certainty of appreciation and fellow-feeling from the society with
which they are connected.

The Oxford of Patteson's day was yet untouched by the hand of
reformation. The Colleges were following or eluding the statutes of
their founders, according to the use that had sprung up, but there
had been a great quickening into activity of intellect, and the
religious influences were almost at their strongest. It was true
that the master mind had been lost to the Church of England, but the
men whom he and his companions had helped to form were the leaders
among the tutors, and the youths who were growing up under them were
forming plans of life, which many have nobly carried out, of
unselfish duty and devotion in their several stations.

Balliol had, under the mastership of Dr. Jenkyns, attained pre-
eminence for success in the schools, and for the high standard
required of its members, who formed 'the most delightful society, the
very focus of the most stimulating life of the University,' within
those unpretending walls, not yet revivified and enlarged.

Here Coleridge Patteson came to reside in the Michaelmas term of
1845; beginning with another attempt for the scholarship, in which he
was again unsuccessful, being bracketed immediately after the fourth
with another Etonian, namely, Mr. Hornby, the future head-master, His
friend, Edmund Bastard, several of his relations, and numerous
friends had preceded him; and he wrote to his sister Fanny:--

'You cannot think what a nice set of acquaintance I am gradually
slipping into. Palmer and myself take regular familiar walks; and
Riddell, another fellow who is the pet of the College, came up the