Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Methodist Review, Vol. 35: Bimonthly; July, 1919
Fill, for he was assistant regius professor of Greek, and then pro fossor of Ancient History, precentor of the college chapel, junior dean, junior proctor, vice-provost, and at long last provost. At long last, I say, for he was seventy-five years old when the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland advised the King to make him provost. That was the-proudest day of his life, for he had come into, his own. He should have been seated in the palace long before, but there was comfort, not to say joy, in the thought that it came at last, and while he was still able to enjoy the honor fer five years. There he had lived his life and there it was fitting that he should sit acknowledged as head and chief, as master and king, in a glorious republic of. Letters.
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