that this may at least
make me blush if I fail.) Butler's _Analogy_, analysis and
synopsis. Herodotus, questions. St. Matthew and St. John.
Mathematical lecture. _Aeneid._ Juvenal and Persius. _Ethics_, five
books. Prideaux (a part of, for Herodotus). Themistocles Greciae
valedicturus [I suppose a verse composition]. Something in
divinity. Mathematical lecture. Breakfast with Gaskell, who had the
Merton men. Papers. _Edinburgh Review_ on Southey's _Colloquies_
[Macaulay's]. _Ethics._ A wretched day. God forgive idleness. Note
to Bible.

_May 13._--Wrote to my mother. At debate (Union). Elected
secretary. Papers. _British Critic_ on _History of the Jews_ [by
Newman on Milman]. Herodotus, _Ethics_. Butler and analysis.
Papers, Virgil, Herodotus. Juvenal. Mathematics and lecture. Walk
with Anstice. Ethics, finished book 4.

_May 25._--Finished Porteus's _Evidences_. Got up a few hard
passages. Analysis of Porteus. Sundry matters in divinity.
Themistocles. Sat with Biscoe talking. Walk with Canning and
Gaskell. Wine and tea. Wrote to Mr. G. [his father]. Papers.

_June 13. Sunday._--Chapel morning and evening. Thomas a Kempis.
Erskine's _Evidence_. Tea with Mayow and Cole. Walked with Maurice
to hear Mr. Porter, a wild but splendid preacher.

_June 14._--Gave a large wine party. Divinity lecture. Mathematics.
Wrote three long letters. Herodotus, began book 4. Prideaux.
Newspapers, etc. Thomas a Kempis.

_June 15._--Another wine party. _Ethics_, Herodotus. A little
Juvenal. Papers. Hallam's poetry. Lecture on Herodotus. Phillimore
got the verse prize.

_June 16._--Divinity lecture. Herodotus. Papers. Out at wine. A
little Plato.

_June 17._--_Ethics_ and lecture. Herodotus. T. a Kempis. Wine with
Gaskell.

_June 18._--Breakfast with Gaskell. T. a Kempis. Divinity lecture.
Herodotus. Wrote on Philosophy _versus_ Poetry. A little Persius.
Wine with Buller and Tupper.

_June 25._--_Ethics_. Collections 9-3. Among other things wrote a
long paper on religions of Egypt, Persia, Babylon; and on the
Satirists. Finished packing books and clothes. Left Oxford between
5-6, and walked fifteen miles towards Leamington. Then obliged to
put in, being caught by a thunderstorm. Comfortably off in a
country inn at Steeple Aston. Read