JOHN STUART MILL. 701 



Odyssey, Theocritus, some of Pindar, tlie Orations of ^schines and 

 Demosthenes on the Crown. In Latin : first six books of Ovid's Meta- 

 morphoses, first five books of Livy, the Bucolics and the first six books 

 of the ^^neid of Virgil, and part of Cicero de Oratione. In IMathemat- 

 ics : finished the six books of Euclid together with the Eleventh and 

 Twelfth, and the Geometry of West ; studied Simpson's Conic Sections, 

 and West's Conic Sections, Numeration and Spherics ; and, in Algebra, 

 Hessy's Algebra and Newton's Universal Arithmetic, in which last he 

 performed all the problems without the book, and most of them without 

 any help from the book. 



1816. Greek : part of Polybius, Xenophon's Hellenics, the Ajax 

 and Philoctetes of Sophocles, the Medea of Euripides, the Frogs of 

 Aristophanes, and great part of the Anthologia Grgeca. Latin : all 

 Horace, except the Epodes. Mathematics: Stewart's Propositiones 

 Geometricse, Playfair's Trigonometry at the end of his Euclid, " Geom- 

 etry " in the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, and Simpson's Algebra. 



1817. Greek: Thucydides (the second time), many Orations of 

 Demosthenes, all Aristotle's Rhetoric, of which he made a synoptical 

 table. Latin : Lucretius, all but the last book, Cicero, Ad Atticum, 

 Topica, and De Partitione Oratoria. Mathematics : " Conic Sections " 

 in EncyclopEedia Britannica ; Simpson's Fluxions, Keill's Astronomy, 

 and Robinson's Mechanical Philosophy. 



1818. Greek : more of Demosthenes ; four first books of Aristotle's 

 Oro-anon, tabulated in the manner of the Rhetoric. Latin : all Tacitus 

 (except the Dialogue on Oratory), great part of Juvenal, beginning of 

 Quintilian. Mathematics : Emerson's Optics, Trigonometry by Pro- 

 fessor Wallace, solution of problems, beginning of article on Fluxions 

 in the Edinburgh Encyclopsedia. Began to learn Logic, read several 

 Latin treatises — Smith, Brerewood, Du Trieu, part of Burgersdicius, 

 Hobbes. 



1819 (the year when the letter was written). Greek : Plato's Gor- 

 gias, Protagoras, and Republic. Latin : Quintilian, in course of read- 

 ing. Mathematics : Fluxions, problems in Simpson's Select Exercises. 

 Also, he is now learning Political Economy. 



While this enumeration is much fuller than that in the " Autobiogra- 

 phy," it omits mention of several works there given : as Sallust, Ter- 

 ence, Dionysiiis, and Polybius. The private English reading is in both : 

 chiefly Mitford's Greece, Hooke and Ferguson's Rome, and the Ancient 

 Universal History. His composing Roman Historj'-, as well as Poetry 

 and a Tragedy, is given in both. The Higher Mathematics of this pe- 

 riod is but slightly given in the " Autobiographj'." 



This letter was doubtless intended not merely to satisfy Sir Sam- 

 uel's curiosity as to his precocity of acquirement, but also to pave the 

 way for the invitation to accompany him to France the following year 

 (1820). 



A carefully written diary, extending over the first five months of 



