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December 3. 



Breakfasting with Sedley Taylor, I met Professor 

 Stuart, M.P., who thinks a great liberal, peaceful revo 

 lution in the English constitution will be accomplished 

 within the next fifty years. Thence walked with Tay 

 lor to Newnham College, where we were very kindly 

 received by Miss Gladstone, daughter of the prime min 

 ister, and shown all about the place. We were also cor 

 dially received by Miss Clough, and made the acquain 

 tance of two American girls, one from New Jersey and 

 the other from California. Much progress had been 

 made since my former visit under the guidance of Pro 

 fessor and Mrs. Fawcett. Thence to Jesus College 

 chapel and saw William Morris s stained glass, which is 

 the most beautiful modern work of the kind known to 

 me. 



December 4. 



Visited St. John s, St. Peter s, and other colleges; in 

 the afternoon saw the eight-oared boats come down the 

 river in fine style; and in the evening went to the an 

 nual &quot; audit dinner&quot; at Trinity College, the number of 

 visitors in the magnificent hall being very large. I found 

 myself between the vice-master, Trotter, and Professor 

 Humphrey, the distinguished surgeon. The latter thought 

 Vienna had shot ahead of Berlin in surgery, though he 

 considered Billroth too venturesome, and praised recent 

 American works on surgery, but thought England was 

 still keeping the lead. At the close of the dinner came 

 a curious custom. Two servants approached the vice- 

 master at the head of the first table, laid down upon 

 it a narrow roll of linen, and then the guests rolled this 

 along by pushing it from either side until, when it had 

 reached the other end, a strip of smooth linen was left 

 along the middle of the whole table. Then a great silver 

 dish, with ladles on either side, and containing some 

 sort of fragrant fluid, was set in front of the vice-master, 

 upon the narrow strip of linen which had formed the roll, 



