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54 room is fairly spacious, as such things go in college buildings at Oxford; but the bed-room is smaller than is the ordinary sleeping-cabin of an ocean steamer. Heber writes that he could see, from his window, the battlements of All Souls. And the fine old tree, which shades the window, and of which he was very fond, is still called "Heber's Chestnut." It stands in Exeter Gardens, on the opposite side of the narrow Brazenose Lane. Certain guide-books and historians put this room on "Staircase No. Four, in the corner of the Quadrangle;" but from the window of that apartment can be had no glimpse of any part of All Souls.

Heber entered Brazenose in the year 1800; and he became a Fellow of All Souls in 1805. An intimate of Heber, in Oxford, of the same College, but not at the same time, was Henry Hart Milman, who entered Brazenose in 1810. In 1812 he won the Newdigate Prize with a poem, which Stanley pronounced to be the most perfect of its kind ever produced in Oxford. He became a Fellow of the College in 1814, and Professor of Poetry in 1821. He is best known, now, as Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral; and it is perhaps forgotten that he contributed several familiar songs of praise and devotion to Heber's "Hymnology."

Richard Harrison Barham, author of "The Ingoldsby Legends," went from St. Paul's School