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timate with Whitley,* who was afterwards Senior 

 Wrangler, and we used continually to take long walks 

 together. He inoculated me with a taste for pictures 

 and good engravings, of which I bought some. I fre- 

 quently went to the Fitzwilliam Gallery, and my taste 

 must have been fairly good, for I certainly admired the 

 best pictures, which I discussed with the old curator. 

 I read also with much interest Sir Joshua Reynolds' 

 book. This taste, though not natural to me, lasted 

 for several years, and many of the pictures in the 

 National Gallery in London gave me much pleasure ; 

 that of Sebastian del Piombo exciting in me a sense of 

 sublimity. 



I also got into a musical set, I believe by means of 

 my warm-hearted friend, Herbert, f who took a high 

 wrangler's degree. From associating with these men, 

 and hearing them play, I acquired a strong taste for 

 music, and used very often to time my walks so as to 

 hear on week days the anthem in King's College 

 Chapel. This gave me intense pleasure, so that my 

 backbone would sometimes shiver. I am sure that 

 there was no affectation or mere imitation in this taste, 

 for I used generally to go by myself to King's College, 

 and I sometimes hired the chorister boys to sing in 

 my rooms. Nevertheless I am so utterly destitute of 

 an ear, that I cannot perceive a discord, or keep time 

 and hum a tune correctly ; and it is a mystery how I 

 could possibly have derived pleasure from music. 



* Rev. C. Whitley, Hon. Canon f The late John Maurice Herbert, 



of Durham, formerly Reader in County Court Judge of Cardiff and 



Natural Philosophy in Durham the Monmouth Circuit. 

 University. 



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