Sir Francis went into the house, and returned very shortly with another volume of letters which he preserves. He turned over the pages, and at last found the one he wanted. It was on blue paper, and the writing was very bad, but its contents were good. It was a letter from the great Lord Brougham to Sir Francis's father, and it told how Brougham had been to Harrow on Speech Day, and seen one of the best _Shylocks_ on or off the stage played by the President in embryo. [Illustration: SIR FRANCIS JEUNE'S FATHER. _From a Painting._] Young Jeune did well at Harrow, and he is remembered there to-day, for on every successive advancement in life that has befallen him, the Harrow boys have had a holiday--and not a few either. Young Jeune got many prizes, and crowned his Harrow days by winning the Balliol Scholarship. He matriculated the day on which the Prince Consort was buried. He was at Balliol when Jowett was in his prime. "He had very strong characteristics," continued Sir Francis, "and his extreme love for Boswell's 'Life of Johnson' was remarkable. He knew it better than any man, and was always quoting it. I remember just before I went up for my final he asked me if I was nervous. I told him rather so. He said:-- "'Never mind--you'll do in the schools better than what you think. Remember the story of Dr. Dodd and Dr. Johnson. When Dr. Dodd was in prison he preached a very fine sermon on the Sunday before he was hanged. People went to Johnson and told him they believed he had written it. 'Depend upon it, sir,' said Johnson to one of them, 'depend upon it that a man's faculties are considerably quickened when he is going to be hanged!'" [Illustration: THE DINING-ROOM. _From a Photo by Elliott & Fry._] [Illustration: THE STUDY. _From a Photo by Elliot & Fry._] Sir Francis did brilliantly at Oxford, gaining both the Stanhope Prize and Arnold Prize. The former gave occasion to an intensely interesting letter from Dean Stanley. Again the volume of letters was consulted, and a few pages further on from Lord Brougham's note was the missive. Sir Francis opened his Stanhope essay with Matthew Arnold's words:-- "I rejoice to see it," said Dr. Arnold, as he stood on one of the arches of the Birmingham railway, and saw the train pass on through the distant hedgerows--"I rejoice to see it, and to think that feudality is gone for ever. It is so great a blessing to think that any one evil is really extinct." [Illustration: SIR FRANCIS JUENE. _From a Sketch by Harry Furniss._] And this was a most generous, though undoubtedly well-deserved, tribute from Stanley--saying that it was he to whom these words of Dr. Arnold were first addressed. Here is the letter:-- "June 22nd, 1863. "6, Grosvenor Crescent, London.