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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846. Excerpt:... eyes of the Fairford collegians, of the renowned Mr Peter Parmenter, she was to be impressed with other notions. P. P. (the hour of four being ex-collegiate,) was sitting at an ancient bureau covered with ragged rusty black leather, and surmounted by a rusty black tea-board, sipping small tea also purporting to be black, and dipping into it sippets of bread and butter, purporting to be brown. Brown too was his all but hairbare caxon,--brown his coat;--brown even his puckered visage, and the lean lank hands which, for forty years past, had wielded the ferule of Fairfordian authority. On the entrance of strangers, Peter rose perpendicularly from his horsehair chair, till he stood six feet two in his shoes and buckles; impressed with all the awe compatible with his inches and learning, on finding himself in presence of so grand a lady. But when he ascertained that the gentleman by whom she was accompanied was not only a Sir William, but an hereditary Governor of Fairford College, his awe increased almost to trepidation. Though both his visitors had complied with his request that they would be seated, he still kept urging them to take a chair; nor was it till five minutes wore away in preliminary explanations, that he could be brought clearly to" apprehend the object of their visit, or rationally to reply to their inquiries. Once fairly apprized, however, the pedagogue's vein of communication flowed freely; for the Jervis of whom they spake was his favourite, his hobby, his prize tulip. He could never say enough of Jervis Cleve! The chart framed and appended to the wall behind his high-backed chair, and by its cleanly bluewhite surface affording so strange a contrast to the smoke-dyed wall, was the work of Jervis. A half-bound marble papered volume of MS. whi...