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THE MORNING POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1897. ht "Jftontmg $ot" Column for )xt "Jttaming fbst Column for THE SELDEN SOCIETY. the High Churchmen who were insisting on his deposition and annexing his diocese." It was in MR. CHAPLIN LEICESTER Benjamin Jowett belonged, both through his father and mother, to the mercantile class and to the Evangelical school of religion. In 1829, at the age of twelve, he entered St.

Paul's School. Here he June 1875, that the revised edition of Jowett's The annual meeting of this Society was held in the translation of Plato, his mumumopus, appeared in Council Room, LineolnVum Hall. Ptesi- Mr. H. CI, HATTO BOOKS OF THE DAY.

The lover of times past is likely to close Sir Herbert Maxwell's "Robert the Bruce, and the Struggle for Scottish Independence (G. P. Putnam's Sons) with a sigh of relief, not because its perusal has proved a tedious occupation, and WINDUS'S NEW BOOKS. boeai Board, C.ijv or licil.r. .1.

'nam aijrc auuwa lo i tie) uesc dent. Lord not present, clnir was tl.u umpteen ih-s icaf vL In advantage. Jowett." writes Dr. Abbott. "tMV! LOVICE.

By Mrs. HUNGERFORD, Molly Bawn." is now ready at all Booksellers' Author of Crown It. J. wiinlUlMSe tor the Ife i.n Thoroughly believed in the old saying that the style is the and the words of Johnson were often in taken by Lord Davey. Among the memhers who attended were Lord Justice lligbv, Lord Justice Lindlcy, Mr.

Justice Stirling, Mr. Justice Homer, Sir V. Polhck I cloth. 6s. 6 bt a uiu ami ii', was noted especially for his exercises in Greek, I which showed a fine sense of literary form and a true feeling for Greek tragedy cha-! racteristics that marked the whole of his sub-; sequent literary career.

His favourite authors were Virgil and Sophocles, the greater part of which he could repeat." Amongst his school-! fellows were Baron Pollock, the late Lord Harmon, his mouth I always tried to say everything as well as I He had number of curious' little rules about Btofessor Maitland (editor of the Society's publications). L'I! un, d.ii ot lan.l greate, -riant, this country, and regretfc.d.to ti.ac L.w.j 1 HE STORY OF A OR EK ISLAND. A ROMANCE. by ANTHONY HOPE. Crown 6s.

Mr. Antl'ony Hope bus produced liis latest novel in a happy hour. At a time when the chief theme of eoiiveisation is Crete and the islands of the Archipelago, the lawlessness of Eastern races, aud the inveteracy if old racial grudges, he has issued a liouli with all the elements of rouiancc, reeouut-iiiK tlie fortunes of an eccentric Englishman, who, I tee-antic he i.i rind ui ordinary travel, puiehases nn lieloiii-iag lo Turkey and inhabited by Greeks. -Daily IViegranh. Decidedly a book to read and enjoy.

In the domain of romunee we do not expect to see it surpassed during the present year, unless Mr. Hope piiiiliBhes another New Saturday. "Mi Hope lias excelled himself in theuoiistruction of the plot bin it is in the atmosphere of the story in the charaetcr-skelchinB of which we have sioken mat its chief charm lies. It will be eas ily read by its numerous admirers, anil we are mistaken if it. iocs not give universal pleasure and satisfaction.

Speaker, -pnnc-so' JJHROSO. JHROSO. AJHBOSO. )IUiOSO. jjHRO.SO.

"JJUROSO. HEOSO. JllROSO. dpiIROSO. but from the comfortable assurance that one mediajval hero at any rate has been through the mill of modern historical research, and has I emerged, not perhaps in as sound a condition I as before, yet less damaged than usually results from that drastic process.

There are certain well-known incidents in the life of Bruce concerning which authorities in all ages have differed, those writers hailing from across the Tweed usually and naturally taking the view 1 most favourable to their national hero, and I Mrs. Hungerf ord undoubtedly describes it as if it were the freshest and most wonderful thing in the world. Her vivacity and charm are inexhaustible." Moruing Leader. AVALRY LIFE AND REGIMENTAL LEGENDS. By JOHN STRANGK WEN TEE.

New Edition. The two Beries in one volume. Crown cloth, 3s. Cd. A CHEAP EDITION OF CHRISTIE MURRAY'S VOLUME OP STORIES, MOUNT DESPAIR, is now ready.

Post picture hoards 2s. TEYOND THE PALE An Irish Romance. By J3 B. M. CHOKER, Author of "Diana Barrington." Crown buckram.

6s. A vigorous, wholesome, and entertaining lore story." Literary orld. Mr. hal wy eke Heaiey, Q.C., Mr. Renshaw, Mr.

Stuart Moore, Mr. Vv'armington, i.C. Mr. J. Atkinson (President of tho Yorkshire Lf.w Society), Mr.

li. Eossett Lock (hon. secretary), and Mr, F. K. Muutou (lion, treasurer).

The report states that the 'membership continues to show a slow but steady increase, the number being now 25G ai compared with last year. Volume X. of the publications, representing the issue for 189(1, was "Select in Chan-eery, 1364-1841." Volume XL, "Select in the writing he would not, for instance, allow an abstract word to be the nominative to a verb of action. Such a cation, he acknowledged, had caused him much difficulty in translating l'iato, and he had not always boon ablt; to adhere to it. The balance of the clauses aud the cadence of the seutences were alo most carefully considered anil in this respect he would contrast the majestic sounds of the classical languages the long words and constantly recurring assonance of cases in agreement with the large number of monosyllables and comparative poverty of sound in English.

Sentences were more likely to attr.net the mind if they attracted the ear, and at times a iiusle was i of her Majesty I Kutupe had hei a WorLlIu -ua." JPat ol.j.-cts hi it i'Mluw WfUi to brill-; it in, iii, -uc r.Mlt. nmi otnter ysujn ui urkev and her proviMtea Without a lappiausO) -and jn-f. i. always unftlincii, uf si-iti. winch VVotliti atiitoxt i VfTITH THE RED EAGLE permissible if it caught the reader's attention.

The result Court of Admiralty," wad neatly through th A Romance of the Crown ptuss. A pro' OF Stones and Incidents, chiefly of RttS.se Lite. BvS. GORDON. Ol tht to tiVom -h.

IT, Tyrol, liy WILLIAM WEST ALL. Third Edition. Third Ijlir.ion. of this minute care was that Jowett was more successtul -i cloth gilt, us. "Such a scries of hairbreadth escapes as should move Mr.

Stanley Weyman. and even Mr. Anthony Hope, to jealousy." Graphic. t.i OF OF Crown 3s. GtL Since Children of the no more powerful xro has undertaken any Jewish theme in English than Mr.

Gordon's." Glasgow Herald. HANDFUL EXOTICS. HANDFUL exotics: HANDFUL EXi'Tlcs. HANDFUL EXOTICS. A A A A III Cl'tl'UlK i.v of Ctrl wer i omits or the autono I'iute Utni the pv.iph- i tii.it pnsai to reptiiit die 1 ear-oooiis ot too teign ot hdwarii H.

had been relet ted to a Committee. TLis would in noway conflict with the Government plan of in the Holla series Year-books which have never been printed. This was a proposal to produce astandaia specimen reprint of some of the Veai-books already published, of which the text was known to be very inaccurate misiuaiiinj. It would couiiuise a revised and collated text, a SEBASTIANI'S SECRET. By S.

E. WALLER. Illustrated by the Author Grown cloth, 6s. Steeped in mystery is Mr. Waller romance.

There arc passages that are delightful." British Review. OF "Quite out of the cummou track. It is iginal alike in subject and treatment. Freeman Journal. with sentences than with paragraphsthe expression of his thoughts was sometimes clearer than the connexion of them and he was better at an epigram than an argument.

Honce the fascination of his conversation, and his remarkable power of putting the whole gist of a matter into a sentence. Hence too the extraordinary beauty of some descriptive passages in his writings." This feature of "the Master's" literary character is brought out often in these pages," namely, 'tit worn cue tine ami li.t:, nion ot th put asi.U- Hms I'f of V- II, a iiniited that al tni I u. THE Bv S. BARING-GOULD. Ir.iwn firn Kb "'I't ..,1 those on this side the river being more disposed to believe in the possibility that so splendid a figure could be stained by crime and perfidy.

Scotsmen, as the author boldly admits, keep the memory of Bruce so dearly "that there is noexploitso heroic, hardly any miracle so not to have attached itself to his story so that the chief difficulty in writing it has not been found so much in collecting facts, as in refusing credence to fictions which have gathered round his name." Most of these fictions, however, had been dispelled before, though not, perhaps, from the minds of his countrymen at large, whence even their own compatriot may not drive away the mists of legendary lore. It is not improbable, indeed, that the author may find himself regarded somewhat askance by his fellow Scots as a too candid depictor of the blemishes which thev themselves have failed to reference to tho records to elucidate the arguments and lf strictly to the ot vt. A MISSING WITNESS. Bv FRANK BARRETT, Author of The Sin of Olga Zaasoulich." With Eight Illustrations. Crown cloth, 3s.

6i. Written in Mr. Frank Barrett best manner, the interest well maintained from the opening to the closing chanter." Daily Telegraph. As vigorous and effective a story i-viT Mr hu THE THE juuiduenw, ami a earetai translation. tilc LordDavuy moved the adoption of tber'-portandaccuunts.

witn to Ureut hu snouid A A tinner. (1 A A 8 JT TINNER. (1 A A TINNER. 1 A A VJT TINNER. and other distinguished ulnmni, who were sincerely attached to little Benjamin," then captain of the school.

He was equally friendly with the less gifted, and never refused to give the desired help when the petition was made, "I say, Jowett, ijive us a construe, there's a good fellow." In 1835 he won the Balliol Scholarship, an honour no other Pauline hud attained up to that time. In he gained the Hertford Latin Scholarship, to the disgust of one of his competitors, who could not bear to be beaten by a little puny, boyish, chubby-faced youth." About the same time his life-long friend, A. P. Stanley, another scholar of Balliol, gained the Ireland Scholarship. Another intimate Balliol friend of Jowett's at this period was Lord Hobhouse, who writes of him as follows: The part of Jowett's character which was most attractive to me was his perfect simplicity, truth, and originality.

Behind his pretty, girlish looks, quiet voice, and gentle, shy manner, one soon found that there lay a robust masculine understanding, which would not accept commonplaces as true or mere authority as a guide. I think that most boys of eighteen are apt to repeat without testing what they have been accustomed to hear, to fancy that what they see in print must be true, and to accept for gospel what comes to them accredited by the authorities of their little world. Certainly that was the witli me. And then I came into contact with one who, not uippant or irreverent, nor specially fond of paradox, nor socially desirous of victory in a discussion, yet insisted on seeing everything with his own eyes, and refused to utter a proposition until his own judgment was sufficiently in accord with it. Ilooket' upon Jowett as the freshest and most original mind I had come across and I still think that I have never held converse with any one who was more thoroughly original, or mov careful to suy only what he made his own.

Among the living influences which compelled me to tiiink and tended to invigorate my thoughts in the plastic ace between eighteen and twent c. at mis iasuuiousness oi lanvuttge even convert iic s.nu uwuiu fougriiiuiace me Society on its position um rww to lu'u Scotsman. Dei-ply iiut retting it is a novel well worth reading. Daily Mail. Dc: nt-dly a book worth readintr." the THE EW TWO-SHILLING NOVELS.

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I 3 ooviou iwci au cAiiuutc ui iw years, during Wiiien Is nail passeu tuiivey ivohj i thing, and he held it part of his vocation to im- through extremely troubled times, and at one period its Wel with bv th, I press this feelin upon others, especially the nnancial position was desperate. ti.auks to the wt hat ti i Of slan-he had an utter abhorence. "With one ot ff lt waa -atwtactory. He could a mwm ki LfUAiUW i aho congratulate tut Society on the satisfactory wy 'neirt ui the tact that I "''t Of hib child friends in the country he took a Singular which it was carrying on the work it was toimed t' under- not lufej Wlth way ot enrorcwij this lesson, by giving her a take namelv illustrating and promoting the historical bis opinion, at the nu way oi euiurcing tins lesson, uy giving ner a take namely lllustratinc and nromotin the l.i.sti.rinal his opinion, at TEW THREE-AND-SIXPENNY BOOKS. 1LARISSA FURIOSA TLARISSA FURIOSA JLARISSA FURIOSA JLARISSA FURIOSA LARISSA FURIOSA By W.

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aints against rue insufficiency of th- King For Go I an. I lor sake of charity was motto in which the plaint of appeal was ina.ie, wbico at one time represented the reai fact, though now it had bec-Jine a common form which fcvery draughtsman used, in that boo they might trace tu rudimentary origin of our complicated law of trusts and equitable jurisdiction, auu they see giiiiipscB of tue social and domestic life of tne Ln-iisii pt-opic in oi society which hud long passed away. With regard to the proposal to reprint the Year-books oi Edward H. he recognise in the nature and achievements of King Robert. Of the origin and early history of Bruce up to the decisive and immortal fight at Bannock-burn, as of the later deeds of the victorious chieftain, Sir Herbert Maxwell has, of necessity, nothing very fresh to chronicle that is also of much importance.

He has, however, exercised a very wise discretion in the use of liis authorities, and subjects honest Baston" the English Carmelite, Barbour the Scotch Archdeacon, and other early narrators to a very impartial examination as to credit. Baston's value as a witness, for example, is reduced below zero from the fact that, having been made a prisoner by the Scots at Ban-nockburn, he "paid for his ransom by submitting his long poem, of which he had probably composed the greater part before the battle, to such alterations as made it a celebration of the Scottish triumph." The suggestion that the unfortunate Carmelite had produced his copy before the conflict which he was employed to describe does not tend to increase our confidence in the In conclusion, it is only just to state that a more straightforward aud interesting biography than the present has not appeared for some time. The narrative is clearly told, the letters are carefully selected, and placed in the most appropriate sequence for the purpose of illustrating the narrative. llu.i i hj to that, whatever reeling Greece, her con'luct was, to su th-(clK-crsJ and tinit those who were By B. P.

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Crown lis. London Edward Arnold, 37, Bedford-street. tneir duty ami Wteir utmost to preserve tue Europe, to winch end they Using at I put as chiefest the leci.ures of Archbishop Tait and my intercourse with Jowett." In 1838 Jowett surprised and delighted his many friends by another unexpected triumph. Although an undergraduate he contended for a Balliol fellowship when there were four vacancies and a considerable number of graduate candidates, and amongst them Wickens, who was supposed to be quite the ablest man in the University. On this occasion Dr.

Jenkyns, then the Master of Balliol, said to the disappointed candidate, "Mr. Wickens, we have elected in preference to you a little child." The truth seems to be that Wickens's college irregularities were against him. "Mr. Wickens," once said Dr. Jenkyns, I never stand at my window but I seeyou passing." To this Wickens replied, Indeed, Master, I never pass but I see you standing at the window." In Jowett's name appeared in the First Class Final Classical Examination, in the same list with the names of Stafford H.

Northcote and of James Fraser, afterwards Bishop of Manchester. In 1842 commenced the exceptionally successful career of Jowett as a college tutor when Balliol began Lo win the majority of First Classes at the "Final Classical Examinations, owing chiefly to the phenomenal teaching power evinced by Jowett and the incessant individual interest he took in his pupils, whom, as he said, he "thought of day and night." In the same year he took Holy Orders. Like every act of his life," it is here allirmed, his Ordination vows were realised by him with deep intensity. This was manifested not only by increasing devotion to his pupils, but by single incidents in which he boldly broke through conventionality, in accordance with the spirit of his profession, and overcame hisnatural shyness. To the end of his life he was in the truest sense a son of consolation." His keen sense of duty as a clergyman is illustrated not merely by instances of comforting the sick by reading the Word of God, but by his outspoken rebukes of what was vicious in social life.

It is not the least of the many merits of this admirable biography that it sets at rest the doubts suggested, if not explicitly expressed, by men of note respecting the sincerity of Jowett in taking Holy Orders and in retaining them. The various extracts here given from Jowett's sermons, from his commentary on "The Epistles of St. Paul," and from his letters and memoranda bear the strongest testimony to the depth of his convictions, although he waged an interminable warfare against what he considered the unwarrantable dogmatism of the Tractarian School, and its exclusive narrowness and bigotry. Behind all ecclesiastical obligations, all speculative difficulties, it is here maintained, were the realities in which Jowett summed up the influences of religion the power of God, the love of Christ, the efficacy of prayer." tion auu in tue recognition ianour. anl he believed no accoiuiUij as they consisted ot lu volumes or 5oU paires one more truly rejoiced in this than her Majesty the each, or seven volumes of 500 pa-es each.

In his opinion Queeu, who had always shown her sympathy with the the better plan would be to endeavour to raise a 9prciai peoples who toiled within her Empire. (Clieers.) i subscription for the purpose, applying some of the annual 1'roposing the toast of The Society," Mr. Moklet said surplus of the Society in aid. The rate of publication it was a splendid triumph of modern civilisation that there would then depend on the amount subscribed. The motion wa3 in this country a great army of railway ser- for the adoption of the report was then carried, the effect vants who realised in the best sense all that bein- to leave ti.e question in the hands ot the Council, could be achieved by strict military discipline.

1 Sir E. Pollock, Messrs. Maxwell Lyte, Stuart Moore, They presented a spectacle of thorough efficiency combined Pennington, and Henshaw, wete re-elected to the with manly and self-respecting independence. He read Council. A new rule was adopted in substitution for the Other day that in the United States engines rule to provide that the cilices of President and Vice-were being built which would run at the rate Presidents should be vacated triennially.

Votes of thanks of 8G miles an hour, ne was sometimes called a were passed to the editor ot the Society publications, the "Little Englander," but he disliked the idea of this country hon. officers, the Chairman, and the Lenchers of Lincoln's and NEW BOOKS. I ACMILLAN same means which were i cob, of which Sr Wihiam uAnJ ailll Kimberley were nuuibeis. Ui euuUsioti said the Government would cont.ui.e, in l'" opposition, to do their utmost to apiiold (. England and her Kmpire su long a the-, Z'tuZ charge.

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For unhappily, Barbour's poem, which is of the deepest interest to the philologer as the very earliest specimen of Scottish vernacular literature, has been almost irretrievably discredited as a chronicle by the monstrous liberty which the author takes in rolling three real personages into one ideal hero. In this way he has treated father, son, and grandson all of whom bore the name of Robert de Brus and gravely presented them as one and the same individual." The ascertainable or probable facts concerning the contention between Balliol and the Bruces for the Crown of Scotland, and its ending, with the part taken in that result by King Edward, who within a few years treated his own nominee with so little consideration the temporary success and bitter fate of William Wallace, of whom very little that is certainly authentic is known and the rise and triumph of the Bruce, with other notable features of the history of Scotland in that stirring period, are clearly, if perhaps a little coldly, recalled by Sir Herbert Maxwell. But then, as he has already told us, theavoidance of romantic warmth is the chief essential in the impartial historian of that age. There is one time-honoured incident in the commonly accepted story of Bruce as to which, as the author observes, "the critic who expresses doubts of its veracity will be exposed to the chai-ge of irreverence if he professes disbelief, to that of rank blasphemy." It is almost needless to add that the story in question is that of Bruce and the Spider," which holds in Scottish history very much the position occupied in English history by Alfred and the cakes, a comparison that sufficiently suggests the immense importance attached to it by the writers of those children's history books from which we derived impressions that all the scientific historians in Germany and Britain put together could not succeed in wiping out. Sir Herbert Maxwell, in dealing with this matter of the spider which, by the way, he most unscientifically describes as an "insect" carries too far his cold determination to harbour no legendary lore.

With exceeding gravity he refeis to the "authorities" to Barbour, the maker of triple heroes to Fordun, and others, and finds no mention of the spider till Ions after Bruce and his comrades have passed away." Some few years ao a volume appeared in which, apropos of the often disputed boast of many persons that, like Robert Bruce himself, they traced descent to a Knight who "came over with the Conqueror," the author essayed to show by a simple multiplication sum that there could be no English families in existence which did not descend WA baxu. HE PILGRIMAGE OF THE BEN BERIAH. By was iiciei insi, eciiiug lo eon- iwuucnj vuaise, CHAKl.QTTE M. YONCE. foum ott tue north-west oi sider the Keport of Lord Tweedmouth's (Jotnmit description; ot Sa species.

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s. bo. Cheap Edition. from many of Duke William's followers. Whether the reasoning and the figures which supported that rather fresh genealogical theory were sound or no, one is surely justified in offering a somewhat similar support to the story of Bruce and the spider, to declare, in fact, that whatever may be the evidence or lack of evidence connecting Bruce with the spider, he must have learned from that wily cannibal a lesson in perseverance.

It is hard to believe that there is any one with a fair measure of sight and a modicum of reflective power who, whether the theatre of the spider's operations were a garden hedge or a cornice neglected by the housemaid's brush, has not been struck with the determination of the eight-legged creature to complete its task, regardless of the expenditure of time and labour involved, or the obstacles to be overcome. Sir Herbert Maxwell is, no doubt, perfectly correct in his conclusion that the myth has no basis in the recorded history of Bruce, but he would find it hard to show cause for a belief that the Scottish hero was never alone with a spider whose practical illustration of the advice to try, try again impressed itself upon that hero's mind. As already said, Sir Herbert Maxwell has not smashed, destroyed, and pulverised the Bruce in the manner in which so many of the subjects of our early admiration have been treated by erudite and ruthless adherents of the critical method of dealing with archaic authorities. The saviour of Scottish independence has neither been blackened all over, like the conscientious impersonator of Othello, nor whitened like one of the speechless Pierrots who are now so popular. The Bruce remains for us a great soldier and ruler, whose strength of character and personal charm bound men to his service by links more durable than feudal custom or fear.

That he was a traitor and a murderer is, unhappily, no less difficult to disprove. The author leaves as little room for disbelief in Bruce 's perfidy, the only doubt being as to whether he was false to his old comrade, William Wallace, or to his Sovereign, the King of England, while that he was the perpetrator of a brutal crime in causing the death of John Com yn seems no less certain. He was, in fact, one of those strange characters made up of the highest and the lowest motives and actions who, whatever may be thought about their value as examples, have unquestionably a strong power of fascination by the very force of the contrast which they present. And it is as certain as anything can be at this distance of time that, whatever his guilt as a man, "Bruce never gave his subjects cause to blush for him as a King. depression, with itt; cemre iiltie tw tiie i'ae lira.

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THE The chair was occupied by Mr. Goschen, and among those present were Dr. N. G. Pierson, formerly Netherlands Minister of Finance, Sir C.

Fre-maatle, and Mr. Ingiis Faigr.we. In introducing Dr. Pierson, Mr. Goschen oJered a cordial welcome to all the foreign guests.

The Economic Association had been able to hold its own financially during the past year, but there had been a constant tailing oft' in their numbers. The losses of the Association by death during the year had been great. Two of those who had taken tiie greatest interest in its work had passed away. Mr. Martin, their treasurer, died a lew dajs ago, and Professor Monro, also one of the earliest members and an acute thinker, had passed away.

Italy had lost Siguor Cossa, one of the acutest thinkers in the domain of political economy, and a frank and fteo otitic of other men's work an attribute not to be despised, tor if criticism was good, then frank ami free criticism was one of the greatest helps to political economy. Ameiica had lost General Walker certainly one of the foremost political economists of the United States. Among others with them at tiie dinner of a year ago was M. Leon Say, who hail delighted the company vith his charming eloquence. Ho was a bravo economist, and stood up against opinions which were dangerous to the State with equal courage and ability.

It was to many of them present a pleasant and at the same time a sad reflection that almost the last words of M. Leon Say were uttered at the Society's dinner in defence of orthodox economy. It was a tragic thing that only about two days after he left that function he departed for ever. In introducing Dr. Pierson, ho was to address the meeting, Mr.

Goschen pointed out that the doctor had been a professor of political economy, a bank Director, aud a Minister of State, and besides an active writer on political economv. Dr. Pierson then delivered an address on "English Political Economists," dealing ehicily with Mill, Jevons, and Bagehot. OMAN AT HOME for APRIL years, while in lb cases the husbands signed the pledge as well as their wives. This section of the work had been materially assisted by Mrs.

Temple, and her removal from the diocese was much regretted. In Dr. Temple the branch had lost a Presideut whose place it would be very liiificult to fill, fur he never spared himself any effort that migh, advance the cause. The Bishop of London, who was erected with loud cheers, said that he could not hope to adequately fill the void caused by the removal of their late President. He could assure them that his interest in the work of temperance was very genuine and very real.

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I hope that you look forward to a period of rest and study, which you were promising yourself some time ago. You have done a great deal, but you may do a great deal more. Rest and continuous reading are absolute I necessary to strength in writing. We have been anxious about Green, though he seems to me to be better at present. I wish that he could take a different line in hi3 philosophical teaching.

His pupils get coufused, retain no interest in other kinds of knowledge, and after a few years find that they have lost much and that there is no compensating gain. Metaphysics are thoroughly inimical to poetry and literature, and they exert an immense influence. Common sense may receive a slight enlargement from them, and indeed some knowledge of them is necessary to enable the mind to get rid of them. But I think the vulgar are right in regarding them as a forbidden kind of knowledge, which is of most use after it has been forgotten." Considerable space is allotted in these pages to Jowett's long and laborious interest in the cause of University and Civil Service Reform, in which he was so maternally assisted by Tait, Stanley, and other coadjutors. His professed object was to throw the advantage of a University education open to all comers, without regard to creed or caste, and to open the Civil Service appointments to merit as opposed to the old system of private and political patronage and nomination.

He was also one of the first to advocate the cause of University Extension. Happily, the biography throws a new light on the memorable "Essays and Reviews" question and the bitter controversy it engendered. Too much was, perhaps, made of Jowett's essay, without just ground, for, as it is here stated, Professor Jowett never sought to form a party. His object was to reconcileln-tellectual persons to Christianity and to exhort the clergy to the love of Truth." When the crisis came he acted on the rule, "The only thing to do is to do nothing." It is certainly, however, somewhat startling to find that Jowett's friend, the Bishop of London (A. C.

Tait), after saying to Dr. Stanley that he saw no matter for condemnation in Temple, Jowett, or Pattison, gave his signature to the Bishop's letter which condemned the essayists in general." No wonder that "Jowett's confidence was shaken." At any rate, for some time he had incurred the animosity of the Tractarian Party owing to his religious views, and his expression of them in his connection with the "Essays and Reviews and on other occasions, but on no occasion was this animosity so clearly manifested as in the attempt made to deprive him of any forthcoming endowment for the Professorship of Greek which he held. His friends, however, expressed their view of the case by subscribing "the sum of 2,000 to pay his salary for the last five years." Subsequently he was dragged into the Vice-Chancellor's Court by his enemies on the charge of heterodox teaching, but without effect. In 1870 Jowett was elected to the Mastership of Balliol College. The new Master initiated a series of valuable reforms in the interest especially of the poorer scholars.

An undergraduate library was founded chiefly by the munificence of one of the richer scholars. Even the laundresses felt the touch of his reforming finger, and were compelled to revise their charges, and to submit to checks. The undergraduates, of course, had their stories of these changes. It was told in the Apocrypha of Balliol how the indignant women had clamoured for an interview with the Master. The interview was granted, and when the hubbub of complaint had subsided the clear voice was heard asking, Will you wash for Balliol at such a price No was screamed in chorus.

'Then, Knight, show these ladies A second interview was granted, and with no better result but at the third the Master was victorious. By the ingenuity of a malicious friend," says the writer, I was compelled, some two years after the supposed event to repeat this story to Jowett himself. He listened patiently, and remarked, There is not a word of truth in it not a word of As a preacher in the University pulpit the Master drew large congregations, and in his famous sermon on the text The image of the invisible God his audience represented all shades of opinion, from the heretical Bishop of Natal to By MARIE A. THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY. HK.i.i.4in A MATTER OF TEMPERAMENT.

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