¹ The Flying Fish by John Gray. (‘The Long Road:’ Black-well.)

² Richard Congreve (1818–1899) ‘taught history thoroughly, and with a broad mind. He inspired men with a taste for culture and thought. He worked hard and was genial and good-natured. What a transformation have I witnessed in forty years to the arrogant egotist, the fierce intriguer, and the pitiless misanthropist that ambition, vanity, and fanaticism have made the Dr. Congreve of 1892—the would-be High Priest of Humanity—the restless dreamer after a sort of back-parlour Popedom. I could not believe that human nature could undergo such a transformation in the same man, if I had not been a close witness of the whole process… But Richard Congreve at Wadham, 1848–1854, was the best type of college tutor as then understood …. his energy (at that time) and his decided turn for practical action, even by way of intrigue, placed him head and shoulders above any other tutor of the time, even above Jowett and Pattison.’—Frederick Harrison: Autobiographic Memoirs.. ‘Richard Congreve. … met Barthélemy St. Hilaire and Auguste Comte in Paris and adopted positivism; founded positivist community in London 1855; studied medicine; M.R.C.P. 1866.’—D.N.B. He seceded from Pierre Laffitte and formed an independent group with himself as director in 1878–79.

³ In Triple Fugue.

⁴ Dr. Congreve also had ‘a stately person and a generous habit of life.’—F. Harrison.