be a recantation of the first, he wrote: "When Mr. Allen does make
stepping-stones of his dead selves he jumps upon them to some tune."
And he was perhaps a little inclined to treat his own dead self too
much in the same spirit.

Butler did very well with the sheep, sold out in 1864, and returned
via Callao to England. He travelled with three friends whose
acquaintance he had made in the colony; one was Charles Paine Pauli,
to whom he dedicated 'Life and Habit'. He arrived in August, 1864,
in London, where he took chambers consisting of a sitting-room, a
bedroom, a painting-room and a pantry, at 15, Clifford's Inn, second
floor (north). The net financial result of the sheep-farming and the
selling out was that he practically doubled his capital, that is to
say he had about 8,000 pounds. This he left in New Zealand, invested
on mortgage at 10 per cent., the then current rate in the colony; it
produced more than enough for him to live upon in the very simple way
that suited him best, and life in the Inns of Court resembles life at
Cambridge in that it reduces the cares of housekeeping to a minimum;
it suited him so well that he never changed his rooms, remaining
there thirty-eight years till his death.

He was now his own master and able at last to turn to painting. He
studied at the art school in Streatham Street, Bloomsbury, which had
formerly been managed by Henry Sass, but, in Butler's time, was being
carried on by Francis Stephen Cary, son of the Rev. Henry Francis
Cary, who had been a school-fellow of Dr. Butler at Rugby, and is
well known as the translator of Dante and the friend of Charles Lamb.
Among his fellow-students was Mr. H. R. Robertson, who told me that
the young artists got hold of the legend, which is in some of the
books about Lamb, that when Francis Stephen Cary was a boy and there