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224 R. W. Macanpublished in book form, was recognised as an admirablehandbook on an important topic of ancient history, andpassed through several editions. But habent sua fatalibelli. Not every prize essay worthy of a literaryapotheosis obtains publication. The Normans in Italyand Sicily 1070-1270, the 'Arnold' for 1873, was longdestined to appear in enlarged book form. Its ,author,R. L. Nettleship, for a while had deserted LiteraeHumaniores to invade the mediaeval preserves of thecrescent School of Historia Moderna, demonstratingthereby not so much the unity of history as the enterpriseof philosophers. But first a rumour that EdwardFreeman was engaged upon an exhaustive history ofSicily, and then the heavy demands of a Balliol Tutorship,and one thing with another, conspired to checkliterary possibilities, which perished with that all toogallant soul on Mont Blanc in 1893.V. UNIVERSITY IDEALS: JOWETT ANDPATTISONClass Lists and Prize Lists of the 'seventies contain nota few names, besides those above mentioned, of mendestined in or out of Oxford to make notable contributionsto literature—the Sweets, Sonnenscheins, Lodges,Firths, Godleys, Kers, Mackails, Margoliouths and others—who must here make way for the older men of literarydistinction and academic prestige, prominent and dominantin the University during that decade. The greatestman of the time and place was Benjamin Jowett, RegiusProfessor of Greek; and the 'seventies, in the first year ofwhich he succeeded Scott, of lexicographic fame, in theHeadship of Balliol College, was the period of his maturevigour, influence, and success, though his Vice-Chancellorshipfell into the subsequent decade. Jowett was fiftythreeyears of age when he became Master of Balliol, and