**Mr. Nettleship's volume of Lectures and Essays on subjects connected with Latin Literature and Scholarship (Oxford 1885) has, for the sake of clearness, been referred to in the following pages by the title on its binding, Essays in Latin Literature. MEMOIR HENRY NETTLESHIP was born at Kettering in Northamptonshire on May 5, 1839. His father, Henry John Nettleship, a solicitor practising in that town, married Isabella Ann, daughter of the Rev. James Hogg, Vicar of Geddington, and master of Kettering Grammar School. They had seven children, of whom five boys lived to maturity. The youngest of these, Richard Lewis, Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, perished in a snowstorm on Mont Blanc, August 25, 1892. Of the other brothers, one became an artist, another an oculist, a third a schoolmaster; while the eldest is the subject of this memoir. His grandfather, John Nettleship, of Tickhill, Yorkshire, married Ann Hunt (first cousin of George Waddington, Dean of Durham), whose brother, J. H. Hunt, was the editor of the Critical Review and the translator of Tasso. John Nettleship's mother, the Mrs. Nettleship of Gainsborough spoken of with admiration by Mr. Mozley in his Reminiscences of Towns, Villages and Schools, was a remarkable woman, cultivated and musical, pious and charitable. The mother of the late Prof. George Rolleston was one of her daughters. His grandmother's connexion with Dean Waddington was the cause of his being eventually sent to school at Durham, and this, by bringing him under the influence of Dr. Elder, the Headmaster, determined his future career as a Scholar. His feeling for music and poetry seems to have been derived from his father's family, who were all musical, an aunt being an accomplished pianist. As the eldest, Henry was naturally made much of by his parents and grandparents, though they were afraid of their partiality being seen, and he retained a recollection of a rather severe bringing-up, the duty of self-denial being much dwelt upon. Though he could read well at the age of four, he was not encouraged to occupy himself in this way. His mother read aloud to him and his brothers, both verse and prose; and he remembered enjoying Paradise Lost when quite a small child. He had a naturally retentive memory, and was early accustomed to recite poetry. As a boy he was 'bright, genial and sympathetic-a main element of happiness in a happy home,' while the same simplicity and absence of selfconsciousness were characteristic of him then as in later life. He early showed a sense of humour, and would amuse himself by inventing nonsense rhymes to suit different occasions, and setting them to well-known classical airs, frequently from Handel's oratorios. Without a natural turn for athletics of any sort, he had considerable pluck and determination, and made himself a very fair rider, swimmer and skater. After all connexion with Kettering had ceased, through his father's death and his mother's removal, he often returned to visit the place he loved, recalling the old simple life, which had great charms for him. There was a strong attachment between all the brothers, as between the sons and their parents, and this was unaffected, as time went on, by distance or difference in character and pursuits. Henry Nettleship's first school was Mr. Darnell's, at Market Harborough, in 1848. The next year he went to St. Nicholas College, Shoreham (or Lancing, as it is often called), where he gained a scholarship and several prizes. He was much attached to this school and his masters, and regretted leaving. His father had been in correspondence about his son with Dean Waddington, and sent him to Durham in August, 1852, where he gained a King's Scholarship the following November. The Dean, as was his custom if a kinsman were elected, paid the money out of his own pocket, to avoid all suspicion of favouritism-the boy retaining the honourable position of King's Scholar, but the money from the school funds passing on to the next in order of examination. The Dean took steady interest in his progress, writing kind letters to the boy himself, as well as to his father and friends. Prof. Hales, an old schoolfellow, says: 'I first remember Henry Nettleship in the second "half" of 1852, when I entered the Upper Fourth; he was then the most distinguished member of the form. I can vividly recall his shy, thoughtful, observant manner. I seem to hear him answering one of the endless questions asked us which were too much for all but Nettleship. ... But indeed everybody liked him. His cleverness, which we were sharp enough to discover, was so entirely free from conceit or pretence; and though no great hand at games he was anything but a bookworm, but took a thorough interest in all the affairs of our schoolboy world. . . . But I can recognize now, more clearly of course than I did then, Nettleship's eagerness for the truth, whatever it might be; his scepticism, in the proper sense of the word; the absence in him of the blind idolatrous spirit. His sympathies were with the High Churchmen of that date, but he was never a bigot; he was really interested in other views; he never dreamt the last word had been said about those matters. . . . It was surely one of Nettleship's distinctions that even in his teens he perceived that the party to which he belonged had not, and could not have, any monopoly of light. . . . Most certainly, for my part, I owed him much-for a sense of tolerance, for broadened notions, for an opened mind. He was a delightful companion, unselfish, wellinformed and entertaining, and it was with universal regret we heard he was going to follow Dr. Elder to Charterhouse.' There is no doubt that he was immensely impressed by Dr. Elder's scholarship and teaching. He always spoke of him as having been in advance of his time in thoroughness and grasp of classical knowledge, and felt he owed him much for fostering in him the love of learning and a high ideal of scholarship. Dr. Elder was indeed the hero of his school life; and |