XXX11 MEMOIR interest in all the questions of life—political, scien- tific, domestic. It was this combination of traits which made him so essentially ‘human.’ As was well said of him in one of the notices which appeared in the spring of last year, ‘the man was more than his books ’—and this, perhaps, was only fully realised by those who were most intimately connected with him. His conversation was of a peculiarly brilliant order, sparkling with epigram and illustration, and with what, for lack of a better term, may perhaps be described as metaphorical analogies. His knack of placing himself on the same standing with even the most trivial of those who had intercourse with him ; his unfailing patience with the endless and, as it often seemed, wanton demands of his questioners; his chivalric courteousness to those below him in station ; his wise friendship, in the exercise of which he would never spare himself; his tenderness and love for chil- dren and for animals—all these qualities, combined with his great acquirements, and lightened and vivified by his penetration and humour, made him that which he was, and was worthy to be called: the model of a Christian scholar and gentleman.