THE MASTER OF BALLIOL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "
SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—In your interesting article on the late Professor jowett, in the Spectator of October 7th, you give a most striking ex- tract from the sermon he preached in Balliol College Chapel on the occasion of Dean Stanley's death. I happened to be present on that occasion, and was much impressed by the passage, which I have often repeated as a striking example of pulpit humour. Years afterwards I came across the very same sentence in " Tristram Shandy," where Yorick utters it with his last breath; and even there as a quotation from Sancho Panza. At the time I was certainly under the impres- sion that it was an original bon mot ; but probably it was in reality introduced by some such expression as "it might be said of him." As an example of the terse humour in which the Master so often delighted, I well remember being much struck with his summing-up of the life-work of some would- be teacher of mankind :—" He left one disciple, and he left none." The effect on the congregation was irresistible.—I am,
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