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Rh has preached but rarely in England, and has sought no preferrent, but has devoted his time to literature and study.

A rapid joumey of about a second's duration in a lift lands you at the comfortable flat in St. Ermin's Mansions where Dr. Momerie has made his hoine. The long hall through which you pass to reach his study is adorned with the skin of a panther and many proof engravings. On entering the study you at once recognise that he is an intense lover of animals, for almost each picture is a well- known print after Burton Barber, Caldwell, Paton, and Roe's spirited paintings, such as The Distinguished Foreigner,' • The Foreigner Extinguished," For the Safety of the Public,' &c. &c. The large picture that hangs on the north wall is of his old college at Cambridge, with views of the exterior, the interior, and the Chapel, inter- spersed with portraits of the eminent men who have been connected with St. John's, including Wilberforce, Palmer- ston, Ben Jonson, Wordsworth, Herschel, Selwyn, and the present Master in the centre. On cach side of the fire- place hang engravings of Stanley Berkeley's clever dog pictures, ' A Disgrace to his Family' and 'A Credit to his Family,' together with a humorous print of a dog wearing a pair of pince-nez and a favourite photograph called "Schmerz vergessen,' a huge monkey curled up asleep after a bad bout of toothache A world of sentiment and of pathos in his attitude and expression,' remarks Dr. Momerie, smiling. Close by a photograph of Trippel's bust of Goethe at Weimar hangs a frame, to which he draws your attention, containing the names of the sub- scribers to the private testimonial that was presented to him-a token of esteem which gratified him not a little ou leaving The Foundling, by his friends and some of the students who attended his classes. It is beautifully illuminated by hand, and is quite a picture in its way There are well-filled bookcases all round the walls. One case is entirely devoted to works on pliilosophy and science, another to poetry, a third to foreign literature, a fourth to