Then _Phillimore_ was there, now our Dean of the Arches; _Scott_ and _Liddell_, both heads of houses, and even then conspiring together for their great Dictionary.

_Curzon_ too (lately Lord De la Zouch) was at the table, meditating Armenian and Levantine travels, and longing in spirit for those Byzantine MSS.

preserved at Parham, where the writer has delighted to inspect them; how nearly Tischendorf was anticipated in his fortunate find of that earliest Scripture, no one knows better than Lord Zouch, who must have been close upon that great and important discovery! _Doyle_, now Professor of Poetry, _Hill_, of Mathematics, _Vaughan_, of History--all were of this wonderful class; as also the Earl of _Selkirk_, celebrated as a mathematician; Bishops _Hamilton_, _Denison_, and _Wordsworth_; and _Cornewall Lewis_, late Chancellor of the Exchequer; and _Kynaston_, Head Master of St.Paul's; and a member of Parliament or two, as, for example, _Leader_, once popular for Westminster.
Now, other names of almost equal eminence may have been here accidentally omitted, but the writer will not guess at more than he actually recollects.

Sometimes--for the lecture was a famous one--members of other colleges came in; _Sidney Herbert_, of Oriel, in particular, is remembered; and if _Robert Lowe_, of University, was only occasionally seen, it must have been because he seldom went abroad till twilight.
Altogether "there were giants in those days;" and, without controversy, a casual class, containing more than a score of such; illustrious names as are here registered, must be memorable.

The lecture-room was next to Christ Church Hall, where that delicate shaft supports its exquisite traceried roof; the book was "Aristotle's Rhetoric," illustrated by each reader with quotations, a record whereof is still _penes me_, and the lecturer, now no longer living, was that able and accomplished classic, the Reverend _Robert Biscoe_.
My college days are full of recollections of men, since become famous in literature, art, science, or position: of these the principal are already recorded as having been members of the Aristotle class.