Chapter 18

‘But were there one whose firesTrue genius kindles and fair fame inspires;Blest with each talent and each art to please,And born to write, converse, and live with ease;Should such a man, too fond to rule alone,Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne,View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes,And hate for arts that caused himself to rise;* * * * * * *LikeCato, give his little senate laws,And sit attentive to his own applause;While wits and templars every sentence raise,And wonder with a foolish face of praise—Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?Who would not weep, ifAtticuswere he!’

‘But were there one whose fires

True genius kindles and fair fame inspires;

Blest with each talent and each art to please,

And born to write, converse, and live with ease;

Should such a man, too fond to rule alone,

Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne,

View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes,

And hate for arts that caused himself to rise;

* * * * * * *

LikeCato, give his little senate laws,And sit attentive to his own applause;While wits and templars every sentence raise,And wonder with a foolish face of praise—Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?Who would not weep, ifAtticuswere he!’

LikeCato, give his little senate laws,

And sit attentive to his own applause;

While wits and templars every sentence raise,

And wonder with a foolish face of praise—

Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?

Who would not weep, ifAtticuswere he!’

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Footnotes1. 1.William Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. An Account of his Writings, with Selections from his Literary and Scientific Correspondence.ByI. Todhunter, M.A., F.R.S., Honorary Fellow of S. John’s College. 2 vols., 8vo. (London, 1876.)2.The Life and Selections from the Correspondence of William Whewell, D.D., late Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.By MrsStair Douglas. 8vo. (London, 1881.)2. In the fifteen years from 1800-1814 inclusive the average was 205; from 1815-1829 it was 402; and from 1830-1844 it was 433; from 1845-1859 it was 444; from 1859-1874 it was 545.3. Todhunter’sLife, ii. 91.4.Life and Letters of Sir C. Lyell, ii. 38. In the same letter he expresses his astonishment at finding that Whewell, while writing one of his papers on the Tides, was passing through the pressfour other works.5. The inscription runs: munificentia · fultus · Alex. J. B. Hope, generosi · hisce · ædibus · antiquam · speciem · restituit. W. Whewell. Mag. Collegii. A. D. MDCCCXLIII. Mr Hope gave £1000, and the Master himself £250; but the liberality of the College, which spent some £4000 before the work was finished, is unrecorded. It was on this occasion that somebody wrote a parody onThe House that Jack Built, beginning:This is the House that Hope built.This is the Master, rude and rough,Who lives in the House that Hope built.These are the Seniors, greedy and gruff,Who toady the Master, rude and rough,Who lives in the House that Hope built.6. TheTimes, February 25 and 26, 1847. Mrs Stair Douglas, p. 285, prints a letter from Archdeacon Hare, who had been disturbed by reports of the Vice-Chancellor’s vehemence.7. The visit of Queen Victoria to the University in 1843.8.A Letter to the Rev. W. Whewell, B.D., Master of Trinity College, etc. By an Undergraduate.8vo. London, 1843.9.The Victory of Faith, and other Sermons.By J. C. Hare, M. A. 8vo. Cambridge, 1840, p. x.10. Mrs Stair Douglas, p. 216.11. Dr Lightfoot’s Sermon, preached in the College Chapel on Sunday, March 18, 1866.12. They appeared inPunchfor March 17, 1866.13. The letter is dated 30 October, 1857.14. Mrs Stair Douglas, p. 208.15. Memoir by Sir John Herschel,Proceedings of Royal Society,XVI., p. lvi.16. Bishop Goodwin’s article inMacmillan’s Magazinefor December, 1881, p. 140.17. We are not sure that he ever allowed theOrigin of Speciesto be admitted into the College Library. It was certainly refused more than once, being probably dismissed with the expression which he was fond of using when, as Chairman of the Seniority, he read the list of books proposed—‘a worthless publication.’18. 1.Remains, Literary and Theological, of Connop Thirlwall, late Lord Bishop of S. David’s.Edited byJ. J. Stewart Perowne, D.D. Vol. 1: Charges delivered between the years 1842 and 1860. Vol. 2: Charges delivered between the years 1863 and 1872. 8vo. (London, 1877.)2.Essays, Speeches, and Sermons.ByConnop Thirlwall, D.D., late Lord Bishop of S. David’s. Edited byJ. J. Stewart Perowne, D.D. 8vo. (London, 1880.)3.Letters to a Friend.ByConnop Thirlwall, late Lord Bishop of S. David’s. Edited by the Very Rev.Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D. 8vo. (London, 1881.)4.Letters, Literary and Theological, of Connop Thirlwall, late Lord Bishop of S. David’s.Edited by the Very Rev.J. J. Stewart Perowne, D.D., Dean of Peterborough, and the Rev.Louis Stokes, B.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. With Annotations and Preliminary Memoirs by the Rev.Louis Stokes. 8vo. (London, 1881.)5.Letters to a Friend.New Edition. (London, 1882.)19. Dr Perowne’s Preface toLetters, &c., p. vi.20.Letters, &c., p. 177.21.Primitiæ, p. 52. The essay is endorsed: ‘Composed 1st January, 1806. Eight years old.’22.Primitiæ, p. 224. The piece is dated October 28, 1808.23.Letters to a Friend, p. 155. As a matter of fact the Bishop did buy and destroy all the copies that he could.24. Dean Perowne mentions (Preface, p. viii.) that ‘at school he did not care to enter into the games and amusements of the other boys, but was to be seen at play-hour withdrawing himself into some corner with a pile of books under his arm.’25. Candler was seven years older than Thirlwall. He was junior assistant in a draper’s shop at Ipswich, and afterwards set up in business on his own account at Chelmsford, where he became a leading member of the Society of Friends. He died, nearly eighty years of age, in 1872. We have not been able to ascertain how he became acquainted with Thirlwall.26.Letters, &c., p. 7.27.Letters, &c., p. 17.28.Ibid.p. 8.29.Letters to a Friend, p. 225.30.Letters, &c., p. 21. The letter is dated December, 1813, when the writer was sixteen years old.31. Professor Monk, who had examined Thirlwall on one of these occasions, was so much struck with the vigour and accuracy of his translations that he remarked to a friend, who had also had experience of his worth as a scholar, ‘Had I been sitting in my library, with unlimited access to books, I could not have done better.’ ‘Nor so well,’ was the reply.32. Cooper’sAnnals of the Town and University of Cambridge, iv. 516. The words between inverted commas in our text are from a pamphlet entitled ‘A Statement regarding the Union, an Academical Debating Society, which existed at Cambridge from February 13, 1815, to March 24, 1817, when it wassuppressed by the Vice-Chancellor.’ The ‘statement’ is evidently official, and is thoroughly business-like and temperate. The Vice-Chancellor was Dr Wood, Master of S. John’s College; the officers of the society were: Mr Whewell,President; Mr Thirlwall,Secretary; Mr H. J. Rose,Treasurer. The late Professor Selwyn, in a speech at the opening of the new Union building, October 30, 1866, stated that on the entrance of the proctors the President said, ‘Strangers will please to withdraw, and the House will take the message into consideration.’33.Autobiography of John Stuart Mill, p. 125. Mill is describing a debate at ‘a society of Owenites called the Co-operation Society,’ in 1825. ‘It was alutte corps à corpsbetween Owenites and political economists, whom the Owenites regarded as their most inveterate opponents; but it was a perfectly friendly dispute.... The speaker with whom I was most struck, though I dissented from nearly every word he said, was Thirlwall, the historian, since Bishop of S. David’s, then a Chancery barrister, unknown except by a high reputation for eloquence acquired at the Cambridge Union before the era of Austin and Macaulay. His speech was in answer to one of mine. Before he had uttered ten sentences, I set him down as the best speaker I had ever heard, and I have never since heard anyone whom I placed above him.’34.Letters, &c., p. 31.35. An old friend of Bishop Thirlwall informs us that he retained his preference for the ‘Paradiso’ in after years.36.Life and Letters of Frances Baroness Bunsen; by Augustus J. C. Hare. 8vo. Lond. 1882: i. 138.37. Letter to Bunsen, November 21, 1831,Letters, &c., p. 99.38.Memoirs of Baron Bunsen, i. 339.39. Marsh was professor from 1807 to 1839. The first volume of his translation of Michaelis had appeared in 1793.40.Letters, &c., p. 55.41.Edinburgh Review, April, 1876, p. 291.42.A Critical Essay on the Gospel of S. Luke.By Dr Frederick Schleiermacher. With an introduction by the Translator, containing an account of the controversy respecting the origin of the first three Gospels since Bishop Marsh’s dissertation. 8vo. London: 1825.43. F. D. Maurice writes, 25 February, 1848: ‘The Bishop of S. David’s very injudiciously translated, about twenty years ago, Schleiermacher’s book on S. Luke—the one of all, perhaps, which he ever wrote the most likely to offend religious people in England, and so mislead them as to his real character and objects.’Life of F. D. Maurice, i. 454.44. Between 1827 and 1832 he held the college offices of Junior Bursar, Junior Dean, and Head Lecturer. In 1828, 1829, 1832, and 1834 he was one of the examiners for the Classical Tripos.45. See Dean Stanley’s Memoir of Archdeacon Hare, prefixed to the third edition ofThe Victory of Faith. 1874.46.A Vindication of Niebuhr’s ‘History of Rome’ from the Charges of the ‘Quarterly Review.’By Julius Charles Hare, M.A. Cambridge, 1829. The passage commented on will be found in theQuarterly Reviewfor January 1829 (vol. xxxix. p. 8). The first edition of Niebuhr’s own work had been highly praised in an article in the sameReviewfor June 1825 (vol. xxxii. p. 67).47. On the Life of Dr Whewell, printed above. It was originally called ‘Half a Century of Cambridge Life,’ and appeared in theChurch Quarterly Review, April 1882.48. TheCaput Senatusconsisted of five persons, viz. a Doctor of Divinity, a Doctor of Laws, a Doctor of Physic, a non-regent Master, and a regent Master. These persons held office for a year. They were elected by the votes of the Heads of Colleges, the Doctors in all faculties, and the Scrutators. Each member had the right to veto any proposal of which he disapproved. TheCaput Senatuswas established by the Statutes of Elizabeth, 1570, Cap. xli, and abolished by the University Act, 1856.49. The first petition was presented to the House of Lords on March 21, 1834; the protest is dated April 3; and the counter-petition was presented on April 21 in the same year.50.A Letteretc., p. 20.51.A Letteretc., pp. 21, 22.52. When the ‘Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates’ tabulated the weekly attendance of the Fellows at Chapel in the Lent Term of 1838, and finally published a list, like the class list at the end of an examination, Whewell was placed in the middle of the second class, having obtained only 34 marks. The Deans, being obliged, in virtue of their office, to attend twice daily, were disqualified from obtaining the prize—a Bible—which the Society gave to Mr Perry, afterwards Bishop of Melbourne, who had obtained 66 marks.53. It has been said that the Master was advised to take the course he did by Mr Hugh James Rose, who was in the University at the time, and on Whitsunday, May 18, had preached a sermon at Great S. Mary’s on the ‘Duty of Maintaining the Truth,’ from S. Matt. x. 27: ‘What ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the house-tops.’ Thirlwall’s letter, however, was not published before May 21, so that, unless the nature of it had been known beforehand, it is clear that anything which Mr Rose had said in his sermon could not have referred to it. That Thirlwall believed that there was some connexion between the sermon, or at any rate the preacher, and his dismissal, is evident from the fact that after showing the Master’s letter to one of the junior Fellows, who expressed indignant surprise that such a course could have been taken, he remarked: ‘Ah! let this be a warning to you to preach truth, if need be, upon the house-tops, but never under any circumstances to preach error.’ Thirlwall was a regular attendant at Great S. Mary’s, and no doubt heard the sermon in question.54. The letter, dated 27 May, 1834, is printed by Mrs Stair Douglas,Life of Dr Whewell, p. 163.55. The letter, dated 23 September 1834, is printed inLetters of Bishop Thirlwall, p. 124; and by Mrs Stair Douglas,Life of Dr Whewell, p. 168. Dr Wordsworth’s action was noticed with disapproval beyond the limits of Trinity College, for Professor Babington records in his Diary:Nov. 17 [1834]\.Attended a meeting at Mr Bowstead’s rooms at Corpus, to vote an address to Mr Connop Thirlwall expressive of our sorrow at his being prevented from acting as tutor, and of our disapprobation of the discussion of things not forming part of the duties of tuition being made a cause for depriving a tutor of his office.Nov. 29.A meeting was called for 28th to take into consideration the address to Thirlwall. Laing, Henslow, and I supposed that it was this day, and went, and found that the meeting was over and the address, much to our sorrow burnt. (Memorials, etc. of Charles Cardale Babington, 8vo. Camb. 1897, p. 33). Professor Mayor (Ibid.265) conjectures, with much probability, that the address was destroyed at Thirlwall’s own suggestion. It is curious that his friends should have deferred their action for so many months.56.Life of Dr Whewell, by Mrs Stair Douglas, p. 211.57.Letters to a Friend, p. 191.58. The preface to the first edition of vol. i. is dated ‘Trinity College, June 12, 1835.’ He was instituted to Kirby Underdale, 13 February, 1835 (Letters, p. 136), but he did not take up his residence there till July following (Ibid.p. 137). The dates of the subsequent volumes are ii. iii., 1836; iv., 1837; v., 1838; vi., 1839; vii., 1840; viii., 1844.59.Letters, &c. p. 138.60. Preface to the second edition, dated ‘London, May 1845.’61.Letters, &c. p. 194. The letter is dated April 9, 1846.62.The Personal Life of George Grote.By Mrs Grote, p. 173.63.Memoirs of Viscount Melbourne.By W. M. Torrens, M.P. Vol. ii. p. 332. Lord Houghton in theFortnightly Review, February 1878.64.Letters to a Friend, p. 278.65.Letters, &c. p. 161.66.Letters, &c. p. 292.67.Charges, vol. ii. pp. 90-100.68. In his charge for 1851 (Charges, vol. i. p. 150) he announced his intention to devote the surplus of his income to the augmentation of small livings, and in 1866 he pointed out that the fund had up to that time yielded £24,000 (Ibid.vol. ii. p. 98).69. He particularly disliked gossip. At Kirby Underdale the old sexton used to relate how Mr Thirlwall said, ‘I never ’ears no tales’; and the following story shows that he maintained the same wise discretion after he became a bishop. One of his archdeacons thought it right to tell him that a certain clergyman in the diocese, who was a clever mimic, was fond of entertaining his friends with imitations of the Bishop. Thirlwall listened, and then inquired, ‘Does he do me well?’ ‘I am sure I cannot say, my Lord,’ replied the informer; ‘I was never present myself at one of these disgraceful exhibitions.’ ‘Ah! I should like to know, because he doesyouadmirably,’ replied the Bishop. It is needless to say that no more stories were carried to his ears.70.An Earnestly Respectful Letter, 8vo. 1860, pp. 20-23. See alsoThe Life and Letters of Rowland Williams, D.D., London, 1874, chap. xv., where his determination to make the Bishop declare himself, under the belief that he really agreed with him, is expressly stated.71.A Letter to the Rev. Rowland Williams, 8vo. 1860, p. 19.72. Dean Stanley’s preface to theLetters to a Friend, p. xi.73.Letters to a Friend, p. 54.74. Review of ‘The letters of Bishop Thirlwall,’The Times, 23 November, 1881.75.The Edinburgh Review, for April, 1876, p. 292.76. These words are inscribed upon Bishop Thirlwall’s grave.77.Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes, first Lord Houghton.ByT. Wemyss Reid. Second Edition, 2 vols. London, 1890.78.Life, vol. i. p. xiii.79.Reminiscences and Opinions of Sir F. H. Doyle, 8vo. Lond. 1886. p. 108.80.Richard Chenevix Trench, Archbishop. Letters and Memorials.8vo. Lond. 1888. Vol. i. p. 50. Letter from J. W. Blakesley, 24 Jan, 1830.81.Life, vol. i. p. 78.82. Lord Houghton has been heard to say, when describing his interview with Dr Wordsworth, then Master of Trinity College: ‘I have always had a dim suspicion, though probably I did not do so, that I substituted the name of Wordsworth for Shelley.’Life, vol. i. p. 77.83.Life, vol. ii. p. 162.84.Life of Cardinal Manning, by E. S. Purcell, 8vo. Lond. 1895, vol. i. p. 33.85.The Poems of Richard Monckton Milnes, 2 vols. (London, 1838), vol. i. p. 93.86. Vol. i. p. 214.87. Vol. i. p. 384. The letter is dated 31 March, 1847.88. 1.The Life and Achievements of Edward Henry Palmer, late Lord Almoner’s Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of S. John’s College.ByWalter Besant, M.A. (London, 1883.)2.Correspondence respecting the Murder of Professor E. H. Palmer, Captain William Gill, R.E., and Lieutenant Harold Charrington, R.N.Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command ofHer Majesty. (London, 1883.)89.Life, p. 182.90.Life, p. 11.91.Testimonials in favour of Edward Henry Palmer, B.A.8vo. Hertford, 1867.92.Life, p. 48.93.The Desert of the Exodus, 8vo. Cambridge, Deightons, 1871.94.Desert of the Exodus, p. 325.95.Desert of the Exodus, p. 503.96.Life, pp. 120-125.97. It is stated inNaturefor July 16, 1883, in an article by Prof. W. Robertson Smith, Palmer’s successor at Cambridge, that Dr Wright was elected Fellow ‘without his knowledge or consent.’ We are able to state, on the authority of Dr Phillips himself, that Dr Wright was perfectly aware of the honour about to be conferred upon him.98. TheCatalogue of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish MSS. in Trin. Coll. Camb.was not published until 1871; but the fact that it had been made was of course well known.99.Cambridge University Reporter, 1872, p. 181.100.Cambridge University Reporter, 1873, p. 142.101. Grace of the Senate, April 29, 1875, confirming a Report of the Council, dated March 15. We believe that it was thought desirable to make the salary of the Professor of Arabic equal to that of the Professor of Sanskrit, who from the creation of the Professorship in 1867 received £500 a year out of the University Chest.102.Life, p. 142.103.Life, p. 145.104. This was Misleh, Sheikh of the Teyáhah Arabs.—Warren’sNarrative, p. 10.105.Life, pp. 266-278.106. Letter to Admiral Sir William Hewett, dated Suez, August 8.Blue Book, p. 4.107. These five were Professor Palmer, Captain Gill, Lieutenant Charrington, Khalil Atek the dragoman, and Bochor the cook.108. The whole story of his expedition has been admirably told by Captain Haynes, who accompanied Colonel Warren, inMan-hunting in the Desert. 8vo. London. 1894.109. The Wady Sudr is quite out of the direct route from Moses’ Wells to Nakhl, as Palmer of course knew. He must therefore have been induced to go that way by some earnest representation made to him by Meter.110. Balfour and his guide lost their lives in acouloirat the foot of the Italian side of the Aiguille Blanche. They started from Courmayeur to attempt the ascent of the Aiguille on the afternoon of Tuesday, 18 July, 1882, with the expectation of returning on Thursday. The accident is supposed to have taken place on Wednesday, the 19th.111.Saturday Review, November 12, 1881.112. This Report, dated 27 March, 1882, was confirmed by the Senate 11 May; and the Professor was elected 31 May.113. Wednesday, 10 February, 1886.114. Dr Thompson died on Friday, 1 October, 1886.115. The portrait painted by Hubert Herkomer, R.A., in 1881, which hangs in the College Hall, gives a life-like idea of him at that time, though the deep lines on the face, and the sarcastic expression of the mouth, are slightly exaggerated.116. Mr Trotter died on the morning of Sunday, 4 December, 1887.117. Dr Okes died on Sunday, 25 November, 1888.118. Dr Luard died on Friday, 1 May, 1891.119.Church Quarterly Review, Vol.IX.pp. 1-39.120. 1.The Life of Richard Owen.By his Grandson, the Rev.Richard Owen, M.A., with the Scientific Portions revised byC. Davies Sherborn, and an Essay on Owen’s Position in Anatomical Science by the Right Hon.T. H. Huxley, F.R.S. Second edition, 2 vols. (London, 1895.)2.:Richard Owen.(Article in theDictionary of National Biography, vol. xlii.) By SirW. H. Flower, K.C.B. (London, 1895.)121.Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand, Preface, p. 1.122.Anatomy, iii. 796.123. We must except one delivered to the Young Men’s Christian Association at Exeter Hall in the autumn of 1863. It is called:On some Instances of the Power of God as manifested in His Animal Creation; and was published in the series of Exeter Hall Lectures by Messrs Nisbet. It is as accurate as it is courageous, and both in conception and execution does Owen infinite credit.

Footnotes

1. 1.William Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. An Account of his Writings, with Selections from his Literary and Scientific Correspondence.ByI. Todhunter, M.A., F.R.S., Honorary Fellow of S. John’s College. 2 vols., 8vo. (London, 1876.)2.The Life and Selections from the Correspondence of William Whewell, D.D., late Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.By MrsStair Douglas. 8vo. (London, 1881.)

2.The Life and Selections from the Correspondence of William Whewell, D.D., late Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.By MrsStair Douglas. 8vo. (London, 1881.)

2. In the fifteen years from 1800-1814 inclusive the average was 205; from 1815-1829 it was 402; and from 1830-1844 it was 433; from 1845-1859 it was 444; from 1859-1874 it was 545.

3. Todhunter’sLife, ii. 91.

4.Life and Letters of Sir C. Lyell, ii. 38. In the same letter he expresses his astonishment at finding that Whewell, while writing one of his papers on the Tides, was passing through the pressfour other works.

5. The inscription runs: munificentia · fultus · Alex. J. B. Hope, generosi · hisce · ædibus · antiquam · speciem · restituit. W. Whewell. Mag. Collegii. A. D. MDCCCXLIII. Mr Hope gave £1000, and the Master himself £250; but the liberality of the College, which spent some £4000 before the work was finished, is unrecorded. It was on this occasion that somebody wrote a parody onThe House that Jack Built, beginning:This is the House that Hope built.This is the Master, rude and rough,Who lives in the House that Hope built.These are the Seniors, greedy and gruff,Who toady the Master, rude and rough,Who lives in the House that Hope built.

This is the House that Hope built.This is the Master, rude and rough,Who lives in the House that Hope built.These are the Seniors, greedy and gruff,Who toady the Master, rude and rough,Who lives in the House that Hope built.

This is the House that Hope built.

This is the Master, rude and rough,

Who lives in the House that Hope built.

These are the Seniors, greedy and gruff,

Who toady the Master, rude and rough,

Who lives in the House that Hope built.

6. TheTimes, February 25 and 26, 1847. Mrs Stair Douglas, p. 285, prints a letter from Archdeacon Hare, who had been disturbed by reports of the Vice-Chancellor’s vehemence.

7. The visit of Queen Victoria to the University in 1843.

8.A Letter to the Rev. W. Whewell, B.D., Master of Trinity College, etc. By an Undergraduate.8vo. London, 1843.

9.The Victory of Faith, and other Sermons.By J. C. Hare, M. A. 8vo. Cambridge, 1840, p. x.

10. Mrs Stair Douglas, p. 216.

11. Dr Lightfoot’s Sermon, preached in the College Chapel on Sunday, March 18, 1866.

12. They appeared inPunchfor March 17, 1866.

13. The letter is dated 30 October, 1857.

14. Mrs Stair Douglas, p. 208.

15. Memoir by Sir John Herschel,Proceedings of Royal Society,XVI., p. lvi.

16. Bishop Goodwin’s article inMacmillan’s Magazinefor December, 1881, p. 140.

17. We are not sure that he ever allowed theOrigin of Speciesto be admitted into the College Library. It was certainly refused more than once, being probably dismissed with the expression which he was fond of using when, as Chairman of the Seniority, he read the list of books proposed—‘a worthless publication.’

18. 1.Remains, Literary and Theological, of Connop Thirlwall, late Lord Bishop of S. David’s.Edited byJ. J. Stewart Perowne, D.D. Vol. 1: Charges delivered between the years 1842 and 1860. Vol. 2: Charges delivered between the years 1863 and 1872. 8vo. (London, 1877.)2.Essays, Speeches, and Sermons.ByConnop Thirlwall, D.D., late Lord Bishop of S. David’s. Edited byJ. J. Stewart Perowne, D.D. 8vo. (London, 1880.)3.Letters to a Friend.ByConnop Thirlwall, late Lord Bishop of S. David’s. Edited by the Very Rev.Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D. 8vo. (London, 1881.)4.Letters, Literary and Theological, of Connop Thirlwall, late Lord Bishop of S. David’s.Edited by the Very Rev.J. J. Stewart Perowne, D.D., Dean of Peterborough, and the Rev.Louis Stokes, B.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. With Annotations and Preliminary Memoirs by the Rev.Louis Stokes. 8vo. (London, 1881.)5.Letters to a Friend.New Edition. (London, 1882.)

2.Essays, Speeches, and Sermons.ByConnop Thirlwall, D.D., late Lord Bishop of S. David’s. Edited byJ. J. Stewart Perowne, D.D. 8vo. (London, 1880.)

3.Letters to a Friend.ByConnop Thirlwall, late Lord Bishop of S. David’s. Edited by the Very Rev.Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D. 8vo. (London, 1881.)

4.Letters, Literary and Theological, of Connop Thirlwall, late Lord Bishop of S. David’s.Edited by the Very Rev.J. J. Stewart Perowne, D.D., Dean of Peterborough, and the Rev.Louis Stokes, B.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. With Annotations and Preliminary Memoirs by the Rev.Louis Stokes. 8vo. (London, 1881.)

5.Letters to a Friend.New Edition. (London, 1882.)

19. Dr Perowne’s Preface toLetters, &c., p. vi.

20.Letters, &c., p. 177.

21.Primitiæ, p. 52. The essay is endorsed: ‘Composed 1st January, 1806. Eight years old.’

22.Primitiæ, p. 224. The piece is dated October 28, 1808.

23.Letters to a Friend, p. 155. As a matter of fact the Bishop did buy and destroy all the copies that he could.

24. Dean Perowne mentions (Preface, p. viii.) that ‘at school he did not care to enter into the games and amusements of the other boys, but was to be seen at play-hour withdrawing himself into some corner with a pile of books under his arm.’

25. Candler was seven years older than Thirlwall. He was junior assistant in a draper’s shop at Ipswich, and afterwards set up in business on his own account at Chelmsford, where he became a leading member of the Society of Friends. He died, nearly eighty years of age, in 1872. We have not been able to ascertain how he became acquainted with Thirlwall.

26.Letters, &c., p. 7.

27.Letters, &c., p. 17.

28.Ibid.p. 8.

29.Letters to a Friend, p. 225.

30.Letters, &c., p. 21. The letter is dated December, 1813, when the writer was sixteen years old.

31. Professor Monk, who had examined Thirlwall on one of these occasions, was so much struck with the vigour and accuracy of his translations that he remarked to a friend, who had also had experience of his worth as a scholar, ‘Had I been sitting in my library, with unlimited access to books, I could not have done better.’ ‘Nor so well,’ was the reply.

32. Cooper’sAnnals of the Town and University of Cambridge, iv. 516. The words between inverted commas in our text are from a pamphlet entitled ‘A Statement regarding the Union, an Academical Debating Society, which existed at Cambridge from February 13, 1815, to March 24, 1817, when it wassuppressed by the Vice-Chancellor.’ The ‘statement’ is evidently official, and is thoroughly business-like and temperate. The Vice-Chancellor was Dr Wood, Master of S. John’s College; the officers of the society were: Mr Whewell,President; Mr Thirlwall,Secretary; Mr H. J. Rose,Treasurer. The late Professor Selwyn, in a speech at the opening of the new Union building, October 30, 1866, stated that on the entrance of the proctors the President said, ‘Strangers will please to withdraw, and the House will take the message into consideration.’

33.Autobiography of John Stuart Mill, p. 125. Mill is describing a debate at ‘a society of Owenites called the Co-operation Society,’ in 1825. ‘It was alutte corps à corpsbetween Owenites and political economists, whom the Owenites regarded as their most inveterate opponents; but it was a perfectly friendly dispute.... The speaker with whom I was most struck, though I dissented from nearly every word he said, was Thirlwall, the historian, since Bishop of S. David’s, then a Chancery barrister, unknown except by a high reputation for eloquence acquired at the Cambridge Union before the era of Austin and Macaulay. His speech was in answer to one of mine. Before he had uttered ten sentences, I set him down as the best speaker I had ever heard, and I have never since heard anyone whom I placed above him.’

34.Letters, &c., p. 31.

35. An old friend of Bishop Thirlwall informs us that he retained his preference for the ‘Paradiso’ in after years.

36.Life and Letters of Frances Baroness Bunsen; by Augustus J. C. Hare. 8vo. Lond. 1882: i. 138.

37. Letter to Bunsen, November 21, 1831,Letters, &c., p. 99.

38.Memoirs of Baron Bunsen, i. 339.

39. Marsh was professor from 1807 to 1839. The first volume of his translation of Michaelis had appeared in 1793.

40.Letters, &c., p. 55.

41.Edinburgh Review, April, 1876, p. 291.

42.A Critical Essay on the Gospel of S. Luke.By Dr Frederick Schleiermacher. With an introduction by the Translator, containing an account of the controversy respecting the origin of the first three Gospels since Bishop Marsh’s dissertation. 8vo. London: 1825.

43. F. D. Maurice writes, 25 February, 1848: ‘The Bishop of S. David’s very injudiciously translated, about twenty years ago, Schleiermacher’s book on S. Luke—the one of all, perhaps, which he ever wrote the most likely to offend religious people in England, and so mislead them as to his real character and objects.’Life of F. D. Maurice, i. 454.

44. Between 1827 and 1832 he held the college offices of Junior Bursar, Junior Dean, and Head Lecturer. In 1828, 1829, 1832, and 1834 he was one of the examiners for the Classical Tripos.

45. See Dean Stanley’s Memoir of Archdeacon Hare, prefixed to the third edition ofThe Victory of Faith. 1874.

46.A Vindication of Niebuhr’s ‘History of Rome’ from the Charges of the ‘Quarterly Review.’By Julius Charles Hare, M.A. Cambridge, 1829. The passage commented on will be found in theQuarterly Reviewfor January 1829 (vol. xxxix. p. 8). The first edition of Niebuhr’s own work had been highly praised in an article in the sameReviewfor June 1825 (vol. xxxii. p. 67).

47. On the Life of Dr Whewell, printed above. It was originally called ‘Half a Century of Cambridge Life,’ and appeared in theChurch Quarterly Review, April 1882.

48. TheCaput Senatusconsisted of five persons, viz. a Doctor of Divinity, a Doctor of Laws, a Doctor of Physic, a non-regent Master, and a regent Master. These persons held office for a year. They were elected by the votes of the Heads of Colleges, the Doctors in all faculties, and the Scrutators. Each member had the right to veto any proposal of which he disapproved. TheCaput Senatuswas established by the Statutes of Elizabeth, 1570, Cap. xli, and abolished by the University Act, 1856.

49. The first petition was presented to the House of Lords on March 21, 1834; the protest is dated April 3; and the counter-petition was presented on April 21 in the same year.

50.A Letteretc., p. 20.

51.A Letteretc., pp. 21, 22.

52. When the ‘Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates’ tabulated the weekly attendance of the Fellows at Chapel in the Lent Term of 1838, and finally published a list, like the class list at the end of an examination, Whewell was placed in the middle of the second class, having obtained only 34 marks. The Deans, being obliged, in virtue of their office, to attend twice daily, were disqualified from obtaining the prize—a Bible—which the Society gave to Mr Perry, afterwards Bishop of Melbourne, who had obtained 66 marks.

53. It has been said that the Master was advised to take the course he did by Mr Hugh James Rose, who was in the University at the time, and on Whitsunday, May 18, had preached a sermon at Great S. Mary’s on the ‘Duty of Maintaining the Truth,’ from S. Matt. x. 27: ‘What ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the house-tops.’ Thirlwall’s letter, however, was not published before May 21, so that, unless the nature of it had been known beforehand, it is clear that anything which Mr Rose had said in his sermon could not have referred to it. That Thirlwall believed that there was some connexion between the sermon, or at any rate the preacher, and his dismissal, is evident from the fact that after showing the Master’s letter to one of the junior Fellows, who expressed indignant surprise that such a course could have been taken, he remarked: ‘Ah! let this be a warning to you to preach truth, if need be, upon the house-tops, but never under any circumstances to preach error.’ Thirlwall was a regular attendant at Great S. Mary’s, and no doubt heard the sermon in question.

54. The letter, dated 27 May, 1834, is printed by Mrs Stair Douglas,Life of Dr Whewell, p. 163.

55. The letter, dated 23 September 1834, is printed inLetters of Bishop Thirlwall, p. 124; and by Mrs Stair Douglas,Life of Dr Whewell, p. 168. Dr Wordsworth’s action was noticed with disapproval beyond the limits of Trinity College, for Professor Babington records in his Diary:Nov. 17 [1834]\.Attended a meeting at Mr Bowstead’s rooms at Corpus, to vote an address to Mr Connop Thirlwall expressive of our sorrow at his being prevented from acting as tutor, and of our disapprobation of the discussion of things not forming part of the duties of tuition being made a cause for depriving a tutor of his office.Nov. 29.A meeting was called for 28th to take into consideration the address to Thirlwall. Laing, Henslow, and I supposed that it was this day, and went, and found that the meeting was over and the address, much to our sorrow burnt. (Memorials, etc. of Charles Cardale Babington, 8vo. Camb. 1897, p. 33). Professor Mayor (Ibid.265) conjectures, with much probability, that the address was destroyed at Thirlwall’s own suggestion. It is curious that his friends should have deferred their action for so many months.

Nov. 17 [1834]\.Attended a meeting at Mr Bowstead’s rooms at Corpus, to vote an address to Mr Connop Thirlwall expressive of our sorrow at his being prevented from acting as tutor, and of our disapprobation of the discussion of things not forming part of the duties of tuition being made a cause for depriving a tutor of his office.

Nov. 29.A meeting was called for 28th to take into consideration the address to Thirlwall. Laing, Henslow, and I supposed that it was this day, and went, and found that the meeting was over and the address, much to our sorrow burnt. (Memorials, etc. of Charles Cardale Babington, 8vo. Camb. 1897, p. 33). Professor Mayor (Ibid.265) conjectures, with much probability, that the address was destroyed at Thirlwall’s own suggestion. It is curious that his friends should have deferred their action for so many months.

56.Life of Dr Whewell, by Mrs Stair Douglas, p. 211.

57.Letters to a Friend, p. 191.

58. The preface to the first edition of vol. i. is dated ‘Trinity College, June 12, 1835.’ He was instituted to Kirby Underdale, 13 February, 1835 (Letters, p. 136), but he did not take up his residence there till July following (Ibid.p. 137). The dates of the subsequent volumes are ii. iii., 1836; iv., 1837; v., 1838; vi., 1839; vii., 1840; viii., 1844.

59.Letters, &c. p. 138.

60. Preface to the second edition, dated ‘London, May 1845.’

61.Letters, &c. p. 194. The letter is dated April 9, 1846.

62.The Personal Life of George Grote.By Mrs Grote, p. 173.

63.Memoirs of Viscount Melbourne.By W. M. Torrens, M.P. Vol. ii. p. 332. Lord Houghton in theFortnightly Review, February 1878.

64.Letters to a Friend, p. 278.

65.Letters, &c. p. 161.

66.Letters, &c. p. 292.

67.Charges, vol. ii. pp. 90-100.

68. In his charge for 1851 (Charges, vol. i. p. 150) he announced his intention to devote the surplus of his income to the augmentation of small livings, and in 1866 he pointed out that the fund had up to that time yielded £24,000 (Ibid.vol. ii. p. 98).

69. He particularly disliked gossip. At Kirby Underdale the old sexton used to relate how Mr Thirlwall said, ‘I never ’ears no tales’; and the following story shows that he maintained the same wise discretion after he became a bishop. One of his archdeacons thought it right to tell him that a certain clergyman in the diocese, who was a clever mimic, was fond of entertaining his friends with imitations of the Bishop. Thirlwall listened, and then inquired, ‘Does he do me well?’ ‘I am sure I cannot say, my Lord,’ replied the informer; ‘I was never present myself at one of these disgraceful exhibitions.’ ‘Ah! I should like to know, because he doesyouadmirably,’ replied the Bishop. It is needless to say that no more stories were carried to his ears.

70.An Earnestly Respectful Letter, 8vo. 1860, pp. 20-23. See alsoThe Life and Letters of Rowland Williams, D.D., London, 1874, chap. xv., where his determination to make the Bishop declare himself, under the belief that he really agreed with him, is expressly stated.

71.A Letter to the Rev. Rowland Williams, 8vo. 1860, p. 19.

72. Dean Stanley’s preface to theLetters to a Friend, p. xi.

73.Letters to a Friend, p. 54.

74. Review of ‘The letters of Bishop Thirlwall,’The Times, 23 November, 1881.

75.The Edinburgh Review, for April, 1876, p. 292.

76. These words are inscribed upon Bishop Thirlwall’s grave.

77.Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes, first Lord Houghton.ByT. Wemyss Reid. Second Edition, 2 vols. London, 1890.

78.Life, vol. i. p. xiii.

79.Reminiscences and Opinions of Sir F. H. Doyle, 8vo. Lond. 1886. p. 108.

80.Richard Chenevix Trench, Archbishop. Letters and Memorials.8vo. Lond. 1888. Vol. i. p. 50. Letter from J. W. Blakesley, 24 Jan, 1830.

81.Life, vol. i. p. 78.

82. Lord Houghton has been heard to say, when describing his interview with Dr Wordsworth, then Master of Trinity College: ‘I have always had a dim suspicion, though probably I did not do so, that I substituted the name of Wordsworth for Shelley.’Life, vol. i. p. 77.

83.Life, vol. ii. p. 162.

84.Life of Cardinal Manning, by E. S. Purcell, 8vo. Lond. 1895, vol. i. p. 33.

85.The Poems of Richard Monckton Milnes, 2 vols. (London, 1838), vol. i. p. 93.

86. Vol. i. p. 214.

87. Vol. i. p. 384. The letter is dated 31 March, 1847.

88. 1.The Life and Achievements of Edward Henry Palmer, late Lord Almoner’s Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of S. John’s College.ByWalter Besant, M.A. (London, 1883.)2.Correspondence respecting the Murder of Professor E. H. Palmer, Captain William Gill, R.E., and Lieutenant Harold Charrington, R.N.Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command ofHer Majesty. (London, 1883.)

2.Correspondence respecting the Murder of Professor E. H. Palmer, Captain William Gill, R.E., and Lieutenant Harold Charrington, R.N.Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command ofHer Majesty. (London, 1883.)

89.Life, p. 182.

90.Life, p. 11.

91.Testimonials in favour of Edward Henry Palmer, B.A.8vo. Hertford, 1867.

92.Life, p. 48.

93.The Desert of the Exodus, 8vo. Cambridge, Deightons, 1871.

94.Desert of the Exodus, p. 325.

95.Desert of the Exodus, p. 503.

96.Life, pp. 120-125.

97. It is stated inNaturefor July 16, 1883, in an article by Prof. W. Robertson Smith, Palmer’s successor at Cambridge, that Dr Wright was elected Fellow ‘without his knowledge or consent.’ We are able to state, on the authority of Dr Phillips himself, that Dr Wright was perfectly aware of the honour about to be conferred upon him.

98. TheCatalogue of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish MSS. in Trin. Coll. Camb.was not published until 1871; but the fact that it had been made was of course well known.

99.Cambridge University Reporter, 1872, p. 181.

100.Cambridge University Reporter, 1873, p. 142.

101. Grace of the Senate, April 29, 1875, confirming a Report of the Council, dated March 15. We believe that it was thought desirable to make the salary of the Professor of Arabic equal to that of the Professor of Sanskrit, who from the creation of the Professorship in 1867 received £500 a year out of the University Chest.

102.Life, p. 142.

103.Life, p. 145.

104. This was Misleh, Sheikh of the Teyáhah Arabs.—Warren’sNarrative, p. 10.

105.Life, pp. 266-278.

106. Letter to Admiral Sir William Hewett, dated Suez, August 8.Blue Book, p. 4.

107. These five were Professor Palmer, Captain Gill, Lieutenant Charrington, Khalil Atek the dragoman, and Bochor the cook.

108. The whole story of his expedition has been admirably told by Captain Haynes, who accompanied Colonel Warren, inMan-hunting in the Desert. 8vo. London. 1894.

109. The Wady Sudr is quite out of the direct route from Moses’ Wells to Nakhl, as Palmer of course knew. He must therefore have been induced to go that way by some earnest representation made to him by Meter.

110. Balfour and his guide lost their lives in acouloirat the foot of the Italian side of the Aiguille Blanche. They started from Courmayeur to attempt the ascent of the Aiguille on the afternoon of Tuesday, 18 July, 1882, with the expectation of returning on Thursday. The accident is supposed to have taken place on Wednesday, the 19th.

111.Saturday Review, November 12, 1881.

112. This Report, dated 27 March, 1882, was confirmed by the Senate 11 May; and the Professor was elected 31 May.

113. Wednesday, 10 February, 1886.

114. Dr Thompson died on Friday, 1 October, 1886.

115. The portrait painted by Hubert Herkomer, R.A., in 1881, which hangs in the College Hall, gives a life-like idea of him at that time, though the deep lines on the face, and the sarcastic expression of the mouth, are slightly exaggerated.

116. Mr Trotter died on the morning of Sunday, 4 December, 1887.

117. Dr Okes died on Sunday, 25 November, 1888.

118. Dr Luard died on Friday, 1 May, 1891.

119.Church Quarterly Review, Vol.IX.pp. 1-39.

120. 1.The Life of Richard Owen.By his Grandson, the Rev.Richard Owen, M.A., with the Scientific Portions revised byC. Davies Sherborn, and an Essay on Owen’s Position in Anatomical Science by the Right Hon.T. H. Huxley, F.R.S. Second edition, 2 vols. (London, 1895.)2.:Richard Owen.(Article in theDictionary of National Biography, vol. xlii.) By SirW. H. Flower, K.C.B. (London, 1895.)

2.:Richard Owen.(Article in theDictionary of National Biography, vol. xlii.) By SirW. H. Flower, K.C.B. (London, 1895.)

121.Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand, Preface, p. 1.

122.Anatomy, iii. 796.

123. We must except one delivered to the Young Men’s Christian Association at Exeter Hall in the autumn of 1863. It is called:On some Instances of the Power of God as manifested in His Animal Creation; and was published in the series of Exeter Hall Lectures by Messrs Nisbet. It is as accurate as it is courageous, and both in conception and execution does Owen infinite credit.

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