630 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



les Sciences secretes, printed at Amsterdam in 1715. The volume 

 contains also the autograph and arms of Edward Finch, formerly 

 M.P. for Cambridge University, and once ambassador to Sweden, 

 where he seems to have procured the book, as after E. Einch we 

 have " Stockholm, 1733." He probably valued it for the sake of the 

 earlier possessor, who has written his name at the foot of the title- 

 page. J. CoiMTE OxENSTiERNA. This was the son of the Swedish 

 statesman, Oxenstiern, 1583-1654, and the recipient of the world- 

 famous dictum : Nescis, mi fill, quantilld pruclentid homines regantur 

 — " You do not yet know, my son, with what little wisdom mankind 

 are governed." — The young man, while acting as one of the envoys 

 sent to draw up the terms of the Peace of Westphalia, had expressed 

 himself too diffidently in a letter to his father, because of his inexperi- 

 ence in diplomatic afiairs.) 



I now record a memorial of the late Canon Kingsley, a graduate 

 of Magdalen, and some time Professor of Modern History in the 

 University. I first transcribe the entry made by him in the guest- 

 book of a hotel at the falls of Niagara, kindly cut out and forwarded 

 to me : it is in these terms (he associates his name, we shall see, 

 with the venerable buUding which he loved so well) : " Canon and 

 Miss Kingsley, Westminster Abbey, England." But I likewise copy 

 a hurried inquiry in his handwriting, made probably during his pre- 

 paration for the lectures delivered at Cambridge, and afterwards 

 published under the title of " The Roman and the Teuton." In the 

 heat of composition he posts off to his bookseller the following char- 

 acteristic query and order (evidently written in great haste) : " I 

 forget whether Sir P. Palgrave published his 3rd volume of the 

 History of Normandy and England. If so, please send it to me. 

 C. Kingsley." 



In the Senate House at Cambridge stands a magnificent marble 

 statue of William Pitt, by NoUekens, arrayed in an M.A. gown and 

 in the act of speaking. When Pitt died, large sums of money were 

 subscribed by his admirers for the purpose of establishing memorials 

 in his honour. From this sum were defrayed the expenses of a 

 statue in Westminster Abbey by Westmacott, another in bronze by 

 Chantry, in Hanover Square, and this one, by Nollekens, in the 

 Senate House. The surplus which still remained was applied to the 

 erection of the noble building known as the Pitt Press, which is to 

 Cambridge what the Clarendon is to Oxford. (The legend which is 



