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discussing as we walked his admirable little book on 

 &quot;Progress in Morals 7 ; I suggesting some additions from 

 my own experience in America. In the afternoon came 

 Professor Freeman s lecture on Constantine. It was a 

 worthy presentation of a great subject, but there were 

 fewer than ten members of the university present, and 

 only two of these remained until the close. In the even 

 ing I dined at Balliol, and, the conversation falling upon 

 the eminent master of the college, Jowett, and his friend 

 ship with Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, and Freeman, a 

 budding cynic recalled the verses : 



&quot; I go first ; my name is Jowett ; 

 I am the Master of Balliol College j 

 Whatever & worth knowing, be sure that I know it ; 

 Whatever I don t know is not knowledge.&quot; 1 



Whereupon some one cited a line from an Oxford satire : 

 &quot; Stubbs butters Freeman, and Freeman butters 

 Stubbs&quot;; at which I could only say that Jowett, Stubbs, 

 and Freeman had seemed to me, in my intercourse with 

 them, anything but dogmatic, pragmatic, or unctuous. 



November 13. 



In the morning breakfasted with Bryce and a dozen 

 or more graduates and undergraduates in the common 

 room at Oriel, and was delighted with the relations be 

 tween instructors and instructed then shown. Nothing 

 could be better. The discussion turning upon Froude, 

 who had evidently fascinated many of the younger men 

 by his style, Bryce was particularly severe against him 

 for his carelessness as to truth. This reminded me of 

 a remark made to me by Moncure Conway, I think, that 

 Froude had begun with the career of a novelist, for 

 which he had decided gifts ; that Carlyle had then made 

 him think this sort of work unworthy, urging him to write 

 history; and that Froude had carried into historical 

 writing the characteristics of a romance-writer. In the 



1 This is given differently in Tuckwell s reminiscences. 



