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History of the Society of Dilettanti 197
Ryan in 187; until a few months before his own
in 1888, Pollock served the Society of Dilettanti
as Secretary, conducting its affairs with tact and
zeal, and keeping up its forms and ceremonials
with the due mixture of solemnity and humour.
Another Cambridge man, of a few years' senior
standing to Pollock, was George Venables, the early
and life-long friend of Thackeray, and reputed
original of the < Stunning Warrington ' of Pendennis.
A first-class classic of the famous year of Lushington
and Thompson, Venables combined with successful
parliamentary practice the industry and versatility
of a brilliant journalist, and was one of the pillars
of the Saturday Review throughout its best days, but
never by acknowledged authorship sought recognition
for his remarkable literary powers. His vigorous vein
of conversation had something of a cynical quality,
which imperfectly disguised the native kindliness of
his heart. These two passed away in the fullness of
age j while Bowen, a greater lawyer belonging to the
sister University and to a younger generation, went
prematurely, but lives, as the wittiest of the wise
and the kindest of the just, in the affectionate
remembrance of many as well as in the pages of one
of the most judicious of recent biographies. The
Dilettanti have in latter years had among them no
personality more remarkable than his, with his
athletic figure and countenance boyish to the end,
and the serene utterance with which his modest
and humorous, but none the less weighty, oracles
were delivered.
Historical and classical learning were in the same Learning;
days represented respectively by Lord Acton and Pro- the c.ivil
fessor Jebb ; the Civil Service, of which Sir Edward ^''J
Ryan was himself so distinguished a member, by the Diplomacy.
Ryan in 187; until a few months before his own
in 1888, Pollock served the Society of Dilettanti
as Secretary, conducting its affairs with tact and
zeal, and keeping up its forms and ceremonials
with the due mixture of solemnity and humour.
Another Cambridge man, of a few years' senior
standing to Pollock, was George Venables, the early
and life-long friend of Thackeray, and reputed
original of the < Stunning Warrington ' of Pendennis.
A first-class classic of the famous year of Lushington
and Thompson, Venables combined with successful
parliamentary practice the industry and versatility
of a brilliant journalist, and was one of the pillars
of the Saturday Review throughout its best days, but
never by acknowledged authorship sought recognition
for his remarkable literary powers. His vigorous vein
of conversation had something of a cynical quality,
which imperfectly disguised the native kindliness of
his heart. These two passed away in the fullness of
age j while Bowen, a greater lawyer belonging to the
sister University and to a younger generation, went
prematurely, but lives, as the wittiest of the wise
and the kindest of the just, in the affectionate
remembrance of many as well as in the pages of one
of the most judicious of recent biographies. The
Dilettanti have in latter years had among them no
personality more remarkable than his, with his
athletic figure and countenance boyish to the end,
and the serene utterance with which his modest
and humorous, but none the less weighty, oracles
were delivered.
Historical and classical learning were in the same Learning;
days represented respectively by Lord Acton and Pro- the c.ivil
fessor Jebb ; the Civil Service, of which Sir Edward ^''J
Ryan was himself so distinguished a member, by the Diplomacy.