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with the college, among which Max Miiller once pointed 

 out to me his own, and a very good likeness it was. In 

 teresting to me were Bryce s rooms at Oriel, for they were 

 those in which John Henry Newman had lived: at that 

 hearth was warmed into life the Oxford Movement. At 

 one of the Oriel dinners, Bryce spoke of the changes at 

 Oxford within his memory as enormous, saying that per 

 haps the greatest of these was the preference given to 

 laymen over clergymen as heads of colleges. An exam 

 ple of this was the president of Magdalen. I had met 

 him not many years before in Switzerland, as a young 

 man, and now he had become the head of this great 

 college, one of the foremost in the university. This im 

 pressed me all the more because my memory suggested 

 a comparison between him and the president at my first 

 visit, thirty years before : Warren, the present president, 

 being an active-minded layman hardly over thirty, and 

 his predecessor, Eouth, a doctor of divinity, who was 

 then in his hundredth year. It was curious to see that, 

 while this change had been made to lay control, various 

 relics of clerical dominance were still in evidence, and, 

 among these, the surplice worn by Bryce, a member of 

 Parliament, when he read the lessons from the lectern 

 in Oriel chapel. At another dinner I was struck by a re 

 mark of his, that our problems in America seemed to 

 him simple and easy compared with those of England; 

 but as I revise these recollections, twenty years later, and 

 think of the questions presented by our acquisitions in the 

 West Indies and in the Philippine and Hawaiian islands, 

 as well as the negro problem in the South and Bryanism 

 in the North, to say nothing of the development of the 

 Monroe Doctrine and the growth of socialistic theories, 

 the query comes into my mind as to what he would think 

 to-day. 



November 9, 1885. 



Dining at All Souls with Professor Dicey, I met Pro 

 fessor Gardiner, the historian, whom I greatly liked ; his 



