Hyacinth

mentalist will not indeed be able to lave his soul in tepid emotion while he walks through these quadrangles, as he may among the cloisters and chapels of the Oxford colleges. The a

le and elbow colleges in the streets. In Dublin a man leaves the city behind him when he enters the college, passes completely out of the atmosphere of the University when he steps on to the pavement. The physical con

e is in front, and heights of gray building frown down on each side. It needs no education, not even any imagination, to appreciate the change. It is not necessary to know that great scholars inhabited the place, to recall any name or any man's career

w, when for the first time he entered into the actual life of the college, could look up at windows of rooms that were his own, and reckon on his privilege of fingering tomes from the shelves of the huge l

rsity, between the two kinds of life which ought, like man and woman, to complete each other through their very diversity, but here have gone hopelessly apart. Never once through all the centuries of Ireland's struggle to express herself has the University felt the throb of her life. It is true that Ireland's greatest patriots, from Swift to Davis, have been her children; but she has never understood their spirit, never looked on them as anything but strangers to he

hat he had come into vital touch with the greatest life of all. He was to join the ranks of those who besieged the ears of God for knowledge, and left behind them to successors yet unborn great traditions of the enigmas they had guessed. In entering upon the study of theology he see

in the great science wore shabby clothes, or that others scorned the use of a razor. Bred as he had been at home, he felt no incongruity between dirty collars and the study of divinity. It was not until he caught

, like a good

I ground them up specially this morning. Nic?a, 318-no, hang it! that'

sked a tall, pale youth. 'Didn't some mo

y,' said a neat, dapper littl

approached two better dressed stude

e entrance examination to the

t of brown Connemara homespun did not commend him to these aristocr

two of the rankest outsiders you ever set eyes on-medicals out of

aged to her, then

"Hullo, Bob," says she; "I haven't seen you for ages." "My name," said I, "is Mr. Banks"-just like that, as cool as you please. I could see she felt it. "I've called you Bob," says she,

paper into his hand, and distracted his attention from the final discomfiture of Maimie, which Mr. Bank

'll come,'

he

-meeting, held every Wednesday morning at ni

iar in this prompt and business-like advertisement of pray

n't have printed offices, with verses and responds, and that s

, I think not. I don't really know much about thes

l prayer to-morrow for the success of the British arms. I suppose you

ng the students; gowns were pul

omes,' sai

Yet in them, an odd contradiction, there lurked a possibility of humorous twinkling. The man was capable perhaps of the broad tolerance of the great humorist, certainly of very acute perception of life's minor incongruities. His thin lips were habitually pressed together, giving a suggestion of strength to the set of his mouth. A man with such a mouth can think and act, but not feel either passionately or enduringly. He will direct men because he knows his own mind, but is not likely to sway them because he will always be master of himself, and will not become enslaved to any great enthusiasm. The students trooped into the hall, and the examination began. The assistant lecturers helped in the work. Each student was called up in turn, asked a fe

ed his name, and loo

f charity. It was very familiar to Hyacinth, and he read it with a serious feeling for the words. Dr. Henry,

chool,' he asked. 'W

r taught

an extraordinary number of mistakes in accentuation and quantit

had finished, 'the Authorized Version word

rently,' said Hyac

Greek outside of

ated a few li

in the college course,' said Dr. He

tting a prize. He recited it as if he liked it. The remainder of the examination disclosed the fact that he was la

d the new class with his assistants

lars, perhaps one man among them with real brains. T

an with brains,

saw that you took him. He

as if he came up from the wilds somewhere. He has hands like an agricultural labourer, and a brogue that I fancy comes from Galway. But

of Ireland, and the English were still for him the 'new foreigners' whom Keating describes. His intercourse with the fishermen and peasants of the Galway seaboard had intensified his vague dislike of the series of oscillations between bullying and bribery which make up the story of England'

ht to pray for the success of the British arms. The speech bewildered rather than irritated Hyacinth. The mind gasps for a time when immersed suddenly in an entirely new view of things, and requires time to adjust itself for pleasure or revolt, just as the body does when plunged into cold water. It had never previously occurred to him that an Irishman could regard England as anything but a pirate. Anger rapidly succeeded his surprise while he listened to the prayers which followed. It was apparently open to any student present to give utterance, as occasion offered, to his desires, and a large number of young men availed themselves of the opportunity. Some spoke briefly and haltingly, some labor

etary, whose name, it appeared, was

propose you as a member of the union. Subscription one shilling, to defray necessary ex

come again,'

drew back,

s capital-so informal and hearty. Didn't you think it

m the day before by the pimply-faced boy who distributed leaflets.

ou see, I have only just entered the divinity school, and I h

hurchman sings Gregorian chants, you know, and puts flowers on the altar. There's more than that, of course. In fact, a High Churchman

ave the room, 'I don't know anything abo

s not going to allow h

e not High Church why won't

prayers when I am not at all s

e secretary of a prayer union into mild profanity. 'You don't

sufficient orthodoxy with a doubt about the invariable righteousness o