water." [This is a phrase that was used to me; it now occurs to me that it may have been merely _metaphorical_, when the teacher says _Macte virtute_, etc., and concludes his lessons.] "Of course, our climate does not allow the facilities of tropical waters (where alligators and sharks, however, are not facilities!); but the sea is fit for bathing with us as many months as the Danube, though I suppose never so warm as the Danube at its warmest.... If I could be with you at Derwentwater again, I think I should be less indisposed to try an oar. Indigestion or sleeplessness, not exertion, seems to be the chief enemy of my heart, which yet cannot bear exertion when so suffering. I am giving myself abundant ease, and never enjoyed myself with so much 'abandon.' We both like this place extremely. "With kindest regards to all around you, "I am, very affectionately yours, "F. W. Newman." In 1857, as I mentioned before, Dr. Martineau came up to London to live, having been asked by the authorities of Manchester New College to take more share in the work there than he had hitherto done. He was made Principal of the College in 1868, and held the post until 1885. There is something in the letter which follows which must have made a very special appeal to Martineau--for this reason: that there is in it a passionate "abandon" quite foreign to Newman's usual style. He seems to have given rein to a sudden impulse of enthusiasm for his friend, and his letter, from start to finish, is full of it. He is evidently longing that Martineau should find in his London audience all the appreciation which his great talents deserved. And perhaps this is the thought which prompted those sentences which seem to urge him to curb the powerful steeds of his intellectual vigour, and not to give so lavishly or in such unstinted measure as in his sermons he had hitherto been accustomed to do. Newman says that in his preaching "there is _superfluous_ intellectual effort." He adds that from "_intellectual_ persons "he has heard the complaint that the "effort to follow is too great"; and he entreats him to prepare each sermon "with less _intellectual_ effort, though, of course, not with less devotional purpose." _Dr. Martineau from Newman._ "7 P.V.E., "_30th May_, 1857. "My dear Martineau,