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3 o LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. 11.
To J to 7, Thucydidc-s. Dressed. Prepared Herodotus.
7 J"9a College. Breakfast ; Spectator, Revised Logic notes.
11-12, College. Sat with Swinton for some time. \ to 2 to 25
notes and
to 4, Thucydides. Swinton came to me with my Logic
sat till dinner. After dinner read three or four papers of the
Spectator. Journal. Began to read Thucydides about . 5! Tea
for half an hour at 61. Returned to Thucydides, and fagged
till -4- past ii with very little interruption. . . .
"i5/// Deer., Tuesday. Rose about 4. From, I think, 4]
till 9, Thucydides. Dressed. Breakfast. Filled up notes. 1 1
to 12, Logic Class. Returned horue. Studied till dinner. Studied
during evening. Lay down on my bed about 10. Rose again
at 12. To 5-J- read Thucydides. Went to bed. Rose at &].
Dressed, breakfasted.
"
Wednesday, i6M. At io| returned to Thucydides. Con
tinued till 10 to 4. Swinton sat a few minutes with me. Dined.
At 20 to 5 returned to Thucydides. With 20 minutes interrup
tion for tea, and about 20 again in the evening for two visitors,
worked till 5} in the morning. Went to bed."
This was obviously exceptional work, at high pressure,
in immediate preparation for the coming examination.
But it gives clear evidence that there was now, at least, no
failure of working power.
His circle of intimate friends at Glasgow does not
appear to have been a very large one. Perhaps the most
intimate was Archibald Swinton, who had known him
from early boyhood, and had been his competitor and
friend at the Edinburgh Academy, where they were
together among the prizemen of the highest
Another was Henry Selfe Page, who afterwards, as Mr.
class. 1
1 To Mr. Swinton, who was Professor of Civil Law in the University
of Edinburgh from 1840 to 1860, and was subsequently a candidate for the
representation of the University in Parliament, we are indebted for many
reminiscences. The intimate friendship remained unbroken till the Arch
bishop s death. The first act of Bishop Tait after his appointment to the
See of London was to marry his niece, Miss Sitwell, to Mr. Swinton, and
twenty-two years later Mr. Swinton s nephew married the Archbishop s
daughter.