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his writing, in a tome kept for the purpose, and preserved through the ages, a chronicle of his captaincy and a salutation to his successes. Such a manuscript in his own writing would now of course be of high value, but I have carefully examined the volume and Hook's year is missing. On the other hand, I found him referred to twice by his predecessor, who says of one match: "J. Hook's blob is what might happen to any one, but he must learn to restrain himself when given out l.b.w", and in another page, the boyish tribute: "this was the game in which J. Hook did the dirty."
James also certainly edited the Eton Chronicle for a brief period (resigning over some item obscurely connected with half a crown), but once again the official proof has gone. At an earlier date he produced (or at least contributed to) one of the journals of original matter known locally (one wonders why) as Ephemerals. His paper in the latter, which lies before me as I write and is entitled "A Dissertation upon Roast Pig," seems to me to be of merit, yet for some reason that baffles me the printers (at the request of his tutor) refused to pay him for it. For some time I suspected that this frequent suppression of James could only be explained in one of two ways, either the authorities destroyed intentionally the proofs of his connection with Eton because they thought his career (meteoric as it was) reflected (on the whole) no credit on the school, or those pages, long after the writing of them, were abstracted by autograph hunters. I have since discovered the true reason, surely
