TO MISS CAY.

                                                                 Trin. Coll., 11th March 1853.

I was so much among the year that is now departed that it makes a great difference in my mode of life. I have  been seeking among the other years for some one to keep me in order. It is easier to find instructive men than   influential ones. I left off here last night to go to a man's rooms where I met several others, who had gone   a-prowling like me. . . . I have been reading Archdeacon Hare's sermons, which are good.

 

                                                              Trin. Coll., Feast of St. Charles II.

Pomeroy's mother and sister were up here lately. They used to be at Cheltenham. From them I learnt a good deal    about the systematic and uncompromising mode of thinking and speaking which marks the great Irish Giant of   Trinity. Bishop Selwyn of New Zealand prought(34) here yesterday about missions. He founded the Lady   Margaret boat club at John's, and got the boat to the head of the river. He was 2d Classic in 1831, and still he is   too energetic for his curates to keep up with him in his own visitations about the South Pole. He made a great  impression on the men here by his plainness of speech and absence of all cant, whether he spoke of the doctrines   of Christianity or the history of Pitcairn's Island. I have been reading, various books, but few very entertaining.   They are chiefly theories about things in general which take the fancies of men now-a-days. The only safe way to   read them is to find out the facts first. With this precaution they are tolerably transparent. I have been   attending Sir James Stephen's lectures upon the causes of the first French Revolution. They are now done, so I  look in upon Stokes' dealing with light.