Some world-circuit saunterings . inscription from Abraham Cowleys pen: This ship which round the world has runAnd matched in race the chariot of the sun,This Pythagorean ship (for it may claimWithout presumption so deserved a name)By knowledge once and transformation nowOn her new stage this sacred part and his ship could not have wished from fateAn happier station or more blest estate,For lo! a seat of endless rest is givenTo her in Oxford and to him in heaven. The American Churchman, however, does notneed to follow this somewhat circuitous course ofCrowleys muse to find propriety
Some world-circuit saunterings . inscription from Abraham Cowleys pen: This ship which round the world has runAnd matched in race the chariot of the sun,This Pythagorean ship (for it may claimWithout presumption so deserved a name)By knowledge once and transformation nowOn her new stage this sacred part and his ship could not have wished from fateAn happier station or more blest estate,For lo! a seat of endless rest is givenTo her in Oxford and to him in heaven. The American Churchman, however, does notneed to follow this somewhat circuitous course ofCrowleys muse to find propriety as a resting placefor the chair among Hbrary alcoves. It is enoughfor the California Churchman to know its associationwith its chaplain, Francis Fletcher, and his first useof the Book of Common Prayer in the present terri-tory of the United States to give it due bookish flavorfor such an academic environment. And if the onlymemorandum made here of the visit to Oxford isthe chronicHng of the fact that the Saunterer and his [130]. JAUNTINGS IN BRITAIN party dutifully sat in that particular chair, it is notto leave the impression that they sat in no otherchairs nor that they visited no other spots in thatclassic city. No, but the books about Oxford soabundantly load down any one who has the desire toknow about it that they suggest to any traveler themot of the late Bishop Stubbs of Oxford, who aston-ished the porter at the Oxford station helping himto his train who asked, How many articles, mylord? by replying, Why, thirty-nine, of course IAnd very much the same reticence will be regardedby the Saunterer with reference to visits, most inter-esting and enjoyable in themselves, to Leamington,Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick, Kenilworth ruin andother places which every tourist does. The driveswere favored with skies and swards and other attrac-tive EngHsh scenery that used to so often furnish the in-tr6ductory setting for old-fashioned Enghsh Liverpool, however, our good hosts,
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