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      Third ^^ Pt Jb Pm *P« Oxford H> 4 Summer...

      lectures will be longer than those delivered during w the first part 4 . of the meeting , and will

      deal in greater detail with the subjects then introduced . The course will include lectures on historyliteraturescienceand art ;

      conferences , concerts f , , conversaziones , , will be held ,

      it and there will be scientific excursions , m » ia

      918 The Publishers' Circular August 1,18...

      918 The Publishers' Circular August 1 , 1890

      Professor Tyndall As A Student.—My Study...

      Professor Tyndall as a Student . —My study was warmed by a large stove . At first

      I missed the gleam and sparkle from flame and ember , but soon became accustomed to the obscure heat . M six in the morning a

      small milehbrod and a cup of tea were brought to me . The dinner hour was one , and for the

      first year or so I dined at a hotel . Our dinner consisted of several coursesroast and boiled and a « . -J finished -C ^ - » ¦* *• « It st -J v -w-w with - « T 7 « ^ V * sweets n ttr rx ^ -v ^ r < « ^ and <* k y ^ rf ~ l dessert ^ J y ^ r * ci r \ »^ The I n j ,

      cost was a pound up a month , or about eig htpence . per X" dinner . I usually limited myself vto one

      of the courses , using even it in moderation , being already convinced that eating too much was quite as sinful , and almost as ruinous , as

      drinking too much . Watch and ward were therefore kept over the eating . By attending to such things c ^ pI wa 3 able to work without

      weariness for sixteen hour 3 a day . Early risers are sometimes described as insufferable — people . They areit is

      saidself-A X , , righteous—filled with the pharisaical * Lord , I thank Thee that I am not as other men are ! ' It be so but we have now ff to UU dealnot

      with JL 1 / may 111 UV generalisations KT \ J OVJ , ; UUU IFV , but ltW ( W with JIAk ^ facts V * . V . (/ VX , , M 11 UW y going to Germany had been opposed by some

      of my friends as quixotic , and my life there might , perhaps , be not unfairly thus described . I did —— not - work i for money % r ; I was not even

      spurred by the last infirmity of noble minds . ' I had been reading Fichte , and Emerson , and Carlyleand had been infected by f the spirit of

      • f , A . these great men . Let no . one persuade you that they were not great men . The Alpha and Omega — O of their teaching was loyalty V V to duty V .

      Higher knowledge and greater strength were within reach of the man who unflinchingly enacted his best insight . It was a noble

      doctrine , though it may sometimes have inspired exhausting disciplines and unrealisable hopes . At all events it held me to my work , and in

      the long cold mornings of the German winter , defended by a Schlafrock lined with catskin , I usually felt a freshness and strength—a joy in

      mere living and working , derived from perfect health—which was something different from the maladof self-rihteousness . —From The

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      The Last Appearance Of Charles Dickens I...

      The Last Appearance of Charles Dickens in America . —After his little winter

      tour Dickens came to New York to take leave of the American public . On the Saturday evening _ ^ before . _ _ _ „ _ the final reading ^ j the news ^^^

      -paper fraternity gave him a dinner at Delmonico ' s , which was then at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth Streetformerly

      the ; ' hospitable r house of Moses H . Grinnell . I At the this bland dinner and Mr eccentric . Greeley teetotaller presided , , who and that was

      It not supposed to be versed ' in what Carlyle

      The Last Appearance Of Charles Dickens I...

      called the 'tea-table proprieties , ' should take the chair at a dinner to so roistering a blade

      within discreet limits—and so deft an artist of all kinds of beverages as Dickens , was a stroke of extravaganza in his own way . The dinner

      but was the in every enjoyment way memorabl was sobered e and by del the ightful illness , of the tne from irom of the tne attacks attacks which

      or guest guest one one or winch , as as was soon afterwards indicatedforetold , the speedy end . It was , indeed , doubtful , if he could but after hour he

      ing slowl appear y into , the room an on the arm came of limp Mr - . Greeley . In his speech , with great delicacy

      and feeling , Dickens alluded to some possible misunderstanding between him . and his hostsnow for ever vanishedand de-, j , j

      clared his purpose of publicly recognising that fact in future editions of his works . His words were greeted with great

      enthusiasm , and on the following Monday evening he read for the last time in the country , at Steinway Hall , and sailed on Wednesday .

      He was still very lame , but he read with unusual vigour , and with deep feeling . As he ended , and slowly limped away , the applause

      was prodigious , and the whole audience rose and stood waiting . As he reached the steps of the platform he paused , and turned towards

      the hall ; then , after a moment , ho came slowly and painfully back again , and with a pale face and evidently deeply movedhe

      gazed at the vast audience . The hall , was he hushed spoke , and few in a voice word firm of , farewell but full of patho 1 shall 9 ,

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      ——tenderness friends , and and ever consideration with the greatest . God gratitude bless , and God bless , the land in which I leave you you ! , '

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    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1890, page 918, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081890/page/16/