each every morning, with my explanations; and I will have prayer with them. Thus shall commence every day, and end every afternoon. They shall also read the histories of England, Greece, and Rome; and I will break every paragraph into questions, which they shall first answer as they read it with me, and then, as soon as they are capable, write it down; thus shall I gradually increase their general knowledge. They shall learn the collect and the text on the Sunday, and commit a piece of poetry to memory, as a prize task, against Monday morning; when more advanced they shall be the companions of my walks, and with the rising dawn I will take them out and interest them in the study of geography and astronomy, by con versation, till they have a desire to study it To lead the child to prospects of delight, Climb to a steep of philosophic height, And thence exhibit to his wondering eyes Yon circling worlds, their distance, and their size; The moon of Jove, and Saturn's belted ball, Thus I will excite their ambition, secure their affections, controul their passions, and influence their habits; and then contribute to form them useful members of society, and my honour and joy in future life. 'Tis not enough that Greek or Roman page, 20 19IESI At stated hours, his freakish thoughts engage; I " Ev'n in his past times he requires a friend now abqrq * ww To warn and teach him safely to unbend. CowPER. "And as to Eusebia, she shall be the frequent companion of my walks; and her house my constant place of visit. Mr. Kindly's invitation shall be frequently accepted, and Mr. Whiteden's abode shall be the scene of my intellectual improvement; while at the Miss Huntleys we will often meet; and my rooms, in turn, shall receive the visit of all the amiable circle." With these pleasant anticipations Charles, after gaining a lift in a gentleman's gig for about ten miles, tripped it lightly up Shotover-hill, and entered the High Street, Oxford, and sat down in the College Hall amongst his companions at dinner; where, after his long walk, when the joint was handed down to him, (which was then the custom for each member, that he might help himself in turn as he sat in rotation according to his standing in the college), he applied his knife and fork with great dexterity towards its demolition; and afterwards retiring to his room, enjoyed a calm and pleasant evening among his books and papers, reflecting with gratitude on the past, and with hope on his future prospects.. AND THE CLASSICAL PARTY 1 "Now approaching near the period when his college career would close, Charles began to look about him, and compress into a small compass the knowledge he had to acquire in proportion to the shortness of the time left him to improve himself. He had already passed his examination in the schools; he had attended the philosophical lectures and the divinity lectures, of all which he had taken notes and drawn out sketches. He had also gone through the Greek Testament in the public lectures, and had made a commentary of his own from the notes he had taken of Mr. Upright's lectures on the New Testament. He was familiar with all the best historians of ancient and of modern times; with the Latin and Greek historians— with Johnson's works, Bacon's, Stillingfleet's, Homer's, some of the Oxford Sacred Classics, and the best poets. And he laid his plan to read over the histories of Livy, and all the Oxford sacred classics-Hooker, Pearson, Burnett, Wells, Jones, Scott's Commentary, Doddridges's Paraphrase, Guise's Paraphrase, and thus to lay a broad foundation of christian knowledge, preparatory to his entering the church. These employments, together with a diligent preparation for his master's degree under the new examinations, so as to gain credit and honor, were the projects with which he filled his mind, as the business of the next five years, besides his attention to his pupils. There was an ingenious friend of Charles-Randland, who was rapturously fond of Johnson's writings, and of the poet's Greek and Latin, but who abhorred the mathematics. "I shall never study Euclid," said he, "except I read him in Greek; and the beauty of the language may perhaps tempt me to study that cheerless dealer in lines and figures." He therefore procured from the college library a folio volume of Euclid in the original, and pretended to study him; but when he came to the lecture room, while the students were poring over the slates, and attempting to draw the hypothenuse of a rectangle triangle, and proving the square described upon the hypothenuse as equal to the squares described upon the two other sides, Randland told Charles he would illustrate it; and taking the slate, drew an acute angle, and upon the open lines fixed an enormous head, making the acute angle the nose : and shewed it round to the class. This set them all on the titter. "Well, gentlemen," said Mr. Upright, "the mathematics generally make people serious, I am glad to see you so amused with the employment. Let me see the slate;" but ere it was handed to the tutor, the head was invisible. But in all this trifling with the dull mathematics, Randland was a young man of great genius and talent; few composed a better theme, or outshone him in the declamation; few had a more serious reverence for religion, but it was the gloomy religion of Johnson. "Come, Charles," said he, "you must spend an evening with me, before you quit us to assume the ferula, and put on a mathematical face. Hewlet, and Kempson, and Jessy, and Ryler, and Etonian, will meet you at my rooms at tea, and take their bread and cheese, and grog, with me." Accordingly, after chapel, Randland, Charles, and Jessy, took a walk up to Joe Pullen's trees, on the top of Eddington Hill." What a strange fancy," said Jessy, "in Joe Pullen, to plant these trees, and visit them daily, till they were strong enough to bear him, and then to hang himself upon them!" "Shocking,' said Charles, "we see what ennui will do!' Joe Pullen was, I understood, a person who had nothing to do an old bachelor; and, doubtless, from the misery of living alone, became hypocondriac and melancholy, till he terminated a useless existence upon this tree." "Such, then, are the comforts of being an old fellow of a college," said Randland. will never be ambitious of these solitary honours, and I have determined to abandon the opportunity of them. Farewell to Oxford, and to men, and men alone." "Charles you have met with superior attractions in the retired vallies of the country," said Jessy; "and I picture to myself the lovely prospects which smile before you in the tuition of the nephews of a baronet !"-" To do our duty, to fill up our stations, to be useful in our day and generation, is my ambition," said Charles." Yes, and to leave," said Randland, "a fair posterity behind to enter into your labours." "We shall have some religious discussions, I suspect to-night," said Jessy, " for I find that, our Etonian collegian, is to be of the party, who is no great friend to Evangelical religion." "I hope you will not shrink from your principles," said Randland, "if they are called in question, and we will see what he has to say in support of his frigid system of moral virtue." In such conversation they arrived at Randland's room, where Dick, the scout, was busily setting the tea things, and placing the boiling kettle on the chafing-dish outside |