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T!le Library 231 jOHN COUCH ADAMS.
�y the death, on January 21, 1892, of Professor �ls1 Adams, Honorary Fellow, the name of the greatest man of science of whom the College � �boa st has been removed from our roll. His fame can as an Astronomer, who had extended by a thousand millions of miles the known limits of the solar system, reflected glory on the College within whose walls the great achievement was planned and carried out. His earnest devotion to duty, his simplicity, his perfect selflessness, were to all who knew his life in Cambridge a perpetual lesson, more eloquent than speech. From the time of his first great discovery, scientific honours were showered upon him, but they left him as they
found him-'-modest, gentle, and sincere. Contro versies raged fo r a time around his name, national
and scientific rivalries were stirred up concerning his work and its reception, but he took no part in them, and would generously have yielded to others' claims more than his greatest contemporaries would allow to be just. With a single mind for pure knowledge �e pursued his studies, here bringing a whole chaos Into cosmic order, there vindicating the supremacy of a natural law beyond the imagined limits of its, pe � ration: now tracing and abolishing errors that ad crept into the calculations of the acknov'l1edged &/,l'l masters h' cra t, an d now g1V111g' , time, an d 0 f f st e IS 111: ,ngt :0 resolving the self-made difficulties of h a e l begmner: and all the time with so little thought of , rno�:l11ning recognition or applause that much of his perfect work remained fo r long, or still remains,
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/.{ma::J1/, Pu,blt.:flud qy Hacnutlan & c.0, 122 John Couclt Adams. John Couch Ada ms. clopaedz'a, which he met with in the library unpublished. To such a man the nation e Cy J. eS Devonport Mechanics' Institute. In the same sake may raise a monument in the national V 'f the e across a copy of Vince's Fluxzons, which but his true memorial is elsewhere-in the starry �brary he cam 11 . . the hearts which he inspired with his first mtro d'uctlOn to t h e h'Ig h er mat h ematlCS. and in wa 5 . affection. In October 1839 he entered at St John's College, During his undergraduate course he was We give elsewhere an account of the steps Cambridge. the first man of his year in the College have been taken to record his fame on the walls invariably Wef'tminster Abbey ; here, with his portrait Examinations, and in the Mathematical Tripos of 1843 by the kindness of Messrs Macmillan, we are en he obtained the position of Senior Wrangler. He was to print an account of his career, written by hi soon after elected to a Fellowship, and became one Qf for a biographical work but not hitherto published the mathematical tutors of his college. length, which Mrs Adams has very generously Mr Adams's attention was firstcalled to the existence us. No other pen could have written in so subdued of unexplained disturbances in the motion of the planet strain of what he was and what he did ; of this Uranus by reading Mr Airy's valuable Report on the reader will constantly have to remind himself. recent progress of Astronomy which appeared in the first the unique interest of the piece has led us volume of the Reports of the Brt'tzsh Assocz·atz'on. Ac it to an ampler account by any other hand. cording to a memorandum dated early in July 1841, he had then fo rmed a design of investigating, as soon as possible after taking his degree, "the irregularities JOHN COUCH ADAMS M.A. F.R.S. &c. was in the motion of Uranus which are yet unaccounted for, on June 8, 1819, at Lidcot, a fa rm occupied in order to find whether they may be attributed to the actio his father in the parish of Laneast, near Laun n of an undiscovered planet beyond it, and, if poss Cornwall. At a very early age he shewed ible, thence to determine the elements of its orbit, great aptitude for calculation, and while he which would probably lead to its discovery." Acco still attending the village school he taught rdingly in 1843 he attempted a first rough solu tion of the rudiments of Algebra by the help of F the problem on the assumption that the orbit Was a circle Young Algebrazst's Compant'on, a copy of which he with a radius equal to twice the mean dis tance of with in his schoolmaster's scanty library. Wh-en Uranus from the Sun. The result showed that good general agreement between theory and observa- twelve years of age he was sent to a school at :. . IOn mig port, kept by the Rev John Couch Grylls,. a first ht be obtained. In order to make the data mployed of his mother. � more complete Mr Adams applied, through rofe ssor He remained under Mr Grylls' tuition fo r a Challis, to the Astronomer Royal, Mr Airy, ho in F!=b many years, first at Devonport and afterwards at Sal � ruary 1844 kindly sent him the results of all le Greenwic and Landulph, and received the usual school training . h observations of Uranus. He was thus Indu ed to k C undertake a new solution of the problem, now Classics and Mathematics. He developed a great t ln into account the most important terms depending for Astronomy, and read with avidity all the books oa g the first that subject to which he could obtain access. In s� power of the eccentricity of the orbit of the PPOsed ticular he read nearly all the astronomical articles disturbing planet, but retaining the same John Couch .Jolzn Couc/z dams. 125 124 Ada1JZs. A . assumption as before with respect to the mean the place thus assigned by M. Le Verrier to the dis In September 1845 Mr Adams communicated to planet was the same, within one degree, as that rbing fessor Challis the values which he had obtained for tu Mr Adams's calculations, which had been com iven by mass, heliocentric longitude, and elements of the !unicated to the Astronomer Royal seven months before. of the assumed planet. The same results, This coincidence left no doubt in Mr Airy's mind of the corrected, he communicated before the middle reality and general exactness of the prediction of the following month to the Astronomer Royal. place, and he urged Professor Challis to under planet's communications were made in the hope that a s the search for it with the Northumberland telescope take for the planet would have been made either at the Cambridge Observatory. Professor Challis did of bridge or Greenwich, but unfortunately this was not hesitate to undertake the search, although he ex done in consequence of the pressure of other work. pected that it would prove a long and laborious one. November 5, 1845, the Astronomer Royal wrote His plan was to examine a zodiacal zone having its' Mr Adams enquiring whether his theory would centre in the ecliptic at 325° of longitude, and extending for the observed error of the Radius Vector of 15° of longitude in each direction from the central point, but although the question might easily have and from 5° north to 5° south latitude. He proposed to answered satisfactorily, Mr Adams unfurtunately make two sweeps over each portion of the zone, and lected to reply to it. then, when the observations were compared, a planet On November 10, 1845, M. Le Verrier presented to would be at once detected by its motion in the French Academy of Sciences a very elaborate in interval. tion of the perturbations of U ranus produced by The observations were commenced on July 29. three and Saturn, in which he pointed out several weeks before the planet was in opposition, and were inequalities which had previously been continued fo r two months. For the first fe w nights the After taking these into account and correcting telescope was directed to the part of the zone in the elements of the orbit, he still fo und that the theory immediate neighbourhood of the place indicated by quite incapable of explaining the observed . theory. Unfortunately these observations were not in the motion of U ranus. immediately compared with each other, or Professor On June 846, M. Le Verrier presented a Challis would have discovered, what he found after I, J memoir on the theory of U ranus to the French Wards to be th e case, that he had actually observed the in which he concludes that the discordances between p�anet on August and August 12, the 3rd and 4th observations of Uranus and the theory are due to nIghts of observation4 . The star-map of the Berlin action of a disturbing planet exterior to U ranus. Academy for Hour xxi of Right Ascension had lately then proceeds to investigate the elements of the orbit been published, but the English astronomers were not such a planet, assuming that its mean distance is aWare of its existence. By the help of this map the s that of Uranus, and that its orbit is in the plane of earch would have been extremely easy and rapid, as th ecliptic. He concludes that the most probable value e observations could have been compared with the the true longitude of the disturbing planet for the map as fa st as they were made. ginning of 1847 is about 32,5°, but he does not give On the 2nd of September 1846 Mr Adams addressed I elements of the orbit or the mass of the planet. a etter to the Astronomer Royal, in which he commu- 126 ••.. Jolm Couch A John Adams. Couclt 127 nicated the results of a new solution of the prob At the same meeting Mr Adams communicated lanet. supposing the mean distance of the planet as origin P the Society his paper entitled, "An explanation of assumed to be diminished by about ioth part. t e observed Irregularities in the Motion of Uranus, on result of this change was to. produce a better � he Hypothesis of Disturbances caused by a more distant between the theory and the later observations, and ! planet; with a Determination of the Mass, Orbit, and give a smaller and therefore a more probable value position of the disturbing Body." the eccentricity. Mr Adams inferred that by still As it was thought desir'!lblethat this paper should be ther diminishing the distance, the agreement betw"'� ublished without delay, Mr Stratford, the SUperinten the theory and the observations would probably p dent of the Nautz"cal Almanac, kindly agreed to print it rendered complete, and the eccentricity reduced at at once as an appendix to the Nautzcal Almanac for same time to a small quantity. He also shewed in anticipation of the publication of Vol. 16 of the the theory accounted fo r the apparent error of J,tfclll1851,ozrs of the Royal Astronomtcal Soczety, in which the tabu1ar Radius Vector of Uranus which had paper appeared a few months later in 1847. noticed by the Astronomer Royal. Although the publication of two different investiga 1846, Meanwhile, on the 3rd of August M. Le V which had been carried on nearly simultaneously, rier communicated to the French Academy his tions, seemed likely at first to give rise to controversy respect paper on the place of the disturbing planet, w priority, yet this danger passed away, as it was ing however, did not reach this country till the third evident that the fa cts of the case could not be disputed. fourth week in September. In this paper, which is It was clear that the two researches had been carried on very elaborate one, the author obtains elements of quite independently, therefore the honour paid to one of orbit of the disturbing p1anet very similar to those the investigators could not detract fr om that due to the in Mr Adams's second solution, and he also attempts other. assign limits of distance and longitude within which Soon after the discovery of Neptune, several members planet must be fo und. M. Le Verrier communica ... , of St John's College, of which Mr Adams was then his principal conclusions to Dr Galle of the Fellow, raised a fund which was offered to the Observatory on September 22, and guided by Una iversity and accepted by Grace of the Senate for the and comparing his observations with the Berlin purpose of fo unding a prize to be called " The Adams map, that astronomer found the planet on the .sa Prize," to be awarded every two years to the author evening. of the best Essay on some subject of Pure Mathematics, At the next meeting of the Royal Astrono A.stronomy, or other branch of Natural Philosophy. Society, November 13, 1846, the Astronomer In February 185 1 Mr Adams was elected President Mr Airy, gave an "Account of some circumst of the Royal Astronomical Society, an officewhich he historically connected with the discovery of the �ld for-the usual period of two years. In May 1852 exterior to U ran us," and Professor Challis also gave r .Adams communicated to the Royal Astronomical " Account of his observations undertaken in search S et new Tables of the Moon's Parallax to be substi- t OCl y the Planet." These papers contained a full accoun t Uted for those of Burckhardt. He showed that the al the communications which these two astronomers � ues of several of the periodic terms of the Parallax, as received from Mr Adams in reference to the sup oUnd from the tables last mentioned, are seriously in 128 John Couch Adams. JOh1i Couch Adams. 129 error. The new tables are printed in the Appendix.' obtained by these two astronomers contra Nau!tcalAl manac for 1856. e results the t� ach other, and traced to their source the errors In the PMlosopMcal Transadz'ons fo r 185 3 there is t e diG which both of these results are vitiated. important paper by Mr Adams " On the Secular V paper of Professor Adams appears to have by his tion of the Moon's Mean Motion." In this paper T the controversy on the subject of the t nnin ated author shows that the value of the moon's s �eo retical value of the Lunar Acceleration. A little acceleration due to the secular diminution in the Sir John Lubbock, Professor Donkin, and Professor tricity of the Earth's orbit is considerably less than �a.ter Cayley arrived by different methods at the same found by Plana, which had been generally accepted result as had been obtained by Professor Adams and astronomers. unay. M. Dela Orders his F As Mr Adams had not taken Holy In February 1866 the Royal Astronomical Society ship at St John'S expired in 1852, but he continued awarded their Gold Medal to Professor Adams for his reside in the College until the following year, when investigations respecting the Lunar Parallax and the was elected into a Fellowship at Pembroke College. Secular Acceleration of the Moon's Mean Motion, In the autumn of 1858 he obtained the and the President, Mr Warren De La Rue, on presenting of Mathematics in the University of St Andrews, and the Medal delivered very elaborate address, in which resided there and taught the classes until the end of a he explained the grounds of the award. Session in May 1859, although in the meantime he In 1861 Professor Challis resigned the office of been appointed to the Lowndean Professorship of Director of the Cambridge Observatory, and Professor tronomy and Geometry at Cambridge, in the room Adams was appointed to succeed him. the late Professor Peacock. the Mo nthly Noltces of the Royal Astronomical For some years after the appearance of Mr SocIni .n.ua.,u" ety fo r April 1867, Professor Adams published paper on the Lunar Acceleration in 1853 no paper "On the Orbit of the November Meteors," a ' investigator appears to have turned his atten in which he finds the secular motion of the node to the subject; but in 1859 M. Delaunay, who ?f this orbit by means of the method given by Gauss invent�d a new and beautifu l method of treating In his Determinatz'o Attradzonzs, &c. He showed ]1i th Lunar Theory, found by means of it a result entirp at if the periodic time in the orbit be supposed confirming that given nearly six years before to be 33t years, the calculated motion of the node Mr Adams. almost exa , ctly agrees with that given by the observa In the J.l£onthly Notz'ces of the Royal hons of a long series of these meteoric showers. At t Society for July 1859 M. de Pontecoulant . he Plymouth Meeting of the British Association, Professor Adams's theory of the secular acce :�1 ,A.ugust 1877, Professor Adams read a paper in but in his "Reply to various objections," 11Ch he- gave !. the value of 3 of Bernoulli's Numbers lti, t appeared in the Mo nthly No!tces for April n add' on to the 31 previously t1' known. The calcula- in pointing n re Professor Adams had no difficulty O s a fiou nded on a very elegant theorem, due to ' , f St ' the allacy both of M. de Pontecoulant's obj aUdt , ch w 1H gIves at once the fr actIOnal part orr' and of those which M. Plana had brought any of ' One Bernoulli's Numbers, and thus greatly faC1 ]' , in a separate publication. He also shewed Hat t fi e s 1le ndll1g ' of these numbers by reducing V OL. XVII. S 130 John Couch Adams. John Couch Adams. 131 all the requisite calculations to operations with in on fo r the Advancement of Science j\ssociati in In November 1877 Professor Adams comm er of that year he read a paper "On the' septem b Society a paper " On the cated to the Royal eneral values of the obliquity of the Ecliptic, and' of any two Legendre's Coefficients of the Product gf the Precession and Inclination of the Equator means of a Series of Legendre's Coefficients," the Invariable ' Plane, taking into account terms he had found several years �o expression which of the Second Order." An abstract of this paper afterwards he communicated to the and shortly appeared in the Proceedzngs of the Association, and the values of the N Society a Note giving was reprinted in a corrected form in Th e Observatory ms of 2, 3, 7, and 10, and of the M Logarith 5, for April 1886. of common Logarithms, each carried to above 260 Profe ssor Adams was a Member of numerous are pub of decimals. Both these communications distinguished Scientific Societies, both British and �n Vo!. 27 of the Proceedzngs ofthe Royal Society. Foreign. Professor Adams has contributed to the M po#ces of the Royal Astronomical Society papers on special points of the Lunar Theory, The 'numerous distinguished scientific societies,' which the principal are the following: thus modestly alluded to, included, in addition to the On the motion of the Moon's node in the case when Royal Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, and orbits of the Sun and Moon are supposed to have the Cambridge Philosophical 80ciety, the following--" eccentricities, and when their mutual inclination is The Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France, to be small. Novemfter 1877. the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St Petersburg� Note on a remarkable Property of the Analytical expres the Royal Academy det' Lzncez' of Rome, the Royal for the constant term in the Reciprocal of the Moon's Ac ademy of Sciences of Sweden, the Royal Societies June 1878. Vector. of Sciences of U psala and of GOttingen, the National G. , Note on Sir Airy's investigation of the theo Ac ademy of Sciences of the United States of America,. value of the accelerationB. of the Moon's Mean the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, May 1880. and the Royal Irish Academy. Moreover Professor Note on the Constant of Lunar Parallax. June 1880. Adams was, honorz's causa, a Doctor in Science of Note on the Inequality in the Moon's Latitude which Cambridge and of Bologna, due to the secular change of the plane of the and a Doctor in Law of June 1881. Oxford, of Edinburgh, and of Dublin. It will be of interest to J ohnians to record here some rem Also in the Monthly iniscences of his College life given by a fe w of his, Con he gave a "Note on the Ellipticity of Mars, temporaries in communications to Mrs Adams and to �ffect on the Motion of the Satellites." h' brother, Professor G. Adams, formerly el IS W. Professor Adams was appointed one of the F low of St John's. for Great Britain at the International Prime Mr A. S. Campbell (Fourth Wrangler 1843, and after Conference which was held at Washington in '"a rds Fellow of the College) tells how Adams and he met c-� th 1884. o eir first day in Cambridge, and went in for the At the Philadelphia Meeting of the Am o,) lZarl;h ' Ex Ip amination together. Campbell had come John Couch Adams. JUh1t CotLcJt Ada7n$� 132 133 up as the first mathematician of his school, and' Towards the end of the examination, while Adams comparing notes with Adams in the evening, he Campbell were noting what they had done on the and 'taken aback' to find what an astonishing last problem paper, Goodeve, afterwards Professor of was. • What is my e Mechanics at the Royal School of Mines, matician his fellow-candidate .Appli d in the Senate House likely to be, if the first man I over their shoulders. He was so staggered at looked casually in the College is of this type ?' was his record that he straightway left Cambridge, and .Adams's reflexion. The two fr iends, for close friends not put in an appearance for the last days' papers. did became, had adjoining rooms in the 'Labyrin In spite of this he came out as Ninth Wrangler, but behind the old Chapel, a part of the College did not get his Fellowship. The result of the he was demolished when the new Chapel was examination, as shown by marks, was that Adams Those who would mark the spots where great over while Bashforth, the Second Wrangler, had 4000, lived and worked will find small opportunity to do less than Thus, as it was put, 'there was had 2000. in the case of Adams: the part of the old house more between the Senior and the Second Wrangler, Lidcot in which he was born, and in which than between the Second and the Wooden Spoon.' Long Vacations he toiled at his Neptune calcul The Rev Richard Wall (Twenty-fourth Wrangler has been pulled down ; the ' Labyrinth' in 1844) writes from Dray ton Basset Rectory, Tamwonh: he spent his undergraduate years has disappea was a matter of surprise to most of our set that, besides and the rooms he occupied in Pembroke fr om 1 beingIt faCile prz'nceps in the mathematical papers in the College until he moved to the Observatory in 186£ are Examinations, he used always to head his year in the Greek gone and replaced by new buildings. But the Te5tament paper, though he had to compete with good classics. in Letter A New Court, in which he lived as a never professed any special knowledge of Latin and Yet he of St John'S, still remain and are now tenanted I sllspect that he bestowed more attention on the Greek. Mr Marr. The suggestion has been made that a of the Gospel in hand, and so, though he knew less of matter should be erected there to commemorate the language, he knew more of the sayings and doings of Our the and we trust that this suggestion may ere 101lg . . . In his statu-pupz'llarz' time he regularly attended Lord. carried out. The rooms on the ground-floor of Cams's Sunday evening conversational lectures. , Labyrinth' were very dark, and often on a win The Rev W. T. Kingsley (B .A. 1838), of South day Adams had to work by candle-light ; it was Rilvington, says: surprising that he came to look on the still He the night as the best time for work, and so was took his degree in ) 843, and so did Spencer who of Was [Fourteenth Wrangler and Fellow of SidneyJ in his always punctual at the 8 o'clock lectures of those d in that year I had become Tutor of Sidney, and I In the Tripos Examination, Campbell noticed year; think it must have been in the October Term of it should in the problem papers, when every one was became acquainted with Adams, meeting him in that hard, Adams spent the first hour in looking over �penc�I r's rooms. When he wrote his paper on Neptune questions, scarcely putting pen to paper the In Was the habit of seeing a great deal of Professor Challis A.fter that he wrote out rapidly the problems he �nd from him heard of the paper. My own telescope was quite solved already' in his head,' and ended by practil,;,,,w. enough to have made the discovery, but looked upon it as flooring the papers: PO19a c to examine the part of the heavensI indicated : it was f hing 134 John Cou,ch Adams. 'l0h1t Couch A dams. 135 e my own place ; but I did not tell him the clear that Challis would fin d it when he had time, and d to tak facts, seemed to be all but impossible that anyone else should a in the meantime he had taken precedence of me as he I l� made the calculation ; so that there was no thought of h all osed was his duty. When he found out what the rule was, amongst those who had full faith in Adams. One sUP�ame to apologise to me for having taken that precedence. however, after ChaJlis had begun the search, I was b urse) he saw then that our trick was simply one of good Oef CO at Trinity and sat next Challis, and naturally our talk . ut the apology was due from me. When Ohallis resigned Jl' b atory, you know how unwilling Adams was to take on the search and its progress, and I suggested to him e Observ propriety of using a high magnifying power on each group of it. Challis told me this, and I went up to Cambridge rge stars whose places he had determined, before going on b u ose to urge him to the utmost of my power to accede to to ena p rp of the University. His modesty and new group: he said he agreed with me, and then �he wishes severity in "I have made a note against one star, that it seemed to pointing out everything that he thought was a defect in himself a disc ;" so I said, "Would it not not be worth while to look was more than I could have believed possible in any man; it again and with a higher power?" He replied, "Yes, if I could only tell him that he was simply saying that no human will come with me when dinner is over we will look at it." being was fit for the office. I went up to the Observatory with him: it was clear and He, Challis, and I went to Peakirk, near Peterboro', for but, when we arrived, Mrs ChalIis insisted on our having the Solar Eclipse which was central there, but it clouded tea before we went into the Dome. We unfortunately over and we saw nothing. Mr James, the Vicar, an d his father, of that fruit, and when we went out clouds had come up, Canon J ames, were greatly taken with the perfect simplicity of for many days there was no clear sky ; before the star the man of whom they had heard so much. re-examined the discovery was made in Berlin : you know The Fellows of St john's made a sad mistake in requiring the star was Neptune-but for that cup of tea, Adams his Fellowship to lapse ; they had only to ask for funds to found have had the full credit some fortnight before the di a new FellowEhip for him, and to bear his name afterwards, to There was such a feeling of security on my own part, and I have added largely to their own honour and to the benefit of sure also on that of Challis, that I did not resist the their College. It was strange that this did not occur to them. because 'I knew how anxious Mrs Challis often was about The Rev F. Bashforth, Minting Vicarage, Horncastle husband's exposure when observing. This is worth being Wrangler 1843, fo rmerly Fellow, and Professor public. (Second of Applied Mathematics, Woolwich) writes: Another matter, very characteristic, occurred at the J.U�"""''l tion of the Prince Consort as Chancellor [1847 J. Brumell We met at St John's in October 1839. As there were no ra Senior Proctor and I Junior ; one of Brumell's brothers ilway s in those days, we spent our Christmas in College. Ad and he went home for the funeral ; consequently his duties ams invited me, CampbelI, G. S. Drew, and perhaps one mor upon me, and Adams, as Moderator, had the duties of J e to spend the Christmas Day evening at his rooms, he Proctor for the time. The Senior Proctor had rather � re we spent a very pleasant evening, and not did break up l! prominent part to play in the Installation at � late. In those days the College was broken up into sides etw Palace, and so Philpott (Vice-Chancellor) and Romilly ( een the head Tutors, Crick and H"mers. Babington Registrar) and I agreed to let Adams suppose it was his were on Hymers' side, and Campbell, �nd I Adams; Drew, to take the place of Senior Proctor ; it was part of that duty on Crick's side, so that we did not meet at lecture tiilenthcer, e final preparation for B.A. read the long Latin letter offering the Chancellorship to c the Examination. We of Prince ; Adams dreaded this and came to me to ask if I s met at dinner, and I recollect those on Crick's side cl�urC e . s USslng Dickens' Old Curzos£1y Shop, which take his place. as his natural defect in articulation made it the &c., I believe r together. unpleasant for him to have to do this; so it came about y ead For my own part I lived very quietly. ,John Couch Adams. 1 3 136 John Couch Adatns. 7 I had one almost constaht companion, Sytnonds, now overies took place, during which he occupied himself Adams was elected Fellow in r 84.3, but I had to wait until r te'�h his loved mathematical work, publishing papers and went out of residence October 1845-r848. It w as ;�I Nature and in other journals; but his strength was my return r 848 -1857 that we became more intimate, so l�bing, and after grievous trials of many kinds, borne if Adams was gone down they said they must apply to much patience, and constantly illumined with I well recollect that at dinner in Hall, October 1849, I re :ith . eeds of kmdly thoughtfulness fo r others, he sank intelligence of the death of my most valued friend on d to rest early on the morning of Thursday, January and that Adams went with me to my rooms, to console His fu neral in the Chapel of Pembroke College was2 I. and help to make arrangements for my immediate tte ded by the most eminent in Cambridge, and the At that time St John's had so many members who took a n outer world of Science sent also many distinguished tnathematical degrees, that for many of us there was occupation ; therefore took to reading up various books. representatives. The University, and in particular seemed to meI that a good way of testing the theory the Colleges which claimed him as their greatest capillary attraction would be to calculate the forms aSSum member, were in mourning, and fo llowed his remains by drops of fluid, and also to compare these with the m to the quiet cemetery on the Huntingdon Road, where fo rms. I expected to obtain the forms by some app he was laid in peace within sight of the Observatory calculations, but that would not do. Adams then contrived he had immortalised, and of the home which he had method of calculation which gave the exact forms. The w blessed. Too late for any change in the arrangements proceeding was quite new to me, and I claim some merit to be made, came a message fr om royal hands signifying having suggested the question for his solution. that a place in Westminster Abbey was fe lt to be When he went to Pembroke he held the office of his right. But though many, for the nation's sake or some small College office. He could not go through and for that of Cambridge, might sympathise with this drudgery of these accounts, so I had to spend several evenllllll feeling, it was doubtless fitter that, as his life had in helping him to get his accounts ready for the Audit. been his burial should be simple was about this time that he was troubled by a want , and devoid of pomp. sleep.It He went to some water cure, Malvern I believe, wh On the same evening a memorial service was held in ou him good. At that time he was much invited out, r College Chapel, attended by members of the fam (lidentered with pleasure and intetest into the events of the day. ily and by a large concourse of fr iends belonging to I have always blamed myself for having let an opportnnIli the University and to the Town. To the beautiful pass which might, if I had rightly used it, have been of and touching dirges of the Burial Service were added great service. Homersham Cox, lather of the present Fellow With peculiar fitness the verses of the Eighth Psalm: Trinity, was the Mathematical Editor of the un'll conszaer thy heavens, even the work of thy fingers; Civil Ith Journal. He first told me that Adams had found the place e moon and the stars wMch thou hast ordained. What S the undiscoverd planet, and that he had thoughts of ob Z man, that thou art tnz'ndful of Mm, and the son of and publishing his results. It seems to me that a word that thou vziitest hzm? 11'lan, Thou madest hz'm lower encouragement from me would have induced him to carry ian the angels, to crown hZ1n wz'tlz glory and worsh�p. his good intentions. But unfortunately I lost the opportunity. 'ho u m akest hZ1n to have domz''mrm of the works of thy h ands, It only remains to tell how some two years ago fessor Adams's health began seriously to decline. P
VOL, XVII. T A.7oftl'l.z'an z'n Kurdz's!an. 139
�1Jf4.l!{� rnong Syrians. He sits on the floor in native fashion ; primitive and unpalatable fo od, served in copper �is fro m the Patriarch's kitchen, is eaten with his �owlS he is nearly without possessions, he sleeps fingers; the floor "among the spiders" without a mattress, hone lives in a hovel up a steep ladder in a sort of A JOHNIAN IN KURDISTAN. out of repair. Syrian customs and etiquette tower � have become second nature to him. OHNIANS will read with interest the " He has no ' mission work ' to report. He is himself account of Mr W. H. Browne, LL.M., a m the mission and the work. The hostility of the Turkish . of the Archbishop's Mission to the a government and the insecurity of the country prevent Nestorian� Church in Kurdistan. Mr Browne's him from opening schools, he cannot even assemble last summer, unhappily cut few boys and teach them the letters ; he gets a bit to Cambridge during a by the sudden death of a colleague, will be remem of land and the stones for erecting a cottage, but is with pleasure by members of the College. The not allowed to build ; his plans are all fr ustrated by was referred to in the Eagle (xvii 82) and is written bigotry on one side and timidity on the other, and as Miss Bird, whose is Mrs Bishop, better known he even prevented from preaching by the blind z"n Persia and Kurdz'stan (Murray) appeared last year. conservatism of the Patriarchal court. It has not "If I were to leave Mr Browne unnoticed I been the custom to have preaching at Kochanes. ignore the most remarkable character in "Sermons were dangerous things that promoted heresy," and living alto Clothed partly as a Syrian, the Patriarch said. But Mr Browne is far from being like one ; at this time speaking Syriac more idle. People come to him from the villages and than English ; limited to this narrow alp and to surrounding country for advice, and often take it. narrower exile of the Tyari valley ; self-exiled They confide all their concerns to him, he acts civilised society ; snowed up for many months effectively the part of a peacemaker in their quarrels, the year ; his communications even with Van he is trusted even by the semi-savage chiefs and pr Urmi irregular and precarious ; a priest without iests of the mountain tribes, and his medical skill, altar ; a teacher without pupils ; a hermit Which is at the service of all, is largely resorted to at privacy ; his time at the disposal of every man all hours of the day. Silenced from preaching and P�ohi cares to waste it ; harassed by Turkish officialism bited from teaching, fa r better than a sermon is hIS by the Porte from own cheery life of obstruction, and prohibited . unconscious self-sacrifice, truth, punt , active 'mission work,' it would yet be hard to y and devotion. This example the people can de a sunnier, more loving, and more buoyant : rstand, though they cannot see why an Englishman these people for nearly fo ur voluntarily He has lived among ould take to slich a life as he leads. making their interests corn His room is It is little better than as OBe of themselves, a l� most amusing. persecutions hov his own, suffering keenly in their erry el. He uses neither chair, table, nor bed ; th n losses, and entering warmly even into their e u even earth floor is covered with such a litter rubb" trivial concerns till he has become, of Ish as is to be seen at the back of a 'rag and 140 To tlte Old Year. bone' shop, dirty medicine bottles predom There is a general dismemberment of everything once was serviceable. The occupant of the room absolutely unconscious of its demerits, and ej aculations of dismay were received with laughter. "Mr Browne is a fair-complexioned. with hair falling over his shoulders, DEPI �TE
TO THE OLD YEAR. nEPI AYPA�. Tfj" 7rplv €vcp8o'Y'Yov, T17<; liv8€ULV afLcp£7rA.a/Cetu",,, SILENT with all thy brief joys hast thou flown, With all thy tedious sorrows. Their desire 7rA.�'YfLaT£ xe£fLepirp veupov ea'Yf A.vpa<;.
Or fond ambition few, how few ! have known. T€T"A.a8£ /Cav liA.'YE£ /Cpaot",· TWV �PfLOUf 8V o To many wealth, to few that rose unblown fL V a'YYo<; epw<;, 'EV,€£ /Cat. 7raA.£v u'Yvo<; epw<;. Happiness, didst thou bring : for some the fire EWe a 'Ya\ ov" Xf1fLwv, o /Ca",a fLapat VETa£ ayW 8 Of life thou quenchedst, ere their time to tire )I v',\ ' p 1'], , f , TO£UtV 0fL0't'POV€OVU,)/ Of it had come. To all one gift-but one- ... � ,.I.. €f'7rEOO<;� ap!-,-ov,a. 'J The young babe, in whose birth thou wilt anuary 1892 The New Year. Thou'rt a pedlar with a pack Of many-coloured goods : of rosy glee C. STANWELL. A bale or two, a hundred on thy back Of sad-hued sorrow ; without toll or fe e Thou flingest gifts to each, thou hast no lack Of aught save of repentant memory. H.T. Notesfrom the Colleg-e Records. 143 1IiC� erore I wish rather, that you would put your horses to ther more travalle. and paynes, come to Exeter sooner, a jitie & thence we would go to Bath, or els will meete m I froat Bath sooner as you shall appoynt, if you will go, & u Y�b me back to Exeter. Ere it be long you shall heare me agayne how I find all things there. t om ow no newes, on Sonday next, there wiII be great THE COLLEGE RECORDS. r kn NOTES FROM I feasting of the Spanyardes by his at Whitehall then Matic & hought matters wilbe concluded about the great busynes. (Continued from p. IS) t it is my kindest coiliendations herein to yoU to Dor Allot ve & of letters I leaLane, Ridding the like fro my wife the boyes E continue the series r & �1i I NI' ittingM yoU all to God's keeping I rest &ever Carey to Doctor Gwynn about the o com � & s of the Library. yours assured V Salulem t"n ALEN: ExoN: July 1623. Xro. 14, Sr receaved both your letters the last week and this, I to vnderstand of your health. am glad thereby Salulem in Xro. It seems strange to me, that the money is not suppose that it is payed before this tyme to I suppose you are returned by this tyme to Cambridg Sr. I Mr London, for the party that should pay it, hath sent word hither I am to but perhaps thus differing, that yoU left as found all is payed alreddy. If there happen to fall any disapointmen some sick well. left all well found some it & I & yet ra ther than they shalbe disapointed, or my extremely sick. meane my wife who had bene in myne in it, I with my wife, to deliver an absence so much weakened as that all about her, doubted her fayle, I have left order I continuance, but since my instead of it to any trusty messenger, whom you shall returne she is much cheared sayth she should be more, if & to her with an acquittance vnder your hand fo r the re she might see you here. She hath provided in reddynes for of it,-but I thinke this will not be needfull. I p yoU agaynst your coming a chamber to 10dg yoU in, in her new house yoU proceed in giving order to your workmen for if by advise or entreaty I & brick. prevayle wth yoU, yoU should not delay many moneths provisio of materialls; timber and could more then you have am, this morning, taking iourney towards Exeter, done before yoU saw London yor frendes & I therein and some whom,. by whence I hard, yesternight, sorowfull newes of the absence, I would not have you seme to slight or Bath. would I had been so happy as neglect. of the Earle of O I n Saturday last (the day of have enioyed your company thither this somer. As my coming hither) yor coozin 11r ElIis Wyli dyed, having been of the stone meeting at Bath I will be reddy when yOU will set the b cutt on the day �fore. He hath made 2 of the of .your coming thither, wch I pray yoU cast according pettibag office, who had bene clarks, his exequtors, how your owne best occasions, yOU may any tyme send �lS he hath disposed of his estate & send it not as yet, whe I shall know more, you shall heare. letter to my house in London, my wife will knOow & n Wednesday last there me to Exeter, if it come to her on the thursday, she h came newes of the Prince his ealth at the saturday. But if I come to Andera in Spayne, there waiting Gods leasure send it to me on t f Sact a�re wynd to bring him home. before the sonday appoynted for making of ministers, th o�r ; But on the 16th day e teber about that bu p he escaped a great danger (God be thanked) ether I must returne back to Exeter, f Or 1 aVl. bene a shipboard in the tyme of that or disapoint a great many that expect and wait fo r it. I ng day accompanyed N'tl tes jf om the College R-ecords . 1 I H Notes fr om tlte College Records. 45 referr the younger of them (the intended Scholler) wth some noblemen of Spayne, & returning in his p farr to Schollership at youre next election, I should be much towards land before night, they had so slipt the a as , contrary as that they could not to yOU fo r it, that thereby I might give testimony t & the wynds arising �ooUJld o vpon brother (the boyes father) both of my respect of him as land by any meanes. The night came them & y of my power with you. His estate a�d meanes are not very dark, so that they could not tell which way they o �s 15reate and good, but that he would be glad of some caryed, the winds & waters grew so high & tempestuous sO et of a Schollership fot his sonne, his country (as I take it) that they were caryed as they pleased. When they had help distresse & danger at length Herefordshyre or Glocestershyre, know not wel in whether some tyme of the night in 1 is borne, for I have never had any word wth the father about espyed light in one of the kings ships towards it & he wasa busynes, but would first be sure of it, if it can be done made wth all there might, & as it pleased God coming such that I would speak to him about it. If yOU cane pleasure to that ship & catching hold of a rope, throw en from before to the ship & saved me (still I say conveniency) I pray you let me heare ship to the barg, they were drawen wth him &yoU, so speedily as yoU cane, that they may be sent the danger of the seas, whereinto they must otherwise from before the approaching tyme of your election, butto bene perforce driven to the perill of all there lives. Cambriccanlg not doe it wthout stfeyning yourself or denying His Matie is now come neare YOU, and (as I if yoUgreater person, then let it never be known that moved Vice can : & the Heads wilbe with him on Sunday t somesuch matter vnto yoU, & he shall stay till some other tyme. CourtMr to performe there anniversary attendance there, any be glad to vndetstand from you of the preparation for newes will be ripe. I desired Mr Crane (dark of the yourI shall new bltilding, whether the foundation be begun to be layd to remember me to yOU yoU were there, as also to Mr if' yct or not. I understand from Mr Ridding that materialls whom I must now barely salute, wanting matter to areas prepared & that the hundred pounds was receaved, a pece of paper, vnto him, as also I send my kynd corn pr yoU cause the proceeding4th therein to be wth due & mature to Dor Allott, Mr Lane, Mr Burnel, if he be returned. I a iudgment,y the other monyes yoU shalbe sure of at the tyme� I receaved a letter from yoU when yoU were at Bath, appoynted, for the carriadg on of the wotks. I could never I hard of your coming thither dayes before yoU came 2 receave from yoU your good liking of the Scituation bene certeyne of your stay there dayes after I receaved yet 2 o e of building, weh to the donor seemed most fitt yet letter I would have come vnto you. & f rm all your approbatio is requiSIte, for he cloth not so sette I was intreated to write to yoU from Exeter, by Mr wth Owne liking vpon it, but that he would also have the in the behalfe of his sonne, for a Schollership. his I concurrence of yours wth all and therefore before yoU goe too avoyd mens importunities yet I know yoU will doe that fan the work let me heare whether yoU doe not well approve fitting not wth standing my writing, when it is but in offi place and the forme for the building of a library & . & for the satisfaction of importunat mens desyres. But of (hc vnder it. I have presumed to write to yoU for anothr & that not of 4-ha c mbers ascent to the Library must n�eds be at one of the ends of but ex aio et serio requesting a favour, if yoU may wth con The th by a stayrecase cast out, for it is to be considered graunt it to me-tis this. e building, it were in the midst of the building, the landing & ingress My brother John Coke hath sonnes whom he that if 2 cause the loss ethr of a light, or of a stall for books. Cambridg out of hand, they are excellent would · . to send to a is to be to heare from you this next week following' 'Schollers both for lattin & greeke-one of them I sh l glad e h all doe the reports have been great of the sicknes there some few years & then to travaile abroad to imitat ow you I.n Colledg, but hope, far above the truth--sli: deo from desyres to the 1 1tOS father in his course of life, the other he Lond wtb on, Drury Lane yor assured frend Scholler. He hath not yet resolved wth out speach Octob. 3 0. 162 3 where to dispose them, now would yoU show me the VOL. VALRN ; ExoN XVII. U ,Notesfr om the Co'llege Records. 1 4 146 No tes fr om the College Records. 7
hat would not have yoU named agayne in the like I hard yesterday that the Bishop of St Asaph is t I vnles there were likleyhood of better success-yet pray yoU let Tho. Clayton deliver this enclosed to Mr ��!ld, I will tell yoU what I hard about this. JomI here] the brewer. oWO ffryday last towards night went to doe my duty o n I my Lo : Keeper vpon my returne to London. Who of prz'nce C b Mention is made in Gardiner's tohim self fell into speach wt me of the vacant & tol,d Bpk and the Sp anzslz Ma rrtage, of this escape withall that he had named Dor Gwyn & Dor Price for Il, 4 I 3, me the Prince. Charles arrived at Santander late would name them to the prince at his coming (this it, &2 dayes before that the prince came). was so bold the afternoon and put off to the Earl of R was I ship, the Prince, which had been appointed to as to answere his Lp & to request that if he stood affected r Price in the first place, that then Dor Gwyn might him home and had been fitted up with a Do to be named at all, that his name might not be fayled decorated cabin for the Infanta. As he was not agayne as before, for I have formerly perceaved his affection n his :barge, the wind rose, and the rowers � be bent on Dor Price before others-& wished that if impossible , to make head against the tide to ye Bp of St Da : were translated (as its like he shall be) Fortunately was sweeping them out to sea. that then Dor Gwyn might be preferred to that pIact;!, S ackville Trevor in the Defiance was aware of whereto he had once so fy ne a possibilitie-his Lop asked danger and threw out ropes attached to buoys me if a Deanery (as perhaps Lincolne) were not to liking attract the notice of the �anterns, which might and acceptation, I answered that I rather wished some ;a.midst the increasing gloom. One of these place that would remove Dr Gwyn quite away fro Cambridg, was seized by the crew, and Charles, saved where I know he could not take much contentment, by imminent danger, passed the night on board reason that his acquaintance are gone & dayly wearing Defiance. away. Since that conference had, I am told, that Dor ffa rmer is like to obteyne St Asaph (happily you heare it fro the Salulem ill Xro. Court) and then Dor Price must be reserved for some other returne to your self, and these other my frends Sr I place. You may remember what was wont to be wished you harty thanks fo r the friendly enterteynment, web to yor countryman Mr J ones of Queenes Coli : that he were motion on behalf of my brother Coke his sonne once provided for, for till he were bestowed, no man coulp. wtb you & th em. I made it of myne owne head, & hope fo r anything. speake with my brother Coke I will vnderstand, how I My desyre of your coming hither was principally to see Imrposeth to dispose of his sons, ere acquaint him y I ou here and next that yoU might give some testimony to your kyndness. If shall find in him a desyre of I tny La : Keeper of yor respect of him, that it might not a favour to be done him, then I will tell him of it, oth be thought that out of discontentment 'you neglect him. it, yet remayne nevertheless will never mention W I . I ch h you to doe sometymes towards the end of to yOU for your kyndnes. he WIS � terme, and the rather that yoU may thank him had no such meaning in my last letter as to t I ;� he name of the CoIledg for his bounty in yor new yor company here for or about the of St Asaph's, I ra whereof he is ple ased now to be knowen to be the Bp yorself here, as / ry hold it meet that you doe not show O d r. un. e When first prevayled with him for the building 'till that busynes be determined, least some might Of t I ·l , �e charged me to conceale his name in it, which that yoU came about it-Indeed the event of the last d I perceaved it well inough know en by others- ever was yr proceeding therein) fell so sinister & ld hU I
• No tes fr om the College Records. No tes from the Co 148 llege Records. 1 4 ' 9 now vpo my last speach with him his lop is pleased " I pray yoU let an acquittance be sent me of the receipt, , ,it be knowen & told to any that enquyre to know that yo out the words of unknQwen, benefactor. & only that g is the author and founder of it & will be thinke) ere I lea vinuch is receaved from me for or towards the building of (1 111 of more good to th e C sa left him in his good purpose, the library. about this I would that yoU came at some tyme to give The further intended gift is for the founding of some thanks or if yoU wiII not come that then yoU send h l le hips & fellowships. I pray yOU resolve me ; when c o r thanks in' the name of the CoIledg for his muni ves considered thereof SO" ha , of these poynts-J. whithr -three weh now yoU have come to know by me, who pounds per an of the rack, wilbe accepted for 2 fellow �core nu concealed the donor, but set foot the work. ships, at 201 the peece per annu, & for Schollerships at 51 the on 4 when yoU write next to me give me some good hopes peece I doubt it is not inough, & yet it must not be refused, you seeing yoU here & I shalbe like inough to requite your least further bounty be stopped-z1y whithr vpon a dispensation with visiting yoU at Xrmas, if God spare me life. the great Seal, that the countryes whereof these schollers 1 vndcr me hartily vnto yoU & to all my frends wth yoU Dor fe llolVes are to be, shalbe no way preiudiced, of the benefit & Mr Lane, Mr Burnel, Mr Spel, Mr Price & Mr Ridding foundres' schoIlers & feIlowes, but that notwithstanding of the must ioyne wth myne owen, the comendations to yoU of these of .the buy foundations, any other persons borne in the 1 who seldome misses day without remembring you. same countryes, may be capable of ' the schollerships or deo fro fellowships of the foundres nos gift, the intended gift wilbe St'c l London, Drury Lanl'l yor assured frind acceptcd-3 y whether it will be accepted without any part ALEN : EXON : October V thereof reserved to the dead Colledg, because your statut 1 Q 62 3 . requyres such a thing-these have been moved vnto me, but 1 could give no satisfaction thereto, till vnderstood your I Baker, with whom Gwynn is no favourite, mynd & liking thereof. I If yOU wilbe persuaded some caustic remarks on the state of affairs diSCLU::I1 by me to come hither, would (Mayor-Baker your coming to be at or soon after 1 this letter IQ). des the end of this by p. � termeyre for then busynes passed over, there will be leasure for conference Salufem t'n Xro. about these things, & it will (1 trust) avayle to some good for you. Sr vpon the receipt of your last acquainted yor Oeneli:1"'� fu rther 1 Here wth the expense of all his mony about provision of is a poor wom(ln, would be as glad to see yoU (she as & presently of his owne' accord he caused an more to says) any frend she hath-& if it be, but to satisfy her 1001i desyres, u delivered me for the discharg of p'resent payments, & sayed yo must needs take a fowle iomey, but know you to. be so 1 more should be payed, wthin 2 or 3 weekes, yoU well horsed that yoU will make no difficulty of the zool fowleness take your owne best & fittest tyme for the signifying of the way or the weather. pray yoU give Dor Allot thanks 1 CoIledg thankfulness for his munificence, but still touch for his kynd token sent to her & or coiDendations' 1 rememb same string about your owne coming hither, in your ered both to yourself, to him & to all the rest of our f e cles person, to thank him in the name of the CoIledg, as alsO r n there with yoU coiDitt yoU to Gods keeping &. rest eVer 1 conferr with him, about some further intended gift to CoIledg. yor assured frend D y rn Lane-Octob , Of this in myne hands I have appoynted Perse r VALEN : EXON : J 001 Mr J623 18 pay yoU the one half & Mr Spicer the other half, they trouble I send this enclosed to Mr Spicer both to pay me many here, & for the saving the pray you ' hal;ard of sending mony b the caryer, When it is y ISO No tes from the College Records. iVo tes from the College Records. 151 Salutem in Xro. oU are often remembred, by her that wishes J y _ you well re \V le him that wIll ever be Sr. I wrote vnto you in the beginning of this wee k, &. by yors assured Mr Kidson somtyme of Peterhouse wherein I certified yOll London, Drury Lane I had receaved anothr '001 of my Lo : Keeper towar V ds Octob. ALEN : EXON : building of the library & how fo r more conveniency I would 24 Mr Spicer pay yoU 501 & Mr Perse 501 for me, they both 1623 to pay me money here, to that end I inclosed wtbin myne Saltttem in Xl'o. yoU a letter to Spicer, I hope yoU receaved and the same. I doeMr the like now to Mr Perse. web I r. I receaved your letters & when Perse shall have payd S Mr one of your servants to deliver vnto him-& when the money as I appoynted him I pray yoU send me your have payed the sayd monyes vnto yoU I desyre to re acquittance for the whole 1001• I thank you for your willing acquittance for my discharge. If so be that they ness to have pleasured my brother Coke his sonne but since either of them should fay le in the paying of the same there wanted possibilitie of acting it I am very glad I never yoU, I will send yoU it from hence, so soone as I cane mentioned it vnto him-for I still expected when he should oved me to . any trusty messinger. yor tyme of elect1ng Schollers have m become a sutor vnto yoU for such a favour. drawes neare, I never saw my brother Coke, as yet, to The lamentable accident web happened here on Sunday any speach wtb him about his sonnes, since the tyme of last afternoon at the ffrench Embassadours house, in the writing vnto you. I wrote to yoU, as I was requested on black fryers, hath afforded matter for many a letter this weeke behalf of Mr Coghan his sonne, & I am importuned now though (I doubt not) the fame of it hath spredd further and some, from Sr Tho : Merry to recomend another S then to you alreddy, yet I for one, among others will stuff letter wtb as certeyne a report of it as I could heare, (called Nelson) vnto you. I know him not but only one or -his father , was borne in. Barwick his county induceth make & (I think) not much amiss in any poynt. caneA frends to intreate my mediation to yoU on his gentleman of myne acquaintance & my next door neig concerning either of these, or any other for whom I shall hbour affected towards that cong regatio (he being a Romanist) thus importuned to write, I leave yoU to your liberty to was one of them that suifred in that fall some . of his lims wtb escape of his life ; that web yOU hold most aequal & best beseeming your harme on monday I went visit him, being & discretion in such matters. to weake in his bedd & he told me thus much. I know no newes worth the writing-the book of The from beyond the seas (minimis Gallo belgicus) is intimation of a sermon to be preached on that day by a Jesuit prohibited the sale, he hath bene to playne & open in (called Drury the sonne of Do' Drury Do' of the reports of or Country affayres writing more then ever I Arches) drew a great concourse of people that way disposed o e protestants also, spoken or then I beleve to be true, the terme busynes & S m both clerics and laity to that place web imployed here, & eith' as foretelling the increase of that part of the house, where my lodging was in men l'� Was the / e of Sr Geo. Carey Lo Hunsdon suits or promising an abatement of lawyers the number tyme : . The assembly was number Seriants at law is greatly increased more are O the of 500 persons welnigh-and therein was a '5 deare these that were before-there solemnity was great of improvidence and misconsiderateness, that so urden yeRterd�y. gnre at a b of people would presume vpon the strength of a o I hope after your election to see some of yo' fl wer of a London building to beare them. They b in p l;UlIll''''''/' v pearsse mb about or soone after the end of the terme to see yourself e g led the preacher came & after preparation mad him down in his chayre, put � sat on his square cap bega . sermon, proceeded & hiS therein for the space of almost 152 No tes fr om College Records. tlu Notes .from the College Records. 153
half an hower-on a suddeyne without any warning given; y a Jesuit, son of William Drury, Judge of the crack, or sound of any thing broke, the mayne beame pru r , og tive Court. About 95 people are supposed the flower was borne vp brake in peces in the midst of it er a ve lost their lives (Lyson's Envz"rons, ! the people togethr with the preacher that stood in the pr ha IV, 4 0) I 1 . ount of the accident of the room fell suddeynly & with the violent. and �n acc is given in Th e Dole.Jze! fall vpon the next flower vnder them bore it also dow Song 1623 by the Rev ne Eve?Z S2muel jdaJ:k�,._-. that the fall was tow storyes high-many that stood by and another description, Th e Fa tall Ve sp er puritan ; � side of the roome did not fa ll but remayned safe, is ascribed to William Crashaw, the father of M __ 1 623, spectaters of the ruines of others. Many perished the poet. were stark dead at the very first, others that scrawled The writer of the next letter is Richard Neile, & c;lyed after some while & some that went away lived no Bishop of Durham, who has been frequently men then till the next day, diverse were caryed away in ned in these Notes. Within the folds of this letter & some conveyed away in the night privately by there tio has been preserved a copy of Gwynn's reply, which as vnwilling to have them being there knowen, so that followS. In this it will be observed that Gwynn certeyne number of all that perished by that rupture refers to the salutary rule of the College Statutes fall, cannot be knowen-but there were left dead in the that no one was to impose an onus fourescore & seventene-nether are the names and on the College of all those knowen, who perished, by reason of the unless he endowed it to the value of -! of the onus, conveyance of many away-there are ladyes, about one-fourth of the endowment going to the general 4 28 gentlewomen found dead, 2 Jesuits & one priest a gen revenues and being called "dead college." This cald Mr Ployden, the sonne of that famous lawyer provision, which was first introduced by Fisher in Ployden- -one protestant minister (cald Mr Gee) did his code of Statutes (1530), was repeated in successive but · receaved no harme, he hath been before some codes of Statutes until it was omitted from those of personages & made a relation of the busynes, the by the University Commissioners. 1 860 people gathered togither tumultously vpon the newes of The imperious Williams, however, succeeded m misfortune but that the gates into the Blackfryers were silencing & the objections of the College for a time, lock'd vp, & watch & ward kept in th e streets, dayes th oug 3 h after his decease the Fellowships were nights after, it was feared least in there fury rage & suppressed. would3 , have done much mischefe- this is the effect of busynes. I coiiiend me to & to all my frends of ohns : I yOU 1I1r St J know you are in all your courses wth your e resting yours n freindes direct open as know & am assured you hold me VALEN : EXON And 1 Octob : vIto � be. trust me you shall never finde me otherwise. ay 1623. tu m marvell what this preamble meaneth. It proceedeth my love to your selfe & the Colledge occasioned to After such tyme as 1 had written my letter Mr Spicei' o In itselfe vpon some woordes yt I heard this day fr om brought me your acquittance for the receipt of 501 by him. anifest nl h . & of a very hohle friende of ours ; whose Y·p Out love to your good rso intention to our Colledg I both know & desire ; n & b meanes to cherishe The accident described in the preceding letter A.ndalI & to my vttermost to increase. may doe it the better & perform ye best offices I known as the Fa tal Ve spers. It took place on Su yt yt b I can etwixt you & so a friende & ye Colledg, November 5, 1623 The preacher was Ro 1 p YOu to hOble (N. S.). ray advertise me truly & so speedily as conveniently
VOL. XVII. X Notes fr om the College Records. Notes tlt e College RecO?'ds. 1 54 fi'om 1 55 may : what answer is returned from you &c, to be dd. be sufficient to ye perpetual! maintenance of fe llowes my L. of Exeter, to yt hoble well wilier of our 2 Col! wouIJ Sch olers, secondly whither our statutes required of such yt woold geve sol p. anum inheritance to found fel! s a fourth part to ye Colledge, these propositions z �!l latiOn & Schollerships in ye Colledge-besides ye gift of : knowen to. ye seniours, who for the first thought that 4 I build a librarye. I canot conceve yt you & ye seniors J made was wtb the lest, and for the other they hould the slight such a fayre offer. It may be as the tymes are li an t tute directly affirmative, we referred this answere to both to li yt anum for a fellowship, & S for a schollership may :: ivered to my L. of Exeter by Mr Lane who I make ne> p. del to be somewhat of ye least. But heare me as a well e tion bues delivered it faythfully wtb all due respect to ye member of ye Colledge the offer is honourable & well able intention of our hon. benefactour, so as I hope of a freindly & thankfull acceptance. And you might be �harit exception can be taken against vs or the Colledge, assured yt he yt so beginneth : woold not stick heer !l0 just ther are now at London most of our seniours Mr Lane, Mr enlarge his goodnes, if it shall appeere yt the same Mr Spell, Mr Horsmanden & Mr Price, if your become in tyme ether burdensome to ye Colledge or Burnlp ell. be pleased to send for them and conferr wtb them of foundation woold prove disproportionable to other fell would the premises I make no doubt but they will geue your L. good 20li and scholerships. Yet if he should not, is not satisfaction therein and whatsoever your Ip an d they shall li fellowes & S fo r a scholers maintenance better then fitt to be done therein. I for my selfe will most willing & ye want of so much to increase the maintenance of think therevnto. number of your studients. I presume you will vnderstand assNowent I beseech your Jp to iudge charitable of our deeds we honest meeninge in yt I write. no way respect our owne private benefit but have some care of I write from Theobalds, but god willing when I come publick good of the societie and Colledg wherein if your London on Tewsday I will send for my L. of Exeter & y'iu dgment and conscience find vs ouer strict direct vs better his goinge to ye L. you wott of before I heare againe fr om and you shall find vs reddy to yeald to reason. If he be not wtll him before yt tyme. I will also If it shall please your Lp to visite St John'S in the tyme wth Mr Lane. I desire to heare from you & will expect it of his Ma being in these parts I willingly bestow ye best. thursday at ye fardest by ye Carrier. So wtb my love to entermet my poor meanes can afford, and tl,en I shall haue selfe & all our freinds. No s Deo & I rest tyme more fully to satisfy your Ip in these busines. your very louinge freinde R. DUNELM : z'n Xro from ye Court at Sr,Sa /Ii!em 11r Spell and my self could never as yet fi.nd opportunity Theobalds. Novemb : of accesse, or speach to my Lo : Keeper & I wish that 162 3 . Lane had 9. 1{r found the like difficulty, for he having had accesse & speach vttered some word'S, web his took in ill part, My hon. good L. as vnd Ip ' . erstand by my of Durham, who out of his Plenitu I 10 : Indeed I marvailed at the preamble of your lres. but I de of well wishing for yOU & the College advertised much more wonder at the contents of the same. My thereof, as I am told. L. you tr s the busines itself thus it standeth. I received Ires some u t when I speake wtb my :Keeper to appease his I 10 : agoe from my L. of Exeter, signifying a further pu I OP · & thereof I shall certify yOU by Mr Spell at his returne. : the hon : founder of our librarye for another foundaLlun F' rneane to tell his lop : that I thinke there nether hath b ei1eOr 1 e alsO rO er fellowship & scholership in our- Coli edge, in w b lres p uer made to the Colleclg as yet, of his intended eh t Ip propounded certain doubts concerning the same w bc ��� y for fellowships & Schollerships, nor returne from the referred to our consideration. First whether 601 per an of the ec\g re refusal of any such proferr, when it shalbe 156 Szlence zs Golden. made. All that I know to have passed in this busynes' bene only certeyne propositions made by myself to you the acceptance of such a gift, vpon those three conditions, wherevnto I desyred only 'Your opinion, no ethr of acceptance or refusall, web yOU have not as yet& vnto me. So that his lop : (as I will tell him) hath no TWO SONNETS. as yet to be displeased, at any thing that is done. Mr Ridding cane tell yoU all our newes here love I bear to you so :fills my thought, TIlE ease me of writing the same. & That I would gladly lay me down and die, Comendations from myself wife to yoU Dor by so doing, there would pass you by &. & If, rest ever ll those strange evils with which life is fraught. I A yors assured sweet my love, your love to me has brought VALEN : EXON : Ah ! Such happiness as makes the heaven more nigh, Drury Lane-gbri'-I4- 1623- And all things else in earth, and sea, and sky, Seem only fo r your service to be wrought. R. F. S. will I flatter what I love so well, Nor (To be continued.) By fo rced comparison to that or this ; Ag?linst your truth such flattery were sin. I will but say, that ever with me dwell Your hands, your hair, your eyes, your lips, your kiss, And your remembered beauty folds me in. SILENCE IS GOLDEN. million forms of life floatin the air, translation of Mr prize ep igram (Eagle xvi, 579)· A A T. R. Glover's Swim in the waters, move upon the earth, youths, equal in wealth, in beauty and From birth to death, and then from death to birth, Two Urged equal, onwards by great nature's fostering care. Rer law it seems that everything must bear Pierced by the self-same shaft, sought fo r the in some onward process, nor be worth of a maid. Part Aught for itself, nor dying leave a dearth, This one with torrents of words, with eager But new successive forms her garment wear. pleadings, We see the day dawn new eternally, Tenderly pressi�g his suit-nought with the fair And dying life to new fo rms new life lend. prev�iled. We dr-eam hereafter friend may still know friend, Not so the other, the victor-the maiden And all things else we l)ope for ; yet are we consenting- Borne by a mighty current towards the sea Silently taking her hand, silently kissing her W h ere all things meet and mingle and have end. C. SAPSWORTH. Tlt e 1-Il<-11ZOztr of I-Iomer. 159
is a woman who is at the bottom of the Trojan war I Woman throughout the Ilz"ad is a being to be 'ttself. oved, teased, laughed at, and if necessary carried off. ; told in one place of a fine bronze cauldron fo r We are h i g water which was worth twenty oxen, whereas a eat n lines lower down a good serviceable maid-of-all fe IY work is valued at fo ur oxen. I think there is a spice of cious humour in this valuation, and am confirmed in THE HUMOUR OF HOME'R.*' mali this opinion by noting that though woman in the Ilz'ad on one occasion depicted as a wife so fa ithful and . of the two great poems corn is HE first affectionate that nothing more perfect can be found ascribed to Homer is called the Ilt'ad-a t � �,i. ):i either in real life or fiction, yet as a general rule she is we may be sure was not given it by which as teasing, scolding, thwarting, contradicting, It professes to treat of a quarrel bet drawn author. and hoodwinking the sex that has the effrontery to deem Agamemnon and Achilles that broke out while itself her lord and master. Whether or no this view besieging the city of Troy, and it Greeks were may have arisen from any domestic difficulties between deal largely with the consequences of indeed, Homer and his wife is a point which again I however, the ostensible subject find quarrel ; whether, impossible to determine. another that was nearer the poet's it not conceal vV e cannot refrain from contemplating such possi mean the last days, death, and burial of bilities. If we are to be at home with Homer there point that I cannot determine. Nor yet can I d a must be no sitting on the edge of one's chair dazzled by mine how much of the Ilz"ad as we now have it is the splendour of his reputation. He was after all only Homer, and how much by a later writer or literary man, and those who occupy themselves with This is a very vexed question, but I myself believe a letters must approach him as a very honoured member Ilz"ad to be mainly by a single poet. of their own fraternity, but still as one who must have The second poem commonly ascribed to the fel t, thought, and acted much as themselves. He struck author is called the Odyssey. It deals with the oil, while we fo r the most part succeed in boring only ; of Ulysses during his ten years of wandering tures still we are his literary brethren, and if we would read had fallen. These two works have of late his Troy lines intelligently we must also read between them. to be by differentauthors. The T been believed 1. hat one so shrewd, and yet a dreamer of such dreams w generally held to be the older work by some one as no have been vouchsafed to fe w indeed besides himself years. two hundred � th�t �ne so genially sceptical, and so given to leading ideas of the Ilt'ad are love, war, o The klng rnto the heart of a matter, should have been in though this last is less insisted on than plunder, ��ch perfect harmony with his surroundings as to think other two. The key-note is struck with a wo s l b In: e f in the best of all possible worlds-this is not charms, and a quarrel among men fo r their pos �hev . able. The world is always more or less out of JOlnt t0 the poet-generally more so ; A lecture delivered at the Working Men's College, and unfortunately * h alway Street, London, January 30th, 1892• Great e s thinks it more or less his business to set it 160 Th e Hu mour of Ho mer. Th e IIu 11loz('r of IIo lller. 161
more so. We are all of us more breeches, or tries exceedingly hard to do so. right-generally he . . indeed, less so ; still we fe el t inerva an angry termagant-mean, mlsc hle' f- less poets-generally, M IS think, and to think at all is to be out of harmony making, and vindictive. She begins by pulling ch s' hair, and later on she knocks the helmet much that we think about. We may be sure, then, A ille troubles, and also the head of Mars. She hates Venus, and Homer had his full share of om off fr Grecian hero Diomede that he had better not traces of these abound up and down his work if tells the could only identify them, for everything that every wound any of the other gods, but that he is to hit does is in some measure a portrait ,of himself; but Venus if he can, which he presently does ' because he comes the difficulty-not to read between the lines, that she is feeble and not like Minerva or Bellona.' sees to try and detect the hidden fe atures of the Neptune is a bitter hater. is to be a dull, unsympathetic, incurious reader ; and Apollo, Mars, Venus, Diana, and Jove, so fa r as his the other hand to try and read between them is to be wife will let him, are on the Trojan side. These, as I ' danger of running after every Will 0 the Wisp have said, meet with better, though still somewhat con conceit may raise for our delusion. temptuous, treatment at the poet's hand. Jove, how is being mocked and laughed at from first to last, I believe it will help you better to understand ever, broad humour of the Ilz'ad, which we shall and if one moral can be drawn from the Ilz'ad more reach, if you will allow me to say a little more about clearly than another, it is that he is only to be trusted tu general characteristics of the poem. Over and a a very limited extent. Homer's position, in fact, as the love and war that are his main themes, there regards divine interference is the very opposite of David's. David writes, Put not your trust in princes another which the author never loses sight of-I 'c distrust and dislike of the ideas of his time as nor in any child of man ; there is no sure help but from th e gods and omens. No poet ever made gods in the Lord." With Homer it is, ., Put not your trust in Jove neither in any omen from heaven ; there is but one own image more defiantly than the author of the 1. In the likeness of man created he them, and the good omen-to fight for one's country. Fortune excuse for him is that he obviously desired his favours the brave ; heaven helps those who help them� selves." not .to take them seriously. This at least is the The pression he leaves upon his reader, and when so god who comes off best is Vulcan, the lame, man as Homer leaves an impression it must be hObbling, old blacksmith, who is the laughing-stock of all the sumed that he does so intentionally. It may be others, and whose exquisitely graceful skilful Workmans said that he has made the gods take the worse, not hip forms such an effective contrast to the exterior of the workman. Him, as a man better, side of man's nature upon them, and to be in UnCOuth <.f e . an respects as we ourselves-yet without virtue. It sh g nlUS d an artist, and furthermore as a somewhat d : P , s d artist, Homer playfulness, be noted, however, that the gods on the Trojan side ise tre On this Sleep sends him into a Your wife J uno," answered her in his arms. t< Diana, "has been ill slumber, and Juno then sends Sleep to bid Nep treating me ; all our quarrels always begin with her." go offto help the Greeks at once. The above extracts must suffice as examples of the When J ove awakes and finds the trick that has of divine comedy in which Homer brings the gods played upon him, he is very angry and blusters a kind d goddesses upon the scene. Among mortals the deal as usual, but somehow or another it turns out an umour, what there is of it, is confined mainly to the he has got to stand it and make the best of it. h rim taunts which the heroes fling at one another when In an earlier book he has said that he is not g are fighting, and more especially to crowing over a prised at anything Juno may do, fo r she always they allen foe. The most subtle passage is the one in which crossed him and always will ; but he cannot put up f Briseis, the captive woman about whom Achilles and such disobedience from his own daughter Mi Agamemnon have quarrelled, is restored by Agamem Somehow or another, however, here too as usual it non to Achilles. Briseis on her return to the tent of out that he has got to stand it. "And then," Achilles findsthat while she has been with Agamemnon, explains in yet another place (� 373), "I suppose Patroclus has been killed by Hector, and his dead body will be calling me his grey-eyed darling is now lying in state. She flings he·rself upon the presently." corpse and exclaims- Towards the end of the poem the gods have a "How one misfortune does keep falling upon me among themselves. Minerva sends Mars spra after another! I saw the man to whom my father and Venus comes to his assistance, but Minerva knocks mother had married me killed before my eyes, and my down and leaves her. Neptune challenges Apollo, three own dear brothers perished along with him ; but Apollo says it is not proper fo r a god to fighthis Patroclus, even when Achilles was sacking our city uncle, and declines the contest. His sister Di you, and killing my husband, told me that I was not to cry taunts him with cowardice, so Juno grips her by you said that Achilles himself should. marry me, andi wrist and boxes her ears till she writhes again. fo r take me back with him to. Phthia, where we should have the mother of Apollo and Diana, then challenges wedding fe as.t among the Myrmidons. You were cury, but Mercury says that he is not going to fight a always kind to me, and should never ceas.e to grieve any of Jove's wives, so if she chooses to say she I for beaten him she is welcome to do so. Then Latona you." This may of course be seriously intended, bu.t Homer up poor Diana's bow and arrows that have fallen w as an acute writer, and if we had met with such her during her encounter with Juno, and Diana a passage in Thackeray we should have taken him to. while flies up to the knees of her father Jove, Ine SODU1UJ an that so long as a woman can get a new husband, and sighing till her ambrosial robe trembles all sh e does not much care about losing the old one-a her. sen timent which I hope no one will imagine that I J ove drew her towards him, and smiling pIe for mome Qne nt endorse or approve of, and which I can exclaimed, "My dear child, which of the hea ly �n explain as a piece of sarcasm aimed possibly beings has been wicked enough to behave in this at irs Bom.et. to you, as though you had been doing som naughty ?' And now tet us turn to the Odyssey, a work which 1 172 Th e Humozfr pf Ho mer. Th e Hu mour of I-Iomer. 1 7 3 IHad's myself think of as the better half or wife. nor hail nor snow, and the wind never 'n beats we have a poem of more varied interest, instin ct ra�gh1Y ; but it abides in everlasting sunshine, and in not less genius, and o� the whole I should Si:\.y, if r�eat peacefulness of light wherein the blessed gods are robust, nevertheless of still greater fa scinatio lumined fo r ever and ever. It is hardly possible to moreover, the irony of which is pointed neither at ; I nceive anything more different fr om the Olympus of nor woman, but with one s�ng1e and perhaps intercal CO llz'a d. exception, at man Gods and women may someti the . mes Another very material point of difference between wrong things, but, except as regards the intrig ue the llt'ad and the Odyssey lies in the fa ct that the Homer ween Mars and Venus just referred to, they are always knows what he of the Ilz"a d is talking about, laughed at. The scepticism of the llz'ad is that of while the supposed Homer of the Odyssey often makes or Gibbon ; that of the Odyssey (if any) is like the mistakes that betray an almost incredible ignoran ce of sional mild irreverence of the Vicar's daughter. detail. Thus the giant Po1yphemus drives in his ewes Jove says he will dQ a thing, there is no home fr om their pasture, and milks them. The lambs about his doing it. Juno hardly appears at all, of course have not been running with them ; they have when she place . d woke up Ulysses, who sate up in his bed of leaves the clothes down from the linen room and d th ma e a nice bas ondered where in the world he could have got to. on the waggon. Her mother got ready ket and w and a g oa en he crept from under the bush beneath which provisions with all sorts of good things, 'Th princess now got into the had slept, broke off a thick bough so as to cover full of wine. The he of oil t akedness, and advanced towards Nausicaa and and her mother gave her a golden cruse hat his n aids ; these last all ran away, but Nausicaa stood and her maids might anoint themselves. her m round, fo 'Then N ausicaa took the whip and reins and gave her g r Minerva had put courage into her mules a touch which sent them off at a good heart, so she kept quite still, and Ulysses could not not They pulled without flagging, and carried make up his mind whether it would be better to go her, throw himself Nausicaa and her wash of clothes, but the women up to at her fe et, and embrace her who were with her. knees as a suppliant-[in which case, of course, he would drop the bough] or whether it would be better 'When they got to the river they went to the have to ran to make an apology to her at a reasonable ' pools, through which even in summer there for him matter ance, and ask her to be good enough to give him pure water to wash any quantity of linen, no dist and dirty. Here they unharnessed the mules some clothes and show him the way to the town. On ed in the sweet juicy grass that grew whole he thought it would be better to keep at them out to fe the wag arm's length, in case the princess shoulLl take offence the river-side. They got the clothes out of the another his coming too near her: brought them to the water, and vied with one at to get Let me say in passing that this is one treading upon them and banging them about of many quite passages which have led me to dirt out of them. When they had got them conclude that the waves is 'written by a woman. A they laid them out by the sea-side where the Odyssey girl, such as Nausicaa describes herself, young, unm raised a high beach of shingle, and set about arried, un . Then they attached, and hence, after all, knowing little and anointing themselves with olive oil. of what fo r men feel on these matters, having their dinner by the side of the river, and waited by a cruel freak of by, inspiration got her hero into such sun to finish drying the clothes. By and an awkward predi began cament, might conceivably imagine that he would dinner, they took off their head-dresses and argue as she represents him, but no man, except play at ball, and N ausicaa sang to them: with me that there is such a woman's tailor as could never have written I think you will agree la a Odyssey, milking of ewes that have had a such masterpiece as the would ever get haziness-no his home hero into such an undignified scrape at all, much with them all night-here. The writer is at less represent him as arguing as Ulysses does. on her own ground. I s ppose done folding the clothes and U Minerva was so busy making N ausic'aa brave , When they had hat � she had no time to put a little sense into Ulysses' putting the mules to the waggon before starting it was time Ulysses should ead, and remind him that he was nothing if not fu ll again, Minerva thought Sa . im gaClty and resource. see the handsome girl who was to take h of To return- and 'tJ up a ly ses now begins with the most judicious the city of the Phceacians. So the prince'ss threw th � apology t fe ll a unaided imagination can suggest. "I beg at one of the maids, which missed the maid and y hIS and the noise ladyship's pardon," he exclaims, "but are you the water. On this they all shouted, oUr 182 IIU1Jlou1' Of I-I0 7ll81'. I-. IU17tou1' of I-.IOJlZ81'. Tlt e Th e 183 goddess or are you a mortal woman If you ,,, H ush, my pretty maids," exclaimed N ausicaa 1 as there can be no d goddess and live in heaven, soon as she saw Ulysses coming back with his hair Jove's daughter Diana, fo r your fa ce but you are curled, "hush, fo r 1 want to say something. 1 believe figure are exactly like hers," and so on in a ods in heaven have sent this e g man here. There m. th speech which need not fu rther quote fro something very remarkable about him. When [ is I " Stranger," replied N ausicaa, as soon as the speecbl saw him thought him quite plain and common first 1 was ended, "you seem to be a very sensible and now consider him one of the handsomest place, 1 person. There is no accounting fo r disposed men 1 ever saw in my lif e. 1 should like my future every man, just as he chuuses.: Jove gives good or ill to husband [who, it is plain, then, is not yet decided the best so you must take your lot, and make on] to be just such another as he is, if he would up She then tells him she will give him clothes and stay here, and only not want to go away. However, thing else that a fo reigner in distress can give him something to eat and drink:' • scolds them expect. She calls back her maids, Nausicaa now says they must be starting homeward ; running, and tells them to take Ulysses and so she tells Ulysses that she will drive on first herself, to him in the river after giving him s0'mething but that he is to fo llow after her with the maids. the little and drink. So the maids give him She does not want to be seen coming into the town himself, cruse of oil and tell him to go and wash with him ; and then fo llows another passage which from as they seem to have completely recovered clearly shows that fo r all the talk she has made about say "Young alarm, Ulysses is compelled to getting married she has no present intention of please stand a little on one side, that .I may changing her name. the brine fr om off my shouldel's and anoint am afraid," she says, ( « 1 " of the gossip and scandal my skin has with oil ; fo r it is long enough since which may be set on fo ot about me behind my back, wash as long as a drop of oil upon it. 1 cannot for there are some very ill-natured people in the town, have no clothes on, and keep standing there. 1 and some low fe llow, if he met us, might say (Who is makes me very uncomfo rtable." this fine-looking stranger who is going about with So they stood aside and went and told N Nausicaa Where ? did she pick him up ? 1 suppose she closely), 'Minerva is Meanwhile (1 am translating going to marry him, or perhaps he is some ship than before ; she gave Wre him look taller and stronger cked sailor fr om fo reign parts ; or has some god top of his head, and made cOm some more hair on the e down from heaven in answer to her prayers, most beautifully ; in fact she glori and flow down in curls she is going to live with him ? It would be a shoulders as a gOo him about the head and d thing if she would take herself off and find a studied under Vulcan or hUsba workman who has nd somewhere else, fo r she will not look at one of plate by golding it: the enriches a fine piece �f many excellent young Phreacians who are in am reading a description e Again argue that 1 v with her'; and could not complain, fo r 1 s� 1 I Mr Knightley by a not O ld as it were a prehistoric U myself think ill of any girl whom saw going b 1 n-with this difference that Out prehistoric J ane Auste : with men unknown to her father and mother, quietly laughing at her hero it believe N ausicaa is d w hout having been married to him in the fa ce takes o; sees through him, whereas J ane Austen all the world." , Knightley seriously. l-Iu1ll0ttr of Ho mer. l-Iu mour 0/ IIomer. 185 184 Th e Tl te This passage could never have been written ' person who requires a good deal of keeping straight local bard, who was in great measure other matters besides clean linen, it is settled that the jn on Nausicaa's family ; he would never speak thus Vlysses shall 1?e feted on the following day and then his patron's daughter ; either the passage is Na escorted home. Ulysses now has supper and remains apology fo r herself, written by herself, or it is with Alcinous and Arete after the ' other guests are invention, and this last, considering the close ne away fo r the night. So the three sit by the (fa to the actual topography of Trapani on the fi re while the servants take away the things, and Arete Coast, and a great deal else that I cannot lay the first ,to speak. She has been uneasy fo r some js you here, appears to me improbable. time about Ulysses' clothes, which she recognised as directions by which own make, and Nausicaa then gives Ulysses her at last she says, " Stranger, there can find her father's house. "When you have is a question or two that I should like to put to " go straight through past the courtyard," she says, you myself. Who in the world are you ? And who main hall, till you come to my mother's room. gave you those clothes ? Did you not say you had will find her sitting by the fire and spinning her come here fr om beyond the seas ?" wool by firelight. She will make a lovely picture Ulysses explains matters, but still withholds his she leans back against a column with her name, nevertheless Alcinous (who seems to have shared ranged behind her. Facing her stands my in the general opiIlion that it was high time his seat in which he sits and topes like an im daughter got married, and that, provided she married god. Never mind him, but go up to my mother somebody, it did not much matter who the bridegroom lay your hands upon her knees, if you would might be) exclaimed, "By Father Jove, Minerva, and From fo rwarded on your homeward voyage." Apollo, now thdt I see what kind of a person you are I conclude that Arete ruled Alcinous, and Na how exactly our opinions coincide up.on every and ruled Arete. subject, I should so like it if you would stay with us Ulysses fo llows his instructions aided by always, marry Nausicaa, and become my son-in-law." who makes him invisible as he passes through Ulysses turns the conversation immediately, and town and through the crowds of Phreacian guests meanwhile Queen Arete told her maids to put a bed are fe asting in the king's palace. When he in the corridor, and make it with red blankets, and i reached the queen, the cloak of thick darkness falls t Was to have at least one counterpane. They were and he is revealed to all present, kneeling at the also to put a woollen nightgown fo r Ulysses. 'The It of Queen Arete, to whom he makes his appeal. maids took a torch, and made the bed as fast as they co already been made apparent in a passage ul d; when they had done so they came up to Ulysses e virtue at some length, but which I hav said, 'This way, sir, if you pleasej your room is her and qU been able to quote, that Queen Arete is, in ite ready;' and Ulysses was very glad to hear eyes of the writer, a much more important person them say so.' her husband Alcinous. O n th e fo llowing day Alcinous holds a meeting of ed Every one, of course, is very much surpris the PhCBac ians and proposes that Ulysses should have ter a little discussion, fr om ship go seeing Ulysses, but af � t ready to take him home at once ; this being it appears that the writer considers Alcinous to settled he invites all the leading people, and the VOL. XVII. BB 186 Th e IIttmottr of Ho mer. .HulIlour of flo mer. Til t! 187 fifty-two sailors who are to man Ulysses' ship, to well as the cloak and tunic ? And where is the as will give them a b up to his own house, and he anq beautiful gold goblet which he had also promised ? fo r which he kills a dozen sheep, eight pigs, an d "See to the fastening yourself," says Queen Arete oxen. Immediately after gorging themselves at Ulysses, "for fe ar any one should rob you while they have a series of athletic cornpe ti to are asle,ep in the ship." banquet yOU and fr om this I gather the poem to been have written Ulysses, we may be sure was well aware that one who saw nothing very odd in letting Alcinous's £ was not in the box, nor yet the goblet, 250 compete in sports requiring very violent but he took the hint at once and made the chest fast immediately after a heavy meal. Such a course without the delay of a moment, with a bond which have been usual in those days, but certainly is cunning goddess Circe had taught him. the generally adopted in our own. IIe does not seem to have thought his chance At the games Alcinous makes himself as ridicu getting the £ and the goblet, and having to of 250 as he always does, and Ulysses behaves much as unpack his box again, was so great as his chance of hero of the preceding afternoon might be having his box tampered with before he got it away, to do-but on his praising the Phceacians to if he neglected to double-10ck it at once and put the the close of the proceedings A1cinous says he key in his pocket. He has always a keen eye to person of such singular judgment that they money ; indeed the whole Odyssey turns on what is must all of them make him a very handsome p substantially a money quarrel, so this time without "Twelve of you," he exclaims, "are magistrates, the prompting of Minerva he does one of the very fe w there is myself-that makes thirteen ; suppose sensible things which he does, on his own account,. give him each one of us a clean cloak, a tunic, and throughout the whole poem. talent of gold,"-which in those days was worth a Supper is now served, and when it is over, Ulysses, two hundred and fifty pounds. pressed by Alcinous, announces his name and begins This is unanimously agreed to, and in the the story of his adventures. began to make towards sundown, the presents It is with profound regret that I find myself unable appearance at the palace of King Alcinous, and to quote any of the fascinating episodes with which king's sons, perhaps prudently �s you will his narrative abounds, but I have said I wac; going to see, place them in the keeping of their mother Arete. lecture on the humour of Homer-that is to say of the When the presents have all arrived, Alcinous and the Odyssey-and must not be diverted from lhad to Arete, "Wife, go and fe tch the best chest we my subject. I cannot, however, resist the account and put a clean cloak and a tunic in it. In the �vhich Ulysses gives of his meeting with his mother time Ulysses will take a bath." Hades, the place of departed spirits, which he has In s Arete orders the maids to heat a bath, bring visited by the advice of Circe. His mother comes up gold which chest, packs up the raiment and �o him and asks him how he managed to get into i Phceacians have brought, and adds a cloak and �des, being still alive. I will translate freely, but good tunic as King A1cinous's own contribution. qUite closely, fr om Ulysses' own words, as spoken to Yes, but where-and that is what we are the Phceacians. told-is the £ which he ought to have contn " And I said, 'Mother, I had to come here to consult 250 rit e IItllllour of Ilomer. Tlt e IIu lI20ur of I-Iomer. l88 189 the ghost of the old Theban prophot Teirosias, h ' d ed, that his visit is paid more particularly to r n e never yet been near Greece, nor set foot on my yself, but you all participate in the honour conferred g run o � by a visitor of such distinction. Do not be land, and have had nothing but one lon f ill upon us to ry to send him off, nor stingy in the presents from the day I set out with Agamemnon fight jn a hur Troy. But tell me how you came here m ake to one in so great need ; for you are all yOU Did you have a long and painful illness or did you very well off.' '' of vouchsafe you a gentle easy passage to eternity ? You will note that the queen does not say we 'c me also about my father and my son ? Is my all of us very well off." p are still in th eir hands, or has some one else got hold Then the hero Echenus, who was the oldest man it who thinks that I shall not return to claim it ? them, added a fe w words of his own. " My among again, is my wife conducting herself ? Does she he said, "there cannot be two opinions about friends," with her son and make home for him, or has the graciousness and sagacity of the remarks that q. married again ?' have just fallen from Her Majesty ; nevertheless it is " My mother answered, , Your wife is �ti11 m with His Majesty King Alcinous that the decision of your house, but she is in very great straits must ultimately rest." spends the greater part of her time in tears. No "The thing shall be done," exclaimed Alcinous, "if property, and am still king over the Phreacians. As fo r ou1." has actually taken possession of your I know he is anxious to resume his journey, machus still holds it. He has to accept a great guest, I invitations, and gives much the sort of entertain we must persuade him if we can to stay with us ::;ti11 in return that may be expected from one in his until to-morrow, by which time I shall be able to get Your fa ther remains in the old place, and never together the balance of the sum which I mean to press. near the town ; he is very badly off, and has neither his acceptance." on nor bedding, nor a stick of fu rniture of any kind. So here we have it straight out that the monarch winter he sleeps on the floor in front of the fire with knew he had only contributed the coat and waistcoat, men, and his clothes are in a shocking state, but and did not know exactly how he was to lay his hands, summer, when the warm weather comes on again, On the £ 'Vhat with piracy-for we have been sleeps out in the vineyard on a bed of vine leaves. told of at 250.least one case in which Alcinous had looted · t takes on very much about your not having returned, a own and stolen his housemaid Eurymedusa-what suffers more and more as he grows older : as fo r �vith insufficient changes of linen, toping like an I died of nothing whatever in the world but grief Immortal god, swaggering at large, and open-handed yourself. There was not a thing the matter with hOSpital ity, it is plain and by no means surprising hut my prolonged anxiety on your qccount was that Alcinous is out at elbows ; nor can there be a :trluch for ·me, and in the end it just wore me out.' '' better example of the diffe rence between the occasional b In the course of time Ulysses Gomes to a pause �oacl comedy of the Ikad and the delicate but very b his narrative and Queen Arete makes a little sp Itter satire of the Odyssey than the way in which the fa " 'What do you think,' she said to the ct that Alcinous is in money difficulties is allowed to of such a guest as this ? Did you ever steal upon us, as contrasted with the obvious humour f q ilt Ql1ce goqd-Iook;ing anq cl�v�r ? of the uarrels between Jove and Juno. At any rate ;:;0 sQ (If Tlz e. of I-.lomer. Tlte IIullZour EIo me1'. Ht617Z02t1' 190 191 we can hardly wonder at Ulysses having- fe lt th 0rning stowing them under the ship's benches, but at fl1 a monarch of such mixed character the time and trouble seem to be the extent of his his than box might prove a temptation greater ontribution. It is hardly necessary to say that resist. To return, however, to the story- �Iysses had to go away without the £250, and that " If it please your majesty," said he, in answer never hear of the promised goblet being presented. ,,,e King A1cinous, "I should be delighted to stay Still had done pretty well. he fo r another twelvemonths, and to accept fr om ave not quoted anything I h like all th e absurd hands the vast treasures and the escort which remarks made by A1cinous, nor shewn you nearly are so generous as to promise me. I should obvi completely as could do if I had more time how as I gain by dQing so, fo r I should return fuller-h obviously the writer is quietly laughing at him in her to my own people and should thus be both sleeve. She understands his little ways as she under respected and more loved by my acquaintance. those of stands Menelaus, who tells Telemachus and to receive such presents-" Pisistratus that if they like he will take them a The king perceived his embarrassment and personally"conducted tour round the Peloponese, and once relieved him. "No one," he exclaimed, " that they can make a good thing out of it, fo r everyone looks at you can fo r one moment take you fo r give them something-fancy Helen or Queen will charlatan or a swindler. I know there are many Arete making such a proposal as this. They are these unscrupulous persons going about just now, never laughed at, but then they are women, whereAS such plausible stories that it- is very hard to dis A1cinous and Menelaus c:.re men, and this makes all them ; there is, however, a finish about your the difference. which convinces me of your good disposition," and And now in conclusion let me point out the irony of on for more than I have space to quote ; after literature in cOllnexion with this astonishing work. UIyses again proceeds with his adventures. Here is a poem in which the hero and heroine have When he had finished them A1cinous insists al ready been married many years before it begins : the leading Phceacians should each one of them it i s marked by a total absence of love business in Ulysses a still fu rther present of a large ki such sense as we understand it : its interest centres copper and a three-legged stand to set it on, " b m ainly in the fa ct of a bald elderly gentleman, whose lit he continues, ,. as the expense of all these p tle remaining hair is red, being eaten out of house is really too heavy fo r the purse of any pri and home during his absence by a number of young individual, I shall charge the whole of them on Illen who are courting the supposed widow-a wi dow "'h rates :" literally, "We will repay ourselves by get o, if she be fair and fat, can hardly also be less than it in from among the people, fo r this is too heavy fo rty. Can any subject seem more hopeless ? Mo present for the purse of a private individuaL" reover, this subj ect so initially fa ulty is treated with ca what this can mean except charging it on the ra a relessness in respect of consistency, ignorance of c I do not know. Olll monly known details, and disregard of ordinary ca o Of course everyone else sends up his tripod and � ns, that can hardly be surpassed, and yet cannot thInk I cauldron, but we hear nothing about any, either tripod that in the whole range of literature there is o cauldron, from King A1cinous. He is very fussy n w rk which can be decisively placed abo\'e it. I et Th e EIu mour of Ho mer. Quo Sal? 1 3 192 9 am afraid you will hardly accept this ; I do n more interest in the digamma ot Juch and in the }Eolie how you can be expected to do so, fo r in the �jaJect, than they do in the living spirit that sits behin d place there is no even tolerable prose translation, these things and alone gives them their importance, all in the second, the Odyssey, like the Ilz'ad, has been naturally enough, not caring about the personality, hat, school book fo r over two thousand five hundred t mains and always must remain invisible it re to them. and what more cruel revenge ' than this can have d If I helped to make it any less invisible to take genius The Ilz'ad and Odyssey have been ourselves, let me ask you to pardon the somewhat Cm I y as text-books for education during at least two thou tone of san. querulouS my concluding remarks. five hundred years, and yet it is only during the fo rty or fifty that people have begun to see that SAMUEL BUTLER. are by different authors. There was, indeed, so learn fr om Colonel Mure's valuable work, a band scholars some fe w hundreds of years before the of Christ, who refused to see the Ilz'ad and as by the same author, but they were snubbed snuffed out, and fo r more than two thousand were considered to have been finally refuted. there be any more scathing. satire upon the value literary criticism It would seem as though Mi I had shed the same thick darkness over both poems as she shed over Ulysses, so that they m QUO SA L? go in and out among the dons of Oxfo rd Cam bridge fr om generation to generation, and Every gmer a#on that cometh doth verily stand on the shoulders of �hould see them. If I am right, as I believe I am, gone befon.-LeoSestertiu5. that which hatl! holding the Odyssey to have been written by a woman, was ever sleeping beauty more 'Advancing time advanceth wit,' concealed behind a more impenetrable hedge The ancient saw declares : dulness I-and she will have to sleep a good m We stand upon our fathers' heads, years yet before any one wakes her effectually. what else can one expect from people, not one of w Our fa thers stood on theirs'. has been at the very slight exertion of noting a H. of the writer's main topographical indications, and L.. S. looking fo r them in an Admiralty chart or two I any step be more obvious and easy-indeed, it is �imple that I am ashamed of myself fo r not ha taken it fo rty years ago. Students of the Odyssey the most part are so engrossed with the fo rce of zeugma, and of the enclitic particle they take 'YE ; VOL. XVII. cc A Lamp Extz1zguzshed. 1 95 occupy all the horizon of their mental vision, the first cts of the lower classes is fo r a room which is instin lived in. There dwells darkness and other family not heirlooms, thence issue damp smells when the door is opened. The other room-or rooms possibly-may be crowded living room by day and a heated bedroom a by nigh t, but the sallctity of the parlour is unviolated. The problem proposed, then, is this. Whence comes A LAMP EXTINGUISHED. this hankering after a room not used, and on what instincts and how acquired is it based ? The answer which solved this problem and co-ordi �HIS paper-destined by the author fo r the nated with it many other problems hitherto unexplained, but by the Editors doubtless about to and apparently widely different, such as why we wear �, relegated to the waste-paper basket�is top hats and what there is of beauty in mountains, is markable in many ways, but in none more than given in the principle that nothzng whzch ts true zs ongm. The mere facts indeed, the ground plan beautzjttl. modelled, glazed, nor /r amed, are the results of The word true is here used in its widest sense, that of careful observation, comparison, and rej ection in which it is used in the Seven Lamps 0/ Archz'tedure, those which gave us an Orzgz'n 0/ SP ecz"es, but the where truth is the c01'respondence wziiz surroundzngs and the vital soul which has vivified those dry fu lfil ment 0/ the purposes 0/ bezng. came like a heavenly visitant, and came It is the great principle above stated, hard to College debate. Such an event is surely unprecedenll appreciate and baffling on account of its very such an unexpected source fo r an idea should universality, which the poor East-ender grasps in all something phenomenal. Is the prom ise fu lfilled ? its worth. He, more than the inhabitant of Kensington, is not for the writer to say ; let the Reader read to whom a picture is useful to cover a stain on the judge. wall-paper, and a garden statue as a mask for the p The first fa ct which directed the writer's a ath to the area, recognises that what is useful to this subject was the unexplained phenomenon cannot elevate, and that only a room uninhabited and Uninhabited Chamber. No, Reader, not the �nfit for habitation can really exercise an influence fo ur-post-bedded ghost-haunted chamber of the In the sphere of our ethical and cesthetic being. Grange ; not that, but merely the front parlour Such a room becomes therefore to the East-ender the poor struggling for respectability and a social symbol of the useless, the unpractical, the beautiful, the parlour with its Family Bible, bead mats, as opposed to beer and rent and butcher's meat, which flowers, and daguerreotypes of the last gene are useful and practical things and minister to the gro For tho�e wh o know well admit that when, in ss body. This principle it was which actuated the fo evolution of the social instincts, actual bread, :� rmers of the cesthetic movement. They recognised , and fi ring to-day, with prospective bread, beer at a blue plate on the floor was a platter fo r dogs, firing as potentialities of to-morrow, have ce the wall an obfet art fo r the contemplation of On d' 196 A Lamp Extz1ztuz'shed. A Lamp Extz"nguz·shed. 197 men and angels. They therefore put fa ns on the brains. It is ill-fitted to protect the wearer from the the fire-places, and rejoice in J apa sun-shades in the noon-day heat or the dews of night, and when adequate idea of that w art which conveys no hich chased through the dust in March divides with the represents. When Punch puts into the mouth of quondam wearer the honour of being the most ridiculous poet Postlethwaite the beautiful words, "Why sight as yet presented to a pitying and pitiful world. we be anything ? why not remain fo r ever Yet in spite. no, because, of all this, it is to the merely to exist beautifully ?" the British Englishman the outward and visible sign of his liberty, who reads it over his ham and eggs, laughs fitting boss to the shield of the British Constitution. a of a competency made in trade and conscious of b Because it is ill-fitted to cover the head, fo r that a warm man. Yet Postlethwaite is right, and reason it is admirably adapted fo r a centre round which remains for ever a paying speculation, nor can cluster many of the purest and noblest of human may rise to the realms of the truly beautiful. emotions. With it are connected by an association of A public who buy their Ruskin in expensive edi ' ideas the dogmas of our fa ith, the conception of a day of but do not read him, will object that he m rest, the picture of the fa ther at church among his one of his "Lamps " the "Lamp of Truth." That boys, those boys who shall rise up and call him so, and it is the extinction of that Lamp which blessed and themselves carry on the family reputation, paper is intended to achieve. and maintain unshaken the framework of our social Truly our theory is not without support life. In a word, it belongs not to the sphere of the writers of authority. Does not Keats sing-A useful, but to that of the emotional, within which 0/ beauty £s a foy /0 1' ever ? But obviously that dwell all other fa ir things which have a purely ethical is useful and fulfils the purpose of its being does existence. last fo r ever. We cannot eat our cake and have Of mountains, too. What of them ? They are fo r it is of the nature of cakes, whether of soap distinctly clumsy, they impede the view unless one is otherwise, to consume away. Only the purely the on summit, and then the pleasures of sight are is eternal, fo r to exist beautifully, though difficult, lessened by the memory that it will ultimately be not exhausting. necessary to descend. Yet we adm ire them. It is Yet it is not from authority, but from fa cts, that because they cannot be let in building leases fo r 999 new and revolutionary theory must receive nl'l yea and are eminently unsuitable fo r the erection of C'"n rs, d Let us then take fa cts, the two cited at the corn esirable semi-detached villas, because it would be ment of this article for instance, and subj ect them aWkward to reap upon them and quite impossible to sO careful examination. \\', that they are beautiful. The writer does not deny We wear top hats and we love them. �at a mountain may be useful. It may contain metal. there is no doubt. To not a fe w of us, Un ut it a is quite certain that the man is yet to be r t Sunday lacks an indefinite something, not to 1ea ed who can at one and the same time admire this � .A defined, because the top hat is wanting. Why is e lps and consider them as the ground plan of a CO A top hat is always uncomfortable ; in a high £, mpany, capital £ in shares of I ,000,000 100,000 it necessitates an ungraceful and awkward pose of 10 each. head ; in a hot sun it becomes an oven and �o, this paper ends now after the consideration 198 Omma Explorate. of two examples, as it would after the of two thousand, with proof positive beautiful. Wh which is true or useful can be at a ®lJttuar». that this article is probably too beautiful or sufficiently true to be useful the Editors of Eagle. to F.G.S. THOMAS ROBERTS M.A. P. G. Tom Roberts (for by that name he was always known) who died on January 24, 1892, in Cambridge, aged 35, was a native of South Wales. After a successful course at University College, Aberystwyth, he entered St John's in the Michaelmas Term 1879, having gained the Natural Science Exhibition. He ofwas elected Foundation Scholar in his second year ; his name appeared in the First Class of Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1882, and of Part II in 1883 ; and soon after OMNIA EXPL ORA TE . taking his degree he was appointed to the post of Assistant the Woodwardian Professor of Geology, which he retained to Fashions old, and fa shions new, until his death. In the summer of 1884 he was sent by the University, with a grant from the Worts Fund, to study the Fashions fal se, and fa shions true ; rocks of the Jura Mountains. He gained the Sedgwick Prize Fashions wise, and fashions mad, in 1886, and received an award from the Lyell Fund of the Geological Society in 1888. Fashions good, and fa shions bad ; Roberts did not publish much, but his papers, like every Some fashions fade, some fashions thing he undertook, are marked by thoroughness. Thoroughness Prove all, and to the good hold fa st ! and gentleness were perhaps his most striking characteristics, and many are the pupils indebted to him for instruction of J. F. rare quality, ungrudgingly and cheerfully given. He was an ideal teacher, never trying to impress his pupils by a showy style, never attempting to cover a wide range of study in a IDEM GRAECE REDDITUM. desultory manner ; he made them learn what they undertook to do, not by compulsion but by persuasion. A dull student W� aiel '11'alto vua TuX"7 pE'11'Et €vBa Kal €vBa, , might come away from one of Roberts's courses with less K''YKJ...£tEt Of (3POTWV '11'clVT' Ctvclp.t'Y0a (3£ov. knowledge than more brilliant one, but the knowledge in a ' each case was accur CtJ...J...clUUC:t 0' CtP€T�� KaKlav Kal Katva. '11'aJ...atWV, ate. The men who found him ever willing to give help in the 'o/EVOO'O CtJ..."7B€ta�, a!/>pouuv"7� uo!/>lav. Geological Museum, and on those vacation tours conducted Pr PE' TclOE, KE'iva p.EVet· !/>pcJVtp.or; 0' €uB' by ofessor Hughes which were rendered doubly pleasant by company of his kindly assistant, will sadly miss the the oovr; (3auclV'l" XP"7UTWJI t1J1TEXEra£ uTEpEwr;. massive fo rm and friendly features from their accustomed But still greater is the loss to those friends of his Plac T. R. e.a o wn ge and standing, who knew his loyalty and his fe arlessness 201 200 Obdtta1Y· Obz'tztary. in the cause of right. For them the O'iven in mathematics and physics in the College. He taught friend needs no record save that en graven upon their for some time in Victoria College, Belfast. Upon entering To others may these words speak of one who fought a John's in 1889 he was elected to an exhibition and a sizar I fight, whose watchword was Duty, and whose life S He steadily improved his position at the College, and blameless. ship. first at the last May examinations, being subsequently weleasc ted to a Foundation Scholarship. A chill caught on his journey to Cambridge led to an attack of pneumonia, from JAMES ALEXANDER STEWART. after nearly a week's illness, he died on Sunday, which, January 24-, 1892. brother and sister arrived only a few His Our fellow-student, Mr J. A. Stewart, whose death in hours before his death. A brief but touching service was held rooms in the Third Court cast a gloom over the College, the College Chapel the next evening, before his remains born in Belfast on May 18, 1866, and received his werein removed for burial in Belfast. Wreaths from the Master education at the Belfast Model School. Afterwards Fellows, the Scholars, Mr Ward, his Tutor, and other fri ends entered commercial life, being for some time in the and laid on the coffin, and the procession to the railway station of the Barrow Steam Navigation Company and of waswere accompanied by many senior and junior members of the Sin clair & Boyd in Belfast. While with the latter firm College, who during Mr Stewart's short life in Cambridge had 1884- he matriculated at the Royal University of Ireland to appreciate his sterling Christian character and his a period of private study, and on entering the Queen's highlearned intellect ual promise. Belfast, in 1885 he obtained mathematical science a ship, and at the end of the session secured third place ROBERT PEIRSON M.A. Professor Purser's class in mathematics. In the of 1886-87 he secured the first prize in mathematical Robert Peirson, the Astronomer, who died on Ji-me 1891, IS. and at the beginning of the next session he went in for at the age of years, was a member of an old Yorkshire second year scholarship, and took first place. At the close fa mily. His fa76ther, James Peirson, was born at Whitby in the session he obtained first prizes in logic, in county, but was settled for many years in Charles ton, that in mathematical physics, and in experimental physics. South Carolina, as Cotton Planter and Merchant. In 1817 a that date he kept at the head of his class in sc]ence. or ) 818 he returned and finally took up his abode in beginning of the third session he competed for the England. He possessedhomy what at any rate at that period Scholarship, given for classics, mathematics (pure and appw::UJ Was deemed a considerable fo rtune, and he soon afterwards logic, and modern languages. He was elected to this retired from active business pursuits. He purchased the ship for a year, and during the session he took the first leasehold interest in his residence, No. 5. Barnsbury long in honour mathematics, honour mathematical physics, Islington, Middlesex, then a semi-rural neighbourhood Park, honour experimental physics. That year he went up to some consequence, occupied by merchants and others of wofe Royal University in Dublin fo r his degree of B.A., and gained alth and good position. In this house Robert Peirson with first-class honours. At this examination he was :as born, an d, with the exception of his residence at Cam first in Ireland in mathematical science. Then, on return'", /ldge which began in 184-2, in this house he thenceforth to the Queen's College, he entered for the senior scholarshiM d there IVc' d, an he died a bachelor. both in mathematics and natural philosophy, and was was admitted Foundation Scholar in 184-2, and a elected t00 11 'le first for both. He could only retain one, and h" degree as Third Wrangler in 1845, the year of he b'P IS hold the senior scholarship in mathematics. At the same atkinson and Sir William Thomson (now Lord Kelvin). lI t a he was elected to the Dunville Studentship, the.:: highest e was dmitted a Fellow of the College in 184-9 in succession DD VOL. XVII. Obt"tuary. Obztl-ta?'Y· 202 203 to Mr BEck, who had accepted the living of Brandes SIR JAMES WILLIAM REDHOUSE and kept his Fellowship till 1855. He does not appear LlTT.D. have held any College office. In 1850 he was awarded Sir James Redhouse became a member of the College when first Adams Prize, fo unded in 1848, for an essay on The was admitted in 1884 to the honorary degree of Doctor he of the Long In equably of [kanus and Neptzme, which was Letters the University. He was born on December 30, by in vol. ix of the Tra nsactz'olls ofthe Canzbr£dge Philosophical in in Walworth, London, of a Suffolk family, and was SI I, After leaving Cambridge Mr. Peirson determined to eI ducated at Christ's Hospital. He went to Constantinople himself to the study of Astronomy and Optics, and in where he studied French, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, 1 826, studies formed the occupation of his life. In 1858 Persian ; and served the Ottoman Government by assisting sought the repose of the country, and he purchased ainn d the preparation of various military, naval, and literary freehold of some five or six acres of land in one of the He visited South Russia in 1830, acquiring some know \l'orks. and most secluded parts of Wimbledon Park, Surrey, Ictl:;e of the language, and commencing the preparation of a \v hich he built, during the years 1859-18uI, a Turkish, English, and French Dictionary ; he returned to London residence, which he called Devomlzz're Lodge ,' but un in 1834 to publish the same, but the appearance of Bianchi's by the time this was ready for his occupation in July 1861 Turkish-French work made the attempt fruitless. After being circumstance occurred which not only prevented his entrusted with the superintendence of about twenty Turkish naval occupying this residence, but also tinged and em military officers sent over to study an d serve in the Royal and the remainder of his days. Through misplaced confidence Artillery and Navy, he returned to Constantinople in 1838 ; one he considered a friend he lost many thousands of p appointed to the Translation Office of the Parte, and was which so reduced his income that he found it necessary in 1839 was selected by the Grand Vizier for confidential abandon and sell his country house, and to remain in communications with the British Ambassador, Lord Ponsonby. London residence at Barnsbury. After being appointed a Member of' the Naval Council, Naturally shy and retiring, he never mixed in society. to co-operate with Captain Baldwin Wake Walker R.N. neither visited others, nor received visitors. He shut him (afterwards Sir B. W. Walker Bart. rc.C.B. &c.), he entered almost entirely from the outer world, and spent his time in Turkish Naval Service ; assisted in drawing up naval the favourite studies. But, notwithstanding, he was well acquai instructions for the officers of the Tllrkish fleet ; went to with current literature and politics, as well as with all Alexandria when hostilities were commenced by the allies, in science generally ; and his views on all these subjects England, Austria, Russia, and Turkey, against Egypt ; acc advanced and progressive. ompanied the Consuls-General to the British Fleet at He has left a large quantity of MSS, alike the evidence I3eyrut; and served as means of communication between the the result of his diligent study and search after scientific General on shore and Admiral Sir Robert Stop fo rd Tcourkish consisting of many reams of paper covered with notes, ncerning a combined attack on St Jean d'Acre, this plan referred through Mr Redhouse to Lord Ponsonby and and, so far as inspected, fairly written in his ·own neat bei ng Government, and ultimately carried out successfully writing. These papers are now being examined by Mr A. the Ottoman Flux, Fellow of the College, with a view the orders of the allied Governments. For these services Mr to by publication of some of them. Rcdb ouse received the Turkish Order of the Nishani Iftikhar in On a change of ministry in 1841, Mr Reclhousereturned Mr Peirson was eminently gentle in disposition, con br illtheiants. of others, just and honourable in all his dealings, and �o Parte, and was employed in confidential communications CllVeen the Turkish Government and Sir Stratford Canning accurate in his views generally as he was diffident C expressing them. He lived and died a true philosop (afterwards Lord Stratford de Redcliife K.G.), sU.C.n. who cceeded Lord Ponsonby. In January 1843 he proceeded la. Obztual"Y· 204 Obztual"Y· 205 ry John Barnard (1845), Vicar of Pucklechurch with Abson, Erzerum as Secretary to the Mediating Commisioners, Hen lZe\'for merly Vicar of Yatton for 38 years, Prebendary of "Vells, aud Rural Williams (afterwards Sir W. F. Williams Bart., of Kars, Dean of Portishead : died July 2, aged 69. G. and the Hon R. Curzon (afterwards Lord ZOuche), Hyde Wyndham Beadon (1834), Honorary Canon of Bristol : died at ultimately assisted in concluding in 184-7 a treaty lZev LaUon, Wilts" May 12, aged 79 (see 573), of Eagle XVI, (1852), between Turkey and Persia, receiving the Persian Order George Shelford Bidwell late Rector of Sympson, Bucks : died ev March 20 at "Vorthing, aged 61. the Lion and Sun, with Colonel's rank, i}rst class; R c Thomas Birkett (1858) : died February 26 at Weston-super-mare. R v publishing meanwhile in Paris his " Grammaire raisonnee de aged 55. langue ottomane." In 854- he was appointed I Thomas Hell1'y Braim (did npt graduate), received degree of D.D. fr om Translator to the Foreign Office, and published an Rcv the of Canterbury LL.D" late Archdeacon of Portland, Australia,Archbishop author of died Oclober 14: a Histo of Turkish and Turkish-English Dictionary, also a Vade-Mecum at Risley Rectory, Derby, aged,y 77,New South Wa les ,' Colloquial Turkish for the Army and Navy in the Cri GeOl'ge Russell Brett (1858), Rector of Thwaite, Norfolk : died War. In 18S7 he assisted the late Lord Cowley in Pari ev September at the Rect ory. s R I wording the treaty of peace with Persia that set our Samuel Christmas Brown (1842), Vicar of Great Clacton : died July free to act under Sir Hugh Rose (Lord Strathnairn) Rcv ged j2. S, a suppressing the Indian Mutiny. In 1884- he was engaged John Hemy Browne (1840), formerly Scholar, Vicar of Lowdham,. Rev Notts., for nearly 50 years : <;lied October aged 74. publishing numerous treatises on Oriental subjects. He Il, Thomas Edward George Bunbury (1860) : died May 6, aged 53. formerly Secretary to, and an Honorary Member of, the Rcv Rev George Ash Butterton D.D. ( 182 ) : died AU6ust at Rhyl, aged 8� Asiatic Society ; and Honorary and Corresponding Member (see 59). 7 3 1885, Eagle XVII, several learned societies. He was created C.M.G., Arthur Calve!'t (1856), formerly Fellow, Rector of Moreton, Essex :' K.C.M.G., 888. He presented te the Library of the Rev died June 2. J Museum a manuscript (incomplete) dictionary of Arabic, Per.i...... Rev Thomas Stone Carnsew (18SS), Vicar of Constantine, near Penrhyn, for 30 years (1857-1887) Vicar of PougheU, North Cornwall : died Ottoman-Turkish, Eastern Turkish and English, ten large January 2 aged 70 . in . volumes, the result of sixteen years' labour; and to the U Rev Edward KeatingeI, Clay (1864), Vicar of Great Kimble, Tring : died Library, Cambridge, a transcript of a unique Arabic 15, at Hastings. March which was in the Library of the India Office, a gift. of Rev Henry Cogan (1837), formerly Vicar of East Dean and Rector of Upper \Vallham : died August 29 at Chichester. Hastings to the East India Company, with translation, Sir Patrick Colquhoun Q.C. LL.D. ( 1837), Honorary Fellow : died May 18,. mentary, maps, and index. He married, first in 1836, J ane aged 76 (see 567). E. Slade (who died 1887), daughter of the late T. Slade, of George Cooper (1Eagle873), XVI,Barrister-at-Law : died December 7 near Liverpool, pool, and second, 1888, Eliza, daughter of our late H aged 40. Rev Tho 1864) : 6 Q.C. mas Davis (B.D. died March at Earl's Court, London, Fellow, Sir Patrick MacChombaich de Colquhoun aged 66. Sir James died on January 2nd. His portrait in Hicks Thomas Deacle (1840), Vicar of Bawburgh, Norfolk : died costume has peen placed in the smaller Combinati RevAug ust 8. Charles Rous Drury (1845), Vicar of Westhampnett, late Archdeacon Rev of Madras ; died Octoher 29, aged 69. COnrad Clunie DUl'tlas (1885) : died February 7 at Ealing, aged 58. Reverend Gilbert Elliot (1823), Dean of Bristol : died August 18. The following Members of the College have died during Vcryage d 91 (see 65). ree. year 1891 ; the year in brackets is that of the B.A. deg Edwyn AnthonyEagle XVll,Ely (1862), late Rector of Lassington : died Rev D cem er 27 at Abergavenny, aged 53. Rev John Price Alcock (183 1), formerly Precentor of Rochester� e Canon pf Cante,bury, and Vicar of Ashford for 40 years : died Patrickb Fenn (1852), Rector of vVrabness, Essex, for 54 years : died R at Eardemont, Crayford, aged 84. ev ch aged 91. Rev WiUiam Baker (B.D. [870), Incufllbent of Mar\VilliamII, Gabb (1861), Solicitor : died December 29 at lamesage d Hacklley ; died May 15 at flackney, aged 60, Rarn's 53. Cheltenham. 206 Obtlttary. Obzfztary. 207 Rev John Edward Beauchamp George (1880), Vicar of St George aged 72 (see 's, bcrt Peirson (1845), formerly Fellow : died June Isle of Man : dIed May 12, aged 45. "di, 201). IS, Eagle Rev Herbert Richard Hannam (1882) : died August 17 at Nonvood, �o Philpot (did not graduate) late of West Farleigh, Kent : died aged ,\'illiam (see 70). vember 4 at Linton, Kent, aged 72• XVII, No The RightEagle Hon ol1rable Lord Heytesbury (,Villiam Hen y As e John Holford Plant ( !877), Mission Priest in the Diocese of Melanesia : Holmes) (M.A. 1831) : died April 2[ at Heytesburyr House,h a' �e" June 8 at Worthmg, aged 35· aged (see 565). XVI, diedAlbeit John Porter (1862) LL.B., Vicar of St Helen's, Norwich : HI Eagle . Rev Edward Kaye Holt (1854), Vicar of Sancton C" Jnne 30 at NorWIch. aged 63. , Yorks. : died :May R diedight Honourable the Earl of Powis (Edward James Herbert) (1840) The R Rev John Burleigh James ([834), eldest son of the late Rev John LL.D., High Steward of the University : died May 7, aged 72 (.ee Canon of Pe terbo ough (author of the homilie 562). November 28 at Vranbrugh Fields, Blackheath, ageds on 80.the Co llects) : XVI, Eag lRe ichard Davies Pryce of Cyfl'O ydd (1842) J.p., Lord Lieutenant , Ja k n or Le bury d ed August 2[, aged Rev John c so ([840), Rect of d , Herefordshire : died July captofain Montgomerysh ire : i n aged 75. il. Frederick Goode Slight (1861), Vicar of Voodborough, Notts : died Rev Joseph John Jeckell (185[), Rector of Rylstone, Skipton: I{ ev Ja uary 17· , in Decem!:>er, aged 63. n died May 16 at Nice, aged 73 (see Rev Vincent John Stanton (1842) : Henry MartYIl Jeffrey (1849) F.R.S., late Head Master of Cheltcnba� 573)· Grammar School, was at St John's for two terms when he migrated Eagle XVI, Charles Storer· ([835) M.D. J.P. : died February at Lowdham Grange, St Catharine's : died in November. Notts, aged 78. 6 Rev Robert Joynes (1843), Rector of Gravesend for 45 years : Rcv John Taylor (1845) : died March 27 at St. Helier's, Jersey, aged 76. Septem ber 13, aged 70. Rev Joh Hel1l'y Taylor ( 1 871), of Shillong, Assam, Indian Chaplain on tbe Rev Henry Richard Julius (1839), for 40 years Vicar of Wrecclesham: Calcuttan Establishment : died in May, on board S teamship f March 27 Red ill aged 74. o at h , Oxfm'd, off Colombo. City Rev WiIliam Keeling (1826) B.D., formerly Fellow, Rector of Barrow, Rev Eusebius Andrewes Utbwalt (1830), formcrly Rector of Foscott, Bucks : St Edmund's ; died May 7, aged 87. died August 26 at Buckingham, aged 84· Rev William James Kennedy (1837) : died June 3 at Barnwood, aged Rev John Thomas WaIters (1850), Rector of Norton Atherstone : died (see 576). rch at Llandudno, aged 74. Eagle XV!, Rev Samuel Savage Lewis ([868), Fellow of Corpus Christi College : HensleighMa W!Ied gwood (1824), late Fellow of Christ's College : died June March 31 in train near Oxford, aged 54 (see xvi, 575)· in London, aged 88 (see p. 65)· 2 a Eagle xvn, Rev Mi hael Mac Carthy (1828), afterwards at Peterhouse, Rev Thomas White (1846), VicarEagle of Scamblesby ; died April 25. aged . VicarFrancis of Thomes,c Wakefield : died February 20, at Chester, William Henry Widgery (1879) : dicd August 26, aged 34 (see 8b. Rev John Howard Marsden (1823) B.D., formerly Fellow : died January 68). Eagle, at Colchester, aged 87 see X , 478). Rev XVII,Willia m Wigston (1839), Vicar of Rushmere St Andrew near Ipswich : ( V Sir James Meek (did not graduatEaglee) : I died January 10 at died September 13 in London, aged 74. aged 75 (see 477). Rev Charles Edward Wilkinson (1867), Curate in Charge of Gatcombe, XVI, Isle Rev Robert StephenEagle Moore (1851), Vicar of Mickley : died June 21, aged of Wigh t: died November 8, aged Rev Joseph Wolstenholme (r850), Sc.D., lateSo. Fellow of St John's and of Rev William Murton (1844), Vicar of Sutton, vV ansford, for 43 Christ's : died Novembe 18, aged 62 (see 67). died N ovem ber 17, aged 73. XVII, Thomas Rowland Wyerr (1842), formerlyEagle Incumbent of St. Peter's Rev William Anthony Newton (1860), Chaplai of the City of RevEpIscopal Church, Peebles : died May 8 at Peebles, aged 84. Industrial School, Feltham : died September n19, aged 52. Rev Gregory Nicholls (1860) : died February at Leavesdon, aged 52. I Rev George Philip Ottey (1847), formerly Rector of Much Hadham, died December 17 at Bournemouth, aged 67. Rev Alexander Shaw Page (1852), Towed against Oxford and at Henley iJ Vicar of Selsley, fo rmerly Vicar o[ St Anne's, Lancaster : died Apr Rev Lawrence John Parsons (1849), Chaplain to the Forces : died at Woodbury, aged 66. May Rev Thomas Pearse (1819), [or 68 years Vicar of Westoning, Beds. : June 14, aged 93. OUR CHRONICLE. CORRESPONDENCE. Lent Te rm, 18g2. To the Edito rs of the 'Eagle.' his sermon preached in the College Chapel on Sunday, JanInua ry Professor Mayor thus referred to the losses which have recent31,ly befallen us in Cam �ridge : "Since last spoke from thIS place, the Angel of Death HOCKEY. called awayI many of chief note in the University and our hoaswn College. DEAR "The venerable Duke of Devonshire, who united high rank SIRS! with almost unexampled University distinction, whose vast estates I should li e to draw the attentibn of the College were administered with rare wisdom and gene,osity, and who k ranks among Chancellors with Burleigh and Fisher for the the existence of the University Hockey Club. There benefits which he conferred upon us, has gone ; and also his neither games three times a week, and the men who some-time competitor [Dr Philpott], the Senior Wranglerof 181g, football nor row would be enabled to get excellent exercise. steered the University. as a resident and asa commissioner, whot r ugh anxious times of change ; who as Bishop of Worcester, I may mention in its favour that the expense is tri inh oone of the most arduous dioceses of our church, governed 6d. fo r the season-that is for the Michaelmas and flock in quietness and peace, with an unresting activity �ishke some force of nature, obeying the great Taskmaster. Terms.7s. "Of many other losses, can note but a fe w. The High Steward, Lord Powis, who shI owed his interest in Scholarship It might even be possible next year to start a not only by giving a medal for Latin verse. but by personally Hockey Club, in which we have been already anticipated pleading in the schools .for the retention of verse composition OUr Trinity, King's, Clare, Pembroke, and Selwyn. In classical course ; to whom the windows in yonder apse an� , the Walworth mission bear grateful witness. BIshop Perry, Senior Wrangler in who built two �.h Urches in Cambridge. gave fo rm and 18zorder8, to the infant I am, yours faithfully, r�OC�se of Melbourne, and after many years of Colonial work, ch�alJ1cctto the last, spending and spent, in the service of the ,�Ch at home. L. · arvey Goodwin, long a power in St Edward's and HdRTON-SMITlI. � St rary' s pulpits, to whom we are indebted fo r the lif e "\ ontem of III � . porary, the missionary Bishop Mackenzie. Vlth the last few days the young and the old have brought thlll inUs tit� ge er to lament their loss. Probably never, except plague, has the voice of mourning fallen with such tep"Teate� dO fstr okes on Cambridge ears. death Trinity College, he e of the young Prince, who left as t o tul I ef .s many parts of the Empire which he was born to e , WIth a spotless character, called forth a sympathy VOL. XVII. E E OUR CHRONICLE. CORRESPONDENCE. 1892. Lenl Term, To tIle Editors of the 'Eagle.' In his sermon preached in the College Chapel on Sunday, January Professor Mayor thus referred to the losses which 3', have recently befallen us in Cambridge : "Since I last spoke from this place, the Angel of Death HOCKEY. has called away many of Ichief note in the University and our own College. DEAR SIRS/ "The venerable Duke of Devonshire, who united high rank with almost unexampled University distinction, whose vast estates I should like to draw the attention of the College were administered with rare wisdom and gene.osity, and who Hockey Club. There ranks among Chancellors with Burleigh and Fisher for the the existence of the University benefits which he conferred upon us, has gone ; and also his games three times a week, and the men who neither some-time competitor [Dr Philpott], the Senior Wrangler of football nor row would be enabled to get excellent exercise. who steered the University, as a resident and as a commissioner,,829, through anxious times of change ; who as Bishop of Worcester, I may mention in its favour that the expense is tri in one of the most arduous dioceses of our church, governed flock in quietness and peace, with an unresting activity 7s. 6d. for the season-that is for the lVIichaelmas and his like some force of nature, obeying the great Taskmaster. Terms. " many other losses, can note but a few. The High Steward,Of Lord Powis, who showedI his interest in Scholarship It might even be possible next year to star� a CoIl only not by giving a medal for Latin verse, but by personally Hockey Club, in which we have been aiready anticipated pleading in the schools .for the retention of verse composition King's, Clare, Pembroke, and Selwyn. In Our classical course ; to whom tbe windows in yonder apse Trinity, the and Walworth mission bear grateful witness. "Bis 8z8, hop Perry, Senior Wrangler in J who built two ��urch s in Cambridge, gave form and order to tht! infant am, yours faithfully, esee of I r 10c Melbourne, and after many years of Colonial work, chrnalncd to the last, spending and spent, in the service of the at home . ��ch . HdRTON-SMITH Barvey Goodwin, long a power in St Edward's and L. St lar f 1\ y's pulpits, to whom we are indebted for the life o rn"\ �on.temporar}', the missionary Bishop Mackenzie. t V IthlU the last few days the young and the old have brought \Is o to lament their loss. Probably never, except in timgether repe tC dOf plague, has the voice of mournillg fallen with such "T�a strokes on Cambridge ears. e e death of the young Prince, who left Trinity College, as h ; ft so many parts of the Empire which he was born to rule ,e With a spotless character, called forth a sympathy VO L. XVII. E E Our Chronic/e. Our Chrom'cle. ZII 210 wider than has yet been known, or indeed could bave liged, on account of the state of his health, to resign f ob known, in the world's history. We learnt once more h�sIt Fellowship and his position as Theological Lecturer. a power England possesses in the reverence felt for W. F. Smith, Fellow of the College, has announced his. gracious Queen, far beyond the limits of her dominiOns. l\Ir "Twice in the past week we have met here to render "ntcnlion of resigning the office of Steward at nel;t Lady Day, the Classical Lectureship, which he has held for many for J ohnians departed this life in the fa ith and fear of J a nd at the end of the present academical year. His edition One, the most fa mous name on our books, who had ears. is understood to be approaching completion. threescore years and ten when released from suffering, a �f Rabelat's Smith will carry with him into his retirement the good Senior Wrangler like Henry Martyn, is one proof among J\lr that from humblest schools self-taught votaries of " of the readers of the Eagle. Mr W. Bateson, Fellow wish cs College, succeeds him as Steward. ever find at St John's a cordial welcome and room to of the to their full stature. What a fixed prophetic gaze, like Three Chancellor's Medals have fallen to the College this of Newton's statue in Trinity Chapel, lit up his year, it seems for the first time on record. The firstand second those early days, we who knew him then cannot lightly Classical Medals were gained respectively by Ds T. R. Glover others may gain some faint image of that rapt look-p C. Summers, Foundation Scholars. The Medal for an into the depths of the heavenly vault, and divining andJ�llgli W.sh poem (on Raphatl) has been awarded, for the second secrets-from the picture in the Combination"room. On to J. H. B. Masterman. The Medals will, we understand, coffin was seen a cross, apt emblem of unshaken faith' time,rn�s ented to the winners by our new Chancellor, in con to him the heavens declared the glo -not, as one ncxiobc n with the ceremonies of Installation. ly said, of Hipparchus, or Newton, or Laplace, Ds Harold Smith, Foundation Scholar. has been awarded Maker. If Adams were a resident Fellow, and In one of the J eremie Prizes for knowledge of the Septuagint. he would assuredly have been among us to-day. P. Bender, Hutchinson Student, is mentioned as deserving "Last Sunday anotherJ ohnian [J. A. StewartJ was called h Dofs commendat A. ion. not after long chastening, not as a tired veteran, but from the budding promise of life's spring. Let us hope The Members' Prize for the best Latin Essay on the subject sorrowing relatives, as they conveyed their brother's body Qua polzssz'mum ratz'om colonz'as nos/ms cum pafrz'a conexas esse these sacred walls to its resting-place beyond the sea, apar/eat-has been won by Ds Thomas Nicklin, Foundation with them some hidden balm of healing for wounded Scholar, and now master at Liverpool College. even the assurance that a college is no mere club of The Rev George Cantrell Alien (M.A. 1881), Assistant friends or school of intellectual fe nce, but a true alma master at Dulwich College, has been appointed Head-master royal prz'esthood, a a christian family, a church catholic the Surrey County School, Cranleigh, in succession to miniature. ' of I\Ier Dr riman, presented by the College to the rectory of "And as the old and the young, so also the Fresh water. RobertsJ-in the very midst of life's path, as Dante [T. I\Tr McFadden Orr, Fellow of the College, has been has been summoned to his account, amid the urgent W. pPointed Professor of Mathematics and Mechanism the of useful and hQnorable labour. �'o),al in "Reminded by these many warnings that in the m COllege of Science, Dublin. life we are in death, let us learn to pray from the heart: !\Ir R. Holmes (B.A. 1885) has been appointed Senior us to nUTIlber out days, Ihat we TIlay apply our luarls unto �ecturer at King's College, London, in succession to Mr even the wz'sdom whz'ch from above, first pure, then ] ampSon. Mr A. E. Momo (B.A. 1889) has been appointed zs gentle. ea.fJ' be z'lltrea/cd, full ofmercy alld good frzllls, 1I111or Lecturer in succession to Mr Holmes. variance, WZ'tllOut10 hypocrz'.fJ'." a Among the officers for the year of the Geological Society On February the Senatus bf the University of A l-�e the following members of the College :-Preszdmt, W. H. did itself and us27 the honour of conferring on our b lllllcston F.R.S. ; Vlce-Preszdent, .s:. Prof T. G. Bonney F.R.S.;. 1�"t' J. Councz'llors, Professor of Latin the degree of Doctor of Laws. All E. Marr F.R.S ; A. Harker, J. J. laIY, Ca l F . H. of the Eagle will join us in wishing Dr Mayor health and I .R.S. life to wear this dignity. learn from a report of th� proceedings at the �nniversary or i�e We regret to hear that the Rev G. H. Whitaker, 'trel' is Highness the Maha Rajah's College and High School,. Junior Dean of the College, and late Canon of Hereford, 17th October that Mr H. N. Read (B.A. ulldrul11, 1891, ChromCle. Ckrumcle. 212 Our Our 213 8 2 , so long resident among us, has been appointed Secretary, J ) Vice-Prm"denl, and J. H. B. Masterman while we Principal7 of the College. The institution appears to be three the six Members of viz. Mahomed count of C07111Jl£liu, ftourishing condition under his direction. Mr Read is on Ahmed, P. Green, and Yusuf Ali. 'Mr E. E. Sikes has served way to England on leave, and we trust we shall soon have the Library Committee during the present term. opportunity of welcoming him to Cambridge. on The chief literary event of the term to a great number In the University Professor Gwatkin has been has been the appearance of a second edition of Soapsudsof US Eagle 265). Chairman of the Examiners for the Historical Tripos; (see XVI, Only a hundred copies were issued and fessor Macalister Chairman of the Examiners for the tbese had been eagerly subscribed for months before. The Sciences Tripos ; Mr R. T. Wright Chairman of the ExaN edition contains many additional poems, hitherto only minelll neW for the Law Tripos ; Professor Macalister has been appoi knOwn to the happy readers of the Wollerer's Ghost. Even some an Elector to the chair of Physiology, a delegate to r' oets appear before us under the ..',.Q·.....: ncW p impenetrable signatures the University at the Dublin University Tercentenary B. F. and F. D. Lastly the work is now for the in July, and, with Professor Liveing, Mr J. E. Marr, and Mr fiL.rst H. time K. adorned with veryH. delightful illustrations and the Harker, has been elected on the Sedgwick Memorial M in the College Arms have only the required three legs. Syndicate ; Dr D. MacAlister was appointed to act for C(llSOur non-resident subscribers will not be content unless we Regius Professor of Physic during the vacancy caused by .,.ive one or two characteristic extracts from the new death of Sir G. E. Paget, and was made an Elector to poems.them Our space only allows us to quote the last lines of Professorship of Anatomy ; Mr J. J. Lister has been appoi F.'s Ode on the recent Greek vote in which he sketches Demonstrator in Animal Morphology; Mr P. T. Main and R. H.good time that is coming when Greek shall be no more- the Larmor members of the Mechanical Sciences Tripos "Then sound the ophicleide Mr W. H. Hudleston an Elector to the Woodwardian For the future.' flowing tide,' ship of Geology ; Professor Gwatkin an Examiner for For a Va�sity delivered fro the s rvitu e of Greek; When each shallm be e d Lightfoot Scholarship ; Mr H. R. Tottenham an Adjudi If he his A B D.D. of the Members' Latin Essay Prize, and, with Mr C. E. nd a baby a B.A.JOlOW be, if he can C,but only speak!" and Mr W. A. Cox, an Examiner for the Previous EXarnlIli:1LlUL\ A Mr F. C. Wace and Mr E. J. S. Rudd Examiners for Aftl'T sllch a lyrical outburst the concluding strain the Examiner the sal11e poet fills us with sadness. of General Examination ; Mr B. Aries an book by the Theological Special ; Mr H.F. C.H. Bayard for the Law Sp "Now the Wollerer sings no more, Its muses softly snore, Mr J, R. Tanner for the History Special. The Editors no more fo r copy call, A contributor to the Eagle, who does not wish to claim The Brickbat's songs are done Bintlles and the Bun, I ' prize offeredon page of the last number, writes that in Of 74 And \Voller's self is gone to Montreal. History fo tlze House of Stalllry, by Peter Draper, of the But I've heard it's ghost may yet Advertz"ser, published at Ormskirk in J (pp. 32 J -324,) Once or twice a term be met inscription on .. Lady Margaret's Bell"864 is discussed at Revisiting the am's pellucid rill, C I. S. de anmg. et e. ux I And echoes of the Jays The full inscription is given as B. That it sang in other days runt £n lzonon Tn·miai£s. de R. B. The I. S. B. May be faintly heard about the College sti l. James Scarisbrick of Bickerstaff,1497. whose estates afterwards l " to the Stanleys by marriage. The R. B. is su The preachers in the College Chapel have been Mr W. A. 1497 P refer to the bell-founder, and the stamps for the various �C ox, rofessor J. B. Mayor, Mr E. Graves, Mr H. P. and E. C. ments, which indicate the date rather than the Gonor of the takes, Professor Gwatkin. er H. M. were no doubt at hand in his foundry, just as a print portrait and biography of the Rev E. A. Stuart, formerly selection of head-pieces and tail-pieces for ftlling up A a alar, and now Vicar of St James's, Holloway, appears in the Engl S ch spaces in a book. The single rose is for Lancaster (or J number of the Churchman's lI-fagazl1te. , the double rose fo r the united families of York and Lanc, anuary the portcullis for the Beauforts, the lily for France, and The portrait of W. Simpkinson, formerly Editor o[ the E(}./�!e, has beenMr addedH. to the r,ditorial Album. The dragon for Wales (or the Tudors). ), d . ":oltonal Committee would again ask those of their predecessors The Union elections this term have resulted in the �have not yet favoured them with their portraits to follow of an unusual number of Johnians. G. D. Kempt is :lIr°Sll llpklllson's example. OWl' Ckrontde. Our Cltromcle. 214 215 The following members the College of The following books by members of the College are December last; RecaPi/ula/OIy E amples in Arz"thmeil"c, with Answers, nllounced; x Name. Diocese. Parish or lI-fission. ollrteenth edition (Longmans), by the Rev Alfred Hiley ; An Smallpeice, G. York St Mark's, Hull � of Bn"Hsh Flies (Dip/era) (Eliot Stock), by F. V. �anham, A. F. London St Peter's, Islington Acto/tnt Heward, H. Canterbury St Alphege's, Canterbury The Corruption of the Chunh (Eglington and Co.), Theoba1d i a Duke l-Iulley, J. J. Liverpool St Timothy's, Everton Rev A. W. Momerie; In emor 771: the by lhe lIi i B.R.H. F. W. Hicklillg, H. Mancbester St J'eter's, Levenshulme (If Clcl1'ClIce alld Avondale (Lafleur and Son), a poem by Newbery, H. C. Newcastle Tynemouth Priory ver, set to music by F. W. Goodrich ; Ele71le1tls of Pla tlt Caldwell, J. Norwich Great Yarmouth Dri Tile W. TricrollomeilY (Macmillan), by R. Levett and C. Davison; Cham bel's, W. H. Norwich St Bartholomew's, Heigham Cole, J. H. Norwich Quidenham-with.Snetterton uds (second edition), edited by W. Harris and R. Soaps H. Crab tree, J. Ripon Sbarow Forsler. Harrison E. Ripon Bierley ]OHNIANA. Russell, E G. Ripon St Luke's, Beeston Hill tI. had another manner of care of perfection, with a fear Wallis, A. T.·D. Rochester Margaret Ch., Walworth 1lfr 'Vatson L"\dy , of the judgment of the best learned ; who, to this day, would Benthall, L. St Albans St Stephen's, Walthamstow reverence sufTer yet Absnlon to go abroad, and that ouly, because, locis IN. H. St Albans St Paul's, Stratford andnever his Ferguson, AnapcestuJ is twice or thrice useu instead of Iambus. A smallill fault, Roberts, W.J. Chichester Harting A. pariblts,such a one as perchance would be marked, no, neither in Italy or Willis, W. N. Chichester Eastbourne never France.and This write not so much to note the first or praise the last, as to I The fo llowing ecclesiastical appointments leave in memory of writing for good example to posterity, what perfection are announced: in my time was most diligently sought for in like manner in all kind of Name. B.A. to learning, in that most worthy college of St Johu's ill Cambridge. Newton, H., M.A. (1864) V. of St Stephen's, Redditch Roger Ascltai1t: The Schoolmaster, ii. 307 (ed. 1815). Thorman, M.A. (1�8r) R. of Marton, Skipton Rowsell, Canon,R., F. M.A. (r860) V. of Topcli.ffe, Thirsk Doctor Nicolas Medcal[e, that honourable father, was Master of St John's Hall, H. A., W. (1884) H. Master of Totnes Gram. Sch. College [1518-1537] when came thither [IS30J; a man meauly learned himself, M .A. I Bissett, W. (I88!) V. of Kenilworth but not meanly alfectioned to set fo rward learning in others. He found that college spending scarce two hundred marks by the year; he left it spending Walker, T., M.A. ([854) R. Dean of Fakenham ou a d marks and more, which he not with his money, but by Penin, M. E. C.-in-Charge, St. Martin's, Leeds a h s n procured t Osborne, J. (1876) R. of Hotton, Lincs his wisdom: not chargeahly bought by him, but liberally given by others by his means, for the zeal aud honour they bore to learning. Aud that which is Chichester, E. A., M.A. (r872) Dean of DOl'king Bonney, A., M.A. (1867) V.R. of was, Salop of memory, all those givers were almost northern men; who being Build worthy Bather, H. F., M.A. (1855) Archd.ofLudlowand Canon ofHerefo"" liberally rewarded iu the service of their prince, bestowed it as liberally [or the good of their country. Some men thought therefore, that Dr Medcalfe Evans, L. H., M.A. (I8io) V. of SS John's and Mary's, Brecon 'vas partial to nOI thern men; but sure I am of this, that northern men were Briddon, M.A. ([8i r) V. of Hixon, Stafford ranial in doing more good, and giving more lands to the furtherance of Mitchell, W.H. H., (1852) of Stinsfield, Dorchester V. than any other countrymen in those days did; which deed should Morris, C. (18�0) Chap. to Shept(,)ll :Mallet Frison learning, P. have bcen rather an example of goodness for others to follow,. than matter of Sharrock, R., M.A. (r866) V. of Gt. Driffield, Yorks. . malice [or any to envy, as some there were that did ..... '.Vard, E. B.W. Lady Mat'gm'et Ch., Walworth, S.E. Crick, A. C., M.A. (187i) V. of Penniugton, Hants. [But] his goodness stood not still in oue or two, but flowed abundantly aB that college, and broke out also to nourish good wits in every part of Bower, (r868) Chap. to rst Cumb. Artill. OYer R. }hat Ul1Jversity; whereby, at his departing thence, he left such a compauy of Bradley, W. H., M.A. (1885) V. of St Catherine's, Birtles, Crewe e lows and scholars in St John's College, as can scarce be found now in some Ware, P., M.A. (1878) V. of St Paul's, Swindon �1ole D. w ul1Jversity; who, either for divinity, on the oue side or other, or for Clv1. l serv The Rev· Henry F. Bather, Vicar of Meole Brace, ice to their prince and country, have been, and are yet to this day, ornaments to this whole realm. has been appointed Archdeacon of Ludlow, in succession notable Archdeacon Maddison, retired, and Canon Resid Roger Ascham: The Schoolmaster, ii. 301 (ed. 1815). haVing now some experience of life led at home and abroad, ancl knowing Hereford Cathedral, in succession to Canon Whitaker, wl1 atr � can do most fitly, and how I would live most gladly, do well perceive th account of ill-health. The new Archdeacon grad .IS no such quietness in Eugland nor pleasure in strange countries as on ete St john's in 1855, and was ordained the same year. cv 111 john's College, to keep company with the Bible, Plato, Aristotle, St I-le l)�n appointed Vicar of Meole Brace in 1858; Prebendary Ol��osthenesl and 'Iully.... therefore, Sir, to be short, ye bind me to serve Y 01 e�er, If by your suit the Kiug's majesty would grant me this privilege, Hereford Cathedral in 1878 ; Rural Dean of Pon h t t a the Greek tougue in St John'S I should be bouud to no other in 1883 ; and Rector of Sutton in 1887. :eeawnlu statu � dmg. n that university and college ; and some reason I have to be tee a�d Journeyman to learmng, when have already served three The Rev A. H. Sheldon (B.A. 1888), Curate of St Illadentlc Exeter, has been accepted as, a missionary of theLe aPiJrc cslups at Cambridge. I C Roger Ascltam: Letters to Sir William Cecil, Missionary Society. pp. 386, 388 (ed. 18 [5). x. Our CltromCle. Our ChromCle. 216 217 Churchill the poet-the English Juv' THIRD M.B. enal-was buried in St church·yard, Dover, the tombstone containing the single line, taken Ds Evans, T. Ds Young i I-I. a poem called The Candidate-" fe to the last enjoyed, here Churchill SlIrgery, &c. Mag Mason, G. In another verse he had expressedL the wish :- A. Ds Attlee, J. Ds Glover, L. G. 't May onc poor sprig of bay around bead my , &c. Ds Cowell Ds Bloom while I and point me out when dead." J,!OdtCtIIC Godson, A. H. hve Ds Edmondson Mag Mason, G. A. poet's Until this week the prayer remained unfulfilled. 'When Byron Ds Evans, H. Ds Simpson, H. the grave, in 18r6, it was neglected, and the tombstone dilapidated, T. the sexton made two or three shillings occasionally by showing it to DEGREES M.B. B.C. The spectacle set Byron into a musing mood on "The Glory and th ADMITTED TO THE OIr AND of a name." An admirer of Churchill has now planted on the Ds A. H. Godson Ds J. Attlee tree, which will, it is hoped, point out for many years to come tlle Ds T. H. Evans Ds G. N. Edmondson resting-place. No better memOlial could have been given to the man Do L. G. Glover Mag G. Mason Cowper-whose nature and life were the exact antipodes of the satin · 1I111 l1daltluses no judgment in feeding his forwards. :Joy ce-Energetic worker. Collars well and has F. O. and high G. R.passing. Needs more finish in dribbling. Asltton (half-back)-A strong half, tackles and passes well, and makes . H. use of his weight. :J.:J. Robinson-Dribbles well and is good out of touch. good keenly. Must pass sooner. (right outside)-A better goal-keeper than goal-getter ; fairly fast, H. Sargmtbut never centres soon enough. W. G. n a -A powerful forward. Makes good use of his height ra g m of Wtouch and" in passing. As a rule works hard in the scrum, fValker (right inside)-A slow but persevering forward, but does not sometimes takes a rest there. F. W.pass ll. A fair shot. wc H. S. Moss-A conscientious worker. Very good on his own line. Skene (centre)-A good centre, keeps his wings together and feeds pass more. Collars strongly. . H.them well ; can also use his head. Very unlucky in being hurt so early .. in the season. Ha rding-Must go straight into the scrum and R. E.there. Tackles strongly, but must learn to dribble. A. ilferriman (inside left)-A wonderfully improved forward ; fast on the H. ball, good shot ; also played outside left. SECOND XV MATCHES. Davies (outside left)-A disappointing forward, is too selfish Fo r H. H.never centres soon enough ; has also played centre. and Date. Opponents. gls. pts. . In Fraser (inside Oct. 17 Peterhouse Result.Lost 2 I 10 left)-A fairly good twelfth man ; fast, but takes the t H. W. too easily. Poor shot. 19 Trinity II Lost game " 27 Sidney Won 2 10 Scratch Sixes secured more entries than last year and " 28 Selwyn II Won 2 3 16 The " b won, after Nov. Sidney Won hav een a very hard struggle, by the following 5 2 II e £ix : 6 Christ's II Won 2 C. S. Hatton (Capt.) " O. 16 Leys School II Lost 2 - J. J. Gillespie " 18 Trinity II Lost 1 2 G. H. Smith " Cordeaux , 23 Caius II Won 4 5 30 I H. E. ; 20 Christ's II Lost 3 H. H. Brown Feh." 6 Pelicans Won 5 6 42 S. Patch 10 Pelicans Won 2 12 " CLUB • ATHLETIC .. l' first The day of the Sports was successfully brought off on ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB. Ues the of March day, 8th o Owing to the bad weather we have only been able to r ra e was a fo The P g mm � llows: four First XI matches this Term, with the following resultS : 2: Handicap. Fi rst Heat : G. P. K. Winlaw, A. G. Butler, �� Ya rds -: First XI. o. Wllllaw won easily. Second �I eat : I;C. S. Hatton, I; G GlI �' VcrraU. . ' Tlzi" d He at ,' G. Sheppard I; W. L. Phillips,O. 2. · p' 2. Opp onents. Goals. mlth, P. Result. ult'"g t1. Y I·el!?' t.-S. R. Trotman, 36ft. 6io., C. H. Rivers, 32ft. For. Agst. �In. ":anle . TT,I;to' be" I; .. .. congratulated on his ' putting '; we wish Jesus ...... Lost . . .. . 8 In 1'r I IS him success o. . the 'Vu ISlty Sports. Rivers was handicapped by an injured Sidney .. ..•...... •• ..Won ...... •. 3 .. 1 120 ;' knee. Peterhouse •••.•• ...• •.•.Drawn .•.... 1 .••. 1 Handicap .-First He at : B. Long, 2l yards, G. P. K. , al'dssc' atch , 2; I; :Magdalene • •...•.....•..Drawn .•....1 ••••1 \\rinlaw A. G. Butler, scratch, 0; W. L. Phillips, 3 yards, 0; OU'!' Cltromde. Our Chromcle. 224 225 J. J. Gillespie, 4 yards, Second Heat : A. G. H. Verrall, o. % blue cloth trimmings, and silver ornaments and buttons G. Smlth, .1 yard, 2; P. G. Sheppard, 2 yards, 0; C. C. Lord )'ght H. I the place of the former bronze accoutrements. Th rd Heat : F. Godson, 8 yard' s, C. O. S. Hatton ; I.iner The new A. I; , 2 ya ds o. i t is modelled to a great extent on that of the 120 Ya rds I-Iu rdle Race.-S. Trotman, penalised 3 yards, ' aifo�m 60th Rifles. I' change has E. Elliott, Trotman inR. spite of his penalty won easily been made with very little inconvenience to 2; A. O. i� ��IJe ,the slow time was due to the heavy ground. A close race for second embers of the Corps, principally owing to the time and energy Quarter Mile Race.-A. G. Butler, G. P. K. Winlaw 2' r\ 'ished on it by Major Rill, who has succeeded tb the vacancy ' Philiips, 0; A. E. Elliott, 0; C. C. Lord,I; penalised 10 yards, �. '\used by the retirement of Major Scott, and has had the got away well and kept the lead till within sixty yards of home, when c supervision of the arrangements connected with the new j:ame up with spurt and won by five yards. Time SS secs. �neral · r a gU lll l o rm . Long Jump.-C. O. S. Hatton, 17ft. 6in., 1; G. H. Smith, 17ft. Turning to the Colonel's official report of the C. Lord, 16ft. 2in., o. year ending C. 31st /891, we find th"-t four marksmen (the One Mile Race.-B. Long, A. G. Butler, 2; C. D. October same I; ber as last year) belong to B Compa A. Long, 0; G. G. Desmond, 0; J. J. Gillespie, o. Long num ny, namely Corporal W.way for the first two laps, when Edwards went ahead. Long however Cordeaux, Private Reeves, Major (late Captain) Hill, and Colour his lead at the long-jump pit, and won by about seven yards from Sergeant Rutton. Mr Cordeaux's score is the third highest for Time min. secs. year, and the badge for best marksman in the 4 54 the Battalion goes So fa r bad weather has prevented the second day's to him, the first and second marksmen, A. R. Pope and W. D. from being carried out. Bushell, both being officers. The University Aldershot detachment goes into quarters on EAGLES LAWN TENNIS CLUB. March 17th ; not in the North Camp as last year, but into the W. F. Smith. Treasurer-F. J. Nicholls. Permanent Barracks near the South Camp and end of the Long PresMcDougall.idmt-Mr Valley. W. is also proposed to send a small detachment under Captain At a meeting held on February 12, the followi GranthamIt to the Easter were elected members of the Club :-R. manceuvres at Dover as a Company of E. Inns of Court R.V. Moss, W. R. Skene, W. G. Wrangham. the On Friday, 19th February, a Smoking Concert was given by the members B LACROSSE CLUB. of Company, in Lecture Room VI. Mem bers of other Companies of the C.U.R.V. also kindly gave us Captain-F. Villy. Hon. Sec. L W. Grenville. - . their services. The concert was open to all members of the The weather has interfered so much with both College, and to Officers,Sergeants, and Corporals of the Corps. and Matches that there is little to report. Several S ot kindly took the chair, Mr c t and we hope we may often see have appeared this term, who should do good service hIm preside in future at our Smoking Conce to rts. We were glad season. welcome the Commanding Officer and Captain EarIe. We had arranged six matches, but for the reason The heads of three out of the four sectio.ns attached to the above were only able to pla y one against the Leys �.U.R.V. are this term in B Company. Bugler Leathes is sen The result was a draw, 2 goals each. Ratton, Lees, ;or Bugler, Colour-Sergeant Rutton is in charge of the Ambu Kefford have received their College colours. Ratton ance Class. and Lieut. Wilkinson C of the Signalling. also obtained his University Cap. Villy, J. Lupton, orporal Cordeaux has won the Company Cup with a score F. f 77, L. W. Grenville have also once more had places in ° Lance-Corporal Wright being seco.nd with 66. Cordeaux University team, Villy being Captain. at the 500 yards range, equal Slade 32 highest in the Corps with h?lllers of A Company. Wright made 29 at 200 yards, the 4TH CA B. UNIV.) VOLUNTEER BATTALION : est SCore made at that range. ( M fi��� The Company Medals were for on Monday, February 7th ; B Company were fourth, REGIMENT. gr mp . be' n eatly handicapped by the unfortunate absence of our B Co any twl g The fo llowing promotions have been approved of by att� � st shots, Cordeaux and Wright, who were unable to Commanding Officer during the past term : n � Lance-Corporal C. M. Rice to be Lance-Sergeant. DEBATING SOCIETY. Private Colman to be Lance-Corporal. E. H. Pr(.s� 'd elZt-A J. Pitkin. Vice-Prcsident-R. E. Baker. Tre asurer- Since last term great alterations have been effected :r.:r. -: in , 1:1 . �sPle. Secretary-H. Williamson. Committee-J. H. B. Master� uniform, the old red braid having been given up in fa ll1an ['cen. old Presidents in residence. Ex· Offi cio-All XVII. GG VOL. Our Clwo1'llCle. Our Cltront'cle. 226 227 The Debating Society has had an extremely successful onductor once more. Under his able guidance we sure This may perhaps in some measure be due to the fact that the. May Concert, which is to be held in the Collefedge Hall, Committee has been able to combine greater physical �hili will 111 every way a success. with the intellectual ones which have always char be meetings ; and that under the influence of coffee and words are wont to grow more eloquent and judgments CLASSICAL SOCIETY. Men, manners, morals, and maidens h,ave been E. E. Sikes. J. Ha es startling paradoxes have been exploited, definitions prtsidenGreen.t-Mr ee H. Drake,Vice·Presid E. E.ent-B. Bland. y B.A. Ito ". asked Co mmitt - and occasionally given in fact we have in every way Sec.-vV . j e following papers have been gi ven : ourselves worthy of the title of the " College Debating So Th "Varro," by A. W. Welford (Emmanuel College). Appended is the programme for the term : " How to read Classics," by Professor Mayor. Ja n. 2 3rd- " That the grant of Home Rule to Ireland "The Conspiracy of Catiline," by W. A. Kent. consolidate the Empire." Proposed by Yusuf.Ali. "The Nuptial Number of Plato," by W. A. Stone. 13-1 I. "Pervigilium Veneris," by A. E. Smith. Ja n. 30Ilz-"That the present system of tra�ning for "Ancient Education," by B. J. Hayes B.A. races is pernicious and irrational.'" Proposed by G, G. It is requested that anyone wishing to become a member mond. Lost, 3-22• will communicate with the Secretary. Fe b. 611z�" That th�s House disapproves of everything fin siecle." Proposed by St J. B. Wynne-Willson. Lost, 9-1 5. THEOLOGICAL SOCIEty. Fe b. 3tlz-" That in the opinion of this House the owes moreI to science than to literature." Proposed by H. a . C. Lees. Tr easltrer- President-C. P. W y Ex·President-H. 15-16. Binns. Baines. Nutley, A. R. R. Emslie. Lost, A. J. Secretary-A. Committee-Wo Fe b. tlz- Hutton. l o " That the Nineteenth Century has brought greater boon to mankind than the new Journalism." Meetings were held on February 4, I 18, 25. and March the rooms of E. Simpson, I, P. 3 by P. Green. Lost, 8-1 6. in F. Stroud, Way, Watkinson, and L It C. G. C. J. Eastwood. Fe b. 27tlz-"That this House would welcome the abol The following papers were read : capital punishment." proposed by Mahomed Ahmed. 13-1 5. .. The Importance of the Sub-Apostolic Age," by A. Earle. " The Rise of Dissent," by Co M. Rice. Ma rc h sth-I< That altruism is the real basis of a vi "The Early Church and Slavery," by Rev W. E. Collins, M.A., life." Proposed by A. P. Bender. Lost, 7-27. Selwyn College. Ma rc h 2th-" The Book of J onah," I That 'tis better to have loved and lost :: by P. A. King-sford. never to have loved at all." Proposed by A. J. Pitkin. Charles Wesley," by H. Harding. W. Average attendance for the term, 49· THE COLLEGE MISSION. MUSICAL SOCIETY. It i s with great pleasure we announce that the Rev E. 13. Sa Treasurer--Rev J. Stevens W d, d s. s ar Curate of St Mary's, Barnsley. has accepted the post of Pre�ide"t-Dr n ..y . A. M. A. e Secntnry-G H. Harries. D. cond College Missioner at Walworth. Ward was F. O. NIundahl. Assist M. Rice, Lio?-a1'irm-F.. S Mr Junior Co mmittee-F. W. Carnegy, C. W. A. Werner ",CCkctary in 1887, and has maintained his warm interest in the Nothing very much has been done by the a�r . ever since. On Sexagesima Sunday he renewed his The Vice-Chancellor, Dr Peile, moved ex�mination for the election of four Choral Students wiII b An "That those present at this meeting, with the addition of t�e e held In the College Hall on JURe loth 1892, beginning at read by the Chairman and Professor Liveing, be a Committee (wIth Two of the Studentships wiU be given to Bass and two add to their number) to carry out the scheme ; that The � aT·m. to o enor singers. Pembroke College anu Professor Liveing be the Treasuret Master of Peterhouse, Dr D. MacAlister, and Dr Glaisher the T e �tudentships are of the value of £40 per annum, and are and that the Chairman, Sir G. G. Stokes M.P., The Treasurers, t n �l e e III tbe Secretaries be the Executive Committee." 'N l ordinary course for three years. The Students i i be elected for more than ORe year at a time, but they 'Nill nbeot This was seconded by Mr J. Larmor, and carried re-elected if they continue to give satisfaction in the di harg mously. s C e of their duties. h e d.uties of Choral Students are to take part in the musical Dr Porter, Master of Peterhotlse, proposed, and Dr s F ther�c�es. the College Chapel during residence and to attend Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Trinity, secollded- e OlrIn pr actic re es under th� dir�ction of .the . Organist. They "That any surplus from snbscriptions after payment of the . are qUlred to pass the Umverslty ExammatIOns for the B.A. pre:;cnUJlg expenses be used the first instance to defray the cost XVII. in of 'VOL. H H Onr Chronz'cle. 23 4 degree under the same conditions as other members of College. THE LIBRARY. The Examination for Sizarships' and School Exhibitions Fr iday, 30th, in the College HaU be held on September ' Tlt e asterisk denotes past or present Me moers of the College. mencing at a.m. • 9 ips and Exhibition The Examination for Open Scholarsh s Donations and Additions to the Library during December 13th and following days. take place on ending Christmas 189 Quarter I. Donatz'ons. DONORS. (Titus). An exact Discovery of the 'OatesMys tery of Iniquity as it is now practised among the Jesuits. Edited by Edmund Reprint. 8vo. Edin. 96. 1886. CORRIGENDA IN No. Goldsmid...•...... •.• ..•..•••••.•.. 'Pal4·4°·39·ey (F. A.). Greek ·Wit. A Collection of Page 27, line 4, for read and. Sayings and Anecdotes translated than smart Page 27, l ne 27 for treatises read /1·eaties. Greek Prose Writers. 2nd Edition. � l from Page 28, lme I J (Chiswick Series). 8vo. Lond. 1888. Page 33, line 29, omit own. . 5. 8 ...... •••• .•.. •••• . . .•..•... 8 1 7 'Earnsh aw (S.). 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