en, but it is hoped
that one may be prepared by his intimate friend, Mr. J.
Sutherland Black. A portrait of him (by his friend Sir George
Reid, late President of the Royal Scottish Academy) hangs in
the library of Christ's College, Cambridge, to which Smith's
collection of Oriental books was presented by his friends, and
another has been placed in the Divinity College of the United
Free Presbyterian Church at Aberdeen. A memorial window has
been set up in the chapel of the University of Aberdeen, where
he won his first distinctions. I have to thank my friend Mr.
Black for some suggestions he has kindly made after perusing
this sketch.

[49] There was an aged Jewish scholar who came now and then to
Cambridge in those days, and who, as sometimes happens,
disliked other scholars labouring in the same field. He was (so
it used to be said) one of the few who knew exactly how the
word which we write Jehovah or Iahve ought to be pronounced,
and it was believed that he had solemnly cursed Wright, Smith,
and a third Semitic scholar in the Sacred Name. All three died
soon afterwards.

What would have been thought of this in the Middle Ages!

[50] _Parad._ x. 136, of Sigier, "Sillogizzo invidiosi veri."

HENRY SIDGWICK

Henry Sidgwick was born at Skipton, in Yorkshire, where his father was
headmaster of the ancient grammar school of the town, on 31st May
1838.[51] The family belonged to Yorkshire. He was a precocious boy,
and used to delight his brothers and sister by the fertility of his
imagination in inventing games and stories. Educated at Rugby School
under Goulburn (afterwards Dean of Norwich), he was sent at an
unusually early age to Trinity College, Cambridge. His brilliant
University career was crowned by the first place in the classical
tripos and by a first class in the mathematical tripos, and he was
speedily elected a Fellow of Trinity. Intellectual curiosity and an
interest in the problems of theology presently drew him to Germany,
where he worked at Hebrew and Arabic under Ewald at Gottingen, as well
as with other eminent teachers. After hesitating for a time whether to
devote himself to Oriental studies or to classical scholarship, he was
drawn back to philosophy by his desire to investigate questions
bearing on natural theology, and finally settled down to the pursu