Arthur Lister. 



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his Shakespeare well, and delighted in Wordsworth. He often repeated the 

 lines, and they touch the keynote of his life, from the poem on Tintern 

 Abbey, beginning : — 



" And this prayer I make, 

 Knowing that Nature never did betray 

 The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege, 

 Through all the years of this our life, 

 To lead from joy to joy. . . ." 



The " Ode to Duty " (in part), the " Happy Warrior " and the " Lesser 

 Celandine " were also great favourites. Many of the Odes of Horace and 

 some passages of A r irgil he had by heart, and loved to repeat. His ear for 

 music was very correct, and he had great enjoyment in it when it was well 

 played. While at Bradford he learnt to play the flute, with fine feeling, 

 though he would very rarely, and in later life never, indulge his family by 

 playing. He also took lessons in drawing and painting from a most 

 excellent teacher, Mr. James Lobley, whose instructions to a drawing school 

 at Bradford received the warm commendation of Mr. Buskin. Brom him 

 also his elder children and other members of our circle received lessons of 

 lasting benefit. 



My father had a high appreciation of pictorial art. Brederick Walker's 

 pictures and some of Millais', in his Bre-Baphaelite stage, received perhaps his 

 warmest admiration. In his earlier manhood he practised the gentle art of 

 sketching from nature in water-colour with much success, and assiduously 

 trained his elder children in it, being always most kindly appreciative of their 

 efforts. Bidelity to the thing as you see it was the end to be aimed at, and 

 any departure in the direction of an ideal rendering received scant encourage- 

 ment. As his children attained, in some cases, some higher degree of 

 proficiency, however, his own efforts ceased. 



At Bradford, too, he first made the accpiaintance of Susanna Tindall, 

 daughter of William Tindall, of East Dulwich, who, in 1S55, became 

 his wife. He soon (in 1857) resigned his place in the Bradford firm and 

 succeeded his father, then retiring from business, in the firm of Lister 

 and Beck, wine merchants, at 5, Tokenhouse Yard, London. He was a 

 representative of the fourth generation of his family in this firm. The 

 young family settled at Sycamore House, Leytonstone, on the border of 

 Epping Borest, and within easy reach of his father's house at Upton, and the 

 homes of two of his married sisters. 



He soon made himself master of his business, and his advice and opinion 

 were highly valued among wine shippers and merchants. 



He was at this time much devoted to shooting and fishing. He was an 

 excellent shot and was a welcome member of shooting parties of his 

 friends. But the shooting he liked best was a long ramble with a friend and 

 dogs, but without beaters, over some wild tract of country, with a mixed 

 bag as the result. He and his brother Joseph, then absorbed in his early 

 observations and experiments on physiology and surgery, often arranged 



