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DUM V C B IS G R A TU LAM U R , ANIMOS E T IA M ADDIMUS UT IN IN CCEPTIS V E S T R IS CONSTANTER M AN EA T IS .

F r o m i/ie B r i e j o j H is H o lin e ss P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , J u n e 4. 18 70 .

V ol. 82. No. 2787. L ondon, O c t o b e r 7, 1893.

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[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .

C hronicle of t h e Week : Page

Death of Dr. Jowett—France and Siam—Mr. Stanley’s Advice to Wales — Election of the New Lord Mayor—Our Falling Revenue — Arctic Expeditions — Death of Sir Arthur Blackwood —Lord Beaconsfield’s Legacy to the Nation — How London is Policed —The America Cup — Hostilities in Morocco—The Tornado in America—A Scene at the Church Congress—French Colonial Policy .. 561 L eaders :

Catholic and Nonconformist Mar­

riages . . .. .. •• 5^5

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s (continued) :

An Italian Forecast of the Doom

Page of the Vatican . . .. .. 566 A German Lesson for Anglicanism 567 The Joys of a Street Arab . . 508 A Key to the Social Problem . . 569 N o t e s . . . . . . .. .. 572 Legacies ................................... 574 R e v ie w s :

Ireland’s Ancient Schools and

Scholars .. .. .. .. 574 The Deanery of Bicester .. . . 575 “ Footsteps of the Gods” .. . . 575 C o r r e s po n d en c e :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . .. .. . . 577 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . .. . . .. 578

L e t t e r s to t h e E d ito r :

Convent Schools and Higher Edu­

cation “ The Month ” and “ A Conver sion Through Spiritualism ” St. Patrick’s Well at Orvieto Altar in the East of a Church Feast of St. Edward the Confes

Relics of the True Church The Catholic Letter and Literature

G u i ld .............................................. The End ©f the American Catholic

Congress The Parliament of Religions The “ Rescued Nun ” at Bourne mouth Ob it u a r y ............................ S oocial and P o l it ic a l

Page

579 580 580 580 580 580 582 584 585 588. 588

SUPPLEM ENT. Page

N ew s from t h e S chooi.s :

The School Board Statement .. 593 The Bishop of Newport on Deno­

minational Schools .. . . 594 Education: What It Is . . . . 595 The Cardinal at St. Charles’s

Grammar School.. . . . . 597 About Education .. . . . . 597 N ew s from t h e D io c e s f s : Westminster ........................ 598

Southwark . . . . . . . . 598 Birmingham ........................ 587 Portsmouth .. .. .. .. 587 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 588 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 588

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

D EA TH OF .D R . JO W ETT . P

R O F E S SO R JO W E T T , Master of

Balliol College, Oxford, died on Sunday at Headley Park, Hampshire, the seat of Mr. Ju stice Wright,

-•where he had been staying since the 23rd ult. Frofessor Jowett had a relapse on Saturday, and it was then felt that he could not live much longer. H e expired at a quarter to three o’clock in the afternoon, and the body was removed to Oxford on Monday. The remains were interred in St. Sepulchre’s Cemetery. Benjamin Jowett, according to T h e S t a n d a r d ’s account, was born at Camberwell in 1 8 1 7 , and was educated at St. Paul’s School, of which, in the year 18 3 5 , he was captain. In November o f the same year he was elected to a Balliol Scholarship. In 18 37 he won the Hertford Scholarship for proficiency in Latin L iteratu re ; in 18 39 he was placed in the First Class in L i t e r i s H um a n io r ib u s , and in 18 4 1 was awarded the Chancellor’s Prize for the best Latin Essay, the subject being “ The Religion, Laws, and Manners o f the Etruscans, and the Remains of them existing among the Rom ans.” H e had been elected a Fellow o f his College

1838, while still an Undergraduate, and in 1842 was in appointed to a Tutorship, which he retained down to the date of his accession to the Mastership in 1870. Thus we see that, during the rise and progress o f the great Anglican revival, he occupied a position of great responsibility in what was in many respects the foremost college of Oxford. B u t in his attitude towards the Tractarians, Mr. Jowett belonged to what has since been called the Broad Church Party, and is mentioned by Dean Church as having been adverse to the extreme measures which the Ultra-Protestant section in the University were bent on taking against Ward. A s a College Tutor, he was both successful and -popular, his favourite authors being Sophocles, Thucydides, and P la to ; and his pupils have said that his Sophocles lectures were the best. H e was both an accurate and an elegant scholar, and a man of great taste. The bent of his genius lay rather towards philosophy than philology, and he was alternately satirized and eulogized for having been one o f the first to introduce German metaphysics into Oxford. H is political opinions did not mitigate the dislike with which the Mansel school of logicians regarded his speculative v iew s ; and when the University Commissioner was satirized in some very witty verses written by Mansel, himself a scientific Conservative, who believed neither in German metaphysics nor in English Liberalism, Jowett was understood to be one o f the culprits aimed at. In 18 5 3 Mr. Jowett had been appointed a member o f the Commission for examining the system o f admission to writerships in the Indian Civil Service, o f which Lord Macaulay was the Chairman. This brought him under the notice of Lord Palmerston, who, in 18 55 , recommended him for the Professorship o f Greek, vacant by the death o f Dean Gaisford, at that time remunerated only with the miserable stipend o f fifty pounds a year. It was said at the time that there were better Greek scholars in the University than Jowett, and certainly, though he got the Hertford, he was not successful for the Ireland. F ive years after his appointment to the Greek Professorship, he involved himself in a much more serious controversy than had been excited about his knowledge o f Greek. In that year appeared the ever-memorable E s s a y s a n d R e v ie w s, and Jow ett’s name figured among the contributors as the author o f an Essay on the Interpretation of Scripture. This article identified him at once with “ the advanced thinkers,” and, next to Wilson’s and Goodwin’s, was considered the most heterodox in the whole volume. Even at this distance of time, and when the excitement of the moment has subsided, we can still understand (says the same account) the alarm and repugnance which it inspired. The storm raised by E s s a y s a n d R e v ie w s gradually subsided, but the book marked an epoch in the history o f the Church o f England, and the history o f the University with which Jow ett’s name will be for ever associated. The Master o f Balliol was popular in general society, and was a hospitable host in his own college, where he occasionally entertained distinguished personages. H e had so long been a prominent figure in Oxford life, and was so well known to the outer world o f letters and theology at the same time, that his loss will produce a great gap.

The dispute between France and Siam is

F r a n c e a n d now definitely adjusted— the latter country s i a m . having paid the proper penalty of helplessness.

The Siamese Government “ renounces all pre­

tension ” to the left bank o f the Mekong and the islands in the river. The Siamese are to keep no armed vessels on the great Tonle-Sap lake, the Mekong or their tributaries, within the provinces o f Battambang and Suimreap— neither shall they erect fortifications within those provinces or within a radius o f 15 miles from the right bank of the

N ew S e r ie s , Vol. L ., No 2,096.