CAMBRIDGE.

To appoint the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Hodgson, of St. Peter's College, Mr. Martin, of Trinity College, Mr. Calthrop, of Corpus Christi College, and Mr. Snowball, of St. John's, a syndicate to inquire into the expense incurred on the schools in the Botanic Garden, and to report thereon to the Senate before the end of the present Term.

To allow the Vice-Chancellor to insure the schools in the Botanic Garden, and the contents thereof, for a sum not exceeding 3,000%.

To appoint Mr. Heath, of Trinity College, one of the Examiners of the previous Examination, in the room of Mr. Steel.

To grant Lord Melgund two days and part of a third, to complete the last Michaelmas Term, he having been detained at sea by contrary winds, and not having reached England till after the Division of the said Term.

To grant Mr. Crool 301. out of the University chest in addition to his annual stipend.

PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

A meeting was held in February, Dr. Clarke, V.P. being in the Chair. Among the presents was a Proteus Anguinus offered by Mr. Lunn, with some observations on the history of our knowledge of the animal. Professor Miller. communicated a notice of some optical experiments, by which it appeared that the lines seen in the vapour of Bromine and Iodine are identical in position; and that the vapour of Perchloride of Chrome exhibits lines apparently equidistant, much closer and fainter than the Bromine lines, but occupying the same part of the spectrum. Mr. Whewell read a memoir "On the Nature of the Truth of the Laws of Motion;" tending to shew that these laws may be demonstrated independently of experiment so far as their terms go; but that the meaning of the terms must be assigned by a reference to experiment.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The quotations from the “ Twelve Lectures," would not, we fear, in our Magazine, meet the eye for which it is intended.

Many thanks for the Fragments from Salisbury.

We should have been happy to have complied with the wishes of our correspondent "W.," but we are unable to decipher either his appointment or his christian name. We, however, are obliged by his warm expressions of approbation.

We have pleasure in announcing that the "Rev. E. Stanley, Rector of Alderby, &c. &c." who has frequently been reported as dead, is still living, and that he is in possession of one benefice only, and not three, as has been stated.

Our authority for the Conversion of the Prince of Lucca is the Archives du Christianisme, 14 Septembre, 1833 (p. 143, col. 1); but a Reverend Correspondent denies the fact of

the Conversion.

We shall give in our next Number, a Sermon applicable to the King's Letter " Building and Repairing of Churches."

on the

THE

CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER.

APRIL, 1834.

REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

ART. I.-A History of the Royal Foundation of Christ's Hospital, with an Account of the Plan of Education, the internal Economy of the Institution, and Memoirs of eminent Blues: preceded by a Narrative of the Rise, Progress, and Suppression of the Convent of the Grey Friars in London. By the Rev. WILLIAM TROLLOPE, M. A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and late one of the Classical Masters of Christ's Hospital. London: Pickering. 1834. Pp. 358. cxviii. 4to. THIS work supplies a hiatus in our literature. A good history of an institution so peculiar, so national, and so eminently useful as Christ's Hospital was a thing much wanted; and here it is, done by a hand every way competent to its task. Mr. Trollope's scholarship, experience in tuition, and sound religious views, enable him to speak on all questions of education with authority;-his long connexion with the establishment of which he is the historian, as pupil, as son of the head master, and as master himself;-his free access to every document which could supply or elucidate ;—and his zealous diligence and interest in the community which he has so worthily adorned;-all these particulars combine to give value to his testimony. We should much like to see the histories of other public schools undertaken in like manner by accomplished scholars well acquainted with their subject, and desirous of communicating their knowledge. We do not affirm that every thing in all those seminaries is conducted exactly as we would wish; but this we do affirm, that, if there are discreditable exceptions, they result from the violation, not the observance, of their constitution. It has been the distinguishing honour of this country, until the more recent prevalence of French infidelity and, its shadow, liberalism, that our religion was wrought into the texture of every thing national :—and of education especially it was the very warp, the basis on which the whole system was constructed. Had the idea of a "London University," for teaching human learning and neglecting spiritual, surfeiting the mind and starving the soul, providing for time and leaving eternity to chance, -had such an idea been hinted to the royal founder of Christ's hospital, his disgust would have been absorbed in pity for the insanity of the

projector. It is not the fault of their constitution, if our public schools make not the knowledge and service of God through Christ their Alpha and their Omega. Such is the direct tendency of all their appointments. The Catechism of the Church; peculiar private prayers and hymns; the chapel services and sermons; the lessons on religious subjects, in the Bible and in the Greek New Testament; the opening and closing of business with prayer,-all these things mark sufficiently the spirit of their founders. Sound instruction in evangelical truth, spiritual holiness, apostolical discipline, and ecclesiastical unity, are palpably the objects originally contemplated in our public schools, as the groundwork whereon to raise a fair and substantial fabric of valuable human learning. Their projectors desired to build them upon the foundation of the prophets and apostles, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. We do not say that this great object has been altogether lost sight of in later times; but we suppose it will not be deemed a perversion of the office of the Remembrancer to stir up the " pure minds" of their masters, "by way of remembrance;" to remind them that, in an age indifferent above all others to the most important particular of education, they are called upon, if possible, to be doubly assiduous, in the promotion of those objects which honourably distinguish their venerable seminaries from nurseries of mere secular discipline. Next to those solemn considerations by which this duty is bound upon the masters of our public schools, nothing is better calculated to excite a religious spirit in conducting them than a perpetual reference to their history.

In the present work, this undertaking has been greatly facilitated as regards one of our most celebrated and interesting scholastic institutions. No objection can be made to Mr. Trollope by the severest hypercritic on the ground of excessive conciseness. Every thing is said that could be said on the subject, and "the history of Christ's hospital" would now be a hopeless enterprise in any other hand. It is not our intention to attempt anything like an abstract of the work. This its size will necessarily preclude; while all who feel a closer interest in the peculiar subject, will not fail to possess themselves of the entire treasure, which they will find a most valuable store of information on their favourite theme.

Mr. Trollope "orditur ab ovo." He sets out from the origin of monastic institutions in Britain, and contracts his field into a more detailed view of the history of the Grey friars in this island, and their establishment in their convent in London; then follows an account of that monastery down to its suppression by Henry VIII. We have next a more particular memoir of the royal founder of Christ's hospital; the well-known story of Ridley's sermon, and its effect upon his youthful and pious master; the proposal made to the Lord Mayor, at a time

2 Pet. iii. 1.

when Kings might consult Lord Mayors on charitable objects, without being met with (at best) a "Reform Almshouse;" and the result of the negotiation-the erection of the three hospitals-Bridewell, St. Thomas's, and that which forms the subject of the present work.

Of the early internal history of Christ's hospital very little is known, further than that classical learning, built upon sound religion, was the staple instruction. In 1577, writing was added; before that time, there were only two schools, the petite (as it was called) and the grammar school; in the former, apparently, mere reading was taught; as in 1573, the master was elevated to the dignity of porter. In this part of the establishment, probably, were instructed those boys who were too young to labour in Bridewell. Indeed there seems, at this period, to have been an occasional interchange of children in these hospitals; the blues, occasionally, being instructed in trades within the walls of Bridewell, while the Bridewell boys repaired to Christ's hospital for learning. In the grammar school, Noel's Latin Catechism was used; shewing at once the character and the extent of the tuition. In 1673, the mathematical school was added, by royal charter, for 40 boys. To these twelve were afterwards added, by the appropriation of monies left by Mr. Henry Stone to the hospital. Two children were afterwards added by will of Mr. John Stock, 1780; and the foundation of Mr. Samuel Travers in 1724, for naval lieutenant's sons, which maintains about 50 boys, has recently been incorporated with it.

Our readers will be interested in learning from Mr. Trollope the present system of education. The following is the scheme laid down by his father, when head master, for the two upper classes:

* Generally Livy, or one of Cicero's Philosophical Treatises.

Each boy made choice of a work of some standard English author, of which he was required to furnish an abstract, at the rate of a foolscap sheet per week. The historical works of Hooke, Robertson, Gillies, Gibbon, and Crevier, were more generally selected.