It  comprises  recollections  of  Mark  Pattison,  the  brilliant  Rector  of
Lincoln  College,  Oxford,  and  is  reprinted  from  the  Journal  of  Educa-
tion for  June,  1885.  Mr.  Tollemache  and  Mr.  Pattison  were  personally
acquainted  only  during  the  last  two  years  of  the  life  of  the  latter.  They
made  one  another's  acquaintance  at  Biarritz,  in  March,  1882 ;  in  the
June  of  the  following  year  they  met  for  the  last  time  ;  and  they  bade
one  another  a  touching  farewell  by  letter  in  the  early  part  of  1884.  It
will  not  be  surprising  to  any  clear-minded  reader  of  this  and  its  com
panion  essays  that,  in  Pattison's  final  letter  to  his  friend  from  Oxford,
he  should  have  finished  it  with  the  following  words  :  '  For  my  part  I
cannot  expect  ever  to  see  you  again,  and  I  must  be  content  with  here
recording  my  experience  that  your  conversation  was  to  me  more  stimu-
lating than  that  of  any  man  I  ever  met. '  These  essays  must  have  a
striking  resemblance  to  that  conversation."

"The  'Safe  Studies'  are  those  to  which  it  is  impossible  for  any
human  creature  to  raise  the  smallest  objection  on  any  ground  whatever,
and  they  are  about  four  times  as  long  as  the  '  Stones  of  Stumbling. '
These  stumbling-blocks  may  possibly  at  some  period  or  other  have
given  scandal  to  a  part  of  the  population  by  no  means  likely  to  read
them  ;  but  in  these  days  the  public  has  swallowed  so  many  camels  that
we  do  not  think  Mr.  Tollemache's  gnats  would  even  make  any  consider-
able portion  of  them  cough.  .  .  .  We  propose  to  make  some  observa-
tions on  the  most  important  of  these  charming  essays.  They  are  all
singularly  well  worth  reading,  and  may  be  described  as  the  works  of  a
most  ingenious,  accomplished,  and  cultivated  man  of  leisure,  who  writes
in  order  to  fix  recollections  and  systematize  speculations  which  interest

LONDON  :  WILLIAM  RICE,  3  BROADWAY,  LUDGATE  HILL,  E.C.
