THE OXFORD PROFESSORSHIP OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'
Sra,—The paragraph in last Saturday's Spectator relating to the Oxford Professorship of Ecclesiastical History has occasioned much surprise to your Oxford readers.
Of the two gentlemen to which that paragraph refers, one neither is nor has ever been a candidate for the chair. It is, there- fore, somewhat superfluous to inquire into his fitness or unfitness for an office to which he does not aspire. But, whether fit or unfit, he is most certainly not a man of "no power ;" he is, on the con- trary, well known among us as a man of admirable scholarship, and of remarkable energy and ability.
The other gentleman, it is stated, "has absolutely no knowledge of Church History, or any collateral subject." This could hardly be true of a sixth-form school-boy ; it is inconceivable that it should be true of the schoolmaster of one of the beat schools in the kingdom, and it is further emphatically contradicted by his friends.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
November 26. OXONIENSIS.
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