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mains vividly in my memory a visit to Worcester, where 

 the dean, Lord Alwyn Compton, now Bishop of Ely, went 

 over the cathedral with us, and showed us much kindness 

 afterward at the deanery a mediaeval structure, from 

 the great window of which we looked over the Severn 

 and the famous Cromwellian battle-field. 



Salisbury we found beautiful as of old; then to 

 Brighton and to &quot;The Bungalow &quot; of Halliwell-Phillips, 

 the Shaksperian scholar, and never have I seen a more 

 quaint habitation. On the height above the town Phil 

 lips had brought together a number of portable wooden 

 houses, and connected them with corridors and passages 

 until all together formed a sort of labyrinth; the only 

 clue being in the names of the corridors, all being chosen 

 from Shakspere, and each being enriched with Shak 

 sperian quotations appropriate and pithy. At his table 

 during our stay we met various interesting guests, one 

 of whom suggested the idea regarding the secret of Car- 

 lyle s cynicism and pessimism to which reference is 

 made in my &quot;Warfare of Science. &quot; Next came visits 

 to various country houses, all delightful, and then a stay 

 at Oxford, to which I was reinitiated by James Bryce; 

 and for two weeks it was a round of interesting visits, 

 breakfasts, luncheons, and dinners with the men best 

 worth knowing at the various colleges. Interesting was 

 a visit to All Souls College, which, having been founded 

 as a place where sundry &quot; clerks &quot; should pray for the 

 souls of those killed at the battle of Crecy, had, as Sir 

 William Anson, its present head, showed me, begun at last 

 doing good work after four hundred years of uselessness. 

 In the chapel was shown me the restored reredos, which 

 was of great size, extending from floor to ceiling, taking 

 the place of the chancel window usual in churches, and 

 made up of niches filled with statues of saints. As 

 the heads of all the earlier statues had been knocked 

 off during the fanatical period, there had been substi 

 tuted, during the recent restoration, new statues of saints 

 bearing the heads of noted scholars and others connected 



