The Jowett controversy has been raging fiercely at Oxford. Anailymons
and signed circulars have been flying about the University. Mr. Brumley, of Magdalen College, who had statelin congregation that his faith had been undermined by Professor Jowett's lectures on the Greek language, has been invited to recant, or give greater explicitness to his charge, by a fellow-student, Mr. Duckworth, of Trinity. Mr. Bramley declines to recant, and replies that "it is much easier to note a result than to analyze the process by which it was effected,"— in other words, as every plaintiff knows, that it is much easier to make charges than to justify them. Au anonymous " Undergraduate" tells his sufferings in a way so similar that the public compassion confounds him with Mr. Brantley. From his unseen confessional he pours into the ear of the University his profound regret that Mr. Jowett's lectures in Greek had opened in his mind " new lines of thought,"—like a sudden chasm yawning in the flint,—which be found only leisure and sea air adequate to obliterate. This physical and spiritual invalid finds a satirist in some second Under- graduate, who affirms that Mr. Mansel's lectures had thrown him into an abyss of doubt, from which Mr. Goldwin Smith's Notes on Rational Religion at length rescued him,—but not till his mental struggles had ensured his failure in the schools. He proposes to the University to take away all but 401. of Mr. Mansel's salary, and to restore it by instalments as that gentleman's faith gradually deepens ! While the dii sninores of Oxford thus mimic the solemn debate so recently held on the University Olympus, the leader, whose destiny is at stake, remains unmoved in his tents.
