THE LATEST OXFORD MOVEMENT.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR'] should in all probability not have ventured to write. to you this morning, but for the tone of your article on " Youth," in the Spectator of July 4th. "After all," you say, "boisterous, tyrannical, and arrogant youthfulness does not- suggest essential gladness of heart half as vividly as that more temperate and restrained brightness which seeks to light up. all the darker corners of the earth, and to tarn night into twilight and twilight into dawn." Such a sentence appeals with strange force to one who, like myself, has the happiness to be living with fifteen young laymen, and of watching them, and, so far as may be, helping them to knit their lives into. the lives of their less fortunate brethren ; and it occurred to. me that, if possible, you might be willing to help on what. attempts to be a concrete embodiment of the principle you so clearly stated.
The immediate need is to build a house for them to live in, instead of the disused schoolroom which has served as a house for seven years, and which only holds four, the rest having to. find lodgings where they can in the surrounding houses.
The house has been already begun, and it is to raise funds for its completion that Lord Londonderry has lent us the use of Londonderry House on Thursday, July 16th, at 4 p.m. There must be many old. Oxford men all over the country who would be glad to join in the latest Oxford movement, if they only, amid the roar of politics and business, could hear any- thing about it. Those in London would have an opportunity of doing so on the 16th, from the Hon. George Curzon, M.P., the Rev. R. Eyton, myself, and others, by applying to me for a card of admission, and those in the country by writing to the above address for information.—I am, Sir, tte.,
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