New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-06
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perishable literature. Oxford
A Mace Of friendsi n place Of books.
A place OF good things olden'
A delicate and most beautiful city, wrote
Camden. and. long after. Matthew Arnold found
her IS beautiful and as delicate: STEPPED in
sentiment as she lies spreading her gardens TO
the moonlight and whispering from her towers
the last entertainments OF the Middle Age, who
viii DENY that Oxford. by her ineffable charm.
keeps ever calling US nearer 10 the true goal or
all OF Us 20 the ideal. to perfecton-to beauty.
IN a word which is only truth seen from another
side?-nearer perhaps. than all the science Of
Tubingen. Adorable dreamer. whose heart has
been 30 romantic, Who hast given thyself so
prodigally given thyself TO sides and to heroes
not mine. only never 10 the Philistines, Home
Of lost causes and forsaken beliefs. and unpop-
ular names and impossible loyalties" This OK
ford anG in truth. oxford in most OF her
phases Mr.. Thomas reveals in a volume ami
mated by his own aTectionate recollection and
made more delightful by quotations from olden
writers-quotations as quaint the towers
and spires which Mr.. Fulleylove has pictured in
soft coIors There are glimpses here Of college
dons. ancient and modern, and sketches OF un-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES rather than individuals
and details Of university life Of to-day and OF the
past and notes innumerable on the precious
remnants Of far of times. Oxford's new intel
lectoa4 lceals, the aGlnor lfnpresSes upon
have been laid with reverence upon timeworn
foundations. and so in her architecture:
No other age and city, perhaps would have
heen SO curious and fortunate in restoring the
old as when at Christ Church the old floral
marble base OF st. Fri6eswide's shrine was re-
stored after three hundred years In the wilder
ness Part was found in the cemetery wall
part in a wellside, part in a staircase, part in a
wall; and almost the whole now rests in the
Cathedral again
MI Thomas does not name the dons of whom
he gives personal "reminiscences but his char
acterizations are so apt and vigorous that no
companion OF his youth could fail TO recognize
his studies One OF his most interesting sketches
is Of that man Of whom a former pupil said:
OF education consists OF OLD - the river
and the college pump This Master Blank
had a know ledge Of men as consumrnate and
as untransferable his judgment of wine
IL was his custom to say that there had been
three philosophers, two ancient, one modern, In
the history OF the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Democrf-
and SIR William Temple OF Moor Park To
his pupils he used to pronounce that Since you
average and viii never be able TO
understand Eccles.astes. take the trouble TO
Englishman." And to a wholesome quotation
from Temples writings he would add THAT
people to-day much busted with sum
sets and landscapes and colors that they had
seventeenth century statesman. philosopher and
gardener had" This worthy used to advise the
undergraduate 10 read Cowley and Pope
Any one be a Keats" he would saw .brt
= Is not 50 easy 10 be like Pope" There is a
neat story told OF his encounter with Brown
ing. Telling him that he enjoyed some of his
poetry. the poet asked him whether he under
. STOOD IT, NO. said the Don: DO your