through the challenges before him, with but small and with little desire to succeed. Latterly I saw much more of him, sitting under him when in the Sixth Form, and being answerable for all rowing matters, as captain of the eight and head of the town boy water.

I am sure that regret was universal in the school when he left us to become Dean of Christ Church in 1855.

The Rev. C. B. Scott succeeded Liddell as Headmaster. We thought at first that we were to have Liddell's coadjutor in the Lexicon, 'Liddell and Scott,' but this was not the case. He struck me as being very small, and wanting in deportment, as compared with our late Headmaster. Liddell, though not an old Westminster himself, was the son of an old Westminster, but Scott was an Etonian without any connection with the school. This made us rather jealous of his being in command. I left at the end of 1855, so saw little of him, except when at work with him in the library. He had a pleasant manner, kept good order, and treated us Sixth Form fellows as men, whom he expected to work of our own accord. He presented me with a copy of Creasy's 'Battles' when I left. I have a caricature of him in an old atlas which I still possess.

And now as to our under-master, the Rev. T. W. Weare. He occupied that position for twenty years. He was an old Westminster, and a good oar in his time, having rowed in the first race against Eton in 1829. He was well liked by all. What his rule was

like in College, of which he had charge, I know not; but he had been a colleger in his time, and knew how things should be. There was a door from his house into the dormitory, and it was his duty to look in every night; but I hear he used always to fumble a bit at the lock before he opened the door. Personally I saw but little of him, except when I had offended by trespass on or over the school buildings, of which he had charge; then he would send for me to come across school to him, and, whilst speaking most kindly to me, would insert his hand, holding a lead pencil, under my arm, and nip me, between pencil and thumb-nail, in the soft part of the upper arm, to impress his arguments upon me; the impressions were made in black and blue.

His teaching of the Under School, several of the forms of which (the Petty, for instance) existed only in name, must have made little call upon his scholarship; but perhaps some of the work of looking over the paper work of the Sixth Form may have devolved upon him, especially before Lloyd came. His knowledge of the old customs of the school must have been of great use to both Liddell and Scott, and if he followed the teaching of his family motto, Sumus ubi fuimus ('We are, where we were'), he should have been no great lover of change.

And now as to the various form masters.

Rigaud when I first came, in 1849 and 1850, was in charge of the Shell, but I, being then a small boy and not in his house, have no recollection of him. When he left, the Rev. J. Marshall took the Shell, and the

Rev. F. F. James took the Fifth Form, each moving up one step, James being succeeded in the Fourth Form by Mr. Lloyd.

The Rev. James Marshall, for the six years that I was at Westminster, was my housemaster 'up Grant's,' and for all the time that I took in passing through the Shell was my form-master, so I saw much of him. He was a quiet, even-tempered man, and when startled had a habit of running his hand through his hair, making it stand up on end. He was of an unsuspicious nature, so much so that, after presuming on this trait in his character, one often felt ashamed, though this did not prevent one from presuming again; we all liked him, and he was always fair and straightforward in all his dealings. He was a dark, sharp-featured man, slightbuilt, of medium height, and then about forty to fortyfive years of age. He was well up to his work in the school, and always fed us most liberally in his house.

The Rev. F. F. James was my form master both in the Upper Fourth, where I was placed on arrival, and afterwards in the Lower and then Upper Fifth. I think I must have gone up with him when he made the rise from Fourth Form to Fifth, on the departure of Rigaud. He was shorter, stouter, and fuller in the face than Marshall; he did his work in school carefully, but without much energy, and as though he had but little heart in it. It always strikes me that a schoolmaster must find his work irksome and disheartening, especially the constantly repeated routine of pushing boys on to a certain point, and then having to pass

them on to a higher form. Out of school I saw nothing of James. He was always called Jemmy.

When Jemmy moved up to the Fifth I think that both Lloyd and Hose arrived. I cannot find the Christian names of either of these masters, nor whether they were in Orders or not. Mr. Lloyd was a tall, squarebuilt man, and, I believe, a good scholar. He used to help Liddell with some of the paper work of the Sixth, and was reported to have written on one occasion the prologue to the Play. He must have been about twenty-eight to thirty years of age. I was never personally in contact with him, except in connection with a row on a certain chairing-day; but that is another story.

Mr. Hose came, I think, at about the same time as Lloyd, and assisted at times in the Fourth Form, but his raison d'étre was as mathematical master. He was a Cambridge man and a Wrangler, and had written a school text-book of Euclid, which perhaps had brought his name forward; but he was a weak, vain creature, quite unsuited to have the care of boys, especially boys in the higher forms; he was also small and fussy. We in the Shell, and afterwards when in the Sixth, used to attend his lectures in the library. He was easily drawn into conversation. If you were ignorant of the day's work, and he asked you a question, you replied, 'Mr. Hose, did not you write Euclid?' He would reply, Oh no! Euclid wrote it; I only explained it,' etc., and he would then pass on to the next boy. I learnt but little from him, and much of our time was spent in caricaturing him on his own blackboard and making

fun of him. He kept no manner of order in his classes. I am afraid this is scarcely a complimentary notice.

Before Mr. Hose came, arithmetic, mathematics, and French were at a discount. They were all taught only on half-school days, in the afternoon. Mr. Steward, a nice old gentleman, who had a succession of sons (all good oars) at the school, used to teach us sums in the lower forms when I first joined, and I think till Mr. Hose came, but the teaching formed no part of the school work. The class was held up school, and we sat on the forms belonging to the Petty under the large end window.

French was also taught on these half-school day afternoons, but in the same half-hearted way. I do not think that I added much to my knowledge of French when I was at Westminster, and cannot even remember our French master's name.

Fencing was taught by Angelo. I forget on what day of the week these lessons took place, but I remember fencing with Richard Grosvenor, now Lord Stalbridge, in one of the lower rooms up College. I used also to go and fence at Angelo's fencing-rooms halfway up St. James's Street, on the right-hand side, where I sometimes saw most exciting fights with real swords between two well-padded and helmeted Life Guardsmen ; one of them was named MacTurk.

Drawing, too, was taught by an artist of the name of Sarjent. I was not one of his pupils, and do not know where the lessons took place. All these arts and sciences were taught at odd times and irregular