ndow." "I never broke your window, sir," exclaimed
Hamilton. "Praepostor," retorted H., "write down Hamilton's name for
breaking my window and lying." "Upon my soul, sir, I did not do it,"
ejaculated the boy, with increased emphasis. "Praepostor, write down
Hamilton's name for breaking my window, lying, and swearing." Against
this final sentence there was no appeal, and, accordingly, Hamilton was
flogged (I believe unjustly) next day.'--F. Lawley in _Daily Telegraph_,
May 20, 1898.

[27] _Temple Bar_, Feb. 1883.

[28] Feb. 10, 1827.

[29] Mr. Gladstone fixed on two of the elegies of _In Memoriam_ as most
directly conveying the image of Arthur Hallam, cviii. and cxxviii.

[30] _Iliad_, iii. 221.

[31] _Ibid._ x. 242.

[32] I have heard him tell this story, and Garrick himself could not
have reproduced a schoolboy's glee with more admirable accent and
gesture.

[33] Prothero's _Life of Dean Stanley_, 1. p. 22.

CHAPTER III

OXFORD

(_October 1828-December 1831_)

Steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the
moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of
the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm,
keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the
ideal, to perfection--to beauty, in a word, which is only truth
seen from another side?--M. ARNOLD.

Glorious to most are the days of life in a great school, but it is at
college that aspiring talent first enters on its inheritance. Oxford was
slowly awakening from a long age of lethargy. Toryism of a stolid
clownish type still held the thrones of collegiate power. Yet the eye of
an imaginative scholar as he gazed upon the grey walls, reared by piety,
munificence, and love of learning in a far-off time, might well discern
behind an unattractive screen of academic sloth, the venerable past, not
dim and cold, but in its traditions rich, nourishing, and alive. Such an
one could see before him present days of honourable emulation and
stirring acquisition--fit prelude of a man's part to play in a strenuous
future. It is from Gladstone's introduction into this enchanted and
inspiring world, that we recognise the beginning of the wonderful course
that was to show how great a thing the life of a man may be made.

CHRIST CHURCH

The Eton boy became the Ch