Part 15 (1/2)

In July began an ason and a ”circle-squarer,” which lasted several son sent the infatuated person, ill call Mr B--, a proof that the area of a circle is less than 315 the square of the radius Mr B--replied, ”Your proof is not in accordance with Euclid, it assule, and that two right lines can enclose a space” He returned the proof, saying that he could not accept any of it as elucidating the exact area of a circle, or as Euclidean As Mr Dodgson's onometry, and he had reason to suspect that Mr B--was entirely ignorant of that subject, he thought it worth while to put hi him a few questions upon it, but the circle-squarer, with co not Euclidean Mr Dodgson then wrote to hi to enlarge his field of knowledge to the eleebraical Geoebraical Geo cardboard”

as aexact truth in ested that Mr Dodgsonthe followers of Euclid, and as he apparently wished him to understand that he (Mr B--) did not think son considered that the psychologicalan end to the correspondence had arrived

Meanwhile he was beginning to feel his regular College duties a terrible clog upon his literary work The Studentshi+p which he held was not meant to tie him down to lectures and exaer man; he could best serve ”the House” by his literary fame

_July_ 14_th_--Came to a more definite decision than I have ever yet done--that it is about tin the Mathe on has been to provide money for others (for myself, I have been many years able to retire), but even the 300 a year I shall thus lose I may fairly hope toI think of asking the GB (Governing Body) next term to appoint my successor, so that I may retire at the end of the year, when I shall be close on fifty years old, and shall have held the Lectureshi+p for exactly 26 years (I had the Honourmen for the last two terms of 1855, but was not full Lecturer till Hilary, 1856)

_Oct_ 18_th_--I have just taken an i to the Dean a proposal to resign the Mathematical Lectureshi+p at the end of this year I shall now have ives th, may hope, before --partly in the cause of mathematical education, partly in the cause of innocent recreation for children, and partly, I hope (though so utterly unworthy of being allowed to take up such work) in the cause of religious thought May God bless the new for to His holy will!

_Oct 21st_--I had a note in the evening from the Dean, to say that he had seen the Censors on the subject of nation at the end of the year, and that arrangements should be made, as far as could be done, to carry outht to retirement” So my Lectureshi+p seems to be near its end

_Nov 30th_--I find by ave my _first_ Euclid Lecture in the Lecture-room on Monday, January 28, 1856 It consisted of twelve iven what is most probably my _last_: the lecture is now reduced to nine, of who a Saint's Day, the attendance was voluntary, and only two appeared--EH

Morris, and G Lavie I was Lecturer when the _father_ of the latter took his degree, viz, in 1858

There is a sadness in co in life

Man's instincts cling to the Life that will never end

_May 30, 1882_--Called on Mrs R-- During a good part of the evening I read _The Ti words--a thing I will never join in Rational conversation and _good_for, for grown-up people

_June 1st_--Went out with Charsley, and did four miles on one of his velocimans, very pleasantly

The velociman was an early and soson estions for its improvement He never attempted to ride a bicycle, however, but, in accordance with his own dictue, buy a tricycle,” confined himself to the three-wheeled variety

[Illustration: XI Oxford types Froraph by AT

Shrimpton]

_Nov 8th_--Whitehead, of Trinity, told us a char story in Coether: the son got into a College--the father had to go to New Inn Hall: the son passed Responsions, while his father had to put off: finally, the father failed in Mods and has gone down: the son will probably take his degree, and may then be able to prepare his father for another try

A the coloured cartoons in Shrimpton'sat Oxford there used to be, when I was up, a picture which I think referred to this story

_Nov 23rd_--Spent two hours ”invigilating” in the rooms of WJ Grant (who has broken his collar-bone, and is allowed to do his Greats papers in this hile he dictated his answers to another undergraduate, Pakenham, who acted as scribe

_Nov 24th_--Dined with Fowler (now President of CCC) in hall, to rey hair: yet how short a tiether at Whitby! (in 1854)

_Dec 8th_--A Coiven to the Wine Committee, and then a new Curator elected

I was proposed by Holland, and seconded by Harcourt, and accepted office with no light heart: there will be ht needed to work it satisfactorily, but it will take ood-- to beco this year he co, ”Dreamland” The air was _dreamed_ by his friend, the late Rev C E Hutchinson, of Chichester The history of the dreaiven in the words of the dreamer:--

I found e amphitheatre Deep stillness prevailed A kind of hushed expectancy was upon us We sat awaiting I know not what Before us hung a vast and dark curtain, and between it and us was a kind of stage Suddenly an intense wish seized me to look upon the forms of some of the heroes of past days I cannot say whoed to behold, but, even as I wished, a faint light flickered over the stage, and I are of a silent procession of figures ht to left across the platforure approached the left-hand corner it turned and gazed at me, and I knew (by what e; the light shone with a peculiar blueish lustre on his shi+eld and helures were shadowy, and floated like mist before me; as each one disappeared an invisible choir behind the curtain sang the ”Drea in my ears, and the words of the last line co, and slowly pass away” The rest I could not recall

[Illustration: Dreamland--Facsimile of Words and Music]

DREAMLAND