-THE PLEASURES OF LIFE" 249 



We had our Jubilee yesterday, and very pleasant it 

 was. — Ever yours sincerely, G. O. Trevelyan. 



Later in the day. 



The Happiness of Duty is most admirable and 

 comforting. But the book is all good. I will put down 

 one or two thoughts different parts suggested. 



As to reading on a railway, my experience is different 

 from yours. It is then that I can read quickly and 

 steadily great masses of sustained writing, e.g. on two 

 journeys between this and London I read with excep- 

 tional interest Lecky's account of the French Revolution 

 and his account of the Irish Parliament in his 2nd vol. 



In dwelling on the importance of tolerance with 

 relations and friends, it is important to recognize what 

 I am satisfied is a frequent and noble cause of difficulty : 

 the unwillingness of a man to put himself on a higher 

 plane than those he loves, and accept and acquiesce in 

 their moral and intellectual defects as he would those 

 of strangers. The young cannot do this : hence the 

 frequent arguments and quarrels of the young. Life 

 teaches the lesson to the wise, and a hard and sad one it 

 is. 



All that about education is excellent — teaching 

 con amove. My second boy had a passion for science, 

 and little taste, apparently, for literature. Sadly I 

 recognized that in our barbarian household I could help 

 him nothing. But I took care that the half-hour in 

 which we did Horace was the pleasantest of the boy's 

 pleasant day. And he has got one of the great Harrow 

 prizes younger, and in a lower form, than has been done 

 for 50 years, during which so many really great com- 

 posers flourished there. The piece was slight : but had 

 real value as poetry. Ah me ! I wish I had more to 

 teach him ! — Ever yours, G. O. Trevelyan. 



