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studying the Arabic of Palmyrene inscriptions. From time to time 

 he returned to the Greek and Latin classics. He often spent his 

 vacations on the Continent, choosing places where he would find good 

 music and good pictures : and in this way he acquired a very com- 

 petent knowledge of the most important modern languages. Once, 

 in the Engadine, he attacked Eomansch. 



His esthetic and literary interests were methodically and 

 seriously cultivated. But he did not talk much about them, and he 

 had no inclination to write. Once I persuaded him to join me in a 

 little note published in the Journal of Philology ; and I think that he 

 printed in the same periodical a Greek inscription which he had seen 

 in the course of his travels. I have always admired the ease and 

 simplicity of the compositions and versions which he contributed to 

 a volume of Translations from and into Greek and Latin, planned by 

 us in 1868, and brought out by us in company with Sir Eichard Jebb 

 in 1878. I believe that this is the sum total of Currey's literary 

 output. He read because he liked to learn : but, if I may use his 

 bedmaker's phrase, he was "too easy-going" to be a maker of 

 literature. 



For some years he was Chief Inspector in charge of the East 

 Anglian District, living, first at Colchester, afterwards, on the death 

 of F. W. H. Myers, at Cambridge. I think that his promotion, and 

 the special responsibilities which it carried with it, pleased him ; and 

 I know that he was glad when Cambridge became once more his 

 home. He Uked his opportunities of meeting old friends, of frequent- 

 ing libraries, and of associating with musicians. About a year before 

 his retirement he had a very serious illness, from which he never 

 altogether recovered. He spent the winter of 1907-8 in Guernsey, 

 where he had a cottage. His intention had been to return to 

 Cambridge in the spring : but the alarming illness of his wife and the 

 operation which she underwent compelled him to prolong his stay 

 till far on in the summer of 1908. In the autumn he was in poor 

 health. Then, when he was convalescent, Mrs. Currey's health gave 

 way. His last illness was short, and he died at his house in Mill 

 Eoad on the 3rd of December 1908. 



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