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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, 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. 



