The life and letters of Benjamin Jowett, M. A., master of Balliol college, Oxford.

CHAPTER V
TUTORSHIP (continued). COMMENTARY ON ST. PAUL.
I846-1850
(Aet. 29-33)
ATTACHMENT of his pupils to him-His interest in their works
-Hegel and Comte-Lectures in Political Economy-Plato at
Oxford-Paris in I848-Conversation with Michelet, &c.-Theological
Essays-Long Vacations-The Oban reading party-Alexander Ewing,
Bishop of Argyll-Notes on the Romans-Death of William JowettA pupil's record of conversations-Letters.
THE preceding years have witnessed the formation and
ripening of opinion and character. It is only now
that these begin to be fully realized in action.
Jowett's ascendency in Balliol reached a new stage
about the year 1846. In the Long Vacation of that year,
spent partly in helping Scott, his former Tutor, who had
lost his wife some months before, and partly in charge
of a pupil at Beaumaris, he was more isolated than
heretofore 1. From Scott's rectory of Duloe, near Liskeard,
he wrote to Stanley:'Many thanks for all your kindness, to which I am not at
all insensible; perhaps it is better and more useful that we
should work alone sometimes. It cools the nervous fever of
intellectualism. I have already begun to form projects for next
Long Vacation.'
1 The solitude at Beaumaris Riddell and his Balliol reading
was broken by a visit from James party on August i6.