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their work, and their amusements. He wished every one to feel as 
he did, proud of his University, and determined to uphold its credit 
by intellectual effort and by honourable conduct. 
Although the pursuits of the last twenty-five years of his life 
tended to force him into the groove of action, rather than of letters, 
yet they were by no means barren in literary results. In India, 
besides delivering several interesting addresses, which may still be 
read with pleasure and instruction, he was a frequent contributor to 
the English newspapers published in the Presidency. His recently 
published History of the University of Edinburgh is the most im- 
portant literary product of his later years. Inspired and pervaded by 
his idealising love of his University, it is a work at once of learned 
research and of strong human interest in its record of many of those 
by whom the chairs in the University were filled at various times. 
His Lives of Aristotle and of Xenophon, undertaken for Blackwood’s 
series of Ancient Classics, are written with scholarly taste and 
simplicity, and with that insight and vivacity of feeling which, 
without vulgarising it, can invest an ancient theme with modern 
meaning. His last address to the students, delivered only a few 
weeks before his death, affords more than his more elaborate works a 
true image of the man, in his intellectual power, his serious enthusiasm, 
his large-heartedness, the dignity and simplicity of his bearing. It 
produces an indefinable impression of greatness. His colleagues in 
the University, certainly, will always think of him as their “ greatest, 
yet with least pretence.” 
Xo record of his career would be complete without some reference 
to the services which he rendered when a member of the Scotch 
Education Board. His most eminent colleague on that Board ascribes 
to him the chief credit in preparing the First Scotch Code, which 
was “ a great improvement on anything of the kind previously pre- 
pared.” He adds — “ My own clear impression is, that no man ever 
knew about educational organisation from top to bottom better than 
Grant.” His eminence as a scholar and administrator was recog- 
nised by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, of Edinburgh 
and Glasgow, which conferred on him their honorary degrees of 
D.C.L. and LL.D. The most enduring monument of his Principal- 
ship will be the Xew University Buildings, which owe more to his 
active services and his personal influence than to any other in- 
