n honest and most capable administrator; but in these
earlier days the ill-natured called him Peel-and-water, others labelled
him latitudinarian and indifferent, and though he had the support of
Peel, promised before Mr. Gladstone's name as candidate was announced,
he thought it wise at a pretty early hour to withdraw from a triangular
fight. The old high-and-dry party and the evangelical party combined to
bring out Mr. Round. If he had achieved no sort of distinction, Mr.
Round had at least given no offence: above all, he had kept clear of all
those tractarian innovations which had been finally stamped with the
censure of the university two years before.

OXFORD SUPPORTERS

Charles Wordsworth, his old tutor and now warden of Glenalmond, found it
hard to give Mr. Gladstone his support, because he himself held to the
high principle of state conscience, while the candidate seemed more than
ever bent on the rival doctrine of social justice. Mr. Hallam joined his
committee, and what that learned veteran's adhesion was in influence
among older men, that of Arthur Clough was among the younger. Northcote
described Clough to Mr. Gladstone as a very favourable specimen of a
class, growing in numbers and importance among the younger Oxford men, a
friend of Carlyle's, Frank Newman's, and others of that stamp; well read
in German literature and an admirer of German intellect, but also a
still deeper admirer of Dante; just now busily taking all his opinions
to pieces and not beginning to put them together again; but so earnest
and good that he might be trusted to work them into something better
than his friends inclined to fear. Ruskin, again, who had the year
before published the memorable second volume of his _Modern Painters_
(he was still well under thirty), was on the right side, and the Oxford
chairman is sure that Mr. Gladstone will appreciate at its full value
the support of such high personal merit and extraordinary natural
genius. Scott, the learned Grecian who had been beaten along with Mr.
Gladstone in the contest for the Ireland scholarship seventeen years
before, wrote to him:--'Ever since the time when you and I received
Strypes at the hand of the vice-chancellor, and so you became my

[Greek: homomastigias
labon agonos tas isas plegas emoi,'][1]

I have looked forward to your being the representative of the
university.' Richard Greswell of Worcester was the faithfu