and gave him the refreshment of a more perfect change. He produced on all who knew him the impression of a cultivated gentleman, which he was. There is only an interval of one generation between you and that good Latinist, but how wide is the difference in your intellectual regimen? You have studied--well, here is a little list of what you have studied, and probably even this is not complete:-- Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, mathematics, chemistry, mineralogy, geology, botany, the theory of music, the practice of music on two instruments, much theory about painting, the practice of painting in oil and water-color, photography, etching on copper, etc., etc., etc. That is to say, six literatures (including English), six sciences (counting mineralogy and geology as one), and five branches or departments of the fine arts. Omitting English literature from our total, as that may be considered to come by nature to an Englishman, though any real proficiency in it costs the leisure of years, we have here no less than sixteen different pursuits. If you like to merge the theory of music and painting in the practice of those arts, though as a branch of study the theory is really distinct, we have still fourteen pursuits, any one of which is enough to occupy the whole of one man's time. If you gave some time daily to each of these pursuits, you could scarcely give more than half an hour, even supposing that you had no professional occupation, and that you had no favorite study, absorbing time to the detriment of the rest.