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Owing to an oversight in our impression of last week, Dr. Robertson Smith was stated to have been elected to the Lord High Almoner's Professorship of Hebrew. The Professorship is that of Arabic, not of Hebrew. CAMDEN AT CAMBRIDGE. to such a commonplace and vulgar notion as this!) arose. It makes a handsome appearance by the disposition of the streets (Elizabethan ideas were somewhat different to our modern ones, we suppose) the number of the churches and sixteen beautiful residences of the Muses or colleges (this savours a little of penny-a-lining), in which many learned men are supported, and the knowledge of arts and languages flourishes in such a manner that these may be accounted the fountains of religion and learning, which diffuse their salutary streams through the gardens of Church and State." It were an insult, perhaps, to a good many of our readers to presume that they have not studied Camden and other trifling books of the same sort through from beginning to end; but still we cannot help thinking that there may yet remain some who have been unable to afford time to do so, and it is in the hope that these few notes on Camden's account of Cambridge may be of some interest to these latter that we venture to offer them in the columns of the Cambridge Review. Camden's "Britannia" was first published in the year 1586, The only thing lacking seems to be that the air is not at a time when, if we may judge from contemporary pure, an evil that we believe we have heard complained of writings and speeches, the strife between the Universities in our own day: "Nor is there any requisite of a most with regard to their respective origins raged high. flourishing University wanting here, except that the marshiCamden appears to have wished to be as fair as possible ness of the situation renders the air less wholesome." But to both parties, and it is partly our object in this present now we come to a piece of consolation for those who are essay to judge how far he was successful in his object. inclined to grumble:-" But perhaps those that founded Before entering on the subject of the University itself, the University in such a place had a regard to Plato's we cannot pass over his opening remarks as to the town opinion, who enjoying an excellent state of health himself, and its name. To our mind, they give us a kind of pre-pitched upon an unhealthy part of Attica for an academy, paratory insight into the character of the writer himself. that the bad air of the place might check the redundant To begin with, in his discussion of the derivation of the humours of the body, which would otherwise oppress the name, after mentioning the meaning of the British word mind." This seems to have been a rather selfish proceed"Cam, winding," and tracing it in the Cornish river ing on Plato's part, but it is satisfactory to know that Camel, he proceeds to tell us that the Romans called their we have been placed in the middle of a swamp on such town "Camboritum, that is, the winding ford, which," he good authority. adds, "I the rather mention that the French may see the meaning of Augustoritum, Darioritum, Rithomagus, &c., among them." Is not this an affecting mixture of modesty and national pride. "I merely mention this, not that I suppose any Englishman did not know it before, and I do not presume to teach them; but the French, poor fellows, may as well be informed of the origin of some of the names of places in their own country, while I am upon the subject." Then he goes on to discuss the meaning of Grantchester; but after one or two attempts at it, he feels that he is getting into deep water, and a characteristic diffidence makes him beat a hasty retreat for the time: "But let others determine the etymology of this name. In the year 700 A.D., he says, Bede records that Grantchester was " a desolate little city," about which the only interesting thing seems to have been that "near the walls was found a beautiful coffin of white marble, with a cover of the same materials." "Cambridge itself," says Camden, "is either part of old Camboritum or rose out of its ruins." We believe that now the general belief is that the Roman town extended along the west bank of the Cam from Grantchester to where St. Giles' now stands, these two being the two extremities, the one afterwards becoming the Saxon settlement, and the modern town of Cambridge growing up round the other. him." But no; Camden's caution again comes to the fore. He is afraid that even in this last remark of his he may have said too much. He almost retracts: However, our prudent ancestors were certainly directed by Heaven in their choice of this spot for the purposes of study, and for erecting such fiue buildings there." This reminds us, to a certain degree, of the story of the National schoolboy who was asked why the sea was salt, and replied, that it is caused by the mixing of the chlorine with the oxygen in the water; others say that it is the will of Heaven." "Some say We then come to that interesting question of the respective antiquities of Oxford and Cambridge as Universities. Camden, although educated at the rival seat of learning, does not hold back what is asserted by its partisans in favour of Cambridge being the oldest of the two. "Cantaber the Spaniard is said to have first founded the University 375 years before Christ, and Sigebert, King of the East Angles, to have restored it." This, we may suppose, is on the authority of Cantelupe, who is also quoted by Sir Simon d'Ewes in his speech in favour of allowing Cambridge in preference to Oxford to send a member to Parliament. Sir Simon, however, places more faith in Cantelupe with his supposed charters of endowment from Kings Arthur and Edward the Elder and Pope Sergius, than the wary Camden did, if we may judge from the confidence with which he advocates the cause he has undertaken: "If I do not therefore prove that Cambridge was a renowned city at least five hundred years before there was a house of Oxford standing, and whilst brute beasts fed and corn was sown on that place where that city is now seated, and that Cambridge was a Nursery of Learning before Oxford was known to have a Grammar School in it, I will throw up the Bucklers*." Camden was perhaps inclined to be shy of accepting Cantelupe's word in this headlong manner, made so by the characters given to this latter historian by various writers, which we find summarised elsewhere; "Brian Twyne mentions him as a' very fabulous writer.' Pitts, in his English writers, gives much the same account of him as above. What Vossius in his 'Latin Historians' One remark is worth noticing. Our author cannot quite bring himself to let others "determine the etymology for He draws the line at one theory: "Nor can I believe Cam derived from Grant, it being too forced a derivation, in which all the letters but one are lost." We are inclined to think he must be right. He then comes to the more immediate consideration of Cambridge itself: "This city, which is the second University, the second eye, and the second support of England (Camden was an Oxford man, by the way), is situated on the Cam, which, after sporting itself (the Cam appears to have been more lively in those days) among the islands it has formed on its west side, turns east and divides the town into two parts, united by a bridge, whence the modern name of Cambridge (O, what a falling off is here! After all this learned discussion as to the origin of the name, to descend the Antiquity of Cambridge. * A speech delivered in Parliament by Sir S. d'Ewes, touching |