The loss that the University in general has sustained by Professor Bateman's death finds its counterpart in the personal sorrow of his friends. Those who were privileged to know him well are left immeasurably poorer by his death but enriched by a memory that will always remain with them. For "his story lives on woven into the stuff of other men's lives." His wide human interests brought him into sympathetic touch with many phases of life and gave him strength and tolerance. His true manliness, sincerity of character, and sociable nature endeared him to all. He was a delightful comrade, and many of his colleagues must remember some flash of true humour which lit up the prosaic tenor of an ordinary conversation or of some inordinately dull Faculty Meeting. The students of the University too shared in his friendship. His never-flagging interest in their activities, whether literary, musical, or athletic, will always be remembered. The University of Saskatchewan lost in the Great War many of its finest spirits, and its losses reached their culmination in the death of Reginald Bateman. Upon such sacrifices The gods themselves throw incense. CONTENTS PART I REGINALD BATEMAN--STUDENT AND TEACHER Francis Thompson Milton To the Memory of Dr. Biggs The Teaching of English My Last Duchess Christmas Shopping Realism in Wordsworth and Browning Synge--a Fragment Dickens and Thackeray Pessimism Brains and Intellect The Eternal Silence PART II REGINALD BATEMAN--SOLDIER The War In the Trenches On the Death of a Comrade [Illustration: Reginald Bateman] PART I REGINALD BATEMAN STUDENT AND TEACHER FRANCIS THOMPSON _A paper given before the Faculty Club in 1913_ The recent publication, April 1913, of the first collected edition of Francis Thompson's works, followed in August by an authentic biography of the poet, has focussed general attention upon the man and his work. Hitherto, if known to the general reader at all, he has been known mainly by one poem, _The Hound of Heaven_, and the majority of the reading public has not yet discovered that Thompson is the author of a large body of poetry fully worthy to rank with _The Hound of Heaven_ in poetical quality. Even to the few who are familiar with his poetry, the story of his life, one of the most romantic in the annals of our literature, came as a revelation.