[101] ‘We are keeping the most wretched Christmas Day … by bad fortune we are again taking in coals…. This morning we saw a poor fellow in the Lazaret, close to us, cut off from the ordinances of his Church, saying his prayers with his face to the house of God in his sight over the water; and it is a confusion of face to me…. The bells are beautiful here … deep and sonorous, and they have been going all morning: to me very painfully.’ Newman to his sister Harriett, _Letters and Correspondence_, i., 274. [102] Major John Longley, afterwards Lieutenant-Governor of Dominica. Charles Thomas Longley, Head Master of Harrow School from 1829 to 1836, became Archbishop of Canterbury. Cythera is Cerigo. [103] Spiridion or Spiridon, patron of the island, Bishop of Tremithus near Salamis, present at the first General Council of Nice, and at the Council of Sardica. The Greeks keep his feast on the 12th, the Western Church on the 14th of December. [104] [Mount Scollis in Elis.] [105] _Correspondence_, i., 293-300, _passim_: and p. 332. [106] The well-known novel by Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, published at first anonymously in 1818. A beautiful edition, marking some revival of popularity, was issued in 1902. [107] He could jump well, too: ‘a larking thing for a Don!’ as he tells his mother. _Letters and Correspondence_, i., 159. [108] Provinces now merged in the kingdom of Roumania. [109] _Life and Letters of Frederick William Faber, D.D., Priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri_, by John Edward Bowden of the same Congregation. Richards, 1869, p. 78. [110] A quaint phrase from the Oriel Statutes. They read: ‘_Quoniam omnia existentia tendunt ad non esse_.’ [111] ‘I am drawn to [Sicily] as by a loadstone. The chief sight has been Egesta: its ruins with its Temple. O wonderful sight! full of the most strange pleasure…. It has been a day in my life to have seen Egesta … really, my mind goes back to the recollection of last Monday and Tuesday, as one smells again and again at a sweet flower.’ Newman to his sister Harriett, _Letters and Correspondence_, i., 302. [112] Joseph Severn, Keats’ friend, 1793-1879. [113] Friedrich Overbeck, 1789-1869. He became a Catholic in 1814. [114] Rev. Hugh James Rose, founder and editor: 1795-1838, M.A. of Cambridge University, Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk; Principal of King’s College, London.