in its number he often had some young gentlemen of large fortunes, intended for no particular profession, and having no serious aims, as the others had. It was difficult therefore to frame, much less to enforce, general laws that would not bear hard upon one class or the other. It was his desire to admit none but divinity students; but it was overruled by some of his influential friends and advisers. Nevertheless all

the students were alike subjected to the religious order and discipline of the family.

The deportment which he maintained towards his. theological students, upon their first entrance into the ministry, and also in securing to them eligible settlements and subsequently in promoting their comfort and usefulness, by correspondence and other manifestations of personal interest in their welfare, is much to the credit of his paternal love and eminent benevolence. He was always glad to see them at Northampton, invited them to his house as their home, and treated them as his own beloved children, inquiring after their welfare, and manifesting unaffected solicitude to promote it by counsel, instruction, or by any other method within the compass of his ability.

For twenty-two years he sustained, and with deservedly high reputation, the post of an academical and theological instructor; and during that time two hundred young men enjoyed the advantages of the school, of whom one hundred and twenty became ministers of the gospel, while a number died in the course of their preparatory studies for that office. Students were attracted to him, not from England only, but also from Scotland and Holland.

In reviewing the account which has now been given of the admirable course pursued by Dr. Doddridge towards his students, we are prepared for the announcement which Mr. Orton makes, that "they in general loved him as a father, and that his paternal advices and entreaties weighed more with them than the commands of rigid authority or the arguments of a cooler mind, when the affection of the heart was not felt, or not tenderly expressed."

It was a remark of Cecil concerning Raleigh, "I know that he can toil terribly." And says Mr. Stoughton, “On looking at the list of subjects in which Doddridge instructed his young men, we are perfectly astonished at the diligence which the variety of his knowledge evidently involved. Indeed, at every turn of his life we see that the man must have 'toiled terribly.' Yet, with all his toil, it was impossible that he should make himself such a master of universal science as to be thoroughly competent to teach the whole, or have strength enough to go regularly round. a circle of tuition so wide and varied; and therefore we cannot help congratulating the rising ministry that the altered circumstances and spirit of the age have enabled us to introduce the great economic principle of a distribution of labor into our college system, and to allot to several vigorous and sanctified minds distinct departments of instruction, suited to their dif ferent intellectual tastes and literary attainments."

The same writer proceeds to say, "Looking at the doctor's herculean efforts throughout one of his academical sessions-the occupations of pastor, author, and tutor being combined-we cannot doubt that

welcome indeed must have been the summer recess, allowing him some change of scene and some sips of recreation. As we read his life and letters, and fully charge our mind with the image of this model of earnest diligence, we are really so oppressed, that we feel relief, sympathetic with his own, in thinking of his vacations. We are glad to go with him on one of his trips. Forthwith we sally out in imagination along the bad roads of the last century, by some 'flying' coach which managed to compass the distance of sixty-six miles between Northampton and London in a couple of days, till we arrive at Mr. Coward's house at Walthamstow, who entertains us with hearty cheer. Getting into a postchaise with him and Mr. Ashworth, we count with him 'thirty-five gates made fast with latches between the last market-town and Stratford-on-Avon,' where the doctor makes a pilgrimage to Shakespeare's grave. Next we go with him down to the hospitable mansion of the Welmans, 'the glory of the Taunton dissenters,' who receive him with princely elegance,' at 'a table fit for an archbishop.' Then we slowly travel on to Plymouth, and see our friend 'in a little boat dancing on the swelling sea,' or 'feeding a tame bear with biscuits;' and then, on his way home, we peep into his room at Lymington, where he sits, on Saturday night, in a silk night-gown which Mr. Pearson has lent him, writing letters to his beloved Mercy; or, opening one of them from Ongen in Essex, we find that he has turned angler: 'I went a fishing yesterday, and with extraordinary success; for I pulled a minnow out of the water, though it made shift to get away.'"

As a sort of resumé of what has been said concerning Dr. Doddridge's academy, we close the chapter with the racy sketch which is given of it in the North British Review:

"Not only was it the resort of aspirants to the dissenting ministry, but wealthy dissenters were glad to secure its advantages for sons whom they were training to business or to learned professions. And latterly, attracted by the reputation of its head, pupils came from Scotland and from Holland; and, in one case at least, we find a clergyman of the church of England selecting it as the best seminary for a son whom he designed for the established ministry. Among those educated there, we find the names of the Earl of Dunmore, Ferguson of Kilkerran, Professor Gilbert Robertson, and another Edinburgh professor, James Robertson, famous in the annals of his Hebrew-loving family.

"With an average attendance of forty young men, mostly residing under his own roof, this academy would have furnished abundant occupation to any ordinary teacher; and although usually relieved of elementary drudgery by his assistant, the main burden of instruction fell on Doddridge himself. He taught algebra, geometry, natural philosophy, geography, logic, and metaphysics. He prelected on the Greek and Latin classics, and at morning worship the Bible was read in Hebrew. Such of his people as desired it were initiated in French; and besides an extensive course of Jewish antiquities and church history, they were carried through a history of philosophy on the basis of Buddæus. To all of which must be added

the main staple of the curriculum, a series of two hundred and fifty theological lectures, arranged, like Stapfer's, on the demonstrative principle, and each proposition following its predecessor with a sort of mathematical precision.

"Enormous as was the labor of preparing so many systems, and arranging anew materials so multifarious, it was still a labor of love. A clear and easy apprehension enabled him to amass knowledge with a rapidity which few have ever rivalled, and a constitutional orderliness of mind rendered him perpetual master of all his acquisitions; and, like most millionaires in the world of knowledge, his avidity of acquirement was accompanied by an equal delight in imparting his treasures. When the essential ingredients of his course were completed, he relieved his memory of its redundant stores by giving lectures on rhetoric and belles-lettres, on the microscope, and on the anatomy of the human frame; and there is one feature of his method which we would especially commemorate, as we fear that it still remains an original without a copy :

"Sometimes he conducted the students into the library, and gave a lecture on its contents. Going over it case by case, and row by row, he pointed out the most important authors, and indicated their characteristic excellences, and fixed the mental association by striking or amusing anecdotes. Would not such bibliographical lectures be a boon to all our students? To them a large library is often a labyrinth without a clue-a mighty maze-a dusty chaos. And might not the learned keepers of our great collections