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School, and previously Fellow and tutor of Worcester 

 College. He was wont to do a good deal of his 

 work at night, and was accustomed on retiring to 

 rest, after some hours' study of Aristotle's Ethics or 

 a play of ^Eschylus, to place under his pillow a 

 small musical-box, which he set going and allowed 

 to run itself out, his mind and nerves being soothed 

 the while by the familiar strains of some well-known 

 air, to which he never wearied of listening. 



He went in for his "Great Go" in Michaelmas 

 term 1833, the examiners on that occasion being 

 Augustus Short; Richard Michell, afterwards Public 

 Orator at Oxford ; George Moberly, the late Bishop 

 of Salisbury ; and William Sewell, afterwards Pro- 

 fessor of Moral Philosophy. It may be worth while 

 to note the subjects taken up by him at this examina- 

 tion, as being typical of the kind of mental training 

 which the Oxford men of that day underwent who 

 read for honours. The list is taken from a memo- 

 randum, made apparently at the time, in his own 

 handwriting. It ran thus : i. Divinity; 2. Logic; 

 3. Butler's Analogy ; 4. Paley's Natural Theology ; 

 5. Aristotle's Ethics ; 6. Aristotle's Politics ; 7. Aris- 

 totle's Poetics ; 8. Herodotus ; 9. Thucydides ; 10. 

 Xenophon's Hellenics (first two books); u. Livy 

 (the second decade) ; 12. Tacitus (The Annals) ; 

 13. ^Eschylus ; 14. Sophocles ; 15. Aristophanes 

 (Aves, Plutus, Vespae, Nubes) ; 16. Euripides 

 (Orestes, Medea, Rhesus, Iphigenia in Aulis) ; 17. 

 Virgil ; 18. Horace ; 19. Pliny's Natural History 

 (Books 8, 9, 10, n). The selection of the last 



