New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05

number of persons who knew the dean init
mately in his varied activities TO contribute
their personal recollections OF him. and has
associated their accounts with his own narrative.
In the effort to be fair he has not hesitated to
include extracts from articles OF not altogether
friendly nature The discriminating reader is
left free to form his impression. 1t is likely
TO be that Farrar was n sincere. earnest and i'm
petuous Christian. man Of extensive reading
and retentlve memory. but of no great depth OF
scholarship: broad in his views. and set in them.
too and OF q childlike seriousness that had a
strong tendency TO the grandiose. A keener
sense OF humor might have saved him from the
ford style OF pulpit oratory which made the
judicious grieve. but filled the churches where
he preached.
We are told that his own boyhood is quite ac-
curately set forth In the pages OF his first book
Erie or. Little by Little" which has been read
and wept over by countless Sunday school schol-
ars In Great Britain and the United States II
Eric seems n preternaturally interpretive NOR
tidly conscientious. impossbly goody good boy
it is well to remember that Frederick William
Farrar was. nevertheless just such boy. and
carried the same seriousness OF purpose with
him. was carried by It. through his years Of
preparatory study at Kings College, London
and later through Trinity College Cambridge At
Kings College he fell under the spell Of Pro-
fessOr ]. r. d. Maurice, the first real scholar
whom he had known. Professor Maurice a
somewhat transcendental philosopher. was once
characterized by Matthew Arnold one who
spent his life in beating about the bush with
great emotion. but never starting the hare"
Dean Farrar. however, always felt that he owed
deep debt to his preCeptor's teaching and gath
cred from Maurices books the germs of the con-
victiOns TO which he gave utterance in his SER
mons on Eternal Hope"
serious minded young he was. n hard
student and prodgous worker His only
recreations were walking and swimming He
gained a medal at Cambridge for a blank verse
poem on "The Arctic Regions" The prize had
not been awarded for unrhymed poem since
Tennyson had won it twenty-five years pre-
viously for poem on "Timbuctoo" Farrar
ventured to send The Arctic Regions" to the
poet laureate. and received the following rather
chilly acknowledgment:
Dear Sir have just received your prize poem
Tor which return you my best thanks. 1 believe
al IS true that mine was the first written in blank
verse which obtained the chancellor's medal
Nevertheless (and though you assure that read
ing IL gave you the deepest pleasure). could wish
that it had never been written. Believe me. dear
sir, yours very truly, A. TENNYSON.
OF his many published works the Life OF
Christ" written while at Marlborough. brought
him the most fame and much criticism. "Popu-
lar it was called, and popular it undoubtedly
was. It passed through thirty editions in Eng
land alone and was translated into almost every
European language and into Japanese. 1t has
all TIE merits, and defects. of the authors per-
sona,ity.
Appointed by Disracl Canon OF Westminster
and rector of St Margaret's. London. in
1876. Farrar's subsequent career was that OF