REV. F. D. MAURICE.
(TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Ste,—References, such as appeared in the Spectator of the 13th inst., to the extraordinary influence that Mr. Maurice exerted over both strangers and friends might be multiplied. Perhaps I may add the testimony of one prematurely lost to science and to the world, " the philosophical mathematician," Professor Boole, of Cork.
Dr. Boole, in his last year, was for a considerable time resident in London, prosecuting some scientific researches; and attended regularly then the chapel in Vere Street. In his correspondence and conversations he frequently dwelt on the hours he passed there. "I have never heard anything so instructive and impres- sive as those Vere-Street services," he more than once remarked ; and in my last conversation with him, he said, " Be sure you get Maurice's Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament ;' you will find it a book invaluable for its suggestiveness."—I am, Sir, &e., Queen's College, Galway, April 16, 1872. T. W. M.
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