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PAGE From a Latin Hymn on St John the Evangelist 224 Voluntaries 226 The Hymn Book 229 Halley's Comet 236 "Cornish Breakers" 237 Obituary 239 Our Chronicle 247 The Library 277 Notes tram the College Records (con/iuued) 28'i\ THE EAGLE. In Memoriam : Edward VII. 317 "By your Worship and a Dymchurch Jury" 318 October Term 1909. St Venus' Eve 328 The Rose by Other Names 332 The Book Invisible 345 OF Hallucinations 347 THE QUATER CENTENARY The Upper River 353 LADY MARGARET. The New Hymn Book and Certain of Our Own Poets 354 Epigram 358 June 1909, the four­ [llN St Peter's day, 29 The Hand of Plato in Modern Legislation 359 Lady Margaret's hundredth anniversary of Catullus 363 preached in death, the Dean of Westminster The New Window in Chapel 364 service on our the Abbey at the afternoon Commemoration Sermon 377 by Torrigiano, is one Foundress, whose tomb, Unveiling of the New Window 387 saintly of the jewels of the church. Memorial Service 89 and other 3 a party viewed the tomb Reviews Near midnight 390 distributed lamp-light, and the Dean Obituary: monuments by masterpiece. Rev Herbert Edward Trotter M.A. 396 photographs of Torrigiano's in the Jerusalem Chamber Rev Edwarcl Kerslake Kerslake M.A .. 398 At eight o'clock there met Richard Burton Worthington M. A. foundations of Lady Margaret, 399 guests representing all the hosts Our Chronicle she has left a name. The 400 and all the places where The Library 421 of Westminster. Among were the Dean and Chapter List of Subscribers, 1909-10. of Canterbury, the those present were the Archbishop Salisbury), Dr Sanday (of Lord High Steward (Lord of Cambridge (Dr A. J. Oxford), the Vice·Chancellor Christ's, and St John's, Mason), the Masters of Trinity, (Dr Gow), Dr Bonney the Headmaster of Westminster formerly a master there), (a Governor of Westminster, Wimborne (where Lady and the Headmaster of B VQL. XXXI. of Lady Uargm·et. 3 2 The Quater Centenary of Lady Margaret. The Quater Cwtena:ry

was prosecuted by Alma !Vfater >' l\fargaret's father and mother lie in the minster). the past. Wood as fanz'tor to thP. Bodleian, Speeches were made by the Dean, the Masters of Thomas Hearne, going In Cambridge Thomas Baker Christ's and Trinity, and the Lord High Steward. The found the lock changed. as socius ezectus; William Cole chorister boys sang songs from Comus to Henry lived twenty-four years away from us; they are Lawes's setting, etc. in dudgeon left his collections Museum. Charles Henry I said, amongst other things, something of this kind. an ornament of the British from his own lips) the Lady Margaret has left to us not only estates, but an Cooper coveted (as I know but a jar between example. Our college missions are assured of her degree of M.A. I put up his name, to submit it at that approval. For she kept in her palace thirty poor men Town and Gown made it hazardous chance was lost for ever. and thirty poor women, nursed them when sick, and juncture to the Senate, and the was ever head of a followed them to the grave, so learning from them how Neither Baker nor Cole nor Masters and I may sing to die. Accomplished herself (for she translated the house Now a new day is dawning, of colleges, both sons so-called fourth book of the Imitation), she was a my Ntmc Dt'mittz:S. Two masters the history of their patron of letters and of printing-of Pynson and of Lady Margaret, are engaged on from the reproach of Wynkyn de Worde, t·.e., of Worth. This gave me a foundations, and will rescue us clue many years ago at an Old Catholic Congress, not ingratitude. And indeed it is high time. a tangled swarm long after the battle of Worth, when suddenly bidden We see at Oxford and Cambridge We provide for everything, to speak for England. I had just finished printing of new professorships. men of old. C. H. Cooper's "Life of Lady Margaret," and wished only not for our chief treasure, the famous well endowed and to shew my friends some of our links with the Old A chair of academic historiography with histories of Church. After my speech the reporters crowded up equipped with a library of biography, societies, with to learn the spelling of our outlandish names, and schools, of universities and learned in short, with all the tools of Professor Reusch kindly undertook mez'ne Rede zu calendars of state papers, kindle and foster stylz:Szren. Those who would learn the true worth of the antiquary and genealogist, would and school in the land, our Foundress must read her "Month's Mind," by local patriotism in every college and the United States to Bishop Fisher, a masterpiece of racy English, which aye, and in Greater Britain when called on to answer may be seen in the first volume of Fisher's works boot. But as Madvig said in 187 : post Cobetum loquz· uereor ; (E. E. T. S.). A younger son of Lady Margaret must Cobet, at Leyden, 5 Fisher our best eloquence is complete the edition, collecting Fisher's letters, early so we must all feel. After eulogy, and you will fear lives, and contemporary notices, British and Foreign. silence. Read his honest Among all the admirers of the martyr, Erasmus comes to intrude on holy ground. J. E. B. M. first: his "Ecclesiastes" is dedicated to Fisher; in Fisher's College, Queens', the Greek Testament was prepared, and to our Chancellor Erasmus attributes the sudden start taken by Cambridge, which left Oxford far behind in the race of learning. We hear much nowadays of University Reform. University History has found scant encouragement in N ales from the Collegt Records. 5 who has not beene scarce a man of note in the University sollicited by letters from London, by the Duke's friends and that which has given them a greale advantage is the earlinesse �;;a of them. For it happened that they came when the Univer­ sity was met together in a full body, where :findinge none to appeare as a competitor they immediately visited (a custome in the Vniversity) the members of the particular Colledges i11 NOTES FROM THE COLLEGE RECORDS his behalfe. And with that successe that a greate many then promised theire voices before they well considered what they (Conti11ued from Vol. XXX., p. 291.) did. Dr Turner, Chaplaine to his Highnesse the Duke of Yorke, has engaged vigourously in your Honour's concerne and has all the voices in the largest Colledge in the University, E commence with some documen ts, taken from besides what he has gained abroad, entirely for your Lordship. the State Papers, Dome stic, relating to the Mr Page, once Secretary to the Duke of Onnond has secured li election of George Villiers, second Duke of the votes of a greate part of his Colledge. I am secured of Buckingham, to be Chancellor of the Univer­ a good number and some of those from Trinity College, sity. Edward, Earl of Manchester, the previous Chan­ where the Duke's interest runnes highest on the account 11 cellor, died 5 May I6 7I, and as the Duke was elected that hee was once a member of that Society. The impedi­ Chancellor on May I I it is clear that no time was lost. ment I find is that wee come too late, so many are preingagecl, It would appear that the office had been coveted by and this is so unfortunately true that I assure my selfe, that Lord Arlington, and that Dr Francis Turner, the Master had I come from London on Saturday night (which I proferd of St John's, with Dr Thomas Hill of Trinity College to doe) the businesse had beene effected. But upon the acted in his interest. As electioneering agents they whole wee are as yet resolu'd not to bring your Honour's seem to have been rather timid. Dr Ralph Cudworth, name upon the stage unlesse we can gaine a more consider­ the Master of Christ's, was Vicar of Ash well in Hertford­ able party which wee hope to doe, if wee can prevaile with shire, and this was no doubt the country living where the Vicechancellour to allow us time, for I verily beleeve the he was when the news of the vacancy arrived. other party will coole by degrees, and they that manage th,at It is clear that Dr John Breton, the Master of cause are so sensible of it that they endeavour to hasten the Emmanuel, did his best for the Duke, and as Vice­ election whilst the heate lasteth. The Statute says they must Chancellor pushed the election through. choose within 14 dayes, and Dr Turner intends immediately to goe to the Vicechancellour to protract the time and that From Dr Thomas Hill to Lord Arlington. the day may not bee, as it at present intended, next Thursday. For if it happen to bee thus sudden wee are not so sufficiently May it please your Honor prepared for the contest as to runne the hazard of a tryalt Some houres before I could reach Cambridge Secretary That which gives me hopes that a delay may be advantageous. Trevour had sent one of his clerkes with a whole pacquet of is that a man may read in' the very countenances of some letters in behalfe of the Duke, one particularly to the Vice­ a sorrow that they engaged so precipitantly. My Lord, my chancellour, where, after his; owne request on that subiect, whole designe in this undertaking, whatever the issue of he addes, that bee was authorized to let him know that that it proves, was to give your Honour some testimony of the choice would be very kindly taken by his Maiesty. There is great sense I have of those many favours I have successively 6 Notes from t/1e College Records. Notes fr om the College Records. 7

received from your Lordship, which I shall forever retaine, a in the meantime nothing shall ourselves good successe, and as in duty bound always continue from, My Lord be wanting to promote that interest, My Lord, your Honor's your Lordship's most obedient and humble servant most obedient and humble servant THOMAS HILL. THOMAS HILL. Cambridge, May, 9, [16] 71 Cambridge, May 9, 71 12 of the clocke, the post going at 4 of the clocke. out at two. Eudorsed : 9 May, 1671, R. 101 Or Hill. l\Ir Cove! is not yet come. My Lord Sir, my worthy Friend If the election be defer'd Sir Robert Carr may doe your about 7 I received the favor of your letter Honour This morning much service. They were so startled at Dr Turner's Turner of St John's and Dr Cudworth our coming sent me by Dr that they sent immediately an expresse to the Duke another from you to the same effect. But of Master received Buckingham and we suppose, and have reason to thinke, engaged before, havinge beene visittecl (as we it we were so farr may bee for his Majesty's letter to necessitate the University it here) for the Duke of Buckingham on Sunday or to the choise. call last and the inclinations of the University lay so l Munclay E ldorsed: May 9, 1 R. 0. Dr Hill. against an Oxford man (you know our Academicall Humor), 'Ill that no good could be clone so late for my Lord Arlington, Dr Thomas Hill to Lord Arlington. but the Duke was chosen this day with a nc111ine contradicente. obligations to you are snch1 May it please your Honour You know, dear Sir, my personall and peculiarly in my expectancy for the professorship, that Since I wrote my last wee have had a pretty faire prospect all the of you might command not only my owne suffrage, but our businesse. Dr Turner sending to Clare Hall found Friends I could make, if it had beene in time. Believe me most of them disengaged and in other Colleclges very many, to be your much obliged all which would come over to us. What wee had then to doe and very humble servant was to perswade the Vicechancellour to defer the Congregation Jo: CARH. for the election till Munday, and I waited on him thither, Christ's College, Cambridge where wee prest the businesse home, and made I bold May 111 1671 warmely to make use of your Honour's name, and to tell friend J oseph him Addressed: For my much honoured it was a greate peice of iniustice to huddle up an Williamson, esqr. at Whitehall. election after such a manner. I beleive the Secretary's 1671, R. 12. Dr Carr. letter has prepossest him, but his answer was, after an hours Endorsed : 11 May discourse on the subiect, that hee had passed his word publickly for the election on Thursday morning. So that, Sir l\1 y Lord, unlesse wee can doe somethinge extraordinary My Lord Arlington is a person in himselfe so honourable tomorrow wee shall bee so tender of your Lordship's Honour and noble and of so great acceptance with His Majesty, and as not to put up your name. If the Vicechancellour whom your civilities have been such great obligations to me, that wee g t his Lordsh in have sufiiciently chaf'd will bee yet perswaded to defer there is nothing tendin -o ip's service, which is the election n your suggestion most which is the thing wee now labour after, and my power, that upo I should not vtmost of my layd our intelligence accordingly, I am willing to promise readily contribute the endeavors to. 8 Notes from the College Records. N ales fro/// the College Records. 9

was out punctually I of Town at my Living upon Sunday when the our words as well as· actions have beene very Post letters up the came and the bnsinesse was that day begunne related in theire dispatches, but wee had throwne and was called, carryd on vigorously, and when I returned upon Monday cards before, for as soone as the Congregation found the morning I Vniversity was generally engaged for the Duke, wee knew the game was lost. Yours coming this and did freely engage myselfe with the rest, there being the Vicechancellor I at 5 of the clocke, Dr Turner went to to then no mention made of my Lord Arlington. Since which whose answer was that bee had engaged his promise it was conceived by those who him that it knew things best that it was Secretary Trevour and to the heads (who prest not possible that there shoulci not only be any alteration made by might have been yesterday) that bee would not defer, anylhinge lesse than the Royal so tha1. Command. And I know my the Congregation but the election beyound Thursday, Lord would have iudged il very impructent if a few persons Carr. Yesterday I ha\'e not sent the enclosed to Sir Robert should have given their suffrages who for him, and have brought came Mr Couell and with him two Doctors from Bury his Lordship's name publickly upon the have stage when they had a very good interest in the Vniversity and would knew they could not prevaile. do assure you that in what­ point of I prevailed farr had wee noi beene streightened in ever lyes in my power shall ever be most readily devoted I to time, but we all concluded nothing was to be clone to purpose, His Lordship's service and compliant with your commands, Vniversity the election being next day. The sober party of the to whom I shall ever acknowledge my great obligatio11s Duke for and will not sticke privately to say they doe not like the subscribe myself Ne their Chancellour though they give their voices for him. a ours Sir, your affectionate friend, and noceat is the ground of their choice, to which friend of most humble servant a story answers, that is to sacrifice to the Diuell. There is R. that the CunwoRTH. that is spread about the towne and made use of May 11th 1671 Scholars Duke, clrolling on the Vniversity on occasion of some Christ's College, by in theire coming to see the King at Newmarket, a stancler Cambridge. for the place, hearing should say, that his father had a kindness say hee replyed Addressed: For His Honoured Friend, Joseph Williamson, with his usual preface to what hee is about to so would bee too. esquire, at My Lord Arlington's Office in Whitehall. thal if they would choose him Chancellour some persons which I could Endorsed: 11 May 1671, R. 12, Dr Cudworth. Letters have come hither from of the Duke in them not have beleevecl and commendations themselves, some are so which I am sure they do not beleeve Honoured Sir with a parenthesis of,-as modest as to relate his vertues Our adversarys have used all imaginable industry in corn­ or-as is generally reported, or those that know him best say, passing theire designe and yet, the bell now ringing for ihe the bell has done ringing some qualification in that kind. B'Jt Congregation, they are not so secured but that they fear to see ihe issue of the affaire, and wee and I am goinge a considerable opposition, expresse upon expresse (as they Congreg

was never expos'd, only I try'cl the usual) and had some reflections on Dr Turner and mee, for Lord, that his noble narne for his Lordship. I putt upp endeavouringe to gaine time nee blandientium illecebrae, th;tts ford as far as I durst venture name too, but the visibly major for Dr Turner, nee 111inantiulll tor111i11a there hee meant mee the Duke of Monmouth's nothing but time could turn the vnity. (though I question the latine) should prevaile with him to part was fixt and visitt for my Lord, or any other defer the election (the bells now ring and the Chancellour But I would not solemnly for fear of receiving a discomfiture. is pronounced). All the threatening I made use of was, person of Honour, inter­ company, by whom I am frequently that it would sound ill at Court and that My Lord Arlington I wrile this in pardon for the confusedness must lay the faulte at his doore, if an election should so rupted, therefore I beg your you present my most humble suddenly be hudlecl up, and that for my owne particular of lhe lines, and I beseech I hope to kiss his Lordship's I did not looke on it as faire play. But no more on this service to my Lord Arlington subject, I beleeve you know the Bishop of Chichester wrote hand beginning of next weeke am Sir severall letters to take of Dr Turner's interest, pray present I your very affectionate humble servant my humble duty to my Lord. I am sorry wee had not the successe we wisht for, but however it was all we could doe. FR. TURNER. My fingers itcht to have brought in 20 or 30 voices, if I had May 11 , 1671 knowne a person of Honour I might have beene so bold with, Thursday 12 o'ck noone that the Duke might not have carried it with a ne11rine colt­ St John's, Cambridge. tradicente E11dorsed: May 1671. Dr Turner, Chancellor of Cambridge.

I am, Sir Nale : This, and the previous letter of Thomas Hill, was Your very affectionate humble sent to Joseph Williamson. Servant THOi\IAS HILL. Endorsed: May l 671, Dr Hill, Chancellor of Cambridge. There do not appear to be any further documents among the State Papers with reference to the election. Those which follow are transcribed from the collections Sir in the Library of Lambeth Palace (MSS. Lambethiani, You will receive by the express a fuller account of our No. 688 and 939). affair from Dr Hill. need I say no more but that I have The accounts of the installation of the first Duke of clone my poor utmost and I can never repent me of what Buckingham in 1026 and of the Earl of Holland 1628 I have clone though had I forseene the eYent before I left were probably drawn up as precedents for the ceremony London. am sorry I and ashamed to reflect upon the whole in r67 r. matter, that our Chancellorship should be carryecl as a race Cambridge is won by a Jocky, only by getting the start. Much might The Universityes letter to the Duke of Buckingham have bin clone if four or five dayes had bin gained to apply ourselves to upon their election of His Grace, their chancellor. every man's passion, relation and interest. And Celsisime Dux, exoptatissime generosissime que Cancellarie. this I dare say, Wee might have broaken this seal'cl knott Etsi quae spectant ad Almae Matris incolumitatem aut. and have sett upp another interest by M unday next. have I decus, omnia facit Cantabrigia, diligentissimeque circumspicit, still the satisfaction that St. John's men were reserv'cl men to tamen qua virtute quove tutelari genio se, suaque, de caetero the last, untill licenst I them to lhrow away their votes as they pleased this finnet ac illustt·et neque diu certe neque anxie disquirit. morning. And be you pleased to satisfy my 12 Notes from the College Records. Nales from the College 'Records. 13

Nobis enim ante oculos ex noto heroum Collegio solus A letter from the Vice Chancellor of observaris inclyte Dux ; indolem illam excelsam a pueritia Cambridge to his Grace the Duke of sic iutelleximus, sic probavimus ; sic te multos jam annos Buckingham, of his Grace's election to be coluimus, ut vel inde possint homines internoscere non the Chancellor of the University. illustriorem nos olim parturisse quam hodie (favente Lucina) May it please your Grace parimus Cancellarium. Itaque in occasionem semper intenti your Grace and your Grace's It is the great humility of minime cessamus sed (quam primum Reip : subvenientes) University of Cambridge which most esteemed favor unto the in nostrum sacellum convolamus Senatum frequentissimum to cast itself into yourGrace's hath raised in it the confidence habemus et (nomini tuo devoti) Georgium alterum, alterum electing your Grace the Chan­ patronage and protection, by Buccinghamiae Ducem, Musarum Cantabrigiensium Apollinem concurrence of votes as has cellor thereof. in so unanimous hoc est Principem, custodem, Praesidem, Propugnatorem circumstance in the election not bin formerly lmowne. If any volumus, jubemus, cernimus omnes, omnes, nemine civium pleasing unto your Grace, were so ordered by me, as may be abnuente, sed eunte quoque in suffragia populo accla­ May your Grace be it is that which I did very much desire. manteque feliciter. In Concilio publico etiam ubi de viris your pleasure is that pleased to lett me know at what time illustribus agitur aut raro admodum aut nunquam sine divortio Grace's InstalmenL In the University shall wayt upon your sententiarum disceptamus. Tu vero (Princeps incomparabilis) all humility to be obeyed by punctum omne tulisti talique universorum et voluntatis et My Lord senteniarum, et sermonis consensione Caput Academiae, your Grace's most dutiful! and Emman. ColL studiorum arbiter, parens ingeniorum, et eruditionis stator Cambridge obedient servant appellaris quali profecto ante te nemo. Hoc totius Rei­ JOH:'-1 BRETON May the 1671 publicae iudicium per tibi gratum fortasse dices et gloriosum Vice-Chancellor Excellentissime Domine fatemur. At quantum quantum est solum animi erga te nostri testamentum est, et praeludium istius observantiae summae quam tot votis expetito Cancellario, Gentlemen of the University o£ quam optimo omnium Patt·ono, parenti tuo, quam denique l\fr Vice-Chancellor and principis utriusque gloriae meritisque cum libentissime cle­ Cant bridge cannot believe you would have thought me worthy of bemus, tum aeternum debebimus I the honour of being your Chancellor, if you had not some Summe Cancellarie good opinion of me, and if you have any you cannot be Eminentiae Tue ignorant of the infinite satisfaction I receive by it ; since one Mancipio nexuque proprij of the greatest pleasures of this \'.'Oriel is to be well thought Procancellari us of by others, and we desire chiefly to be approved by those Heliquusque Senatus Acaclemiae who are known to be learned and worthy men. Such a fauor Cantabrigiensis. Cantabr. from so great and venerable an assembly might perhaps incline e frequentissimo Senatu another man to think too well of himself though it had· bin 4" Id. Maii 1671. accompanied with all those circumstances of kindnesse which I have mett with in your election, but it has quite a different E11dorsed: Excelleutissimo generosissimoque Principi ac effect upon me, the more I look back upon myself the more Domino, Domino Georgia Buckinghamiae Duci, Magistro reason I find to be sensible of yonr obligation, and to make Equitum Regio, summoque Acaclemiae Cantabr. Cancellario. it the endeavoul' of my whole life to give you marks of my 1-J. Notes from tlte College Records. N ales from the College Records. 15

acknowledgement of it and of the true zeal I have for the chiefly concerned to seek your happiness upon a public honour and good of your University, I am, Gentlemen account and in order to that duty which I owe the King my your most faithfull servant master. For I know no better way how to promote his and most aHectionate friend interest and the prosperitie of this nation then by endeavour­ BUCKINGHA�1. ing the welfare of the most famous Universitie, so esteemed WalJingford House abroad all over the world, and certainly the best able to doe May 28, 1671 his Majestie and the whole kingdome Service. Addressed: To the Reverend the Vice-Chancellor and G. B. Senate of the University of Cambridge. of the Duke of The manner of the Presentation Chancellorship of Buckingham, his Grace, to the His speech at London. the University of Cambridge. Gentlemen Dr Gostlin then Vice-Chancellor. You put me so out of countenance with the praises you Chancellor, Heads of Vpon the 12th July 1626 the Vice have given me that you are not to consider i£ I doe not very attend this service, sett out Houses, and others appointed to readily lmowe what answer I am to make, this I am sure of next morning to London, to Ware the first night and the that I am highly sensible of what I owe you, and I give you in the afternoon they all where about three or foure a clock all humble thanks for the great honour you have bin pleased putt on their robes, hoods, mett at Durham House and there to doe me, in cb using me your Chancellor. It is so great Beadle and Register habits and capps. And then the Senior a one, and one so acceptable to me that I may truly say it can view the place appointed were sent by Mr Vice-Chancellor to never be exceeded by any other it is possible for me to receive, ·with a chair for the for the entertainment and fitt the same yet (Gentlemen) give me leave to tell you that you found a to stand before Duke, if he pleased to sitt, and a little table way by the manner of your election to make this obligation yet the Duke, for the Vice-Chancellor and Orator right before not in his greater, since the kindness with which you have done it makes them to make their orations. But the Duke sate he me flatter myself vYith an opinion that you have bin guided, chair, but slood behind it, at both the Orations and whilst in this whole matter, rather by your good wishes to me than deli\'et·ed his own Speech. When the Beadle and Register by any other consideration. As I have reason to believe this n.:lurnccl from York House, where the admission was to be, and that your affections to me are personall, so it shall be my am\ had signil!ed how things were ordered, the Junior Beadle study to lett you see my acknowledgements to you are the then went before with his Masters of Arts first, two in a same. I will not only strive to give you evidence of my raud: in their usual hoods, habitts and capps, and then the respects to the University in generall but upon all occasions non Regents and Batchelors in DiYinity in their gowns, hoods show myself a true ffriend to every one of you in particular! and capps, and then the Taxors and Proctors in their hoods Before I received from you this new favour I was many waies and habitts etc. and the Proctors with their Booke. Then engaged to honour and serve you. I ever thought my love to the Senior Beadle in his gold chain (given him by the Duke) you was a just debt left upon me by my Father, and the rather and in his velvet capp, went direct before the Vice Chancellor, because he lived not long enough to make appear that grati­ then the Lord of Durham and three other Bishops in their tu�e which he intended, besides I have a peculiar obligation Rochet.ts. Then all the Doctors in their Scarlett and capps. to you and to my own good fortune, for I had the honour to All these two in a rancke, and in this order they went till they cam and then near the dore l1ave my education amongst you. But (Gentlemen) above all . e to York House fore count l private reasons either hereditarie or personall I think myself m to the garden the Masters of Arts and Bachellors in Divinity College Records. 17 16 Notes jro111 the College Records. Notes from the to also kissed and delivered it made a stand and lane, and then the Beadles came to the Booke of Statutes, whiCh he those were the lawes and Statutes Vice-Chancellor and went directly before him through the the Duke, telling him that And desired him to be pleased Masters of Arts, Batchellors in Divinity and non Regents, the which they were governed by. and to protect the Univer­ Bishops and Doctors foliO\\ ing him into the Duke's garden for his part to see them observed same. and all the company after them, where they passed on almost sity in the execuccion of the whole Senate of the University in the middway that leadeth to the stayres upp into the Then he signified that the in the name of the whole Univer­ Duke's Lodging and there the Duke, with other N obles, had sent their Orator, who, and desired his Grace to give mett the Vice-Chancellor, Bishops and Doctors, and saluted sity was to speake unto him oration ended, the Duke made them all in very kind manner and after he had saluted them him audience. The Orator's he made a low Congie or Courtesy to all the rest of the a speech to the whole Assembly. Duke's Lodgings and walked University and then went forwards and with Mr Vice Chan­ And then they all viewed the musicl{ of the cloysters there was . cellor went up the stayres into the Room appointed for the in the gardens, where in one The set they went to supper. entertainment and Orations, whither being come the Vice And when the tables were the upper end of the table by Chancellor stayed at the aforesaid table and the Duke and Vice Chancellor sate at the and and the Doctors sate next Nobles went up to the place where his chair stood. Then Duke and Nobles and Bishops and Beadles. Then the others, the Vice Chancellor, after some stay untill the company and the Orator, Proctors, Taxors long table at the end of that crowd was settled made lowe obeysance unto him and then in their seniority, at another began his oration, the words whereof as I remember were table. these: to pledge any health, those Note. That no man was vrged The sorrow of the University for the losse was to be pledged) gaue him that attended (if any health of the former and their joy of his Grace with he desired and of what wine a greater or lesser glasse as many thanks for these favours he had formerly he called for. shewed us, before he bare office with chaires sett, one for our us and Remember that there were two the great hopes the University had of his and another on the left favour Chancellor to sitt in at his Admission and protection hereafter. to sitt in when he admitted side of it for the Vice Chancellor Then the Vice Chancellor Proctor readeth: Dabis jide111 beclmed to the Register for the Chancellor and whilst the the Patent, which received, he opened and read and then ut supra. accorcli ng to t.he contents of the same he desired his Grace The manner of installing the Earl of to nccept of the sayd office and Patent and kissing it delivered Holland, Chancellor of the University of the same to him. Cambridge, 29 October 1628. And then t.he Vice Chancellor stooping went forward from About nine of the clock in the morning the University men t.he table and took the Duke by the hand and sayd to thus mett at Southampton House, where they did put on their (or to this effect): Dabis fidem le obserzoaluram leges, priz•ilegia formalityes in the Hall and so were in reaclines to go to et consuetudines Academiae Canlabrigiellsis. Warwick House when word was brought to us that my Lord Then, the Vice Chancellor still holding the Duke by the was ready. We ranked ourselves in this order. Mr John hand, the Senior Proctor, also out of his booke reade as Buck went before the Regents in their juniority, two and two followeth: Dabis e/ia111 fidem in verbo honoris quod officium together. Then followed the non Regents and Bachelors in Callcellaria/us Academiae Caulabrigieusis be11c et fide/iter prae­ Divinity in the manner. Then the Taxors and after them slabis. like the Proctors. Mr Thomas Buck went before the Vice Then the Vice Chancellor called to the Beadle for the VOL. XXXI. D 19 N ales fr om the Collc:ge Records. 18 Notes from the Collegf! Records. Chancellor, Bishops, Then he went up >'vith the Vice where there was a most Chancellor, the Bishops did follow him. Then came our Doctors &c into the dyning roome Vice Chancellor sate by University Doctors in their scarlet gownes and after them sumptuous dinner provided. The Orator, Proctors, Taxors the Doctors of London and other Doctors that had not our Chancellor, then the Bishops, were two other tables scarlett gownes. The Beadles went in their gownes and and Beadles, at the same table. There After dinner was over the velvet capps. When we came to Warwick House, the for the rest of the Company. V ellor and the rest Regents and non Regents made a fair lane by siding them­ Chancellor did come with the ice Chanc he very courteously selves in the Court-yard for our Chancellor, who came to of the Company to the Court Gate, where meet the Vice·Chancellor, Bishops and Doctors, and when parted with them. Buck to give the our Chancellor had given a courteous respect to all he went The Vice Chancellor caused Mr Thomas up, with the Vice Chancellor next him, into the Hall, the House x.s. and to servants which kept the gates at Warwick Bishops and Doctors and the rest did follow after Ss. The Chancellor did him. the porter of Southampton House There were two chaires placed at the upper end of the Mr Thomas Buck, stand here all the time of both speeches. Hall and also a little table before them, to keep off the Patent presently after the who wa� sent up to London with crowd, at which table the Vice Chancellor, standing before Earle of Holland, who the election to deliver it unto the our Chancellor, did make his speech and towards the latter (sic) and thankfully, did received the same very respectively end of the same he beckoned to Mr Thomas Buck for the lhe Patent in readines desire his Lordship's secretarie to haue Patent, which he received and then gaue it to the Senior to install our Chancellor, when the University should come up Sanderson. Proctor to read, which being ended the Vice Chancellor took which was done accordingly by Mr the Patent from the Proctor and went from the Table and, making a low conge, kissed the Patent and delivered the same unto our Chancellor. Then he sate clownin the chair to the election The documents which fo llow relate on the left hand of onr Chancellor and houlcling our Chan­ copied of another and earlier Chancellor. They are cellor by the right hand, the Senior Proctor read this oath from the originals in the Record office. unto him : 1598, the On the death of Lord Burghley, 4 August Illustrissime Domine dabis fidem in verba ellor. ersity elected the Earl of Essex to be Chanc honoris quod officium Cancelleriatus Academiae Univ however did not hold the officelon g being beheaded Cantabrigiensis bene et fidelitur praestabis. He fo r treason 25 February 16oo- I. The University then Then the Vice Chancellor took the Book of Statutes from elected Sir Robert Cecil (afterwards Earl of Salisbury), Mr Buck, which he likewise kissed and delivered it to the son of Lord Burghle , to be Chancellor. He, like his Chancellor, telling him that these were the lawes and statutes y fa ther, was a member of St John's. which we were govern'd by, and desired him to be pleased on his part to see them observed and to protect the University Dici non potest (Honoratissime Cecili) quam incertas &c. &c. cogitationes cerlissima tui in nos amoris monumenta recldide­ Then he signified unto his Lordship that our University runt nee enim certo statuere possumus vtrum in pristinis Orator was in readynes and he desired that he might supply gratiis quas solemus pro tenuitate nosh·a, repetendis an in his defects in a better language. Then the Orator, standing navis quas non possumus pro clignitate tua, ex cogitandis at the table, began his speech which being ended the Chan­ gratissimi nostri animi testimonium praebeamus. Sed fortunae cellor spake something very briefly, prom1smg to do his potius nostrae gratulari debemus quam apud nos mirari, quod utmost indeavour to preserve our Charters, Privileges, singularem illam in hoc Collegium benevolentiam quam ab Immunityes &c. from the College Reconls. 21' 20 Notes from the College Records. Notes honourable our verie good Patron amplissimo parenti quasi haereclitario iure accepisti propria Addressed : To the right tua voluntate non tam ornasti quam superasti. Quod autem Sir Robert Cecil. Fellowes of St John's ad felicitatis nostrae cumulum nuperrime accessit, vt honorem Endorsed : 1600. The Master and tuum, quem ad nostri vnius collegii clecus et praesiclium non in Cambridge to my Master. tam factum quam natum saepius experti sumus, omnia totius Acaclemiae Collegia Cancellarium et patronum esse vGluerint ; Right honorable my humble duty and most faithful service non plus nobis gauclemus quam et iis et honori tuo gratulamur, premysed. May it please you to be advertised that your pore summisque precibus a Deo optima maxima contenclimus, Universitie of Cambridge hath by joynt consent of the whole vt te Acaclemiae clignissimum Mecaenatem, Reipublicae Senate most cherefully made choyse of yourself above all men firmissimum columen, et huic tuo Collegio patronum to be, undre her highnesse, our head officer and cheefe benignissimum quam diutissime conservet. Facit tamen magistrate. The election being done, my selfe (as your insignis et prope divina illa humanitas, qua Yestr� familia deputie and Viceregent here) most humbly pray your good has aedes complexa est, vt illus inprimis et prae caeteris acceptance of my service in this action, as also your good patroci-nio tuo commendare vehementer cupiamus Fieri enim pleasure when we may best (without your trouble) repaire to non potest quin, cum Collegia omnia coniunctim te vnum present (accordinge to our custome) the said office to your esse existimarint cuius consilio et auxilio literaria haec honour's good acceptance, and further to crave your direction Respublica administretur, singula seorsim omni studio con­ for other of£cers and affaires appertayninge our common tenclant iucunclissimam favoris tui auram affluentiusclegustare. wealthe, well assured that this season cloth bring uppon you Dom us Israel iniquo animo tulit J ehuclan officii celeritate verie manie extraordinarie and most weighty matters, greatlie Daviclisbenevolentiae primarium partem praevortisse. Quanta importinge the state of this lancle, whiche (further then it ctiam olim apud Graecas civitates orta est contentio dum shall please your honour to give leave) we deeme it unmeete omnes paene suum esse Homerum cuperent. Si forsan for us to interrupte. So most humblye clevotinge myselfe eadem contentione flagraverit Academia non est quod and best service to your honour's commancles I take leave. dubitemus eam posse innatum tuum in nostt·am societatem At Cambridge this 18 of Februarie 1600 amorem aut mutanclo minuere aut minuenclo mutare. Absit your honours most bounden ever tamen a nobis, vt tanquam filii ingrati matri Acaclemiae }OHN JEGON invicleamus hoc tantum ab amplitudine tua enixe petimus, Vic echanccllor. vt nos qui primi in patrocinio fuimus am0ris tui primitias Addressed : To the right honourable Sir Robert Cecill. perpetuo retineamus et vt hanc nosh·am felicitatem, quam Endorsed : 1600, Feb : 18. Vicechancellour of Cambridge totam, quantacumque est, vestrae familiae clebemus, magis to my Master. magisque velis exornare. Ita in filiopater celebrandus semper vigebit ; per vtresque Collegium florentissimum evadet. Nos Secretary Cecil to the Master and Fellows"• indies divinam maiestatem votis humillimis ardentius com­ of St John's College, Cambridge. pellabimas, vt pruclentiae annos, annis prudenti.am, vtrisque Havinge of late receaved notyce from the Universitye aeternitatem acliicere clignetur. Cantabrigiae, Calencl : 13° of Cambridge of the great honor clone me from that place Martii, 1600 where the myndes of soe many reverend persons have con­ Honoris tui stucliossimi cmTed to make an election of me as worthye to be their Praefectus Collegii, Sancti Chancellor, to expresse to you the particular obligation which J oh ann is Evangelistae, Seniores I owe to that Colledge of St John's which hawse, as I knowe et reliqua societas 22 Notes fr om the College Records. Notes from the College Records. 23 to be, is one of the principall parts of the body of that Univer­ gratias, eo que magis, quod is in ea mihi obtigert Academia sitie, so I perceive to have proceeded herein towards me with meus eundem Magistratum gessit, extra ordinary affection, wherein I should seeke to declare ubi et honoratissimus Pater tam praeclare constituta, vel by my lettre the fulness of that contentment with which et in qua vera Dei Religio potius floret, ad quam sartam tectamque conservan­ I receave to have occasion offred me to demonstrate my restituta merito omnes ingenii nervos tendam, vti et ad clesyre to imploye my self at all times in the service of that dam lnbens vestra tuencla, nullam non quoque navabo operam. place which is one of the two famous nourseryes of learninge Privilegia and vertue within this Realme. Quod Magistratum hunc omni stipendio vacuum scribitis, is mihi gratior est, qui pecuniae non tam stucliosus, quam I shoulde spend more tyme then weare fitt for the present, eo stucliis votisque vestris deditus semper fuerim. Quod ad and yet remayne unsatisfyed towards myself, for which con­ causas attinet quas occupationum mearum respectu in sideration therefore I will shortly deliver it, and earnestly vestras aliucl tempus informanclas rejicitis, etsi minus mihi otii hoc desyre to be believed in it. That I do accompt this election ex quo Regiae Majestati to be one of the greatest ornaments could have befallen me, tempore suppetat, quam vnquam alias ; tamen quum Academiae vestrae regenclaeratio not only because it bringeth with it testimony of the good cepi inservire publico totius Regni bono tam arcte conjuncta videatur, t1t opinion of good men which is one of the things which I have ex vnius compenclio alteri non sit dispendium, gratissimi mihi held in this earth of clearest valluation, but also to this respect eritis quandocunque aclveneritis et curam diligentiam et withall, which I cannot conceale, that by this place cast on solicitudinem meam facilem paratemque invenietis. Deus me by the discent of your good wills from my cleare father, Optimus Maximus vos vestraque studia, ad sui Nominis your most affectionate Chancellor, cloth make me also see gloriam, verae Religionis propugnationem, et Ecclesiae suae that his memory clieth not, where so much learning and piety emolumentum indies magis magisque provehat. Ex Aula liveth. Take this, I pray you, as all I can pay you now in Regia Westmonasteriensi 24 February 1600. particular and doe your best to supply for me to the whole Dignitatum vestrarum studiosissimus. Universitye, all that is defective in my owne lettres (wrytten in a tyme of busynes) of sufficient recogenetion for soe great Endorsed : 24 February 1600. Copie of my Master's lettre a favour in which you shall make me more beholdinge to you to the Vicechancellor and Senate of Cambridge. and ever fynde me Yours ! Richard Neale, who is suggested as a proper person Note : This is a draft with numerous corrections in Cecil's to be :Master of Cl are Hall in the followin g letter, was

' s as own hand. a St John's man ; he matriculated from St John a pensioner 18 May 1580 ; he was admitted a scholar of the College, on Doctor Goodman's foundation 26 April Magnum et illustre munus est (Viri ornatissimi) Academiae 1580, and took the degrees of B.A. 1583-4, M.A. 1587, vestrae Cancellarius salutari, sed multo majus, quod illud B.D. 1595, and D.D. 16oo. As a matter of fact he mihi nee cogitanti, nee roganti ultro detuleritis vti ex literis was not appointed Master of Clare, Sir Robert Cecil vestris 15 calendas Martii e Senatu vestro ad me datis intelligo. no Smyth of King's College. Neale, Cui etsi recte obeunclo nimis me disparem profiteor tamen si minating William or wrote his name, becam e neglectum illud quodammodo irem, ingratus certe essem. Neile as he afterwards Accipio igitur, et lubens in me suscipio non tam munus ipsum Archbishop of York. Our humble maner remembred. Right quam promptissimas voluntates vestras qui me tanto honore dutye in most honorable as it hath pleased your honor to vouchsafe the non indignum censueritis ; ac pro eo summas vobis habeo acceptance of a troublesome office to be the Cbauncellor and 24 Notes from the College Records. Notes from the College Records. 25

Patrone of this University, as your honourable father hath The following inventory of the wardrobe provided bene heretofore, wherein we all do greatly rejoice, So are by the College for the purpose of plays is of some we oute of doubte that your honor's especiall endeavour interest. By the College statutes of Henry VIII. (1545) Sit­ wilbe to preserve the good government of this place. it was directed that each Fellow of the College in turn Mastership of Clare Hall, one of hence therefore that the should be Lord at Christmas. He was to be appointed places if government hath bene a longe time voide, our chiefe on All Souls' day, to receive 2os. fr om the College the disposicion whereof dot.h now (as we conceave) belong towards his expenses and to draw up Statutes in Greek unto your honour. And considering that Mr Dr N eale, your or Latin and to prepare six dialogues or other literary honour's chapleine, and a member of our bodye is a man entertainments. Other comedies and tragedies were knowne unto us to be of sounde religion, good discrecion to be acted between Epiphany and Lent, these were to and learninge, as by his late Actes performed amongest be composed by the Lecturers and Examiners. These us he bath given sufficient testimony, we are become bould Statutes directed that a Register should of petitioners unto your honour on his behalfe, that he beinge be kept the appointment one of your owne, meete and qualib.ed in every respect, your s of College officers, of Scholars and honour would be pleased, the rather at our requeste, to re­ Fellows, and from this date the first College Register commend him to the place, which favour if your honour shall dates. In addition the College compiled official vouchsafe we assure ourselves that the College (havinge bene inventories of its property, drawn up by the Master and longe withoute a head) shalbe reduced to good order, and Bursars. It is from this volume of inventories that this that ourselves shall receave muche comforte to have a man list of garments is taken. The impression left on one's of so good partes ioyned an assistant unto us. And even so mind is that the wardrobe must have been of consider­ referringe this our motion unto your honor's highe wisdome able value. The list of the College property in the with our very harty prayers for the preservacion of your long Master's Lodge is added. life and honorable estate to the benefit of this Churche and With regard to the unfamiliar terms it ma y be Commonwealthe, wee most humbly take our leave. Cam­ added : That darnix was a coarse damask used for bridge, this xxiij of Februarye 1600 carpets and curtains, originally manufactured at Tour­ your honor's most humble to be nay, called Dornick in Flemish. commanded "Caalles in the tilles," a calle was a cap or network JOHN JEGON, Vi can. for the head ; till was a drawer ; thus the entry signifies Robert Soame. Thomas Nevile. that there were 1 7 caps in the drawers of the first chest. Edmund Bm·well. Roger Goade. Drownslat seems to mean a drum, Halliwell states John Port. Ric. Clayton. that " drounslate " occurs in a diary in MS. Cott. Vesp. Umphry Tyndall. James Mountagu. A. xxv. with this meaning. Addressed : To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Cecill, "Shipman's slops " would seem to stand for the Knighte, principall Secretarie to her Majestie, one of her clothes of a mariner or sailor. Majesties moste honourable privye Counsell, and Chancellour " Here " seems to stand for a wig. "Sai " was a U niversitye of Cambridge. These be delivered. of the serge or woollen cloth. Endorsed : 23 February 1600. Ecclesiastica. Vicechan­ cellor and heads of Colledges in Cambridge, to my Master, Plaiers Apparell lieing in the great cofers in t.he Doctor Neale, recommended to be Master of Clarehall. Master's Chamber, committed to the custoclie of Mr Thomas Lever bi Indenture according to the

VOL. XXXI. E 26 Notes from the College Records. Notes from the College Records. 27 ' decree of the Master and the vij Seniors. AI the ij red clokes with yeIlow gm·des. which apparell is appointed, bi the said Master A yellow cloke with blew garcles. and the vij Seniors, to be preserved and kept ij short sai cootes of red and yellow, with crosses. from yere to yere of him which shall be L0rcl in ij paiar sbipman sloppes, reel and yelow. Christmas. And so the said Lord to deliver the A shipmanes coote of red and blak with a collar of gold. same apparell bi Indenture to his next Lord A painted coote with long nether bodies. successor. A coote of white and blak plaited in the bak. Anno Domini 1548 A coote of white and black clowdes. In presentia Magistri Hill, Ailand, Lever. A litle coote of white and grene with yellow garcles. Certen shreddes of gold wrapped in a linen clowt. A fooles coote with checker work of grene, red and white. An H of gold. A paiar of grene silk sloppes garded with stooles. ij French hocldes of reel velvet and precious stones, wilh A paiar of sloppes of red velvet silk and white, veri goode. ij yellow heres of silk and on billiment. ij paiar of yellow sloppes garded with stooles. A French hoocle made of reel silk with spitted birdes. A paiar of hlak sloppes cutt. A faire lawne. A paiar of pownced sloppes, yellow and blew. lix blew litle garters for knightes of the garted, wrapped A coote of white and blew bokram with a hoocle of the vp togeder in grene clarnix. same. ij score sieves of reel saten lined with white linen. A coote of yellow linen painted. xvij Caalles in the tilles. A coote painted like fethers and hose of the same. A velvet cote of cliuers colers with sterres and of gold. A cutt jerken of red and white silk. ij cootes, halfe cloth halfe gold. A paiar of blew boose. A strange vestnre of grene silk A coote of tissew silk. A blak coote triple garclecl with gold. ij dethes cootes, hoose doubled and hedd all in one. A grene long cote of silk with a cape lined with blew. All which Apparel lieth in a An other like of the same fashion of yelow silk great wainscot chest. ij grene fine silk cootes with collares of gold, sparkled with white. A great clrownslat with a paiar of stikkes. A coote of yellow saten and blak clothe. ij blak develles cootes with homes. A short gowne of red and yellow with long sieves. A black coat with gm·cles of evel paper gold. ij Servantes cootes with chekker work of white, black and A womanes ket-tle for paupertas. yellow. A fooles coote of painted cloth with gardes. ij paiar of hose for the same. An old paiar of hose of blew and white. ij yellow sai cootes, garcled with blak gat·cles. An old paiar of hose of white and yellow. A pownced jerken of cliuerse colers with cutt sieves. An ould paiar of hose of white, reel and yellow. A jerken with sieves of yellow and violet silk. A paiar of linen painted hose. A coote of reel and blew, garded with stoles and golden ij litle painted jerkens with wide sleves. !lowers de lucie. An old torne fooles coote of cliuerse colers. A good nett painted with letters. An owlcl made coote with a low wide collar of painted A painted gowne lined with yellow clothe. clothe. A blew cloke with painted gardes. A blak coat with gardes of red and white. Nales from the College Rcco1'ds. 29. 28 Notes fr om the College Records. or brestplate. A paiar of buckeram nether hose. A pece of painted clothe, like a shelcl A long pese of painted clothe. A botton of pakthrecl. neth in a longc A paiar of owlcl painted sloppes. All which apparel remai linen and barred A blak nightcapp to kepe the stage. greate Chest lined with An owld clothe ful of baggage. with Iron. All which apparel remaineth in an owld great chest of firr tree. An Inventorie of the Colleclge stuff remaining m the Master's Chamber. Anno Domini 1546, ij Crownes, onn Imperial and the other regal. 10 Marty. In the presence of the Bowcers, iij Scepters. Magistri Faucit and Browne. A fooles dagger of woclcl. In the great Chamber at the end of the Hall. A crokecl sword giltecl. A pat·tall of Wainscott. A halfe mone gilclen vppon the on side. Item, hanginges of owlde reel sai. A brood Egyptianes hatt. Item, an owld cupborcl. i j good J ues cap pes covered with silk. Item, a great chest with plaiars raiment. A starr giltecl for Mercuries hecld. Item, a table, i j trestells and i j formes. A golden face and crowne for Jupiter. In the mdclle Chamber. iij Shilcles on with a golden portculles the other two with First a portall of wainscott. red clraggones. Item, a table and ij trestelles and onne forme. A steple capp couered with painted clothe. Item, a great cofer of wainscot with plai.1rs apparel!. A capp of pastborcl painted. ij fowrcornecl cappes one of red and yellow saten and the In the Inner Chamber. other of clothe. first a pat·tall. of the A steple capp painted blew and grene. Item, a bedstok with cat-tines of dornix and tissue is added in ij past hattes. same [t now being in the treasuri chamber '-this A silk and gold capp with a cockes heel in the crown. another hand J. a a chaiar in the same. ij paiar of fowrcornar gilted paper cappes. Item, table with lede. A steple capp of parchment. Item, a stilletorie of Item, in the entre, towards the Chapple, a press. ij paiar of golden shoes. Item, in the chamber over the Chapple, a table with An olwd (sic owld ?) topped capp. a Wood. ij draggones. couer ouer sometime, an Altare of A long pese of silk and gold lined with blew bokram. Item in the stucldie,litle presses to lai in papers and bookes. A miter. In the vpar Chamber over the Chappelle. A white here to sow to a nightcap with a white bercl for ij standing bedsteddes. the same Item, a long cofer without a lok. A yellow heel with a herd of the same. Item, in another Chamber, a standing beclstecl and a A faiar grai hedd. trundle bedel. A yellow berd. A bercl of blak, white and yellow. While the performance of plays was thus encouraged A blak face of past. within the College the two letters which follow (taken 30 Notes fr om the College Records. Notes fr om !he College Records. 31

from the State Papers) show that unauthorised perform­ Add1·essed : To the right honorable the Lord Burleigh. ances were discouraged, even when they came under Eudorsed : 21 June 1580. The Vicechauncelor of Cam­ high patronage. It is interesting to notice the references bridg. The Erle of Oxford's Players. to the plague, an ever present fear in the University in

those days. My bownden dewtye remembered with moste humble After our very harte commendations. Consideryng that and hartye recommendacions. Whear it bath pleased your the U niversityes of this realme, whereof in the whole lher honour to commende unto me, and the headdes of the ar but twoe, be instituted pryncipally for the norition and Universitye, my Lorde of Oxenforde his players, that they education of the youth in good manners and beyng, and might shew their cunninge in certayne playes already lykwise for the mayntenance and sustentacion of such as do practysed by them before the Queen's Majestie. I dyd teach all liberall sciences and exercise the study and pro­ besyde the speadely cownsell with the heddes and others, viz. D. Styll, fession of Divinity, and that for the purpose for their comfort it is right D. Howland, D. Binge, D. Legge etc., and consyderinge and great priviledge granted to them ponderinge that the seede, the cause, and the feare of the that all other good meanes be used to preserve them in peace pestilence is nott yett vanished and gone, this hole tyme of and quietnes and to kepe them free from all unlefullassemblies the yeare, this mydsommer £ayre time having conflnence oute tenclying to ryottes and routes and all other light actions that of all countries as well of infected as not. The commence­ might draw the students from ther lerning and stuclye or ment tyme at hande which requirelh rather diligence in bring infeccion of popular diseases to the same. We being stodie than dissoluteness in playes, and also t.hat of late wee informed very credibly of some attempts of light persons denyed the lyke to the right honorable the Lorde of Leicester who for fillhy lucre are mynded and do seke to devise and his servantes and speciallie for that all Assemblies in open sett upp places of shews for unlefull and unhonest games places be expresslye forbidden in this U niversitie and tow ne nere to the University of Cambridge, do consider that it can or within fyve myles compasse, by her Majesties Counselles not be but a great nomber of the youth of the same may be to be letters to the Vice Chancellor 30 Oclobris 1575 ; our trust is thereby entyced from ther orclynary places of lerning that your honor our most cleare lovinge Chanceler will take beholders, lernors and practisers of lewdness and unlefull our aunswere made unto t.hem in good parte. And beinge acts and that also within this speciall tyme of so generall an willinge to imparte something from the liberalitie of the iuf�ccion of the plage is to be regarded that thereby great Whereby Universitie to them, I could not obtayne sufficient assent assemblies of all vulgar people would be made. University, thereto and therefore I delivered them but .r:rs. towardes the infeccion of the plage might be brought io the their charges. Also they brought letters from the right as lately it was very grevously and so contynewed by disordre honorable the Lord Chaunceler and the right honorable the to a great clecaye of the University, though now by God 's Lord of Sussex to the Vice Chauncelers of Cambridge and goodness with some good order of the rulers there, cessed. Oxford. I trust their honors will accept our aunswere. Therefore wee to whom amongst other publick affayres of Thus levinge to troblc your honour any longer with my rude this estate to us by hir most excellent Majesty committed we wrighting I take my leve. count this not the meanest to wish and procure all good and Cambridge the xxi th of June, 1580. prosperite to the Universityes, doe will and charge you the your Lordship's humble Vice Chancellor and with you all others as well of the and unworthy depute University as of the town or of the Contrye within v myles JOHN HATCHER1 circuitt that are ether by his Majesty's Commission or by in no Vice Chancellor. Charter, Justices of Peace to have good regard that 32 Notes fr olll the College Records. N ales fr om the College Records. 33 wise ther be any oppen shews made to procure Assemblies My very good Lorde. We have litle certaintie of the wherein any manner of unlefull games shalbe exercised, Prince's iourney since his going hence, but only that they nether yet any Assemblies of multitudes at all be suffered landed at Boulogne the wenscby and rode three postes that nigfH. On friday they came to Paris, very wearie, and to be made within that University or within v myles compass but such as by the lawes of the realme are usuall as for resting there all Saturday went away early on Sunday morning. preachyng and exercise of lerning, or for fairs or markets or Some give out that during their abode they saw the King at for administration of lawes and execution of Justice or such supper and the Queene practising a bal with divers other lyke, for private exercises of the yowth as are mete for ther ladies, which though it be somewhat confidently affirmed, recreacion. And this our lettre and the whole contents yet I thinke it not probable by reason yt was their first thereof we will you the Vice Chancellour to communicate Satterday in Lent. We have had since many rumon; that with the Maior of the towne of Cambridge and his brotheren they were stayed, but now they talke of a post should come and all others, being Justices of peace and dwelling within yesternight with newes that they are past Bayon and that my v myles of that University, whom all both generally and Lord Digbie and Gondomar, with I know not how many particularly we will and require and in his Majesty's name do litters and coaches were redy at the frontiers to receve them, charclge and command to accord and agree in one good which sounds as unlikely as most of the rest. Sir Edward myncl to the observacion hereof according to our good Herbert, our Ambassador, knew nothing of their being at meaning and not to omitt any other good civill and charit­ Paris till the Lord of Carliles comming. All in a manner able ordre for preservation of that University and towne agree that either the french Kinge had notice of yt before from danger of infeccion of the plage, Or at the least if any their arrival!, or time enough to have detained them yf he should happen, to provyde to stey the same from sprecldyng > had been so disposed. Divers of their servants and followers abrocle and increasyng to the furder decay of lerning, deso­ are gon after them by land, and more preparing to go by sea. lation of study and to the repellying and kepyng back The Prince left a list behind him whom he wold have sent of such as otherwise shuld cume thyther to be tought and after, which the King bath augmented to the number of ·b rought upp in good and godly fering. And so we hope you twentie, besides footmen and pages, adding likewise Dr Craig -will not only upon this our jealous admonicion and expresse a phisician, and two chaplains, Drs Maw and Wren that were charclge but upon your own wise considerations of the forgotten. Thomas Carie, the Lord Lepington's younger son, importance hereof be careful!, vigilent, and as cases shall was the first that went after them by land, and about this clay require strayt and severe in the observation of the premises. sevenight the Vicount Andover and Sir Robert Carre followed, as likewise yesterday Vicount Rochefort and others daylie Elldotsed : A draught of a letter from the Lords of the a la file. Counsell to the Universitie of Cambridge. Places erected J The Sunday after their departure all the Counsaile about for players and games. . this towne came to Paules Crosse when yt was expected Note : The draft has many correctwns in Robert Cecil's somewhat wold have beene said, but the preacher had his own handwriting. The elate is probably about 1600. lesson in haec ve1·ba, only to pray for the Prince's prosperous iourney and safe returne. And the next day, the Bishop We conclude with a c ouple of letters from John conuenting all his clergie gave them the same charge, but Chamberlain (see Th e Eagle xxix., p. 147). Though some of them had anticipated the commandment and pro­ the refer ence s to Cambridge are of the slightest char­ ceded further, whereof one desired God to be mercifull unto acter, Chamberlain is always amusing and his gossip him, now that he was going into the house of Rimmon. The

. Counsaile dined the first Sonday with Lord enligh tening Maior and beeing VOL. XXXI. F 34 Notes fr om the College Recat'ds. Notes fr om the College Reconls. 35

there againe on Sonday last were feasted by the Lord Bishop. this is only whispered as yet and I hope may prove false. The Spanish ambassador, together with him that came from So, with the remembrance of my best service to my goode the Archduchess, came from Cambridge on Sonday, they Laay, I commend you to the protection of the Almighty. were one clay with the King at Newmarket, who could not From London this 8th of March 1622 geve them audience at Cambridge, as was appointed, by your Lordship's most assuredly reason he was troubled with the goute, so that he bath at command referred them to treat with certaine of the Counsaile. The JOHN CHAMBERLAIN. Earl of Suffolk, as Chancellor of Cambridge attended them Addressed : To the right honourable Sir Duclley Carleton• there all the while and entertained them at Auclly Encl. knight, Lord Ambassador for his Majestic with the States They lodged at Trinitie College where they were invited of the United Provinces at the Hagh. to a play, but being made acquainted before hand (for feare of Endorsed : Mr Chamberlain, the 8th of March 1622. offence)that the argument of yt consisted chieflyof a Jesuit and a Puritan, they wolcl not adventure, but wisht they had not My very goode Lord had notice, for they seemed to like all their entertainment Though the winde continue so constant at west that we so well that they desired to hear all the orations and other have heard nothing from you many a day, yet I will not exercises and disputations and that they might be printed. forbeare to advertise that little we have here. The French On thursday in the afternoon the Earl of Excesters funerall Ambassadors went hence the last weeke, the first night to was kept at Westminster, the body was brought from the Theobalds, the next to Roiston, and so on thursday was painted chamber, by the Court of Requests, clown through sevenight to Cambridge where they had audience the next Westminster Hall and the palais into Kinges street, and so day both publike and private. The articles were agreed and by the west door into the Minster. The Archbishop of signed, the King, Prince and Duke of Buckingham and Canterburie meant to have preached but beinge !aide of the Secretarie Conway only present. The rest of the counsaile goute, Dr Fosse Hall supplied the place, By reason of his (though almost all the great Lords were there) not so much absence, two of his owne sonnes (that are sick) and some as called or inquired after. There should have been a others, the show was not so great as yt shold have ben, yet comedie, but the shortness of time, the King's indisposition they say there was a faire many, but in regard there was and theyre basting away cut yt of. Some disputations in neither dinner, supper, bankett, nor so muche as a cup of philosophie there were, but of no great fame, many of the drinke, it was called a drie funeral!. There is a rumour straungers had their grace to proceed Magistri i11 artibus, raised nowe again that the Lord Rosse shold be livinge and Doctores Theologiae and vtriusque iuris, and in the crowd some his father (that was best acquainted with his humor and English, among whom I heare your nephew Dudley is trickes) cloth, or seemes, to beleeve .....The Lord of St become a new Master of art. On Sonday the Ambassadors Albanes is in his remitter ...come to lie in his old lodgings were feasted in the presence by the Prince (for the King at Grayes Inne, which ys the fulf1lling of a prophecie of one kept his bed) the rest of their retinue dined in the great hall Lucke a familiar of his of the same house that knew him at Trinitie College (where the King lies) with the Lords and intus et iu cute, who seeing him go thence in pompe with the counsaile. They came back on Tuesday and supped the great Seale before him, saide to divers of his frencles, we next night with the Lord Keeper, where they had great shall live to have him here again. There goes a doubtful entertainment and choise chamber musicke and in the speech abrode that Sir Eclward Coke should be crackt ; his church where they heard three anthemes sung by the best braines beeing overburthened with a surcharge of his childrens of the Chappell and that quire in rich copes and vestments debts that arise to 26000li, besides 20000li of his owne, but wherewith they seemed to be much pleased till Mr. Treasurer, ge Records. 37 36 N oles from the College Records. Noles from l!Je Colle and somewhat unreasonablie, told them he was glad to see them certaine writinges or papers, but came ba:ck so singed better allow and approve so well of our service, and that upon their stiffeled with the smoke that he died presently leaving Christmas day, which put the little Monsieur so out of then two thousand pound land a yeare in that conntrie to Lady countenance to thinke he had committed an error, or made descend to Mr Secretarie for ought we know. The is so some pas de clerc that he sat sullen and spake not a word all Purbecke is sicke of the small pockes, and her husband heare of a supper. On thursday they were feasted by the Earle of kind that he stirres not from her bed's feet. I and his Warwicke and that afternoon visited the Duchesse of suit in chauncerie twixt the Duke of Buckingham Gray, made Richmond, who to keep her state and grace her audience two brothers about certain lands of the Lord it assembled all the ladies of her acquaintance. I cannot over to them in trust (as he sayes), but they vnderstand to forget one goode passage of hers (though not at that time) otherwise. The Lord North's daughter is to be married that in discourse of the Lady of Southampton's losse and the Lord Dacres, which is no gre.-'1t fortune nor preferment how grevously she took yt, she vsed this argument to prove for so fine a gentlewoman, to have a widower with two or her own griefe was the greater, for quoth she, I blasphemed, three sonnes at least. We heare of great entertainment a wittie speach forsooth and worthie to be put into the made at Turin made to the Lady Wake, set downe to an collection of the Lord of St Albans apothegmes newly set out ynch, being such as have been seldom or never afforded to this weeke, but with so litle allowance or applause that the any of her qualitie, but we must ever beleve the last to be world sayes his wit and iudgement begins to drawe neere best. Our souldiers are marching on all sides to Dover. the lees. He hath likewise translated some few psalmes into God sende them good shippinge and goode successe, but verse or rime, which shewes he growes holy toward his encl. such a fabble of raw and poore rascalls have not lightly Yf I could meet with a fit messenger you should have them ben seene, and go so unwillingly that they must rather be both. The King lies still at Cambridge (for ought wee heare) driven then led. You may guesse how base we are growne pained with the goute in his handes and armes, when he when one that was prest hung himselfe, for feare or curst removes it is appointed to Roiston and so hitherward. On hart, another ran into the Thames and after much debating Saturday Sir J ames Lee was made Lor� Treasurer and the with the constable and officers when he could not be Earle of Montgomerie and he sworne together of the dismist drowned himself. Another cut off all his fingers of Counsaile. vVe heare yet of no great alteration toward save one hand, and another put out his own eyes with salt. that he hath chaunged his grave velvet night-cap into a Sir William Broukes hath a difference with Count golden coife. Yt is observed as a straunge thing that we Mansfeld, where upon he forsakes the service and speakes have fowre Lord Treasurers living at once, fowre Lord not the best of him. So with remembrance of my best Chamberlains, fowre Secretaries, three Masters of the service to my goode lady I commend you to the protection Wardes, two Keepers or Chauncellors, two Admiralls (yf the of the Almighty. Lord of N otingam be not dead as they say he is) et sic de From London the 18th of December 1624 coeleris in severall places and offices. The new Countesse of Your Lordships most assuredly Sussex was saide to be dead as likewise the Countesse of at command Oxford with you, but we heare lately they are both upon JOHN CHAMBERLAIN. recoverie, and the opinion of the Lady of Sussex being with Endorsed : From Chamberlain, the 18th of December , child turned to a timpanie. Sir Fulke Conway (brother to received the 2nd of January 1624. Mr Secretarie) having his house in Ireland burnt about his N ott : The letter was sent to Dudley Carlton. eares, by negligence in taking tobacco, and escaping the first R. F. S. furie of the fire, wold needes adventure in again to save (To be conli11ued). · A nother Sept1tagmarian's Recollections. 39 . friends either senior or junior) was the great Arthur Ward : great with bat and ball-great as a musician and clarionet-player-great as a Freemason-great in weight and stature-great as a whist-player-great in the influence fo r good which ne exercised on all younger men who had the privilege of his friendship, As W.M. of the Scientific Lodge he initiated me into ANOTHER SEPTUAGE NARIAN'S Freemaso nry fifty-two years ago. He was the organiser RECOLLECTIONS. of the parties who were towed down to Upware in the Long Vacation, playing whist on the voyage, and· SEPTUAGENAR IAN, whose identity is trap-bat-and- ball on the green, "Five Miles from betrayed (to all Jo hnians at least) by the Anywhere." An other remarkable man whom I had the initials T. G. B., has given, in Tlze Eagle of advantage of knowing was "Job " Lunn, so called June 1909, some very interesting recollections fro m the coutjo rter which he was wont to wear-an of his undergraduate days. I must, however, take enthusiastic musician, and fervid ad mirer of Sebastian exception to the advice which he tells us that his Bach, whose fu gues he thundered out upon a piano doctor gave him before he came up-" You may read fitted with pedals, disturbing the peace of Atlay, whose hard, or row hard, but you cannot do both." For there rooms were just underneath ; fo r he (J. L.) would go on are many instances of hard-readers who have also been playing Bach to any appreciative friend till the small hard-rowers, and reached, if not passed, the three-score­ hours. Nor can I ever fo rget Sam. Butler, who steered and-ten limit without being crushed by the weight of the L.M.B C. first boat in 1857, and was a devoted years. But let that pass. I, too, another septuagenarian, admirer of Handel, in whQse style he in after years just a year junior to T. G. B., have many recollections composed a Cantata. At Cambridge he was recognised of the years passed at St John's-of my contemporaries, as a man with a keen sense of humour, and a gentle and of Dons sympathetic or otherwise. The Tutors of retiring character ; in later years he gained distinction ' that time were France ('' a small stoutish tutor,' as an artist-he became a daring opponent of Darwin, T. G. B. calls him) and Atlay. I was on the former's and was the author of "Erewhon " and many other side, and received from him many kindnesses and acts works, including that which attributed-was it a joke, of generosity. To the veteran J. E. B. Mayor also or not ?-the authorship of the "Odyssey " to a woman, I owe the great benefit derived from attending his and identified Ithaca with Trapani in Sicily. His voluntary Classical Lectures ; in those days there were predecessor as cox was J. H. Simpson (now Hudlestone), no Lectures in Classics suitable fo r Honour men, who familiarly called '' Mrs. Gamp," from the quasi-nursing crew, and the had therefore (if they could afford it) to read with a interest he took in the health of the training. coach. Both of these were invariably sympathetic : jellies wh ich he made for us in contemporaries ; many more but there was one, a Senior Dean, who was so much Such were some of my of a very otherwise that one Sunday morning he fo und himself live in my memory, the memory happy time. the occasion on which the "screwed in." Among my contemporaries (by which T. G. B. records accurately Head of the term I designate not only those of my own year, but Johnian firstboat became River in 1854 by Another Septuagenarian's Recollections. 40 Another Septuagenarian's Recollectio11s. 41 bumping First Trinity. On another very exciting start offagain to see the amusements of the fen-skaters, occasion that honourable position was very nearly lost and after that strike the railway and so return. One to Second Trinity, in the Lent Races of 1857. I may memorable expedition was made by a party of some explain it in detail-at the start the float on the dozen of us, who made our way by a cross-dyke from starting line fouled the starboard rudder-line, and so the Cam to the Ouse, and skated to Bedford : at turned the boat's head hard to port, bringing her bow Huntingdon the ice was twelve inches thick. As we across the river close to the right bank. It was a were all shortly going in for Little-Go, we had our moment of intense anxiety ; and amid the roars of Coward's A1talyszs of Pa ley in our pockets, and on excited partisans on tht: bank my No. 7 calmly every available occasion examined one another. From remarked to me, "I suppose I had better back water ?" Bedford we trained to Oxford, and had a day on the So we got straight, but only just in time, for the river, where the undergraduates had a four-in-hand on pursuers, having the inside of the corner, only missed the ice. In the evening I wrote my Declamation in the us by a few inches, and had no fu rther chance. There "Mitre " coffee-room. I may also mention, to show was yet another occasion when an accident might have how practice enables one to do long distances in a put three of the crew lzors de combat. As a rule boating short time, that I once, for a bet, left Ely Bridge at 2.30 men did not patronise Newmarket Races ; but one of and was in my place (though somewhat dazed) to read my friends-rather a reckless man-persuaded three of Grace as a scholar before the 4 o'clock Hall. us to go in a tandem, which he was to drive, to see the My rooms were in the New Cou.rt, at the top of letter fu n. It happened to be during the practice time for I; or (as the Porters used to describe them to any one the May Races, and of course we had to get back in seeking me) "Letter Hi, as 'igh as you can go." time to row over the course. All went well till our Opposite them kept a hard-working mathematician return : the leader had been taken off, and our driver who, it was said, would never go to bed so long as he was Jehu-ing us along Trinity Street, when he fo uled a could see the light burning in T. G. B.'s rooms across dray : the result was that I and the man who was the Court. He came out a few places below T. G. B. seated next me behind went flying into the passage among the Wranglers. My neighbour and I, and another, alongside Matthew and Gent's window, which we during one October Term, bathed at Sheep's Green .every missed by about two fe et. The Trinity men were morning at 7 till the middle of December, when we going into Chapel, and a rumour got about that three went down. I don't think any one of us liked it much ; of the Johnian eight were killed. Half-an-hour later but it would have been humiliating to be the first to we were rowing over the course as usual. give in. Early rising, at any rate, is a better help to a During the first week of the great frost of 1855, reading man than late oil-burnin.g. For this reason which T. G. B. mentions, I was in for the University I always took my coaching hour with Shilleto at 8 a.m. Scholarships Examination, and envying my friends He had a holy terror of wasps, and would always break who were enjoying the use of their "pattens." But I off from the work in hand till I had either killed or had plenty of time after the Examination, as the frost driven out of window the intruder. He used invariably lasted six weeks. Our usual custom was to skate down to walk up and down the room, taking snuff at frequent to Ely, partake of a second breakfast there, and after intervals, and kept a handkerchief or two on the floor ascertaining where any races or fairs were to be held, to mark the stations at which he would pause.

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I quite sympathise with the remark of T. G. B.'s acquaintance about "the stream of young life." Ever since I left Cambridge in I 858 I have been bathing in that stream, sometimes splashing in struggle with an adverse current, at other times leisurely floating on the surface, but never desiring to " root" myself " in ease on Lethe wharf." H. KYNASTON. A SPEECH OF WELCOME TO ST JOHN'S IN MARCH 1612-3.

COMMONPLACE book of one Nicholas Greaves of the early part of the 17th century has lately been presented by Professor C. H. Firth, of Oxford, to the library of the Univer­ URBS IN RURE. sity of Sheffield. It contains the speech of welcome delivered to Prince Charles and the Prince Palatine* HERE where the world is only half alive, on their visit to St John's College on March 4th(?) , 16I3 And idle care has time to ruminate, (I61 �). Baker writes t "A very particular account of We learn to prize your leagues of brick and slate their entertainment is yet extant upon the books, And busy humming of the social hive : furnished out with great magnificence in the master's We pine for action : to go forth and strive gallery [the present Combination-room], the trumpets For some great purpose : we are sick of dreams, sounding upon the tower, and verses being composed Sick of these unresponsive woods and streams, and presented upon the occasion ; and it was then that And languor of the life contemplative. the King's and Queen's pictures were sent down that have since hung in the gallery [now in the Master's While, in a dreary monotone of gray, Lodge]. The earl of Southampton (who had fo rmerly The blotted landscape drizzles down the pane, been a worthy member of the Society) assisted at The lit streets of the city still look gay, With mirror'd moons in twinkling pools of rain. the solemnity, and the master [Owen GwynJ being una And still, while townsmen tune their pastoral lays, cquainted with such ceremonies Mr. Williams The countryman is loud in London's praise. [afterwards Bishop of Lincoln and fo under of the C. E. BYLES. College LibraryJ bore the greater share, wherein he found his account." Our Master informs me that the speech of welcome is apparently not preserved in the College archives. It

• The Prince had been married to the Princess Elizabeth on the 14th February. t Mayor-Baker I. p. 201. H A Sp eech of rVe!come to Si John's in Illarch I6I2-J. A Sp eech of We lco111e lo St John's in iiiarch I6I2-3. 45 may be of interest therefore to give it in The Eagle vestrum collegium nova luce nobilitate et illustrate. from Nicholas Greaves' manuscript :- Ita tibi, illustrissime princeps, exercitus senatus fidelis,

ORATIO AD SERENISSIMOS PRINCIPES populus probus. Ita quod in accl[a] mationibus olim CAROLUM ET FREDEH.tCUM. e nosh·is annis tibi Jupiter augeat annos. Desideratissime princeps, serenissime comes Pala­ Ita tecum, serenissime comes, pulcherrima Diopeia"' tine, duo poli reipublicce, duo fulcra nutantis mundi, omnes annos exigat et pulchra te prole parentem amor et delicice humani generis, hoc vestro adventu, faciat, ita tibi nemo vnquam impune occurrat hostis, musis bonisque literis sanguinem et spiritum reddidistis siue pedes conseras seu spumantis equi fo dias calcari­ et accademiam grandcevam matrem et pene libitinariam bus armos. Quare succedite tectis, desideratissimi vernantem fecistis et quasi redivivam virginem. Oppletce hospites, fcelices ambo, florentes ambo, et si quid nostra vice, laborantia tecta, omnes senes iuvenes ad vos vota, nostra possint carmina, Nulla nullat di�s vnquam tanquam ad nova sydera certatim advolant, ipsi quoque memori vos eximat cevo. cegri ad conspectum vestri prorepunt tanquam ad Fznis. salutem et sanitatem. Frelix qui vos videat, fcelicior quem vos videtis, fcelicissimum hoc divi Johannis Of the prayer for the Prince Palatine's happiness in collegium et quod olim a Margareta extructum, et quod wedlock and in warfare, we can only say, nunc splendore vestro adornatum. Margareta (o nomen 'voti Phcebus succedere pattern Mente dedit, pm·tem omni epitheto maius omni titulo augustius) fuit Henrici volucris dispersit in auras.' septimi gloriosissimi regis fcelicissima mater, ex qua G. C. MOORE SMITH. ccelesti planta tu, princeps optime, divinus surculus, ex qua radice tu aureus ramus. Hoc igitur collegium ex * Used as feminine of Diopais, =daughter of Jove, i.e., the Princess beneficio tuorum est, ex officio [tuum]* est, in hisce Elizabeth. parietibus, qui celsitudin [i] tuce fastigia submittunt sua, t Perhaps to be omitted. inscriptas legas maiorum laudes et facta tuorum. Nunc igitur ex tumulo et fortunata favilla Margaretce nascan­ tur non violcesed rosceet lilia et in urnaperpetuum ver. Tu etiam, serenissime comes, huius glorice c[o Jmes, te etiam qui numine et flumine secundo hcec littora adpulisti, Te etiam gratissimo vinculo stringit gloria Margaretce, ex ilia enim et Latinus pater et Lavinia conjux, et spes surgentis Iuli. Tu etiam in hisce parietibus (vt in Vulcani clipeo) insculptas legas maiorum laudes et facta tuorum. Quocirca vt Pompeius Rhodum, vt Germanic[us J Athenas, vt professorum cedesTiberiu[ s J iuviserunt, et presentia sua nobilitarunt, sic vos (o clarissima mundi lumina) Margaretce nostrce

* Page torn. DANAE.

From the Greeh of Simonides. THE BLANK WINDOW IN THE CHAPEL : TWO LEGENDS OF ST JOHN. WHEN in the well-wrought chest the blast 0£ the wind, and the clashing waves of the sea OME fo rty years ago a scheme was drawn up Smote her with fear, and her cheeks were wet ; fo r the adornment of the new Chapel with Her loving arms about Perseus she cast, m stained glass. The subjects of the other 11 And said : What trouble has come to me, windows being taken from Sc ripture, the 11 Dear little child ? and thou sleepest yet- seventh on the south side was to contain legendary scenes from the life of St John."' Perhaps from distaste "Sleepest yet with untroubled heart for the legendary, perhaps from fe ar that this corner of '1 Here in the joyless, brass-bound box, the Chapel might be unduly darkened, the said window 11 Girt with the lampless, cladding night. was not "provided for" at the time, and blank it has "Not at the salt sea-spray clost thou start, remained ever since. The legends selected were four : 11 As it passeth over thy fair, thick locks, 1. St John ante Portam Latinam. 11 Nor can the shrill wind's voice affright. 2. Reclaiming the Robber. 3· The Poisoned Chalice. 11 But there thou liest, still, without fear, 4· The aged St John at Ephesus, "Little children, 11 Fair little face, clad in blue so deep ; love one another." 11 If this our terror were terror to thee, This paper deals with 1 and 3. With 1 most people, 1' To my words would'st thou lend a tiny ear. presumably all J ohnians, are familiar. Have we not 11 But now I bid thee, little one, sleep ; time out of mind fe asted on or about May 6 in memory 11 Sleep, too, the mighty raging sea. of the event ? 3 is certainly less known. Yet, though the " storied window " that should have shown it was 11 And may our measureless woe sleep too. never put in, the subject is continually before our eyes, 1 if 1 Father Zeus, let some change, I pray, somewhat above them, in the statue of St John over 11 Of fortune presently come from thee. the Gateway and in the middle upper light of the lower 11 But if my prayer lack reveren·ce clue, oriel window in Hall. To these I will return. 11 If an unrighteous word I say, "Then, I beseech thee, pardon me.'� * The Eagle, vol. vi. p. 340 ; Prof. Carclale Babington, on the authority of the Rev. H Russell, in History of t/1e Iufirmary aud Cltapel etc. (1874), p. 39. The Blank TVindow the Chapel. 49 48 The Blank Window in the Chapel. in

St J erome, two centuries later, tells how The two legends entitle our apostle to bear the palm as a "martyr in will "; and they correspond, in the J oannes missus in ferventis"' olei dolium purior et reverse order, to the Saviour's words (St Mark x. 3 9): vegetior exierit quam intraverit. "Ye shall indeed drink of the cup ... This embellishment is preserved in Caxton's Golde n and be baptized with the baptism ..." Legmd :

The Chalice story, again, was from the fi rst regarded "he yssued out by the helpe of god more pure and more fayr."t as a fulfilmen t m s 18): of the pro i e (xvi. Both writers assign the incident to Rome and to the "If they drink any deadly �hing, it shall not hurt them." time of Nero. Of the Chalice legend they are silent. Commenting on a verse quoted above, "in what w y," Or perhaps, as Prof. Swete on the passage suggests, a asks J erome, " did the sons of Zebedee drink of the "the legend may o we its origin to the saying." The cup "? St John, he answers, drank Caldron legend too, the apostle's " baptism of fi re," of it by his fiery bath and by his exile to Patmos, making no was deemed by Mosheim a figure of speech converted allusion to the story of the Chalice. The earliest well-known into history . Renan, however, conjectures an historical writer who mentions it is Isidore of Seville, who died foundation fo r it. He supposes John to have been at 636 A.D. : Rome with Peter in the awful year 64 A..D. when Nero lit his gardens with " livin g torches." Bibens letiferum haustum non solum evasit periculum, sed eodem prostratos poculo in vitre reparavit usum. "The victims were firstplunged into oil or other "Drinking the deadly draught, he not only inflammable substance ; not boiling however. In­ escaped the danger, but restored to life those tended for the same fate and destined on the evening who had succumbed to it." of the fete to illumine the suburb of the Latin Way, the apostle (after undergoing the preliminary� bath) It seems, then, to have been in the interval between was saved by an accident, a caprice. The Via Latina, J erome and Is id ore that the story gained acceptance in in fact, ran through the quarter where these terrible the west. The remarkable detail wh ich Isidore adds scenes were enacted" (L'Antechrist, pp. 188, 9). points to some fuller account already in existence. Such - The Chapel of SanGiova nni in Oleo " in front of the an account we find in the Leucian (?) apocryphal Greek gate " marks the traditional spot.t Acts of John:j: an d in the Latin false Abdias, per The Caldron story is quite simply mentioned by haps of the early seventh century, professedly trans­ lated from a Hebrew Tertullian about 200 A.D. : original of the first. A similar story was told by Papias about A.D., J oannes in oleum igneum demersus nihil pass us 140 but of another saint, Justus Barsabas. est.

* i.e. " boiling oil, or rather oil set on fire " (Nelson) • J erome and Abdias (see below) compare it to the wrestler's oil. . t "Mcrses profundo pulchrior evenit." t Hare's eh. ix. The Latin Gate (now closed) belonged Wa lks in Rome Another . , Horatian parallel is suggested by the tale of St John, his to the Aurelian \¥all (271 A.D.). It is, of course, in a different region from partridge and the fault-finding archer (in Cassianus) : "neque semper Nero's gardens. The Caldron is said to have been " shown in the twelfth arcum tendit J oauues." century " (Hare). The Chalice is "among the relics exhibited on great Attribut t ed to the heretical Leucius (second century). occasions in the church of Santa Croce " (Mrs Jameson). VOL. XXXI. H The Blank Window in the Chapel. 50 The Blattk Wi ndow in the Chapel. 51

From Acts and Abdt"as the stories passed into the vineyards). This comes from an old book called Lege nda Attrea of Bishop de Voragine* of Genoa in the Pia ltt'larta. thirteenth century and thence into the compilations of The Chalice story is told with much variety of detail. his translators, Jehan de Vignay in the fourteenth and In the Acts Domitian, so the Emperor is named, sum­ William Caxton in the fifteenth. All these works were mons John from Ephesus to Rome and requires of him among the early productions of the printing-press. a proof of the truth of his predictions. The apostle offers to drink a cup of poison, and after prayer and Caxton's Golden Legendt (1483), "the most laborious of all his literary and typographical labours,'' was also "setting the seal"* upon the cup, he drains it unharmed. one of the most popular, being "used as a Book of Domitian suspects trickery. A condemned criminal is Homilies to be read to th e people " (old sale catalogue). then brought to whom John gives the mere rinsings of Hence the rarity of approximately perfect copies. The the cup. The man instantly expires. But John will be "extensive use of wood-cuts " (zb.J was a fe ature of the no manslayer. In the name of Christ he raises the work. A favourable example, prefixed to the account dead to life. But the Senate has decreed death to of St John, portrays the story of the Chalice. the Christians; and the Emperor can but change the This story, though (as told of St John) it may be death-sentence into one of exile to Patmos. This is of later origin and less well attested than the other, a somewhat lame conclusion. In Abdzas and Tlz e became, I think, the more popular of the two. In the Golde n Legend the poisoned cup is proposed to the apocryphal Acts the Caldron story is entirely passed apostle as an ordeal by Aristodemus, High Priest of over. In Abdtas and the Goldett Legend, which have Diana, whose temple at Ephesust he has overthrown. both, the Chalice story is told much more fully. In John accepts the test ; but the High Priest, to convince art also it seems the favourite. The reason for this him of its seriousness, sends first to the Proconsul for appears obvious. In this story the apostle is no longer two condemned malefactors. They drink and die. The passive and in suffering ; he acts, and his action at once apostle now blesses the cup with the sign of the cross preserves and restores life. The story, too, lends itself and, in Abdzas, offersa lengthy prayer. He then drinks takes to more detailed exposition. In art, perhaps, it counted and no harm. But the High Priest is not yet satisfied. Ere he will believe, John must raise the for something that the Saint's familiar eagle could be dead to life. The apostle then gives Aristodemus his readily introduced into this subject, as in our statue and coat and bids him lay it upon the bodies with the in Raphael's picture ; scarcely into the other. The command, in Christ's name, to arise. This is done , symbolism, moreover, of this story, is, I think, more and the dead come to life again. Priest and Proconsul transparent. Yet the other had a place in the Calendar. no\ bel�eve and are baptized. A wholesale breakage Hence, M. Cahier tells us, in Picardy booksellers, in � of 1dol-1mages ensues and a church is built "in ye Champagne vinedressers took our Saint as their patron, worshippe of God and of Saynt Johan.'' the former quta portant Latz1zum (lt'ugua11t), the latter The iconography of St John is a large subject and parce qu'tls portmt la tz'ue (an implement used in

* KaTaaq>pa tcn; * So called from his birthplace, Varaggio. y p.•vo< (M. Bonnet's MS. V.). lo t Vignay's explanation an si conu11c t Abdias cates lhe Caldron story also t Cax on repeals de of lhe adjective : at Ephesus and substitut(:s lhe Proconsul Ior lhe lor est plus ttoble ws tous antres 11/clans, ansi est cestc legeude tcmre plus Emperor. 11oble sus tonics autrcs. 52 The Blank Window i11 the Chapel. Th� Bla11h �Viudow in the Chapel. 53

can only be touched upon here. In the Christian arl of or "extinction " of the poison. This appears from the the first eight centuries, to judge from Garrucci's prayer in Abdias : monumental work, the legendary is avoided, one or "Thee I invoke by whom the serpent is quelled; two christianized classical subjects mingle with mainly the dragon put to flight : scriptural ones, and apart from the Evangelists' em­ Quench Thou this fell poison, quench its deadly blems, the fa miliar "attributes " of the apostles are as breath, rob it of its power." yet unknown. Judas hangs himself, Peter has keys A more realistic view is suggested in several French and cock, Pilate too his ewer and bason and hand to thirteenth century windows of which Dr James kindly chin in the attitude, expressive of irresolution, known tells me. Here "we see the poison being made, men to the Greeks as but the apostles other than tl1r6'Yvv0a ; pounding up live snakes in a mortar." Naturally the Peter have nothing more distinctive than rolls or poison goes out in snake fo rm. In 106, 124, I 27 the books, crowns which they offer to their Master, and bodies of the poisoned criminals are shown. In 106 one sometimes palms in their hands. We look in vain for of them seems coming to life again. Their restoration St John with cup or caldron. For representations of holds an important place in the narratives. So in the former, at any rate, we must, I am led to think by the well-known Latin hymn (Daniel cxli.) it is said of the a high authority, come down much later. An excellent apostle : miniature of St John in the Caldron may be seen in the hie infernum reserat, Wriothesley Vi es des Sa ints o£ 1279 A.D. in the Library. morti jubet referat A statue of St John with cup and serpent is fo und at quos venenum stravit. the Forte du Sauveur of Amiens Cathedral, of the same In 6o, of about 1420 A.D., two serpents emerge, the century The Fitzwilliam Museum possesses various . apostle, with short hair (as at Amiens), averts his face Missals and Books of Hours of the fifteenth and early and holds the right hand to his mouth, as in physical sixteenth centuries. In these our legends occur often, disgust, the only instance in this collection of any especially the Chalice story In 101 (James) is an . sacrifice of dignity. The most important recent illus­ exceptionally good and minute Caldron scene. In the trations of our subject are on the Truro reredos by background is a palace, platfo rms right and left hold Hitch and a window by W. Morris after Burne-Jones.• the Emperor on one side, Jewish (?) priests on the other. In the former the left hand holds the cup with serpent, as auto da Spectators fill thewindows, at an .fe. In 9 I the right a closed volume. The original drawing for the executioners hold up their arms to keep off the heat. the latter is in the possession of Mr Cockerell of the In 30 John is old and bearded. In the Chalice subject Fitzwilliam l\1useum, who has kindly shown it me. In we have the youthful St John. In most instances, just this the youthful St John, with fe minine fa ce and long as in our window and statue, he raises two fingers of hair, holds the cup, from which a serpent rears itself, in in the left hand over the cup, the gesture described the left hand, while the right shows an open gospel above as "making the sign of the cross " or "setting with the initial words in principio erat verbum. In both, the seal " upon the cup. "Sign the (eucharistic) cup," says Leo IV. (c Bso), "with the right cross, with two * The Chapel of Jesus College possesses a St John window by these fingers extended and the thumb bent up underneath.'' artists. This, however, shows tile Evangelist with eagle and roll. Then'; The emergence of the serpent symbolises the extraction is also a window by Hardman after Pugin showing our legends. The Elan!< Window in the Chapel. 5--1- The Blank Window in !lie Chapel. ss the employment of the hands combines the Evangelist dow me, I own, the apostle's fa ce and action in our win with the martyr, but leaves the emergence of the ser­ appear dignified and benignant. pent unexplained.* Much interest and some obscurity belong to the Some five or six later saints figure in the Roman ore history of the statue over the Gate. Some time bef Calendar either as victorious over poison or as succumb­ mith, the installation (April, 1644) of John Arrows ing to it. Their "attribute," too, is a cup with or "the de fa cto twentieth Master," and in anticipation, it without a serpent. The chief of them is St Benedict, would seem, of the visit (December :zg, I643) of William the fo under of the great Order (b. 480 .A.D.). The severity Dowsing "the iconoclast," of his rule provoked the brethren to attempt his life by "the statue or image over the gate was taken down, poison, but when the saint took the cup in his hands and St John was banished once more to Patmos ; and blessed it, it bur st asunder. He is accordingly with good providence, as it happened, for had it sometimes represented with a cup showing a crack not been timely and seasonably displaced from its from rim to stem. t niche, it might probably have been thrown down I now return to our own window and statue. afterwards in a ruder manner, to prevent idolatry, The glass in the oriel window in Hall was brought, that was then the only sin we were afraid of '' Dr Liveing tells me, from Nuremberg by Dr Hymers (Mayor's Baker, i. 226). sometime in the fifties. Till I 868 it fo rmed the centre Baker gives as his authority fo r this statement Lib. light in the east window of the old Chapel. I have tlzesaur., i.e. an old Audit Book. recently met with the same design at Walton near In Le Ke ux ( ed. I 84 I) it is stated (i. 3 1 ), perhaps after Clevedon, whither it was also brought from the Con­ Baker, that tinent many years ago, and at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight. niche is the statue The subject and treatment must evidently have pleased "over the gate ...in an ornamental was taken English travellers of that date. Messrs Clayton and of St John the Evangelist. This statue authorities and thus saved Bell have kindly given me their opinion of our window : down by the College from destruction during the civil troubles of the "We have little doubt that it is what is known seventeenth century ? as Munich glass, of which a quantity was brought the into this country about the middle of the last This would be a striking, literal fulfilment of century, but the names of the artists in glass were expressive French proverb, tanl que la niche est vide, le never known." saint peut revenir. Nor would the saying be inapplicable even if put up after the troubles was a new An expert tells me that " Munich glass of that period the statue one, as the large sum paid fo r it, say £33 of our is beneath consideration." Yet our old Member, Mr indeed money, shows it to have been. In the Audit Book Beresford Hope, filled all the windows of Kilndown I662-3 occur entries Church on his Kentish property with such glass. To the :* " Stone Cutter for 2 Crownes over y• College Gate 1.10 . 0. * S0 in lhe new reredos Perth, W. Australia (Weatherley and Under­ wood). "George Woodruff for Cutting St John 's statue Another Burne-Jones window (Vyner Memorial, Christ Church, Oxford) 11 . 0. 0." has lhc right hand raised over the cup with winged serpent. t Cahier, Caracttfristiques des Sai11is (1867). * Willis and Clark's Architectttral History ii. 317. 56 Tlze Blank TVi11dow iu tke Chapel. T!te Blatzk ·window in the Chapel. 57 But why was not the old statue put up ag tin ? 1/Vas Mrs J ameson (i. 128) gives on the authority of Isidore there any old statue ? The Master has most kindly of Seville a form of the legend in which gone with me through the College accounts of that "an attempt was made to poison St John in the cup time, but no such entry as Baker refers to could we of the sacrament. He drank of the same without find, though there are several others of a like sort, fo r injury ...while the hired assassins fell down at his instance : feet." sy when the organ case as " Paid to old Dow w Neither in Isidore, however, nor anywhere else can taken away 6 . 8." I find this story. We may perhaps more safely follow her when she writes : There may have been reasons, however, why no entry wa� made of the removal of the old statue and " His d_rapery is, or ought to be, red with a blue why the College preferred to put up a new one in its or green tunic." place ; and it is hard to believe that the careful Baker, In our window the tunic is green, the mantle purple. who came up in 1674 and lived here so long, failed to In a corner of the Burne-Jones drawing mentioned assure himself of the truth of a story that interested above the artist has written : him so much. He does not say, though Le Keux does, "Colour-ruby robe, white underdress, pale that the old statue was set up again but only that it green nimbus." was saved from indignity by being taken down when it Dr J ames holds that there is was. The present statue must have looked new in 1674, no fixed and orthodox attributi as does that of Lady Margaret at Christ's now, which on of colours to particular saints.* I saw being raised to its niche a fe w years ago.* Examples occur, both ancient and modern, of St John Alles Ve rganghche ist nur tin Gleichnis. holding a cup without the serpent, as on the fa<;:ade of Gregory the Great argues that the promise in St Mark xvi. 18 N6tre Dame at Paris. Bishop Miinter (1825) maintained is still fulfilled :

is the eucharistic cup. True, he s that St John's cup " When believers by good in tructions pluck evil argues, St John does not record the institution, but from the hearts r , of othe s they take ttp serpents. alone of the apostles he stood by the cross and alone When they hear persuasives to evil but are not he witnessed the effusion of the precious stream. thereby drawn into evil act, they drilrk indeed a It seems sufficient to point in reply to the legend and eieadly thi11g, but it shall not hul't them."t to the fact that in some MSS., where the prostrate bodies The world, society, literature, the Church itself of of the criminals show the poisoned cup to be meant, this or that time and place, have all their pestiferas the cup nevertheless is without serpent. Its absence suasio11es >' in respect of them all the Saviour's promise may be due to the avoidance of an unlovely object,­ holds good. where present it is sometimes evanescent,-or simply to ignorance of the story. * Catalogue of the MSS. i11 the Fitzwilliam Museum. t See the original in Worclsworlh's note. * The corresponding niche al Trinity was vacant till "the statue of W. A. C. Henry VIII. was added by Nevile " U· \V. Clark).

VOL. XXXI. I The Exa111ined Life. 59

While the green lizard nestled in the brake At noon, what time the cattle sought the shade, And while the only animal awake Was the hoarse cical, chirping in the glade ; While slept the waters of the limpid lake, And all the world the voice of Sleep obeyed ; Did Thyrsis lay aside his noon-day coma THE EXAMINED LIFE. To take an Agricultural Diploma ?

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And Daedalus, Did Tityrus, beneath his spreading beech, the famous flying smith, vVould he have Just near the Mincio, where the gentle hill is, won an aeronautic prize ? Or is the story of While he was trying hard the woods to teach his flight a myth, A scurvy parcel To echo back " 0 lovely Amaryllis." of outrageous lies ? It's most unlikely Or while (0 fickle swain !) he tried to reach that he started with His son to flutter through A shrill top-note when singing to his Phyllis ; the wondering skies. And yet those daring Grecian Did he, or was his knowledge all disjoint, Bards would wheedle us Into a high opinion Know the significance of counterpoint ? of this Daedalus. 60 The Examined Life. The E.ramined Ltje . 61

Could Sophocles the Porson Prize have gained ? Need I relate the rest ? The seeds expired ; Or Pindar as a poet won renown ? And often after doing six hours' cram Would Homer's character have been unstained ? It seems to me, as wearied out and tired And would Euripides have been " sent down " ? I pace the verdant margent of the Cam, Would Horace or would Martial e'er have deigned And meditate that soon I'll be required To take a medal from Sir William Browne ? To enter for another big exam., And if they had, would they have quickly sold 'em ? That the examiners are wont to root Could Shakespeare have walked off with the Charles Out what they've sown in searching for the fruit. Oldham ? But I perhaps am prejudiced by dearth If Aristophanes had been at John's Of brains and wit and general capability. Would he have been assigned a fellowship ? Why should such fellows crawl 'twixt heaven and earth ? Would he have satirised his fellow-dons, (As Hamlet says). Complaining is futility. And made the table roar with jest and quip ? 'Tis better, I suppose, to smile in mirth, Would he have been p!mus lepo1·is jo ns, And bear the heavy burden with humility. And published skits on undergrad. and gyp ? For those who've tried to pass exams. and missed 'em Would he have written plays like Mr. Rottenburg, Are not upholders of the modern system. In emulation of the "Girls of Gottenburg " ? R. F. P. I do not think the Greeks were burdened by Examinations, curses of my soul. Their teachers asked not "How? " and "Where ?" and "Why?" They saw life clearly and they saw it whole. And how I wish that I could backward fly Twenty-four centuries, for then my goal Would be great Athens, mother of true culture, With no exams. to gnaw like Zeus's vulture.

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A little maid (so legends tell the tale) Possessed a little plot of garden-ground In which she planted seeds, and with a pail And a syringe she watered them, but found They grew not quickly ; she began to quail When no success her constant efforts crowned. She wanted what the matter was to see ; And so she dug them up diurnally. A Cttriotts l11lervicw. 63

Still, like Poe, I fel t considerable reluctance and apprehension about opening the door, and was just wondering how I could escape by the window, when the knock again put a stop to my reflections. This time there was no mistake about it.

A CURIOUS INTERVIE W. "-here I opened wide the door." I thought there was no one there at first, but I felt 11 AH, distinctly I remember, something pushing past my feet, and stepped back. It was in the bleak December, " In there stepped a stately Raven And each separate dying ember Of the- saintly days of yore. Wrought its ghost upon the floor." Not the least obeisance made he ; I had been reading Poe's "Tales of Mystery and Not an instant stopped or stayed he ; Imagination," being at the time in need of something But, with mien of lord or lady, Perched above my chamber door­ to cheer me up. Finding the "Tales '' inadequate fo r Perched, and sat, and nothing more." this purpose, I took down his poems from my bookshelf, and studied " The Raven." The evening was just such Only the bird that came in was certainly not a an one as Poe describes in the poem, and I was fe eling Raven. It looked more like a Phrenix, which had distinctly "eerie " after reading his tales. However, tried to burn itself at the end of its hundred years and I persevered with "The Raven." been unsuccessful in its experiment. A more ragged­ "- suddenly there came a tapping, looking creature I have seldom seen. As of some one gently rapping­ "Can I do anything for you ?" I said. Rapping at my chamber door." The bird opened its beak, and got as far as "Nev-" when I quickly interrupted it : "I refuse to take I put down the book, and stooped to poke the 'Nevermore ' as an answer to my ques tion." fire. I was startled, however, by a distinct knock at the "Well, if you won't play the game," said the door. I was puzzled-not to say alarmed-for I had Phcenix, "I suppose I must ignore convention. By the heard no fo otsteps outside, and the knock seemed of way, do you usually keep your visitors waiting fo r a rather an unearthly character. However, I persuaded quarter of an hour before you let them in ? It is not a myself that it was only my imagination, and went on habit to be cultivated." poking the fire. I had just settled myself in the chair " Si1:," said I, "or Madam, truly again and taken up the book, when the tap at the door Your forgiveness I implore ; was repeated, with more vehemence than the last But the fact is I was napping, knock. And so gently you came rapping, '' 'Tis some visitor entreating And so faintly you came tapping- Entrance at my chamber door­ Tapping at my chamber door, Some late visitor entreating That I scarce was sure I heard you," Entrance at my chamber door. This it is and nothing more." I couldn't help quoting. Curious Iuterview. 64 A c�wious Intervi�w. A 65 bedraggled feathers : I was immensely tickled, but "VvT ell, I knocked loud enough,''· said the Phcenix rather impatiently, "but I suppose I must take your dared not laugh). "You see, wl1en one has been the excuse." great pet of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of "You must find it cold up there," I said, desirous of Richmond and Derby-not to speak of being mother of changing the subject ; "come and sit down, and have King Henry VII.-one naturally takes a little pride in some coffee." one's deportment, and is particularly careful about the The Phcenix scrambled down, and waddled across society one takes up." the room into an arm-chair. "No, thanks ; I never "Do you mean to tell me," I broke in, "that you are drink coffee so soon before bed,'' he said, "but I am the mother of King Henry VII. ?" to a cigarette. Have you a 'gyp ' or a He turned an icy stare upon me. "Flippancy," he very partial · 'straighter ' i" said, "I abominate. What I said was that I was the I made him comfortable, and lighted his cigarette pet of Lady Margaret Beaufort, who was the mother of fo r him. A more ludicrous sight than an old and King Henry VII. Do I make myself quite clear ?" dilapidated bird smoking a cigarette it has seldom "Quite,'' I assented. '' But you have not yet told been my lot to see. I again asked whether there was me your grievance." anything I could do fo r him. "Patience, patience," he said, "all will come with "The fa ct is," he replied, "I have a grievance. I patience. Now, as I told you, I have a certain amount know you're the wrong person to come to, and all that, of pride. I am particularly anxiom> that portraits but I could trust no one else, as I believe you alone supposed to represent myself should be(\r some resem­ have any faith in my existence : and you may be able blance to me. There are several statues of me in the to give me some help. I don't suppose you know who College with which I can fi nd no fault, but the portrait I am : I forgot to introduce myself." which particularly annoys me is that which appears on "I recognised you at once : one could not make a the cover of the magazine which bears my name. You mistake about so noble a bird "-here a slight blush will notice that I am standing with my beak wide open, was evident on the creature's face-" you are without my fa ce fixed in a stupid stare of astonishment. The doubt the Phcenix.'' top part of my beak is absurdly out of all proportion The blush of modesty turned to one of an ger. with the bottom part. If in real life my wings assumed "Phcenix, indeed ! " he spluttered : "do you mean to the enormous proportions with which they are there say you believe in such trash ? Phcenix-pooh ! I am represented, I should be totally unable to fold them. no imaginary creature ; I am an eagle-I may say I My feet, as you see, are not really so enormous as they am The Eagle," are there depicted. Indeed, it is the size of the fe et I hastened to convey my apologies, and when he which particularly wounds my fe elings." He glanced seemed satisfied, I asked him what his grievance was, down at his aged shrunken claws. '· After all, I only and how I could help him. take ' fives ' in boots, and that is not so very large, "Well, the truth is-and I blush to confess it-" he is it 1" began, "that I have a certain amount of pride. I flatter I agreed that it was not. myself that my appearance is all that can be desired." "And did you ever see such a tail,? " he continued. (He said this with a glance of satisfaction at his old " You will see that in real life my tail does not consist

VOL. XXXI. K 66 A Curious Interview. of fo ur large cigars." He stood up and turned round, that I might with more advantage note the beauty of his tail. As a matter of fa ct the flight of time had left very few fe athers on this appendage, and those that were left were ragged and bedraggled. The tout ensemble was ludicrous in the extreme. "Now, I think you will admit that my grievance is a very real one," he said, after having satisfied himself THE that I had seen his tail fro m every possible point of EVOLUTION OF JONATHAN BROWN, view. "I can only ask you to do all in your power to FRESHMAN. remedy it." I assured him that I could do nothing-that the JONATHAN BROWN was a sturdy lad, Eagle on the cover was a conventional bird-that it Some reputation J onathan had was not intended to be a life -like representation-in When fate decided to add his name fact I heaped explanation upon explanation, but the To the indiscriminate crowd that came bird would not be satisfied. Nothing would do but On a clay to the College named of John that I should interview separately �ach member of the The cap and the four-barred gown to don. Editorial Staffof Th e Eagle, and enlist his support in the matter of remedying this absurd creature's griev­ Now certain a guileless fame ensue ance. I tried every means in my power to get out of And many a hackney'd "Don't " they do, ' it, but in the end I had to give in, and reluctantly Massive the piles of brick they lay ; agreed to do all that he wished. He thanked me Not so did Jonathan display profusely in a polite little speech, and then said that it Masonic skill, but evermore was very late, and he must be getting to bed. I ushered Kept within bounds his modest score. him out of the room with all ceremony, and returned to One night on Jonathan my arm-chair. For the next quarter of an hour or so after "hall " The First Boat Captain made a I meditated on my extraordinary experience of the call. Soft was his voice, his accent low, evening. How old was the bird ? Where did it live ? "And is it your true desire to row ? How did it come to possess the power of speech ? And have you ever essayed before Should I really try and get the cover altered ? And To drive a boat with the hollow oar ? " this question especially kept recurring to me : Should I ever see him again ? Then J onathan reverence did . pay, Bang! !! Brought cigarettes and began to say I started up from my chair and rubbed my eyes. "An oar I know from a barge-pole. Yes ! on to the floor. It was I had knocked a book down Though skill in use of it have I less Poe's Poems. I opened it at random ; the line I hit on Than the two-months babe has skill to fare was an answer to my question- U nguided down the household stair. " Quoth the Raven, "Never more ! '" And there, I fear, is the rub of it, F. C. 0. 68 The Evolulio11 of Jonalhan Brown, Freshmat�. The Evoluli011 of Joualhan Browu, Freshman. 69

For small indeed is the benefit When next we come across J onathan Brown That any rowing of mine can yield On the seat of an eight he sitteth down, Though eager am I the oar to wield. -Of an eight that is patched and worn and old, To be counted one of a chosen crew The tale of whose years is well-nigh told, Few things there are that I would not do." Her keel distorted, her ancient fame Forgotten, she 'waits the festive flan1e. Then spoke the Captain " Far from few Al·e the things you needs must learn and do, Yet eagerly raising her, into the stream Yet as to the future there is no rub, They cast her again. Each gaping seam It needs no skill to sit in a tub ; With oozing water trickles apace. 'Tis well to begin with an open mind, There is setting of stretchers and oars in place, And just is that saying as you will find, A groaning. and squeaking of ' pins and keys, 'Who starts with a load of original sin -11 Hold on to your oars now, gentlemen, p1ease." A lingering penance cloth begin.' "

Then the Captain smiled in a hopeful way, They holcL And slowly the ancient thing. Said he was busy and must not stay, Begins to stagger and roll and swing Said he would put up a list and John To her rudder riding sluggishly, Would receive intimation later on So oft in the sounding street we see Of the time of his novitiate The cab-horse bowed with his load of care . And the place thereof-lest J olm be late. Pensive propel his eager fare.

Wherefore, during the following week No silken galley with roses twined Jonathan was not far to seek Smooth-gliding keel and favouring wine� Crossing the Common at half-past two Is here. No smiles, no blandishment, AlTayed in uniform wholly new, No godlike steersman, heaven-sent Spotless sweater and trousers grey, We note. No clear and sunlit wave Coat of scarlet exceeding gay. A spice-exhaling strand cloth lave. For firmly now his mind was set But the a st To serve the Lady Margaret No l r we of the raw Here wage a bitter and painful war (And the same is a mistress passing stern). With themselves and a hostile element So he laboured the ancient lore to learn, And this was a bitterness and a gall Adrift in a strange environment, For the oar held Jonathan fast in thrall. Straining and sweating,. all and each Scourged with a blast of bitter speech. So ever astern, with a settled frown The Captain sat and regarded Brown, And do they follow their devious way And watched him struggle or slowly smiled, Untroubled, safe from disaster ? Nay l Checking with wise advice the wild But ever ahead in the wind and sleet Rebellion of his kicking oar, Clusters an undecided fleet And John was attentive though John was sore. Of witless craft, while loometh large, "" "" " * Massive and foul, the mud-gorged barge. 70 The Evolution of Jonathan Brown, Freshman. ·The Ez•oluliou of Jonalhan Brown, Freslt111a11. 71

And will they win to the Bridge and back Dozing, he slept and he dreamed a dream U nsunk, unshattered, and free from wrack ? Of azure skies, and a sunset gleam And will they bring to their native shores Which shone all scarlet and seemed to laugh Undraggled bodies, fnll tale of oars ? With the rose of a pink Leander scarf. The whim of a cox and the mind of fate -Then shrank and shrivelled. He turnedand woke No wit of man may estimate. As the Chapel bell on his dreaming broke.

Now J onathan sat in the quaking ship, "' 11' • # And the coach's tongue was a biting whip, The thwart beneath him as iron burned, No longer now is there need to dwell The little wisdom he yet had learned On themes unpleasant and sore to tell. As a tiny drop in the bucket sate- Enough that in course of time was born No more. For the bucket was h·uly great. A crew of that eight and cox forlorn. had stiffened. They 'gan to show And ever on one or the other side Their backs " They might be said to row. Astern the escaping oars did glide, "Beginning. As under the coach's blighting frown, With pain and labour they H backed her down," No longer did J onathan, as of yore, And ever the baleful H crabs " did churn Wrestle and strive with a vagrant oar, The sullen water from bow to stern. For the oar and the man were reconciled. 'lt # # "' No more in a furious haste and wild Did J onathan fiercely oscillate, What manner of harvest will ye gain ? For Jonathan now was rarely late. What shining recompense for your pain ? Eight wretched men and a cox who sow # "" # # In a leaky boat and ordain to row ? Nine units they embark, 'tis true. At length ariseth a doubtful dawn the crews are drawn They shall return a potential crew. When, leashed and ready, Over the winding course to move, And can ye believe that these who crawl Their worth to settle, their skill to prove. In a ship of wormwood o'er seas of gall So three shall meet and a fourth shall strive Shall win a style and acquire a grace And all, perchance, at the post arrive. To sweep and swing in the roaring race ? Yea Even to these on a distant day l Now into the soul of J onathan Brown Falleth there no ignoble prey. There entered a hunger for high renown "' "' # # And fierce desire in his breast awoke Wetter and wiser and shorter of skin As he drove a not ineffective stroke. They rowed her back and they brought her m. -They have passed the Gut ! They have left the Over the fields to the sinking sun Plough ! Fared they wearily, one by one. Now Ditton is grazed and rounded ! Now On a mound of softest cushions Brown Bellow and shout the pursuing throng- Carefully, painfully, laid him down. " Get hold of it ! Take her up the H Long " 1 72 Th e Evolution of Jonalhan Brow11, Freshman.

The Captain rides with a thoughtful gaze, With high impartial mind he weighs. � The sins of many, the merits of some. �� When Jonathan into view doth come He seeks and searches for sign of skill "Yes ! Brown is rowing by no means ill."

That night they gather with song and wine, The massive tankards refulgent shine, TWO MARSH VIGNETTES. The pewter tankards, two-handled, tall, Fair prize of prowess, the meed of all I. Who rowed like Brown in the winning crew, NEWCHURCH CHURCHYARD. Knew how to do it and what to do. AM sitting in the churchyard at Newchurch, * * '� �· directly opposite the west door. From my Now he shall say how the end will be point of vantage the weather-beaten church Who into the future can soar and see- looks rather like some hoary old sloth which What fortune waits for the White and Red, hans been petrified as it walked. The setting sun is What crew, what colours may finish " Head " bathing its ancient walls, and the bulging tower seems . \Vhen the loud Lent races come again. to approve of its caress, and looks down bravely from But this with vehemence we maintain :- its turret windows as much as to say, "I h ave stood through more south-west gales than the stones number If J onathan Brown to the type be true, which toiling masons brought to build me ; this is If J onathan row as he used to do, my little hour of rest." Then doubtless, as in the ancient clays, The churchyard fo rms a sort of island, surrounded Anew shall the Eagle ensign blaze- by a narrow dyke, along the banks of which grow tall Shall the spreading pinions strain and fret willows. These form a screen, which edges in the In praise of the Lady Margaret. sacred ground in decent isolation. At the moment they P. A. I. are swaying to and fro in a gentle breeze. By my side, in contrast to the battered magn ificence of the old church, is a garish sepulchre built by some fa rmer in the full flush of early Victorian opul e nce. It has been recently restored, and the black letters, which register the excellencies of several generations of Glaishers, have been cut an ew. Oh ye good Glaishers, modern representatives of a worthy race, why fu rbish u p th e lies which your fathers wrote of your grand­ fathers I Better fa r have lef t them overgrown with moss, and left time to harmonise your tomb with its \'0 L, XXXI. L 74 Two Marsh T'ig11ciles. surroundings. But fo r your cenotaph, ye Glaishers, there is no note of discord in this glimpse of peace. Quiet-a wonderful and intense quiet-broken only by the evening song of a fe w birds, and on the road beyond the measured plod of a team of cart-horses which are being led to the stable.

II. THE ST. MARY's RoAD. "HISTORY OF ST PAUL'S SCHOOL." I have just turned a corner in the white winding road and come suddenly on the most charming colour By MICHAEL F. J. McDONNELL. picture. On my right is a field of clover, the blossoms London, Cliapman ami Hall, 12/6. almost full out. Interspersed are some delicate grasses swaying to and fro in the dying light of the sun. a day when so much is being said with Skirting the field on the fu rther side is a quick-set re?'�rd to the influence of the public school hedge, which has only flourished at intervals, and here N spmt upon England (or should the order be and there discloses a long field of oats, which stretches reversed ?) a work which throws light on the far beyond. The ears have, as yet, only a fa int tinge Uhistory of one of our great fo undations is to be of yellow, the general impression is still of a watery welcomed. We turn, therefore, with considerable green. Some soulful road-mender has deposited a interest to Mr McDonnell's "History of St Paul's large pile of flints by the roadside, which still have the School," an interest that should not be least felt by loam clinging to them, and give a beautiful brown members of St John's College, which owes to Colet's contrast to the different shades of green around. A School two Masters as well as many Fellows and plant, to which, alas, I can give no name, is flourishing members who have gained fo r it distinction in most in the dyke which runs by the side of the road : its directions of human activity. The general public may, flowers are of a pinky wh ite. It looks eminently perhaps, find th at the book savours rather too much of homely, and is showing off its modest charms against the annalist, but from the point of view of an old the more insidious graces of some deadly nightshade Pauline, who has lived in the atmosphere of the School which is growing near. and has felt himself borne aloft by its traditions, it is A fe w birds are still busy, otherwise evf'rything is very nearly sufficient. at rest. The grasses continue to nod gracefully, and a Mr McDonnell has dealt with many of the points of water-rat swims lazily down the murky dyke. interest connected with St Paul's in a very able and satisfying manner. We are particularly pleased with the way in which he emphasises the position of St Paul's as a day-school. It has always been a fe ature of the School, and one on which particular emphasis was laid by the late High-Master, perhaps the greatest of the men who have filled that position, that St Paul's gives a boy all the advantages of contact with a large 76 "Hislo1y of SL Paul's School." '' Hislo1y of Sl Pa ul's School." 77 and representative number of other boys, while it suffers seems an excellent occasion for its resumption. \Ne him to remain under the softening and, to our mind could wish that Mr McDonnell's notice of this may necessary, influence of home life . Without desiring to influencethose in authority at St Paul's, if they are not raise the much-vexed question of the advantages and already moving in the right direction. disadvantages of the English boarding-school system, It is when dealing with events nearer our own time, we may be permitted to point out that St Paul's has however, that Mr .1\fcDonnell reaches his best. His maintained its high standard of efficiency without account of the long and desperate conflict between the removing its boys from the influence of home associa­ School and the Public Schools Commission is clear and tions, an influence which cannot be replaced, though to thorough, and is made far more interesting than any of some extent it may be compensated for by a boarding­ passages which deal with similar constitutional the other , school. It is one of the great glories of St Paul's that crises in the history of St Paul's. Moreover, in his it has been able to do this, and in laying stress on th is account and appreciation of the work of the late High­ aspect of the School Mr McDonnell has shown himself Master, Mr Frederick W. Walker, Mr McDonnell will a wise observer and a sound historian. find eyery Pauline in agreement with him, and, indeed, Mr McDonnell's treatment of many other matters in everyon.e who has had, during the last generation, any the history of St Paul's deserves every appreciation. It is acquaintance with the School. Very truly does he term with pleasure that we find an endeavour to lighten the beginning of Mr Walker's tenure of office "the the memory of a Pauline Lord Chancellor of some of Renaissance of the School." It would be difficult to the load of obloquy that has been heaped upon him. overestimate Mr Walker's services in expanding the Lord J effreys, the infamous "Judge J effreys " of the School and in bringing it into line with the require­ school history-manuals, harsh though his nature must ments of the times, as well as in safeguarding its have been, was not the inhuman beast that he has interests against continual attempts at encroachment. been represented by the blind personal prejudice of Mr McDonnell's appreciation of the late High-Master is biased historians. All the evidence goes to show that not unworthy of its subject, and it is here that Mr he was a great lawyer and a sound and equitable judge McDonnell, as a chronicler of St Paul's, perhaps rises in ordinary cases. It is only his conduct in the trials to his hest. of Monmouth's followers that has earned him his evil Such is an impression of the new History of St Paul's reputation, and comparison with the proceedings of School. Vve are disappointed in some details ; we would other political tribunals of the same date proves con­ gladly have learned how long the Puritan spirit, which clusively that he did not stand out from amongst his is noticed by Mr McDonnell under John Langley's rule, colleagues as a monster of iniquity. continued to be characteristic of the School, and how it In the course of his work 1\Ir McDonnell shows that affe cted or was affected by the boys and the masters fo r a considerable period there was a continuous tradi­ who made its history. This and similar lines of treat­ tion that the teaching of Hebrew should be incl uded in m ent, which would have been of deep interest, have not the School curriculum. Many will regret that the study been followed by Mr McDonnell, and the book loses of this language has dropped out, and the present accordingly. However, the excellence of much that he moment, when a Pauline Exhibition for proficiency in gives us is a considerable compensation, and this is Oriental Languages has just been fo unded at Oxford, increased by the genuine and sincere enthusiasm for 18 "History of St Paul's Se/zoo!."

his subject which characterises the whole book, and bespeaks a man's true love and admiration of the School that made him. Author and publisher have joined hands to produce a book of which Paulines may �bitlHll' \'!• well be proud, a book that, whatever its merits or its faults, is a true and loving account of a great fo undation. WrLLIAM WILLS M.A. Polydore Vergil said of St Paul's "Ac ut Londiniensis juventus e Paulina schola multo est politior, sic tota Barrister-at-Law. Anglia multi studiis et doctrinis dediti profecta liter­ William Wills, who died at Matlock on the 26 May last, atura fiorent." This was true of St Paul's alone at the was born at Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham, on the time when Polydore Vergil wrote, but to-day, if there 7 June 1851. He was educated at three schools, the are any other Schools of which the same can be said, • Birmingham and Edgbaston Proprietary School, King the part played by St Paul's is still as important and as Edward the Sixth's School at Birmingham, and the Gram­ great, and book fo r a such as that before us, which mar School at Brewood, in Staffordshire. From thence he reflects this aspect of the School, we cannot be too proceeded to St J olm's, and was admitted a pensioner grateful. 18 February 1869. He graduated in 1873-being placed S. M. G. 11th in the Classical Tripos, and in December of the same year 3rd aeq. in the Moral Science Tripos, Mr Alfred Lyttelton, Colonial Secretary under Mr Balfour's adminis­ tration, being first, and Mr Cunynghame, now Sir Henry Harding Cunynghame K.C.B., and Assistant Under Secretary to the Home Office, second. He belonged to a legal family. His grandfather, Mr William Wills, was a solicitor, as was also his great uncle, another Wills, and his father, Mr William Ridout Wills. His grandfather was the author of a treatise on " Circum­ stantial Evidence," published originally in 1839, which brought him into friendly relations with some of the most distinguished jurists of the clay, American and Gennan, and has run through five editions, two of which haYe been published since the author's death in 1860, tbe fifth and last, bearing elate 1902, having been edited by his second son, 1.lten a judge oi the High Court : who was called to the bar a few months after the subject of this memoir was born. It was not unnatural, therefore, that he should have been attracted to the profession of lhe law. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in November 1876, having been a pupil in the chambers of an excellent lawyer, and a gentle­ man of singularly attractive personality, the late Mr George 7s "History of St Paul's School."

his subject which characterises the whole book, and bespeaks a man's true love and admiration of the School that made him. Author and publisher have joined hands to produce a book of which Paulines may � b i tlHll'\2. well be proud, a book that, whateverits merits or its faults, is a true and loving account of a great foundation. WILLIAM WILLS M.A. Polydore Vergil said of St Paul's" Ac ut Londiniensis juventus e Paulina schola multo est politior, sic tota Barrister-at-Law. Anglia multi studiis et doctrinis dediti profecta liter­ William Wills, who died at Matlock on the 26 May last, atura florent." This was true of St Paul's alone at the was born at Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham, on the time when Polydore Vergil wrote, but to-day, if there 7 June 1851. He \vas educated at three schools, the are any other Schools of which the same can be said, • Birmingham and Edgbaston Proprietary School, King the part played by St Paul's is still as important and as Edward the Sixth's School at Birmingham, and the Gram­ great, and for a book such as that before us, which mar School at Brewood, in Staffordshire. From thence he reflects this aspect of the School, we cannot be too proceeded to St J olm's, and was admitted a pensioner grateful. 18 February 1869. He graduated in 1873-being placed S.M.G. 11th in the Classical Tripos, and in December of the same year 3rd aeq. in the Moral Science Tripos, Mr Alfred Lyttelton, Colonial Secretary under Mr Balfour's adminis­ tration, being first, and Mr Cunynghame, now Sir Henry Harding Cunynghame K.C.B., and Assistant Under Secretary to the Home Office, second. He belonged to a legal family. His grandfather, Mr William Wills, was a solicitor, as was also his great uncle, another Wills, and his father, Mr William Ridout Wills. His grandfather was the author of a treatise on '' Circum­ stantial Evidence,'' published originally in 1839, which brought him into friendly relations with some of the most distinguished jurists of the day, American and German, and has run through five editions, two of which have been published since the author's death in 1860, tbe fifth and last, bearing date 1902, having been edited by his second son, then a judge of the High Court: who was called to the bar a few months after the subject of this memoir was born. It was not unnatural, therefore, that he should have beeu attracted to the profession of the law. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in November 1876, having been a pupil in the chambers of an excellent lawyer, and a gentle­ man of singularly attractive personality, the late Mr George I1 1,1�I 1 80 Obituary. Obituary. 81 11 Baugh A1len, a special pleader in very large practice, and in recovered health or strength, and after nearly a year of those of Mr J. C. Mathew, afterwards Lord Justice of Appeal. suffering, borne with exemplary patience, he died at After his cal1, he had chambers in the same set with those Matlock, where be was buried in the beautiful graveyard of of his uncle, then a Q.C., to whom he rendered constant and the parish church.* I most reliable assistance. He always aclmowledged with Success at the bar came to him slowly, but he was all gratitude the lessons in accuracy which Mr A11en both the while laying deep and wide the foundations of a super­ inculcated and exemplified. The mental habits thus acquired structure of legal attainments such as few men have been were destined to lead to his appointment, several years able to build up. In later years, it was difficult to find a before his death, as one of the counsel to the Admiralty, for department of law in which his knowledge was not both he had neither political nor other influence to help him, and extensive and accurate. Accuracy, indeed, was one of his owed his position entirely to his own merits. great characteristics in whatever study he engaged ; and it He became also frequently the adviser of the Home Office, was the kind of accuracy which is always striving to grasp on whose behalf he conducted several very important and to apply the principles underlying a particular instance. inquiries into the conditions under which various industries His thoroughness was on a par with his accuracy. He never a11egecl to expose those engaged in them to special risks did anything by halves, whether in work or recreation, nor were carried on. It is sad to have to add that the fidelity, was he satisfied till he had mastered the facts of a case and thoroughness, and accuracy which characterised all his work thought out e\'ery legal question likely to arise. His know­ brought his life to a close. Complaints had been made by ledge, industry, sound judgment, and high sense of honour the Birmingham brass founders that their employment, as made him in all cases a singularly safe adviser, and eminently carried out at that time, rendered them liable to distressing fitted him for the duties of counsel to a great public depart­ disease and premature death. He was requested by the ment. From the Home Office, frequently as he was con­ Home Office to undertake the investigation of these com­ sulted, he never held any official appointment. To the plaints, and in the beginning of 1908 he proceeded to Admiralty he had been appointed junior counsel in 1904, Birmingham, and after hearing evidence on both sides and the matters in which he was engaged for both offices determined to see for him�elf the part of the process to were often of great dif-ficulty and complication, and some­ which the dangers specially attached, namely, the casting of times required technical knowledge, of no superficial the metal. He attended at this operation in a great many character, in various branches of mechanics, electricity, and of the sma11er establishments, where the clanger is m·ost physics. On such occasions he spared no pains till he had acute. After the last of these visits he was attacked in the thoroughly mastered so much of whatever region of science night with a11 the symptoms of the early stages of the brass was concerned as was necessary to enable him to give sound founders' disease : and although he was able to conclude his and intelligent advice. The writer of this notice is permitted report and draw up a set of rules to regulate the process, it by the late and the present Solicitor to the Treasury to say is no exaggeration to say that he never afterwards had a clay's health. In the following June he was extremely ill­ .. Amongst the allegations made by the memorialists was one that no almost unto this acute stage of mischief death-and although operative brass founder ever lived to attain 60 years. This allegation was passed away he was bent and crippl.�d, so much so that denied, but a challenge to produce any man vf 60 who hac\ been engaged when he stood as nearly upright as he could he measured in that industry failed to bring such a person forward. It is pathetic to from three to four inches less than his normal height. He add that Mr Wills, whose death was undoubtedly brought about by his exposure to the incriminated fumes, died a few clays before he had com­ tried one remedial measure and one life-giving air after pleted his 58th year. It should be added that the whole of his proposed anothc r, but the mischief proved intractable ; he never n:gulalions have been adopted by the Home Secretary. VOL. XXXI. llf 82 ObifllarJI. Obituary. 83 that Mr \\'ills enjoyed their i d confidence : ent re and unstinte the department of Herault and a good deal of the South of and, says Lord Desart, may be added, "regard and France. He spoke the language perfectly and readily Mr affection," an expression -..vith which Melior desires to picked up a patois. He loYecl "La belle France" from the be associated. "In point of knowledge and judgment," bottom of his heart. One of the books \vhich during his Mr Meiior also writes, "-and especially of a fine sense of long illness he read with peculiar pleasure was Mr. Rowlancl what is befitting a great department, I do not think he can Prothero's delightful volume "The Pleasant Land of be surpassed." France." He travelled sometimes alone, sometimes in good At the time of his death he was, and had been for several company, and he loved to talk with all sorts of country folk, Bar. years, a member of the General Council of the people out of the range of railways-farmers, innkeepers, To his classical studies he was devoted to the end of his peasants, local lawyers, fellow passengers by diligence, and He had read widely, and kept up his reading. He life. the amount of knowledge of the political and social condition was a very conscientious translator, always bent upon of the dwellers in the country that he had picked up was rendering the exact thoughts of the original and, as far as naturally very great. He loved travelling, and loved its possible, giving the equivalent words. lessons in many and varied fashions. The antiquities of His knowledge of modern languages and of the literature Arles and Nismes-the treasures o£ art in the great capitals--. of his own and other European countries was great. He the architecture, the streets of the towns on both sides of the knew French, German, Italian, Spanish, Modern Greek. river, the patois, the pronunciation, all the varied associations Italian and Modern Greek he spoke i1nently. German not with the great Tartarin, and his neighbours called up by a He read it with ease. He so well, but still intelligibly. visit to Tarascon-the canons of the Cevennes-the snows of could read without much difficulty Dutch and Danish, and Mont Blanc-the exquisite colouring and still more wonder­ spoke enough to get on comfortably in Holland and Den­ ful vegetation of the Valley of Sixt and the Eagle's nest, of mark and to obtain a great deal of information from peasants which he was a frequent and most welcome inmate-all and others whom he came across, and he knew something found a sympathetic answer in his many-sided nature. He of Swedish and Norwegian. He had read many of the best had travelled in Germany, in Holland, Denmark, Italy, writers, and especially the greatest poets, who wrote in all Sweden, and Norway, as well as in our own island. He was the languages mentioned, except Dutch, Danish, and Scandi­ keenly alive to the humours as well as to the more serious navian. But the language he delighted in above all others aspects of his "incidents of travel," and made an admirable was French, in which his reading was very extensi,re, travelling companion-never depressed, never fussed, always beginning with the oldest, passing through medireval, and thinking of how the comfort and enjoyment of his com­ coming clown to the latest contemporary literature. The panions could be best secured. logical qualities of a great deal of the serious literature of One of his many accomplishments was boat sailing. The France appealed to the settled habits of his mind, whilst the late Mr Stuart Moore, not only a very learned antiquarian finished style and the delicate shades of meaning and lawyer but an experienced and able yachtsman and an expression so often found in the lighter works of fancy or intimate friend, gave him about twenty-five years ago a little ephemeral discussion fascinated the

d has preached some excellent sermons the solitude of his closing years was relieved-and greatly and Sunday Fund, an on its behalf. He has for many years been one of the relieved-by the sunshine o£ the mutual affection subsisting the Bible Society ; for between him and his stepsons, which was warm and abiding. secretaries of the local auxiliary of some years he had been chaplain at the \Vorkhouse, and has A.W. held a similar appointment under the War Office in con­ nection with the troops stationed here. As vicar of Christ­ church he was trustee under the will of John Clingan, whose REv. T. H. BusH M.A. bequest is for the apprenticeship of young people of the Mr Bush was one of the founders and an editor of The district. He was connected with most of the athletic and Eagle. His photograph will be found in No. CXLV., which other societies in the district as vice-president and subscriber.'' contains as frontispiece a group of the founders of The Our second extract from the same pamphlet occurs in a Eagle, 1858. sermon of the Rev. W. H. B. Boxall, of Bm·ton :- We extract the following nolice from a pamphlet ent "There is little need for me to clwell upon the many itled / "Memorials of the Rev. T. H. Bush M.A.," published at varied aspects of his life and work, nor do I feel competent Christchurch, 1909 :- to do so in the presence of those who have known him for a " Mr Bush was born at Bath on the 14th January, 1831, longer time, but we must all respect the width, range and was the son of Mr Cornelius Bush of that city, and had three accuracy of his scholarship, his love of literature, his sound sisters, one of whom married Mr Norregaard. These sisters judgment and good taste in art, his keen interest in Oriental are still living. He was educated under the Rev J. James, studies, and, above all, his innate love of architecture, which vicar of Long Sutton, and at Bath Grammar School. He made him such an efficient custodian of this historic church. entered St John's College, Cambridge, and was Tyrwhitt He regarded this building as a sacred trust, and to ensure its Prizeman ; he took his degree of B.A. as 15th Wrangler, and preservation and maintain its ancient dignity and splendour his M.A. degree in 1862. In 1861 he became chaplain and he spared himself no pains. The visible evidence of this mathematical master of Clapham Grammar School, then work of restoration during the last 25 years bear witness to under the direction of Dr C. Pritchard. In 1862, at the his untiring devotion to the work of ensuring the safety of request of the then Bishop of Winchester (Dr Stunner), he this ancient fabric. Nor can I omit to mention his zeal and took the charge of church affairs at Bmton ; and chiefly energy in the early clays of his ministerial career, in the through his exertions the present commodious church was building of the church at Bm·ton, where his memory is still erected at a cost of £3,500 ; and an endowment fw1d of cherished, and where he spent no less than 22 years of £2, 500 raised. happy home life and quiet successful service." '' Mr Bush married Augusta, daughter of the late Mr John Kemp-vVelch, of Sopley Park, and sister of Mr John Kemp­ Welch, J.P. She died in December, 1895. EDMOND KELLY M.A. " Mr Bush's incumbency has been a singularly happy one. and throughout the twenty-five 1years of its continuance, his Mr Eclmond Kelly, who died on the 4th of October last interest in all public matters has been maintained in complete at his residence, Sunnybrook Farm, Nyack, New York, aged friendliness with the inhabitants generally. His departure 58, had a somewhat unusual career. from among us will be regretted on all hands, and much He was the son of Robert Edmond and Sarah Palache sympathy will be extended to his sorrowing family. Mr Bush Kelly, and was born 28 May 1851 al Blagnac, near Toulouse, was enthusiastic in his advocacy of lhe Hospital Saturday Haute Garonne, France. He was at first privately educated 88 Obil11ary. Obitnary. 89

in France ; from 1865 to 1868 he was at Sherborne SchooL New York Equitable Life Assurance Society. When at the He then entered Columbia College, New York, graduating full height of his practice he confessed to an income of from there in 1870 or 1871 . He was admitted to St John's £16,000 a year. Starting with a bias in favour of Individual­ as a pensioner 4 October 1871, Dr Bonney being his Tutor. ism, his political and municipal experiences turned him to He took up the study of Natural Science, and obtained a Collectivism. He embodied his views in what is probably second class in the Tripos of 1874, the year in which Arthur his most important work, "Government, or Human Evolu­ Milnes Marshal! was senior and the year of Professor tion," in two volumes. He also wrote, " Evolution and Langley, but his place was no exact measure of his capacity· Effort," "The French Law of Marriage," and "The Elimi­ His somewhat cosmopolitan education and experience made nation of the Tramp." him appear more mature than his contemporaries, but he In later years he was, in the popular language of the clay, was a vivacious and charming companion. He took but described as a Socialist, but his socialism was of the genial little if any part in athletic sports, but he knew, and was variety which desires that others should share our advantages known to, nearly all his contemporaries. He was always and privileges ; not of the sourer brand which 1wishes to called "long" Kelly to distinguish him from another mem­ deprive others of what we do not ourselves possess. ber of the College known as "eye-glass" Kelly. Kelly was a member of many clubs ; of the Phi Beta After graduating at Cambridge he returned to America Kappa Society and the Delta Phi Fraternity, of the Century and took the degree of LL.B. from the Columbia Law and City Clubs of New York; of the Savile and Alpine Clubs School in 1877, and soon afterwards was admitted a of London ; of the Artistique et Litteraire, the Puteau and Counsellor-at-Law of the New York Bar. He also graduated American Clubs of Paris. He was a Chevalier de la Legion at the Ecole de Droit, Paris. cl'Honneur and a Fellow of the Geological Society of After practising for some years at the New York Bar he London. removed to Paris, where he acted as counsellor to the Mr Kelly was twice married ; first in1880 to Miss Frances American Embassy. A breakdown in health led him to leave Barstow, whom he married in Paris ; she died about ten Paris and take up ranching life in the Rockies. Returning years ago ; in 1905 he married Miss Eclith Thuresson, of to New York he took part in the movement for the over­ Toronto ; she, with one son and two daughters, survives him. throw of Tammany Hall. He established Good Government The reader will gather that Kelly's life was a very full Clubs in the several districts of the City, canvassed electors, and varied one, a career not very easy for a biographer in and addressed meetings. He used to say, laughingly, that England to follow. his influence was woefully diminished by his "vvretchecl English accent." WILLIAM ARTHUR FoxwELL M.D. For three years, from 1895 to 1898, he was a member of the faculty of Political Science at Columbia College, lecturing We take the following notice of Dr Foxwell from Tlte on munictpal politics and ihe history of the State of New Lancet of 13 August 1909: York. By the death of Dr Arthur Foxwell, senior physician Mr Kelly was counsel in a number of American causes to the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, under exceptionally celebres both in Paris and New York. He acted as advocate sudden and sad circumstances, the medical profession has in the French Courls for the Countess de Castellane (now suffered a great loss. Dr Foxwell was riding a bicycle near the Princessc de Sagan) in her divorce suit against Count Warwick on the evening of Sunday, August 1st. While Boni de Castellane. He represented the Vanclerbilt interests descending a hill a clog ran out suddenly into the front and, we believe, had charge of the European affairs of the wheel of the machine. Dr Foxwell was thrown violently VOL. XXXI, N 90 Obituary. i.Jbituary. 91 over the handle-bar, was picked up insensible, and was the teacher, the doctor, qr the man in his own home, the removed at once to the Warneford Hospital, Leamington. feature which attracted above all others was his high ideal of It was found that he had sustained severe injuries to the head life and work. Work was to be done for its own sake, and and spine from which he never regained consciousness and work well clone never failed to meet with generous appre­ from which he died on the early morning of Wednesday, ciation and honour from him. He himself was a worker the 4th. of the first order, with a gift of keen criticism. No new idea Dr Foxwell was born at Shepton Mallet on July 13th, or bet escaped his notice, but nothing was accepted without 1853; he was the third ;;on of the late Mr Thomas Somerton a thorough testing of its worth by himself, for so deep was Foxwell of Weston-super-Mare. He received his early his scientific insight that he rapidly detected any flaw in ·11 education at Queen's College, Taunton, afterwards at St argument and any misinterpretation of facts. His clinical John's College, Cambridge, and subsequently at St Thomas's teaching, therefore, was of a high standard, more adapted 11''I Hospital. He took the degree of B.A. Lond. with honours perhaps for a senior student than the junior, in that his in 1873 and the degree of B.A. Camb. in 1877, also with extensive knowledge of pathology and higher medicine took honours in natural science, in 1883 the degree of M.B. him so far ahead that at times he seemed to forget that (first class in medicine), and in 1891 the degrees of M.A. it was not given to all his students to follow where he led. and M.D. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Dr Foxwell appeared at his best and often in his brightest Physicians of London in 1895, and received the degree moods at consultations of the hospital staff ; then he gave of M.Sc. of Birmingham on his appointment as Professor free rein to his faculty for drawing inferences from observed of Therapeutics in that University in 1901. After holding facts. It was on these occasions that his power of criticism the posts of house physician to St Thomas's Hospital, clinical was keenest, and when it happened that the case clown for assistant to the Brompton Hospital, and medical officer to discussion was his own, his summing up of evidence for the Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, he was elected to the a diagnosis was a lesson in clinical medicine. A similar office of pathologist to the General Hospital, Birmingham. accuracy in the observation of facts and care in drawing From this he was appointed assistant physician during the conclusions characterised all his writings, and none could years 1885 to 1889, when he was elected to the staff of the speak or write with greater ease or grace, for in all his I Queen's Hospital, which post he held to the time of his teaching and writing he was fastidious. His contributions ''I! death. He was Braclshawe lecturer of the Royal College to medical literature are select. His investigations into the of Physicians of London in 1899, gave the lngleby lectures causation of functional defects of the heart, the pericardium in Birmingham in 1892, was examiner in medicine at the ' vascular diseases, and lesions of the liver are well known and University of Cambridge, and also held a number of other have set a standard of clinical research in Birmingham among professional appointments. Dr Foxwell filled a place in the his colleagues. He published the following works : In 1895, medical life of Birmingham that was clue wholly to his "Essays in Heart and Lung Diseases" ; in 1896, "T he individuality and great gifts of head and heart, and because Enlarged Cirrhotic Liver" ; in 1897, "The spas of Mid­ of these it will be hard to fill that place which he has left so Wales" ; in 1899, "The Causation of Functional Heart suddenly in the fulness of his powers, and when his wide Murmurs," the Bradshawe Lecture which appeared in The experience was yielding a rich return for years of patient Laucet, as did his address on "Inhalation," in 1907, and and accurate work. on "The Clinical Examination of the Urine with Especial It is not an easy task to single out for remark any quality Reference to the Estimation of Urea," in 1908. He pub­ in one whose whole personality was strongly marked. But lished a number of papers in other medical journals. He whatever the circumstances, whether as hospital physician, strongly believed in the climatic treatment of disease, and 92 Obituary. Obituary. 93 to this subject he devoted a great deal of attention. He had a reserved man-he would talk with keen delight of the · travelled much to visit the health resorts of Switzerland, simple everyday joys of life, and pass thence to speak of France, and Germany, and his lectures on climatology were what he called the "dreamy West Country," from which largely the result of personal knowledge of the places where he came. His friends knew that he was loyal and true ; that patients are usually sent. his advice was at their service in all matters where help was Dr Foxwell held strong views as to the duties of members needed. It has already been suggested to found a prize or of the staff in addition to their clinical work in the hospital. medal in his memory, to be given for proficiency in clinical He took a great interest in the building of the new medical research or some branch of medicine in which he was parti­ block at Queen's Hospital and his speech at the opening cularly interested. ceremony in 1908 is well remembered by those who were Dr Foxwell married in 1889 the widow of the late Mr present for its aptness and grace of diction. To Dr Foxwell H.obert Pollock, and daughter of the late Mr Charles Hollins was clue the construction of a roof ward in the medical block, of Torquay. He has left one daughter. He was laid to rest for so fully did he realise the advantages to be gained by on August 7th in the quiet burial ground of the Franciscans treating acute diseases of many kinds in the open air that his at Olton, in the presence of those who belonged to him and strong advocacy prevailed and an important and new feature had worked with him, and for whom he worked with single­ was introduced into the routine of hospital treatment. Already ness of purpose, sparing no pains for their good. , To his results have shown the wisdom of his advice. In point of family has gone out a great and sincere sympathy from those fact, the general design and arrangement of the medical who knew his worth. block are due to this wise physician's versatility, as the plans were largely drafted on his suggestions. CHARLES MATTHEW FERNANDO M.A. LL.M. Dr Foxwell's share in public work did not extend much beyond Queen's Hospital. He was not physically strong, Mr Fernando, who died on the 8th of June last, at Beziers and although he took a constant interest, and held office, in France, was a son of Mr Anclrew Fernando, of Rotaheno, in the medical societies, he felt constrained to spare his Ceylon, a landed proprietor ; he was born 20 February 1866 energy. For this reason he did not appear in municipal life, at Colombo. After being educated at the Royal College, nor even much in society, though he held strong opinions on, Colombo, he entered at St John's as a pe-nsioner 10 October and watched with interest, all that concerned the welfare 1885 and took his degree in the Law Tripos of 1888. During of the community. As in his work, so in his private life his his undergraduate career he was well known in College as an ideal was high and his interests many and varied. He had a active member of the Musical Society ; he had a singularly great love for his garden, and his beautiful home-Northfield fine tenor voice, and his singing was always a feature of the Grange-was typical of his refined tastes. Those who were College Concerts. ' privileged to see him there were always conscious of a He was admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn 12 January peculiar influence, almost a fascination, he had over others, 1886, and was called to the Bar 19 November 1888. He due to a wide culture. He talked with an ease on literature, returned to Ceylon and started practice at the Bar in Colombo. art, and nature that could only come of acquaintance He took an active part in public affairs and was a member of grounded on thoughtful appreciation of those things which the Colombo. municipality from 1893 to 1898. He also served make for fulness of life. Like many of high intellectual on several occasions as a District Judge. order, he had several sides to his character-the cold, clear, 1n 1898 he removed to Kandy where he was easily the and logical, and the contemplative, almost mystical. In leader of the Bar and, as at Colombo, a member of the local movements of expansiveness-for in many ways he was municipality and acted for the government as District Judge. Obiluar:y. 95 94 Obitumy.

In 1901 he entered the government service as Crown Rev CHARLES ALFRED JONES M.A. Counsel and as special officer in charge of land claims. In this class of work he was very successful. From 1903 to The Rev C. A. Jones, who died at Dedham in Essex on 1908 he was chief Crown Prosecutor in all the more im­ the 30th of July last, was a son of the Rev Charles Powell portant cases both civil and criminal. At the time of his J ones, for many years Vicar of Frocester, Gloucestershire. death he was chief Crown Counsel, ranking next to the (He was of St Catharine's College, B.A. 1827, and died at Solicitor General of the Colony. Higher preferment was Frocester Vicarage 18 October 1868, aged 68.) The Rev no doubt awaiting him, but his physical strength was not C. A. Jones was born at Highampton, Devon, 30 October equal to the strain of his work ; serious heart trouble de­ 1835, and was at Marlborough College from 1848 to 1853. veloped and, when he died, he was on his way to England He was admitted to St John's 5 July 1853 and took his to seek the advice of a specialist. He was also to have degree as 13th Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1857, appeared for the Government of Ceylon in an action in the being a contemporary of Sir John Gorst. During his under­ Privy Council in which there was a claim to a large extent graduate clays he was President of the Union and used to of territory under a grant from the last King of Kandy, made tell how in that capacity it was his duty to call Mr (afterwards to the grantee for services rendered by him in driving the Sir) George 0. Trevelyan to order for some infraction of the British forces out of Kandy in 1804. rules. Besides his professional work he read deeply in his native After taking his degree Mr J ones was ordained, and was language and history, contributing largely to the proceedings for sometime Curate of St Clement's parish in Cambridge ; of the local branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, of which he from 1861 to 1862 he was Chaplain of St John's College, was senior member of the Council at the time of his death. being, we believe, the only person who has held that title. Mr Fernando married Miss de Soysa, daughter of Mr In 1862 he joined the Staff of Westminster School, rising to Charles Henry and Lady de Soysa; she (with a son and be Senior Mathematical Master, serving the School for 23 daughter) survives him. years. The Ceylon Government Gazette of June 11 contains the In 1885 his old acquaintance, Sir George 0. Trevelyan, following Minute : then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, presented Mr " His Excellency the Officer administering the J ones to the Vicarage of Dedham ; he was also Rural Dean Government desires that public expression may be of Dedham from 1890 to 1898. Owing to the state of his given to his regret at the death of Mr C. M. health he resigned Dedham Vicarage in 1906, but continued Fernando, First Crown Counsel, which sad event to reside in the parish. occurred at Beziers in France on June 8, 1909. Mr Jones was a preacher of exceptional ability and, owing The late Mr Fernando's high intellectual attain. to his long connexion at Westminster he knew many eminent ments and devotion to duty made him a most valued divines, who at times occupied the pulpit at Dedham. He adviser to Government, and his death at an early was a man of very considerable capacity, his powers of age has deprived the Colony of the services of an organisation were remarkable, and the mastery of every able and trusted officer. detail was to him a work of absorbing interest. He was By His Excellency's command, Chairman of the Parish Council, manager of several local H. L. Crawford, schools and charities, and a governor of Dedham Grammar Acting Colonial Secretary." School. The parish was remarkable for having an endowed lectureship, the lecturer having a residence in the village and 96 Obitua1y. the right of occupying the pulpit at certain times. Mr J ones lived to see a new scheme made for the trust. By his will (which was proved at £30,000) he left a number of legacies to charitable and public objects, including a sum of £150 to the College, we understand for the purchase of books for the Library.

THE JOHNIAN DINNER, 1909. · Mr Jones marriecl 6 August 1863, at Rottingdean, Elizabeth, daughter of the late Mr Thomas Hewitt, and sister of Mr W. W. Hewitt, of Lower Park, Dedham ; she diecl 13 August HE eighth of the dinners given by the Master and 1896 at Dedham Vicarage. Fellows to Masters of Arts of the College on the D Boards was held this year on July 29th, the usual elate, somewhere in the third week in June, having on this occasion to be departed from on account of the celebration by the University of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin. On this occasion members of the College who graduated in the following groups of the years were invited : 1869- 1871 ; 1886- 1 888 ; 1902- 1903. The following is a list of those present at the dinner, with the elate of their degrees. Those resident in the University have an asterisk.

*THE MASTER, 1875 Mr G. E. Cruickshank, 1871 *THE PRESIDENT, 1848 Mr R. P. Davies, 1870 "'Mr J. Vv. H. Atkins, 1901 Mr C. B. Drake, 1869 *Dr H. F. Baker, 1887 Mr J. H. H. Fletcher, 1902 *Prof W. Bateson, 1883 Mr A. W. Flux, 1887 * Mr E. A. Benians, 1902 Mr W. H. Foster, 1903 Mr R. H. Bigg, 1888 Mr F. P. Franklin-Evans, 1856 *Mr F. F. Blackman, 1891 "Mr E. Gold, 1903 *Mr V. C. Boddinglon, 1909 Sir A. G. Grecnhill, 1870 *Dr T. G. Bonney, 1856 *Mr A. A. Gut:st-vVilliams, 1909 Mr C. S. H. Brereton, 1886 *Mr A. F. Hall, 1909 Mr H. H. Brindley, 1887 Mr G. H. Hallam, 1869 *Dr T. J. I'A. Bromwich, 1895 1\I r W. J. Harding, 1903 Mr E. J. Brooks, 1888 *Mr A. Barker, 1882 Mr G. E, D. Brown, 1887 *Mr J. H. A. Hart, 1898 *Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox, 1885 *Mr T. H. Havelock, 1900 Mr J. \V. Cassels, 1869 *Mr W. E. Heitland, 1871 *Pro[ E. C. Clark, 1858 Mr F. W. Hill, 1886 Mr P. Clcmenti-Smith, 1871 Mr W. N. Hill, 1902 Mr R. vV . Close, 1870 Mr J. B. Hiron, 1903 Mr J. Collin, 1887 Mr G. A. Hopkins, 1902 *Mr W. A. Cox, 1867 Mr C. T. Horton, 1902 *Mr J. A. Crowther, 1905 *Mr F. Horlon, 1903 VOL. XXXI. 0 96 Obituary.

the right of occupying the pulpit at certain times. Mr Jones lived to see a new scheme made for the trust. By his will (which was proved at £30,000) he left a number of legacies to charitable and public objects, including a sum of £150 to the College, we understand for the purchase of books for the Library. THE JOHNIAN DINNER, 1909. Mr Jones married 6 August 1863, at Rottingclean, Elizabeth, daughter of the late Mr Thomas Hewitt, and sister of Mr W. W. Hewitt, of Lower Park, Declham; she died 13 August J: aiiHE eighth of the dinners given by the Master and 1896 at Dedham Vicarage. Fellows to Masters of Arts of the College on the 11. Boards was held this year on July 29th, the usual elate, somewhere in the third week in June, having on this occasion to be departed fmm on account of the celebration by the University of the centenary of the I IIJ birth of Charles Darwin. On this occasion members of the I College who graduated in the following groups of the years I were invited: 1869-1871; 1886-1888; 1902-1903. ��· The following is a list of those present at the dinner, with the date of their degrees. Those resident in the University I have an asterisk.

*THE MASTER, 1875 Mr G. E. Cruickshank, 1871 *THE PRESIDENT, 1848 Mr R. P. Davies, 1870 "'Mr J. W. H. Atkins, 1901 Mr C. B. Drake, 1869 *Dr H. F. Baker, 1887 Mr J. H. B. Fletcher, 1902 *Prof W. Bateson, 1R83 Mr A. W. Flux, 1887 *Mr E. A. Benians, 190Z Mr W. H. Foster, 1903 I ,I Mr R. H. Bigg, 1888 Mr F. P. Franklin-Evans, 18116 *Mr F. F. Blackman, 1891 "Mr E. Gold, 1903 *Mr V. C. Bodclinglon, 1909 Sir A. G. Greenhill, 1870 *Dr T. G. Bonuey, 1856 *1\Ir A. A. Gut:st-\Villiams, 1909 Mr C. S. H. Brereton, 1886 '"Mr A. F. Hall, 1909 Mr H. H. Brinc!ley, 1887 Mr G. H. Hallam, 1869 *Dr T. J. I' A. Bromwich, 1895 Mr W. I. Harding, 1903 Mr E. J. Brooks, 1888 *Mr A. Harker, 1882 Mr G. E, D. Brown, 1887 *1\Ir J. H. A. Hart, 1898 *Mr L. H. K. Bushe-Fox, 1885 *Mr T. H. Havclock, 1900 Mr J. W. Cassels, 1869 *Mr W. E. Heitland, 1871 *Prof E. C. Clark, 1858 Mr F. W. Hill, 1886 Mr P. Clemenli-Smith, 1871 Mr W. N. Hill, 1902 Mr R. Vv. Close, 1870 1\Ir J. B. Hiron, 1903 Mr J. Collin, 1887 Mr G. A. Hopkins, 1902 *Mr W. A. Cox, 1867 Mr C. T. Horton, 1902 *Mr J. A. Crowther, 1905 *Mr F. Horlon, 1903 VOL. XXXI. 0 98 Tl1c J vl111ia 11 Dut/Tcr.

�i\Ir J. C. II. Ilow, 1903 Mr R. P. Roscn�are, 18881 �BD� 1\Ir H. Howlell, 1869 1\Jr J. S. Sal•nan, 1869 Mr H. B. Jenkins, 1903 Mr J. P. St:abronk, 1867 Mr P. Lake, 1887 Prof A. C. Seward, 1886 Mr P. U. Lasbrey, 190Z *Mt· E. E. Sikes, 188? *Mr J. G. Lealhem, 1 89-J. Mr F. Slalor, 1902 Mr E. L. Level!, 1870 *Mr R. Stansft:lcl, 1909' OUR CHRONICLE. *Mr J. J. Lislcr, 1880 *Mr !I. F. Slewart, 1886 *Dr G. D. Liveing, 1850 *Dr J. R Tanner, 1883 Mr H. W. Macklin, l&lS. Mr J. F. Tarlelon, 188& lofichael/1/as Tcr111, I909. *Dr J. E. Marr, 1879 Mr T. B. Talham, 1886 *Mr J. B. Mnllinger, 18'66 Mr T. Varley, 1887 The official list of honours issued on June 25, on the Mr J. Noon, 1870 *Mr J. T. \Varc!, 1876 occasion of lhe celebration of His Majesty's birthday, con­ 11 Mr J. Parkinson, 1903 Mr G. H. \Vhitaker, 187() tained the names of two members of ihe College :- Mr J. A. Pe�:cival, 1869 Mr W. S. Wood, 1871 The honour of Knighthood was conferred upon Mr J. *Mr C. B.Roolham, 1897 Larmor (B.A. 1880), Lucasi.an Professor of Mathematics and one of the Secretaries to the Royal Society. 11 To be a K night Commander of the Most Distinguished fhe Toost list was as follows: The King," "The G uests,'' Order of St Michael and St George (KC.M.G.), Mr James proposed by the Master, responded to by Mr E. L. Levett ' Beethom Whitehead (B.A. 1881), His Majesty's Envoy 11 !I G. H. KC.; The Master and Fellows," proposed by Mr Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Belgr:tde. • I am. Hall The Roya.t Society, with the approval of the King, has this year awarded a Royal Medal to Professor A. E. H. Love (B.A. 1885), F.R.S., for his researches in the Theory of Elasticity and Cognate Subjects. The Council of the Society of Arts has awarded a silver medal for the Session 1908-9 lo Mr W. Rosenhain (B.A. 1899) 11 for his paper, The Application of the Microscope to the Study of M elals." 1'1 During the Meeting of the British Association at Winni­ peg last August, the General Committee elected Dr T. G. Bonney, in accordance wilh lhe nomination of the Council, to be President of the Association for the Meeting at Sheffield, which begins on August 31, 19JO. He was Secre­ tary from 1881 to 1885, and in that position was intimately connected with the arrangements for the Meeting in Mon­ treal, the Jirst one held outside of ihe British Isles. He presided over the Geographical Section at Birmingham in 1886, gave one of the Evening Discourses at Bath in 1888, and was a Vice- President of the Association at Bristol in 1898.

On the 29th of October last il was announced that the King had been pleased to appoint a Royal Commission upon the law of divorce and its administration ; Sir Le·wis T. Dibclin ( B.A. 1874), K.C., D.C.L. , Dean of lhe Arches, is a member of the Commission. The J ollllian 98 Dutucr ..

1903 �1\lr J. C. 1-I. llow, Mr R. P. RoseYeare, 18881 1869 1\lr H. I-Iowlell, .1\Ir J. S. Sal>J1an, 1869 1903 1867 Mr 1-l. B. Jcnkins, Mr J. P. S<.:abrook, Mr P. Lake, 1887 Pro! A. C. Seward, 1886. 190Z Mr P. U. Lasbrey, *Mr E. E. Sikes, 1889 G. 189-J. *Mr J. Lealhem, Mr F. Sl:llor, 1902 190'7 Mr E. L. Levelt, 1870 *Mr R. Stansfelcl, 1880 OUR CHRONICLE. *Mr J. J. Listcr, *Mr !I. F. Slewart, 1886 1883 *Dr G. D. Liveing, 1850 *Dr J. R Tanner, Mr H. W. Macldill,. l&lS. Mr J. F. Tarleton, 1883 Michac!JIIas Tcr111, I909. 1879 *Dr J. E. Marr, Mr T. B. Tatham, 1886 '"Mr J. B. Mullill'ger, 1866 Mr T. Varley, 1887 The official list of hoaours issued on June 25, on the Mr J. Noon, 1870 *Mr J. T. \Vard, 1876 occasion of the celebration of His Majesty's birthday, con­ Mr J. Parkinson, 1903 Mr G. H. \Vhitaker, 1870 tained the names of two members of the College :- 1869 Mr J. A. PeL·cival, Mr W. S. Wood, 1871 The honour of Knighthood was conferred upon Mr J. *Mr C. B.Roolham, 1897 Larmor (B.A. 1880), Lucasi.an Professor of Mathematics and one of the Secretaries to the I{oyal Society. fhe ToostIist "The King," "The Guests,'f To be a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished was as follows: Order of St Micbael and St George (K.C.M.G.), Mr James proposed by the Master, responded to by Mr E. L. Levett Beethom Whitehead (B.A. 1881), His Majesty's Envoy ' KC. ; "The Master and Fellows," proposed by Mr G. H. Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Belgrade. Ha !lam. The Royal Society, with the approval of the King, has this year awarded a Royal Medal to Professor A. E. H. Love (B.A. 1885), F.R.S., for his researches in the Theory of Elasticity and Cognate Subjects. The Council of the Society of Arts has awarded a silver medal for the Session 1908-9 to Mr W. Rosenhain (B.A. 1899) for his paper, "The Application of the Microscope to the Study of Metals." During the Meeting of the British Association at Winni­ peg last August, the General Committee elected Dr T. G. Bonney, in accordance wilh the nomination of the Council, to be President of the Association for the Meeting at Sheffield, which begins on August 31, 19JO. He was Secre­ tary from 1881 to 1885, and in that position was intimately connected with the arrangements for the Meeting in Mon­ treal, the Jirsl one held outside of the British Isles. He presided over the Geographical Section at Birmingham in 1886, gave one of the Evening Discourses at Bath in 1888, and was a Vice-President of the Association at Bristol in 1898. On the 29lh of October last it was announced that the King had been pleased to appoint a Royal Commission upon the law of clivorce and its administration ; Sir Lewis T. Dibdin (B.A. 1874), K.C., D.C.L., Dean of the Arches, is a. member of the Commission. 100 Onr Chrolllclc. Our Chronicle. 101

The Bakerian Lecture of the Royal Society for the t)y a member of the University, who ,;�.·ishecl to remain Session 1908-9 was delivered by Professor Sir J. Lannor, :anonymous. It was hoped ultimately to associate the Chair .Secretary of the Society, on Thursday, November 18th. The with the name of Darwin, the centenary of whose birth was title of the Lecture was '' The Statistical and Thermo­ <:elebrated this year." dynamical Relations of Radiant Energy." Mr R. A. Stewart Macalister (B.A. 1892) F.S.A., has been The Czech U ni.versity of Prague has conferred the :.appointed Professor of Celtic Archreology in the new honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy on Dr J- E. MatT University College, Dublin. {B.A. 11:!79), F.R.S., Fellow of the College and University Professor G. Ell:iot Smith (B.A. 1898) is the Arris and Leclnrer in Geology. 'Gale Lecturer of the Royal College of Surgeons for u.t Mr Gilbert Slater (B.A. 1885) has been appointed Prin­ vresent year. cipal of Ruskin College, Oxford, and Resident Lecturer in Sociology. Mr Slater is an Ex-Mayor of Woolwich. On the 20th October last the University of Birmingham .conferred a number of honorary degrees. The Vice­ On the 26th of August last it was announced that Lord Chancellor, Mr Alderman Beale, presided. The recipients Crewe had appointed a ScientiJic Committee, whose object were presented to him by the President, Sir Oliver Lodge, it will be to further the study of economic entomology with who prefaced each presentation with a short address setting special reference to Africa.. Mr F. V. Theobald (B.A. 1890), forth the distinctions of the candidates. of the Agricultural College, Wye, is to be a member of the Two members of St J olm's were thus honoured : Professor Committee. Sir Joseph Larmor (B.A. 1880) and Lord Strathcona (Hon Professor W. Bateson F.R.S., Fellow of the College and LL.D. 1887). Sir Oliver's addresses were as follows :- Professor of Biology in the University, has been appointed OSEPH LARMOR. by the Council Director of the John Innes Horticullural SIR J The Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in the University Institution at Me.rton, SmTey.

The Cambridge correspondent of The 1 imes ·writes :­ The High Commissioner for Canada, Chancellor of the H The appointment of Professor Bateson will mean a loss to 1VIcGill University, Montreal, and Chancellor of the University biological science in Camb1·idge which it is difficult to over­ -of Aberdeen, entered the service of the Hudson Bay Com­ estimate. Professor Bateson has for many years been the pany long before most of us were born. The last Resident head of a most active school of experimental research in aU Governor, he took part in suppressing the rebellion in the .questions connected with heredity, especially those associated Red River Settlements, and became a member of the 1�rst with the name of Mendel. He possesses singular gifts of Executive Council of the North-West Territory. Devoted .arousing enthusiasm in students and of directing their to the active service of Canada and of the mother country :researches. As a recognition of his services to science the for three-quarters of a century, his splendid and beneficent University in May of last year established the Professorship vitality continues unimpaired. By his enthusiasm for higher of Biology, which he now holds. The University was education, and his untiring efforts to promote the advance of enabled to found the Chair partly by a generous offer made ihe human race, he has endeared himself to the whole of 10:Z Our C!tronic/c. Our ClirolllcTe. 103

Christendom. It is a pri\·ilege to welcome here one of Oxford and Cambridge, and the Headmaster of the Grammar whom the English-speaking race is proud, Donald Alexander School at Wimborne ·were present. All these institutions as Smith, Lonl Str::tthcona and Mount Hoyal. well as the members of the Dean ::tnd Chapter of vVestminster acknowledging the Lady Mat·gm·et as a Foundress or Bene­ Professor vV. H. Bennett (B. A. 882), formerly Fellow of 1 factress. the College, has been elected Chairman of the Academic At midnight a pilgrimage to her tomb in the South aisle Council, one of the Committees of the Senate of the Univer­ of Henry VII.'s Chapel was made by the guests. sity of London, for the year 1909-10. On the third of August last it was announced that the J\Ir G. S. \Vest (B.A. 1898) was on the first of July last Archbishop of Canterbury had appo�ted the Rev ·wailer appointed Professor of Botany in the University of Birming­ Andrews (B.A. 1878), Rector of l\Iidcllet"n St Ge01·ge, Durham, ham. Mr vVest was for sometime demonstrator in Biology to the bishopric of Hokkaido, Japan. Mr Andrews was at Cambridge, later he became Professor of Natural History ordained deacon in 1877 and priest in 1878 by Archbishop at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester ; for the last Tait, who licensed him to the curacy of Brcnchley, Kent. four years he has been Lecturer in Botany at the University Having been accepted by the Church Missionary Society. of Birmingham. he was assigned to Japan and stationed for four years at At the Annual General Meeting of the London Mathe­ Nagasaki, which is now in the diocese of Kyu-shyu, or South matical Society, held on the 11th of November, the following Japan, but was then, like the rest of the country, without an 1882 1903 members of the College were elected officers of the Society English Bishop. From to he worked at Hakodate, and members of the Council for the ensuing year: Vi e­ the chief centre of the diocese of which he is now to be c 1896. President, P. A. MacMahon (Sc.D. 1904); T1·easnrer, Sir Bishop, and which was founded in For seYen years Joseph Lannor (B.A. 1880); Professor A. E. H. he was examining chaplain to Dr Evinglon, ·who has resigned Secrela1y1 1903 Love (B.A. 1885); Members of the Council, Dr H. F. Baker on his acceptance of a Christ College benefice. Since (B.A. 1887), Mr G. T. Bennett (B.A. 1890), and Mr E. he has been Rector of Middleton St Ge01·ge, Durham, on the Cunningham (B.A. 1902). nomination of the present Bishop, who takes a keen interest in the Church Missionary Society. At the Annual General Meeting of the Cambridge Philo­ The sphere of the Bishop of Hokkaiclo includes million 25, a sophical Society, held on l\Ionday, October the following Japanese with a considerable number of Ainus. The stipend members of the College were elected officers of the Society is provided by the Church Missionary Society, and the diocese Presidc11t, for the ensuing year : Professor Bateson ; one of is staffed by three English and three Japanese clergy and Vice-Presidents, the Professor Seward, and as a member of the several women missionaries. Council Professor Sir J. Larmor. The Public Orator, Dr Sandys, spoke as follows in pre­ On the 29th of June 1909, being the 400th anniversary senting the B ISIIOP DESIGNATE OF HOKKAIDO for the complete of the death o( the Lady Margaret, a special service was held Jwuoris. u 28th 1909. degree of D.D. ca sa on the October in \Vestminster Abbey. The sermon \\·as preached by the Abhinc annos ferequadringentos" Mater Hegum Margareta" Dean of \\'estminster, Dr Armitage Hobinson. The canticles duo Collegia insignia fundavit. Fidei quidem Christianae were sung to a setting by the late Dr G. l\1. Garrett, formerly "ad incrementum" erat Collegium utrumque conditum � Organist of the College. The anthem, "Now my God, let, I Collegio autem ex utroque lucis divinae nuntii ad extremas beseech Thee," was sung; this it is interesting to notice was Orientis oras identiclem exienmt. Ante hos eerie sex annos eom posed by Professor Sterndale Bennett for the service cpiscopum quendam Chrisli in aedibus olim educatum in­ at the Consecration of our present Chapel. The Abbey sularum Japonicarum ad pm·tem septentrionalem redeuntem choir was assisted by the choir from the Chapel Royal, salutavimus. Hoclie vero successori eius, Divi Ioannis Evan­ and the fine organ recently renovated was supplemented gelistae ex umbraculis egresso, ad eanclem provinciam denuo '"'itb a band of brass and drums. profecturo valedicimus. Olim in insulis illis prope quinclecim In the evening the Dean and Chapter of vVestminster per annos laboribus sacris occupatus, populi ipsius in lingua entertained a number of representative guests at dinner in non modo Ecclesiae Cbristianae antiquae annorum cluceJJtorum the Jerusalem Chamber. The Colleges of Christ's and St doclores clcscripsit, sed etiam ex orationibus suis sacris plus John's were represented, the Lady l\brgaret Professors at quam cenlum cliei in lucem protulit. Ibi, in insula non minus 104 Uur Cftrontcfe. Our Clzro11iele. 105

magna quam ipsa Hibernia, rerum divinarum nuntlus noste.r should a man who is ·putting it off , but, in this case, what uterque laborum suorum fructus plurimos percepisse animo· Dr Maclaurin has already accomplished justifies us in forming grato confitetur. Ergo, Dominae Margaretae ex alumni3· the brightest auguries for his future career in this high post duobus, unos "plantavit," non modo idem sed etiam alteJ.> to which you have called him.

11 rigavit " ; Deus autem "dedit incrementum." We Englishmen and Scotchmen may be sorry that he Duco ad vos Imperii Japonici insulae septentrionalis epis­ is not serving our country in one of the new institutions copum designatum, virum reverendum, WALTER ANDREWS. which we have lately founded to try to make up for lost time in the promotion of scientific instruction. But a scientific The inauguration of Dr R. C. Maclaurin (B.A. 1895), for-· inquirer and teacher helps the whole world by the work merly Fellow of the College, as President of the Massachussetts which he does anywhere in it, and, as you know, British Institute of Technology, was he1d in the Symph0ny Hall at students have been so long accustomed to for firstrate Boston on Monday, June 7th 1909. The gathering was conw a large one and representative of all ranks of American life. teaching to this Institute of yours, that we d'hno l but feel deeply interested in its prosperity. BehYeen you and us Among those present was the Right Hon James Bryce·, there has always been a free trade in men. Though you do Ambassador of the Uni ted Kingdom. M1· Bryce spoke as foliows :- put an import duty on books, which are the vehicle of ideas, you have set no protectiYe tariff on ideas themselves There are four reasons which bring me here to-day,, nor upon the men who produce them. besides the sympathy which I have, and which everyone I am glad to think that a man from Scotland and from the has who has watched the progress of scientific instruction must have, with this Institute and the splendid work which University of Cambridge has been chosen by you to succeed the illustrious and distinguished it has done. One of these reasons is that Dr Maclaurin, line of previous heads of this whom you are installing as President, is a Bri-ton; the second Institute-a list which includes not only President Rogers is that he is a Scotchman ; the third is that he is a lawyer and my valued friend, General Walker, whom we all mourn, but one whom we are glad to have wilh us in the full vigor and a member of the same ancient legal society-Lincoln's " of his powers-Mr Pritchett. Inn-as that to which I have the honor to belong; and the· fourth is that he is a distinguished man of science to whom, on As the Institute has grown to be virtually a scientific behalf of my country, I have to give hearty good wishes fOL· University, it is of supreme importance that the instruction it his new work. He is one of those who have got to know the gives should be such as to fit a man not only for practical British Empire as a whole and whom we should be sorry to work in such branches as engineering and the chemical arts, part with lo any other country except to the United States, but also to enable him to draw from his mastery both of for as to the United States I need not tell you we don't feet theoretical and of applied science all the breadth of view that anyone who leaves us is lost to us. It is a real benefit and all the stimulation to independent thinking which a to any man who is undertaking a high educational position University ought to give. Personally I have long felt that that he should have been all oYer the world, as Dr Maclaurin every man v\'ho pursues the human science such as ethics, has been. To know Canada and New Zealand and Germany politics, and history ought to have a comprehension of at and a great Old World University like Cambridge, and two least one branch of natural science and its methods. Similarly of your greatest American Universities here is to know a great the man who devotes himself to scientific work ought to have deal of consequence for practical work. It is also a real a knowledge of language and some acquaintance at least with benelit to any College President to have a mastery of law, the field of abstract tlJOught and the methods of historical not merely because it helps him to fight for the interests of inquiry. I have been glad to learn that this view is held his institution-and to know how far on each occasion it is: in the institute and believe that Dr Maclaurin will be in the wise to fight is quite as important-but also because it gives fullest sympathy with it.

him a grasp of a kind of reasoning and a set of principles One word more to express the cordial good wishes for the different from those which have to be applied in scientific future of this magnificent institution which must be in the teaching, and a comprehension of which, therefore, enlarges thoughts of all who see what science is accomplishing for the his mental grasp and his capacity for affairs. modern world. Science is king to-day. It is lo the applica­ It, as it is said in Scripture, is always a little dangerous to tion of science that we owe the vast increase in the production

congratulate a man who is putting on his annor, as we of all commodities useful for life, the wonderful acceleration

VOL. XXXI, p 106 Oar Chrou/c!c. 107 0 ur Chrollicle. of transportation and communication, the shlpenclous gtO\Yth Here is your picture, here is our expression, of wealth. Truest or friends, of gratitude to you; We are indeed often reminded that it has now become This is the thought of which we make confession­ not so important to have more ·wealth as to distribute it You have loved St:dbcrgh and we love her too. equally and to learn how to use it ·wisely. vVhalevcr truth Sir Francis, in reply, said that he could only say, as be there is in that reflection does not reduce the value of the had said to some political friends, who had entertained him work that is being clone and to be clone here. To enlarge in lhe House of Commons, "Thanks, thanks again, evermore not only our knowledge of natural forces, but our power thanks." This was not the first prize he had got at Sedbergh : of turning them to account, to make all work more and more books he had won in 18-14 and 1845 held an honoured place an exercise of intelligence and therefore enjoyable, this is an in his library, and this, so long as he lived, would be a unmixed benefit to every class in the community-and to cherished possession, and, at the conclusion of that period, what you are effecting here towards these ends we give you would 11nd a place in the hall that bore his name: he thanked hearty sympathy. the donors from his heart both for himself an.Lady Powell. On the 9th of July last (the Prize Day at Seclbergh School), At the Annual Fellowship Election, held on November 1907) Mr F. B. Malim on behalf of the Subscribers formally pre­ Slh, Mr Dudley V.'illiam Ward (B.A. was elected a sented to Sir Francis Powell (B.A. 1850), Chairman of the Fellow of the College. Mr Ward was placed in the First Governing Body of Seclbergh School, the portrait which has Class of the Historical Tripos, Part I., 1906 with the Gladstone been painted by Mr Eclwarcl Palry, R.B.A. In making the l\Iemorial Prize for Economics. In 1907 he was elected to presentation the Headmaster said that no one would doubt the First Whewell Scholarship in International Law ; in that the greatest living Seclberghian was Sir Francis Powell. January, 1908, he was elected to a MacMabon Law Student­ He had been a member of the House of Commons since ship in the College. In June, 1909, he was placed in the 1857. But more, he had clone for Seclbergh what no other First Di\·ision of the Second Class of the Economics Tripos. Seclberghian and, he belieYecl, no other old boy had ever Mr \Vard submitted a dissertation entillecl, "Studies in the clone for his school. The English schoolboy was always interpretation of English commercial treaties." devoted to his school, but Sir Francis was more than that. 1\:Ir G. A. Browning (B.A. 1899) and Mr C. S. P. Franklin He had given them every aiel,by his wealth, personal interest (B.A. 1898), Naval Instructors, were gazetted in September and personal service. They had only to look at their buildings last to the Presidc11t for the course of Applied Mechanics at and cricket ground to see what he had clone for them : and tbe Hoyal Naval College, Greenwich. not the m0st important cli\·ision in the House could keep him IvfrC. R. R

Ds P. J. Leonard (B.A. 1908) has been appointed a Mathe­ Lincoln's Inn and Mr E. W. Willet (B.A. 1908) at the Inner matical Master at Cranleigh School. Temple.

Ds V. K. Haslam (B.A. 1909) has been appointed to a. Mr B. L. T. Barnett (B.A. 1896) M.B., B.C., M.R.C.S. Eng., Maslersbip at Springfield Preparatory School, Horsham. L.R.C.P. London, passed the Final Examination of the Law Society held in June last, and is thus entitled to be admitted Ds H. C. H. Lane (B. A. 1909) has been appointed to a Solicitor. a Mastership at Pocldington School. The list of those who had obtained places in the Civil Ds L. C. Levy (LL.B. 1909) has gained the Bacon Scholar­ Service Competition of 1909 was issuedon the 21st September ship, for Constitutional Law and Legal History, at Gray's last. Four members o[ the College were placed in the list of Inn; he has also been appointed an Assistant Master at the 73 names; the total from Cambridge being 20. The names King's School, Ely. of the members of St John's with their placestnd elates of Ds W. G. Sheppard (B.A. 1909) has been appointed to their degrees are as follows :

a Science Mastership under the London County Council. 14 G. G. Barnes (1908). 20 H. F. Dunkley (1908). The introductory address at the opening of the Medical 39 F. c: G. Twinn (1907). Session at St George's Hospital on the 1st of October last 59 P. J. Hume (1907). was given by Dr H. D. Rolleston (B.A. 1886), formerly Mr Dunkley was firstin Chemistry in the examination. Fellow of the College. The title of the address was : "St George's and the Study of Physic." In the final list for the Indian Civil Service on the com­ bined result of the Open Competition for 1908 and the Final Dr J. F. Halls Dally (B.A. 1898) has been appointed Examination for 1909. the members of St John's have been Physician to the Marylebone General Dispensary, Welbeck placed as follows : 6th E. H. P. Jolly ; 8th N. J. Wadia ; Street, London, W. 16th J. N. Sathe ; 23rd H. J. Darwin. All took their B.A. Mr J. W. Linnell (B.A. 1902) M.B., B.C. has been ap­ degrees in 1907. Messrs J oily and Wadia have been assigned pointed Resident Medical Officer to the Mount Vernon to Bombay, and Messrs Sathe and Darwin to Upper Bengal. Hospital for Consumption, Hampstead. Mr E. H. P. Jolly (B.A. 1907), who was placed sixth Mr S. G. Macdonald (B.A. 1902) M.A, M.B., B.C., of among the Indian Civil Service Probationers in the Final St Thomas's Hospital, \Yas admitted a Fellow o£ the Royal list, has been awarded the (University) Bhaonagar Medal College of Surgeons on the lOth June 1909. and the (College) Cama Prize. Mr T. A. Weston (B.A. 1905) has been appointed House Mr Vv. G. Gregory (B.A. 1888), Barrister at Law, Standing Surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. Counsel, Bengal, was, on the 22nd May last, appointed to officiate as Advocate General [or the Presidency of Bengal. At the ordinary quarterly comitia o[ the Royal College of Mr A. E. English (matriculated 1890) I.C.S., Depuly Physicians of London, held on the 29th October last, I\lr . W. vV. C. Topley (B. A. 1907), of St Thomas's Hospital, had Commissioner, Bmma, has been appointed Registrar of a license to practice physic granted to him; and on the 11th Cooperative Societies. o[ November at an ordinary meeting o[ the Royal College of Mr F. X. De Souza (B.A. 1893) I.C.S. has been appointed Surgeons he was admitted a member of that College. Judge and Session Judge of Bijapur, Bombay. J. R. Marrack (B. A. 1908) has been awarded the Price Mr R. Casson (B.A. 1900) I.C.S., Assistant Commissioner Entrance Scholarship in Anatomy and Physiology at the Burma, was, on the 12th of Jnne last, appointed to officiate

Lo:1don Hospital Medical College. as a District Judge, and was posted as Judge of the Mandalay District Court. The following members of the College were called to the Bar on 23rd June 1909 : at Lincoln's Inn, Mr J. P. F. L. Mr Balak Ram (B.A. 1900) I.C.S. has been appointed De Castro (B.A. 1898); at the Inner Temple, N. S. Subbarao Assistant Judge and Session J udgc at Thana, Bombay. (B.A. 1908) ; V. W. J. Hobbs (B.A. 1908). On the 29th of Mr G. Leathem (B.A. 1904) I.C.S. has been app.ointed October Mr R. G. Gill (B.A. 1908) was called to the Bar at Assistant Collector at Ratnagiri, Bombay. 110 Our Chro11icle. Our Chronicle. 111

Mr D. D. Nanavati (B.A. 1907) I.C.S., Burma, was in July The Rev S. N. Rostron (B. A. 1905), Lecturer at the last transferred from Maulmain to the Head-quarters of the Schol

The following members of the College were ordained in A monument, provided by public subscription, to the late June last : Bishop Ellicott, for 42 years Bishop, first of the united sees PRIESTS. of Gloucester and Bristol and, after their separation, of the Name. De{!,rce. Diocese, Gloucester see, was unveiled in Gloucester Cathedral on Geake, A. (1907) London Saturday the 19th of June last by the Dean. The monument Stunner, C. C. W. Durham (1899) is in the south ambulatory and immediately at the back of Whitaker, R J. (1897) Durham Hockey, H. H. H. (1903) Chichester the choir sedilia, and has been erected to the design of Thomas, H. A. (1907) Manchester Mr W. S. Frith, of Elgin Studios, Chelsea, who is a native of Finch, H. K. (1905) Soullnvell Gloucester. Mr Frith's design, a full-sized model of which DEACONS. was exhibited at the Royal Academy of last year, consists of -a .I ;J Name. Degree. Diocese. Paris/1. an altar cenotaph, in accordance with the direction of the Hurst, R. F. (1908) Manchester St Matthew's, Bolton Dean and Chapter. It bears a recumbent effigy,which hadl Jackson, J. E. N. (1908) Newcastle Cramlington been modelled by Mr Frith in Greek marble. The head Wyetb, F. J. (1900) vV inchester St l\1arie du Catel, rests on a cross, in the four spaces of which are the emblems Guernsey of the Evangelists. There was a large company at the un­ The ordination at Winchester was on St Barnabas' Day veiling service, and the Dean of Gloucester paid an eloquent (June 11th), in the other dioceses named on Trinity Sunday tribute to the life and work of the late Bishop. (June 6th). The Chancel of the Church at Dedham, Essex, of which The following were ordained on Sunday, September 19th : the Rev C. A. J ones (B.A. 1857) was until recently Vicar, DEACONS. has been restored. The restoration was undertaken by Mr W. W. Hewitt, of Lower Park, and his sister as a me­ Name. D�gree. Diocese. Paris/1. morial to their brother the late Mr James Hewitt (see The Dickson, R. St J. (1902) Chester St John's, Birkenhead .:l I' "' Swift, J. Mcl. (1908) Chester St Aidan's, Birkenh ead Eagle, xxvii, 272). This included the opening of four Gillmore, D. S. (1888) Ripon Hurley in Vl'harft:clalc windows, which have been closed for 100 years or more. Alexander, R C. (1908) Exeter These windows have been filled with stained glass, the gifts of various donors. One of the windows has been provided PRIEST. of the late Dr G. T. Lermit Na111e. De.t�rce. Diocese. by the members of the family Lamplugh, L. J. (1907) Ripon (B.A. 1849), Headmaster of Dedham Grammar School from 1853 to 1884, and afterwards Rector of St Florence near The Carus Greek Testament Prize for Bachelors has been Tenby, where he died 15 October 1894. The Chancel was awarded to Ds F. F. Gledstone (B.A. 1907), who is bracketted reopened on Wednesday, September 29, by the Bishop of with Ds G. A. Chase, of Queens' College. St Albans. F. B. Reece, Exhibitioner of the College, has been elected A memorial to the late Canon Charles Isaac Atherton by the Special Board for Law to a Rebecca Flower Squire, (B.A. 1863) has been placed in Exeter Cathedral ; this was Law Scholarship. .. unveiled by the Bishop of Crediton on July 23rd 1909. Mr E. 0. Lewis (B.A. 1907) has been appointed University On September 26th a stained glass window was dedicated Demonstrator of Experimental Psychology. in the Church of St Mary, Ipsden, in memory of the Rev Ds F. R. Parnell, having gone out of residence, has re­ Charles Stanwell, for 35 years Vicar of North Stoke and I psden signed the Hutchinson Studentship, to which he was elected and Rector of Newnham Murren, Oxfordshire. The window, in June last ; Ds D. G. Lillie (B.A. 1909) has been elected in which is an excellent specimen of Messrs Clayton and Bell's his place. work, represents St John the Divine, an appropriate subject to commemorate one who was a loyal and devoted son of his Ds K. S. Thomson (B. A. 1909) qualified as a University College. The position selected is on the south side of the Candidate at the examination held in October last for Com­ nave, overlooking the font. The expense was met by missions in the Army. Mr Thomson has, we believe, been subscriptions from parishioners and other friends. The gazetted a Second Lieutenant in the Indian Cavalry. dedication service was conducted by the present Vicar,

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Rev H. E. H. Coombes. A small lancet window opposite the Dean of St Alban's unveiled, in the Church of St Helen, has been filled by stained glass representations of the a tablet containing the names of the Rectors of vV heathamp­ Eagle, Rose, and Portcullis, the property of Mrs Stanwell, stead from the earliest periods to ·which the appointment can who has had them placed in the Church in memory of be traced. We take the following notice of Canon Davys St Alban's Times " of her husband. from 11 The Herts. Advertiser and The Bishop of Manchester, on Monday, September 27, October 23. the only unveiled a tablet in Lancaster Parish Church erected by 200 Canon 0. W. Davys is the youngest, and now subscribers in memory of the late Archdeacon W. Bonsey surviving son of Dr Geo. Davys, who, at the time of the (B.A. 1868). Canon's birth, was Rector of All Hallowes, London Wall. The Canon was born on January 4th 1829 at Abbey Terrace, The Board of Education has issued, as one of their -an interesting row of buildings of the Georgian "Special Reports on Educational Subjects," a most elaborate Kensington type, now removed. Dr Davys was the Preceptor to Her monograph on Education in Russia by the late Mr Thomas Royal Highness Princess Victoria, at Kensington Palace, and Darlington, sometime Fellow of the College (see The Eagle, Davys' childhood was spent partly at Kensington and xxix, 362-72). It is a volume of nearly six hundred solid Canon "- Chester, Dr Davys having been appointed Dean of pages. The official title of the volume is 4812, and its partly at eel. The Palace at Peterborough was the next cost is 2s. 5d. that Cathedral. place of residence of Canon Davys' father, Dr Davys having, Dr Jamieson Boyd Hurry (B.A. 1880) has presented to in July 1839, been nominated by his former Royal pupil­ the Borough of Reading a memorial to King Henry I. This then Her Majesty Queen Victoria-to that Bishopric. has been erected in the Forbury Gardens adjoining the ruins His father's intimate knowledge of the Princess Victoria of Reading Abbey. The memorial is a cross of silver-grey placed Canon Davys, in later years, in possession of many Cornish granite, 20 feet high. On each side are shields charming stories of the future Queen's schoolroom life, but bearing the arms of King Henry Beauclerc and of Reading these are incidents in the career of the distinguished parent Abbey, and on the base is the following inscription : tt To of the subject of this interview, and, indeed, they would need the memory of Henry Beauclerc, King of England, who to be treated as a separate article. founded Reading Abbey on June 18, 1121, and was buried To turn once more to Canon Davys himself, Wheathamp­ before its high altar on January 4, 1136." stead's Rector was educated by tulors and also at St John's The memorial was unveiled on 18 June 1909 by the Right College, Cambridge, obtaining the reading prize, two first­ Hon Augustine Birrell M.P. class prizes at St John's, and a first-class in the University On 29th of October last the Chancellor of the University Theological examination. In 1851 he took his B.A. degree, of Sheffield (the Duke of Norfolk) presided over a large and M.A. in 1853 ; in March 1852 he was ordained a deacon, gathering at which the portrait of Dr W. M. Hicks F.R.S. (B.A. his ordination as a priest coming a year later. Early in his 1873) was presented to that University. Dr Hicks has for ministry, Canon Davys acted as Bishop's chaplain, he being 25 years been closely associated with the University of licensed to officiate where required in the Diocese of Peter­ Sheffieldand its predecessors, the University College and the borough. 1853, his Firth College. The portrait, which is by Mr A. S. Cope Canon Davys was first instituted a Rector in A.R.A., hung in the last Academy in London. It was un­ living being at Stilton (Hunts). Here he remained six years, veiled by Lady Stephenson. and during that time he restored the Church, a new Rectory House was built, and the Schools were rendered suitable for A correspondent points out a mistake in the notice of Government inspection. On resigning the Rectorate of Stilton, Mr H. M. Bompas (vol. xxx, p. 3.f8). It is there stated that Davys was instituted Rector of Wheathampstead on Mr Bompas was appointed "one of the commissione Canon rs of 9th 1859, so that on the ninlh of next month the middle class education." This should be : "In 1865 he was November complete his fifty years as the parish priest at appointed one of the Assistant Commissioners under the Canon will School Inquiry Commission." Wheathampstead. It would be quite impossible to chronicle the whole of On the 9th of November last Canon Owen William Davys the work accomplished in that fiftyyears. Wheathampstead (B.A. 1851) celebrated his Jubilee as Rector of Wheathamp­ remains now as then-larger, undoubtedly, and changed in stead, Herts. The day was marked by a special service, and many respects, but still a pleasant agricultural village, and 117 116 Our Chronicle. Our Chronicle. Sir J. Canon Davys through that half-century has worked in many Mathematical Tripos ·(old regulations) ; Professor Love to channels, and has seen many parochial successes and a few Larmor to be a Moderator and Professor A. E. Tripos failures perhaps, but, knowing Canon Davys' strength of pur· be an Examiner for Part II. of the Math ematical Examiner for pose, hls indomitable enthusiasm and strength of personality, (new regulations) ; Mr E. E. Sikes to be an it is safe to predict that the failures were few indeed. the Classical Tripos ; D1· E. C. Clark to be an Examiner At St Albans, Canon Davys will be especially remembered for the Law Tripos ; Professor Rapson to be an Examiner How to be as one of the oldest workers in the Church Choral Union, for the Oriental Languages Tripos ; Mr J. C. H. the having been engaged in the preparation of no fewer than an Examiner for the TyrvYhitt's Hebrew Scholarship and and twelve central festivals, covering a lengthy period. Canon Mason Prize in 1910, on the nomination of the Master be an Davys came to be recognised as an authority on Church Fellows of Trinity College, and Mr A. W. Greenup to and music, and the choral festivals at Wheathampstead made Examiner for the same on the nomination of the Master that church noteworthy for many years. Canon Davys Fellows of Peterhouse. also greatly interested himself in the work of the St Alban's are Archreological Society, being its secretary and a large con­ The following books by members of the �llege pshire a History r Schools, tributor to its literature for a number of years. announced : The Story o f Ha111 , � Canon Davys is also the author of several ecclesiastical by the Rev Telford Varley, Headmaster of Peter Symonds' and musical works, and as recently as last year he published School, Winchester (Black) ; Early Compotus Rolls of the Priory Wilson, a carefully-compiled illustrated guide of the \Mheathampstead of U!o1'Cester, transcribed and edited by James M. Church for the use of the many visitors. D.D., and another (Worcestershire Historical Society) ; Field Marshal Sir Neville Cha111berlain, G.C.R, by The King visited Wimborne in the Ltje of afternoon of the W. Fon·est, C.I.E. (Blackwoocls) ; Elementary Mechmtics, 16th January last, when he spent nearly half-an-hour G. in by T. H. Havelock, Fellow of the College, Lecturer the Minster. His attention was particul arly directed to Applied Mathematics in Armstrong College, and the beautiful Somerset tomb erected by the Lady Margaret in another (Bell) ; Old as the World. A Ro111a11ce of the to the memory of her parents. On this the Duke of Somerset, Islamis, by W. Brodie-Innes (Hebman) ; Tlte father of our Foundress and grandfather of King Henry VII., IVesiem J. lolcssage of the Son of Ma11, by Edwin A. Abbott (A. and C. is represented as having drawn off thegauntlet from his right Black) ; Ecclesiastiws, edited with Te .1- 1ual Co111me11tary aud hand and, with that hand ungloved, clasping the hand of his A. Hart, Fellow, Lecturer, and Librarian Prolcgolllwa, by J. H. Lady. The King admired the tomb for its beauty, and t the Peop le, of the College (University Press) ; Parlia111en ami expressed a wish to have a painting of it. A water-colour by the Hev J. H. B. Masterman (Headley, Brothers) ; Early drawing was sent to him, which he has graciously accepted. History to A.D. JI31 by H. M. Gwatkin, Dixie Professor A photograph of the tomb has been sent by the Rev Church of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Cambridge I. M. J. Fletcher, Vicar of Wimborne Minster, for the b Couuty hies), (Macmillans) Westmodand (Ca111 ridge Geograp College Library. ; by J. E. Marr, Sc.D., F.R.S. (University Press) ; Elements by A. H. Love The following University appointments of Members of of the Dijjermtial and Integral Calculus, E. � the College have been made since the issue of our last D.Sc .• F.H..S., Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy i number : Dr Bromwich to be a University Lecturer in the University of Oxford (University Press) ; An English. Mathematics ; Mr T. S. P.Strangeways reappointed Hudders­ Cou.rse fo r Evening Students, by F. J. Adkins (Sonnenschein) · G. Pickford, Head� iield University Lecturer in Special Pathology ; the Master Elemwtary Projective Geo11tet1y, by A. to be a member of a Syndicate to consider the question master of the Hulme Grammar School, Oldluun (University of providing pensions for Professors and others in the Tlte op - air treatlllelll of PttllllOila?'Y Tuberwlosis service Press) ; m � of the University ; Professor Seward to be an Examiner in by F. W. Bm·ton Fanning, M.D., F.R.C.P., Physician to th Elementary Biology ; Mr R. P. Gregory to be an Examiner Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, honorary visiting Physician in Botany ; Mr E. E. Sikes to be an Elector to the Prender­ to the Kelling open-air Sanatorium (Cassell and Co.); A Histo1y l gast Studentship ; Dr T. G. Bonney and Dr W. J. Sollas to of St Pau 's School, by Michael F. J. McDonnell (Chapman be Adjudicators of the Sedgwick Prize ; Dr H. ; Recollections and Reflections, by Aviet Agabeg, F. Baker to and . Hall) be a Governorof the Perse School, Cambridge ; Dr Bromwich Barnster at law (Hanthawaddy Press, Burma) ; Old Testame11t erly of the and Dr H. F. Baker to be Examiners for Part 11. of the Histo1y, by the Rev J. M. Hardwich, form Scholar 118 Our Chro11icle. Our Chronicle. 119

College, and Bell, University Scholar, and another (Murray) ; NATURAL SC)ENCES TRIPOS1 Patt I. lntroducLio11 to An Social Psychology , by William McDougall, Class 1. Class 2. Class 3. late Fellow of the College, vV ilde Reader in Mental Philo­ Ds Dunkley, H. F. Ds Barnes, G. G. Hall, H. F. Hill, W. E. sophy in the University of Oxford (Methuen). Laicllaw, C. G. P. Calvert, E. Mor.ris, T. N. Evans, P. E. Holtzappfel, J. 0. H. Naunton, W. J. S. Treleaven, W. Ds Leonard, P. J. Stansfelcl, R. Paulley, H. Thomson, K. S. UNIVER SITY EXAMINATIONS, June 1909. NATURAL SCIENCES TRIPOS1 Part !I. Class 2. Class MATHEMATICAL TRIPOS, Part I. Class 1. 3. Ds Allott, C. B. S. Ds Marrack, J. R. Ds Alien, G. A. Old Rcgulafio11s. Ds Parnell, F. R. Lillie, D. G. Wrauglers. Se11ior Op times. I1111ior Optimes. Shore, H. Shepparcl, W. G. 3 T. G. Mordell, L. J. 32 Thompson, A. R. (br.) 56 Fewings, J. A. C o gh, T. THEOLOGICAL TRIPOS, Part 12 l u 45 Dalvi, V. G. (br.) 57 Freke, C. G. I. Weigh!man, W. H. 3. 26 61 Kirloskar, V. G. Class 1. Ctass 2. Class Cruickshank, D. E 6 62 Ds Gledstone, F. F. Heaton, F. A. A. W. Haslam, V. K. 67 \�lhewell, H. Short, J. M. 72 �Toollen, W. H. Holthouse, C. 74 L. THEOLOGICAL TRIPOS1 Part ll. MATHEMATICAL TRIPOS1 Part !I. Class 2. Ds Docld, R. P. Old Regnla tious.

CDass l, Division Z. LAW TRIPOS, Part I. Lees, S. ;. Class 2. Class 3. Nicholls, A. C. IH ughes Jones, 0. MATHEMATICAL TRIPOS1 Part I. Smith, L. D.

New Regula ticms. LAW TRIPOS, Pari II. Class Class 1. Class 2. Class 3. Class 2. 3. Carpenter, C. G. Alien, L. A. Milne, G. Arias, H. Jeffreys, R S. Carter, W. H. Lister, T. Price, N. J. Levy L. C. Davis, H. J. Quick, E. K. Vaiclya, S. B. Scougal, K. H. Gillson, A. H. S. Smith, 0. C. Lyons, R. J. Williams, P. M. W. HISTORICAL TRIPOS1 Part I. S.trect, R. 0. Class 2. Cl ass 3. ·watson, T. W. Beale, C. Wren, T. L. Burton, H. P. W. Marchand, G. I. C. CLASSICAL TRJPOS, Part I. Class 1. Class 2. Class 3. HISTORICAL TRIPOS1 Part II. Div�sion 2. Division 1. Divisio11 1. Class 2. Til a d B. l r , L. Barrett, H. S. Hughes, A. Cheshire, F. M. Ireland, vV . F. Division 2. Fraser, D. S. · m F. M ·ton, D. Harcling, \¥. H. Russell-Smith, H. F. Sargent, E. H. G. MECHANICAL SCIENCES TRIPOS. Division 3. Class 3. Class 2. Guest Williams, W. K. Sewell, S. E. Bilsland, J. A. Lane, H. C. H. Penfolcl, H. L. Morton, V. C. ECONOMIC TRIPOS1 Part 11. CLASSICAL TRIPOS, Part 11. Class Seco11d Class. 1. Ds Subbarao, N. S. Ds Bricc Smith, R. Our Chronicle. 121 120 Our Chronicle. ELECTED TO FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS. CoLLEGE AwARDS AT THE ANNUAL ELECTION, JLme 1909. Classics. Natural Sciwc�. Law PRIZEMEN. P. Alexander Green, S. M. Laicllaw, C. G. MATHEMATICS. Todd Naunton Third Y(a1'. Seco11d Year. First Yea r. Stansfeld, R. Ecouomics. Tripos Part Il. Tripos Part II. Tripos Part I. Theology. Mode1•n Laug11ages. Lees Mordell (New Regulatio11s) Sykes · Cooper Ds Subbarao C\rpente• v\Taterhouse Carter, W. H. FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS CONTINUED. Tripos Part 1. Tripos Part 1. Davis, H. J. I,New Regnlat10ns) Gillson Mathematics. Classics. Natural Science. Clough Lyons Street )I Carter Barrett Ds Allott Weightman Watson, T. W. Chasteney Braunholtz Ds Dunkley Wren Clough Hellings Green, N. First Class. First Class. Dalvi Hughes, A. Long (March 1909) (March 1909} Lees Ireland Morris Dalvi Spargo } Lister M01·ton, F. D. Ds Parnell Shore, T. H. G. Thompson, A. R. Tail M01·dell Parker Kirloskar Chasteney Price Rogerson Stocks Ds Whiddington Smilh, 0. C. Russell-Smith CLASSICS. Spargo Tillard Wilmott Third Year. Second Year. First Year. Street Tait 1'ripos Pa1•t I. First Class. First Class. Tillard Green, S.. M. } Rogerson } Thompson, A. R. Parker To� Weightman Wren Hellings BratMholt· Ottley Theology. Modem Languages ·'' ; History. Dale Cheshire Den ham Wells Palterson, R. F. l Fraser Shepherd, W. L. Fi'sher f Dutton ELECTED TO ExHIBITIONS. Halsey M a1/iema fics. Classics. Natm·al Science. THEOLOGY. Gill son Dale Shore, L. R. Tripos Part 1. First Year. Lyons Dutton Ds Gledstone First Class. Fisher S.ykes Halsey NATURAL SCIENCES. Patterson, R. F. Secoud Year. Fi1•sl Year. Natural Science. Moderu La11guages. Eco11omics. Shore, L. R. Garabedian Constable Tr.ipos Part Il. Tripos Part 1. First Class. Ds Allott Laidlaw, C. G. P. Conder MASON PRIZE. HEBREW PRIZES. ADAMS MEMORIAL PRIZE. Ds Parnell Morris Nicklin • Den ham Clough Shore, T. H. G. Naunton Piltom (for Hebrew) Stansfeld Shore, L. Not awarded Sykes Deserving of hon. mc11 tio11. R. Mordell 1'1·ipos Part I. First Class. Ds Dunkley (June 1909) ADVANCED STUDENTS. Slacks GREEK TESTAMENT PRIZE. Sykes (College Prize) HISTORY. LAW. MEDIEVAL AND MODERN Jerusalem First Year. First Year. LANGUAGES. Ds Montgomery First Class. First Class. Seco11d Ye ar. First Ye ar. HoCKIN PRIZE Jackson, G. E. Alexander Vvaterhouse Cooper HUGHES' PRIZES. READING PRIZES. Wells Til ird Year. (fo r Physics). Garabedian Lees 1 Marchand Lees ECONOMICS. Shore, T. H. G. aeq. 2 Fisher l'ripos Part If. Tillard } Ds Subbarao VOL. XXXI. R Our Chronicle. 123 122 Onr Chrouicle. CLOSE AND OP.EN ExHIBQ'IONs, June 1909. WRIGHT's PRIZES. NEWCOME PRIZE. Second Yenr. First Year. (for Moral Philosophy) Op en E."Chibilions of £30 : Mordell Alexander Not awarded Rowell, A. H. (Wellingborough School) Green, S. M. } (for Mathematics) q. Conder Kidd, F. (Tonbridge School) Parker ae HUTCHINSON RESEARCH (for Classics) Cooper Reece, F. B. (Rossall School) E. STUDENTSHIP. , , Morris Jackson, G. Ritchie, G. L. (Bedford School) Waterhouse Street (for Botany) (j�'r Nal'nral Scieuces) Davis, H. (Birkbeck College) Sykes Ds Parnell Gregory, A. R. (St Olave's School) Rogcrson } , , q Todd ae . Dow111an Si:::arsh1ps : NADEN DIVINITY STUDENTSHIPS. HUGHES EXHIBITION Cavalier, F. B. (St Paul's School) Cheshire Pollard, W. M. N. (Denstone College) (for Ecclesiastical History) Sn1ith, C. F. (Birkenhead School) Ds Gledstone Not awarded Shepherd, W. L. School Kr hibilio1� : ENGLISH ESSAY PRIZES. (Dowmau) Shepherd, E. H. (Pocklington School) Raven, E. E. (Uppingham School) Third Year. Second Year. First Year. (Jolmso11) Cheshire Whitlock (Newco111e) Waters, K. S. (Grantham School) P roxinte accessenwt Bm·ton ENGLISH EssAY PRIZEs, 1909. Marchand For the Subjects see Vol. xxx., p. 370. OPEN SCHOLARSHIPS AND EXHIBITIONS, December 1908. Third Year : T. Clough Secoud Year: S. P. }acquest Foundation Scholarships of £8o : proxime accessit: G. I. C. Marchand G. E. Jackson. (for Mathematics) Grigg, P. J. (Bournemouth �ol) First Yea1· : Cole, J. H. (Gresham's School, Holt) > (j�'r Classi��) Raven, E. E. (Uppingham School) (for Nattwal Sciences) James, R. W. (City of London School) }OHNIANA. Founciation Scholarships of £6o : THE Two BISHOPS. (for Natural Scieuces) Ennos, F. R. (St Olave's School) (The Eagle, lxxx, p. 366.) Levy, S. I. (City of London School) , , , Dr Sandys, who was one of the Editors of The Eagle in April 1878, " were reprinted under the title Minor Scholarships of £6o : when the lines on "The Two Bishops "The Lady Margaret in the Days of Old " (x, 304), informs us that the (for Classics) Sears, S. E. (Felsted School) poem was written by the late Mrs Herbert, wife of John Maurice Herbert, Adams, J. B. P. (Malvern College) Esq, F.G.S., one of the Judges of the County Courts of Herefordshire and (f�r Hi;tory) Banister, T. R. (Trent College) Monmouthshire. (Mr Herbert was coxswain of the boat in 1830.) The (for Modern Languages) Jopson, N. B. (Merchant Taylors' School, authorship of the poem was ascertained shortiy after it had been reprinted Crosby) in 1'/re Eagle, and a slip recording the fact was inserted in the same Fouudation Scholarships of £40 : number. The slip was pasted in its proper place by the binder of Dr (for Mathematics) Rees, H. L. (Merchant Taylors' School) Sandys' copy. Douglas, W. E. (Wellingborough School) Mr Graves writes also to the same effect and adds : "One of the Old (/dr Classl�s) Darlington, W. A. C. (Shrewsbury School) Crew " was undoubtedly the Rev S. Banks, who first showed me the verses. He was an enthusiastic oarsman. Exhibitions of £30 : Mr John Maurice Herbert was a son of John Laurence Herbert of New Joyce Susannah, daughter of Cheetham, F. P. (City of London School) Hall, co Montgomery, by his marriage with (for Classics) Mr Thomas Charles Jones of Froxfraith, co Montgomery. He was born at , , Lord, G. F. (Tonbridge School) He was educated at the Cathedral Lloyd, H. M. (Rossall School) Madley, Hereiordshire, 15 July 1808. St John's as a pensioner 3 May 1826 ; Turner, W. L. (Aske's School, Hatcham) School, Hereford, and was admitted to (f�'r Nat'ural Scieuces) in 1830. He was admitted a Hedgecock, A. T. (Wreight's School, he look his degree as seventh wrangler , , , student of Lincoln's Inn 25 April 1832, and was called to the Bar 8 May Faversham) 35. Fellow of the College 10 Apri1 1832, vacating Griffiths, H. P. (Merchant Taylors' School) 18 He was admitted a (for Hebrew) the fdlowship on his marriage. He practised as an equity draftsman and Local Examinations Exhibition : conveyancer ; he was a commissioner for enfranchising assessionable manors of the Duchy of Cornwall 1844-47. On the 12th March 1867 (for Mathematics) Douglas, W. E. (Wellingborough School) I 124 Our Chronicle. Our Chrot1icle. 1?"'_;:,

J is very he was appointed Judge of Cownty Courts, Circuit 24, an office he 11elcl large-leading at the one end of them into the Library-which until his death 3 November 1882 at his residence Rocklands, .Ross, long and fair, and full of books. The cieling above is carved and well ' Herefordshire. wrought. Thence, after a cup of Sacke and some sweet bisket-(he dine with him)-I took my leave to return to my lodging­ Mr J. M. Herbert was twice married : (1) on 13 August 18-10 a' Christ desired me to � shewed me his Church, Marylebone, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Thomas J hnes of but before we went down the round stony staires, he where their littie Organ Garthmyl lsaf, eo Montgomery, and (2) on 4 September 1877 at t' e parish passage from out of his lodgings into the Gallery church of St Feock, Cornwall, to Mary Charlotte, fourth daugl) er of the stands ; and a seat there for himself, if he please, to here Prayers, seeing Rev Thomas Phillpotts, of Porthywidd:m, Cornwall, sometilTie Vicar of all the Chapel, but the Scholars not seeing him, as in the King's Chapel. so we parted. St Feock. 1 He went with me to the outer gate, and The poem, "The Two Bishops," is by Mr Hcrberl's first wife. Extract from the Diary of Dr Woodward, vVarde.n of New OJJie.ge, Oxford.

" The following passage occurs in Byron's Don Juau, Canto VIII , stanza 18 : We take following from some recent ca alog es of And therefore we must give the greater number the t u To the Gazette-which doubtless fairly dealt second-hand books : By the deceased, who lie in famous slumber : In ditches, fields, or wheresoer they felt A LONG SET OF THIS SCARCE CAMBRIDGE 1\LAGAZlNE Their clay for the last time their souls encumber. ZINE s po ted by MEMBERS 109 EAGLE (The) : A MAGA up r Thrice happy he whose name has been well spelt JoHN'S CoLLEGE, from its beginning in 1858 to In the despatch : I knew a man whose loss of ST ·with pl.ates, 131 Numbers 8vo sewn (vERY Was printed Grove, although his name was Grosc. June, 1903, SCARCE), £,6 15s. Calllbridge, 1858-1903. Byron adds the note : A fact : see the Waterloo Gazettes. I recollect One of the best and longest maintained of all English University remarking at the time to friend " Tlrere is ja 111e A man is killed, his a : I Maf,>

LADY MARGARET BOAT CLUB. Conced. Prcsideut-L. H. K. Bushe-Fox, Esq. Treasnrer-J. J. Lister, Esq. A Concert was given by the Club in the College Hall on 1st Boat Captniu-H. F. Russeli-Smith. 2ud Boat Captaiu-R. F. Donne. Thursday, November 25th, and was wellattended. Hon. Sec.-J. G. H. Holtzapffel. Junior Treas.-L. A. Alien. 1st Lent Capta in-C. G. Carpenter. 2ud Lent Captain-H. E. Chasteney. 3rd Lent Colle!{e Trial Eights. Captain-B. R. Streeten. Additioua! Captain-C. P. Aubry. Weight still .is conspicuous by its absence among the The unexpected and much lamented departure of C. J. W. Freshmen. One or two seniors however have taken up Henslow occasioned a General Meeting of the Club to be rowing this year, and the standard all round is pretty well held early this term to elect new officers. Our loss this year up to the average. What is lacking in weight is certainly is rather a heavy one, since no less than four First May made up by enthusiasm. Colours and four Second May Colours have gone down, and ... " The loss of Henderson is felt keenly, as coaches of experi­ at present there are few qualiJi.ed to fill the vacancies. ence are lacking, but in spite of this the winning junior crock was quite as good as the winning senior crock, which is in no Balemau Pairs. way below the average. Let it be whispered that the other These were held as usual on Wednesday and Thursday, juniors came in nowhere. June 16th and 17th, the two clays following the College Ball, The Rugger boat made its annual appearance in the Back and were won by J. M. Short and C. L. Holthouse. Station, and arrived at the flag in clue course. The coaching of the Seniors was undertaken by Russell­ Coxswainless Fours. Smith and Donne, and that of the Juniors by Allen, lrving, Practice began on October 1st, but unfortunately ended and Holtzapffel. befo re the Races, which were won by Third Trinity. The In the actual races, which were rowed on Saturday, chief causes of the crew's not getting together were the November 27th, Russell-Smith's boat won taidy easily from constant changes found necessary and the want of "life " Donne's, from whom they drew away right from the start. in the boat. )• In the Juniors All en's crew were decidedly better and Pea rson. and Wright Sculls. went right away, Holtzapffel's crew ooming right up on Irving's, which had Middle Station. But in the Gut the Rowed on Friday and Saturday, November 19th and 20th. crews began, first by cox There were six entries, and this occasioned two heats of three troubles of the third of the four and secondly by 2 scullers in order to leave two in the final. grazing all the bow-side oars on the bank, losing his oar at Ditton. From here it was a procession up First Heat. First Station. R. F. Donne. Second Station. r.• Irving to the posts. Second Heat. First Station. L. A. Alien The names of the winning crews are as follows :- Second Station. H. Dulton Wiuniug Senior Crew. Winni11g Junior C1'ew. Third Station. G. A. M. Griffiths L. Watson (bow) K. S. Waters (bow) Fi11al Heat. First Station. R. F. Donne B. 2 H. C. Evans 2 vV. S. Laidlaw Second Station. L. A. Alien 3 W. H. Ottley 3 N. V. Holden The final was won fairly easily by R. F. Donne in good 4 R. S. Clarke 4 C. W. Guillebaud time. The two heats were neither of them very exciting, 5 T. Clough 5 S. I. Levy both men winning well wi thin themselves. 6 C. G. Carpenter 6 W. P. Dodd 7 S. G. Askey 7 W. D. Wells Colquhoun Sculls. H. E. Chasteney (st•-oke) W. H. Hattersley (strolw) W. Raffie (cox) H. L. Rees (eo.-�·) These sculls were rowed for on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, NO\·ember 26th and 27th. There were On Saturday, December 4th, a Dessert was held in no less than fifteen entries, including Donne to represent Lecture-Room VI, Mr Bushe-Fox taking the chair and L.M.B.C. The finalwas won by E. D. P. Pinks (Clare), who presenting the cups to the members of. the winning crews. beat G. L. Thomson (Trinity Hall), in 8 min. 10 secs. Donne A Musical Sketch entitled "The Jolly Pothunters " was per­ formed with great success by several members of the Boat drew a bye in the firstround, and in the second had to race H. E. Swans ton (Jesus). Donne held him unlil the Plough Reach, Club, who shall be nameless. when Swanston's extra weight and training began lo tell, and T1'ial Eights. he drew right away and eYentually won by about 40 yards. Six members of the Club have been tried and, unfortu­ nately, been found wanting, during the Term. The race 128 Our Chronicle. Our Chronicle. 129 was rowed on Saturday, December 4th. Two Club eights off-clays, were excellent, and the cricket was always keen paddled down to Ely to watch, one being stroked by and enjoyable. Exciting matches were played with the Mr Bushe-Fox and the other by B. R. Streeten. Dons and the Servants, both of which we only j ust succeeded in winning. The Mission match was played in very bad BoAT LADY MARGARET CLUB. weather, and was as enjoyable as possible in such conditions ; Balance Sheet for the yea1· 1908-9. the Mission managed to win in the last oYer of the match. Receipts. E:xpe11ditun. Resulls :-Played 17. \Non 8. Lost 3. Drawn 6. £ s. £ s. d. d. BATTING AVERAGES. Balance at the Bank...... 79 t4 H C.U.B.C. Assessment ... 92 9 0 General Athletic Club ... 360 0 0 , Entrance Fees 5 5 0 Times High"'t Entrance Fees ...... 14 16 Inns. not out. score. Total. A\·er. 0' Boat House � 6 .. 2 17* ... 222 ... Subscription to � \V. Stradling ...... 1 ss·s Rates...... 14 15 0 11 .. 2 ... 88* ... 421 ... 46·7 25 J. A. Fcwings ...... Light Four... 4 0' Water Rate ...... 11 9 6 263 ... 43 8 A. L. Gorri11ge ...... 7 . .. 1 ... 86 ... ' From Proceeds of Gas Rate ...... •. . . .. • 2 3 6 . J. H. Franklin ...... 6 ... 0 ... 93 ... 164 . .. 27'3 Concert... 2 0 0 Coals and Coke .. .. . • 2 17 9 E. K. Quick...... t ... 80 ... 377 . . . 26·9 Balance of Junior Taxes ...... :...... 2 18 IS 4 vV. J. Hobbs ...... 5 ... 0 ... 70 ... 105 ... 21·0 Treasurer's account... 3 1 0 Fire Insurance ...... 10 0 V. . . 1 F. D. Morton ...... 13 ... 2 ... 4.:J. ... 209 . .. 19·0 Insurance of Servants . . • 14 3- F. Norlhorp 10 .. ... 3-t ... 18·1 Repairs and . .:J. 109 R. S. J effreys ...... 8 ... 2 ... 51* ... 107 ... ] 7·8 Maintenance ... 79 5 3 F. B. Fisher ...... 15 ... 2 ... 42* ... 202 ... 15·5 Washing ...... 15 12 0 A. Watkins ...... Jt ... 1 ... 7-t 152 . .. 15·2 New Four-Oar ...... 35 0 () C. Levy ...... 5 . .. 2 ... 2l * ... 38 .. . 12'6 Oars ...... 40 0 0 L. . W. P. Pitlom ...... 8 ... 2 ... 23* ... 65 . .. 10·R Carriage of Four Oars 2 17 vV . & 8 R. A. Warters ...... 5 ... 0 .. 16 ... 46 . .. 9·2 Wages of Foister . S. D. Nurse ...... 5 ... 1 ... 2-t .. . 35 . .. 8·7 and TayTor... 87 15 0 6-t*, 2; V. C. Boddington, 0; Horse Hire ...... 10 2 6 Also batted :-H. F. Russell-Smith Hire of Bicycles ...... 2 2 6 > P. M. \1./. Williams 1, 0, 11, 17 ; A. P. Long 2, 8 ; F. M. Cheshire 5, 1 ; 8*, 0, 1; W. H. Fenies and Locks . .. .. • 2 2 6 F. G. Burr H; B. Moody 0, 10, 1 ; G. N. Nicklin O, Prizes ...... 41 4 6 Carter 1. Painting Names ...... 7 6 • Signifies not out. Suits for Boatmen ...... 4 16 0' BOWLING AVERAGES. Printing Notices ...... Oven;. A\·er. . 10 () 1\Iaidens. Runs. \Ykts. , Programmes ... 2 0 () F. B. Fisher ...... 4-t ... 4 ... 188 ... 14 ... 13'4 Cheque Book...... 10 0 F. D. Mm·ton ...... 150.3 ... 17 ... 462 ... 32 ... 14'43 ... 14'47 Sundries ...... 4 12 6 A. Watkins ...... 7-t ... 8 ... 275 .. . 19 Balance ········�··········�� R. S. Jeffreys ...... 130 ... 10 ... 555 ... 38 ... 14·6 18·8 A. L. Gorringe ...... 92 ... 11 ... 358 ... 19 ... .6'484 15 11 £484 15 11 Also bowled :-V. W. J. Hobbs 8-57-2 ; F. M. Cheshire 12-36-1 Fewings 3-12-0 W. Straclling 9-58-1 J. J. LISTER, Treasnrer L.lof.B.C. S. D. Nurse 7-29-0 ; J. A. ; Audited and found correct } Levy 1-8-0 ; A. P. Long 11-56-6 ; H. F. Russeli-Smith 1-4-1 ' R. F. ScoTT. L. C. .:J.-16-0 November 4th, 1909. J. H. Franklin 2-5-1 ; W. W. P. Piltom 1-2-0 ; G. N. Nicklin P. M. \V. \Villiams 3-16-0. TH F LoNG VACATION CRICKET CLUB The Long Vacation Cricket team had a very pleasant and AssociATION FooTBALL CLUB. highly creditable season. We were strong in all three C.1j>laiu-C. Beale. Ho11. Sec.-C. B. Thompson. departments, and had at different times most valuable In writing of this Term's performances, \\'e cannot but assistance from A. L. Gorringe, W. Stradling, and J. H. deplore the lack of good material among the 1st year. Vve Franklin. The batting was always powerful, and W. began the season well by drawing with Caius, and defeating Stradling, J. A. Fewings, and A. L. Gorringe played several Queens' and Clare. This was followed up by draws with big innings. F. D. M01·ton and R. S. Jeffreys were responsi­ Pembroke and St Catharine's. We next ph!.yed Trinity, and, ble for most of the bowling, and both met with great success, defeat. going utterly to pieces, suffered a very heavy V/e while F. B. Fisher and A. Watkins also did some extremely then defeatecl Queens', but the following day suffered a useful work. The fielding and catching, with one or two heavier defeat at the bands of Pembroke than that 'IN hich

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. THE CHESS CLUB. ·we experienced on the Trinity ground At tbe beginning of the season we looked like developing into a Yery powerful At a Business l\ieeting on Friday, October 15th, A. A. eom bination, but lack c s y and of on istenc has greally spoiled our Guest-\Villiams was elected Vice-President A. \V atkins T m chances of a good position in the League Table. H onorary Secretary. The Club has met five times this er Summary of League Matches played this Term :- and has played tvvo friendly matches. We lost to Trinity, a and exciting match, ·which OPPO).IE::-�Ts. RESULT. FOJ?. AGST. bLlt beat Pembroke after lively Cai s ...... Drawn ...... 5 ...... 1'. u 5 was much enjoyed. We entered for the University Board Queens' ..•...... \.Yon ...... v. .4 3 Competition and drew against St Catharinc's in the first Clare ...... Won ...... 2 ...... v. . .. 0 : the remaining Pembroke . . . round. vVe ha,·e lost one game and won one 1•...... Dra,,·n ...... 2 ...... 2 St Catharine's ...... Drawn ...... u 1 nished . The following represented 1'...... A ..J- � three are at present n 1 Trinity ...... Lost ...... 1...... 8 1'. St John's on this occasion :-W. H. Weightman, A. Watkins, Queens' .....•...... \\'on ...... v. . 5 2 W. H. Carter, J. B nister VI/. H. Carter e ...... Lost .. P. M. Williams, R a : 1'. P mbroke ...... 1...... 9 wish that more of our members Result :-Played 8. \Von 3. Drawn 3. Lost 2. won his game. We could also members of the U ni \·ersity Chess Club. ' were THE CLASSICAL SOCIETY. HisTORICAL SociETY. Presidmi-R. F. �allerson. Ho11. Scc.-H. \V. Toclcl. Commilft·c­ Mr Glover, L. B. Tillard, H. Parker. Presideni-Dr J. H.. Tanner. Hu11. Scc.-F. M. Cheshire. The following papers have been read this Term :­ The fifth year of lhe Society's existence has opened most . An unusually number of members and IVctilfesd"y, October 27th-" Bacchylides." auspi ciously large ob r 27th. By H. W. Todcl. visitors assembled in the President's rooms on Oc t e IVetl11estlay, Nove111ber 1 Cr<::lan excavation in connection 7th-" We owe him our deepest gratitude for all he has done to with the Minos legend." make Society a success, and specially appreciated listen­ By F. C. Oakley. the him-a pri,•ilege we have not enjoyed llfo11day , December 6th-" Examples of Mycenaean animal worship." ) ing to a paper from By B. Moody. for four years. Mr D. S. Robertson, Trinity, has been elected an honorary The following papers have been read this Term :- Tanner member of the Society, and there are seven other new mem­ Oct. 27th ...... "The English in India." ...... Dr J. R. Nov. 10th ...... "Karl Marx " ...... G. E. Jackson bers this Term. G. A. M. Griffiths Nov. 2·Hh ...... "John \.Yyclif " ...... A11ALGAMATED ATH LETIC CLUBS. C.U.O.T.C.-" G" co�IPA:-.:Y. Balance Sheet for the year 1908-9. Sn·.4c11 11/-H. S. E.cj>cllllilure. Offi cer ColltiiWttdin,I!-J. G. H. Hollzapffcl. Co.Jour Receipts. Ban·ett. Section F. Donne, E. J. Y. Brash, F. G. Burr, d. [ £ s. Colll/llillttlcrs-R. £ s. d. E. Knox. Balance from 1907-8 ...... 138 10 4 Grants to : R U. College Subscriptions : L.M.B.C...... 360 0 0 It is pleasant to be able to report ihe doi ngs of the Arrear� from 1907-8... 8 15 0 Cl. Cricket & Football 227 0 0 Company without using the term "Company " falsely. From For 1908-9 ...... 809 12 6 Athletic Club ...... 33 3 3 83. 19 old members its strength has been raised to Amongst La\\'n Tennis Club ... 37 J 3 9 r cru ts we are very glad to welcome several old Public Fives Club...... 16 16 6 the e i . . Rifle Club. Lacmsse Club ...... 16 6 0 School "Shots," who will be of great use to the Hockey Club...... H 6 6 Camp was held this year at Bulford on Salisbury Plain, Arrears : Athletic Club for the first time under the new system, and proved to be Prizes ...... 2 6 The ch ef features to mention are Printing and Postage ... 0 1 0 a highly instructive week. i not, h w r, affect the work of Collectors' charges ...... 12 6 the bad weather, which did o eve Donation to Fund for the corps to any great extent, and secondly the attempted lcvl!iling Crickd 4 5 Ground l X," who surrounded by "a devoted Balance at Bank ...... 232 5 9 surprise of "General , , took refuge the band of followe1·s " ( " G" Company) [or coup e of miles from £956 17 10 .6956 17 10 nigh t in some ruined farm buildings a l Camp. Q,ying to the subtle strategies of various members R. GREGORY, . P. Hot�. Trcasur'r of y, h o h d prepared the adjacent land \\'ith Amlitcc\ and found con·cct } "G" Compan \Y a BENIANS. November 6th, 1909. ' E. A. 132 Chronicle. Our Our C!lronicle. 133 string entanglements, the attackers ·were successfully hood­ THE CoLLEGE M J SS IO:-< . 'v inked and General X and all his followers "skeclacldlecl " nl-The Master. Vicc-Prcsidcuts-The President, Mr Cox, leaving no traces except a few hundred yards of string. Prcsidc Mr Graves, Mr Mason, Dr Sanclys. Co111 111ilfee-Mr Bushe-Fox, The The principal work of this Term has consisted in a very Dean, Mr 'vV ard, Dr Tanner, Mr Harl (Senior Secretary), Mr How (Seuior interesting Field Day on October 23rcl in the neighbourhood Treasurer), Mr H.oolham, C. P. Aubry, H. S. Barrelt, A. J. Bentley, , Do , Fi h (.Tuuior Secretary), C. of Lords Bridge, in which several thousand Territorials and H. P. vV. Burton R F. nne F. B. s er C. Gale (.Tuuior Trcasttrcr), M. T. Lloycl, G. I. C. Marchancl, B. Moody, Public School Cadets took part, and two night. attacks, C. Slrcc:lcn, , S. the H. R. Hagg, H. Hilchie, B. R. A. R Th ompson L. first, on October 22ncl, being somewhat of a failure, the Thompson, H. \IV. Toclcl, B. L. Watson, \V. H. vV eightman, R McD. second proving more exciting. This latter was on the night vVinder. of No\'ember 9th, and was supposed to be the effort of a reel On August Bank Holiday we were glad to welcome some force to destroy a bridge across the Cam at Grantchester "' seventy parishioners from V.Talworth. The weather was not Meadows. The proceedings went without a hitch until the very good, but it fortunately steadied itself sufficiently in the line, " G" and " H " Companies, had passed over the bridge afternoon for the cricket match to be played. After a keen to support the party who were to lay il&e charges for its struggle the Mission ,,v on just on time, to !.heir immense destruction. At this point the supports (Perse School) satisfaction. The rest of the proceedings were as usual, but thought it high time for a little activity on their part and special thanks are clue to Mrs Cobb for providing a generous commenced firing volleys into their own side. Upon this tea in Hall, and to those members of t.he College who gave four of "G" Company jumped into the river, discovering too up so much time in rowing the visitors about on the river. late that the Cam is quite wet. There was a large gathering of Johnians and Cranleighians The recruits worked very well considering their lack of at the Mission for the Harvest Festival, and we were par­ experience, and the Company promises to become a very ticularly glad that the Master was able to take the chair smart one by Camp next Summer. at the supper. The Bishop of Thet1ord preached, and It would be a great convenience if all the members would subsequently made a very delightful speech. It was a most remember to look for the week's orders every Thursday successful and enthusiastic gathering. morning on the new notice board. The usual meeting for Freshmen was held on November J. G. H. HOLTZAPFFEL, 2nd Lieut. 20t.h in Mr Hart's rooms. The Vicar gave an important address, and considerable interest was shown in the 'working NATURAL SCIENCE CLUB. of the Mission. It seems that the Mission will be excellently Prcsirlent-R. Stansfeld. Treasurcr-Dr J. E. Marr. Sccrclary- supported by the First Year, and ·we hope that they will S. ,V. Soden. go down to the Mission, ·where they will always be welcome, Two papers have been read this Term :­ as soon as they can. Any information as to its whereabouts Nov. 3rd-" Alchemy," by G. A. G. Bonsel'. will be gladly given by C. C. Gale or F. B. Fisher. Nov. 24th-" Abiogenesis," by R. Stansfeld. A Concert will be held, in aiel of the Mission, in the On Dec. D. 8th a third paper was read by G. Lillie. Kensington Town Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 11th, at 8.15 p.m. During the Term Messrs A. T. EchYards, A. P. Long, and The arrangements for it are being made almost entirely by Shore L. R. have been elected Members of the Club. Mr C. B. Rootham and G. I. C. Marchand. The full College Choir the Royal College of Music String MEDICAL SOCIETY. will perform, and Quintet have kindly promised their services. It is hoped l'reside11t-S. G. Askey. Ex-Presirlents-G. \V. Spencer, G. A. G. Bonser. Hon. Sec.-C. C. Okell. that the Concert will be thoroughly well supp orted by the The following papers have been read this Term to the members of t.he College and their friends. The Kensington Society :- Town Hall, being exactly opposite a District Railway station, to suit Nov. 6th-" Some Ancient Remedies," by l\Jr H. H. Brinc!ley. is easily accessible, and the date has been fixed Nov. 2Znd-'' Sleep," by G. A. G. Bonser. members of the College who live far from London, and who Dec. 3rd-" Anaesthesia," by Dr L. E. Shore. will about that time be coming up for next Term. Further The following ha\'e become Honorary Members during details will be announced later. The Concert will be under the Term :-Pro£ A. Macalister, Dr L. E. Shore, Dr W. H. i.he direction of Mr C. B. Rootham, whose spare time is Rivers, Mr R. H. Ache, l\fr H. H. Brinclley. most generously devoted to this object, and whose enthusiasm Mr E. L. K. Sargent has been elected a Full Member is the surest guarantee of its success. and Messrs J. B. Hunter and \V. Raftle Associate 1fembers. C!trolltclc. 13+ Our Our Chronicle. 135

THE MusrcAL SociETY. PARf II. { Tell me not, sweet, I am t 1kind H. 6 ol--: GS :: ;� " ...... C. Pnrry President-H. S. Foxwell, M.A. Trcasurcr-L. E. Shore, M.D. ; . S ...... ; Htcharcl of Taunton Deane ...... !. L. llfolloy Librariau-C. B. Rootham, M.A., Mus. Bac. ; Secretary-H. J. Braun­ H. M. LLOYD. holtz ; Co mmifl�e-Professor E. J. Rapson, Hev. H. F. Stewart, J. Fraser, I T Samko71•ski M.A., V. C. Bocldington, B.A., F. M. Muscly, B.A., H. F. l{usseli-Smith, 7. P ANOFOR E DUET ...... Spanischer Tanz ...... G. A. A. GUEST-WILLIAMS, J. ilRAUNHOLZ. B.A., G. A. G. Bonser, A. A. Guest-Williams, G. 1. C. Marchancl, C. H. H. Hitchie, R. Stansfelcl, H. F. Brice-Smith. 8. SoNG ...... "I t was an English Ladye bright " .....C. B. Roollinm R. McD. \V INDER. The Musical Society has this Term shown its accustomed , OLK { "No John " energy and acti\'ity. 9· SoNGS . ... It requires a great deal of keenness for 1' " H a;·es on the Mountain " } a chorus to attend consistently two rehearsals a week ; but " J. S. �'ILSON (King's). chorus has generously responded to the appeal. The our 10. VoCAL QUARTET ...... " A Franklyn's Dogge " ...... il. G. Jlluclicllzic result of its efforts is soon to be seen in the Concert GUEST-\VJLL!AMS. BRAUNHOLTZ. in aiel of A. A. H. J. the College Mission. This concert, which will take place at D. C. T. TWENTYMAN. R McD. \V JNDEK the Kensington Town Hall on January 11th, 191Q, will give -Mr. BENIA:-IS. the chorus an opportunity of showing its merits i � London Chairma n audience ; we hope it will meet with the appreciation which Second Concert- il certainly deserves. PART I.

...... Scll llllltl lllL In aclclilion to the Secular Music which the chorus have 1 PIANOFORTE SOLO ...... Novelelte No. 7 ...... learnt for this concert, they have been practising Bach's. H. J. BRAUNHOLTZ.

. . Scilll bcrt " Mass in G major " and Palestrina's "Stabat Mater," which 2 So:-w...... Romance (Rosamuncle) ...... are to be performed in the College Chapel early next Term. V. C. BODDINGTUN. Two successful Smoking Concerts were held on Nov. 4th 3 ViOLIN SOLO ...... Sonate in A ...... Haudd and Dec. 2nd, at which Mr E. A. Benians and Mr Rootham Anclante-Allegro-Aclagio-Ailegretto 1\1oderator. respectively very kindly took the chair. It seems unfortu­ P. D. MONTAGUE (Gonville and Caius)...... Scl llt lllllll/L nately to be a tradition of the College that Smoking Concerts 4 So�w ...... The Two Grenadiers " should coincide with other important College events. This·. R. McD. \V I::-;:DER circumstance was presumably responsible for the remarkably PART II. small, ihough appreciative, audience at the second of these 5 SONG...... Corymcela " T'. Sfa11ju nl concerts. A. P. LONG. 6 PIANOFORTE SOLO ... Variations on Theme in E fbt...... !J!vza rl The programmes are appended :­ A. A. GUEST-\VIl.LIAMS.

SoNG ...... " La Belle Dame Sans Merci." .. . . . Sfclll(u nl First Conart- 7 ...... C. ['. · R McD. \V t N UER. PART I. 8 OF R E G ViOLIN & PIAN O T DUET ...Ailegro from Sona(ine in 1\Iinor 1. PIANOFORTE SoLO .••...... Prelu cle 1\'o...... 15 ...... C!IOj>il& Sd111bcrt E. MACLAY. P. D. MONTAGUE (Gonville and Caius), H. J. URAUNHOLTZ. 9 SoNG...... " \IV ishes " ...... Hamisil McC/I tlllll 2. SoNG ...... '' Blow, blow, thou winter wind " ...... St11 ca nt . . !. j V. C. BODDINGTON. R. McD. Vl !NDJW. Chair111an-Mr. C. B. RooTHAIII. 3. SONG ...... " Adelaide " ...... Bcelltot•Clt J. S. WILSON (King's). DEBATING SociETY.

4. VIOLIN SoLo ...... Romance et Bolero ...... C/wr/es Daucla PresirlClli-G. I. C. March and ; Vice-Prcsidwi-H. P. \V. Burlon ; S H. H. LOHEI'-:Z. ecretary-F. B. Fisher ; Ho11. Auditor-F. D. Morton ; Collllllillce­ \�r. G. Constable (Ex-Prcs.), H. F. J{ussell-Smith, P. A. Irving, J. B...... 5. VOCAL QUARTET ...... " I loved a lass " ...... Samuel Rcay Sterndale Bennelt, H. R. Ragg. A. A. GUEST-VVILLIAMS. J. BRAUNHOL IJ. TZ. The Debating Society is in quite a flourishing condition. D. C. T. TwEI'-:TniAN. R. McD. \Yrl--:DEH. Whether the cause was their own debating ability, or the 1 Our Chro11iclc. 37 136 Our C!trouicle.

nlay, Nm•cmber· S. M. Green moved '' That this dazzling brilliance of the other years, or even the newly Sal11 6th. House would favour the extension of the franchise to women introduced free coffee, we do not know ; but the first year upon the same conditions as to men." Ayes : S. M. Green, have joined in considerable numbers, though there is still G. E. Jackson, H. P. W. Button (Vice-Pres.), A. Alexander, room for more. Not a few of them show great promise, and R. K. Haslam, H. N. Leakey, H. F. Russetl-Smith. Noes : will, we hope, after trying their wings in our debates, take C. C. Gale, A. G. Clow, F. B. Fisher (Sec.), C. F. Smith, M. J. courage and fly high in those of the Union, where the College Antia, T. Clough, S. F. Sears, C. W. Guillebaud, F. G. Burr, has reputation to maintain. All the debates have been :1 W. J. L. Rogerson, R. F. Donne, P. A. Irving. The honour­ well attended, and the number of speakers has been extra­ able opener having replied, the House divided : Ayes, 14 ; ordinary. The two Inter-College debates were a great Noes, 17; majority against the motion, 3. Forty-one mem­ success. It was Yery pleasant to be able to welcome among ... bers were present during the evening. us the leaders of thought of Jesus College, and the success of the occasion was proved by the fact that the debate lasted Saturday, November IJlh. No Debate was held. for nearly three hours. Those members who went to Pembroke were amply rewarded by an excellent debate­ Thursday, Noz•ember I81h. Joint Debate with the Rooster's and pint of "audit " apiece. Club, Jesus College. F. B. Fisher (Sec.) mo\·ed "That this a House looks back with fond regret to the past, and is not at

­ The following Debates have been held this Term : all sanguine about the future." Ayes : F. B. Fisher, W. E. * Stardcastle (Ex-Pres., Jesus College), H. N. Leakey, L. B. Saillrdny, October I6lh. F. B. Fisher (Sec.) m 'ed '4 That this House deprecates the recent increase in aerial navigation." Tillarcl, H. Fan·ell (Sec., Jesus College), F. L. Grille (Jesus Ayes : F. B. Fisher, W. G. Constable (Ex-Pres.), C. C. Gale. College), P. A. Irving. Noes : T. H. Alien (Pres., Jesus Noes : P. A. h·\'ing, H. N. Tait, L. B. Tillard, M. J. Antia, College), H. N. Tait, G. A. W. Phillips (Jesus College), �. B. F. D. M01·ton (Hon. Auditor). The honourable opener having Prior (Jesus College), H. F. Kirkpatrick (Jesus College), A. E. replied, the House divided : Ayes, 9; Noes, 28 ; majority Button, P. Clough, H. E. Hughes-Davies (Jesus College), against the motion, 19. Forty-eight members and others J. B. P. Aclams, S. Waclsworth, Jesus College, E. B. Grasett were present during the evening. (Jesus College), G. I. C. Marchancl (Pres.), M. J. Antia. The honourable opener having replied, the House divided : Ayes, Salttrday , October 23rd. J. B. Sternclale Bennett moved 10 ; Noes, 39 ; majority against the motion, 29. Seventy­ "That this House disapproves of any form of censorship of five members and visitors were present during the evening. the drama." Ayes : J. B. Sterndale Bennett, R. F. Patterson, D. W. Ward, A. Watkins, H. F. Russell-Smith, W. G. Satunlay, Nm'CIIIbcr 20/h. A Joint Debate was held with Constable (Ex-Pres.), H. N. Tait, H. N. Leakey. Noes : the Pembroke College Debating Society, which took place in F. D. M01·ton (Hon. Auditor), L. B. Tillard, G. E. Jackson, Pembroke College. H. P. W. Blll·ton (Vice-Pres.) proposed C. F. Smith. The honourable opener having waived his the motion, and G. I. C. Marchancl (Pres.) spoke fourth. right of reply, the House divided : Ayes, 10 ; Noes, 21 ; About thirty membtrs attended the debate. majority against the motion, 11. Thirty-eight members \Y ere Saturday , November 271 h. A. Watkins m0ved " That this present during the evening. House welcomes the growing po\Yer of the Labour Movement Saturday, Octobtr JO!h. Freshmen's Debate. H. Stuart in the politics of this country." Ayes : A. Watkins, 't. R. mo,•ed "That this House strongly condemns the present Banister, G. I. C. Marcband (Pres.), M. J. Antia, W. G. system of public school education." Ayes : H. Stuart, F. Constable (Ex-Pres.). Noes : A. Alexander, A. C. Nicholls, Kidd, R. E. Bush, W. S. Laidlaw, L. A. Allen. Noes : G. E. Jackson, F. B. Fisher (Sec.), H. E. T. Vale, H. R. Ragg. C. F. Smith, vV . H. Guillebaud, T. R. Banister, R. K. Haslam, The honourable opener having replied, the House divided : H. N. Leakey, F. P. Cheetham, A. G. Clow, J. B. Hunter, Ayes, 10 ; Noes, 14 ; majority against the motion, 4. Thirty­ J. H. Cole, H. F. Russell-Smith, P. A. Irving, S. M. Green, eight members were present during the evening. F. D. M01·ton (Hon. Auditor), Il . F. R. Miller, C. W. As we go to press we hear that at the Change of Officers' Guillebaud, F. G. Burr, F. B. Cm·alier. The honourable Debate on Thursday, December 2nd, G. I. C. Marchand opener having waived his right of reply, the House divided : (retiring President) will sing (or say), "I've got a motter, Ayes, 7; Noes, 32 ; majority againsl lhe motion, 25. Forly­ alwa s merry and bright." ft \'e members were present during the eYening. y \'OL. XXX I. T 13S Our Chronicle.

TfiEOLOGICAt SOCIETY. Presirfr:rrt-R. E.v-Prcside11t c c cc- F. Donne. i11 r sid ll Mr Hart. Ho1t. Scc.-R. H. A. Cotton. Ho11. Treas.-E. J. Tease. Commilfcc-B. R. Streeten, H. \V. Tocld. THE LIBRARY. The Society has been fortunate this Term in hearing some The asterisk de11otcs Members the very interesting papers. Four meetings were held, two of • pastor presellt of CoT!cge. which were given to Old Testament study. D1' McNeile's kindness in reading us a paper was appreciated, and Dr Donations and Additions 1.o the Library during Quartei." Foakes-Jackson's cautious method in dealing with Old Testa­ ending Midsummer, 1909. ment criticism is decidedly advantageous to some minds in these clays. Mr How read a paper on "The 'Confessions' Dorra ltons. of St Augustine," which sketched vividly and clearly the I>ONORS. Saint's struggles in mental and religious difficulties. The Bach (J. S.). Orga11 Works. Edi(C(C] by J. Bridge and James Hi&tgs. 2 vols. oblong ·Ho. Term's meetings were concluded by an address given by the 0 -6' Rev Father Waggett, of the Society of St John the Evangelist, st!'g��ii \�� t j ;;�(,:�·�;;�·� "ii��j�-f �;:. ti;�"();.'g�t�·.. Miss Kearney. Cowley, which was warmly received by the Society and 2nd Edt!ton. oblong 4to. Lond. N.D...... visitors, who showed their appreciation of him by turning up Cooper (G.). Organ arrangements ...... Smart (H.). Original Compositions for the OrganF.1 in somewhat larger numbers than at any previous meeting and several oi/Je1·s 011 111"1/Sic. this Term. The following is the list of papers, etc. : Goode (W.). The Nature of Christ's Presencel Nov. 5th. "The 'Confessions ' of St Augustine," by Rev J. C. H. Hiv, in lhe Eucharist. 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1856. M.A., Trinity College, in R F. Donne's Rooms. --11.31.78,79 ...... Nov. 12th. "The Old Testament in lhe New," by Rev A. H. McNei!e, The Divine Hule of Faith and Practice. D.D., Dean of Siclney Sussex College, in E. H. Smith's Rooms. 2 tt.���;s-77 �.� .• ��:���.�: ..... ���·. . .����: •. ����: 1: Nov. 19th. "Modern Criticism of the Old Testament," by Rev Canon *Wilkins (N. G.). Hopeful and optimistic Views, Foakes-Jackson, D.D., Dean of Jesus College, in H . Hattersley's Rooms. W. old and new, for every day in the year. With •· Nov. 28th. Advent Sunday, Corporate Communion. addenda. Privately pri11tcd. 16mo. 1908-9. Dec. 3rd. "Some helps to Heligious Stability," by Rev. P. N. \Vaggett, 11.11.63,64 ...... M.A., St Anselm's House, in R. H. A. Cotton's Rooms. Uffenbach (Z. C. von). Herrn Z. C. von Uffen­ bach merkwlirclige Reisen durch Niedersach­ New Subscribers to Eagle Magnziue, com11TCIICiug with No. ISO. sen, Holland unci Engelland. 3 Thle. 8vo. 1 - ...... Acton, H. Douglas, W. E. Leakey, H. N. Ulm, 753 4 C.12.14-16 1 Adams, J. B. P. Ennos, F. R Levy, S. I. Meyrick (Rev. F.). An Appeal from the 20th Professor Mayor_ Andrews, J. C. Garcliner, K. J. R. Lloyd, H. M. Century to the 16th and 17th Centuries ; or, Antia, M. J. Gleave, J. \Al. Lord, G. F. the Faith and Practice of the two first cen- Applewhaite, C. T. Gregory, A. R. McAulay, F. W. turies of the Reformed Anglican Church. 8vo. Armitage, B. F. GriHiths, H. P. Maclay, E. Loncl. 1905. 11.17.59 ...... Averill, T. H. Grigg, P. J. McMullen, W. A. Quintilian. De Institutione Oratoria libri duo­ Banister, T. R Guillebaud, C. W. Mason, E. Vv . decim. Recens. et Annotatione explanavil Beard, E. C. Guillebaud, vV. H. Pollard, \V. M. N. G. L. Spalding. Vol. 1-V. 8vo. Lipsiae, Belgrave, vV . N. C. Grail, C. G. 1 798-1829. 7.22.58-63 ...... Ihffle, v.r. -- . Bellman, A. F. Halliwell, \V. N. l�aven, E. E. Lexicon Quintilianeum. Ecliclit E. Bonnel- . . Bevan, G. T. M. Hanson, J. Reece, F. B. lus. 8vo. Lipsiae, 183-+ 7.22.63...... Bush, RE. Haslam, R. K. Hees, H. L. British Academy, Proceedings 1903-190-+. roy.. Cavalier, F. B. Hedgecock, A. T. l�owell, A. H. 8vo. Lone!. 1905. 4.28.2 ...... Challerji, A. K. Henry, \V. D. 1\I. St John, F. Fletcher (H.). The AB - Z of our own Nutrition. Cheetham, F. P. Higgins, F. E. Sears, S. E. 8vo. Lond. 1905. 3.47.42 ...... Clarke, R S. Holden, N. V. Shepherd, E. H. John Rylands Library, Manchester. Catalogue Clow, A. G. Hunter, J. B. Smith, C. F. of an Exhibition of the V.Torks of Dante Cole, J. H. James, R. \V. Sluart, H. Alighieri, shown in tl;le main Library from Coles, V. J. H. Jopson, N. B. Turner,W. L. March to October, 1909. 8vo. Lone!. 1909... . . -- T he Ltbranan of t I 1e Cushing, v.r. E. 'N. Kiclcl, F. Twentyman, D. C. T. -- Catalogue of an Exhibition of original J hn Hylancls Ltbrary Darlington, W. A. C. Kirk, J. H. Vale, H. E. T. Editions of the principal \<\forks of John o Davis, H. Laidlaw, W. S. ·waters, K. S. Milton, arranged in Ct:lebration of the Ter- centenary of his birth. 8vo. Lone!. 1908 ...... } 13S OuY Chronicle.

TI-IEOLOGICAl.. SOCIETY. Presidwt-R. F. E.v-Prcsident in 1'esitlc11cc-Mr Ho11. Ho11. Treas.-E. J. ColltJIIittec-B.

THE LIBRARY. The Society has been fortunate this Term in hearing some very interesting papers. Four meetings were held, two of * Tlie asterisk denotes past or preseut Members of the CorTege. which were given to Old Testament study. Dr McNeile's Donne. Hart. Donations and Additions to the Library during Quarle;; Scc.-R.kindness H. inA. readingCotton. us a paper wasToase. appreciated, and DrR. Streeten,Foakes-Jackson's H. \V. Todcl. cautious method in dealing with Old Testa· ending Midsummer, 1909. ment criticism is clecicleclly advantageous to some minds in these clays. Mr How read a paper on tt The t Confessions,. Dorra lions. DONORS. of St Augustine," which sketched vividly and clearly the Saint's struggles in mental and religious difficulties. The S.). 2 J. Term's meetings were concluded by an address given by the 1 -6 Rev Father Waggett, of the Society of St John the Evangelist, i�f ·i;;�i�:�·�;;�·�··B�·�i�-i��:· ii;�··o�·g��;� Cowley, which was warmly received by the Society and N.D...... visitors, who showed their appreciation of him by turning up arrangements ...... in somewhat larger numbers than at any previous meeting Bach (J. Orga11 Works. Edited by F.l and several ot/Jers 011 music. this Term. The following is the list of papers, etc. : Bridge(W.). and James Hi�orgs. vols. oblong 4lo. St Augustine," vols. 1856. st!;��ii iss Kearney. 11 1 9 ...... M R 2nd Ecltbon. oblong 4to. Lone!. Cooper (G.). Organ .. . . Smart (H.). Original Compositions for the Organ t 2�.�.. �.������: ... �.��·. . �.���:. ����: J: Goode The Nature of Christ's Presenc� W. •· Nov. 5th. "The 'Confessions' of by Rev J. C. H. How, in the Eucharist. 2 8vo. Lone!. Privately priutcd. M.A., Trinity College, in F. Donne's Rooms. .3 .78,7 ... . 11.11.63,64 ...... -- The Divine Rule of Faith and Practice. Nov. 12th. "The Old Testament in the New," by Rev A. H. McNeile, (Z. Z. D.D., Dean of Siclney Sussex College, in E. H. Smith's Rooms. 1.���;5-77 .. . .. Nov.New 19th. Subscribers "Modern to Criticism Eagle Magazit1e, of the Old C0'/1111/CIICiug Testament," with by No. Rev Canon *V..'ilkins (N. G.). Hopeful and optimistic Views, Foakes-Jackson, D.D., Dean of Jesus College, in H. Haltersley's Rooms. C.12.14 16 ...... \ vV. old and new, for every- clay in the year. Vlith J. B. Nov. 28th. Advent Sunday, CorporateR Communion. aclclencla. 16mo. 1908-9. Garcliner, J. M. ; Dec. 3rcl. "Some helps to Heligious Stability," by Rev. P. N. \Vaggett, ...... M. J. W. F. M.A., St Anselm's House, in R. H. A. Cotton's Rooms. Uffenbach C. von). Herrn C. von Uffen­ A. R. W. bacb merlnvlirclige Reisen clurch Nieclersach­ B. .. F. P. 150. sen, Holland unci Engellancl. 3 Thle. 8vo. Grigg, J. McMullen, W. A. Acton, H. Douglas, E. Leakey, H. N. Ulm, 1753-4...... R W. essor M ayol!'. Aclams, P. Ennos, F. Levy, S. I. Meyrick (Rev. F.). An Appeal from the 20th Prof C. W. W. M. Andrews, J. C. K. R. Lloycl, H. Century to the 16th and 17th Centuries or, vV. W...... Antia, Gleave, J. Lord, G. the Faith and Practice of the two first cen­ Applewhaite, C. T. Gregory, McAulay, F. turies of the Reformed Anglican Church. 8vo. T. M. Hanson, F. B...... Armitage, Griffilhs, H. Lone!. 1905. 11.17.59...... R K. Maclay, E. Averill, T. H. P. Quintilian. De Institutione Oratoria libri cluo­ Cavalil.!r, F. B. A. H...... Banisler, T. Guillebaucl, C. Mason, E. \V. decim. Recens. et Annotatione explanavit Challcrji, A. Henry, M. F. (H.). .rlB- Z Beard, E. Guillebaucl, H. G. L. Spalding. Vol. I-V. 8vo. Lipsiae, F. F. Pollard, N. . Belgrave, 1798-1829. 7.22.58-63 ...... R N. C. Grail, C. G. Raffle, -- Lexicon Quintilianeum. Ecliclit E. Bonnel- Bellman,A. G.A. F. Hunter,Halliwell, J. \V. N. Raven, E. E. B. Smith, lus. Svo. Lipsiae, 183-1. 7.22.63 . . . . Bevan,J. G. J. Reece, R \•V. British Academy, Proceedings 1903-190+. roy. Bush, RE. Haslam, Rees, H.W. L. 1 0 8vo. . Heclgecock, T. Svo. Lone!. 1905. 4.28.2 ...... v..r. v..r. F. Howell, A. W.K. \V. D. St John, Fletcher The of our own Nutrition. Ltbrary Cheelham, P. Higgins, E. 8vo. Lone!. 1905. 3.47.-12...... H. W. Sears, S. E.S. Clarke, S. Holden, N. V. Shepherd, E. H. John Rylancls Library, Manchester.8vo. Catalogue Clow, C. F. of an Exhibition of the V..Torks of Dante} Cole, H. James, Stuart, H. Alighieri, shown in the main Library from Coles, V. J. H. Jopson, N. B. Turner, L. March to October, 9 9. Lone!. 1909... . The Ltbranan of the Cushing, E. Kicld, Twentyman, D. C. T. -- -- Catalogue of an Exhibition of original E ition N' John Rylands Darlington, A. C. Kirk, J. H. Vale, H. E. T. d s of the principal \ orks of John Davis, Laidlaw, S. vValers, K. Mt](on, arranged in Celebration of the Ter- centenary of his birth. Lone!. 1908 ...... 140 The Library. The Library. Hl DOXORS. Rislroj> of St. Asaj>/1. Private ought E on S.l R. by 8vo. II. and viti u .

········· ··· ············· ········· ··················· Monceaux (P.). of Persons wl1o have died 8vo. V IV. Su p em Vol. 1.) Theophrastus. Characters. An English Trans­ Th s upon Religion. . "'Beveridge (\Vm.), lation from a revised Text, wilh Introduction Schanz Romischcn \ 9th diti . 8vo. Lone!. 1719. 0.22. and Notes by C. Jebb. A new Edition D · A. E. Brooke and N. Bible. The Old Testament in Greek. Edited by to Juv vo. edited J. E. Sanclys*. Loncl. 1909. Part Exodus Le c s 4to. Camb. 1909. 9.1. llfcLean.Oxford, 7.18.64 ' many Thousand I. Boase (F.). Modern English BiographyIV. 8vo. containingLoncl. Les Africains: Elude sur la Years 1851- viii). 8vo. concise Ml'moirs during the Litterature Latine d'Afrique. Les Paiens. 1900. ol. ( p l ent A-C. roy. tlvo. Truro, 1908...... I. Svo. o . Paris, 1894. 7.49.25 ...... 11.20.40. R. Catalogue de XIX. (M.). Geschichte cler Littera- (A. C.). Oxford Lectures on Poetry. 8vo. Lond. 1909. 4.30.12. r Sanclys. Braclley Ia o z y 8vo. lur bis zum Gesetzgebungswerk des Kaisers (H. E.). Posl-Augustan Poetry from Seneca enal. 8 by J. E. Sanclys*. Svo. Butler Lo d Burglilcy. I. o ogr p By Justinian. (Hand. der Klass. Alterturns­ 1909. 7.29.6. . Rev. II. Cecils. J. "'issenschaft. Herausg. von. Dr. von } Cambridge Natural History. Vol. 1909. 3.26. Gotch. Part Ill. Portraits of By MUller. Band Miinchen, 1890-2 r. Society. Diocesis Hereforclensis, Registrum Ricardi Society. 8vo. Loncl. CanterburyIV. and York of C. Fox­ 7.46.2 } de Swinfield. Pars. L nd 1909. u o Davies. 4to. Aristotle. Rhetoric. A translation by Sir C. of general la Librairie Franc;:aise. Tome (1900-1905). Education for June 11 "'Churchill (C.). 8vo. Loncl. Jebb. Edited with an Introduction and with 1 10 · Vol. I. Fasc. 1. r t ky-L an. Paris,Lalinorum. 1909. Vol. LII. supplementary Notes } "'Cecil (William), r Part Historical M n a h. C. Moo M. Camb. 1909. 7.18.65...... (Sect. VII. By A. of U ive of A. Jessopp�. 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Edgar Alien Library, 26 April 1909. 4to. 1 1909. 12.2. IV. V.) O i in l by Camb. 1909. 14.6.4...... Early En.glish T e Non-Cycle Mystery Plays, together · Memoir. *Bateso� (Prof. W.). Principles of The Author. with the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and the Pride L . Re­ i��� ��� �::.... �.��: .��.���:� . �.�� ... �.��1.�: E. Hered1ty. 8vo. Camb. 1909. 3.-+3.38...... Part VI. o of } edited by \Vaterhouse. Lond. 1909. h r· *Tanner (J. R.). A descriptive the u -- The Tale h a r lo. e merry Adventure Igneous Rocks. 8vo. (R. Svo. Naval 1\Ianuscript in the Pepysian Library at } of the Pardoner wilh a Tapster at Ca er r . by F. Revel (P. C.). u of Vol. VII. Magdalene College, Cambridge. Vol. Ill. Stone. \Vith an English Abstract of the French Tl1e C ompi er. and G. 8vo. Admiralty Letters (Vols. and (Navy u o 8vo. Lone!. 1909. SUIVI cl un r (Rev.g a \V. A. CI011Ston. t o c rd c t 8vo. · Egypt Exploration Fund. 29th The Temple of Deir El Bahari. . . 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