did not pay much regard, or perhaps quite do justice, to the
masters of the 17th century. To technical criticism he made no
sort of pretension; painting was to him but the visible language
of emotion; and where it did not aim at exciting it, or employed
inadequate means, his admiration would be withheld. Hence he
highly prized the ancient paintings, both Italian and German, of
the age which preceded the full development of art. But he was
almost as enthusiastic an admirer of the Venetian, as of the
Tuscan and Roman schools; considering these masters as reaching
the same end by the different agencies of form and color. This
predilection for the sensitive beauties of painting is somewhat
analogous to his fondness for harmony of verse, on which he laid
more stress than poets so thoughtful are apt to do. In one of
the last days of his life, he lingered long among the fine
Venetian pictures of the Imperial Gallery at Vienna.

"He returned to England in June, 1828; and, in the following
October, went down to reside at Cambridge; having been entered
on the boards of Trinity College before his departure to the
Continent. He was the pupil of the Rev. William Whewell. In some
respects, as soon became manifest, he was not formed to obtain
great academical reputation. An acquaintance with the learned
languages, considerable at the school where he was educated, but
not improved, to say the least, by the intermission of a year,
during which his mind had been so occupied by other pursuits,
that he had thought little of antiquity even in Rome itself,
though abundantly sufficient for the gratification of taste and
the acquisition of knowledge, was sure to prove inadequate to
the searching scrutiny of modern examinations. He soon,
therefore, saw reason to renounce all competition of this kind;
nor did he ever so much as attempt any Greek or Latin
composition during his stay at Cambridge. In truth he was very
indifferent to success of this kind; and conscious as he must
have been of a high reputation among his contemporaries, he
could not think that he stood in need of any University
distinctions. The Editor became by degrees almost equally
indifferent to what he perceived to be so uncongenial to
Arthur's mind. It was however to be regretted, that he never
paid the least attention to mat