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pathy with antiquarian researches and sneered 

 at those "who take pleasure to be all their life- 

 time raking the foundations of old abbeys and 

 cathedrals." 



To turn to other evidence, the better diaries 

 of any age afford us, when faithfully written, 

 as fair a clue as do the dramatists of the aver- 

 age intelligent man's attitude towards the gen- 

 eral outlook of humanity on the problems of 

 his age, as they presented themselves to 

 society at large. The seventeenth century 

 was unusually rich in volumes of autobiogra- 

 phy and in diaries which the reading world will 

 not readily let die. The autobiography 

 of the complaisant Lord Herbert of Cher- 

 bury gives an interesting account of the 

 education of a highly-born youth at the end 

 of the sixteenth and the beginning of the 

 seventeenth century. Lord Herbert seems to 

 have had a fair knowledge of Latin and Greek 

 and of logic when, in his thirteenth year, he 

 went up to University College, Oxford. Later, 

 he "did attain the knowledge of the French, 

 Italian and Spanish languages," and, also, 

 learnt to sing his part at first sight in music 



