I4 6 CAMBRIDGE. ^ETAT. 19-22. 



Mr. Herbert gives an amusing account of the musical 

 examinations described by my father in his ' Recollections.' 

 Mr. Herbert speaks strongly of his love of music, and adds, 

 " What gave him the greatest delight was some grand sym- 

 phony or overture of Mozart's or Beethoven's, with their full 

 harmonies. ' On one occasion Herbert remembers " accom- 

 panying him to the afternoon service at King's, when we heard 

 a very beautiful anthem. At the end of one of the parts, 

 which was exceedingly impressive, he turned round to me 

 and said, with a deep sigh, ' How's your backbone ? ' ' He 

 often spoke of a feeling of coldness or shivering in his back 

 on hearing beautiful music. 



Besides a love of music, he had certainly at this time a 

 love of fine literature ; and Mr. Cameron tells me that he used 

 to read Shakespeare to my father in his rooms at Christ's, 

 who took much pleasure in it. He also speaks of his " great 

 liking for first-class line engravings, especially those of Ra- 

 phael Morghen and Miiller ; and he spent hours in the Fitz- 

 william Museum in looking over the prints in that collection." 



My father's letters to Fox show how sorely oppressed 

 he felt by the reading of an examination : " I am reading 

 very hard, and have spirits for nothing. I actually have not 

 stuck a beetle this term." His despair over mathematics must 

 have been profound, when he expressed a hope that Fox's 

 silence is due to " your being ten fathoms deep in the Mathe- 

 matics ; and if you are, God help you x for so am I, only with 

 this difference, I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and 

 there I shall remain." Mr. Herbert says : " He had, I im- 

 agine, no natural turn for mathematics, and he gave up his 

 mathematical reading before he had mastered the first part 

 of Algebra, having had a special quarrel with Surds and the 

 Binomial Theorem." 



We get some evidence from his letters to Fox of my 

 father's intention of going into the Church. " I am glad," 

 he writes,* " to hear that you are reading divinity. I should 



* March 18, 1829. 



