and affectation.  With his serious and earnest thinking was joined the play of a genial humor and the brightness of poetic fancy.  Liberal in sentiment, absolutely free from dogmatism and pride of intellect, of a questioning temper, but of reverent spirit, faithful in the performance not only of the larger duties, but also of the lesser charities and the familiar courtesies of life, he has left a memory of singular consistency, purity, and dignity.  He lived to conscience, not for show, and few men carry through life so white a soul.

A notice of Mr. Clough understood to be written by one who knew him well gives the outline of his life.

“Arthur Hugh Clough was educated at Rugby, to which school he went very young, soon after Dr. Arnold had been elected head-master.  He distinguished himself at once by gaining the only scholarship which existed at that time, and which was open to the whole school under the age of fourteen.  Before he was sixteen he was at the head of the fifth form, and, as that was the earliest age at which boys were then admitted into the sixth, had to wait for a year before coming under the personal tuition of the headmaster.  He came in the next (school) generation to Stanley and Vaughan, and gained a reputation, if possible, even greater than theirs.  At the yearly speeches, in the last year of his residence, when the prizes are given away in the presence of the school and the friends who gather on such occasions, Arnold took the almost unexampled course of addressing him, (when he and two fags went up to carry off his load of splendidly bound books,) and congratulating him on having gained every honor which Rugby could bestow, and having also already distinguished himself and done the highest credit to his school at the University.  He had just gained a scholarship at Balliol, then, as now, the blue ribbon of undergraduates.

“At school, although before all things a student, he had thoroughly entered into the life of the place, and before he left had gained supreme influence with the boys.  He was the leading contributor to the ‘Rugby Magazine’; and though a weakness in his ankles prevented him from taking a prominent part in the games of the place, was known as the best goal-keeper on record, a reputation which no boy could have gained without promptness and courage.  He was also one of the best swimmers in the school, his weakness of ankle being no drawback here, and in his last half passed the crucial test of that day, by swimming from Swift’s (the bathing-place of the sixth) to the mill on the Leicester road, and back again, between callings over.

“He went to reside at Oxford when the whole University was in a ferment.  The struggle of Alma Mater to humble or cast out the most remarkable of her sons was at its height.  Ward had not yet been arraigned for his opinions, and was a fellow and tutor of Balliol, and Newman was in residence at Oriel, and incumbent of St. Mary’s.