CHAP. VI.] UNDERGRADUATE OF TRINITY. 157 



Glenlair, 18th May 1851. 



Do you like the Trig, lectures A ?* Tacitus is not new 

 to you. His style must be congenial to a deep, half-sentence 

 lecturer. 



Were you carrying your watch when you were upset in 

 your funny ? and if so, how did it agree with the douking ? 2 



I shall be glad to hear about the Pendulum. Who is 

 Thacker, who asked you to his rooms to see it ? 



To LEWIS CAMPBELL, Esq. 



Cambridge, 9th June 1851. 



I find I owe you one letter this term. I intended to 

 write three days ago, but I am now refreshed by classical 

 papers, and disburdened of half the subjects of examination. 



On Friday we had Euclid, on Saturday Greek, cram on 

 both subjects ; to-day Ajax and Tacitus translations. I did 

 no composition, but did various readings, strongly preferring 

 certain of them for obvious reasons. 



I find that 4 hours Euclid is worse than 2 3 -hour 

 papers of cram, though I sent up much more cram than 

 Euclid. This of itself shows that disburdening cram is not 



like grinding out Mathematics. M in the Plato cram, 



writing a comparison of Cynics and Platonists, said that 

 Platonism was a real live thing, but Cynicism was sleepy, 

 and that even in its greatest ornament, Diogenes, the 

 view of the universe was contracted to a front look-out from 

 a wash-tub, and the summum bonum reduced to sunning 

 one's self with eyes shut and buttons open. This was to let 

 off his jaw on first setting down, but he let it in among his 

 papers, and could not get it out again. 



Excuse my square sentences. I have spent my curves 

 on Tacitus, and I must now proceed to Trig. Write. 

 Yrs. 



To THE SAME. 



8 King's Parade, 9th Nov. 1851. 

 I began a letter last week, but stopped short for 



1 Mr. Mathison's lecture on trigonometry. 

 2 i.e. Anglic^ " How did the dip agree with it ? " 



