nancial business and ceremonious appearances. But he performed his
difficult and uncongenial task with almost incredible success, and is
said never to have made an enemy or a mistake. The dean was
distinguished for uniting in a singular degree the virtues of austerity
and sympathy. He was pre-eminently endowed with the faculty of judgment,
characterized by Canon Scott Holland as the gift of "high and fine and
sane and robust decision." Though of unimpressive stature, he had a
strong magnetic influence over all brought into contact with him, and
though of a naturally gentle temperament, he never hesitated to express
censure if he was convinced it was deserved. In the pulpit the voice of
the dean was deliberately monotonous, and he employed no adventitious
gesture. He may be described as a High Churchman, but of an essentially
rational type, and with an enthusiasm for religious liberty that made it
impossible for him to sympathize with any unbalanced or inconsiderate
demands for deference to authority. He said of the Church of England
that there was "no more glorious church in Christendom than this
inconsistent English Church." The dean often meditated resigning his
office, though his reputation as an ecclesiastical statesman stood so
high that he was regarded in 1882 as a possible successor to Archbishop
Tait. But his health and mode of life made it out of the question. In
1888 his only son died; his own health declined, and he appeared for the
last time in public at the funeral of Canon Liddon in 1890, dying on 9th
December 1890, at Dover. He was buried at Whatley.

The dean's chief published works are a _Life of St Anselm_ (1870), the
lives of _Spenser_ (1879) and _Bacon_ (1884) in Macmillan's "Men of
Letters" series, an _Essay on Dante_ (1878), _The Oxford Movement_
(1891), together with many other volumes of essays and sermons. A
collection of his journalistic articles was published in 1897 as
_Occasional Papers_. In these writings he exhibits a great grasp of
principles, an accurate mastery of detail, and the same fusion of
intelligent sympathy and dispassionate judgment that appeared in his
handling of business. His style is lucid, and has the charm of
austerity. He stated that he had never studied style _per se_, but that
he had acquired it by the exercise of translation from classical
languages; that he watched against the temptation of using unreal and
fine words; that he employed care in his choice of verbs rath