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

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Tummel Bridge, or Grantown, had now become an
established custom with him. His visits to Lord Airlie
at Cortachy and the Tulchan, and to Linlathen and
Camperdown, as well as to St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and
Glasgow, were amongst his rare pleasures. A visit to
Cortachy, in which he met Lord Kimberley and others, is
referred to in a letter to his mother.
The competition for vacant Scotch Professorships, on
the part of old Balliol men, continued, and became
painfully interesting. John Nichol's rejection for the
Logic Chair at Glasgow in I864 had been a keen
disappointment to Jowett; and when, in I866, the Chair
of Moral Philosophy in the same University fell vacant,
he was disposed to press Nichol's claim. Edward Caird
was unwilling to stand against Nichol. But there were
other strong candidates; and when it became known
that a majority of the electors would in any case not
vote for Nichol, Jowett, with Nichol's full concurrence,
urged Caird to declare his candidature. In the successful
result of this policy, no one rejoiced more heartily
than Nichol himself. Jowett was much pleased with
the way in which Nichol took his friend's election and
his own failure.
Jowett made a special visit to Edinburgh in the winter
of i866, having agreed to give two lectures at the Philosophical Institution on Socrates. He stayed with the
Sellars. On this or some similar occasion, in the Sellars'
drawing-room, Professor Blackie sang, unasked, a song of
his own making on 'The Burning of the Heretic': then
stepped across to Jowett and said, 'I hope you in Oxford
don't think we hate you.' 'We don't think about you,'
was the impassive reply.
Again, in the spring of I869, soon after his friend
1 The first of these will be published in Lectures and Addresses.