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Schanz (Dr. Georg). Englische Handelspolitik. 2 Vols. r88r. Ww. 3b. 8"0. Leipzig, . Scotland. The Exchequer Rolls of. Vol. IX. Addenda, r437-r487. Edited by George Burnett. 8vo. Edinburgh, r886. Yy. 32.9. Series Episcoporum Ecclesile Catholicle. Ed. Gams. 4to. Ratisbonle, r886. Z. [5.8. r873- Supplementum Aristotelicum. Vol. I. (Aristophanes. 8vo. Berolini, Priscianus Lydus). r885-86. Zz. [3. Tyery (Nicholas.). Proposals to Hemy VIII for by an Irish Coinage. Edited G. O. White-Cooper and F. J. H. Jenkinson. 8vo. Cambridge Anti_ quarian Society, [886. Van der Waals (Dr. J. D.). Die Continuitiit des gasformigen und fliissigen Zustandes. Ed. Dr. Friedrich Roth. 8vo. Leipzig, r88r. Vergilius Grammaticus. Xx. 28.24. Edited by J. Huerner. Teubner Text. 8vo. Lipsile, r886. Ii. H. FOUNDERS AND BENEFACTORS OF Words worth (William). Poetical Words of. Edited LL.D. by William Knight, ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 8 Vols. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1882-r886. Wyclif X.30.16-23. (John). Tractatus de benedicta Incarnacione. Edited by Harris. Wyclif Society. Edwa�d 8vo. Lond. 1886. Y. r6.6. 290.) Year Books of the (Continued from Vol. XIV. page Reign of King Edward Ill. Edited Years XIII. and XIV. and Translated by L. O. Pike. 8vo. Lond. 1886. Rolls Zeller (Dr. Series. Edward). Plato and Yy. the Older Academy. Translated Alieyne and A. Goodwin. by S. F. 8vo. Lond. 1876. Ww. MES of depression are fruitful in changes, - The 29.33. Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics. Translated by C. Reich.el. sometimes in important reforms. And the 8vo. Lond. 1880. Ww. 29.34. J. -- A History of Greek Philosophy from the earliest period to the middle of last century was a time of great of Socrates. 2 Vols. Translated time by S.F. Alieyne. 8vo. Ww. 29.35 and 36. Lond. 1881. depression in the College. The number of entries, - A History of Eclecticism in Greek Philosophy. Alieyne. Translated by S. F. which had long been declining, reached the lowest 8vo. Lond. 1883. Ww. 29.37. - Socrates and the Socratic Schools. Translated limit of which we have any record. To what extent Lond. by O.J. Reichel. 8vo. 1884. Ww. 29.38. this condition of affairs contributed to the changes that ensued, and to the events which characterised the history of the College in the latter half of the century, is not always obvious, but the sequence deserves notice. No additional buildings were erected, but some of [A list of the very valuable but little-known collection of early the old ones were defaced. Had fu nds permitted editions of lthe classics in the possession of the College is presented with this most of our red brick walls were to have been number as a supplement.] Italianised, like the S. side of the First Court. The relations between Tutor and pupil entered Upon a new phase. Hitherto all, or nearly all, the Fellows had received pupils, who were fo r the most part 'pensioned ' upon them, living with them in the same chambers. The introduction of the modern system led to the greater independence of the pupil, his fu rt.her separation from his Tutor, and the withdrawal from the bulk of the Fellows of personal responsibility and care, which was henceforth concentrated upon two or three of the more prominent members of the Body. VOL. XIV. zz 346 Founders and Benifactors of St. Jo lm's Oolle.qe. Foundel's and Benefactors of St. Jo hn's Oollege. 347 In connexion with the foregoing changes we the letting t RICHARD HOLMES, of Lowther, clerk, gave in 173S of second floor rooms by a separate tenancy £ 100 fo r a poor scholar. from those immediately below them, and the constructio The son of Jas. Holmes, he was educated at Sedbergh, admitted here, n of independent access to those of the First Court. :et. 16, in June, 1672, as a sizar, B.A. 1675, M.A. 1679. We have been unable to discover The Benefaction belongs to Sedbergh School, a\ldthe Scholar who enjoyed precisely when the requisite structural alterations were it was formerly obliged to come to St. John's, bnt that condition has been made. since removed. They may have been part of that large plan of Dr. Powell's, now so universally condemned because its prominent tFELICIA JONES in 1738 founded an Exhibition of fe atures are the stone fa cing, sash windows, £16 per an num. and other incongruities of the First Court. Dr. Powell In accordance with the will of her late husband, Robert Jones, of Gray's instituted at St. John's a system of regular College Inn, she left a rent of £16 per an. upon her estate at Langdon-upon-Tern in Examinations, which he strenuously Shropshire in trust to their kinsman, Ed. Green, of the Middle Temple, to urged, and long urged in vain, the rest of the choose a scholar of some school in Shropshire, giving preference to their University to adopt. kindred. He appointed John Lloyd, of Shrewsbury School, in 1739, and The Benefactions of this period Samuel Dickenson, of Newport School, in 1752• were few. Robert Jones' will is dated Dec. 1730: his widow's Jan. 1731. One, t ROBERT Robert Jones, son of Thos. J., attorney, of Wellington, Salop, was admitted '/> LAMBERT, D.D., left the College £ 300, and such here, May 20, r681, ret. r6. of his books as were wanting in the Library. His legacy of £300 was added to the fund for the purchase of Advowsons. tTHOMAS BAKER, B.D., ejected Fellow, who died He also left £roo to the University. The son 01 the Rev. Josh. Lambert, in 1740, bequeathed to the Library a valuable collection also of this College, he was born at Beverley and educated at the Grammar School there, of which his father was of books. Master; admitted here 2 r Ap. r693, ret. r6, he was elected scholar the same His family history has been already given in the Note on his elder brother, year and Fellow in r699. Besides lecturing at different times in Greek, George Baker. He was elected Scholar in 16i6, and Ashton Fellow in Hebrew, Mathematics and Divinity, he was 13 years Dean and 7 years 1680. For a short time he was Hebrew Lecturer, but otherwise does not Bursar before being elected Master. Perhaps it is to him we owe the a ppear to have taken an active part in College work. He was pre-eminently arrallgement of the List of Benefactors in three divisions. He made the copy a scholar and a student, his time and energies being devoted mainly to now in the Bursar's cnstody, which, with another made from it in r838, was historical and antiq uarian research. We have seen that he declined used in the terminal Commemoration Services untilr860. He seems to have Bp. Watson's offer to make him his private Chaplain. He is said to have been most painstaking in his attention to all departments of College business. done this in anticipation of a similar ofTer from the Bp. of Durham, which His beautiful handwriting may be seen in numerous papers, and in marginal came to him and was accepted shortly after. The Bp. also gave him the notes on others' MSS in the College Treasury. living of Long Newton, near Durham, in 1687. The year following he During the short period, less than 8 years, of his Mastership he was twice incurred his patron's displeasure by refusing to read King James' declaration Vice-Chancellor. On the second occasion, 1729, he gained the office only by of Liberty of Conscience. Two years later he resigned his living rather than one vote, 84 against 83· His opponent, Dr. Mawson, of Corpns, 'stood in take oaths to "Villiam and Mary, and returned to College and to literary the Liberal interest and got a Bishopric (Llandafl), Dr. Lambert got work. He was ejected from his Fellowship in 1716 for refusing the new nothing ' except the honour the Tories obtained for him of having a public oaths to George I. He was still permitted to reside in College, yet, although commencement during his year of office. Dr. Lambert died suddenly, treated with great consideration by the authorities and almost idolised by the 24 Jan. 1734-5, and was buried in the College Chapel. There is a half­ COllege, he never overcame altogether the feeling of resentment at what he length portrait of him in the Lodge. deemed the wrong done to him, and used ever afterwards to append to his na • The mark (t) me the title 'socius ejectus.' The MSS which he left behind as a is prefixed to some names to indicate that they have not storehouse of information for hi5torians and antiquarians fillforty volnmes, of bem of late years it,cluded in the list read at the Amwal Cotnmemoration w on May 6. hich twenty-three are in the Btitish Museum and the remainder in the University Library. The first volume, containing a History of St. John'S, is 348 Founders and Benefactors qf St. Jolm's Oollege. Founde1's and Benefactors of St. Jo hn's Oollege. 349 the only one drawn up for pUblication. It copious has been carefully edited notes and additions with. patron, the Duke of Newcastle, sometime Chancellor of the University. by Prof. Mayor. bis Index to A complete Catalogue the other volumes and JIe did succeed in obtaining in 1744, in addition to his Mastership and has been printed. So Mr. Baker numerous were the bequeathed books ofessorship, the Deanery of Rochester. He also held the living of Offord to the Library tha t Pr to receive the smaller cases had them, to be raised ny. Cole admits that he was a painstaking Professor. That office was only two nearest the Clu placed, door, on which tlle catalogues remain to show are ometimes considered a valuable sinecure, but Dr. N ewcome, during the the original lleight of s of the the others. The value books is enhanced of many early years of his tenure at least, had much to do on account of the failing by the frequent annotations what p in his clear and some. Professor, Dr. Rd. Bentley. eculiar handwriting. strength of the Regius Baker died During Dr. Newcomc's mastership the admissions to tlle College reached in his rooms in College, 2 July 1740, aged probably the last 84. He was lowest limit of which we have any record. To estimate the proper survivor of tbe non-juring Fellows. the College He was buried Chapel near the in tlle significance of this fact it would be necessalY to compare the records of other monument of his patron, him llas Mr. Ashton. A statue been placed in one of Colleges, and to examine the state of the Church and of the country of the niches on the Chapel. North side of the His arms are represented New generally. The most ruinous influences in this respect are wars and home in the W. and window of the lower in a window in Library disorders. And when a College continues long the field of active political tlle Hall, and tllere are portraits of the Hall and the him in the Lodge, Combination Room. partisanship its proper work must necessarily suffer. The decline in numbers was continued, not begun, under Dr. Newcome. After the Restoration tllC JOHN NEWCOME, D.D., enc:ies averaged about 70. During Dr. Gower's Mastership they sank to 50, 27th Master, and Dean of Rochester, and for a short period after the Revolution they barely reached 40. The who died in 1765, fo un ded two exhi­ numbers became 53 under Dr. Jenkin, 44 under Dr. Lambert, 36 under bitions and an annual prize for Moral Dr. Newcome, being frequently below 30 during Dr. N's later years. A gave above Philosophy, 60 rare books dearth of benefactions is also noticeable about this time. Dr. Newcome's to the Library, and bequeathed the own bequests were considerable. The Vicarage of Minting, with the advowson of Minting in J. N. Lincolnshire. impropriate Rectory attached to it, he left to the College after his death. He was born 1683, the son of a baker, at at the Grantham, Lincs., seems to have appointed to it Andrew Alvis, who held it with his Free Grammar School educated himself there, admitted a Sizar 1700, Ij04-5, Fellow 1707. was 4th Wrangler Fellowship uutil he accepted Gt. Snoring in 1762. He next appointed He lectured in College, several chiefly in Mathematics. years he was For Ed. Beadon, the Vicar of Higham, who died in 18Il, when the first College Sacrist. When Dr. candidates Jenkin died be was Cambridge to for the Mastership. one of five Incumbent was appointed. Dr. N. left a house in found The issue really and lay between Dr. the Moral Philosophy Prize, and an estate, 'his interest in the impropriate Dr. Baker. The decision Lambert llad ultimately to Dr. Baker, be made by the Seniors. Rectory of Bourn,' charged with the payment of two Exhibitions of £20 counting upon Newcome's vote, believed Newcome, his election secure. per an. to scholars from Grantham School. He also left £500 to the however, voted tlle other way, and Dr. Dr. Jenkin Lambert was elected. University Library, and a collection of 700 books to form a Library at had been Lady Margaret Professor, and a candidate Dr. Lambert not being Grantham. for the office, Dr. Newcome was elected. He married and went shortly afterwards Dr. N. died at his Lodge, Jan. 10, 1765, and was buried in the to reside in the town, takin2' Ms Boards. After name off the College Collcge Chapel, where his tombstone and epitaph may be seen. There is Dr. Lambert's short prefecture a remarkable for the Mastership. contest ensued of him in the Lodge. The principal a portrait candidates were Williams, the President, Ph. who was also Public Orator and Rector Parnham, of Starston, and Caleb SAMUEL POWELL, D.D., 28th Master, gave the Dean. Both were WILLIAM Tutors of great inlluence. 15 votes each, 8 They obtained other Fellows, afterwards in 177 4 £ 500 towards the alterations in the South known as SUpporting Dr. the flying squadron, Newcome. For some time neither party side of the First Court. yield. At seemed disposed to last Williams retired in favour of retired, Newcome; Parnham and educated at Colchester, and although an effort also W. S. P., son of Rev. Fras. P., was born was made to keep forward L. out Newcome by In 1741 he became Chappelow, nephew bringing admitted here 1734, elected scholar 1735, Fellow 1740. of the latc Master, Rector Professor of Arabic of the of Hormead, N ewc and Tutor to the Hon. Chas. Townshend, afterwards Chancellor ome was elected a strong by 20 votes to 17. and Whig, and, the N ewcome was Exchequer, whose father presented him to the Rectories of Colkirk Fellows being mainly Tories, he found some time one of consider�ble his office for Stibbard. Next year he returned �o College, where he was made Lecturer, difficulty. Cole, the llated Newcome's historian, and others who Ex In 1761 he went to reside in town, politics, have aminer and soon Principal Tutor. no scruple in charging duplicity, time-serving him with the grossest and his Fellowship. Nevertheless, ori Dr. and cUnning. the year following quitted They report him ambitious of to have been most Newco he was unanimously elected to succeed him as Master. being raised to the me's death, Episcopal Bench through the influence of Thenceforth he devoted himself with all the energy of his nature to the 350 Founders and Benef act01's ofSe. Jolm's College. Founders and Bene/actors of St. John's College. 351 welfare of the College. He vacated his Norfolk Rectory living to accept the t JOHN GREEN, Bp. of Lincoln, bequeathed £ 100, of of Freshwater, and in Ii66 was made Archdeacon of Colchester In addition to these . h £ 50 was to be spent in books, and founded emolnments he had recently inherited whic Essex. Being an estate in a hachelor of regular habits and simple tastes he was able an exhibition. to use his wealth to the honour of the College in the princely fulfilling. public manner of The exhibition was for a scholar of Beverley School, to be tenable either duties and privately in aiding scholars. studious and indigent at St. John's or Corpus C. CoIl. His influence soon became paramount throughout the College J. G. was born and educated at Beverley, admitted in T724, ret. 17, elected In most respects it . was admirably exerted. Soon after entering upon the scholar the same year and Fellow in 173 I. He was a Liberal in politics, and Mastership he instituted the periodical College Examinations, which of the squadron who supported Dr. Newcome. On tile second now universal, but are one flying which for a long time gave a name the College. Numerous records and reputation to election however Green unaccountably turned round and voted for Prof. in the Treasury shew how carefully he Chappelow. He was for several years Bursar, holding that office at the same examined, and sought to make improvements in, all departments of College e he held the livings of Hinxton and Burrough Green. In 1749 he was business. The Bursar's accounts, tim as for example, had been kept on afterwards the College plan almost from the same appointed Regius Professor of Divinity. Shortly the foundation of the College. antiquated The system Was presented him to the Rectory of Barrow, in Suffolk. The circumstances and often delusive. It was completely methodical changed, and a more connected with this presentation are remarkable. According to the will of andJintelligible one introduced. Unfortunately the undertaking was to be offered to the Senior with wllich his Mr. John Boughton, the donor, tile living memory is most closely associated condemned. will be generally Divine being a Fellow. The College first offered it to Michael BUl"ton, B.D. It is tp his influence and generosity formation that we owe the trans­ Thereupon Dr. Rutherforth appealed to tile Visitor, claiming that the donor's of the South side of the First Court. It is little consolation him precedence over Burton on account of his D .D. degree. The know that other Colleges to will gave likewise suffered from the Italianising prevailing fashion for Visitor decided in his favour. Then Green, wbo was intermediate to the our architecture, and from the popularity of the designs of other two in standing, and though Regius Professor was only a B.D., Mr. Essex. Even some who objected to the alterations of they disliked did so not because appealed to the Court of Chancery. The Court decided that the ruling the plans themselves as on account of the cost, and from the Visitor was null and void, his intervention not being in respect to any fear that the improved appearance of one part of the building would part of the College Statutes, but in respect to a clause in a will which the disgrace the rest. The original architecture, which corresponded E. side, with the Visitor interpreted to be contrary to Statute. The Court declined to interpret was hidden under a facing of stone, and destroyed by the introduction the clause in the will. The ,,,hole proceedings produced the singular result of sash windows, &c. The second-floor rooms were improved by that the clause remained uninterpreted, and the living was given walls, as may be raising the controverted seen by a glance at tile new courses of brick-work, visible in to one who was not the senior Divine either in standing or in degree. Burton the back lane. Walls ,vith fireplaces were carried through the middle was aftenvards presented to Staplehurst. Rutherforth went to Rrinldey, and building, and all the arrangements of the of the rooms completely changed. afterwards succeeded Green Regius Professor. Although Rutherforth of funds hap,pilyprevented Lack as further extension of the mischief. gave that he would reside at Brinldey, he held Dr. Powell a bond of £50 to the College died, Jan. 19, 1775, and, on the anniversary of his election to that living witb his Professorship and with the living of Somersham, which the Mastership, was buried ill tile Chapel, where his tombstone is attached to the Professorship. may still be seen. and epitaph Dr. Green was rapidly promoted. He became Master of Corpus in 1750, Dean of Lincoln, with a Canonry added, in 1756; Bp. of Lincoln in 1761. He resigned his Mastership in 1764. In 1771 he was appointed to a Canonry tGEORGE OSBALDISTON, Esq., M.A., gave £ 300. at St. Paul's, which he was allowed to hold with his Bishopric on account of His Father, the smallness of the revenues of that see. He was remarkable as the only the Rev. John Wickins, Fellow 1731 to 1743, was one of the Bishop who, in 1772, voted for the Bill for the Relief of Dissenters. He flying squadron who brought forward Dr. Newcome for die where the He became Rector the Mastership. d at Bath, 25 Ap. 1779, and was bmied at Buckden, Hunts., of Petworth, Sussex, and married Bp. Philadelphia, niece of Bps. of Lincoln had a palace, and where there is a monument to his memory· Osbaldiston, of Carlisle and London, and Fountayne Wentwort There is at Corpus a small likeness of him in wax. Osbaldiston, M.P. for h Scarborough, &c. Many of of the College, besides this family were members Besides the scholarship above mentioned Bp. Gt'een left other bequests to those above mentioned. On the death of F. W. the town School of Beverley. To Corpus he bequeathed a in 1770, the estates devolved 0., and Grammar upon Geo. Wickins, who College had just entered tbe considerable estate, upon which is charged the cost of the six silver cups as a pensioner. He took the name of Osbaldiston, and re-entered as which annually in that College for liuccess in the College and a Fellow Commoner are given 3 July 1770. In 1773 he proceeded for regias. M.A. per literas University Examinations. To St. John's he gave a pair of silver sconces the Combination Room, and in conjunction with Dr. Heberden, another of 352 Founders and Benifact01's of St. John's College. Founders and Benefactors of St. John's College, 353 the jly£ng squadron, a silver in1{stand; and bequeathed died at the age stated. £100 as El worth Hall. There he led a secluded life. His only son seems to have held no communications with his brothers and His arms f 2. He are in the great window of the Library. o 2 disorder and incapable sisters. In continual ill health, sufferingfrom a painful the active duties of his profession, he brooded over the infidelity and JOHN TAYLOR, D.D., of the scheme Rector of Staplehurst, atheism of the age, and conceived and elaborated in his solitude sometime ever be associated in the' University, of devoting Fellow, bequeathed £700 in 1784. with which his name will The son of Robt. wealth to promote Essays, Sermons, and Lectures to counteract the T. , of Cockram, near Lancaster, he was educated his Sedbergh, and entered the at s he deplored. His will, an extraordinary document of 400 pages, College June 9, 1724, ret. 17. evil Fellow He was B.A. 1727, his later years. He did not neglect 1729, Senior 1747, University Librarian occupied much of his attention during for some years 1731 to 1734. He was also himself, the survivors were childless, and to them and Senior Bursar, and was presented to Staplehurst his relations. Lilte There were two other Fellows in 1759, his favourite servants he left life interests in his property. Afterwards of the same name, one of whom was for ma to years contemporary with our benefactor. ny the bulk of it endowed the Hulsean Prize and the offices of Christian With the benefaction was purchased dvocate and Hulsean Lecturer. He wished the Hulsean Lectnrer to '£1000 in 3 per cent. bank A to be spent in beautifying the College annuities deliver twenty sermons annually, but, as this was found impracticable, the and carrying out the plan of the with the Master, Dr. Powell.' A later note, in late Court of Chancery reduced the number to eight. In connexion 'the Dr. Craven's handwriting, states that the curious condition £1100 reduced annuities of Mr. Osbaldiston's appointments of Advocate and Lecturer he imposed donations and and Dr. Gisborne's to either office should neglect or not discharge his the £1000, 3 per cents. of Dr. Taylor's that if the person chosen 4 per cents. were invested in the his salary for that year, which should in and make the chief part of the Capital of duties satisfactorily he shonld forfeit this and an order in the Conclusion £2338 16s. 7d.' From that case be equally divided between the six senior Fellows of St. John's. book, 22 Jan. 1776, with Mr. Osbaldiston's benefaction, reference to St. John's he left, after the death of his brothers, £30 each to two we conclude that after the abandonment To Dr. Powell's scheme, the funds left of Scholarships. for beautifying the College were allowed was buried at to accnmulate to form a building fund. Mr Hulse died Dec. 14, 1790, at the age of 82, and Dr. Taylor died, Dec. 30, 1784. His will was made Middlewich. May 8, 1784. Much of the above information is taken from the Preface to Dr. Par- JOHN HULSE kinson's firstseries of Hulsean Lectures. left stipends fo r two Scholars. J. H. was born 15 M'arch THOMAS GISBORNE, M.D., President of the Royal nineteen children. In his childhood he suffered grievous neglect, Senior Fellow, gave is ascribed much of the feebleness to which College of Physicians of London, of his physical and mental constitution after life. When his Grandfather in £400 and bequeathed many books to the Library. 1708, at Middlewich, learnt how he was treated he took Cheshire, the eldest of to reside with him at Elworth Hall, sent him of Staveley, Derbs., he was admitted adjacent him to the Grammar School at the The son of the Rev. Jas. G., town of COllgleton, thence removed M.A. M.D. 1751. He held a brought him to Stockport, and eventually June 28, 1744, ret. 18, B.A. 1747, liSo, him to St. John's in Sept. death in 1806. obtained 1724. Here he was Ashton Scholar, Beresford Fellowship from 1753 until his a prize in College for a Latin Ode, Royal and Astronomical Societies, and Physician in the first and graduated as IIth Wrangler He was Fellow of the Tripos in 1728-9. to the King and Royal Family. He was most unhappy First in his home relationships. He gave £400 during his lifetime towards the alterations in tile married, the whole of the When his parents London all family estates at Elworth, Clive, Court. By his will, dated 8 Feb. 18°4, he left· of his Books in together with his mother's and Bradwall, to the dowry, a share in a salt-mine worth from such as shall be deemed in the opinion of Dr. Budd purely Medical to £20000, were settled upon £10000 the rest to the Library of succeeded his mother and ller eldest son. His father Library of the College of Physicians, London, all to the property shortly after our benefactor St. John's He possessed also many books at his house in Derby­ Very soon he entered tile College. College.' sent for his son and obtained his consent shire, and at both places collections of Prints, some bound together in the of the estate. Bnt when to the sale of part he sent to him a second time for the same purpose manner of books, others in portfolios, some loose, some with explanatory his son refused compliance. A ruptllre letter opinion being taken we were advised John had ensued, in consequence of which press, others without. Counsei's to support himself in College mainly that we had no claim to the boo1<.s in Derbyshire nor to prints, unless they Exhibitions. He did by his Scholarship and not proceed beyond the B.A. degree. was 'Were bound together as books and accompanied by letterpress. Some of ordained to a small curacy In 1732 he th be found in at Yoxall. He afterwards served cy of ose specifiedin tbe • opinion' as part of the bequest are not to Goostry near Sandbach until the cura the his father's death in 1753, ed Library. to the property, relinquished when he succeed active clerical work, and went to reside at liis arms have been placed in the great window of the Library. AA VOL. XIV. A 354 Fo under and s Benifactors of St. John's College.

JOHN M I A NWARING, Lady Margaret Professor Di of vinity, sometime Fellow, who died in I 807, bequeathed :£I 20 to purchase theological books. The son of Gilbert M., of Dray ton Manor, Staffs., he was Marlboroug educated at h Grammar School and at Tamworlh, and admitted June 5,1742, here ::et. 18. He graduated 1745, and was elected Fellow ColI. Preacher 1748, 1750, Senior 1768. In 1787 he accepted the Sinecure of Aberdaron. The Rectory year following he was appointed J.ady Margaret CAN EXPERIENCES. Professor. He was also AFRI presented by Lord Weym outh to the Rectory of Church Stretton, Salop. Professor Mainwaring was a man of great taste , and refjnement fond of painting, sculpture and music. " p The Rectory grounds at Church �lVE years ago the writer of the present aper the midst of b Stretton, in eautiful scenery, were much admired. Dr. Powell, the M formed one of a party of six missionaries sent as a token of his admiration aster� left the Professor £200 �' . beautifYing to be spent upon 1 the Church Missionary Society to them still further. \ out by The Professor was here he presents fo r accustomed to take his turn Eastern Equatorial Africa, and before regularly in preachi the University, although he drearled it b ng some of his experiences in eforehand on account of the readers of the Eagle asthma, and usually suffered his large afterwards from the effort. His audiences were land of laughter and oftears. and attentive, althoug that h his sermons were but His very imperfectly heard practice was to print them after their . Zanzibar was the point of departure for the interior, lleli He very died at Cambri ge, April followed by the d 1807, ::et. 72. and the route selected was that WILLIAM travellers Speke and Stanley on their fa mous journeys, WILSON, B.D., Rector of Moreton, Essex, Nyanza being the destination to which sometime Fellow, gave the Victoria :£200, the interest of which left Zanzibar in an Arab was to be paid we were proceeding. We to the best readers of in Chapel. the lessons dhow, which is not a very luxurious method of travelling by water, and after five or six hours' sail He was of Lancashire, a the SOl).o f ]oseph Wilson, Mercer, outfit consisted of Hawkshe d, admitted educated at we reached the mainland. Our 3 July 1770, B.A. 1774, M.A. 1777, Fellow 1777. 1796 he accepted Moreton, In beds, blankets, pots, pans, medicines, clothes, which he retained until tents, In 1817 he gave his death in 1822. £150, to which he added plates, knives, spoons, tinned £50 in 1821, to found boots, buckets, baths, Prizes. In two Reading accordance with 1\1:r. Wilson's wishes the money guns, &c., besides Zanzibar barter goods. and an order made was invested, provisions, that the interest sllOuld be employed in the either books to be given to t purchase of All these articles had to be carried by porters, he best readers of the Lessons. who ea regularity from their ge l and good conduct n r ngwana or natives from the are deserving of encouragement. coast-men called Wa In 1816 Mr. Wilson gave £100 amount to found a Declamation interior. The latter are hired with a certain jlead School, Prize at Hawks. where he was e ucat d ed. He was also a benefactor in dollars, at the rate of Moreton, and to the parisll . of cloth, the former are paid bequeathed £1300 to it. of about five dollars per month, together with their footpath, (To be continued). food. The road or track is a narrow beaten wide enough only fo r one to pass, and winding wonder­ A. F. TORRY. fully round every obstructibn on and on from camp to camp and from village to village u�til the desired destination is reached. The character of the scenery is varied enough, consisting of park-like and mountainous country, whil� rivers or rather rivulets swollen in 6 4frican Ex erl'ences. 357 35 Afr£can Expert'ences, p time of rain The emphasis which he chose to rushing torrents are met with at not to say uncalled for. intervals. ctive 'white ' was suggestive, to These with interminable scrubby fo rests to put on the adje and endless plains pretty well describe what you may say the least of it. expect have adventures with lions, to see on a journey in Africa. After a day's All African travellers waiting to have, so we were no we turned our backs upon the sea, our men or if they have not they ought in rule. Our leader, an Irish­ a long line took up their loads, and the tramp to exceptions to this salutary being in an African the Nyanza was begun. man, of course went behind, this onsibility, and honour. Varied were the adventures and amusing were some caravan the post of danger, resp of not a van, with curtained the incidents of the journey. For example, take CA caravan, by the way, is an by a hor<;e, but, as here attack of robbers-Scen�-African fo rest ; long line windows in the sides, drawn of their loads.) One night dusky figures moving slowly along hearing burdel1s used, a b')dy of porters with on their of the moon to heads ; fo ur or five white men walking fa r we six determined to take advantage on in leader was to follow with front. Suddenly from the forest emerge ei ght make a night march. Our we went, Brown, or nine robbers shaking their spears and gesticulating; the main body next morning ; so off robbers Smith led the way, I say, but possibly peaceable denizens of that Jones, and Robinson, with region. party brought up the However, Smith and Robinson and Jones and while the great hunter of the Brown an African fo rest decide that they are and must be robbers, rear with me. It is a weird place and that silence only broken by the if they are not they ought to be, and at night, with its awful must theref of cricket. The silver ore be summarily dealt with. Smith is ceaseless chirping of a kind carrying de it look like fairyland, a carbine ; so is Brown. Brown raises his moonlight on the trees ma weapon and shapes of awful wildly lets fly. Smith has his slung by and the dark shadows seemed like a strap the time by talking, and is just going to bring it into action monsters. We were beguiling when it of the fo rest was broken goes off of its own accord, and with no little when suddenly the silence then another, effect, fo r the bullet strikes Brown's carbine and makes by the ringing report of a rifle. and a neat "More robbers," we dent in the barrel. Robinson and J ones also and then quite a fu sillade. fire a soon came on the volley, and the fe rocious robbers fly and are thought, and rushing fo rward seen no more. little band shouting I had no part in this glorious victory, strangest of scenes. An excited so I can reground; in the back afford to speak lightly of it. Brown and gesticulating in the fo remarked in the branches of that as Soon as they saw" the white man" ground dark and gloomy trees, the robbers gloomy shapes. Were fled. When we reached our camp an d which were perched still more were at Our of the forest ? and were dinner of course the adventure was the they some dreadful goblins engrossing pale spectres from topic of conversation, and Brown again those others perched beside them ventured they there i Such ques­ the remark that the robbers fled as soon as another world? and why were they saw the soon have been answered white man. Now a man naturally turns tions had they arisen would a little paler growling of an angry lion on meeting the wild banditti of central by our hearing the prolonged Africa hty hunter seized his for the first time fa ce to fa ce, and therefore not many paces off. Our mig Robinson's reply- Jones, tightly grasping his " Yes, indeed they did see whtte gun and boldly advanced. man when a with his beloved leader. they saw you "-was perhaps a little severe, umbrella, followed to do or die 358 .African Expen·ences. African Experiences. 359 Simultaneously a fussy blankets porter took the mighty hunter like a nightmare. The pistol was mixed with by the coat-tails, imploring him not to risk his life. and would not disentangle itself. DE:rmot went 011 At the same time my and boy, black Bob Ridley, rushed to describe how vividly he had seen the brute, forward and wildly fired a random shot. A scene hoW large it was. Black boy Tom, who was sleeping of confusion followed-the mighty hunter had an outside, appeared at this juncture and told us that inward struggle ; but he would not risk his brethren's the monster in question, though not a leopard, was a lives, and so decided to leave the lord of the fo rest punda. I need not particularise and say what a punda to enjoy his supper in peace. Meanwhile the spectres is-however, on second thoughts I think I will descended from the tree in the fo rm of men. We translate the word, fo r that fellow Robinson will were about to resume our journey when Brown, who perhaps air his learning some day and say it was liked a joke and apparently wished to see Smith only a donkey that frightened us. We had a fe w of jump, bellowed in his ear" Smith, the lion !" I think these long·eared animals with us, and one had been I heard Smith murmuring something about Brown's taking a quiet walk round and had given us a look being a fo ol. After a while we sat down to rest at up. He was secured ; but some kind of a beast came a safe distance, and Jones, who did not know that up and munched and crunched bones outside the Robinson had been in the tree with Smith, began tent : what it was or what bones it was crunching to talk in a most shockingly flippant way about I never fo und out. I think from its quiet and annoying Smith's getting up the tree to escape the lion ; p-ersistency it must have been a cat. Robinson met the remarks with a dignity bordering A few more days were supposed to ' bring us to on coldness, and merely observed that they had gone the mighty Nyanza. As we neared the inland ocean there in order to get a convenient spot from which we became intensely excited, and visions of the vast to fire on the brute below. expanse of blue water were constantly in our minds. And so we travelled day after day and week after At last we arrived at the village which we were told week, through the territory now annexed by Germany, was by the Nyanza, yet no Nyanza did we see. We through Ugogo and Unyamwezi, the country of the were weary and tired with the long march, but so moon, where one more incident of an amusing nature eager were we to see the longed-for lake that we set occurred, until at last we reached the Nyanza. One off with guides who promised to take us to the water. night it looked like rain, so I begged of our gallant After walking three or four miles, they said "there leader Dermot to come and share my tent, which it is !" pointing in the direction of what appeared he did, as he had not brought his own tent with from the distance like a nicely-kept cricket field, him. He turned in, and I had just dozed off to and calmly told us that that was the Nyanza. It sleep when I was awakened by a loud shout. I Was rather a shock to us to find that we had only sprang up, an d in the dim light I saw Dermot sitting reached the far end of a narrow arm of the lake ; up in bed. "Ashe," he cried in an excited voice, but we had to make the best of it and return. How­ " an enormous leopard!" "Where, where is it r" I ever, when we did eventually reach the open water, said, expecting to see the monster at the fo ot of my the glorious view of the illimitable expanse, stretching bed, and wildly I fu mbled fo r a small revolver which away as far as the eye could reach, more than fu lfilled I had secreted somewhere under my head. It waS Our widest expectations. ,[ ". 360 Afrl'can Expel·iences. Af1·ican Experiences. 361 Of course various adventures Jones was befell out his hands in a deprecating way. Nyanza, and, at any rate, when the fizziness nothing else of an exceedingly angry at his stupidity as all exciting nature happens, on his the monotony is usually was subsiding, so he pressed the medicine broken by it. Then the going off by accident of somebody's unwilling patient, who per fo rce swallowed gun. Robillson's boy had of his evident put his loaded and capped Jo nes was willing to hear his explanation gun down The expla­ beside him and close to where I was, in antipathy to the treatment prescribed. a was the canoe, and then as he was fumbling about fo r some­ nation was satisfactory and convincing : it thing it went off. Happily it was pointing away man's wife, and not himself, for whom the medicine from me, and only smashed a chair and riddled a was required. Smith went in more for dental surgery j rug. which he After this Robinson gave strict orders that his he had a pair of universal tooth-drawers, people should not have their guns loaded. Shortly was burning to make use of. A kind fate threw a after this we were at a native village and Robinson patient in his way. Kind was the fate for Smith, was amusing be a crowd of open-mouthed Bazinja by but whether the patient thought so may possibly showing them the mechanism of a revolver. The questioned. However, he came, and Smith examined delighted audience so pleased the exhibitor by their the ailing tooth an d promptly decided that immediate manifest appreciation of the performance that he told extraction was the only remedy. He brought out his i­ his boy to bring another revolver, and then with a universal extractors, and then, with agonised determ pistol in each hand he pretended to fire upon an nation written on his countenance, he nerved himself imaginary fo e. Click, to remove the click, click, went the hammer fo r a mighty effort. A second sufficed as the empty barrels went round, till at number four tooth, and a look of momentary triumph lighted there was a loud report, and a bullet whistled by Smith's quiet face as he surveyed his extractors the head of a delighted little boy. This was the climax clasping the liberated tooth. That look of triumph and the applause was terrific, the native Bazinja think­ was rapidly exchanged fo r one of consternation as ing this to be a necessary part of the fu n. Robinson, he more closely surveyed the instrument of his art however, had thought the revolver empty, and was and fo und that he had not only extracted the ailing struck with horror when he saw how nearly he had tooth, but two more into the bargain, besides a portion killed his delighted little admirer. It was well he of adhering gum. Sm ith now appeared at his greatest. missed the boy, as, if he had killed him, it might He quietly got some powdered alum to staunch the have proved a very awkward and expensive enter­ bleeding, and gave his patient no hint that he had tainment for us all. Jones was a man who imagined accomplished any more than his original intention. that he knew a thing or two about medicine, and so The patient was accordingly more than satisfied, and he soon got a reputation among the caravan porters. went away no doubt sou nding Smith's praises for his He dosed people with Eno's fruit salt, which they surprising skill in dentistry ...... seemed to take with great satisfaction : they liked to It happened from diffe rent causes, such as sickness " see it fizz. One day a patient arrived wanting " dawa, and the exigencies of the various missions, that I was or medicine, so J ones got out his Eno and an iron the only man who reached Buganda in M'tesa's cup, and prepared the fo aming draught j but, contrary country, where there were already two missionaries. to his usual experience, the patient drew back putting But my sojourn there was so fraught with sadness, n1313 VOL. XIV. 362 Afn'can Expen·ences. and my experiences were so tragical, that it would utterly incongruous to include it in a paper which entirely with the comic side of African travel. readers will bear If with me, on some fu ture may perhaps occasion speak more of missionary on the Victoria Nyanza.

R. P. ASHE. BARNES'S POEMS OF RURAL LIFE. [The incidents here recorded are all absolutely true, but fictitious and the incidents the names are connected with tbem the participators cannot are shuffled up so that be identified.] m� . BOOK-REVIEWER lately recommended to th� readers of his j?urnal the perusal of ei:her - � Kzng Solomon , s Mz nes or She (I forget whlch) for the beguilement of cares or weariness. A sign of the times, perhaps, this ; but wide of the mark, surely, in healthy days. Given, imagined details after the manner of Poe, quasi-scientific effects after Jules Verne, adventurers' difficulties and expedients after Defoe, blood of man and of beast profusely spilled, until, as Lamb once said, "it affects us no more than its representative, the paint of the property-man in the theatre," with some fantasies of an imagination explained perhaps by its East Anglian origin, and we have a hash as far removed as possible from the wholesome literature that could soothe, purify, and restore us in our leisure hours. How different in every way from the mental villeggiatura, the true country holiday, that can be had by beguiling our interval hours with the books of two members of our own college, who have shown us, in their several ways, something of the realities of Nature and Mind in England's country places. One of these, Dr J essopp, is still with us, prosing of the Arcady he delights to study, and of his book I should like to

say something in a future number if editorial exi­ gencies allow. The other, William Barnes, B.D., sang in the dialect of Dorset, and is now himself one of the "Valces that be gone." An obituary notice of him appeared in Number lxxxi. of the Eagle, and 364 Barnes's Po ems ifRuml Life. Ba?'?,es's Po ems of Ruml Life. 365 his poems have long had great reputati meadow and that on, so and the garden, and the crops of the I have neither to give any account of the poet, e plough-land. We are in immediate relation to nor to introduce the th book, but may at once begin great events of the changing year ; spring and to turn over his the pages, with prejudice, as one and winter concern and interest us exceedingly ; the letters might summer of a newly-made but well-recommended, and of evening acquaintance. while the passing of day into evening into night is ever before us as outward event and The complete edition (1879), under the title Poems uches us still closer by the accompanying alterna­ of Rural Lij to e zn the Dorset Dz"alect, contains sleep. Here is the true " three tions of toil, leisure, and collections" of poems, 33 I pieces in all. The dialect refreshment offered for the jaded mind and the body does not cause formidable difficulty ; the variations used overmuch as its servant : to be persuaded again from standard pronunciation are simple and fairly that the trees be company, that there's sweet music well capable of being represented by letters and marks; in the wind, that sunny woodlands invite us to ramble and the peculiar words are fe w. For knowledge of through them, and that after being merry in the the twangs, burrs, and sibilations, the opportunity of summer's haymaking, we can be fr iends with the snow listening to the genuine thing must be waited for. and frost and winds of the bracing days of winter Meanwhile it is better to read them aloud, even if in their turn. to oneself, than to trust the eye alone. A rural pleasure very notable to those who are In his poems Barnes confined himself strictly thinking about the strain of life in our day is the rural life ; here is the poet, to not the archaeologist or joy in the occupation by which daily bread is earned. philologist known in his other books and papers. How different does this appear in Barnes from what There is no straying into history or abstract thought, would be found in a book of poems about London the moralising is element ary, the imagination kept back-stre�t life ! What is there in the returning day, in close contact with actualities, while no subtle ana­ in the round of the year's work, of the tailor or the lysis of the heart is attempted, but he expresses the engine-fitter, the office-clerk or the small shopkeeper, primitive modes of fe eling proper to the rustic Man. that can cause the man to sing as one rejOlcmg in And the character of the poetry corresponds ; no the very putting forth of effort, as well as in the artificiality, no allusiveness, it flows on clear, like this ? simple, strong. plain, work accomplished, To appreciate the difference simplicity between Zoo yesterday in afternoon and artificic�.lity in poetry, contrast no more fo rcible We set, in eiirnest, ev'ry woone could be found than between a and poem of Barnes A-haulen 0' the corn. the Idyl of Dorset of Prof essor Palgrave in his What mechanic, or town-labourer, sings like the Vistons 0/ England. rating his various The primary Shepherd of the Farm lovingly enume element of Barnes's poetry not to to be expected, is, as was offices, or like the Carter lifting up his voice, the direct unquestioned life in the open joyfulness of weep, but to exult air ; we are in touch Ea with Mother I be a carter, wi' my whip rth ; we Jive among green trees and 0, with birds gay fields, A-smackim loud, as by my zide, and bees, and all the animal life of the Up over hill, an' down the dip fa rm and the lane ; among the fr uits of the orchard The heavy lwoad do slowly ride. 366 Barne,>'s Po ems of Rural Life. Barnes's Poems of Ruml Life. 367 Is it to be the lot of the fu ture Englishman that a piece of the soil and all that thereon is ; but he is only when his work is done with he can rejoice and not so vehement about this as was Charles Kingsley, be glad ? In these songs the peasant of Dorset is fo r instance, when he told one who was coming to far from praising only rest from labour and the amuse­ Eversley as his curate, but who had just received ments of the hour when work has ceased : the offer of a benefice of less money value than the to accept the latter, fo r it was a prime good Tis merry ov a zummer's day curacy, for a man ' to get hold of the land !' N or does Barnes When vo'k be out a-meaken hay : that is, merriment say anything that goes home so unforgettably as the and work actually live together for him. extract from M ichelet (quoted by J. S. Mill), who True, the mowing and the pitching and the stacking tells of the land calling from its peasant owner " a look give back-aches, but there is a jovial fu ll of passion, of heart, of devotion." fe eling that he is engaged in the great fu nctions in Many great changes were coming over agricultural which Man and Nature work together, and so the life during the years when these poems were being Harvest-home is a triumph and the stack of golden written, and Barnes takes note in his way of not a corn a trophy raised by soldiers who loved to cam­ paign. fe w. The enclosure of Commons finds complaint ; Another the absorption of the delightful strips of green along elementary pleasure on which Barnes fondly dwells the sides of the roads is resented ; there is a dialogue is the joy of possessing solid and material things. in praise of allotments, especially if near the cottages ; Hear the small farmer and his wif e con­ a piece upon the throwing together of small farms, templating their possessions : and several allusions to what was evidently a sore How happy uncle us'd to be point with the yeomen-farmers ; the introduction of 0' zummertime, when aunt an' he machines is lamented, in so far as it involved loss 0' Zunday evenens. earm in earm, of employment fo r hand-labour ; the rumbling of the Did walk about their tiny farm. stage-coach wheels is hardly replaced by the rushing The srpall shop-keeper looking over his fa vourable of the less homely trains ; while such minor points ledger in his back-parlour in Walworth may be enjoying are grumbled over as the replacement of the old an equal satisfaction, but the abstract character of open hearths by register-grates, of pewter plate15 by his prope rty, the Dr and er of it, make it seem earthenware, and of good old English oak by mahogany sordid and selfish in comparison with the yeoman's in the fu rniture. There does 110t appear to be any My lofty elem trees do screen reference to some of the other great changes, and we My brown-ruf'd house miss especially the expression of rural opinion upon * * % * the widening of the parish-bound horizon occasioned And I do walk along a rank by the railway system, with its far-reaching results Ov apple-trees, or by a bank, in the emigration from the rural districts of the most Or zit upon a bar or plank, spirited of the young men and the handsomest of the To zee how things do grow. girls. Franchise, ballot, wages and profits, are brought Barnes has a fe w pieces indicating appreciation of fo rward in a dialogue, and the Anti-Corn-Law agitation the particular passion for owning land, for possessing is discussed, but this not so impressively as would be 368 BC l1'nes's Po ems ofRural Life. Ba1'rleS'S Poems of Rural Life. 369 expected by readers of the life of Cob den and of the a constant harking back to the days of childhood records of the Free Trade movement in town and country. and early youth, to the time when Nature is with Perhaps Dorset saw less of them than other parts did ; us much and counts for a large part of expel'ience ; certainly it has usually been the stock-example of a some­ as if he fe lt that when writing he had left her county lagging behind the times. what, and must look to his earlier life fo r th� full Among traits of more individually human interest freshness of her joys. The G£rt woak tree is liked Barnes paints with a good dflal of manifest sympathy 50 well fo r its memories ; the friend is told plainly the love of boisterous fu n : taking sometimes the But tidden, John, vor all that yo� shape of horseplay, and practical jokes ; sometimes Be now, that I do like yer zoo of give-and-take dialogue, wit-combats of a homely But what you wer vor years agoo. and rough quality. And we are not surprised to And learn that the pieces most in demand at parish enter., tainments in Dorsetshire to-day are those of this type, 'Tis touch en vor to treiice, John, John. such as the dialogue between Sam and Bob on the Wold times drough ev'ry pleiice, perilous topic of Th e Best Ma n zn the Vt 'eld. But While the next lines go further still, pointing to though there is rudeness there is not vulgarity ; a spirit some sorrow having intervened between the golden of equity underlies it all. If Poll sews up Tom's days of youth and the days when the poems were coat and ' stan's an' laughs ' at his struggles it is in written : order to be 'upzides wi' him ;' if the chimney is stopped But that can't touch woone's heart so much up with a faggot on its tup during · a party this is As zome wold long-lost feii.ce, John. simply a neighbour's protest against having been But, fu rther, we observe it in the character of his omitted from the list of guests. Turn and turn about love-songs. Their spirit is · maturer than we are wont is the principle of both mischievous prank and biting to find. The permanent qualities of character, the gibe. significances of the heart in relation with fu ller life, Barnes's treatment of Nature is not that of the are discerned ; it is not the mere 1ustihead of youth, landscape-painter, not in breadths and tracts with exuberant but often volatile. His admiration is fo r atmospheres, but in individualised scenes, and in her womanhood, or its promise, rather than fo r maiden offspring. Hence we do not secure any such well­ graces : his lover looks fo rward to 'the wife-brightened defined and vivid impression of Dorsetshire as a vire: There is some loss in this, but there is also country of our imagination as is accomplished fo r gain. If we do not fe el that the whole poet is absorbed us by Mr Thomas Hardy's Egdon Heath (Retu'T1z of in his present passion we fe el that there is more in the Na tzve) ; and nothing like the thorough possession him yet to be absorbed, and that, so linked, Love of the sensible imagination which is achieved by and Life will grow together as time passes on. George Sand in her idylls of the Berri country, Fa de tte There are some thoroughly merry and youthful and La Mare au DzaNe. pieces, too, light-hearted songs of love for girlhood. Two fe atures of his poetry remind us that Barnes Grave questions as to ' what colour Jenny's ribbon sang when an older man than most poets whose sphere should be '; the 'bit 0' sly coorten ' between John is country life and simple fe eling. There is, fi rst, and Fanny ; miffs to be made up, and fair milkmaids VOL. XIV. eee 70 3 Barnes's Po ems of Rural Life. Barnes's Poems of Rural Life. 371 to be praised above their peers ; and here wi' an e'thly friend: It might be thought that the we meet some touches of the mastering kind poet was insensible to these aspects of life, but there finds exemplar in Burns's 'Ye may be this ye is an exquisite piece upon public worship, 'Vo'k a­ be that,' but- comen into Church,' and we know that Barnes was preacher and took holy Ye are na Mary Morison, a conscientious and earnest such orders in the maturity of his life. Nor is it simply as the splendid elevation of the Maid vor that the Catechism of the Church, or the solemn Bride, above comparison when it is said that gravity of her only authorised Liturgy, fails to find A queen to be stately, must walk wi' her face. an echo in domestic life or everyday thinking, for we The moralising and simpler worship is, as said above, within the limits of do not findthat the ruder teaching rural life : the simple truths that help of Methodist or Baptist is represented here either. • the Rustic to be WIse and good. People may come and go, butj But, as Dr J essopp will raise this same question, we 'Rivers don't on, and let this gie out, John'; praise of contentment ; may ask his opinion upon it later plea for faithfulness in tove- suffice us here. A word as to the lyric qualities of the poems. The Zoo never win a miiiden's heart But defect is a lack of dramatic force ; many of the pure hers that is to be thy bride ; songs have no plan ; seldom is there a climax, and happiness with the lowly : gratitude to parents in in some there is a decided bathos. F or instance, in their declining years ; and other simple notes of well­ a poem of memory, after writing on friendship and ordered life. love he returns to such a triviality a.s birdsnesting. Is there any religion in these Dorsetshire poems ? Apart from this defect his success is distinguished. Not much, fo rmally. What appears is the natural He has in high measure the gift of spirited rhythm ; religion that has benefited from Ch ristianity but knows the words are bound into successions of cadences clear not (or understands not) specific doctrine or specific: and sweet, the sense of music is awakened by them, history. Faith such as this- the sentiment accords, the heart stirs, and the reader We mid be sure that God above sings with the poet. Many of them call aloud fo r we be If true when he do prove musical settings, but whether they obtain them or Our stedvast fa"ith an' thankful love, not they make melody for themselves. Space does Wull do vor us what mid be best, not allow of quotations, I would just mention as An' teiike us into endless rest, ' favourites of my own : Th e Evenen Star 0 Zummer, As sleep do come wi' the dew. Come out to the Parrock Come out to the Tree, Wh en Easter and Christmas are represented as being vust the breake'J1, day -is red, Th e Ma Ul vor my brzde, mainly valued as secular fe asts, when Jim puts on a Th e Church and happy Zunday , Zunday Wo odlands, new frock coat 'blue wi' yollow buttons all 0' brass,' The Bells 0' Alderburnham, and The Mz'll by Cloty Stour. or fa milies gather ' smilen in woone another's fe ace 1 ; It is too much to say of Barnes that he has made even 'happy Zunday 1 is the day of rest more than an Ayr of Dorset, but he gives to town-dwellers a of worship, and where it is said that it is 'the day glimpse into rural England with just enough flavour that's all our own to spend wi' God ' it is added ' an of locality and personality about it to fix his poetry 372 Barnes's Poems of Rural Life. in its own corner of our memories. Enough feelings and of thoughts have been infused Nature and into the the People he knew to win him the garland of the Poet, though not quite that king-poet of the s who have poured thems wealth elves wholly with of passion into their world new and so have created worlds for us. But SOME MEMORIES OF MY " VAC." · one praise, not claimed by all of these highest, is due to Barnes. In he is the his poetry minister of purity and innocence ment of in enjoy­ Cambridge during term none, save the versa­ the world of sense. As �F there comes to us, � tile Revzaf.ler, cares to speak. We are all on blithely and freely, his singing of the Nature he - so well, we loved terms of easy if unequal fam iliarity with it ; perceive in things sensible and a worth a beauty no one wants a shilling guide and every one gets not all their own, while in his folk we discern country­ his bills ; there are many pit-falls, but there are no in simple human nature the of the spiritual rudiments anxieties. We are all members of a vast social club, and the presage of a lif is seen. e higher than meeting at definite periods in the year, and enjoying a well-earned repose af ter the engrossing cares of A. CALDECOTT. town or country life. Th e in-door entertainment is as varied as the out-door-a happy provision in a capricious climate : you may qualify for a Special or a Tripos on a rainy day, or hit your friend to "leg " for three on a dry one. But these are vain repetitions: there is nothing esoteric about them ; you hear them in the street ; you see them in the Reporter ,. you even discuss them with your landlady, but you never whisper them in secret. But what of Cambridge in the " vac"? The Master of the Rolls was questioned, but in vain ; the title conveyed no impression to the mind of my bookseller ; the Pall Ma ll had never thought of it. It was a rare idea, but there were the usual preliminaries-nothing is without them : if you must dress to go to a ball, you must undress to go to bed-however, they were soon satisfied. To the unwary it may be profitable to throw out a hint-you must never occupy the same set of rooms both in "term " and in "vac" : it is not dangerous to the health, but it is bad form and never fo rgiven ; if you are in lodgings you must move into the Club, Or vzce-versa. With me it was not vz'ee-versa, so I required a permit : it wa? given with un grudging m01'ies of my " Va o." 375 374 So me :Memories of my " Va o." So me Me Where were we ? A hand, perhaps with a pious hope of its utility, certainly s stem of discount applied. y all in sympathy with many admonitions. It suffices to say that I owd of suggestions offered them�elves, cr a more pertinent was subsequently found in X New Court, consigned with our fe elings, but there was we to be ? It was put apolo­ to the hospitality of the aged but genial lessor thereof; query-where ought was plain. Now an exeat he received me caressingly and made me his confidant. getically but its meaning y put it in your pocket-book He was a man of taste, with the most refined sensi­ is an exeat ; you ma le ; you may walk round bilities, but his want of a technical education had but it will never be negotiab smile upon you ; give handicapped him : he had desires which fo und no it on stilts but it will never it is never returned. I adequate expression, he had expressions which did it in at the butteries and the spirit of it ; my chattels not meet his desires. There was a missing link, and immediately entered into ; but this distinc­ my superior knowledge supplied it. A long and were not numerous but indispensable myself. There were varied experience had taught me a useful art. 1 tion was not observed save by them-they have knew how to ingratiate myself with anybody's grocer­ many to gather them and watch over Little remained my host could never manage his own. To this superior my esteem and my token thereto. easy-those of one's knowledge I added a willingness to please, which to be done : most transitions are want a crucible brings me many grateful recollections. The relations surroundings the easiest. You don't is an unwonted established between my host and myself were not and you do require a ticket. There it and it takes you, economical but they were cordial. His circle of friends reciprocity about it : you take was small but select, and I was kindly received. They and you are never before your time. sojourn never called me names, but they told me charming Now that I look back on my adventurous physically, and stories and sometimes asked me to lunch. This was and cast up the ne t results morally" description ; disguise the only fashionable way of passing the afternoon, fiuancially, my fe elings baffle I have no desire and it mo reover stimulated the Tripos faculty. No is impossible ; remedies unknown. friends to whom coincidence could have been happier, but our destinies to discourage the enterprise of my have occurred by were evil and we were in advance of our time. The the same "brilliant idea " may painters, the Tripos we had rigorously disciplined our fa culties fo r recalling smoking chimneys, inartistic &c., but I fe el was not yet set : the works of Black and Haggard expensive vagaries of my "host," would never tempt were not classics ; and fo r some occult reason Aristotle's sure that my enlarged experience in Cambridge. Philosophy was preferred to Bulwer's, and Plato's me to pass another Easter Vacation ailure is certain : RepUblic to Mallock's! It is a horrible fe eling to There is no element of chance in it-f handicap know that you are in advance of your ti�e. I have you may challenge a crocodile to a three-mile even climb the travelled third class on a branch line of a suburban and win on the post ; you may an insurance railway ; as spare man I have rowed at a moment's Himalayas on an unsafe bicycle without keep the "vac " with . notice in the junior trials ; I have observed the transit on your life, but you can never court it but you of Venus through a broken window pane ; I have any degree of success-you may EAST. even seen the Bridge of Sighs painted, but I never cannot attain it. SCUD solution a sensation a small prize for the best had such as being before one's time. [The Editors are prepared to offer Bills of Exchange payable at some distant day have of the above,] a present equivalent : we had none, as no known .A Johrn'an Tr ilogy. 37 7

' delectable mount,' the dwelling of the learned of the University of Cambridge. Philomusus and Studioso are two students setting out on their academic course, and pressing on through the land of logic and rhetoric, A ]OHNIAN TRILOGY. by the route of the ancient trtvz'um. Their journey is described under the form of an allegory not unlike ! that of the pz'lgrt'm's Prog ress . Madido, the wine-god, I N one of the manuscript volumes �)� of that indus­ disguised as a genial toper, seeks to lure the travellers trious antiq �I� uary, Thomas Hearne, now lying in the Bodleian to the wayside tavern, declaring that there is 'no at Oxford, Mr Macray has recently discovered true Helicon but a cup of brown bastard.' Stupido. the MS of two plays, 'T Pilgrimage he who represents the growing intolerance and narrow­ to Parnassus ' and 'T he Return from mindedness of the Puritan party, seeks to turn them Parnassus; which were acted in our College-the aside from 'those vain arts of rhetoric, poetry, and former in 159 the 8, latter in 1599. There is also a third play, a philosophy,' 'more vain than a pair of organs or a sequel to 'The Return from Parnassus,' which was morris dance !' 'Better let men study the Mar-prelate acted in 1602. This was twice printed in Tracts and the Genevan �atechism.' Amoretto, the 1606 ; was reprinted in the last century ; was included in a few years ago in voluptuary, tells them of the pleasures described Mr W. Carew Hazlitt's edition of Dodsley's Select his favourite volume, the Ars Amorzs : Plays, and in 1879 obtained a place in Mr Arber's 'Why should you vainly spend your blooming age Eng/Z"s h Scholar's LZ"brary. Its amusing In sad dull plodding on philosophers, character and importance as an illustration of university Which was ordained fo r wanton merriment ?' life and manners also induced me to give an outline But the most dangerous tempter of all is the dis­ of it in the second volume of my Hz story of th e appointed scholar himself, one Ingenioso, turning Um versdy, pp. 522-26 . But the two earlier plays, which Mr Macray's back fr om Parnassus, tormented with actual hunger research has brought to light, were printed last and sick of philosophy. ' I talked,' he says, 'with a year for the first time, and along with the third frende of mine that lately gave his horse a bottell play fo rm a very elegant volume, which has appeared of haye at the bottome of the hilI, who toulde mee under the sanction of the Dele­ gates of the that Apollo had sente to Pluto (? Plutus) to borowe Clarendon Press at Oxford. Professor Hales, of King's twentie nobles to paye his commons ; he added further, College, London, whose minute acquaintance with that hee met comming down from the hill a companie the English literature of this period is well of ragged vicars and fo rlorne schoolemaisters who as known, has deemed the whole Trilogy so they walked scratched there unthrift ie elbows, and often noteworthy as to ' make it the subject of an interesting put unpeopled pockets, that had article in the current number there handes into there of Ma cmz'lla n's Maga zz'ne The burden of . not beene possessed with faces this manie a day.' these three plays is essentially the same-the career Each temptation, however, is successfully resisted, of the university student, with its aims, the road of the tnvz'um is safely traversed, until at its hopes, its temptations, its disappointme nts, last the two students, now commencing bachelors, and its hardships. ' Parnassus ' here represents the arrive at the Muses' Hill itself. VOL. XIV., DDD A Jolm ian Tdlogy. 379 378 A Jolmian Tdlogy. seene your face in them, and for my mightest have The second play, The Return (part i), gives us lookinge glass.' But his arte I never used other sequel. The students have gained their degrees, p that he was too proud to whip main offence had been no means of gaining a livelihood appear to be turns private tutor e dogs out of church. Studioso coming. The disappointment which has th hardest. a fa mily. Here again his lot is of the Ingenioso descends on their spirits also. 'Not,' in servants, and is He fares the same as the household Professor Hales, 'that the land is not lovely, he would not allow 'one ultimately dismissed because even in it one must have something to live on, ' to 'perch above ' him at the of the blew coates they have nothing. One cannot subsist on corresponding not to 'second ' latter dinner,'-a term prospects or the music of fa lling waters, and dignified repast at which the hall: but to the less we next see them they are pale and emaciated ; superiors had left. 'My servants consumed what their sad to say, are already bethinking them that 'whome I taughte yonge maister,' adds poor Studioso, must flee from this land of their aspirations and gone, and toulde his was verie forwarde to have mee efforts, with what speed they may, if they would booke since I mother he never learned in a greate keep body and soul together. After a fe w days voice cride, "Those came ; my mistris with a shrill the Land of Promise, to make fo r the wilderness ag are proude," and schollers are proude, those schollers -verily, this is a tragical result, though treated in yet more galling and sent me packinge awaye: Even lighter manner by our poet. For is there experiences of In­ humiliating, if possible, are the a more tragical spectacle than such a shattering one Gullio, an arrant genioso, who attaches himself to the ideal life nobly conceived and nobly sought after as a literary patron. fo ol and impostor, who sets up Just as the worshipper has after much grief and pain by his patron's liber­ Ingenioso, however, fails to profit reached the shrine of his deity, and is kindling listen to a series of ality, but is called upon instead to incense, his golden god changes into clay and tumbles pretentious criticisms of his own compositions. to pieces ; or the walls of the temple crack and yawn developes the plot The second part of Tlz e Return and collapse ; or the pilgrims find the expense of his scholars still of the first, and exhibits the unfortunate liturgy too great fo r their resources ! Alas fo r Philo­ distress ; Ingenioso struggling with disappointment and musus and Studioso ! They must leave their so hardly­ Isle of Dogs, while is last heard of on his way to the won Paradise.' a shep­ Philomusus and Studioso resolve on adopting The next scene accordingly introduces Philomusus, herd's life. Studioso, and Ingenioso, along with a fo urth student, more particularly What these compositions serve named Luxurioso and somewhat of a scapegrace, all time is the fact to shew the reader in the present struggling on in various ways to earn a livelihood in which we are apt that this golden age of Elizabeth, the world. Philomusus gets a situation as a sexton, prosperity to picture to ourselves as one of abnormal and appears in a black fi.-�eze coat, carrying a bunch its victories, its dis­ and opportunities in life, with of keys and a spade, his directions being to ' dig literature, and coveries in fo reign lands, its growing well and ring well.' He is soon, however, dismissed which young scholars increasing wealth, was one in for negligence. In the days of his predecessor, he as much per­ t fr esh from the University were quite warden tells �l im, 'the chancell was kept in order, subsequent age. plexed to find a career in life as in any the church swept, and the bordes rubde that thoU 380 A Jo lzman Tn·logy. What these plays were designed to effect at the tim of their composition can easily be inferred. It hoped that the piteous experiences of the poor s might move the compassion of some of the audience that some official, potent to influence the distri of honours and of place at court, or some patron with a dozen livings in his pocket, might ON IDLENESS AS A FINE ART. induced to be more mindful of the rising talent St Jo hn's. Happily, in the present day, the almost DLENESS in both its analytic and synthetic is as extinct as the dodo ; and the � setting �� aspects, or in other words the science and fo rth on his 'Return from Parnassus,' pausing art of doing nothing and doing it well, is a dubiously as he surveys the numerous (so largely multiplied since Ingenioso'S day), subject which seems not to have received the attention that his best chances it merits. True we have among our number not a in the arena of professional life are derived from fe w able exponents of the art in its practice ; but the knowledge he has gained, the habits he has formed, despite the facilities now offered in this University and the self-mastery acquired, during his pleasant fo r so many new lines of study, this branch of a sojourn at the fo ot of the Muses' HilI. There is liberal education has not as yet been specifically one slight slip at p. 60 which has already been recognised. The school indeed appears to be an noted elsewhere. Consiliodorus speaks of esoteric one, and this must be the writer's excuse if, 'Rough Barbarisme, that in those ackhorns times Commanded as an amateur, he has failed to grasp in their entirety our whole ilande as his own.' principles which have not yet been presented to the Here the editor suggests that 'ackhorns ' is possibly public in definite shape. fo r Acheron's ! It may however be looked upon as With the ethical side of the subject we have been quite certain (as Dr Sandys pointed out in the Academy well fa miliarised, but there are other phases worthy a short time ago) that the word ' ackhorns ' is simply of notice. The poet indeed has sung of his 'Castle an obsolete fo rm of acorns, and that the author's of Indolence '; but why has no candid metaphysician reference is to that rude time in the history of the given us the 'Confessions of a Lotos-eater '? when world when, according to the poet, men will some new Democritus, versed in curious research, Glandiferas inter curabant corpora quercus.' compile an 'Anatomy of Idleness,' with its causes, We must not bring this brief notice to a close 'congenite and adventitious,' its 'symptomes ' and without an expression of indebtedness to the sister 'prognosticks '? The present remarks haye no more University, fo r the pains and taste expended on these ambitious object than to draw attention to a neglected resuscitated compositions of one who was probably branch of art ; and so, with the choice of tbe historic, a member of Our College, although his personality the philosophic, and the scientific methods, we prefer, has so far eluded the most careful research of his as more in accord with the spirit of our subject, to latest Editor. J. B. M. fo llow no method at all. This will have the fu rther advantage, that the writer-or the reader-may break 1 Lucretius, V 939 ; cf. VergiJ, Georg. 18; Ovid, Me t. I 106. offat any point, and lose nothing by so doing. 83 3J:! On Idle ness as a Fine Art. On Id leness as a Fine A1·t. 3

Let us begin by discarding prejudice. It is bo tion of afternoon tea is an undertaking the consumma less to enquire whether some one else's life is he will not imperil its success by of moment, and living, that being a matter 'r there is more in him than of which the subjective undue hurry. Altogethe view must ever sportive moods it may be the more important. The idle meets the eye. In his more man is at least usually not seldom has musical harmless, and this, in an meet the ear, for our friend of busy-bodies, is no small item is one of his foibles. to set to his credit. aspirations, and the post-horn live at peace with Among a population of so many millions m Withal he is genial, and would the kind that rush in where angels a band of amateur Christy fear to all men : if he improvises the sympathies it is refreshing to find here and there a man Minstrels in his rooms, he will enlist carries out the borrowing his tea-tray principle of lazssez-jazre in his own of the reading-man beneath by conduct. If silence be golden, he who can refr fo r a tambourine. his way, and from the general melee must have some true metal He is something of a philosopher in o the way of others. in him. Now the idle man devotes so much energy does not thrust his philos phy in There is a certain to leaving undone the things which others think he His view of life is fatalistic. ought be avoided, but why to do, that he has little disposition to make amount of work which cannot ? The serious errors in the other direction. To negotiate pry into the reasons fo r this unpleasantness is sufficient. Deus a breakfast until it extends to the luncheon hour ; easy theory of the early Fathers man enjoys to decor ate one's self with a hat of the latest style, Dz'abolus z'nterjolator. The idle auctor, with and take out a small dog of home-made appearance what he can, and accepts the necessary evils, at large seems fo r an afternoon walk ; to sit at an open window on only an occasional growl when nature is rarely cynical, the Parade regarding the passers-by over the top of to conspire to thwart his ease. He too active philan­ a rose-coloured newspaper ; these surely are weak­ except to avoid being drawn into nesses fe au naturel, so far as which a censor less stern than the college thropy. Bent on taking li of necessity con­ tutor will easily pass over. is compatible with comfort, he is still less polemical : Idleness, however, to deserve the name of an art, servative, but he is not political, and he consigns must be much more than a mere negative state of his voice is never heard at the Union, who retails with inaction. Anyone can be lazy, but to exalt indolence to perdition the prowling button-holer into a ruling principle, to adopt it as a second nature, comments the latest telE:grams. of the sporting demands qualities not granted to all. We are told He is, however, a diligent student the man who that 'it takes a wise man to be a fo ol,' and so­ papers ; for it is a curious fact that in active though the comparison is an odious one-true idle. has least inclination to engage personally all neld­ ness is not to be acquired without long and steady exercise is commonly the keenest critic of in their more application. It is only in a narrow and relative sense sports, and shows a deep interest literature he is that the idle man can be said to do nothing. One speculative aspect. Of more solid give a vague who by diligent care has amassed a large store of perhaps a little shy, though he will If he belongs idleness, finds ample opportunities fo r its exercise. adhesion to a fe w standard authors. of Portia He takes, however, a rather microscopic view of his to a Shakspeare Club, and takes the part interesting heroine is too immediate surroundings ; the choice of a neck-tie or Or Imogene in a reading, the 8 3 4 On Idleness as a Fine Art. On Id leness as a Fin e Al't. 3 85 often fo und lig hting her pipe when her cue- to speak But enough of a character fa miliar to us all : let arrives. It may be remarked that he usually owns us return to the subject of Idleness regarded as a a mahogany-coloured meerschaum, which demands as fine art. It would be impracticable, even lif the writer much care as a baby, and helps him to fill up a large were competent to the task, to lay down within the part of his time. He is imbued with a wholesome limits of a short article the canons of the art, to fear of examinations and of all things remotely con­ treat of the times and seasons, ways and means, nected with them ; but when the May Term arrives, places and methods. There is a time to work and which is to see his final ordeal, he begins to read. a time to be idle, as the Preacher would have said With a book under his arm, he betakes himself to if he had thought of it, and to seize the fleeting hour the Backs, hires a Canadian canoe fo r the morning, fo r idleness one must be ever on the watch. It must and lies on his back in the sunshine with an air of be admitted that in this favoured Cambridge we deep abstraction which might belong to an astronomer enjoy advantages altogether exceptional. There are plunged in scientific reverie or a faithful Buddhist so many things to leave undone, and so many bright enjoying the tranquility of Nirvana. examples of 'how not to do it,' that the humblest dis·· Your genuine idle man, however, is normally gre­ ciple of the art must feel encouraged and strengthened. garious in his habits. It is not merely, as the scoffer Both companionship and emulation assist. Moreover, may suggest, that his resources fo r amusement must the general repose of our physical surroundings, be supplemented hy those of others ; but rather the the soothing effect of their mingled classic and pastoral cult in which he engages is essentially a social one. beauties, all these conditions are in the true spirit You can be lazy by yourself, but to be idle requires of do lce fa r nz"ente. There are some spots here which the countenance and aid of other idlers. A subtle have probably always been quiet oases in the midst freemasonry binds the brotherhood in common ties, of a hurrying world. The saying is historic that, and a chance outsider, who strays into their midst, as one college was renowned as a place for study feels at once the spirit of Idlesse that dominates and another fo r eating, so a third was of all places there. There is an invincible horror of whatever the most desirable to sleep in. An honoured member may be regarded s as ' hop '; discussion of anything of this last royal fo undation, who was ready with pleas more serious than a cricket-match is taboo ; the con­ for most things, did not forget idleness among the versation indeed savours rather of platitude, and is rest; and he has condensed the philosophy of the only occasionally redeemed by some dexterity in the subject into a single hedonistic sentence, 'Aut regmz, use of slang, itself no mean art. Originality is not aut fa tuum, nascz" oj ortere,' says Erasmus, and we a strong point with the idle man. He is, however, cannot all be kings. ingenious in devices for killing his chief enemy-time. In idleness there are many ways to the same goal, He sits up late at night apparently in order to enable and the able specialist in one line should not look him to rise late in the morning. He looks to the down on his brother idler who fo llows a different end of the Term before it has well begun, but he method. The type we have faintly outlined above finds difficulty in getting through the vacation. He is but one among several, though perhaps the most visits friends of like manners with himself: sometimes popular. , If you are conscious of possessing taste, he goes to see his relatives, een dado but on the whole he you can adorn your rooms with a pea-gr prefers 'Home, sweet I-Iome,' with variations. VOL. XIV. EEE 386 On Idleness as a Flne Art. and "just exist beautif ully." If you have leanings towards whist, �4B you can take to you spirits seven other like yourself and form a club. But the relation of clubs of all kinds, either with or without blazers , to the subject in hand is too wide a topic to b e even touched on here. In conclusion, it cannot be too strongly urged that in this, as in other arts, JUBILATE. the road to success lies in constant practice and . the contemplation of good examples. Study Dedtcatton to the Edz'tours of the EAGLE. the best models, so as, avoiding servile while imitation, to absorb the true of the art spirit ; then by perseverance you A uthou1' in venturing before the Publick time will attain ill �HE to the noble army of dz'lettantz' and become a EM hopes that the exiguity of his Me rz't may be worthy member of that class whose useful functions equalled-if that be riota presumptuous prayer in society I have endeavoured to set fo rth in the fo regoing remarks. -by the greatness of your Clemency. Your Lordships' fame for Learning, Piety, a judicious Patronage, and and an open-handed Generosity bids him hope that his Academzc Muse, in her first flight amid the rarer heights of Poesy, may find in you the Wz nged Steed, which shall subdue the trz'-jormed Mo nster of her own Shortcomings, the Publick Disdain, and the Rapacity of our modern Sos# ; that the Mediocrity of her Charms may be forgotten in the Majesty of her Theme and the Splendour of her Patronage.

One Bzrd zs best,* the blind old Clzt'an cried, To sIzedfo r Fa therland the crz'mson #de. One Bird is best, all ,)ohmans agree, To hymn our Monarch and her Jubilee. Th' Imperial Eagle, proud her sway to own, Grovels recumbent 'neath th' Imperial throne .

• EI. olwvo. ap'UTO. a!-'vvEu6a, '1I'Ep! '1I'a'Tp'I" For the above rendering I am indebted to the College Examination passim, 389 388 Jubilate. Ju bilate.

But who am I such glories to rehearse :No lost tota in proud Se lwyn's scroll And dim their . brightness in a purblind verse ? Watched like the Plet"ad happier sisters roll. Like the gilt emblem on Ne w Buz"ldz'ngs seen :No slipp'ry Asphalt echoed to the fe et, I strive to soar above Earth's carpet green ; No plunging cab-horse rinked the public}- street. Anon, eyes dazzled by such Majesty, So amid Arctzc ice the polar bear Droop a lame pinion and forget to fly. Shuffles ungainly to his polar lair ; Not mine to sing of horrzd Wa r's alarms, Borror uplifts the sailor's prickly hair. Not mine to sing the triumphs of our arms ; No Cambrzdge Locals spread from town to town, Though few our Warriors, such their giant thews .And In dex Nu mber was a name unknown ; That puny Millions tremble in their shoes. Not yet had entered man's still guileless soul Peaceful we check the Muscovtte advance, Left- hand-top-corner's neatly punctured hole. With undrawn sword the godless hordes of Fr ance. .And, worst of all, not yet aesthetic eyes Then, bold, prepared to conquer or to die, With rapture marked a gamboge Bridge of Sighs. Mow down scorch'd Soudan's naked chivalry. So have I seen o'er Zanlde 's storied straits Mine rather be to tell the peaceful years ; A mellow saffron flood the Sunset gates ; The cornland swaying with her golden ears ; Abruzzz" s mountains the soft splendour own, The thrzce-blessed Agrzculturzsts, for they And yellower grows white Reggzo's dotted town : No Rent, no Tithes, no Taxes soon will pay ; Such have I viewed an Anglo-Indtan old, The March of Education through the Land, Whose lurid guineas paled their sallow gold. The learned Plough boy and the lectured .Hand. Now afl is changed j as Time's stream onward flows, Yet still too vast the Theme appears for me, Our Morals soften and our Learning grows. Still let me narrow my Phylactery. The Th eban riddle is fu lfilled in us, Ambz'tz'on's Ladder pointing to the Sky Lures mortals upward but to climb and die ; Nor need we more a modern CEdzpus. Four-fo ot we crawled weak infants on the floor ; So the Batrachzan lost life's marshy good In vain attempts at bovine amplitude ; Two-footed next learned Love's delusive lore ; And, striving still the larger joy to gain, Then, still progressive in great Na ture's plan, Died of a cow in apoplectic pain. Steps fo rth the glorious three-foot Trzp os Ma n. The ancient tongues of Athens and of Rome Then draw we closer still th' encircling ring, No w echo purely in their We stern home ; A son of Cambrtdge let me Ca mbrtdge sing. Ma caulay 's schoolboy with new accent drones Great Tu lty 's wisdom in great Tu lty 's tones. Mark we the changes in our Ancient Town, Th' unconscious Organ must th' improvement share, While fifty summers pass o'er England's Crown. A.nd Wox-oomahnalt wings the heavenward prayer. No Gztton then far reared her modest head ; :No secrets now Imagination rack, No Newnham bolder marked the Backs with red ; :No loves of Algae on the Tortoise' back ; No Rzdley nursed 'neath elms' umbrageous green :No Lusz"tanzan caves their wealth amass, The lisping Bishop and the prattling Dean. (Three celts, a rubbing of a Christian brass,) Ju bilate. 39 1 390 Jubilate. down the stream of fate, But some bold B?'Zton robs the treasure stored, The others sinking admire them nor the Muses hate, And Wo rts' Fo undatz"on wins the splendid hoard. Though Ny mp hs in an Arctz(; night, Orntchorhynchus, named of Pa radox, Like to some traveller the· No rthern Lzght.] Claims his commodious if 'unsightly box, Gaze on the glories of onward course, And, like the antique traveller, can own .A.stonied Na ture marks the upward-slightly-to his source. An upper-chamber when he comes to town ; .A.nd Cam flows ge at the sight may grieve, Conscious display his meroblastz"c fe at, The fo es of Cambrz'd listens to believe. While Lzghtn tng messages his prowess greet. Hebrew Apella } shall still progress, Do softer thoughts steal on the Student's breast, If with such strides the Age shall repress, The same kind friends assuage his heart's unrest, Soon Vt "ce her rugged front cowed nakedness. Wha.t time they mark with scarce dissembled pride .A.nd Vz rtue reign in hideous A Tr avel#ng Bachelor and his Travellzng Brzae. sat z'ubz'latumst : plaudzee. Where cold Sarmatt"a spreads her cloak of snow,

A son of Jo hn's-where will not Jo hnttms go ?­ Essays t' unravel Na ture's tangled skein, And trace their denizens from Lake to Ma zn ; The finny brood grow salt by slow degrees, And pickled salmon swim th' astounded seas.

If such the Pa st, what shall the Fu ture see ? Research and Learning, Peace and Harmony ! Then bold Bzologzsts-adventurous brood !­ Crossing unscathed the intervening road, Geology's fair self, no longer coy, Kind shall invite to petrologz(; joy. While they, full fain to roll the friendly log, Dissect again the vivisected dog. A loving ardour fans the mutual flame, Diverse their methods, but their end the same. So Galatea-biologic prize-- Sighed into life and opened wond'ring eyes ; The Sculptor fo und, as her sweet lips he kissed, Sermons in stones, and turned Geologzst. [Where were ye, Nymphs ? or by Aonz"an rill, In Te mpe's vale or on the Castle Hdl ? When Downtng-szeers issued from their lair, And pealing placets hurtled through the air ; MON HABIT. MY AULD COAT.

SOIS-MOI fideIe, () YE'LL dead me aye, my puir auld coat, pauvre habit que j'aime ! Ensem ble We're baith the waur ' wear ; nous devenons vieux ; 0 Depuis dix ans je te brosse moi-meme, Ten lee-Iang years I've tent ye weel, Et Socrate n'edt pas fa it mieux. A saunt could do nae mair. Quand ife blasts sud try your wab le sort it ta mince etoffe Gin cauldr Livrerait as gin they'd tear't, de nouveaux combats, An' blaw Imite-moi, resiste en philosophe ; Haud oot like me, defy them a' : Mon vieil Auld freen, we mauna pairt. ami, ne nous separons pas. Je me souviens, min' when first I pit ye on, car j'ai bonne memoire, I Du premier I min' sic braw days lang- jour OU je te mis ; C'etait ma The callants nipped and daffed, and syne fe te, et pour comble de gloire, Tu fu s chante par mes amis. They hanseld ye wi' sang. Ton indigence, qui m'honore, Noo tho' ye're thin, and I am puir, Ne m'a point banni de leurs bras, They ken oor honest heart ; Tous ils sont prets We'll aye be welcome to their door : it nous fe ter encore ; Mon vieil Auld fr een, we mauna pairt. ami, ne nous separons pas.

T'ai-je impregne I ne'er hae strinkled ye wi' scents des flots de musc et d'ambre, QU'un Like dandies in their pride, fa t exhale en se mirant ? M'a-t-on jamais vu dans une antichambre I ne' er hae boo'd your honest back T'exposer A lording's scorns to bide. aux mepris d'un grand ? Pour fecht­ des rubans la France entiere Owre stars and ribans fo lk may Fut en fu les in ilka airt- proie it de longs debats ; There's La fleur des champs brille Your muirland gowan's brawer gear : it ta boutonniere ; Mon vieil ami, ne nous Auld fr een, we mauna pairt. separons pas.

Ne crains plus sic hairum-scairum days tant ces jours de courses vaines, Fearna Ou notre destin fut pareil, As ance we spent thegither, Ces jours meles glaidsome, and whiles unco wae, de plaisirs et de peines, Whiles Meles weather. de pluie et de soleil ; Baith driech an' sinny Je dois bientat, il me le semble, Richt sune I maun pit aff fo r aye Mettre I'm fe art ; pour jamais habit bas, M y coat an' a', Attends un peu, Jist bide a wee, we'll baith be dune : nous finirons emsemble, Mon vieil ami, Auld fre en, we mauna pairt. ne nous separons pas. BERANGER. D. M.

VOL. XIV. FFF OVERBOARD.

FAREWELL and fo r ever !-I ne'er shall redeem thee by empty repinings and longings in vain ; and the voice of complaining fu ll ill would beseem thee, ®llftuat!}. though I ne'er shall behold or embrace thee again. Oh blithe was my song as from shore we departed, CECIL FREDERICK HOLMES, M.A. and I flung my soul back to the glorious years In the person of C. F. Holmes, M.A., J.P., Senior when the Hollander fe lt British tars lion-hearted, Assistant-Master in Harrow School, who after a brief and the Spanish Main swarmed with the bold illness died at Harrow on the 25th of April last, at buccaneers. the comparatively early age of 5 8, the College has But soon overcast was the sky of my scorning, lost a second member of an able fa mily. It was just as I fe lt I should lose thee, though near to my heart ; fo rty years ago that Cecil Frederick Holmes first came and my spirit grew fa int with a gloomy fo rewarning to Cambridge fr om the famous school of Shrewsbury, that told me too surely we soon were to part. whose old connexion with our College was then unim­ Soon, soon were ,ve sundered,-away the wave bore thee; paired, and where the classic muse found a congenial ah, the pang of that moment I skill not to tell ! home under the fo stering care of that great teacher but no life-buoy I flung and no hand I held o'er thee who happily still survives to fill the chair of Greek. to save thee or soothe thee or bid thee fa rewell. The son of a Professor of Bishop's College, Calcutta, Yet I loved thee right dearly as fa ther loves daughter, Mr Holmes was born in India on the 3 1St July 1828, though a bachelor listless and lonely I be ; and on his father taking up his residence at Shrews­ and I thought of the monsters that swim the sea-water, bury became a member of the school. He came to and the eager-eyed fish that were ravening fo r thee. Cambridge in 1847. In college life each generation Oh the joy and the comfort that fled with thy going, does its work and passes fr om us all too quickly, and thou nearer than wife and more cheering than wine ! if there are few amongst the residents who can look yea, the dolour and dirge of thy wild overthrowing back upon the undergraduate days of the highly gifted should be sung by a lyre that is stronger ; than mine. Arthur Holmes, there are yet fe wer who have a per­ But Nature ordaineth naught wholly to perish ; sonal recollection of the elder brother Cecil. It was and still, though around thee the chill waters roll, the College of Dr Hymers and Mr Brumell to which immortal thou art, and the hope I will cherish the young fr eshman came, and at a time so distant thou may'st bloom in the mackerel or slide in the sole. But to me thou art lost, thou art that the flannels of the athlete had not yet replaced vanished fo r ever ; the student's cap and gown in the public streets, and for the lack of thy cheer I wax weaker and thinner : married Fellows and stage-plays and dances in college I will make no more moan, but a ur­ nobler endeavo halls were almost or quite unknown. And Mr Holmes farewell, my lost lunch ! I'll avenge thee at dinner. Was not the man to change with changing times ; COLLEGE BILL. that which he was in 1847 he was in the main in 1 887: a Churchman of the older type, the staunches.� Obituary. 397 396 Obituary. few who heard his sermon of Conservatives, and en Mr Holmes' son, but tolerant of no be in the School fo rget how Mr Welldon spoke the Primrose League. will rendered of the full and generous allegiance He took his degree in 185 I, being (bracketed) Chapel his older colleague. of the Second Class in Classics and also a Junior to him by rrow he had sat at the feet Optime. It was In early years at Ha not, however, at Cambridge but at he like them was Mr Drury and of Mr Harris, and Harrow that his life 's work was to be done. F of if somewhat the older race of teachers, who, a short time he read at the University with a view one of than perchance were not less thorough to Holy Orders, but in 1852 he went to Harrow narrower, yet of n who made no profession and, being permanently appointed to an their successors ; me were in all their ways conservative, Mastership by Dr Vaughan in 185 , he quitted Ca omniscience, who 3 than knowledge, who were bridge altogether, and soon identified himself who valued training- more on pretence, on shallowness. Harrow as fe w of even her most loyal sons h severe on puppyism, boys learnt, and yet may learn done. The career of an assistant-master of a In other pupil-rooms at once-G eology, Geography, public school is one of those which are still -we hope not all Political Economy, Astronomy, free from the taint' of merely personal ambition ; M odern History, ' Spinning, and the Habits of other men in Botany, the theory of the boat may know who are doing tile Mr Holmes. For Primeval Man, but not in that of work and who the shirkers are, and of this the outside id his work at thirty years-for so long d world may through them know a little ; but in the five and his his firm conviction, firm as main, whilst Bishoprics Harrow last---it was and Deaneries reward head­ created Greek and ith in Harrow, that when God masters for success, or at least console them fo r the fa He in His and Latin verses in particular, want of it, their assistants must be content to be of Latin, a well­ man an unsurpassable and the number of the fa ithful who were never famous. wisdom gave to for every schoolboy to the With such a position, however, Mr Holmes was well nigh sufficient pabulum time. content. He lived for Harrow, and it was enough end of friend birth in 1859 he was a warm for him. Some, coming from a school like Shrewsbury, From their years He served himself fo r many then at the zenith of its fa me, might well have been of the Volunteers. and older grown was ever Salopians first, Harrovians afterwards : but not so in the XVIII Middlesex, and support to aid the Mr Holmes ; he was, and from ready with his guidance the first, an Harrovian As year by year the military efforts of the school. of Harrovians. At the triennial dinner dear to all compete with the various public schools old Harrow boys, at the match at Lord's, on Speech­ boys from arid Ashburton Shield upon the day, or at Wimbledon, no man more thoroughly repre­ one another fo r the very many Harrow masters sented Harrow. Of a turf at Wimbledon, not pre-eminently social disposition orts by their presence are to be found to animate their eff his love fo r the school fo und one mode of its expression was even better and encouragement ; but Mr Holmes in a liberal hospitality, which however never interfered at Lord's ; the kn at Wimbledon than he was with the just demands of work ; and to have been a own was incomplete without w n­ bright scene at the firing-point Harro boy was ever an unfailing claim to his co absent. his carriage, which was but rarely sideration and regard. In 1885 a new Head-Master day at last was a very solemn came to Harrow, who in point of years might have The 28th of April 398 Obitua1·Y· Obituary. 399 Harrow. Well nigh a thousand mourners in the old Mr Hymers gained a Sizarship at St John's in 1822, Parish Church, whose well-known spire points heaven­ was Second Wrangler in 1826, and was elected Fellow ward from the summit of the hill, a thousand more in 1827. In the University he was Moderator in the outside, bore an emphatic witness to the loss they years 1833 and 1834 and Lady Margarefs Preacher had sustained. Amongst the more immediate friends in 1841. He was appointed Assistant Tutor of the and near the massive primrose wreath and cross there College in 1829, Tutor in 1832, and President in 1848. chanced to be conspicuous three well-known old He was well known as one of the ablest and most Harrovia ns : the one, the Earl of Bessborough, the successful 'coaches ' at Cambridge, for some time very type of loyalty and love fo r Harrow ; another, running neck and neck with the late Mr Hopkins. Lord George Hamilton, the Tory Secretary of State ; In the year 1832, for example, the second and third another, and a former pupil, Major Eyre Crab be, the Wranglers were pupils of Dr Hymers, the first and nursing father of the last year's team at Wimbledon. fo urth pupils of Mr Hopkins. Amongst other pupils There could not have been more fitting mourners. we may mention the present Duke of Devonshire, our They represented at his grave the causes to which Chancellor, and the late Bishop Colenso. One of his Mr Holmes's energies were at all times affectionately fo rmer pupils writes as fo llows : and unsparingly devoted. "My recollection of him is of a remarkably hand­ some man, very cool and clear-headed, very patient and painstaking with his pupils, perhaps a little cold and reserved in manner, so that although all his pupils THE REv JOHN HYMERs, D.D., F.R.S. liked and respected him, they were never very intimate. The recent death of Dr John Hymers calls fo r some He was a man of varied attainments, and I can recol­ words of remembrance of one of the oldest members lect, after an hour's hard work at mathematics, having of the College, whose influence during his residence discussions with him on Wordsworth's poetry and on the success of the College and characters in Shakespeare's plays." on the mathematical ' studies of the University was not small or transient. Dr Hymers was the author of several mathematical Dr Hymers was born in July 1803 in the village works. In 1830 he published his Tr eatise on the of Ormesby, Cleveland. His fa ther occupied a farm Analytzeal Geometry of Three Dzmenszons, a subject under Sir W. Pennyman. His mother was a daughter which up to that time had been but briefly taught of the Rev John Parrington, Rector of Skelton in in any English work. In 1837 he published his Cleveland. His first school was Witton-Ie-Wear, in Tr eatise on Come Sectzons and the Theory of Plane the County of Durham, Mr N ewby being then Master. Curves, introducing what was then the new method He told the writer of this notice that he well recollected of abridged notation. In the second edition of his Mr Newby going down the street waving his hat and Integral Calculz6s there is a short account of the the newspaper containing the news of Waterloo. From theory of Elliptic Functions, then newly discovered Witton he went to Sedbergh, to the famous old school by J acobi. It is well to note that the subject was from· which so many J ohnian worthies have come, and introduced to the studies of the University at this which includes among its scholars the late Professor date, though it afterwards dropped out of the course Sedgwick. At that time Dr Wilkinson was Master. till some fo urteen years ago. Dr Hymers also pub- 400 Obituary. Obituary. 40 1 lished works on Trigonometry, Theory of Equations, ymers spent the remainder of his days. When Diffe rential Equations and Finite Differences ; and he Dr H the living he had no experience of parochial re-cast the Tr eah'se on Astronomy written by the Rev he took , and as it had been sadly neglected he felt keenly W. Maddy. The value of these works lay not so much work in their e difficulty of his position and wished the College presenting the result of Dr Hymers' own th researches allow him to resign the living and go back. as in their ·bringing into the reading of to nical difficulties lay in the way and the conditions the University the methods and discoveries of con­ Tech osed by the College were such as he ' could not tinental mathematicians. His books have in the last imp t. He was fo r many years chairman of the thirty years given place to others, their disuse being accep partly hastened by Leven Bench of Magistrates, and well known in all his adopting, in conjunction with • the late Professor Hallows Miller, a peculiar notatioh the country round. of days in the Differential and Integral Calculus. The writer of this notice spent a couple Dr Hymers was, as we have seen, no narrow at Brandsburton Rectory last autumn. The Rector's specialist, but a man of scholarly and cultivated habits, conversation ran principally on Johnians and Johniana. and he was widely read in classical authors. In his He had kept up a constant corre;;pondence with his earlier vacations he travelled much on the continent, old College friends, and his memory of College affairs It is when travelling was not so easy or expeditious as reached back over a period of sixty years. at present. In those days a Fellow of the College greatly to be regretted that he made no record of required permission from the Master and Senior his College life. Fellows to travel abroad. The earliest permission He enjoyed excellent health to the last, and was following of this kind relating to Dr Hymers seems to be one simple and regular in his habits. The made 11th June 1830, when the following Order appears letter to Dr Churchhill Babington, dated 14th February in the College 'Conclusion Book '; "Agreed that 1887 is of interest ; Mr Palmer, Mr Hughes, Mr Taylor, Mr Hymers and DEAR DR BABINGTON, Mr Pooley have leave to go abroad." Simila'r per­ I am extremely obliged to you for your Catalogue missions were granted from time to time during his of the Birds of Suffolk. I take great interest in your fine ' residence. County, as I am well acquainted with many parts of it. Dr Hymers was instrumental in getting the portrait I constantly visited Layham during the many years that of the Poet 'lVordsworth painted for the College . Mr Hughes was Rector there. I am pleased to infer that terary and Last year he presented to the Library some papers you enjoy good health as you are so active both in li you will be glad to hear that relating to Wordsworth, among which is an autograph scientific pursuits. I am sure I am much "galled by the Yoke of Time," and take copy of the well-known sonnet addressed by the not e when the weather suits. bolh riding and driving. Poet to his portrait. This is now framed gs exercis and han Believe me yours very truly. in the Library. He was connected by marriage with J. HYMERS. Wordsworth, his mother being a cousin of the poet's wife, and he was an occasional visitor at Rydal. Dr Hymers died on the 7th April last, at the age of The lowing bequest ; "I give College elected him to the Rectory of Brands­ 84. His will contained the fol and personal burton in Holderness in the year 1852, and there and bequeath all the resi.due of my real estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoe\'er to the VOL. XIV. GGG 403 ObitUa1'Y' 402 OMtua'l'Y· and honourable academic record Mayor and Corporation of the Borough of Kingstort .. Such is the simple life cut off early. He was sent upon-Hull in the County of York, wherewith to fo und of a frail and tender to Bournemouth, and last to the and endow a Grammar School in their town on the on sea voyages, then There he died on the 1 3th of March models of the Grammar Schools at Birmingham and South of France. fo rget his high intel­ Dulwich fo r the training of intelligence in whatever last. His friends will not easily to a gentle and affectionate social rank of life it may be fo und amongst the vast lectual power, joined last acts of his undergraduate and varied population of the town and port of Hull." disposition. One of the in the wet fo r the purpose It is said that this bequest would amount to a sum life was to go out at night for a friend suffering from approaching £170,000. Unfortunately fo r Hull the of getting a simple remedy will appears to hav'e been unskillfully drawn, its slight attack of illness. a W E H�ITLAND. provisions being apparently contrary to the Statute of Mortmain. It is said that the question of the validity of the bequest turns upon the words "found and endow." Had they been "found or endow " the Corporation might have endowed an existing school ' with the personalty, and so far as this went pleaded that they had brought no new land into Mortmain. It is however understood that Mr Robert Hymers, the heir-at-Iaw, has spontaneously offered the Cor­ poration a sum of £ 40,000 fo r the purpose of carrying out Dr Hymers' wishes. R.. F. S.

ARTHUR EDWARD FOSTER, SCHOLAR.

Arthur Edward Foster was admitted a member of the College on Jan. 22, 1883, and came up in October of the same year. In the May Term 1884 he steered the second L.M.B.C. boat. In June 1885 he was elected a Foundation Scholar. His mathematical career was often checked by illness ; during the year 1885-6 consumptive symptoms became serious, and it was only with great difficulty that he lasted through the Tripos Examination of 1886. With fair health he would no 'doubt have taken a higher place than 8th Wrangler. Our Ohronicle. 405

Edward Ernest Sikes, Minor Scholar, has been bracketed with two others for the second Bell Scholarship. The Court of Aldermen of the City of London have appointed Mr Francis Hammond, M . A. (RA. 1883) to be Head Master of the Market Harborough Grammar School. The Rev J. F. Bateman, Rector of North and South Lopham, OUR CHRONICLE. has been appointed Rural Dean of Rocldand, Diocese of Norwich. EasIer Term, 1887. The Rev Joseph Nunn, M.A., formerly Scholar of the College, has recently been appointed to the Rural Deanery of We have received Ardwick by the Lord Bishop of Manchester. Mr Nunn is said from a high authority a note reference with be one of the most able educationalists in the North of to the paragraph on Bishop Pearson which appeared to in last ngland, and has twice been called to give evidence before the Term's Chronicle. The living of Blackburn, we learn, E was Educational Commissioners. He is the author of the scheme offered to him by the Bishop of Manchester, and accepted. was Religious Education now used by the Manchester School It was arranged that Dr Pearson should enter for his on of which he was elected Chairman in 1886, having been duties early in March, but towards the end of Board, 1886 December a member of the same for some years previously. his health unhappily broke down and his physicians ordered him some months of absolute rest. In the circum­ D. Kikuchi B.A. (19th Wrangler 1877), Professor of Mathe­ stances he telegraphed to Dr Moorhouse resigning the matics in Tokio University, Japan, is translating and editing which living, if not filled by March W(luld have passed out for the Japanese Government a series of text-books of elemen­ latter's of the hands and the opportunity of securing the tary geometry and algebra. He has already translated and assistance desired of a coadjutor would have been lost. The published the Syllabus of Pia/le Geornel1y prepared by the advices last report some improvement in Dr Pearson's health, Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching, and but the illness is still very serious, and we regret to add that Clifford's Common Sense of Ihe Exact Sct'mces. other anxieties are doubtless retarding his recovery. It is said Mr Pendlebury has presented to the Library volumes I to 26 that the endowment of the see left by Bishop Tyrrell has by of Wiedemann's Annalen der Physi� tmd Chende (Neue Folge), some pecuniary mischance been almost entirely lost. thus making the Library copy of this useful serial complete to The Rev William James Furneaux Vashon Baker (Fourth date from the commencement of the new series. Classic 1875), Fellow of the College and late Master at relatives of the late W. A. Forbes, Fellow of the Marlborough, has acceptoo the The Rectory of Brandsburton, have presented his scientific books to the Philosophical 'Vacant by the death of Dr I-Iymers. College, Library. Professor Macalister has been elected President of the The Library has recently acquired by purchase a volume of Cambridge Antiquarian Society for the ensuing year. academical some interest. This is a copy of the first edition of the celebrated Dzversz'ofts of Purl� (Part i) published in 1]86, Mr Scott, our Senior Bursar, has been nominated which was formerly in the possession of the author,-' John for the Proctor ensuing year. Home Tooke, A.M. late of St John'S College, Cambridge,' as The The margins of not a University of Edinburgh has conferred on Professor he describes himself on the title-page. A. W. Momerie, with his own manuscript notes, formerly Fellow of the College, the honorary few of the pages are covered degree of Doctor of Laws. with a view apparently to a second edition. Reid in his John Horm Tooke, Esq., Mr Mathews, Professor of account of Tooke, entitled PubNc Life of Mathematics in the University s to Cambridge and entered of St John's College of North Wales, has ays: 'He was sent returned the dividend of his addition to his former character he now fellowship for the year, with the College in I] 51. In request that it may be devoted a his assiduity in the prosecution of his to the building of the new lecture-rooms. dded that of industry; studies was laudable and exemplary. Even at that early period, Ds Lewis Erle Shore, Scholar of the College, has been he is supposed to have conceived his plan for the. better appointed University Demonstrator of Physiology in the room construction of his native language, and from whIch he of Ds H. D. Rolleston. afterwards derived so much celebrity in his "E7rEU 'llnpOEJlTu. 4,06 OU?' Ch?'onicle. Our Cl�?'onicle. 407 While at Cambridge Mr Home took the degree of A.M. s preached by the Rev J. H. Lupton, Sur-Master of St Paul's was not ; it wa a little remarkable that this was attempted to be with chool, and was so much appreciated that he has been requested held from S him by Lord Mumford, a relative to the nobleman o publish it in full. We give a few extracts. (Lord Temple) t who afterwards opposed his sitting in the House of Commons ' (p. 6). Tooke's singular Dedication is COMMEMORATION SERMON. follows: The bricks are fallen down, but we will bu itd with hewn stones: the TO THlI: sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. Isaiah ix. 10. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE: "It must needs be with much diffidence," the preacher began, "that one One of her grateful Sons-who always considers been a scholar in tbis ancient home of learning rises in his place, on act!; of voluntary justice towards himself as Favours,­ who has ch an anni versary as this, to address the assembled members of it. There dedicates this humble offering. And particularly to su needs come back upon him the thronging recollections of bygone days, her chief ornament for virtue and talents, the Reverend must And as memory recalls Doctor Beadon, Master of Jesus College. when he fIrst trod these studious courts as a learner. mpressions of that earlier time, softened but not dimmed by the lapse of Although the i the philological learning of the Diversions of thirty years, the ch ange from past to present will seem hardly real. The mind Puriey is seek ins inctively to resume its once familiar habits and modes of thought. that of a past generation, it will hardly be questioned will t that the It will seem to feel once more the wholesome sense of conscious ignorance; present volume has found its proper resting place on our library shelves, to look up, with the honourable deference of youth, to those who occupy the especially when we add that the copy to claim once more their inspiring help and encourage­ formerly in the teacher's seat, and possession of the library has been missing for ment." many years. After instancing some links of connexion, which made it not unfitting that one from the school of Whitaker, Gower, and Thomas Clarkson should The Rev J. H. Lupton, Sur-Master of St Paul's School and be discharging this office, h continued:- formerly Fellow of the College, besides presenting the Library " Into what channel, then, may our thoughts be most profitably guided, as with a copy of his new Life of Dean Colet, founder of St the result of this th ankful commemoration? How shall we best gather up, Paul's the reflections suggested by the long roll of School, has also given us another volume of more than ordinary and tW'n to good account, interest, of which we benefactors whose names are about to be read? The lesson drawn from it find the following account in Notes and and from all our observances this evening, as it seems to me, should be Quenes (26 April !875): twofold. There shonld be a sense of devout gratitude to Almighty God for It is a copy of Julius Scaliger's Pot/Ices Lz'bri Septem, the progress, alike material and intellectual, which our College has been God's bought from the sale of the late bishop Sumner's library, and permitted to make; and there shonld be a steadfast resolve, with still in its original blessing, not to let that progress suffer any check or reversal in our selves. binding, having on the title-page the or otherwise, of St John's, signature "Ric. If I were to expatiate on the growth, material Boker." On the next page is written, "Ex dwing the three centuries and three qnarters that have rolled over it, I should dono Richardi Hookeri sua sponte benignissime inculcantis, be but repeating some faint echoes of what you have hem"d from learned A.D. 1581, J an: 25·" At the end, just under"Finis," members of your own society. Words, indeed, are hardly needed on su ch a there is Look down from any little written (but in a different hand) "Pallatio Episcothorpho subject. The evidence is before your eyes. Edwini eminence on the courts of tllis College, as they stand ranged side by side. Eboracensis clamante . ad coquinam. 1580. Augusti 27"' and the story t h ey have to tell is plain to you in a moment From that Gla soli Deo." The place and date, Bishopthorpe, 1580, venerable first court , once a college complete in itselr, with its hall and! would seem to point to Edwin (afterwards Sir Edwin) Sandys as libr ary and chapel, to the new fourth court of fair sto}1ework, it has been one" the one who finished "justas the dinner-bell was ringing." steady, continuous history of growth and expansion. And if the first volume­ of this history, so to speak, appear almost i nsignificant to us, compared with There are many marginal notes, but none of any particular interest. the full extent of the completed work, recall for a moment that still earlier Readers for Dr Murray's great Dictionary may time, when the humbler buildings of the old Hospital of St John occupied however be interested to hear of an old English word, ., happer­ the site. Nay, revert in thought to the period more distaut still, when even catch," given as the equivalent of aKpoXE!pl(E!v. There is also those buildings had not yet been raised. S ix centuries ago, in 1275, the land occasionally a rap given at Scaliger's self-conceit. 011 which th ey were in due time to be reared, is described as " a certain very poor and waste place of the Commonally of tlle Town of Cambridge. "

" COMMEMORATION - " pl c to tlle primitive Hospital of OF BENEFACTORS. On the sixth of May From that ver y poor and waste a e the annual Oollege celebration was attended by a more than St Joh n ; from that to the stately pile of the Lady Margaret and Bishop usually large number of distinguished Fisher ; and from that again to the long. drawn series of courts and cloisters J ohnians and others, - including Professor and cathedra l like chapel that we now behold,-has been a c ontinnous Adams, Professor Pritchard, Sir Patrick development, an increase as with the increase 0./ God that none can fail to Colquhoun, Sir John Gorst and Mr Rothery, th recognise. " R together wi Mr aikes, M.P. (the Postmaster-General), Mr Walpole, M .P. After showing that such an increase might not always be made in a right (Deputy High Steward), Mr spirit, but in the boastful, self-confident spint of Ephraim, referred to in the Henniker Beaton, M.P., and tex e t sion the Master of Trinity t, the preacher went on to declare the right principles on which x en (Dr Butler). The Sermon in Chapel should be call'ietl out, adding: 408 Oter Olwom·cle. Our Ohronicle. 409

.. Oh! how glorious might be the future of this house of learning practice of eagles in real life; but it seems to impair their exceeding even the glory of the past, if evelY member of it would respond t� efulness as weathercocks. Anyhow our new bird has a the call these mingled voices are giving us him, and rise to newness of life an

not nor is weary in those whom you have just sent out from tllis University_ together; the following compose the Barry, Bickersteth, and the younger Selwyn. Think been able to get well you that tlle heroic in Gordon ceased to beat when crew: his pulse stood still in the ruins of Khartoum? or the dedicated scholarship Shaw (bow) of your own Palm er ceased to think, to read, to p, E. pray, as he fell down that Arabian cliff? 2 A, G. Cooke 3 T. P. Hartley Dean Gott: University Sermon (Cam. 4 P. J. Fagan bridge Review, May 4, 1887). 5 E. Prescotl 6 J. F. Tarleton MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS, EASTER TERM, 1887. 7 P. H. Brown G. T. Lloyd (stroke) THIRD EXAMINATION. W. H. Verity (cox) Part I. Ds Rolleston CRICKET CLUB. Grenfell. Part II. Pre sident: Mr W. F. Smith. Captai,,: J. S. G. G. Price. Ds Goodman Ds Kerr Treasurer: Mr F. L. Thompson. Se cretary: W. Ds Jones, H. R. Ds Shore Ainger. Committ ee: H. Hanmer, H. S. Ware. W. H. B.C. EXAMINATION. 7· Matches played 12. Won 3. Lost 2. Drawn Ds Hunt-Cooke Ds Rolleston season, Talking over our prospects at the beginning of the ADMITTED TO THE DEGREE OF M.D. 8 old one would have said they were very promising, what with Mag W. A. Bond. freshmen. colours and some decidedly useful if not brilliant ADMITTED E have TO THE D GREE OF RC. Unfortunately it cannot be said that these anticipations Mag W. A. Bond Ds Kerr realised; examinations and other considerations been altogether have have greatly handieapp�d the team, and few members W. Greenstock, LADY MARGARET BOAT CLUB. played regularly. The old' colours are H. Ainger, H. Hanmer, H. S. Ware, J. S. G. Grenfell, W. The Bateman Pairs, rowed at the end of last Term, produced G. D. White and W. G. Price; of these F. N. Schiller, who two entries, R. P. Roseveare and R. R. Hall, and A. C. Millard has been unable to play at all, and White, and L. Greenstock retained H. K. Bushe-Fox; the former gained from the start, and seems to have quite lost his form this season, has not won by 30 yards. his place in the XI. For the vacancies there was considerable In making among the up the First Boat this Term Francis has had competition, which resulted in Barnett and Allen several Roughton and difficulties to contend against: we hope the result of the Seniors, and the following Freshmen-Moulton, races will prove that he has successfully overcome them. places. The XI as a whole might have been yarious Walsh-finding though combinations have been tried, but the following will could they have played together more often, probably good, change� be the final arrangement of the crew:- little more smartness in the field and a good a Individually, .. J. Collin (bow) bowler would have been a great improvement. 2 bat, Moulton, R. H. FOl'ster Barnett, who has made a distinct advance as a °t 3 L. E. Wilson Moulton's and Roughton are the best of the new colours, *t§ 4 W. C. Fletcher should develop into 5 R. P. Roscveare bowling being decidedly useful; Roughton to be rather too .. I> A. C. Millard a good bat, though at present he is inclined .. 7 R. R. Hall free. Of the old colours Schiller has on several occasions * L. H. K. Bushe-Fox (stroke) well, while the others have all in turn A. Hill (cox) bowled exceedingly shown good form. • chiefly owing rowed in the First Boat in 1886. Fewer matches have been played than usual, t " some of th� 1885. to rain, and this will account in a great measure for § 1884. . averages not being as high as might be expected. The new Swaddle unceasing energy is fast' and suits the crew well, and is a word of praise is due to Grenfell for his A success. vast improvement on the wretched ships built by Logan, which as in which post he has proved a great we have Captain, an unbeaten been doomed to use in past years. Up to the present the Second XI has pursued The 3, lost none. Second Boat has not suffered as in previous years career, having played 9 matches: won 6, drawn from the changes features of thes� in the First Boat, and in consequence has Newnham's bowling has been one of the 412 Our Cla-om·cle. OU?· Chronicle. 413 matches, and it is to be regretted that he cation. We also hope to obtain some ash Tennis Courts when playing for Va the First XI. the use of members by next October, with a view to SI John's v Magdalme. for This match, which was played providing accommodation in the winter Terms for those who our ground on April on 30th, resulted in a very easy victory for take part in neither Football nor Rowing. Starting our second Magdalene went first to us. the wickets, but no one offered year under such favourable circumstances, we must in no way resistance to our bowling witq the exception of E. A. Poole relax our efforts, but devote them to the greater efficiency of the Who played a good and , plucky innings of 3 I. We lost tw Club, to which end the Committee will always be ready to much wickets for 34, when o Toppin and Sharmall became partner receive suggestions from members. and completely mastered s, the bowling; after Toppin had retired for a freely hit 79 Hanmer came in, and together with LAWN TENNIS CLUB. Sharman played out time. Score :-Magdalene 77; St John's Twenty-one matches were arranged for this Term-but only 239 for 3 wickets. twelve of these were played; the badness of the weather Sf John's v Assynans. Played on our ground in great measure for this unfortunate- fact. The The Assyrians on May 3rd. has to account brought a strong team, and moreover season has been a most successful one however, in spite of toss. However. won the we got on very well indeed until We have not lost a single match, while we have won 7th wicket, the fall of the the rain. when W. M. O. Wilson-an old Johnian eleven and drawn one. This being so it might seem and J. B. Barton Captain­ got together, and took the Score from unnecessary to make the usual complaint of Lawn Tennis Club t 70; 108 to then Jupiter Pluvius took pity on us representative team could never be pavilion. Score and sent us to the Secretaries that the most :-Assyrians 170 for 7 wickets. obtained. But in fact our success was gained in the teeth of Sf John's Trim(y. v Played on the Trinity adverse circumstance-Brown has constantly had engagements May 5th. ground on This should have been a two day's match, elsewhere-Bushe-Fox has been devoting his energies to the to wet no but owing play took place on the second day. L.M.B.C.-and Ainger has not often been available. On the lost the toss, As usual we and Trinity went in; however, with hand, Card, Windsor, and Scott have all played regularly, of Ashfield the exception other and Wright, no one stayed long, and and halie all improved on last year's form-and in Thompson closed for the innings 101. We started disgracefully, 3 wickets the Club has found a player who is always useful and not seldom with the Score being down at zero, then Hanmer and Roughton brilliant. The following table shows the work of the season:- and at the hit freely, close of the .•.. day's play we had lost 6 wickets Monday, April 25 ..•.T r inity Hall Won 8 rubbers to 1 SI John's for 6z. v Ring's. Played Caius . . . . " 9 0 on the St John's ground on Tuesday, ,, 26 ...... May 9th. .•.• ...... •• Contrary to custom we won the toss, and Wednesday, " 27 Mayflies " 5 4 wickets. went to the ,. 29 .... Clare ...... " 6 3 Grenfell and Hanmer played well Friday, for their. scores, 43 ..•. s . • • . . • • 7 2 and z8 respectively, Grenfell Saturday, May 7 King' . " playing an . innings. exceptionally good Monday, 9 . . . Peterhouse...... " 5 4 Our bowling fared . . ... very badly against the batting of Thursday, 12 .. . Selwyn . . .. ,, 8 " 1 Ford and Studd, , 2 who made 104 without being parted. Saturday, 14 . ... Pembroke , ..... ,7 " Score:-St 16 .. . .Clare .....••..• " 9 0 John's 180; King's 104 without the Monday, wicket. loss of a Thursday, ,, 19 . . . . Christ's .....• ,. ,,7 " 2 Tuesday, ,, 24 .... Jesus ...... Draw 3 3 2 RUGBY ,, 31 .•..Emmanuel ••••Won 7 , UNION FOOTBALL CLUB. Tuesday, At a general meeting The Committee decided that the unprecedented success of held this term W. C. Kendall was elected Captain, and the season fully warranted the inclusion of seven members in J. Backhouse Second Captain and Secretary for next season. the representative team. W. H. Ainger bas an easy style but is not quite severe enough, and is too GENERAL ATHLETIC CLUB. fond of half volleying. Has not a good service. G. C. D. Brown is by far our be�t player. Has improved in volleying since' The success of the first year of the Club is now assured, last year and places well. Has a good service. Play rather uncertain. and has already done Plays a much its work in winning over many former L. H. K. Busbe Fox bas only played in the earlier 'matches. objectors to the scheme. In addition better double than single game, as his volleying is mnch superior to his to the purchase of a neW - light ship for the First Boat, back play. Serves well sometimes. we may count on a balance of last year, especially in volleying, but bis back­ close on £ 100 to act as a reserve S. F. Card has improved since fund. A general meeting is band volleying is still weak. Service rather erratic. Plays a good to be held this Term I to revise the provisional rules which the uphill game, and never knows when he is beaten. Committee were authorised game from the back of the court, hittUlg hard and to prepare; and before the end A. O. Scott plays a steady the Term '0£ the side lines, bnt both service and back-ban d are very. special arrangements will be made for placing down the Long weak. Cannot volley. 4I4 Our Ohrom·cle. OW' Ohronicle. 415

W. H. Thompson has a good stroke from the Vice-Chancellor at the the back of the court and can The Guard of Honour attending volley fairly well, but is rather als(t fond of the net. Can kill high Service at Great St Mary's on Whit Sunday was has a hard service. balls anet Jubilee . J. Windsor hed to half its strength by B Company men, Lieut. has learned to volley and furnis has a good cross·stroke from of the court. but the back ins and Col.-Sergt. Knight acting as Subaltern and cannot kill well. Service fair. Cous Card and Sergeant of the Guard. Thompson played together in most of the and have a very matches The Company Cup was this Term again won by Corp. Hill. fair record. In addition to the regular D. T. B. Field, team, Sergeant W. A. Cousins has passed the Proficient Examina­ G. E. Green and H. Simpson occasionally represented the College. tion for Sergeants. The ties are now in their semi-final DEBATING SOCIETY. handicap stage, and a club is in progress, which may possibly before be concluded The following motions have been discussed since the last the end of the Term if weather permits. The thanks notice of the Society appeared: of the Club are due to the Council far from being a crime, is in permission to for granting March 5th :-" That suicide, continue play on the courts till 7 p. J. R. Thomas, the first season m. ; as this is many cases most laudable." Proposed by under the new 1'egz'me of the General Olub, it may Athletic opposed by J. G. C. Mendis. Carried. not be out of place to add that the had a decidedly formation has April 30th :-" That this house censures the system of beneficial effect upon the life Tennis Club, of the Lawn tipping as highly immoral. " Proposed by J. G. C. Mendis, and that the Courts have been used even more than in former years. opposed by A. M. Mond. Lost. The evening of March 12th, was devoted to an impromptu THE debate, in which most of the members present took part. EAGLE LAWN TENNIS CLUB. The following are the officers for the May Term. Presz'dent, At a Meeting of this Club, held in W. H. Ainger's . J. F. Howell; Secretary, A. W. Feb. 7th. the following rooms on R H. Bigg; Vz'ce-Preszdent, were elected members:-H. C. F. Baker; Commz'ttee, F. N. Schiller, M. H. Hayward, Newbery, Greenup; Treasurer, H. H. C. BarracIough, G. W. Atlay, and H. Prescott. A. Munro, A. M. Mond. THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. A Meeting of the Club also took place F. H. on May 3. when Walsh, L. H. Nicholl, and A. R. Charters The following officers have been elected for the May Term. and the rules were elected, of the Club revised. At Adeney; Secreta1Y, E. B. Ward; decided the same time it was Preszdmt, F. F. that in addition to the usual Single H. W. Macklin; there should anq Double Ties, Treasurer. be Handicap' Singles.' Commz'ttee, A. J. Judsen, W. N. Willis. W. H. Ainger has won the Singles for the second time; the Papers have been read as follows:- other ties have not yet been played off. May 5 .••, " Law in the New Testament" ..•.H. H. ScuIlard. C. U. R. V. " 12 ••••••" Justification" ...•..Rev H. H. B. Ayles, B.A. 19 •. ...•... B (St John's Colt.) Company. " " Monasticism" ...... H. J. Warner, B.A. " 26 ..•..." MSS of New Testament " .....• W. P. Legge. The College Company was well represented Camp detachment in the Colchester last Easter. Of the, three commissioned ST JOHN'S COLLEGE MISSION. officers two were members of B Company, Capt. College Mission is proceeding steadily and manding the detachment) Scott (com­ The work of the and Lieut. Cousins, while Col.-Sergt. surely, and its influence continues to shew itself in many ways. Knight and Sergt. Wright were the two forty rank and file about Senior N. C.O's. Of the The Senior Secretary (Mr Whitaker) being away in America a third were Johnians, who again Mr Watson has undertaken his work till he returns. a good example to the set other companies in the smartness of F. W. Parker has resigned the ofIice of Junior Secretary, and their hut and general turn out. Several his place has been t:tken by E. B. Ward. men also attended the Dover Monday. Review on Easter During the Easter Vacation there was quite a succession of Members of the College staying at the Mission. At the Annual Inspection by the District officer commanding the Mr Ward was there in Holy Week. (Col. Pearson), held at the beginning concert, compa of this Term, the R. P. Roseveare was very energetic in arranging a' ny paraded in very nearly full strength, overflowing. the battalion and as No. 1 of Which was a decided success, the room being filled to acquitted itself very creditably, of New South Wales was kind enough marching past. especially in Rev Mr Campbell to give a lecture on 'Australia,' which was much appreciated. 416 Our Ch rOll 1·cle. OU?· Chronicle. 417 It is hoped that a good many Members of will be able to the College visit Walworth during the coming ey asked for a church; they were sufficiently educated to Vacation. The Junio-r - Th Secretary will be glad to hear of ue a church; they were praying for a church and would get willing to spend a week val or more there. one. To his dying day he should rejoice that the College had We expect to be able to provide treats children for the school taken the Mission work in hand, and in his diocese their and others during the summer. other is one Money for these example had been widely followed by colleges. They of the most pressing needs. Mr the lowest to the As to hear Phillips will be glad were constructing a bridge from highest. of anyone who is able to assist in Christian Faith could more The this matter. a result it would be felt that the do Cricket Club at the Mission will be thankful than any of the schemes put forth any old bats to receive for the poverty-stricken or other cricketing materials which . The Building can be spared. by politicians- Fund is progressing, but rather F. Watson had traced the progress of the A London slowly. After the Rev Meeting is to be held in tbe Earl the College and Mr E. T. Hamilton had shewn Berkeley Square, of Powis' house, Mission in on June 1 (see below). The Bishop valued by the people of Walworth, the following and several influential of Rochester how it was Johnians have promised to be resolution was proposed by Sir John Gorst, M.P., seconded by and it is hoped this present, will greatly help to forward the W. A. Whitworth, and carried unanimously : "That this The site has work. Rev been secured and the rights of meeting rejoices in the progress which has been made by the tenants bought out existing so that building operations can be Mission during the last three years, and cornmends the Building menced at once as Soon com.i as the necessary funds have been raised Fund to the hearty support of all Johnian s." The Bishop The Rev J. S. Hoare proposed, and Dr Merriman seconded, of Rochester presided at the annual of the Rochester Diocesan meeting a resolution for the establishment of a London Committee in Society on May 27. During speech he said:-As his aid of the Building Scheme, and a provisional Committee, to the work done by the college and missions in South London school consisting of Revs W. A. Whitworth, A. T. Barnett, A. Calde­ each of the missions had a character of its own, each had made a special cott, and the two Missioners, was appointed. Dr Merriman He progress of its own. J ohnian Incumbents should always be grateful to St John's made the practical suggestion that all set the College for having for the Building Fund in their example in South London. St John's should have an offertory far developed College had so hoped this suggestion will be generally its work that it was on the point Churches, and it is church. The of building a congregation had reached that period carried out. development that of religious The Vice-Chancellor, in proposing a vote of thanks to Lord they wished for a church. The in which they now building for the use of his house and for presiding at the meeting, worshipped was to be pulled down Powis had obtained a site-gratuitously and they observed that the future historian would note that the charac­ presented by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners-and teristic ,of the University in the Victorian era was Extension­ he was to attend a meeting on the June to raise a fund 1st of extension in the range of its studies, extension by means of to build the church as soon as possible. the local lectures, and extension by means of Missions like A well-attended that of St John's. and enthusiastic meeting in aid Building Fund of of the Hopes were expressed by the Bishop of Rochester and the St John's College Mission in Walworth was held at the London others that the building operations should not be put off till house of Lord Powis on Wednesday, June 1St; Lord Powis next year but should begin in October next. The Missioner was in the Chair. Letters expressing regret that they were is very anxious that this should be done. For many reasons unable to be present were read from Marquis of Exeter, Archdeacon the delay is inadvisable, but the Committee will not be justified Gifford, Canon Rowsell, Canon subscriptions are quickly received. Body, F. S. Powell, M.P., H. S. in building unless further Rothery, and others. to £1400. £7000 is wanted The Bishop of Rochester, speaking The Building Fund now amounts of of the work and progress but a considerable part of this sum will be provided the Mission, said, no mission had altogether, element. less of the sensational Societies. With [600 more in hand It was not drum and trumpet, by Diocesan and other it was simple litur­ be made. The proposal has been made gical work-a work characterised by a start would probably steadiness. manful determined resolute be called The Church of the Lady "Dogged" in a good sense described it. that the Church should ness Devout­ be paid to the Building Fund was its key. He could not have believed Margaret. Subscriptions should it that till he had seen St John's College Mission at Messrs MortloCks, Cam­ work on Church lines done in such of the have been a simple way could bridge; or to the Treasurer, Rev F. Watson, St John's College. so successful. The work had now experimental passed from the Cambridge. Collecting cards can be obtained from the to the permaqent stage. A church to was about the Missioner, or from the Junior Secretary, E. B, be built �nd it was wanted. The congregation Treasurer, was ready. Ward, G New Court, St john's. VOL. XIV, III The Libmry. 419

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