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then passing through the press, and from his own pen, and a worthy 

 and beautiful appreciation it would have been, but health forbade, 

 and in September, of the year mentioned, he wrote to Skelton " I 

 have been rather exercised in mind as to the notice of our dear 

 friend Tulloch for the Encyclopaedia. At first I had thought of 

 attempting it myself, but I have virtually relinquished this; and 

 you naturally occur to me as one of his most intimate lifelong 

 friends, who would be able to do justice to his character, position, 

 and especially to his historical and literary labours. " A few days 

 later he wrote (Sept. 22nd 1886) : — " I am delighted to think that 

 there is a prospect of your undertaking the work. What you say 

 of the difficulty of sketching the Principal's character is most true. 

 The charm of a personality so large and vital, so strong and tender,, 

 so manly, and yet so exquisitely sympathetic and humane, is not 

 easily conveyed to others who never saw his face, or heard his 

 voice, or felt his noble presence. " In his college lectures, as in 

 his letters and published contributions to current literature, 

 Baynes's choice language and masterly descriptive power are 

 notable. Here is a passage from one of his letters exhibiting this 

 exquisite descriptive faculty: — "I have not here" he says, writing 

 from his old home near Taunton, Somerset, in Feb. 1855, " the sea, 

 as you have in the north, but I have all the glory of the midnight 

 heaven — the unveiled moon, the clear depths of the frosty sky, 

 and the winter stars glittering like gems amidst the leafless 

 boughs. I am continually struck afresh with the refined beauty 

 and power of the winter landscape. " 



There was something mysteriously attractive about the per- 

 sonal appearance of Professor Baynes, "Tommy" as the students 

 irreverently but with genuine affection, called him. Just over 

 the middle height, rather broadly, squarely, built, with a noble 

 head, high brow, silver hair, wavy, and slightly drooping over 

 the massive forehead, the nose well-formed and aquiline, a some- 

 what military grey moustache, closely trimmed beard, small 

 mouth always ready apparently to smile, and the whole counten- 

 ance classic and dignified, lighted up by bright transparent blue 

 eyes which never ceased to twi^ikle with quiet humour and kindly 

 geniality, his was an attractive, impressive personality. There 

 was a tense appearance about his high Greek brow, which caused 

 students to often remark, that "Tommy's" forehead threatened 

 to burst with the burden of its intellectual contents. His voice 

 was tender and sympathetic, full of power and moving profundity 



