GEORGINA BAINSMITH, Sculptor, "St. Ives, Cornwall." Aug. 1907.] has always been one of my greatest treasures; and after the lapse of years that have gone by since it was first modelled, I still revere and reverence his memory and his truly beautiful life. Whatever he wrote, _this_ is what his actual life and deeds expressed strongly: "_he lived to do good_." This is what impressed me most as a young girl, and my life has been richer and nobler for the honour and privilege of knowing Francis Newman. Georgina Bainsmith, _née_ Bucknall. St. Ives, Cornwall. [Illustration: ANOTHER VIEW OF THE BUST IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE (OF FRANCIS NEWMAN), ON ITS PLINTH BY MRS. GEORGINA BAINSMITH, SCULPTOR, OF ST. IVES, CORNWALL The Reproduction is by Mr. J. C. Douglas, of Strives, Cornwall, and was photographed from the clay before it was cast.] CHAPTER VII LETTERS TO ONE OF HIS GREATEST FRIENDS, DR. NICHOLSON Dr. Nicholson, a native of Barbadoes, was only fourteen years old when his father, Rev. Mark Nicholson, came to England. [Footnote: I am indebted for these facts of Dr. Nicholson's life to some printed data kindly sent me by his daughter.] He was sent to a private school at Bristol, and went on to Oxford, where he took his B.A. degree. Later on he went to study Oriental languages at Göttingen; and there he became the pupil of the famous Dr. Ewald, Professor of Oriental Languages. At the end of his work there Dr. Nicholson obtained the Ph.D. degree. The Professor and he became close friends, and a correspondence began between them, on Dr. Nicholson's departure, which lasted unbroken till the Professor's death. He was perfectly conversant with Latin and Greek, and also Arabic, while Hebrew was almost as familiar a language; and as for his knowledge of Sanscrit, Ethiopian, Gothic, Chaldean, Syriac, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Danish, it was as perfect as could be. He had, in the truest sense, the _gift_ of tongues. Sixteen languages, indeed, he had mastered besides his own. He had, in very truth, a perfect genius for them. And it was no slipshod attainment with him to learn any one of the sixteen; for by the time he had mastered a language he practically knew it inside _and_ out. He loved this study perhaps more than any other, because it gave him a truer insight into Holy Scripture. Many articles on the Hebrew Scriptures were contributed by him to _Kitto's Biblical Encyclopaedia_, and there are many allusions to these in Newman's letters which follow. He translated Dr. Ewald's _Hebrew Grammar_, and thus it became well known to Englishmen. [Illustration: DR. JOHN NICHOLSON FROM A PHOTO TAKEN AT GÖTTINGEN BETWEEN 1855 AND 1860 BY KIND PERMISSION OF MISS NICHOLSON, PENRITH]