68 MEMORIES OF MY LIFE 



Scholarship soon after joining the University. At 

 that time he was eccentric, very short-sighted, and 

 Johnsonian in appearance, but these peculiarities wore 

 off so much that, on his calling on me some years 

 afterwards, fashionably dressed and polished in manner, 

 I did not at first recognise him. He took an active 

 part in a small Epigram Club which flourished for 

 a while and then ceased, but which gave rise to some 

 good verses. I recollect the roll of the first line of 

 one by Maine " King Daniel of Derrinane . . ." 

 that referred to a recent action of Daniel O'Connell. 



Tom Taylor (1817-1880), " Dramatist and Editor 

 of Punch" was full of vigour and versatility, but 

 a few years older than those of whom I have been 

 speaking. He had recently been elected Fellow of 

 the College. In those days Punch was newly started, 

 and Tom Taylor thought he could do better, so he 

 founded a weekly comic paper called Puck, for which 

 he endeavoured to obtain contributors. It was fairly 

 good, but did not live long. Many years later he 

 became editor of the very periodical he then wished 

 to crush. 



I saw much of Joseph and E. Kay, half-brothers 

 of Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth (1 804-1 877), who was 

 the " Founder of English Popular Education." Joseph 

 Kay (182 1- 1878), "Economist," was appointed 

 "Travelling Bachelor," a University post that at that 

 time attracted little competition, because the conditions 

 attached to its tenure were inconvenient to most risino- 

 men. Its possession, therefore, carried little weight. 

 But Joseph Kay utilised to the full his position of 

 " Travelling Bachelor of the University of Cambridge " 

 in obtaining help abroad, and he wrote and published 



