6'22 LEAVES TMEt HAVE I'OUCHED. 



geometrical symbols and other abbreviations commonly employed in 

 the solution on paper of mathematical problems. My remembrance, 

 of Professor Scholefield is a fine copy of Hutchinson's edition of the 

 *' Cyropsedia " of Xenophon, printed in bold old contracted Greek at 

 the Theatre in Oxford, in 17:^7. On a fly-leaf is the autograph, 

 J. Scholefield. 



A great notability at Cambridge, up to 1836, was the Rev. Charles 

 Simeon, already once mentioned. Mr. Simeon had no official position 

 in the University. He was simply a fellow of King's College, and the 

 occupant of rooms there, holding, at the same time, the incumbency 

 of a church in the town.. It was in this way that his influence as a 

 religious instructor was established. Considerable numbers of the 

 young men in each successive year voluntarily attached themselves 

 to his ministry. His rooms were open to those who had been intro- 

 duced to him, every Friday evening. I occasionally dropped in with 

 friends. All sorts of questions were put to him for solution as he 

 Bat in a rather high chair on one side of the flre-place, and answers 

 were given in serions or jocose strain, as the case might require. 1 

 once heard him illustrate the expression " outer darkness," and 

 administer a caution to some unknown person, at one and the same 

 time, thus : It would appear that a week or two previous, one of his 

 visitors had lost his academic gown at Mr. Simeon's rooms. It had 

 been thrown down in a corner in an outer apartment, as was cus- 

 tomary at these visits, and on the breaking up of the party, it was 

 nowhere to be found ; and that was the last of it. Mr. Simeon 

 mentioned the case, expressing his fear that the gown had been wil^ 

 fully abstracted ; and he said, if this should prove to be so, and he 

 should discover the delinquent, he would most assuredly put him into 

 " outer darkness ! " (thundering out the expression all of a sudden) 

 that is, he would exclude him from his rooms in the future, and leave 

 him, as it were, out in the cold. I recollect one evening, after wait- 

 ing some little time at the outset for a question, and none being 

 offered, he started those present by informing them that he had that 

 day been present at a fox-hunt. The explanation quickly added Was " 

 that while out driving in his carriage he had been uncomfortably 

 detained somewhere along the road by the crossing of a pack of 

 hounds over the highway in full cry after a fox. The story was 

 ■Wound up with an abrupt — " Now then, gentlemen, start your fox!" 

 meaning, lose no more time in proposing something for discussion. 



