of your appreciative hearers at the Browning Lectures.

And another :

Your kind way of speaking of, and to, us students on Thursday evening emboldens me to think, and hope that you will not think it wholly impertinent of me, in addressing you individually. I wish, for my own part, and shall feel myself lacking in gratitude if I may, and do not—just say "thank 99 you very heartily for the great treat I (with all the rest) have had in hearing your Browning Lectures. To me, they have been much more than an intellectual treat-they have been real helps for the "soul life "-which I sadly needed. I feel that I shall be a better woman for having heard them and I feel it only just you should know how much one individual soul (I leave others to speak for themselves) has been helped and braced for the conflicts of life by your words and influence. This knowledge may be a help and encouragement to you in your work-and is what many would doubtless say, if they were not afraid of seeming intrusive in troubling you with their individual life. To your kind words on Thursday night, you owe this boldness on my part.

I am Head Teacher of a large London Board School with about 400 girls under my charge. Our yearly Government examination took place the first week in December with its train of work, of which no outsider can know. I am so thankful that in spite of overwork and weariness I have been enabled to attend every one of your lectures and have done all I honestly could, with the time at my disposal, in the paper work each week. . . .

Who spares himself nor time nor pains,
That he may add to our rich gains?
Who gets the best from our poor brains?
Our teacher.

Who points out well the power of Song,
How great is Greatness! base is Wrong!
How lovely Truth! for which we long?
Our teacher.

'Icelandic, snubba, to cut short.

6.

Who guides us through the "Faerie Queene,"
And beauty shows, before unseen,

And what the "darke conceit” doth mean?
Our teacher.

Who well deserves his Christmas feast,
And six weeks' holiday at least,

Lecture and paper-work all ceas'd?

Our teacher.

8.

Who has our wishes, warm, sincere,
That on through many a happy year,
Bright pupils will his spirit cheer?
Our teacher.

(From the unpublished minor poems
of a Gresham student.)

He lectured before the Royal Society of Literature [of which he was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1899] on June 12th, 1901, on "Some Curiosities of Criticism." Eight times he lectured at the Royal Institution as follows:

1897.-May 20, 27, June 3, 10, on "The

French Revolution and English Literature-Burke, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth and Coleridge." 1901.-May 28, June 4, on "The True Functions

of Poetry" and "Wordsworth as a Teacher." 1905. Jan. 19, 26, on "The Religion of Shake

WHERE HE LECTURED

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" and "The Philosophy and Signifi

cance of the Tempest."

The following are some of the places at which he gave lectures. In almost every case courses of lectures are implied.

Anerley, Ascot, Balham, Barnet, Battersea, Beckenham, Belvedere, Bermondsey, Birkbeck Institution, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Brixton, Bromley, Brondesbury, Buckhurst Hill, Cambridge, Chelsea, Cheltenham, Cheshunt, Chingford, City of London College, Crouch End, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Egham, Ealing, Earls Court, Forest Hill, Grantham, Gresham College, Gunnersbury, Hackney, Hastings, Haywards Heath, Haverstock Hill, Highbury, Kingston, Lee, Lewisham, Leyton, Lyndhurst, Marylebone, New Cross, Orpington, Oxford, Paddington, Peterborough, Polytechnic, Regent St., Potters Bar, Reading, Richmond, Rugby, South Kensington, Stockwell, Streatham, Surbiton, Tamworth, Tooting, Tottenham, Westbourne Park, Watford, Weybridge, Whitechapel (Toynbee Hall), Wimbledon, Windsor, Wolverhampton, Woolwich and York; also the United States of America and Hamburg, Germany.

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N July 1882 he began to write the second part of his article on Swift.

book:

He remarks later in the " commonplace "

Sent off this day, Monday, June 17th, 1883, the article finished thank God at last; it has been produced in the mere by-moments of a life full of an almost incredible amount of work. I think I have earned upwards of £800 every shilling by sheer work since the thing was begun. I am very depressed about it. I think it very poor, but I have just heard from Dr Smith that he has read it with much pleasure and that he thinks it " very good." I had only about

5 weeks fair continuous work at it.

Mark Pattison refers to Swift in a letter to him about this time :

LINC. COLL.,

31 Decemb. '83.

MY DEAR COLLINS,-In speaking of Charron's visit to Montaigne at his Rérigorde chateau in