resentment. If he espouse the Indian claims, that may save him. My best
regards to all yours, and earnest wishes.

"Your affectionate friend,

"F. W. Newman."


Mr. Estlin Carpenter wrote lately to me to say that he does not know of
any evidence to prove that Newman and Martineau were "acquainted, or at
least intimate," before the former became tutor of Manchester College. He
says their correspondence ended in 1892, and he imagines that Newman's
"declining health during the last two or three years made further writing
impossible," but that their warm regard for each other, up to the very
end, was unalterable.




CHAPTER VI

FRANCIS NEWMAN AS A TEACHER


Francis Newman was certainly one of the greatest mathematical and
classical scholars of his day. So that when the authorities of University
College secured him for their staff, they knew that they could have
obtained no better man for their purpose.

As a teacher he showed an infinite fertility of method in dealing with the