Nothing could be better than that the County of Cornwall,
con- sidering how to, commemorate one of its famous sons, should con- sider founding a scholarship, bearing Q's name, " at Oxford or Cambridge." But there a delicate question arises. At Oxf8rd? Or Cambridge? The rival claims are nicely balanced. spent only five years of his life at Oxford, and thirty-two at Cambridge. On the other hand, he got his own education at Oxford, and his com- pilation of the classic Oxford Book of English Verse makes his association with that university imperishable. Yet, per contra, all his serious books in later years—On the Art of Reading, On the Art of Writing, Studies in Literature—owe their origin to his Cambridge lectures. There seems only one way out. Cornishmen must be generous, and subscribe enough for a scholarship at each seat of learning.
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