AN ARCHDEACON ON CHEESE 



" Then, for remunerative price, I know of no 

 remedy for low price of really good cheese, but 

 the direct sale by maker to consumer, and I have 

 done, and am doing, what I can in my small way 

 to establish such direct sale between my more 

 intimate Cheddar-making friends and large centres 

 of population. I have succeeded in good measure 

 between Liverpool and Cambridge, etc., etc., and 

 these parts and this is about all I can do. I 

 wish it might be found possible to make this a 

 general plan. 



" Last Saturday I ate at a friend's house near 

 here, I think the finest 4-year-old Cheddar I ever 

 tasted, dark, but perfectly sound and sweet. I 

 should like to see American, Canadian, or * the 

 World ' Cheddar four years' old side by side with 

 it. I am told it was made in E. Brent, but have 

 not yet heard by whom. Last summer I bought 

 from a dealer a sample of Canadian, which he 

 praised much. I did not think much of it at the 

 time. When it had been here three weeks I 

 declined to try it again the surroundings were 

 not good." 



I have early recollections of the archdeacon, 

 for when I was a boy he was greatly exercised 

 in his mind at what he regarded as the hetero- 

 doxy of the Broad Church. He was one of the 

 chief instigators and organizers of the crusade 

 at Oxford against the Essayists and Reviewists, 

 whom it was sought to bar from entry to the 

 University pulpit or from enjoying professorial 

 emoluments. The archdeacon was largely instru- 

 mental in securing the defeat of Max Miiller, when 

 he was a candidate for the professorship of 



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