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I presume at once, Sir, from his introduction, that you yourself have cultivated the literas humaniores. Pray sit down ay I see, you take up a book, an excellent symptom; it gives me an immediate insight into your character. But you have chanced, Sir, on light reading, one of the Greek novels, I think, you must not judge of my studies by such a specimen."
With unerring instinct the men of the Renaissance named the voluminous subject-matter of scholarship 'Litteræ Humaniores, the more human literature, or the literature that humanizes. There are three stages in the history of scholarship during the Renaissance.
At Oxford he went from triumph to triumph. He took a first in classical moderations in 1899; first- class literae humaniores in 1901; first-class jurisprudence in 1902. He won the Craven, Ireland, Derby and Eldon scholarships. He was President of the Union and became a Fellow of All Souls in 1902; and after he left Oxford he was called to the Bar in 1904.
I presume at once, Sir, from his introduction, that you yourself have cultivated the literas humaniores. Pray sit down ay I see, you take up a book, an excellent symptom; it gives me an immediate insight into your character. But you have chanced, Sir, on light reading, one of the Greek novels, I think, you must not judge of my studies by such a specimen."
A portion of the fiery heat of his nature may be traced, perhaps, to the fact that he was born at Madras; but as on the mother's side he is descended from the poet Tickell, the friend of Addison, it would not be altogether unreasonable to have expected in him some few of the amenities of the literæ humaniores.
Some of the most distinguished of Carlyle's contemporaries, the great men of letters of the mid-nineteenth century, have left letters more or less copious and more or less valuable from one or both of the two sides, biographical and literary, but not eminently so. Macaulay's letters and diaries suit biography excellently, and have been excellently used in his. They lighten and sweeten the rather boisterous "cocksureness" of the published writings: and help his few but very remarkable poems other than the Lays (which are excellent but in a different kind) to show the soul and heart of the man as apart from his mere intellect. But they are not perhaps intrinsically very capital. So also in Dickens's case the "Life-and-Letters" system is excellently justified, but one does not know that the letters in themselves would always deserve a first class in this particular school of Literae Humaniores. Letter-writing admits if it may not even require a certain kind of egotism. But it must be what the French call an Egoisme
He who would study the artes humaniores must turn of necessity to two fountain heads; and he finds them in the trampled marketplaces of two noisy, turbulent, unreasonable, pestilent little democratic cities, Athens and Florence.
And these things he had achieved currente calamo, "wielding his pen," as Scott said of Byron, "with the easy negligence of a nobleman." He was now in his third year of residence, and was reading, a little, for Literae Humaniores. There is no doubt that but for his untimely death he would have taken a particularly brilliant First in that school also. For the rest, he had many accomplishments.
"The further my observation has extended," he says, "the more satisfied I am that no knowledge of things will supply the place of the early study of letters, literae humaniores. I do not doubt the value of any honest mental labor.
She paced the room in agitation, alternately uttering incoherent abuse of her friend's folly and suggesting that she should at once abandon the ungrateful School of Literæ Humaniores and devote herself like Tims, to the joys of experimental chemistry and the pleasures of practical anatomy. Meantime, Milly sat silent, one hand supporting her chin, the other playing with a pencil.
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