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in true sympathy, in unaffected kindness. He was very keen, 



satirical, intellectually incisive but he was one of those 



rare characters, which, in the best sense, are without guile". These 

 words are not empty praise, or, at the most, merely generous 

 expressions of esteem, they are less than the truth, as I can testify 

 who was associated with Professor Baynes, as student, as Pro- 

 fessorial assistant, and as friend, for several years before his death. 

 A more strenuous and constant worker, a more thorough and 

 accomplished intellect, a more genial, almost jovial, yet tender 

 nature, I never knew, though, during those last seven or eight 

 years of friendship, the shadow of death was hovering about him 



" Lo ! Death stood in the garden walk. 

 And peered into the room. " 



He knew that his bodily trouble might end fatally at any moment, 

 yet (and I must quote from " Shirley " again) " His spirit was so 

 intrepid, so indomitable, that he never lost his habitual cheerful- 

 ness — he looked at the dread shadow that haunted him with an 

 eye that kept a pleasant, I might say, a humourous twinkle to the 

 last. " I remember the hearty cheers, with which the students , 

 greeted him, on his return to the lecture room after a somewhat 

 perilous illness on one occasion — " It is almost worth the pain of j 

 being ill" he said, beaming with geniality, 'Ho receive such a 

 welcome as that, gentlemen. " And, on I believe the last occasion] 

 at which he was present at an academic function in the old VmA 

 versity which he so nobly served, I remember he laughingly re-| 

 marked to a group of students : — " Still daylight, gentlemen " a^ 

 he emerged from the College hall after a very lengthy lecture or 

 "John Major, a XVIth Century Scottish Logician," by a verbose 

 Edinburgh advocate, which had occupied almost a whole wintei 

 afternoon in its delivery. This unfailing humour and geniality 

 made the Logic class-room far less forbidding than to most stUn 

 dents the technical nature of the subject would have rendered it. 

 Rarely a week passed that some amusing incident did not occur 

 to enliven the routine of metaphysical and logical disquisition, J 

 and Professor Baynes too keenly relished the comic to discourage ^ 

 the occasion, when it arose. 



The St. Andrews' undergraduates' pleasantest recollections 

 were associated with the old logic class-room, one of the few frag- 

 ments of the mediaeval buildings erected by Bishop Kennedy 

 about the middle of the fifteenth century. 



