John Stuart Mill: A Criticism with Personal Recollections

LATIN COMPOSITION. 21
short review of him, accompanied with high admiration ;
Her-
motimus he considers a masterpiece of ingenious reasoning. In
a letter to his mother he adverts to his progress in music and
dancing ;
he advises his two elder sisters to remit their music
till he returns, as he discovers now that they
were on a
wrong plan. Writes a letter in Latin to those two sisters,
by no means a high composition.* Begins a Dialogue at
the suggestion of Lady B., on the question whether great
landed estates and great establishments in commerce or manu
factures, or small ones, are most conducive to the general
rather venturesome. The
happiness ; in the circumstances,
following day began, also by Lady B. s advice, to write on the
"
ex
Definition of Political Economy. Very much elated by
three Lec
cellent news of the revolution in ". Italy Attends
tures on Modern Greek, and gives his father an account of
the departures from the Ancient Greek. In the beginning of
August the lessons are at an end ; the family going
for a tour
in the Pyrenees. What remains of the diary is occupied
with this tour, its incidents and descriptions, and is written in
French.
I must, however, advert to an interesting letter from Lady
Bentham to his father, dated i4th September. It refers to a
previous letter of hers giving particulars of John s progress in
French and other branches of acquirement. The family is to
reside in Montpellier, and the purpose of the present letter is
* Johannes carissimis Sororibus Williamin/z atque Clares salutem ;
Credo vos lastaturas epistolae conspectu : Latine scribo, pro
vobis in ea
lingua exercendis : Gaudeo a patre audiisse vos in historia Grasca vosmetipsas
instruere ; studium enim illud maxime est necessariunj omnibus, seu juvenibus,
seu puellis. Hihi condonetis quoeso si quern errorem in Latine scribendo feci,
quippe semper in nomen gallicum insido, cum quaeram Latinum. Ricardo
Doaneo dicatis me non locum in litteris his habuisse, ut illi scriberem ; itaque
mihi non irascatur. Scribatis mihi precor, si possitis, Latine, sin minus,
Anglice. Forte hanc epistolam difficilem ad legendum, et traducendum inve-
sed vos exercebit. Valeatis.
nietis ;
XIII. Kal. Aug., 1820. Vesperi ad hora .