verses taking their Master's degree. maneth and yere of . during Ius l'fI e at h'e time 0 f pay- More conclusive than the speculative matter advanced here, how­ sented to the said Lord Burghley � ...". (We may otlce, by th: way, ever, are the data which we have concerning the occasion for which ment of the said yerely rentes � these demands In every particular, Nashe and his colleagues produced their Latin compositions. The that Nashe did not comply with month for " An. Dom. 1585 ".) University Register records that Nashe matriculated as a Sizar of for he omitted to give the day of the twenty-four Scholar were to St John's on 13 October 1582: he would then be nearly fifteen years After Burghley's death sixteen of the � successo In ffic : of age and would expect to complete his " undergraduate " course­ send their original compositions to Burghley's � � : them to whoever remaIned In hiS the quadrivium-four years later. The Admission Book of the College the remaining eight were to submit shows that he was elected to a Lady Margaret scholarship in home at Theobald's. 's college exercises can help us to understand November 1584. He would therefore hold the title of Scholar at In some cases a writer after he has lef t the University. It is least until he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1586. his subsequent development useless to pretend, however, that these eight lines by the eighteen­ The 1580's were, of course, momentous years in the history of year-old Nashe have any importance in that respect ; unless, perhaps, St John's. '" In 1580 itself the College Statutes were revised, and we see some remote significance in his choosing to translate an new enactments were "framed by a Commission of five including extract from the Apocrypha in preference to one from the other books William Cecil Lord Burghley, at that time Chancellor of the University of the Bible. In his preface to Greene's Menaphon he refers dis­ and a constant patron of the College of which he was a member .. . ". t approvingly to the practice of excluding the Apocrypha from printed During the next year, 1581, Burghley (then Lord High Treasurer Bibles: and in Christs Teares over Jerusalem (1594) there is a possible under Queen Elizabeth) made a grant of thirty pounds per annum thrust at the Puritan objection to the Apocrypha's being placed which increased the stipend of the twenty-four Foundress' Scholars o gside the other canonical books in churches, as it was by Whit­ fr om sevenpence to twelvepence a week. Burghley also gave com­ � � gift order of 1588. Nashe certainly admired, and used where munion plate to the College. But the grant was also intended to � P?sslble, the "wisdom books " of the ancient writers: and Eccle­ provide for what have since been called the Burghley Sermons, stas ticus, the "Wisdom of Jesus the son of Siriach " is an interesting which were to be preached at the churches of Stamford, near ex ample of that class of literature. To the student of Nashe's work Burghley Park in Northamptonshire, and of Cheshunt, not far fr om and of sixteenth-century prose literature in general however these Theobald's, the Hertfordshire home of the Cecils. Ecclesiast icus verses have a certain minor bibliograp lcal inte est. The tripartite indenture setting out the disposition of the grant M K h ; c errow's five-volume edition of Nashe is generally acknow­ was transcribed in vol. of The Eagle (December 1898) and is also edged xx I. to be one of the finest pieces of scholarly research achieved to be found in R. F. Scott's privately printed Notes from the Records lfi rec ent times. IS notes to these verses, llldeed,. are a good example of St John's College, 1889-1899 (1st ser., p. 22). In making the f t 11- ' � hO �ough and releva that a mark after . nt annotation. He observes cruclat VISI .. See Mullinger, St John's College, " 'ble on the Record Office manuscript is evidently a t Henry Fraser Howard, The Financesp. 70. of St John's College, 1511-19016, Co mma . ' that" rapl'd e " should have a cedilla accent under the final e P·34· 14 THE EAGLE IS

so as to read " rapidae ": and that " as all the other verbs are in the percutit" Y present tense one is tempted to read instead of "perculit " WRITING AN ESSA -though the manuscript certainly has an l at the end of this word, ON not a t.* Nothing, it seems, was too insignificant for McKerrow moment ; I might an essay until the last possible R write of Wode­ to extract some bibliographical significance from: though very little be devoted to the study e w h'I ch could better . waste tim IS a matter 0f of the material gathered together in the edition of Nashe is found to NEVE . of a game of golf .I t I use , or t 0 the pleasures be supererogatory. But, strange as it may seem, McKerrow makes ho le. ' no mention at all of the Burghley bequest and the conditions which Princip I I a.m. on Mdon ay , particular essay was . the deadline for this it lays down relating to the Scholars' verses. There is no reference Now verge o a oc tatl found me poised on the � � � and Saturday evening , in his Index to "Cecil" : and his sole note on Burghley refers to the then someone said Bndge I had to go: so I went: and ; but place in Have With You where Nashe ridicules Harvey for having intend to work on the essay : t?" Well, of course, I did . sought a testimonial from Burghley when supplicating for the post f: h Bndge. I never refuse a game of . on principle . of Public Orator in 1579. In the course of his notes McKerrow leisurely breakfa t (I make a pomt On Sunday morning, after a � informs us that "the persons mentioned below [i.e. Nashe's fellow­ that somethmg must be done. of rising late on Sunday) it seemed . scholars on the occasion when the Ecclesiasticus lines were presented] ". A Greek, I was convmced, The subject was simply "Isocrates are, of course, all members of St John's College ". do, and when ? So, round to a and not a Roman : but what did he Having got that far, it seems curious that the devoted scholar who books. "Coffee ?" he said. fellow-sufferer, to borrow some relevant had travelled to Lowestoft especially to look at the parish registers I never refuse a cup of coffee. for a record of Nashe's birth and had combed the St John's College with weighty Half-an-hour later I retired to my rooms, laden archives for the least traces of Nashiana, should not have elaborated tomes. Isocrates, it seemed, was an orator and --: but lunch-time further. It would, of course, be an impertinence to claim that this must never be hurried: and an intervened. Now Sunday lunch note contributes anything material to our estimate of Nashe. Never­ excellent meal it was, rounded off by coffee and a cigarette (not to theless the facts as set out above may serve to throw some light on mention The Observer and Terence Reese). Shortly before three the days when Nashe was still dependent on the bounty of that started my notes, and it soon became clear that a regrettably vast I "pittying Mother", St John's College, according to him the distinctly amount of Isocrates' work had survived him. I hurriedly scanned superior foundation at Cambridge: and painstakingly-if not alto­ selections of it, in the Loeb translation of course. gether felicitously-fulfilling the conditions of the award which Tea-time came, and some Rugger men : what an endless and com­ made him a Lady Margaret Scholar. pelling subject Rugger is. At half-past-six we were still discussing E. D. M. our prospects for Twickenham. Just time for a quick half-pint

* The notes to McKerrow's Nashe are included in the fourth volume. before Hall. �ter Hall, coffee ; "I will write my essay ", I thought, "later this evemng ". But after co�ee, a glass of port ; and after . one glass, another. A . glonous feehng of sleepy contentment crept stealthily over my h . . mbs . How mevI' 't a bl y ngh t h t ese anCient customs . are. Coffee port , and co ' mpamonsh 'I P : what more could any man want ? y � sense of virtuous satisfaction, as I lay in bed that night was .1 per aps rather remarkable in one whose sheaf of foolscap lay �irgin on t he desk. t eigh � . t in the morning I woke with a start It is one of my ,I p . . I nnclpal pr'm Clp. es ' never to nse before mne : so I' had . I an hour for con t emplatlOn .. Shou Id I postpone the supervisIon ; or 'forget ' it ? But the D . . on m: questlO n IS a b usy man, I and mighty in his wrath . put o ff conte mplation, and put 011 my clothes. 16 THE EAGLE 17

A hasty shave and a hurried breakfast (not more than an POETS in all). Nine-thirty found me, pen in hand, awaiting the spark from CTED JOHNIAN ME NEGLE heaven. So did ten. S O WYLDE Then I started work. The most difficult parts of an essay are ROBERT to some extent, even if beginning and the end: so I started in the middle. The recipe was praise their famous men es will always simple ; take notes from various authors; stir well, to conceal their Colleg some, like Robert Wylde (16°9-79), extra glass of port ; but . only in an their ballads upon every­ source. Pad out the notes to essay length and pepper with rtant during their lifetime, hear ome impo ms. (et al.): bec forgotten by all but a few bookwor from Loeb salt with wit to taste. s lips, and then are body' says, one could see them In forty minutes the middle was finished, and I constructed an was such that, as Dryden \Vylde's poetry their 'Change so vehemently that they lost opening paragraph, foretelling what I had already said. Some "reading it in the midst of ballad, set in its day to the by the candle ends", but only this ning manipulation was needed to fit this prophecy into the bargains us un dimmed Fanny" (whatever that was), reaches of lines left blank: but by stretching the first words and compressm�: tune of" Halloo my the last, my efforts were crowned with success. A paraphrase of by time. beginning served for an end ; and a pithy bit of plagiarism ALAS, POOR SCHOLAR off the whole. In a melancholy study, I arrived at the Supervision, apologetic and breathless, only None but myself, minutes late. Trying hard to sound confident I read the essay Me thought my Muse grew muddy ; The unfortunate transposition of two of the pages made no perceptible After seven years reading, difference. At the end I waited, trembling, while the Great Man And costly breeding, cleared his throat- I fe lt but could find no pelf: "You write well," he said, " better than some. Ofcourse the subject­ Into learned rags matter is hardly original; but you do have a beginning and an I've rent my plush and satin, to your essay, as well as a middle. You should try doing a bit And now am fit to beg serious writing." In Hebrew, Greek and Latin ; So that's why I've written this. Instead of Aristotle, Would I had got a patten. Alas, poor scholar, whither wilt thou go.

Cambridge now I must leave thee, And follow fate, College hopes do deceive me. I oft expected To have been elected, But desert is reprobate. Masters of colleges Have no common graces, And they that have fe llowships Have but common places, And those that are scholars They must have handsome faces : Alas, poor scholar, whither wilt thou go.

I have bowed, I have bended, And all in hope One day to be befriended. ELIV 2 HNIAN P OETS 19 18 THE EAGLE EGLECTED JO S OME N tin, I have preached, I have printed I quoted Aus and Cleaver; Whate'er I hinted, He quoted Dodd To please our English Pope : I nothing got, beaver: I worshipped towards the East He got a cloak and wilt thou go. But the Sun doth now forsake me ; Alas, poor scholar, whither I find that I am falling, discover Ships, ships, ships, I The Northern winds do shake me : Crossing the main ; Would I had been upright, Shall I in and go over, For bowing now will break me. Turn Jew or Atheist, At great preferment I aimed­ Turk or Papist, or Amsterdam ? Witness my silk; To Geneva are void But now my hopes are maimed : Bishoprics nd; shall I thither? I looked lately In Scotla Windebank To live most stately, Or fo llow Finch, to see if either And have a dairy of Bell-ropes' milk; And want a priest to shrive them ? But now alas, Do O no, 'tis blustering weather. Myself I must not flatter, Alas, poor scholar, whither wilt thou go. Bigamy of steeples Is a laughing matter; Ho, ho, ho, I have hit it,- Each man must have but one, Peace, good man fo ol; And curates will grow fatter. Thou hast a trade wilt fit it; Alas, poor scholar, whither wilt thou go. Draw thy indenture, Be bound at adventure Into some country village An apprentice to a free-school; Now I must go, Where thou mayest command Where neither tithe nor tillage By William Lyly's charters; The greedy patron There thou mayst whip, strip, And parched matron And hang and draw and quarter Swear to the Church they owe : And commit to the red rod Yet if I can preach, Both Will and Tom and Arthur. And pray too on a sudden, Ay, ay, 'tis thither, thither I will go. And confute the Pope At adventure--without studying, Then ten pounds a year, HENRY KIRKE WHITE Besides a Sunday pudding. Henry Kirke White (1785-1806) is another of our less famous men. Durin g the .nineteenth century over thirty editions of his few poems All the arts I have skill in, were issu ed; the last was in 1908. Now his popularity has gone, and Divine and Humane, few peop le read them. We are particularly rich in those poets who, Yet all's not worth a shilling; promising great things, died young and left us fruitlessly wondering what they When the women hear me, might have become. Philanthropy brought him, a butcher's son , to this They do but jeer me, College, and overwork undermined a naturally weak con­ stitution. He And say I am profane : had more reason than most romantic poets for being melancholy. Once, I remember,

I preached with a weaver, 2-2 20 THE EAGLE JOHNIAN POETS 21 NEGLECTED S OME (i) PUS Sweet to the gay of heart is summer's smile, THE OCTO Sweet the wild music of the laughing spring ; limbed and ight handed, Strange beauty, eight � But ah, my soul far other scenes beguile, dazzle our eyes . Whence cam estto Where gloomy storms their sullen shadows fling. and banded With thy bosom bespangled Is it for me to strike the Idalian string, seas and the skies ; With the hues of the Raise the soft music of the warbling wire, or Asian, Is thy home European While in my ears the howls of furies ring, ? mystical monster marine And melancholy wastes the vital fire ? o crustacean, Part molluscous and partly Away with thoughts like these-To some lone cave Betwixt and between. Where howls the shrill blast, and where sweeps the wave, of sea trumpets ? Direct my steps ; there, in the lonely drear, Wast thou born to the sound excess I'll sit remote from worldly noise, and muse, Hast thou eaten and drunk to crumpets, Till through my soul shall peace her balm infuse, Of the sponges-thy muffins and and cress ? And whisper sounds of comfort in my ear. Of the seaweed-thy mustard coral Wast thou nurtured in caverns of (ii) Remote from reproof or restraint ? art thou immoral, Yes, 'twill be over soon. This sickly dream Art thou innocent, or Saint ? Of life will vanish from my feverish brain ; Sinbumian And death my wearied spirit will redeem Lithe limbs, curling free, as a creeper From this wild region of unvaried pain. That creeps in a desolate place, Yon brook will glide as softly as before, To enroll and envelope the sleeper Yon landscape smile, yon harvest grow, In a silent and stealthy embrace, Yon sprightly lark on mountain wing will soar Cruel beak craning forward to bite us, When my name is heard no more below. Our juices to drain and to drink, I sigh when all my youthful friends caress ; Or to whelm us in waves of cocytus, They laugh in health, and future evils brave ; Indelible ink. Them shall a wife and smiling children bless breast, that 'twere rapture to writhe on. o While I am mouldering in the silent grave. arms 'twere delicious to feel o God of the just, thou gav'est the bitter cup ; Clinging close with the crush of the python, I bow to thy behest, and drink it up. When she maketh her murderous meal. In thy eight-fold embraces enfolden ' ARTHUR CLEMENT HILT ON Let our empty existence escape, Give us death that is glorious and golden, "Is it advisable to know the Master?" a Freshman asked Hilton. Crushed all out of shape. "Yes," he said, "for you see the Master has considerable influence Ab, thy red lips, lascivious and luscious with the Head Porter." Such gloriously practical philosophy was ' natural to Arthur Clement Hilton (1851-77) who died a parish priest With death in their amorous kiss at the age of twenty-six. While he was at St John's an ephemeral but CI!ng ro �nd us, and clasp us, and crush us, important University magazine, The Light Green, sprang up under his With bltlngs of agonised bliss ' care. It was a collection of his parodies : all are worth looking at, but w.e are sick with the poison of pleasure, "The Octopus", hitting off his Algernon Charles Sin-Bum so com­ Dispense us the potion of pain ; pletely, remains the best. Ironically enough his works, unlike Wylde's Ope thy mouth to its uttermost measure and Henry Kirke White 's, have only run to one edition (1904). And bite us again. 22 THE EAGLE

IN A STRANGE LAND

[G. A. Horridge, P. M. Lloyd and P. L. F. Smith of St John's, together with J. Pierson of Peterhouse, spent nine weeks during the Long Vacation, 1949, bird-watching on the island of Gomera, Canary Islands.]

reached the top of the Alto Garajonay as the sun Eto merge into the lower stratum of clouds which, scarcely perceptibly, separated the brightening night sky from the motionlessW stretch of dim Atlantic. Standing on the cairn of stones which marked the peak of Gomera it was easy enough, in this regularising serenity of a magnificent summer night, to let the impressionable mind wander from the simple facts of our mountain camp into meanderings of fantasy. The rugged cuts and edges of the island we knew so well lay in silhouette below us-the Roque de Agando, the mountain Fortaleza at Chipude, the heart- and back­ breaking barrancos which led down from our Cedro camp to the livid banana levels and black, volcanic seashore : all the familiar cliffs and goat paths, the woods of twisted Giant Heather and Laurel which sheltered the beautiful paloma "Rabiche ", the rough villages with their gofio mills and protection of terraced, maize-producing hills-all, from this undiscriminating height, lay under the en­ I croaching, levelling twilight, regardless of sweat and flies and feuds. Had this meaningless, volcanic bubble, part of the lost con­ tinent of Atlantis it was said, fulfilled itsdestiny at last by the summer IIIII11 visit of four Englishmen who came to watch its birds and to see subside into oblivion one night as the sun went down into the Atlantic? Would we see it crumble down into the sea again when we left the island for ever in a few days' time, when we slid out the cloudland-far below us now-in our little boat, heading for Tenerife, for the Peninsula, for England? Gomera, indeed, seemed to be our very own island : for months we had conferred together in college rooms, been interviewed by unhelpful shipping lines, made lists of the kit we should mess-tins to Paradise Lost and the Handbook of British Birds ; had applied for grants and gifts to make the expedition pOisible; THE ISLAND OF COMERA we had borrowed notes, specimens and a walking-stick gun from Bannerman of the British Museum, had made plans and counter­ plans, filled our Commando rucksacks, pondering over each redun­ dant ounce ; and at last on an early July morning, dressed like snails, we left Victoria on the first stage of our journey. By the seventh July we had crossed the Franco-Spanish frontier at IN A STRANGE LAND 23 and were rattling furiously through the flat plains and deep gorges of the Pyrenean foothills towards Madrid and the south : It is breath-taking countryside-vast, panoramic glimpses of hard, orange-earthed mountains, grotesque cliffs, crucifixes built on to top­ most peaks, remote villas, farms and homesteads. Philip spent most of last night in the corridor talking with a private in the Spanish army-a psychiatrist who earns t peseta a day . . ..Sleep is difficult in train: our wooden seats in the corridored, windowless " compart­ mthisent " are very small, and we are surrounded by overwhelmingly friendly people and animals-a priest from Sevilla, an enormous woman with a suckling child, like a great fertility symbol ; peasants and beggars, crates of hens and pigeons, three senoritas who say they are servant maids in Madrid, and are very embarrassed by our shorts and long, pale legs . ...During the night secret police patrol the cor­ ridors. One flashesthe badge under his lapel, asks to see our papers ....

But at last, after the fierceness of Madrid, Sevilla and the sublime richness of her cathedral. Then three long days in the squalid Pension Maria in Cadiz, where the raucous voice of Maria herself was uplifted day and night in an unceasing, unforgettable tirade of abuse against her household, her voice mingling with the barking of the mongrels which infested the house, indiscriminately fond both of door-lintels and bed legs. Mter those days, spent suppliant-like at the grilles of booking-offices, we embarked on the Sil, travelling "Cubierta" on the aft hatch-covers with Franco's soldiers, a German ex-officer, students, women, and a baby subject to fitsand frequent sea-sickness.

The " tag-tag " of the canvas awning woke me at about 3 a.m. Orion was plunging and soaring, the moon sailing fast across the sky. Someone lurched up through the piles of kit and bodies. Phil turned over, murmured sleepily "Was I all right?" ' Stage by stage we had left the white European cities on the big islands-Las Palmas in Grand Canary, Santa Cruz in Tenerife-and the little inter-island steamer, Lean Castillo,brought us one morning y to the rocky steps of the landing-stage at San Sebastian, village-port of Gomera. We watched our great rucksacks being hauled ashore for the last time. "Los cuatro ingleses ", as we came to be called by the whole island, had arrived. What were the best parts of the weeks that followed ? I ask myself. They had been weeks of extreme simplicity spent very close to the We would rise very early, before the sun smote through the earth. spray of the heather canopy above our tents, and before feathery pricking flies began their pricking bombardment. We lived the through days of determined climbing, of soft footfalls when birds a pproached, of ice-cold bathes in the mountain stream, of big meals, 24 THE EAGLE 25 IN A STRANGE LAND cooked lago to become by the one who stayed on guard while the others set out with o island of the Canary Archipe this rem test . staves, cameras, note-books and bird-glasses. And at night we would e d Out to a fishcanner. Now, converted sal e family of Don Mano, . talk until the moths and crane flies gathered round '1 ess to th . of the natives, she the fire and the govern more of a Spamard than some cistn and of the candles ; bullfrogs and crickets, and the for-ever soothing stream, Ca th oli the " Academia" for six months ch and English at by breaking it, added to the silence of the rough night around us. Fren donkey to go into retreat the mountain path on a and climbed of sea-level when the glare and gossip Went with Paul to-day [wrote Adrian in his diary] up the valley, Cedro bungalow in er In Santiago, in the south of and looked out over those magnificent, h too much for her. wooded hillsides stretching Hermigua became in charge of away Bowyer, an Englishman dark green in the great cancer-shaped sides of the hills. The island, we had met Stanley the had taken us up a long winding skyline too is quite exciting, not very jagged but steep in places and plantation. One night he a tomato fifteen years ago­ varied. The great bulk of Tenerife, thirty miles away, was shrouded on Gomera, built by himself road-the only one new grape in mist but looked quite near despite this. It must be a superb sight we drank glass after glass of to his " medienero's" where on really clear days. with brandy or pepper or white not adulterated, it is so often, wine, as a Forest Guard, had been Miguel the Falangist, And after our first day's bird-watching I had written of egg. Then there : acted as guide (starting out in the Alphonso the woodman who often was still up), and Rosa and John and I had a particularly successful morning out. The first early morning with us, when the moon and gofio. encounter was a robin in full song at the top of a bare giant heather ; Francesco who sold us milk and eggs principal H.Q. by then enormous confusion over a small warbler, several of which were of all we had loved our Cedro camp, our pairs for flitting about in the firs. It isn't a goldcrest. We saw many chaf. in �e woods, from which we would go out in finches-magnificent specimens which gave us a good display. They at a tlme to cover all other parts and levels of the island. are very blue, but are not the Canarian Blue Chaffinch. The prize sight of the morning was a Blackcap seen at very close range, on a bush in problems and questions seem to have been left behin� in a particularly attractive part of the river valley. There was another Europe. The outside world seems most remote, C�bndge warbler---either a Berthelot's Pipit or some sort of linnet ; many ...Nothing much to do till supper time but to Wait for the blackbirds, two pigeons, a red-legged partridge and a kestrel completed and to keep the flies away ....The stream flows on, and sull the morning. we ait as the trees, and wait for death . ...A warning frog may croak tuneless, or a cricket " count-count " with clocklike moments all the How dull such an entry would have seemed to an ornithologist at evening long .. ..Only the halting chiff-chaff sings occasionally in the home, working for six hours in English woods ! But on this volcanic thick canopy of evergreen. Why were we chosen to arrive ? ...Th� chill of evening mist, floating slowly over, obscures the sun. Will they not island, so little of its IIO square miles covered with anything but come soon ? We are hungry and waiting. It is not so odd that the wilderness scrub and monotonous laurel and heather, we had been Spanish people do not distinguish between hoping and waiting. The delighted to findeven these common birds in the penetrating stillness peasant women, strong and broad-waisted, who pad bare-footed past of the grotesque mountain woods, so disappointingly devoid of any Our tents murmur .. Adios !" in reply to our greeting. They hardly bird-song except the characteristic and ever present "chiff-chaff". seem to fit the warmer atmosphere of the lower valley or of the Penin Our detailed counts at all levels-mountain top, mon'teverde, bar­ sula. May they one day have a greater reward than the couple of pesetas for the bundle of weeds ranco, arid plain and seashore-had numbered only twenty-seven . and sacks of gofio they walk fifteen mlles through species in all in a fiveweeks' survey. But our observations on habitat, the night to sell. food, habits and physical characteristics of these cousins of our The fiesta at Chipude had been our only " social" occasion during British birds had made up in quality for the disappointing variety of these week s. In the dusty, shadeless plaza of the little village, which species. And there had been a few exciting moments : the brilliant­ lay at the . foot of the great Fortaleza rock, tiny stalls with wooden feathered, hen-like Hoopoe, and the beautiful white-tailed laurel u nghts � and bracken roofs had been erected, each of them laden pigeon. WIth glasse s of wine, biscotchon cakes, pieces of meat, prickly pears And we had made almost as many friends as there were species of Cucumbers , . . ' . COconut-Ice. e Th Mass of the Sa111t was a crude and birds. "Florencia" was our oldest-the strange, gifted English­ spectacle g;�Sh , but afterwards, in the sun outside, the procession woman with olive skin and disturbingly expressive eyes who, thirty o ur Lady of Chipude formed up. She was lifted on to the shoulder years before, had left her job as dramatic critic on The Times and s 26 THE EAGLE 27 of four stalwart servers, pelted with flowers and carried round Plaza while the villagers shouted and sang, kicking up the dust great clouds under the unmerciful sun. At last the shadows LIGHT to creep up the sides of the Fortaleza rock, and little processions dew ! " quietly satisfied families, with empty baskets on their heads, from the foggy, foggy To save her to set out over the hills and long rocky paths to their own ck.) C#Ck-cli again. villages and hamlets. (But at switched it off th Lighten our dark- It was quite dark on the Alto ridge by now : the dim shapes of and there was light." "Let there be light (click) a party ! other Canary Islands had sunk beneath the thick brilliance of , Lord ! Lord, what ness zigzags, beating the 0 the stairs in exaggerated night sky. But it had been just as quiet that afternoon, save for He went weaving up crock pot. curious and perpetual noise of conversation flies, that would pro banisters with the white party, have driven one mad in time. We could hear each other 14 Oh, what a THUMP-tiful even the sound of pencil on paper was noticeable. Oh, what a THUMP-tiful day, what a THUMP-tiful party, This time next week we shall be crossing back to the Oh, THUMP-ing my way!" Then third-class railways, and the red-hot intensity of Madrid ; Everything's Straight through to the bedroom ; frontier, camping under the Pyrenees once more, Paris, the Channel! landing : first on the right. do I feel ately ; placing each foot with care. Boy, .and the clean green melancholy fiats between Newhaven and Vi deliber

! not there : not How far had we conquered the sinister torpor of lotus-land down at the pot in his hand. Ah-no . fate, me beauty. siesta, the " mai'iana" attitude, the tired, listless atmosphere ? bedroom utensil For you a better Sir, I give you my solemn well had we scrambled up these mountains ? How eager had we point on the Chapel tower. Ere dawn it shall be there. to stay out on the silent rocks at noon for the sake of the bird ex-officer and a gentleman. on the taps and was sick in the wash-basin. might appear ? We had gained beards and blisters-one of us serious abscess-but what else were we going to carry back When he awoke the light from the bare bulb on the ceiling struck in our secret, invulnerable minds ? A little knowledge of down into his painful eyes. Sitting up 011 the bed, he looked at the fulness and tolerance, perhaps ; a greater richness of perspective, clock. Twenty to six. Hell's bells, must get a move on. Still dark its accompanying power of detachment ; a clearer, mellower eye. outside. Head like a turnip ; mouth fu ll of muck. Nous avons plus de force que de volonte, et c'est souvent He stumbled across the room and opened the bottom drawer. nous excuser nous-memes que nous nous imaginons que les Battledress blouse and slacks. Fumble them on. Thick socks and 11 sont impossibles. shoes. Another P. M. gym pair of socks in the pocket. Old tie through the handle of the jerry ; loop round the neck. Thrust the pot into the bosom and button up the blouse. If possible. Painted by Picasso. Rest there my bosom friend.

Outside in the court the wind was bitter. Non-stop from Russia, enough and to cool the most ardent Communist. He looked up the into darkness. Silence. No moon. Crossing the court on tiptoe, swiftly, he passed over the grass. On the far side, the Chapel , fe lt rather than seen t ; looming, darker han the dark. A� the foot of the wall he stopped. The first part would be easy. PUlhng on the spare socks over he his shoes and hitching up his slacks, started the climb. Fingers in well behind the square drain-pipe ;

'd • I 29 28 THE EAGLE LIGHT a d st etching, tousled lean back ; feet on the wall, and up. The wool gave a good grip �an walked ; yawning � � fraIDe a his hands on her ' the the woman WIth the rough cut stone. stood behind . lIe She leant back against his lips to her hair, Fifteen feet to the first ledge ; he scrambled on to it, panting. N htly pressing lig motionless, looking down hang-over now-only the suppressed thrill of the climb, and there together ; close, they stayed sharp air filling his lungs, child. He stood up carefully, back to the wall, and edged out to the right not move, Suddenly but the watcher did above the spiked railings on to the Fen Street end of the ght went out again li heart. He wanted to cry loneliness ached in his Pausing at the corner, with a firm grip on the moulding, he was empty and there was no one in the world and leant back into space. my darling !"-but "My darling, himself; he stood there, despising Above him and to the right lay the Great Window, its to. Numbed and weak out eyes. cry of self-pity rose to his I mullions ornamented with carvings of fruit and flowers : above shivering futile fool. Tears 1/ his knees trembling with 1 to climb down again, slowly, the second ledge : and above that again, only the tower reaChlnd He started with night air was luminous another hundred feet into emptiness. A no-man's-land of Over the town the cold ,tigue. struck six. III tower the clock chimed and with the broad copper strip of the lightning conductor running approaching dawn. In the like a lifeline, to the slatted windows of the bell-chamber. But j, p. as he did, he could see none of this ; only the blackness enc>v,,�u� him, pressing on his eyes. . The long stride from the ledge to the first mullion was chancy the dark. Turning cautiously, he shuffled fo rwards until he felt end of the ledge under his toes. Now, raising the inside leg pressing his right hip firmly against the wall, he stepped out berately into space. One moment's panic, falling, his stomach with anticipation ; then the jar of his foot against the mullion and grate of scrabbling fingers on the deep carved flowers. For a seconds he clung to the safe stone, his mind blank with relief; upwards on the bosses, as easy as climbing a ladder. The second ledge was wider than he expected, overhanging wardly into space. Cursing foully, he wriggled and clutched, pered by the bulk in his blouse ; then he stood up and leant gratefully, pausing to recover his breath. No sound from the beneath him, and nothing but blackness above and below. Only touch of the cold stone to tell him he was not dead. Suddenly light struck at him through the darkness and he w",,,uw instinctively against the wall. Across the road an uncurtained flooded the night ; so near, it seemed, that he could almost touch. He held his breath and waited, pinned down by the glare. A young woman crossed to the window and peered out, unseeing" into the night. As she turned away the light shone for a through her thin nightdress, shaping her body in shadow ; then stooped from sight. When she reappeared her arms held a baby, struggling and kicking in petty rage. With soothing caresses rocked it gently ; then, slipping the nightdress from her shoulder, :1/ pressed the child to her breast. It lay quite still; content now, sucking : 1 1 curtained by her long dark hair. 30 THE EAGLE TO ENGLAND 31 T COM ING O N FIRS . station took me to my . 0 me t me at the C uncIl wh 0 ON FIRST COMING TO ENGLAND tish 0 the way some f the Bri . d out to me on . ar n d pomte in a c � . surprise an d d'lsappomt - am ence d a slight g I expen . it might be given as a rule that one should not Here a Umverslty' must b e ugh tha t this ancient ERHAPStoo much of a country before one sets foot in it ; for if one d always tho Who I ha far away from the town. a sec l e d spot one will have the disadvantage of losing one of the mewhere in �� din ? If so . the midst of traffic and P t it e a ts J st pleasures of travel-the capacity for being surprised. At any e tha � � believ : it is the Vulgar bustle I d slike m �am bridge this is true in my case. I learned so much about England and anything l ' tell you an is d bicycles. Let me . many buses , cars an . people in my own country, China, that when I actually came to Bcasioned b y so I went to d later One mornmg it, my experience was like that of reading a detective story which tD k pl�ce ? tic. I started rather l�te, y �iI-�� n cri plot had been told to me already. Since my arrival I have often a lecture gIven ;;. rushmg acked up with bicycles to the stre�� wa:� asked by kind-hearted people if I do not fe el a bit strange when got . myself to I . � g e difficulty I brought same destmatlOn. i I am entirely at a loss for an answer because on the one hand I the ' There I saw dozens the lecture was to be given. not want to tell lies and on the other I do not want to disappoin1 b uildin g where . . . at the entrance of the lecture- Jostlmg agamst one an other kind-hearted people by giving them an unexpected answer. The I gh t t h'IS became disillusioned. thou I All of a sudden I . is that although I do not find things here quite as expected . So I hurned away was too much like a stock exchange to be, still they are close enough to my expectation to exclude sense of strangeness. traffic l:ifirst arrived at Cambridge it was not the I remember when the ship was passing through the Channel of the place. Imnressed me it was rather the silence its way to London, I, like the other passengers, stretched my eight town w deserted. Every evening after to have a first glimpse of the dreamland I was coming to. It � exception of an occasional passing of a car, there sunset. The sky, the land, the water were all clothed in a to be heard. One of the characteristics of the English glimmering light. I tried to imagine where Dickens might : noticed, is that they never talk, they just whisper. I rememb �r stood when he came to the coast of Dover which he mentioned ago an Englishman told me that when he first came to Shanghai, often in David Copperfield. Both the sight and the imagination was frequently shocked. People there talked so loud and gesticu­ exhilarating and yet somehow they did not strike me as unusual. lated so vehemently in the street that he was induced to think some­ I spent only one and a half days in London, so it was not my thing in the nature of a riot must have occurred. This illusion is to see much of that city. However, thanks to the extreme enthuslasn indeed very illuminating. But if noisiness could produce terror, of an old schoolmate of mine, we managed to visit a large part absolute quietness can also give rise to uneasiness. Personally, I did the West End in one evening. Nearly every district, every fe el somewhat uneasy during my first few days in this town. Some­ every building he brought me to, was familiar to me by name. times it amazes me to see the street so full of people and yet so devoid there was one surprise. I never dreamed that things in London of human voices. Also when I look at a queue proceeding to a bus, I so much smaller than they should be. Take the British cannot help thinking of some scenes in Dante where a string of for example. I used to think that it must be a spirits were led quietly to some unknown destination. Anot building covering hundreds of acres of land, while, as a matter her interesting thing I noticed early is the extreme tameness of the Engli fact, it is not much bigger than an ordinary department store or . sh dogs. One morning I annoyed my landlady by sum­ mO ng mansion-house. Buckingham Palace is also far too small to be �l1 her to drive away two dogs from the gateway through which �shed to impressive and that world-famous 10 Downing Street is � go out. "Is this all you rang for?" she asked surprisedly. lease go ridiculous both in appearance and in stature. It took me some your way. They won't touch you !" I went my way and :e dogs actu to learn that size is not the thing that the English people can ally did not bother me at all. Later on I learned that e E nglish dogs proud of or really care about. The most fascinating things I . not only do not bite or spring at strangers, they slI?ply do not in London are the innumerable statues and the fantastic shades care to bark very much either. This is indeed a mlracle, espec ially to me who came from a country where the howling grey and black on the weather-beaten walls of the historic o f do . gs IS' a kInd of I came down to Cambridge one Thursday morning. Mr natural music to be heard everywhere. GLAND 33 THE EAGLE M ING T O EN 32 FIRST CO . O N easIly as . in their speeches as Many people in my country who seldom see foreigners d even bles phors an P years ago our scholars think that all foreign faces are alike. According to them it is meta e thousand . up potatoes. �: were carrymg dig as glibly as if they difficult to distinguish foreign faces as to distinguish those of ver a cup of tea oSophy o lars are all as dum as and cats. I wonder if the same opinion is held by the people of ..bil . now , alas, our scho ? ersatIOn. But Amencan conv to th eabili ty of gabbling countries. But I think there are very few new faces in the oliticians look up . our P ent m lIfe. . Nearly every face I have seen here bears a certain similarity to gre st achievem , if it were the �� aracter. To me the b o t the English ch of one of my friends or relatives or the people I have met al bee� �aI a � there de . ness . In other countries in my own country. It is a most thrilling experience to enter a hasng in It IS ItS umf orm thi d an d probably there full of strangers and yet to find there every face familiar to who are more reserve be some peop e nowhere I the English, but certainly Such experience has been repeated many times since I came to who are reserve d as as so uniformly reserved. place. Physiognomists will not be surprised at this. There are, d n find a people e w �r between the w.ay e can be any difference believe, not more than a dozen types of human face. Of course • t th imagUl ! � ;: way an EnglIsh in � snubs a customer and the number of slight variations might be very great, but if you look . ;Bnglish shop-woman of other . . . ds his inferiors. Unlike the people fully are all there. And it is also true everywhere that a MlDlSter repnman . of THEY theIr disp easure b means type of face will bear a certain trait of character, such as the En lish never express I Y out ursts. They always geniality, cunningness, pompousness, etc., etc. Every g or other kinds of violent ? . � in theIr rrnnd. The,Y seem when I sit lonely in the Hall, it is my habit to study the faces to let you know what is if they can, they Will ght me. This exercise is quite useful, especially when the food is bad. to become hysterical or, � I think this is the explanatIOn. The English people are most self-confident. They never seem their emotions. Yes, by nature, they merely have greater have felt the necessity of being apologetic. But if they do, it lfiCe88ari1yreserved It must be that: for whenever they are be about their food. One of the first things people do to me here publicly, the English can go as far as invariably, to inquire about my opinion concerning the food. It themselves way of antics and follies. lucky for them that I am not particularly squeamish in such fo llows that there is not much of the kind of personal If I do not like English food I never curse it as loudly as some which is allowed in China. The English are allowed to say my compatriots would do. The only thing I really hate is their they like, but they must act exactly as everybody else acts. of doing vegetables. Here, indeed, they deserve a scold. They think they are free men in a free state but they are actually their vegetables both most ugly to look at and most abominable completely at the mercy of that four-footed monster-Society. Talk eat. Whenever I see in front of me something like a lump of a little too loud in your own room and you will feel immediately that piled on a dish together with potatoes, I close my eyes hastily the walls are condemning you. Walk a little too abandonedly in the order to avoid a sudden fit of vomit. street and you will find even the lamp-posts are grimacing at you. It is rather a mystery that a people so highly developed in all Here a foreigner begins to realise why men like Byron or D. H. branches of art as the English should be so backward in the art Lawrence found it so difficultto live their fatherland which they in cuisine. The answer may be that they use their tongue so skilfu" J loved so much. It would be most unkind to say that the English in one way that they forget how to use it properly in the other; established and maintained a custom of prying into people's there are only two ways of using tongues-to speak and to lives. But I do suspect that something very • . much like super- I do not remember ever meeting a tongue-tied person here and �on goes on under the name of service. For example, can never I unde I wonder if there are any. It seems to me the English students, rstand why the landlady of a lodging-house will insist on making your least, are all very eloquent. The best proof is to be found at a pu bed so that she may spend half an hour every morning in your room. lecture where, when a speaker has done, nearly all members in the In college, when the bedmaker comes to wake me up day er audience will jump up to poke questions or express opinions. There � day by knocking at my door and repeating the same formula, a quar might not be much in the substance of their speeches but their way ter to eight, sir ", I cannot take it in any other way than that he represe I of delivering them is always very effective. This is enough to impress � ntative of the Proctor or the Dean is there, bidding me to eave my me deeply and cause me to mourn over the lost art of eloquence in bed and be a good boy during the rest of the day. my country. Two thousand years ago, our politicians turned out ELIV 3 34 THE EAGLE 35 I think I like the Backs. Anyone with eyes should be able to justice to this place. However, I must confess that I fail compl"._, UR POEMS to account for the exorbitant fame of the River Cam. This FO nationally known river seems to me not much bigger than a and, I venture to add, not a very clean one either. If such a I stream can command so great a reputation, why, then, should sight, Ananias. every river in the world be equally famous? It is generally me my hands shrunken, but your in China that whatever place was visited by the Sung poet Su TheE desert has not IV Damascus ends became a scenic spot. Perhaps the same story may be told Scoop up my aridness. us both. River Cam. It has become important not because of its ir WhereG touch restores value but through the fact that it has been part of the life of sleep of prayer illustrious people for so many centuries. I have returned from a flower bed Finally, a word must be said about the bell. Of all things Like one come from of care I like the ringing of the bells the best. Every evening it reSOllnt11 Into a street that reeks he has bled ; through the town, and on Sundays the bell at Great St Mary's Smiling the secrets the brink of fear as long as half an hour at dusk. It usually makes me homesick Like one come to rose's red. sometimes it gives me food for thought. In my country bells Still aware of the Buddhist monks are closely related. Whenever you hear the bell from Now clasp me and release me are sure that some monks are doing their morningor evening terror fixing me to earth, Here the bell seems to exist without the monks. While the bells helpless struggle to the womb, ringing those who should be at their prayers are either sitting in The aching burden of my birth ; Halls engaged in heretical talk over cups of beer or chatting at Now touch me and prepare the tomb with their wives and children. You may congratulate yourself on For life's returning to its death. progress of civilisation, but you cannot help thinking of the loss meaning in the bell. No words encircle what has sprung From silence bubbling in the throat ; Only the lap of lips at song, In touch, in anguish as they meet And sha!,e the groan of labour's long Redeemmg and reclaiming note.

I suffer with you, Ananias, In threat and slaughter slobbered forth, I call upon you for our eyes And melt into you fo r our birth ; I call upon you for our tears To wash away this cling of earth.

3'2 37 6 THE EAGLE E M S 3 F O U R P O

Il IV re In my thoughts is loneliness, l to stars and sta I raise my sou Is learning left by you ; love's control, Supra-wise on Of all wisdom I possess on the air Angels misting The void that you bestow. about my soul. Drape the stars s, still above Above the heaven In my heart is weariness enchanting deeps, The deepness of Rejoicing at your thought, t calls Surges harmony tha But my voice cannot express my worship weeps; To reason where The pain that I have sought. stillness fills And in my vision . spaces filled with awe In my life is emptiness, The Is void without a God; mind found Where is higher? what You to bear the sole witness desire A deeper reason, what this sound, And fill me with the Word. A richer meaning, than stretching choir This sounding sound, this Of all-surrender, self asunder, awe ? III Sweep and swell and harboured : clasp me to my fear, my wonder Swift as the dolphin's way and lonely 0,In eternity restore As folding waters carving out will, My heart, my soul, my mind, my The sharp divide of melancholy, In God's consuming fire. Lipping at an empty pap, ANON. Lapping at a barren gout That lies across the ocean's lap ;

You will also voyage there, Down the dolphin's curve of heart, To lose yourself like an Ohthere In a mist of suffering, And weep the curses of a start That eases life with languishing.

Swifter than the dolphin's dart And deeper than the bottom's gloom, The wisdom that the waves impart Is sorrow in the sailor's quest : The one who feels resurgence come And bear him to another breast. 39 8 THE EAGLE E N TRY 3 ILL E G A L followed, but from the week that him during Re spent little of gress reached me. ILLEGAL ENTRY ve s of his pro zines, ry rious report dy-coloured maga va mersed in gau nd nights im . He had tried dayS a a small note-book T was one of those mornings : a chill wind sweeping to scribble in , insisting casionally to buy cornflakes Third Court ; a few dim figures loping across to a nine ' oc the College 0 l members of porridge-it severa superiority over lecture ; fishfor breakfast. After the third cup of coffee I at nutritional with on their gre et tops to enclose withI great reluctance that I had better go round to see Rugo. d fifteen pack that he require been expelled Iooanspired e fa ith. Re had previous evening I had left him in a particularly morbid frame as a sign of tru rtion that , apparently the audible asse mind, suffering from "Grant " trouble. I had listened to his tale interrupting with Ris upervision after creamy flavour. woe for the best part of an hour, smoked his cigarettes, and s had that creamy, Stodge because it I-.r": rred ious . him finish a bottle of Cointreau, tactfully ignoring his remark ming quite notor My was beco him a visit in person. he really didn't know where the next one was coming from. Re up courage and paid . ___ lIy I plucked the Penniless Under­ always been prone to looking on the gloomy side, and his bitter of God's Gift to upon the progress in a chair before plaint that THEY were snatching the very food from his lips took a received. He was hunched was not well of despair. I relented. swallowing ; but he had fixed ideas on a reasonable standard of grate, the picture "You'll win on the shoulder. and I was beginning to regret that I had not left him a '" I said, slapping him I put on a sweater, scarf and overcoat, and hurried round to Court. When I entered his rooms I found him pacing the floor indicating the table. his dressing-gown, muttering to himself. Re swung round, labelled "Glamor-The at me, then suddenly snapped- on a large, red packet prominent place on the table. "Why do you use Glom?" which occupied a so sad?" h)lendid I" I yelped. "Why I stared at him in alarm. Re stepped nearer, and trapped me a screen test, the no uncertain terms. He had won the door, prodding me with a dramatic finger. of Romeo and Juliet. play a leading part in a production "Why do you use Glom?" would be worth some­ to sympathise. After all, the publicity I countered with a helpful suggestion, stalling for time. been a misunder­ He was very patient with me. There had "Rave some coffee?" For obvious reasons IIIDding-after all, it was a shampoo powder. I was quite worried. Somehow his rooms had acquired an iilHi:1UHI;., home address. In had suppressed his first name, and given his number of periodicals and magazines overnight; they lay uliet. The irony of abort, he had won the promised principal role-J everywhere. Eventually it all came out. Rugo had A Scheme. A mere fifty it was that the second prize had been fifty pounds. Apparently he had been turning the pages of a popular broke from his lips. pounds. I shuddered at the hoarse cackle that paper after I had left him the previous night, thinking rather What could say? I rose from my chair, crossed the room and, he I having to sell the things pretty soon than anything else, when turning, struck a pose. had come across an amazing act of charity by some philanthropic "Well," I bellowed, "wherefore art thou, Romeo ?" firm. They merely wanted to know why you used their product, in I suppose I was a little obnoxious. I just got round the doorpost so many words, and they were willing to part with fifty pounds ! His as a packet of Glamor (Family Size) burst in a heavy white cloud interest had been aroused ; he had scanned similar publications and against the corridor wall. A. c. T. found to his surprise that altruism was not yet dead-how sadly he had misjudged his fellows There was a whole host of benevolent I institutions eager to part with vast sums of money ; others settled for holidays in Monte Carlo ; high-powered cars were two-a-penny. Re intended to enter into the spirit of the thing without delay. The odd rhyme there, the well-turned phrase here ; it was quite ludicrous. I agreed, and said so ; then I went in search of coffee. You never really knew with Rugo. 41 ELY ES 40 THE EAGLE B O O K S H the book that was longer regrets and he no ies are with comes, re. His sympath ore were the ce­ BOOKSHELVES t wishes m withdraws, as gra bu book". So he drown my ving them free ow, " I'll the shelves, lea all the problems that face an undergraduate, that of n struggle with his final n, from the fresher. And on he ca yet another Fbookshelf is the most insistent. He can, if he wishes, e fight with m cocking a snook again th can he refrain fro from female society-indeed, after certain hours, he his own defeat, c. signal of s. butO his bookshelf is inescapable. Whenever he opens his a J. ? confronts him, with all the desirable, woman-like qualities of passive, ever-present and tormenting. How often is his heart pressed at the sight of all those books un read ! The fresher who gingerly unpacks his trunk, so full of S I TY, 1949 GE UNIVER and cake, digs out the few volumes he has managed to squeeze CAMB R ID a book of somebody's poems, to add " tone" to his rooms, and, if hurrying, is very daring, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. But these the noses UBluRRYe INearlG,y, red late, fill the space provided, and he hastily displays, with colourful political, Truth-ferrets, rabbits mingling, the cards of all the lesser known Societies which he classical, HHistorical, intellectual, not the slightest intention of joining. If this array is a little analytical, metaphysical ; monotonous, there are always those few trophies of military :'\nntient fantastic just to show he is not as young as all that. hundred and fifty minimum, This "barren" stage does not last long. His supervisor not Sir Henry mends the standard text-books, and he rushes to fill part of his The process of acquisition once begun, how soon his books " forth and multiply". Having obtained what he was sure were Steady and whole but a stop. enough, there is always just one more-and the off-chance Saturrt<> Time must have morning bargain at David's. The scientist's bottom-shelf piles Autumn Crocus with note-books, while the historian's patiently ebbs and flows Passion according to St Matthew the latest additions from the Library. Most of all, pity the Physics according to Cavendish student who cannot distinguish the "good " books he ought to Journey according to St Pancras from the text-books he must. His bookshelf bears a double Beer, Namco, Hippocrene or By the middle of his second year, the problem of space has Quis mu/ta gracilis jostle. a new form. By this time kind aunts have showered presents on him, and he has acquired those essential volumes of What price Apulia? literature to be read when physics pall. The cards and trophies Grave disturbed, Quintus? long been swept away, and now, how shall he arrange this What price salvation glomerate mass of the printed word ? He must bow to the Nine for twenty-four weeks ? of size-for the shelves are invariably non-adjustable-but Sixteen a second, ! these there are many variations he can try. He may want to M.O.U.I.S.P. and book gules etcetera-the Board his books according to subject, but that destroys the harmony of Admitto te ...that's past. standard edition series. The Everyman on its own looks so Come, Horace. A. A. and lonely that it demands to be restored to its fellow, notwithstandllli L. L. the shock of Plato juxtaposed with Priestley. But where Tennyson rest, dignified in green morocco ? And what of the homeless remnant? Wearily he concedes victory to the booksw;'�1 and allows unsightly anarchy to rule. " 43 42 THE EAGLE US , 1949 " P A RN ASS type" by Derek modern "army sented as a zy took pre s whose fine fren "PARNASSUS", Furor Poeticu 1949 Peter Rowe's wonderfully angular • and Yokel was Peter Croft's dis- he stage. of Ingenioso, the newly formed Lady Margaret Players have one t 's portrayal �f ; John Creed of the large cast vincing. The rest difficultyHE to face at the beginning of their career : the lack ely and con allowed, graduate, liv as the script a suitable place in which to perform. Whereas UI ' of their characters from least as much prevented dullness societiesT can use the A.D.C. or Arts Theatres, and Queens' of variety, they the piece plenty has a court ideally suited fo r open-air productions, the Lady but and mechanical, garet Players are presumably unable to afford the hire of a academic music seemed rather interested mainly from an audience at this early stage, and the College itself presents no really more attention adequate, but deserved was no more than site. The choice of the Fellows' Garden as a place in which to John Hunt's scenery programme cover. the "Parnassus " plays was therefore unfortunate but inevitable. on a delightful not congratulated a play which would was unfortunate because an open-air production is very risky Players attempted a Margaret from it provided performance, and under the best conditions. The audience is at the mercy of been seen in that their It is to be hoped weather, and audibility at the mercy of the wind. Few plays '8 entertainment. successful as the first. really suitable for an outdoor performance, and none gains by of College plays will be as so an exceptionally interesting play is needed to keep the J. s. w. attention away from an uncomfortable seat. This performance, ever, was always interesting and often amusing. Any one of the "Parnassus " plays performed in its entiretv however interesting it might be to the scholar, would be a very form of entertainment for the average playgoer. The Michael Stephens, was therefore very wise to take the cream each of the three plays for one complete performance. He maha5'" to preserve the characters whose counterparts are to be seen Cambridge to-day and who were therefore more easily uriderstoo� by a modern audience. Modern dress also helped to achieve understanding. The incidents were amusing in themselves, followed each other with as much speed and contrast as in a though much of the satire has lost its sting. The play presented few difficulties for the producer. There seldom more than three characters appearing together, so large-.,,,,a<> grouping was never called for. All that was required was audibili� and variety. The latter, with intelligent playing, was inherent in construction of the play itself, and the sound, which might have ruined by an unfavourable breeze, was always clear. The two undergraduates, Philomusus and Studioso, whose ' through and from the University holds the play together, played by John Denson and Derek Bond. Both gave a freshness to their very unrewarding parts, and their appearance always welcome. Angus Mackay as their wealthy companion a performance full of style and poise. Among the assortment characters encountered by the students, the most memorable an urbane and learned tutor, played by Wheatley Blench ; Gullio 45 AND MUSIC 44 THE EAGLE AN P OETRY F JOHNI A L O p.m. St John's ; 6.15 King's; 5 p.m. p.m. ful for ry's; 3.15 to be thank . RECITAL OF JOHNIAN POETRY AN !\1a day have much rganists to- grave and gay­ o blend of the elf was a nice ding as �e its application, inclu MUSIC ently liberal term of evid r. began with a Unfortunate Travelle It from The Butler's Overture to Samuel THURSDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 1949 " from the Oll and Fugue a pianoforte duet �uCtl performed as rio Ulysses, spiritedly that might nrato adverse comment many besides myself the number and variety of re­ and Adrian Officer. Any of Handel was fo poetso and musicians who were in one way or another CU1Ulecn on this excellent pastiche Statham fo rthcoming Mr H. Heathcote with St John's College must, on this evening, have come in a letter to T Butler himself something of a revelation. One knew, of course, of Wordswori 19° 1): I should regard Matthew Prior, Robert Herrick, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Festing Jones) and Jones (Henry most odious Butler. But how many of those present could, if they cared to do friend of the Handel as a at mauvaise plaisanterie boast of having as their illustrious predecessors the Elizabeth fun lyricists Robert Greene and Henry Constable, the Puritan him. Lines composed a few of Wordsworth's and divine Robert Wylde, the royalist and cavalier Wilders of by a performance "Bruiser Churchill", the mauvais pretre of the Hell Fire Club, Abbey was succeeded "A Shepher in a that mystical metaphysical, Edward Benlowes ? Johnian services pp pular part-song, � the Lady Margaret Smgers. music, though less brilliant, are hardly less distinguished. For sung by a section of seventeenth-century love­ forty years the Chair of Music in the University was held of sixteenth- and at hand" by Ben peerless "See, the chariot by two Johnians, T. A. Walmisley and W. Sterndale-Bennett, of the the College are unhappily more than a few among the audience that evening must have Dnexions with of Walmisley's was fo llowed by a performance bered with pleasure the pre-war dramatic presentations of Clinch 2, fo r oboe and pianoforte ", by J ames and Handel that were conducted by the late Dr Rootham. IDDatma, Pollock, an a work originally written for one Alfred There are, to be sure, extenuating circumstances for our ignoranll< admired. The whose oboe-playing Walmisley much The College cannot claim sole proprietary interest in many of the well-worn before the interval consisted of variations on whose work was represented in this recital. Robert Greene, life. Here, of the languors and raptures of undergraduate instance, graduated at St John's College, 1578-9, but oblique reference to the innocent pleasures to be sought migrated to Clare Hall where he proceeded M.A. in 1583. (" Come hither Apollo's bouncing girl ") came as Cleveland, on the other hand, took the degree of B.A. in 163 I contrast to the splenetic gloom of Churchill and member of Christ's College and only came to this College, as Fellow, in 1634 (where, however, he remained for nine years, " After coffeein the Old Music Room we returned to hear two polite D delight and ornament of St John's society"). According to agreeable Diversions for Piano Duet by Sterndale-Bennett, ably and Robert Herrick, in a state of acute financial embarrassment, mig performed by John Davies and Adrian Officer. The two items that from St John's in 1616 to Trinity Hall, "with the twofold object fo llowed would alone have made the evening thoroughly worth while. reducing his expenditure and of devoting himself to legal studies The first was a thunderous diatribe against luxury from that rum Evidently he continued to ply his extra-legal studies, for it product of indisputable genius, Theophila by Edward Benlowes, from account-books preserved at Trinity Hall, that as late as finely read by Peter Croft. The second was a really beautiful per­ he was still in the Hall's debt. But the most remarkable case formance by John Rust of Mr Robin Orr's exquisite setting of three multi-collegiate affiliations was that of Dr Walmisley, who in Chinese poems translated by Arthur Waley. In harmony with the was elected organist of Trinity and St John's Colleges, and in �elan�holy mood induced by these songs came six elegiac sonnets, ncl capacity played, in addition, for the services in King's College : �dmg "Sweet to the gay of heart is summer's smile " and " Yes, 'WJ.ll be and St Mary's, and so was kept very busy on Sundays : 7. 15 t Over soon " by Henry Kirke White. Not even the reader's St John's ; 8 a.m. Trinity ; 9.30 a.m. King's ; 10.30 a.m. St 46 THE EAGLE 47

tactful substitution in the latter sonnet of "my name" for " name" -at the expense of the metre-in the lines "CHRIST'S COMET" Yon sprightly lark on mounting wing will soar By CHRISTOPHER HASSALL When Henry'S name is heard no more below Lady Margaret Players have, in the College Chapel, an could hush the strident note of self-pity that pu lsates through liE ble setting for the religious dramas it is their policy to verse of this much-to-be-pitied dmira poet, who died of a but an r r ent at the end of each Michaelmas Term ; audience 1806 after only a year's residence in the College. es The " more than mere visual satisfaction on these occasions, and by Hugh Ashton (or Aston) that followed, admirably de[J1anPd . played s admitted at the outset that the acoustics of the Chapel pianoforte be solo by Alan King, was of rather more historical u t 1\. hs vOC with the spoken word. They are perversely most unkind artistic significance. Ashton was one of the earliest English a[J1Y a ood character acting, which often requires speed in delivery and posers for the virginals, and according to Dr Pto van den Borren variations of pitch. On this occasion, for instance, Herod and little "Hornepype" shows �ain the art of variation on a drone bass were for long stretches almost unintelligible in the e Blind Man degree of development of which the Continent offers no � -though sufficient came through to demonstrate that these Unhappily there is again no choes respectable evidence for identifyin performances-and this made ere twO of the best of the evening'S composer with the Ashton who became Comptroller to the Lady � it doubly infuriating that much uninspired declaiming was audible garet and finally Archdeaconof York. After Patrick Cullen had he last syllable. with immense virtuosity a superbly shambling, to t digressive piece Comet is a deceptive play for the would-be producer. It full-bodied prose from The Unfortunate Traveller, the last Christ's re ds like excellent "theatre", yet a great deal of it takes the stage contribution was an entertaining double parody, in which a Sir in a which suggests it would yield much more if perused in the Squire's well-known skit on Newbolt, "It was eight bells wa in study. They first act is by either count the least effective : nothing forenoon ", was hurnorously set to music by Dr Rootham after happens and little is said at great length. Act two is better, and manner of Charles Villiers Stanford. A. C. Hilton's rather contains one scene of considerable strength, though it goes on too devastating parody of Swinburne entitled "The Octopus " long and the dramatic conflict is entirely secular. This scene could curiously flat, through no fault in the reading, but the recital in fact almost be performed by itself as a one-act play on the character to an end in an atmosphere of high good hurnour with a reading of Herod, such is its peculiar excellence and such its isolation from Samuel Butler's Critics, "0 0 cultured critics ", which once the central theme of things. In the third act alone is there any real subtly disarmed criticism. R. A. of religious impulse and dramatic effectiveness. It is a very fusion fine third act, and much was made of it in this production : if only the approach to it had been shortened, either by judicious pruning or else by increased tempo-though the Chapel acoustics would have made the latter a risky proposition. Peter Croft's production of the play did nearly all that was neces­ sary. There was little that it could do in Act one except achieve a am cert ' fl uency, and leave the rest to the actors. Here the producer :as :well served. John Hosier's Blind Man admirably suggested without loss of force, a first-rate performance well matched b nthty t� Jessle Faber's Laila : it might have been better, however, had two a method of eSe actors agreed on common attack. The Three Kings that journeyed from afar, Kaspar, Melchior, Balthazar re �� ;oOd, but might have been so much better had a little imagina­ 1'1 ex n een pended on developing them into separate personalities ; 11, I,r 48 THE EAGLE " 49 ' COMET " CHRIST S and Kaspar in particular suffered from an ugly costume and The sum declaiming for acting. ers to substitute must make-up. the perfonn Lady Margaret Players failure, but the At the very beginning, Act two achieved a vitality that had no means a are to maintain the by material if they lacking in the previous act. This was due to the presence of this with better of Murder than a year ago as a result Goldstein in the small, and arguably not very difficult, part of which they gained lhPutation D. H. R. Captain of the Muleteers : this actor has an authority of gesture intonation that many of his colleagues might profitably study. largest and most interesting scene of the play-the Herod the test piece of a good producer, and only in a few minor NCE do I differ from Peter Croft's conception of it. For instance, HOLISTIC SCIE seated at the back of the "stage ", Herod was repeatedly cies then hold sway, with the speaker's back to the audience, an irritation that organismic fan . . T dissectlOn Will the day. somehow have been avoided. Michael Littleboy as Achiabus E Forbid that cold T 1 nor am I me something of the arrogance and cunning which the part For you are not yourself L artel'J: but was constantly thwarted by grouping apparently designed In virtue of bone, brain and " lOnate, make him as inconspicuous as possible. Brian Cannon saw of life is one not fract stream whole relate. as the unhappy father rather than as the ageing despot and, --bered parts cannot the try this conception, his performance was the best of the evening. dishonour life who feebly a pity, though, that his final remark about the nightingale, truth from such falsity. resolves the mood of the entire scene, should have been thrown when quietly grazing in the field in a mutter as the lights faded. not by concepts such as "yield ". In Act three the best of Mr Hassall Was matched by the best her native power to orchestrate . Mr Croft. There were at least two moments in it when sheer imal >iacordant themes within her mortal crate. tion transcended the mere mechanics of stagecraft. The first Does labouring sow when loosing piglets free when Barabbas (sensitively portrayed by Michael Stephens ) Attend her task with oxytocic glee ; his identity to Artaban and the Muleteer; and the seconU-UlU Or ram consider androgenic state prolonged-was the final tableau, grouped and lighted with rare Assuaging his primeval urge to mate ; to look like a Veronese, to the accompaniment of a simple yet Can fleetest hound assess the complex source carol which was well sung by John D' Arcy and a small male­ Whence careless springs his locomotive force ; choir. Should laden fowl omit to set the spell The principal parts were performed by Paul Lloyd as Would eggs delivered then be lacking shell? the fourth Magus, and Patrick Cullen as the Muleteer. Both The living creature grows, behaves, persists remarkably convincingly for the last act ; before this Paul And nature's wings are clipped by analysts. (who looked magnificent) had declaimed many long speeches in Persuade synthetic science start apace fine voice which he kept too consistently at a high pitch, and And counsel order from disruptive race, shown us some-but not, I fear, enough-of the man behind The universe of life may then unfold poetry. Patrick Cullen brought great skill to bear in his fusion Top secrets of a fathomable mould. comedy and pathos : he had his audience with him from the Pursue analysis, then life resign, beginning. When he learns how a funny line can be made Where once was man is now math'matic sign. by expert timing, he will be in the front rank of light comedians. B. A. C. What emerged at the end of the evening was a play that be improved by cutting-the author himself commented that it the fullest version of his play that he had seen performed-a duction that was always adequate if seldom inspired, and a tenden� E LIV 4 50 THE EAGLE 51 REVIEWS . disentangles probability throw, he persuasively REVIEWS little light to has with o r debt legend. . ' he last lecture, dealing � peclahst rea er t ding, for the non-s . � to prove the most rewa� The Lost Province, or the Worth of Britain. By M. P. �HiU�U." upatlo , IS likel To Roman occ � Y is given unhesitatmgly. F.B.A., F.S.A., Hon. D.Litt. (Cardiff: University of Wales s second question to the author . . l' tS history our country or the first hme m 1949. 8s. 6d.) own words : " F . and governed from his terntory, 0 rganized who 1 e, unified one Thi UD!'t This book by the President, consisting of the four Gregynog as a . i't , 'the Britains '. . . . S to functIOn as a un Y for 1947-8, though little more than 80 pages in extent, is neve ll intended d by language , communica- rthe in and strengt hene so rich in suggestion for future research that it may well become once manifested at an re I " culture, art r ' fitting hat the impress father of many theses. Those who have had the privilege of � a h audience it is : � � dre:ssmg � survlvals m the l ­ the author lecture will warmly approve his retention of the � uld be illustrated from � C1vilisa�IOn s h Wlt s�p­ lecture form,for to the pleasure of instruction is thus added, as it . . These include words connected � CeltiC frIDge0 and drmking, the persuasive charm of a familiar voice. work , the m' struments of. , eating L...... _:'ding , country . thmg,' was hing " . Mr Charlesworth has set himself to answer two questions, an "that highly clvl!lzed . , an d trees d b I IS somewhat novel and the other frequently asked, but seldom to say much that is ��w, ut . � ·cations. it is ot easy au � by Rome in the sltmg of Clues, factorily answered. In the first, looking at Britain with the detachm� BDinded of the skill shown also by sea. Under of the ancient historian, he asks : "Why did the Romans accessible not only by land but not only art, incorporate this island in their Empire ? Why, that once done, term Culture " the author includes wntten, they retain it for nigh on four hundred years ? What did they of building, of which much has �een from the occupation ?" The second-an insular English, or l11-explored fields of agriculture and horticulture. The g rdens say British, inquiry-" What have we gained, or what did this is not usually pictured as a l �ver of � of retain when t11e legions had departed? "-is one with which It is claimed that we owe to the mtroductlon him and Roman archaeologist has been confronted. To it he devotes his poppies, pansies and lilies. Delicious frUits, nuts debts, and f r and most exciting lecture. common vegetables also figure among our , � gratl- Though it is no part of the author's purpose to retell the history is archaeological as well as linguistic evidence. It IS of oblivion at the Roman Britain, the first two lectures are, perforce, devoted to to the reviewer that, after seventeen years walnut and the tWigs, of but the story is told with a fresh emphasis. The reasons that of the well where he found them, the re-excavated by the author and Claudius to undertake the conquest are well known, but it is not and chestnut should have been liven their true significance along with the unpublished cabbage-stalk often remembered that " down to A.D. ISO Rome, in keeping an the well at Vindolanda (p. 72). The reader Will approve the of about 40,000 men in garrison here ...was footing a very heavy &omauthor's opinion that these are not trivial topics any more than the for benefits that are not immediately apparent ". The disasters at art of cookery and the equipment of the kitchen that follow, for they close of the second century might well have led her to cut her go to show that Rome brought to the Britons a new standard of but " that hard-headed ruler " Severus was in no doubt, and so civilisation. was his reconquest of the province that for long he was regaraea Once or twice in these illuminating pages an archaeologist is tempted the original builder of the Wall. Again, some seventy years to feel that the evidence has been somewhat strained. It may well be Aurelian, though he abandoned Dacia, held on to Britain. It that the Fenland was a large Imperial corn estate administered from this time that trouble for the province began in earnest. The Castor (p. 57), but it is a pity that such a happy guess, for that is all raided south-western Wales, as the sack of villas shows, and that it is at present, should have become " almost certain " (p. 70) in pirates so harried the south-east that Constantius (or was it Carauslu"l the next lecture. Again, if the vigorous scene of chariot-racing on the was forced to establish an elaborate new system of coastal Horks�ow pavement is evidence of successful horse-breeding in Lin­ The author's map of these Saxon Shore defences (p. 88) is an colnshire, what conclusions are we to draw as to stock-raising in Kent from new contribution to this neglected subject, of which a the recently discovered pavement at Lullingstone depicting be seen, Europa study is long overdue. For the first time on one map can and the Bull, or as to bull-fighting in East Yorkshire from the our Saxon Shore forts from Brancaster to Carisbrooke, the Taurus omicida pavement at Rudston ? tinental defences that are their complement and counterpart. The niversi U ty of Wales Press has produced a volume that it is a To the closing years of the occupation and after, Mr Charleswv. PIeasure to handle, beautifully, if tha not in1peccably, printed , and one devotes a considerable part of his second lecture. While recognisitlj twill t mto the pocket of many a Johnian. p.c. that here he is moving in a "cloud of hypotheses ", where archaeoloSi fi . 4-2 2 THE EAGLE 53 5 REVIEWS 'Patriarcha ' and other Political Works of Sir Robert Filmer. 191 in which a more Review, 9 Feb. I), (Cambridge or ignored. by PETER LASLETT. (Basil Blackwell, 12S. 6d.) to have been overlooked ted, seems Recorder is Sugges Sir Raderick and the of Immerito by This addition to the Blackwell series of political texts contains examination is given that the Sc. i) the information first complete collection of Filmer's political works. The " Patr;n-­ Two, Act rn, 38. minuts Part at 2. of the clock and ll on "the 5. day, in fact manuscript used in this edition was discovered by the editor, a last quarter fe that the last quarter It has been ascertained this, and of the College, before the war, and is the only handwritten morning ". nuary 1602 ; noting 3 a.m. on 5 Ja known to have survived. This is its first appearance in print. one minute past 1122), Previte-Orton "the fift day » (line editor's introduction contains, appropriately, the first authoritati reference to ce. Since this ve further third Play's performan be the date of the 2, the treatment of Filmer as a political writer, in the setting of his time, this to of Christmas, 1601- be the twelfth night the butt of the much more famous Locke and against the hach,.rrl11n. would also would then mark the as the performance is even greater of The Return of modern anthropology and political thought. For the First Part the seasonal festivities. disallow 1600, but cannot altogether prefers the date 1599- pro­ suggests that the prose year 1600-1. He further the occasion of a second The Three Parnassus Plays (1598-1601). Edited, with an Return was added on Second by Moore Smith, 1602-3 (the date suggested tion and Commentary, by J. B. LEISHMAN, B.Litt., M.A. at Christmas of the for the four-year period Nicholson and Watson, 1949. £2. 2S.) 66) thus accounting the line in that prologue The casual study which produced an "acting » edition of the " vpon two ...schollers, humor to stand hammering nassus » Plays must have shocked their present editor as he watch.. their performance in June (see this magazine, p. 42) ; and many rI which the interest in the Plays was then first aroused, or revived, will be the moment the important section in IntroductlOn now to find them the subject of a work of vastly superior scholarsrup; is discussed, the remainder of the .c In his Preface, Mr Leishman notes that his attention was first the background of contemporary acader�:l.1 of play-actmg to the Plays " as a fruitful subject for research » some twenty years Ih:identally makes it clear that the revival », The Eagle, vo!. LIII, and almost every page examples the thoroughgoing, scholarly after 1595 (see " The College Plays succession in that year of RIchard nique which has been employed in the preparation of this was largely due to the the death of the puritanic l There has, until now, been published only one collective edition of to the office of Master, upon � ker wrote : "One thing was owing to hIS Plays (Macray, 1886). Comparison with it must inevitably form Of Clayton, Ba that had taken such deep root, was now of this review, but our primary interest is in the long hrnment that puritanism, m asure rooted out of the college » (History of St John's (90 pages) which precedes the new Text and Commentary. Gllege, p. 19� 6) ; and though it was lamented that he left not so much Although much of the discussion here entertained is not altogether one book to the College Library (op. cit. p. 197), he at least made new, each point of interest and controversy is dealt with very carefullY. l'OUible the perfo ce of the " Parnassus » Plays. and many arguments which have until now been scattered rman Section VI of the Introduction compares the satire of the Plays with periodicals and critical works, not always easy of access, are that of many other contemporary works, and attempts quite con­ together for the first time under one cover. From the ample descrip­ vincingly to interpret the author's critical opinions from the many tion of the MSS. and early printed texts of the Plays first set out, references to Spenser, Shakespeare, J onson, Nashe and others con­ points of general interest emerge. The first is the rediscovery of tained in the dialogue. Lastly the question of personal allusion by MS. of the third Play (Halliwell-Phillipps), which disappeared caricature is discussed at great length but without yielding much new time after Macray used it. It has now been located in the information. It is generally agreed that many of the characters represen t Shakespeare Library in Washington. Its emigration involved �own persons (Ingenioso = Nashe, for example) while at the same use of photostat copies, two sets of which were lost by enemy time they provide usually unsympathetic portraits of a particular class and from these the editor has deduced that the first printed edition or profess . ion (the Recorder may represent Francis Brackyn, a Cam­ 1606 is "almost certainly nearer to the autograph than is the MS » bndge town official who was certainly satirised by Ruggle in 19no­ This brings Leishman to his firstmain problem-that of dates. 1615; ra;:,,", but in The Return, Part Two, the butt is rather the The Pilgrimage to Parnassus, w ole profe confirms that the first Play, was ssion of Common Lawyers). Sarrazin's suggestion (Shake­ certainly performed first at Christmas 1598-9, and the third ahr u j b ch, XXXI) that Gullio impersonates Henry Wriothesley, The Return, Part Two (or The Progresse from Parnassus ?--see p. o r SOuthamp ton and later a benefactor of the College , is dismissed ,. at the same season, 1601-2. At this latter point an article by Profe 55 54 THE EAGLE R EV IEW S it, - failed to reach Liihr's suggestion (DieDrei CambridgeSpiele von that o If have Parnass), r t th y \ author, "to nd to reg � �; ming a single imitates Gabriel Harvey, is admitted as a half-truth at least; ...ward a w r audience �\: :� have given ther:n suggestion is made that Stupido to you . . r to what you represents William Gouge of polit IS f ri This : present work : � 11. 47-8). a notorious Puritan and nephew of William Whitaker. His that your ( note on p. 222, ult them fact that ely, to ins l� but for the have a good man to my vncle, that neuer wore capp nor is , sur t Plausible surples been at leas . the prose ee l ou'ght have On, P . 24) that his life ", would then be given added point before a J ohnian audie (Introd uctl nce asserte d was adde d . In has already ence l· S taken . as a reference to their late Master ; it might, however, instead refer . u·fi c ant sent c the Slgr and was wntten from whi erformance, another of Gouge's uncles, Chaderton, then Master of Emmanuel. � a secon d The occasion of 11. 23-4). Probably on the ( ote on p. 220, the only controversial section of the Introducti the author � efore other , . but does not ther rest is substantially a revision and than 1 se s WO !k , collation of earlier scholarsIUp---i to someone e is assuredly that which deals with the authorship of the Plays. Mr Leishman is authors. for two . · ·tla· 1 " natural " tbe argument. questlOn t eh IDl concerned only with direct textual evidence, and wisely omits aII0 wed to case, if we are . can be estab- notice of claims ity of authorship advanced on the tenuous basis of analogy of unt l f ghtfull na written, and del Y alone-he will not therefore be troubled � � ��;:: e is � d by the most recent :��� g direct an IImem two Plays are forward, albeit casually, by the editor of nng hil th ther The Poems of Joseph of o phrase "wit ' uppose that the . � (A. Davenport : Liverpool University Press, 1949) on behalf of �:,!:s a ra " t � �� � � � : constructlOn, an subject-but if the erence in theme and . field is thus narrowed, it is immediately thi d'ff of View, From this point again by the proposition that there was tyle and spirit. . more than one author. iIIe ce form of �he :n � ; : the allegon�al assumption has been made elsewhere recently by Mary Crapo detracts nothing ". T s onstructlO brilliantly " good inuention � � (Playwriting for Elizabethans, Columbia University � , standard 1600-5, the " ideal, 'ParnaSSlan 1949) who writes of the Plays as "the product to be that of of certain UnKJlOWl cing " (loc. Clt. as "forced and unconv Cambridge wits ", and refers again later to "the authors ". But dismissed � dramatIc forms of The the obviously different she offers no argument to support an opinion which has not so the if this does explain adequately been two Returns ; generally approved (and she cannot have seen the present breaks down quill ", the case for two authors Miss Hyde may possibly be suspected .. ruder of the fo lly of wishing that " the general resem­ Leishman himself notes (p. 29) authors where she finds three plays. striking, between all three plays is very Mr Leishman, and presentation in contrast, has a carefully argued case to one author was con­ if it be really true that more than He follows a line suggested by Moore Smith (Modern Language "the balance of evidence (he asserts shortly afterwards that vol. x), who first drew from some words in the verse prologue to unity could, be in favour of two authors "), "what a surprising Return, Part Two, the notion that The Pilgrimage and various orthographic The age, be achieved by collaborators ". The Part One, were written by different authors. the cited may again suggest more than one hand behind doubt but Previte-Orton's observation about the author-" no "In Scholers fo rtunes twise forlorne and dead or two may have helped him at times when invention ran Twise hath our weary pen earst laboured, �"_eems quite adequate, and even probable, as an explanation. Making them Pilgrims to Pernassus hill, after all, a College play, and collaboration of this sort would Then penning their retume with ruder quill." quite natural. The nature and circumstances of the Plays should be borne in mind The key to the argument is the phrase "with ruder quill " which, we turn to look briefly at the succeeding Text and Commentary. As both Moore Smith and Leishman, "naturally " means " by a differen, as the text is concerned, many corrections of Macray's reading author ", and on this assumption a further phrase is invoked to the interpretation. been made (a work initiated by Moore Smith in 1915, Modern In the prose prologue to the same play the 0 ·Iaave vol and punctuation-a perpetual problem with tion is made : �e Review, . x), sort ?f material-has been thoroughly revised to give, in certain this "and at this time the scene is not at Pernassus, that is, looks not , places, shghtly new shades of meaning. But on the whole, though it inuention in the face ". be corru:orting to know that the text at hand has been prepared � �ut1on and care, its narrative is essentially as before. One IS qUite This, writes Leishman, "can only be interpreted as anapology for familiar with Macray's text has to look very carefully ' often to a professed inferiority of the present play (and also, perhaps, of note ID. h t e Commentary, in order to locate many of the made. predecessor) to The Pilgrimage, whose scene was at Parnassus Further, assuming two authors, thus " to set up a predecessor's 57 56 THE EAGLE REVIEWS victims to that The Commentary itself is overwhelming : great industry and to fall unwitting and satire, so humanism rgraduates laugh lie behind its findings and no opportunity fo r explanations is in their abethan unde rich ch the Eliz w. S. cism at whi M. It is this as much as anything that distinguishes the two scholasti ageS. editions of the Plays. Macray, as Leishman reminds us, "was in their p an historian and archivist ", so that we should not expect from 1949·) more than the three pages of Notes and three of Glossary DLEY. (London, Hide. By DAVID BRA follow his text. Mr Leishman, on the other hand, sets out to No place to in the period immediately of the College of service to the whole academic world. Defining in the Preface was a member and after the J. BradIey a doctor during role as editor of the " Parnassus " Plays, he insists that he must " his duties as D. the war. Later monitor " with the preceding as "radiological in mind the interests, not merely of the general reader and the gruesome assignment -the aptly war led to a at Bikini of Elizabethan drama, but those of specialists in many particular out the atom-bomb tests fo rce that carried published in America, This book, first those (to name but a few) of literary, social, academic, legal and task Crossroads ". named " Operation record of the precautions, only the day-to-day siastical historians ; those of historians of education, of medicult:, no secrets, but impression of the contains it gives a closer sports and pastitnes ; those of antiquaries in general ; those of aftermath. As such the tests, and the an attitude more sensational accounts, logists and lexicographers ; and also, because of the opportunities than other Kwaj'lin -"n's attitude eaking native of by the only English-sp afforded of comparing a manuscript with a printed text, those is summed up to their homes, be able to return they would not bibliographers and textual critics " (p. vi). The result is that ' Told that island without their remain in an inferior tion has been crowded into the Commentary in such a way that, years, and must "he said, sadly and respect- fish and coconuts, a particular note may be of interest to one it will bore nine, and supply of 1.P . w. sorry to hear this ' " . which is commonplace for one (the one, often, for whose special are very it is included) will be news to nine ; and the text assumes an itnDonano Go to the Zoo? not for what it is but for what it has been fo rced to become. of Blaydencroft or Why JAMES and DONALD R.uDD. If Macray had his faults as an editor, as an archivist and in three Acts, by COLlN Group. Cambndge, he was never exposed to the danger of overestitnating his privately by the Young Writers' It must be insisted that the "Parnassus " Plays, hurriedly 1949· and with rough skill, compiled for a festive entertainment, were ) it writing ", wrote Hazlitt, '''W ere ceived with all of the humour and levity that inspires a College "The genuine source of comic � n the at all ', is undoubtedly to be found � They have an abiding interest, first for members of the College must live, or have no life ers." Those first m the distinguishing peculiarities of men and mann which they were originally written and performed, and secondly as over at a given point in time, have the advantage unique example of undergraduate spirit in a past age. But can field of this writing, comedy must focus 'those who fo llow them : really to live, therefore, passage of titne alter our sense of values so much that yesterday' con­ upon the ever-changing norm rather than upon the momentarily "Christmas toy " can to-day become its encyclopaedia? With the of spicuous eccentricity. The joint-authors of this piece, the latter edition of the "Parnassus " Plays before us, we can only admit whom is an undergraduate of this College, often show signs in their it is so. But we can also sound a fo rlorn note of regret that, under writing that they have grasped this point quite firmly, so that Go whole apparatus of modern critical technique, something has Why 10 Zoo ? sets out with earnest of success. It has already gained first lost to view. We prize above all the spirit of these comedies, the award in the Young Writers' Group annual competition, which ensures transient qualities, their rich but rude relevance to their age and its early performance in Cambridge ; and since it is a play which must society which produced them, their gay innuendo and vulgar be seen to be believed (which should be true of all plays) final judge­ and we almost miss all this as we find the Plays wreathed with an ment should be deferred. Meanwhile, something relevant can be said. of academic respectability. Where is Madido now? We shall gaze for three Acts upon the domestic scene of one of Eng­ n the genius of xijd a quart will indite manie liuelie lines in !a d'� stately homes, seat of Arthur, Lord Blaydencroft, where attempt "0, IS bemg made to avert complete and Crippsian ruin. The main device houre, whils an ould drousie Academicke, an old Stigmaticke, an . employed I sober Dromeder toiles a whole month often scratcheth his S the establishment within its walls of a Commercial & A demy for Young head for the bringinge of one miserable Period into the worlde." � Ladies. "It may mean opening the stables ", twitte rs Maud, the dowager, "but I've always maintained they were too good There is undoubtedly a great deal of value and interest in this for horses." This brings the outside world to Blaydencroft Id edition of the " Parnassus " Plays, and their publication rescues �� gent�y dominated by J oanna Meredith, the Principal ; organise er effiC d from the fate of general oblivion : what had become rare now ient and iconoclastic A.D.C., Miss Pinogle ; and kept in remains costly. But it is a strange fate which has allowed these 8 THE EAGLE 59 5 REVIEWS e, they smooth ing order by Leonard Potts, a suburban socialist which, in this piec runn nd Coward to ey of Waugh a circle, therefore, th Marxian anticipation of the fall of the aristocracy. He, and the that world such a closed o belong. In is a lot of Brides­ with him, learn here the lesson Marx never taught, how ed again t fle drab. There invit line to be a tri . The pro­ ingenuity, accidental common sense, and good-humoured ar and inc bastian in Nicholas tOO famili too much Se racters Blaydencroft, give to these cha prevent the relentless operation of iron economic laws. about nly be able to rs will certai authors have with­ is saved by the haphazard accumulation of human devices and acto uality, which the s, nice individ w new life from threatened disintegration of the geyser again becomes the nctive qualitie s Suggested, dra �ti the play will, a uliarities of social problem, which it has never entirely ceased to be ; and from them, and reality, the pec the wO removes from ed, But at t play the fault is limit ends. erentiae. In this s effective diff comic writing on the The plot adequately sustains the dialogue, which is the chief are les to sustain their be its undoing; but more fully from of the play and explains the significance of its main title. It and will not ors must draw reaches, these auth ellectual, gb level it often rather than their int becomes complicated, and is rarely allowed to be more than inciuent: hi ng of their actual, eper, fresher spri M . w. s. though attached to it are some cleverly conceived "plotlets " the d� ers. of men and mann sequences. One of these-built around a policeman's helmet, a expenence tipsy Guards officer, an oil-painting, and a stunned lady on to the accompanying cry of "Burglars !"-provides the dramatic situation of the play, and proves the skill of the authors theatrical architects. But it is character and conversation which matter most, and in these there is not always the same degree accomplishment. The old regime which triumphs in the end is fully represented by Lord Blaydencroft himself, "a twentieth-(;enru Canute waiting for the tide to turn ...whose attention is divided the past and the future, leaving none for the present ". Twin pillar this regime is Perivale, the eternal butler, who " tends to look upon servants' wing as his own castle-as, in a way, it is, since he's the one " (here is the ever-changing norm at its best). These two, allied Mr Potts senior, who has been a Conservative ever since he shook with the King during the Blitz, save the situation by their disbelief in the worst-they are "more content being than The main clash of ideologies and temperaments centres in

Truman-Hastings, daughter of the house, alternately wooed by Maltravers-" he's practically indistinguishable from any other officer who's been through public school "-and Len (socialist) who wins her in the end, and thereby helps to bolster up the whose end he has been taught to expect daily. The character who disappoints the reader most-but who may delight the audience-is Nicholas Truman-Hastings (his friends him Nicky). Poet, playboy, "up at Oxford ", he is a brittle, whim�l"11 creature, thrown into the play to add variety to its dialogue, if ever, to enrich its plot. He must be more familiar to the than the writing suggests, but, at just that point where they most naturally be expected to draw from their own experience, offer only a suggestive shell, leaving too much to the imagina reader, producer or actor. Here, though there are hints of it where, is revealed the main inadequacy of their craft, leading ask : Where does the population of this play come from ? Too I think, from life at second-hand, from the theatre itself and the novel. Some of the characters achieve subtle refinements make them just sufficiently different, but some seem to come 61 60 THE EAGLE JOHNIANA me Master of the ow in 1782, beca man and Fell Hymers, ith's prize in 1816. Dr John JOHN IANA Sm Vice-Chancellor in in 1815 and placed second wrangler of Wordsworth, was lives to-day in relation ship. His name (a) Receivedfrom R. Somerville : elected to a fellow 1827 Hymers's many successful and in school. One of Roger Kenyon to his brother George, 7 April 17II: n Yorkshire wrangler and second well-know Colenso, second was John William Bishop of Natal from Fellow in 1837 and " You are so much a college man still that I dare say you prizeman in 1836, concerned to know that we have lost Dr Gower at St John's, Who about ten days ago. His place, indeed, is very worthily filled Dr Jenkins, who was a part of our family in Brownl6w Street, three months since Christmas. He is likewise chosen professor. "

Dr Gower had died on 27 March : he was buried in the chapel on the day on which Kenyon wrote. Robert Jenkins, was elected Master on 9 April, was admitted on the 13th. knowledge of and interest in these events came from the fact he was a Fellow.

(b) Receivedfrom H. H. Huxley :

THREE JOHNIAN MATHEMATICIANS "Sanctius his animal, cui quadravisse rotundum Musae suadet amor, Camique ardentis imago, Inspicat calamos contracta fronte malignos, Perque Mathematicum pelagus, loca turbida, anhelat. Circum dirus Hymers, nee pondus inutile, 'Lignum', , Salmo ' -que, et pueris tu detestate, Colenso, Horribiles visu fo rmae ; livente notatae Ungue omnes, omnes insignes aure canina."

In 1853 Charles Stuart Calverley, then an undergraduate perhaps already admitted a scholar of Christ's College (of which was later to become Lady Margaret Fellow) composed the C. SQlJcula�e, a celebrated skit on Cambridge life. C. S. C.'s as was made evident both by examinations and by his pllnl1snc works, was classical rather than mathematical ; and from the quoted above it may be inferred that poetical numbers alone him. Of the four mathematicians (H ymers, "Lignum ", "Salmo " Colenso) to whose works humorous reference is made, all " Salmo " entered St John's College as sizars and were elected to fellowships. "Salmo " is George Salmon (181�'­ Fellow of the Royal Society and a distinguished alumnus of College, Dublin. Dr James Wood ("Lignum "), Senior W 63 N OTES 62 THE EAGLE C O L LEG E the wn welfare or for either for his o gen ration, g our own � . durin glc destmy. his scientific COLLEGE NOTES ation of a tra at not only does culmin ord confirms th l rd's own rec ionally said to dwel Sir Edwa gels were convent where the an of righteous­ take him to side of the forces Honorary Degrees work is also on the n ere below he demic administratio but that h est ranges of aca At the celebration of Foundation Day in the University of urs in the high of Scientific ss. His labo the Department ne the Director of the HI' on 25 November 1949, Honorary Doctorates were conferred extended from llor and Principal of have e Vice-Chance "persons of conspicuous merit". Of these, three were memuer Research to th awarded the and Industrial has already been urgh. Sir Edward the College : Sir Edward Appleton, Sir Frederic Bartlett and rsity of Edinb ions both in England Unive university institut Percy Winfield. The following addresses were delivered by e for Physics and to him their Nobel priz ent have extended . on the contin e Public Orator on this occasion : d in Scotland and almost by now hav an this process must degrees, so that hope that our honorary habitual. We would ent for him of the of . an elem e not only Chancellor, I present to you Sir EDWARD A PLET N gained e for him the valu p o degree would hav con- own honorary inal work and of his In Sir Edward Appleton the University would honour one ition of his great orig extending our recogn in recollection of . cation as a whole but has combined the difficult functions of being not only a ona to university edu ..a.uti the University of London. investigator of a rare and original kind but also one of those and important connection with admit by the authority of the Senate, to of science upon whom the welfare and destiny of our country you, Chancellor, of Laws, the Degree of Doctor come so increasingly to depend. He stands in that great VICTOR APPLETON to of British physicists and, particularly for his work in the electro-magnetism, may be regarded as a rightful successor in direct line of descent from Clerk Maxwell, who preceded him by Sir FREDERIC BARTLETT. Chancellor, I present to you Professor sixty-fiveyears in the Wheatstone Chair of Physics at King's memory that Psychol�gy as It is within the period of living � The range of his most original discoveries in the fields of disciplines of our Umverslty established itself as one of the major and wireless telegraphy is of a character which cannot be investigation have coloured studies and the results of its research and to a language which the layman can easily comprehend. Such of all types in cepts of individual conduct and relationships been his discoveries even as a young man in the properties of the co� industry and society. of the upper atmospheres that a whole region of the empyrean now Director It is gratifying to recall that Sir Frederic Bartlett, been named after him, an ambition for which even Lucifer pre-eminent of the Psychological Laboratory at Cambridge, who is did not contend. For those discoveries his name has been in this field,began his career in theUniversity of London as a graduate in Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary which defines in the older discipline of Philosophy, and followed his studies with layer as "an ionised region in the atmosphere, about I miles 50 a Mastership with special distinction in Sociology and Ethics. From that deflects ether waves ". that early study in Philosophy he brought to psychological investiga­ Thus Sir Edward, assured of immortality, moves with an ease tion the scientific methods of experiment and research, while ever an equanimity in the higher atmospheres far beyond the retaining a profound interest in the social implications of his investi­ standing of ordinary men, and indeed is able not only to gations. There are, indeed, few aspects of human life which Sir messages to these high places but to measure their distortion. Frederic has not illuminated by psychological method. His earliest o disc veries are characteristic of the greatest glories of work d�alt with that problem so baffling to the majority of investi­ y physics : simple and original in their origin, carried through b gato� In all fields, that of memory, and some of his most recent most arduous and elegant complexities to lucid conclusions of expenments" have been on that problem which. comes to all men and found significance. Further he has had the exceptional gift of women In hme, the problem of old age. Further his research in the fi able to express his findings on scientific and other matters in eld of personnel selection and conditions of work has probably in­ cre and gracious English. To hear the record of his accomplishment ased the happiness and the professional competence of innumerable to learnof that formidable conquest over nature which man has 65 64 THE EAGLE N O T ES C O L LEGE men and women and has also been of great value to the ellowships services. Sir Frederic's laboratory at Cambridge, one of the Elections to F centres of University study in Psychology in Great Britain and urer in Anatomy. niversity Lect the largest and best equipped in the country, has been a DAVlES, U w, University Lec- JACK formerly Fello ground for many of the best known psychologists. No tribute EToN, urer. MO TIlUR LYTTL College Lect Y ND AR cS ; appointed Sir Frederic's distinction or his powers of collaboration with RA in Mathemati working in other fields is possibly greater than his appointment to urs List Medical Research Council, a body which does not without Hono siderable scrutiny admit non-medical members to its counsels. y Honours, I request you, Chancellor, by the authority of the Senate, to Birthda 1949 : FREDERIC CHARLES BARTLETT to the Degree of Doctor of B.E. : of the Asso- I ! O. General Secretary "I ACKLlN (B.A. ), honoris causa. Mr L. H. M 1924 ic. Royal Schools of Mus ciated Board of the Chancellor, I present to you Professor Sir PERCY WINFIELD. University Awards e to members of In none of the great professions is the relationship of the awards have been mad following University and routine practice to the contemplation of fundamentals killeKe : important than in the law. We in the University of London L. A. GIUNT (B.A. · Studentship for 49 : 1947) have maintained a long tradition in legal education and 19 .A. p: G. W. HUTCIlINSON (B 1942). confirmedrecently by the establishment of our Institute of Maxwell Scholarshi Warr Fund : M. Legal Studies, can most properly acclaim the honour of adding from the George Charles Winter COFFEY the number of our honorary graduates the most (B.A. 1949)· (B.A. academic lawyer of our time. We live in a perilous period, when Wiltshire Prize (shared) : E. WruGHT 1949)· interpretation of the meaning of law, and the application of (Matric. Senior Scholefield Prize: W. H. VANSTONE 1948). sanctions, have been subjected to abuse and a most specious (B.A. Prize in Thermodynamics : F. N. 1944)· and for these very reasons we can value the more highly the work Ricardo KIRBY one who has examined and clarified with such sincerity and Academic Appointments tion the principles upon which the law of a civilised ed : must be based. The pageantry of law and its glittering prizes The following University appointments are announc

. Fellow. continue to belong to those who preside and practise in our Reader in Microbiology : Dr E. F. GALE (B A. 1936), but behind them there must be the fundamental study and DEER University Lecturer in Mineralogy and Petrology : Dr W. A. pursuit of first principles by those among whom Sir Percy (Ph.D. Fellow. is eminent. With him teaching and research have always gone 1937), University Lecturer in Law : Mr SCOTT (B.A. Fellow. in hand, and his deep knowledge of our legal history has K. 1939), Univers Demonstrator in Engineering : Mr J. PASCOE (B.A. been used to illumine the problems of contemporary law. It ity K. safely be said that there is no teacher of law in recent times 1941). writings are cited by practitioners and listened to by judges University Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics : Dr'D. G. NORTH­ greater respect, and who at the same time has placed so high COTT (B.A. 1938), Fellow. duty to his students and won so firm a place in their affections University Assistant Lecturer in English: Mr J. I. BROMWICH respect. (B.A. 193 ), Fellow. I request you, Chancellor, by the authority of the Senate, to 7 N. F. r of MI� ASTBURY (B.A. 1929) has been appointed Professo PERCY HENRY WINFIELD to the Degree of Doctor of Laws, A . led Ph S. CS m Technology, pp Y 1 the New South Wales University of causa. y dn ey S (1949). II:LIV 5 66 THE EAGLE 67 COLLEGE NOTES Mr R. J. GETTY (B.A. 1930 ), formerly Fellow, Professo Hampshire, at University r of NHAM (B.A. 19I1), vicar of Hursley, College, Toronto, has been Visiting ev. J. P. DE Professor 'of The R y (1949)· at the University of Chicago of Dunsfold, Surre during the Summer Quarter, be rector 1 of Chertsey, Surrey, Mr A. L. HALES to HOLTHOUSE (B.A. 1909), vicar (B.A. 1933) has been appointed The Rev. L. Applied Mathematic C. ey, Hampshire (1949) s in the University of Cape vicar of Hursl ' Town (1949). to be 1922), priest in charge of Great with Mr W. K. HAYMAN (B.A. 19 . F. LUTLEY (B.A. 46), Fellow, lecturer in The Rev with Broken- at University College, A. Wiltshire, to be vicar of Charlton Exeter, has been appointed lecturer Little Somerford, University, at ry (1949)· Providence, Rhode Island, for rough, Malrnesbu the session 1949-50. bo Mr J. REYNOLDS (B.A. 1936), vicar of White Ladies H. HORLOCK (Matric. 1946) was The Rev. W. J. awarded a scholarship (1949)· summer course at the Massachusetts , to be vicar of Hallow, Worcestershire Institute of Technology, Aston bridge, Massachusetts, from June (B.A. 1931), vicar of Loversal, to September 1949. The Rev. P. R. K. WHITAKER Dr L. Masborough (1949)' HOWARTH (B.A., from Yorkshire, to be vicar of St John, Caius, 1933), Fellow, has appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics in the TT • Bristol. Ordinations, 12 June 1949 : Mr K. G. W. WOODWARD (B.A. 1947), by the Archbishop H. JACKSON (B.A. 1931), Deacon : Mr fo rmerly Fellow, Middlesborough. Celtic at Harvard University, of York, to the curacy of St John, has been appointed Prof Languages, essor of Bishop of Literature, History and Antiquities . Priest : The Rev. J. H. SWINGLER (B .A. 1941), by the Edinbur in the U gh (1949). Bath and Wells ; the Rev. J. C. WORTHINGTON (B.A. 1939), by the ; the Rev. F. C. LINDARS (B.A. 1945), by the Dr M. G. KENDALL (B.A. 1929) has been Bishop of Sheffield appointed Profp�,,� Bishop of Durham. Statistics at the London School of Economics, University of from I October 1949. 25 September 1949 : Mr D. M. LANG (B.A. 1945), Fellow, has been appointed Deacon : Mr H. W. MANCE (B.A. 1940), by the Bishop of Ripon, time research lecturer in Georgian at the School of Oriental the curacy of St George, Leeds. African Studies, University of London (1949). He has also appointed Editor of the Cambri dg e Review for the year 1949- Mr H. M. PELLING (B.A. 1942) has been Other Appointments and elected an Official Praelector in Modern History in the Queen's College, Dr S. G. ASKEY (B.A. 1910) has been elected vice-president of Dr A. J. B. ROBERTsoN the Society (B.A. 1941), fo of Ornamental Turners (1949). awarded rmerly Fellow, has a Senior Studentship by the Commissioners for Mr R. L. BENNETT (B.A. 1943) has been given a bursary by his Exhibition of 1851, for P. research in Physical Chemistry firm Crompton Parkinson, Limited, Institution, at the electrical engineers, to take a London (1949). two-year post-graduate course in business administration at Harvard Mr ]. A. C. ROBERTsoN ( 1949)· (B.A. 1934), of H.M. Treasury, elected to a Commonwealth has Fund Fellowship, tenable . Mr A. A. A. FYZEE (B.A. 1925) in the United States, at a has been appointed Indian ­ fo r the year U bassador to Egypt Am beginning September 1949. (1949). Mr HARRIS (B.A. G. H. G. 1948) has been appointed assistant youth employment Ecclesiastical Appointments officer at Guildford, Surrey (1949). Mr T. The Rev. R. LEATHEM (B.A. 1933), headmaster A. F. BELLMAN (B.A. 1912 S of Ludlow Grammar ), vicar of 1'11111Uw .w Chool, has been Yorkshire, to be honorary appointed headmaster of Caterham School from canon of St Cuthbert January 1950 Cathedral (1949). in ...... ------

68 THE EAGLE 69 COLLEGE NOTES Mr G. W.PATTISON (B .A. 1948) has been appointed rutor of the Fenland Federation of -oro .. 1937) to WENDY GLEDHILL-on the Workers' Educational MEAAELLS (B.A. (194 GEORGE LUEN 9)· lington, Surrey. e 1949, at Wal 25 Jun E, Mr G. H. WALKER E. 1943) to CAROLlNE MCCANC (B.A. 1930) has been AIRLIE OGILVY (Matric. adopted as I{ENNETH Cambridgeshire­ Liberal candidate for Barnsley R. A. McCance, of Bartlow, (1949). daughter of Professor 49, at St Edward's, Cambridge. on 17 September 19 37) to ALlSON STRANGE, only WALTER RADFORD (B.A. 19 RONALD 10 September of Olton, Birmingham-on Marriages daughter of L. H. Strange, 1949, at Olton. MARTIN ACKLAND BENIANS (B.A. 1941) to ELISABETH RITCHIE (B.A. 1947) to WANDA MAR­ MATTHEWS, I{ENNETH JOHN STEWART younger daughter of A. Grant C. F. B. Bowlby, Matthews, of BOWLBY, only daughter of Captain on II August 1949, GARET ANGELA at Wesley Church, Cambridge. el's, Chester Square, S.W. 1. R.N.-on 7 July 1949, at St Micha MALCOLM NORMAN DAVIDSON r (B.A. 1947) HELEN .A. 1936) to THELMA BARBARA LYNAs, to GEORGE STANLEY RusHBROOKE (B daughter of Francis William Lynas, 16 July 1949, at of Bangor, Co. only child of Herbert Cox, of Leeds-on on 14 September 1949, Cox, at Helen's Bay Presbyterian . Down. Church, Headingley Hill Church, Leeds. EDWARD SANDBACH (B.A. 1937) to BRENDA RICHARD STAINTON JAMES LANCE DAVIS , (Matric. 1946) to EVELYN CLEMINsoN-on 10 September 1949, at St Margaret's Church VAUGH AN SIMPKINSON, daughter of the Rev. F. V. Repton-on 16 August SimpkiI.u�•• 1949, at St Wystan 's Church, Repton. SEALE (B.A. 1948) to ELISABETI-I C. GRILLET-on ROLAND �.IUCHAIW ARTHUR ELL IS FRANKLIN j I (Matric. 1944) to 1949, in Cambridge. STOUTZKER, elder daughter of the Rev. A. Stoutzker I 1949, -on 23 RICHARD BODDINGTON SERJEANT (B.A. 1932) to PRISCILLA AMy at the New West End Synagogue. STOGDON, daughter of J. Stogdon, H.C., of Swanage-on 15 October MICHAEL VERNER HAGGARD (B.A. 1944) to NANCIE LYLE, 1949, in London. of Dr J. B. Lyle, of JI, Broxbourne, Wakefield, NORMAN OHNSON SMITH OAN ELIZABETH K.ENDALL, Yorkshire-on J (B .A. 1943) to J 1949, at St Luke's, 23 I, Sydney Street, S.W. 3. only daughter of B. Kendall, of Harrogate-on 6 August 1949, at , MICHAEL I BREWER HAMILTON St John's Church, Bilton, Harrogate. '1 ,' �I (B.A. 1948) to JUNE ORMROD, daughter of Marcus Ormrod, of Cambridge-on 22 July ALFRED GIMSON STANSFELD (B.A. 1938), M.B., to JEAN MARY St Edward's, Cambridge. THOBURN, elder daughter of Hugh Thoburn, of Pympne Manor, CHARLES STEPHENS HEDLEY Benenden, Kent-on 18 June 1949, at St George's Church, Benenden. (B.A. 1928) to JOAN VIV.IAN on 8 July 1949, in London. ROBERT IAN STOKES (B.A. 1947) to HAZEL JOAN LIDSToNE-on BARTHOLOMEW FRANCIS 17 August 1949, at Harrow Congregational KNIGHT (B.A. Church. COMBE 1938) to AUDREY SANDFORD, third daughter DOUGLAS Rass TELFER ' of Brigadier D. A. SandfoH., (B.A. 1948) to HEDY LEHNER, younger Ewhurst, Surrey-on daughter 12 August 1949, at the Church of Friedrich J. Lehner, of Vienna-on 23 August 1949, St Paul, of St Peter Ewhurst. at Aughton Parish Church, Lancashire. JOHN NOEL LEucHARs DAVID HEALY TEW (B.A. 1937) to ELSA HAZEL PARKES, (Matric. E. 1942) to NORAH KATHLEEN of C. E. Parkes, of Esher URPHY, only daughter -on 3 September 1949, at Christ M of T. W. Brown, of Albrighton, Wolver­ Esher. hampton--{)n 3 October 1949, in London. RONALD THORNTON MASSER (Matric. 1944) to HEATHER youngest daughter of Arnold Rust, of Chelsea-on 2 July St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Cheam, Surrey. .... ---- .. ------

70 THE EAGLE 71 OBITUARY Fellow, Emeritus OBITUARY ERRY (B.A. 1894), formerly L) KNoX M E n ROBERT c f , Belfast, died 10 July 1949, , Queen's University CECIL BERTRAM SCOTT fessor of Greek ALLOTT (RA. 1908), science pro Hymers College, master 80. Hull, since 1922, died aged aged at Hull 23 June Emeritus of Physics 63. MORTON (B.A. 1892), Professor WILLlAM BLAIR 12 August 1949, aged 81. versity, Belfast, died EDWARD ARNOLD ANTHONY Queen's Uni (RA. 1888), Congregational in s died 19 1892), honorary canon of StMary' September 1949 at Banstead, CHARLES NEWBERY (B.A. Surrey, aged 81. FRANCIS 80. died 24 November 1949, aged JOHN BAIRSTOW (B.A. Cathedral, Glasgow, 1890), for many years secretary shire of the y, Christ Church, Penrith, from Union of Golf Clubs, died NlVEN (B.A. 1911), vicar of at Halifax 9 August 19 HUGH 49, aged 61. 1937, died 8 July 1949, aged WILLIAM EDWARD BANNERMAN (RA. 1887), late vicar of ector Westmo A. 1900), knight, Sc.D., formerly Dir rland, died in Ireland 5 EnWIN HALL PASCOE (B. October 1949, aged 82. 5 July 1949, Geological Survey of India, died in London ROBERT RICHARD of the BRANFORD (B.A. 1947) died at Brackley 29 aged 71. I 1949, aged 29. ry in CHARLES BERTRAND PURSER (B.A. 1900), mlsslOna FRANCIS DOUGLAS CAUTLEY ry of the Pwo­ (B.A. 1900), formerly headmaster 1904 to 1928, and author of a dictiona Hawtreys Preparatory School, Westgate, died died 25 June 1949 at Bromley College, Kent, aged 71. � I at the 23 September )1 Lodge, Westgate on Sea, Kent, aged 71. I ' Ii, ilrr..W1XlT VIZARD (B.A. 1897) died at Hove 21 June 1949, ARDESHIR RUSTOM]I DALAL, K.C.I.E. (RA. 1907), formerly Indian Civil Service, of a director of the Tata Iron Limited, and Steel Company PARRY WAY (B.A. 1892), prebendary of Lichfield, and and a member of the Viceroy's Council Development, for Planning fOimerly vicar of Eccleshall, Staffordshire, died 1 December 1949, died in Bombay 8 October 1949, aged 65. aged 79. JOHN HERBERT CRANGLE FEGAN (Matric. 1888), M.R.C.S., L.R.c formerly deputy commissioner .p GEORGE YATES (B.A. 1931) died 20 June 1949, aged 39. of medical services, Ministry ALFRED Pensions, died at Leverstock Green, Hertfordshire, aged 77. 26 July I

SAMUEL DAvENPORT FAIRFAX HARWOOD (B.A. 1901), head of chemical department, South-Eastern Agricultural College, Kent, died at Wye 3 July 1949, aged 69. CHARLES HERBERT HEATH (B.A. 1888), master at King School, Birmingham, from 1898 to 1931, curate of St Edgbaston, died at Edgbaston 22 June 1949, aged 84. MURRAY HORNIBROOK (RA. 1898) died 9 September Etretat, France, aged 76. GWILYM JAMES (B.A. 1905), M. R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of LIaneIly and Aberystwyth died at Aberystwyth 24 June 1949, aged 69. PHILIP LAKE (B.A. 1887), Reader in Geography Cambridge in the University of from 1919 to 1927, died in Cambridge 12 , aged 84. June 1949