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any domestic architecture so noble as the Elizabethan and 

 Jacobean. In the evening to a Tory meeting, Sir John 

 Mowbray presiding; his opening speech astounded me. 

 Presenting the claims of his party, he said that the Tories 

 were not only the authors of extended suffrage under 

 Lord Beaconsfield, but that they ought also to have the 

 credit of free trade in grain, since Sir Robert Peel had 

 supported the bill for the repeal of the corn laws. Remem 

 bering the treatment which Sir Robert Peel received from 

 Disraeli and the Tory party for this very act, it seemed 

 to me that Sir John s speech was the coolest thing I had 

 ever heard in my life. It was taken in good part, how 

 ever. In America I am quite sure that such a speech 

 would have been considered an insult to the audience. 



November 24. 



To Cambridge, where I met a number of old friends, 

 including Dr. Waldstein, director of the Fitzwilliam Mu 

 seum, and Sedley Taylor, fellow of Trinity; and in the 

 evening dined at King s College with the former and a 

 number of interesting men, including Westcott, the emi 

 nent New Testament scholar (since Bishop of Durham). 



November 26. 



Dined at Trinity College with Sedley Taylor and 

 others, and thence to the Politico-Economic Association 

 to hear a discussion upon cooperation in production; 

 those taking the principal part in the meeting being sun 

 dry leading men among the professors and fellows de 

 voted to political economy. During the day I called on 

 Robertson Smith, the eminent biblical critic, who, having 

 been thrown out of the Free Church of Scotland for re 

 vealing sundry truths in biblical criticism a dozen years 

 too soon, has been received into a far better place at 

 Cambridge. 



November 27. 



Had a delightful hour during the morning in King s 

 College chapel with Bradshaw, the librarian of the uni- 



