The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-04-30

an engagement with Dr. Blaettermann
as professor Of modern languages, and
on June 22d proceeds 10 Cambridge III
search for more professors. There at the
rooms Of the Poet Prded he met the SUD-
iect Of our sketch. II would be too long
TO detail Gilmers disappointments ana
successes labors and pleasures IL Is
enough to say that he finally secured Key,
and through him discovered and engaged
Long: about the same time Dunglison was
suggested by Dr. George Birkbeck'
founder Of the earlist Mechanics In
stitute Chat Of Glasgow, and Bonny-
castle by Professor Peter Barlow, or the
Wo6,wich Military Academy, famous alike
as scientist and engineer The mission
was thus in the end a conspicuous sue
cess.
That this was true must have been
largely the result OF Gilmers engaging
mariners ard patriotic enthusiasm. 1t
was no small thing for English gentle
men Of culture and learning TO transfer
their lives and homes across stormy
ocean 10 distant and unknown land; Tor
brilliant young scholars to desert the
shrines OF European culture for the thank
less labors Of erecting in the wilderness
a new temple to the deities OF learning:
for men assured in virtue OF intellectual
pre-eminence Of a comfortable mainten-
ance at home TO link their fortunes with
the precarious destinies of a school. which
then had not a single student. not book
In its library, not piece OF apparatus In
all its vacant lecture rooms.
The pictures that our envoy drew OF
Virginia and it's society may be fairly
coufcctured from the loving comparis IN
witch enrich his letters to his nearest
friends at home. 1.-THE tone of manners
I'm the higher walks is exactly what |
have seen in Virginia McClurg and
John Walker" he writes, OF certain de-
parted Albemarle worthless. were fully
as elegant as Lord Teignmouth. or he
Lord Bishop Of Bristol, but no more so,
for the manners Of all were uneXccpticn-
able" ~ begin to be impatient to see
virginia once more" he writes, after
one month in Britain. 1T IS more like
England than any part of the United
| States-slavery non obstante. remove
| that stain. blacker than the Ethiopian
skin. and annihate our political schem'
ers. and it would be the fairest realrl or
| which the sun ever shone Ihere IL
| nothing in England so beautliul as th'
| scenery of Albemarle.
| Such enthusiasm is contagious, ana We
find Key declaring his expectation ina
the manners. habits and sentiments o.
the country will be congenial with M
| own. and there can be little fear or III,
-
finding myself unhappy in the soclet!
am likely TO meet with, considering IN.
favorable specimen l have already seen.
II is pleasant TO us to believe that thes
earlier impressions were also permanent
We learn from his biographer that nj
old associations with Virginia doupties
helped to dispose him to take the losin
side in the American civil war; and n
WAC proud OF letter from General Lee
20 whom he had sent copy OF his les
saws" From a biographical notice Q
professor George Tucker. contained
the Virginia University Magazine OF jun
Iss0 we learn that upon the death 2
charles Bonnycastle. Keys successor
the school of mathematics. the latte
wrote to Professor Tucker. earnestl
recommending the appointment OF M
T sylvester TO the vacant chair.
vas thus through Keys continued u
tsrest that the University OF virgin