The Henson Journals
Sat 3 April 1915
Volume 20, Page 181
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Saturday, April 3rd, 1915.
243rd day
An aged, eminent, & immensely loquacious professor is rather a serious responsibility. I took him into the Cathedral, & shewed him its beauties. He expressed a decent, but extraordinarily uninformed & undiscerning admiration. The truth is that he has no real interest in architecture: & churches lie outside the range of his thinking. He was interested in Butler's tablet, & acknowledged that Gladstone's epitaph was good, but this acknowledgement was evidently grudging, for how could he rightly see any good in that quarter? Cuthbert & Bede didn't stir him in the least, & the Gallilee [sic] appeared to make no impression. But he grasped the "Times" with real fervour, & talked with extraordinary vigour on its contents! I attended Evensong. The "Hallelujah Chorus" was very well sung, & was very welcome. I had letters from Mary & Olive: & wrote to Harold. Hugh Lyon came to spend Sunday here before going to the front.