624 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



a serious subject, against an adversary that means seriously, and aims 

 to speak candidly, which I really think is the case at present, though 

 I never felt less conviction from an attack, in my life, with respect 

 to the substance of it. I think, too, your opponent is too respectable 

 a man to be so treated, and his oifice too respectable also. I think 

 yon will have the prejudices at least, not to say the ingenuous proper 

 feelings, both of your friends and enemies against you on this point. 

 I see no good you get by following Aristotle. But only think what 

 an advantage his rule will give to your opponent, or rather to those 

 who will iiifallibly take up the cudgels for him." 



' Charles Hardwick, a learned Fellow of Catharine Hall, and author 

 of a standard " History of the Christian Church from the Seventh 

 Century to the Reformation," and other valuable works, was once 

 the owner of my copy of Dr. Beaven's " Account of the Life and 

 Writings of St. Irenseus ; " and he has written his name therein, 

 C. Hardwick. While on a summer vacation tour a few years since, 

 Mr. Hardwick was killed by a fall down a precipice in the Alps. — 

 I value several autograph relics of Charles Merivale, the widely- 

 known author of the " History of the Romans," now Dean of Ely, 

 but in my own day at Cambridge, a Fellow and Classical Tutor 

 in St. John's College. I owe to Mr. Merivale, in the last named 

 capacity, a debt of much gratitude for early help, guidance and con- 

 sideration. I transcribe the following words from a fragment in his 

 handwriting : "You are quite right, I am sure, in exercising wariness, 

 and caution in such matters : and do not imagine that yielding upon 

 any one point will conciliate and check people as to others. Innova- 

 tion knows no bounds, and the appetite for it grows by every con- 

 cession." 



I have made excerpts already in a preceding division of these 

 papers from my autograph relics of William Wordsworth, Coleridge, 

 Tennyson, and Lord Lytton. I might have reserved them for this 

 place ; for Cambridge is proud to have these names on the long roll 

 of illustrious English poets who, in their youth, trod her courts. 

 But these are names that have now ascended to an upper, wider air. 

 I feel tempted to note that all the economy, interior and external, of 

 the lady-university in the Princess, " with prudes for proctors, dowa- 

 gers for deans," is taken from Cambridge. This is an every-day 

 Trinity scene — substitute only students of the ruder sex for " the 

 sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair : " 



