was very amusing to ourselves, and added to the writer's stock of
words on particular subjects. When our master Schier appeared, the
conversation was led by a palpable ambuscade to the topic which had
been made the subject of Patteson's exercise, and conversation helped
to strengthen memory. After looking over a few of Patteson's German
exercises, Mr. Schier found so little to correct, in the way of
grammatical errors, that these studies were almost relinquished, and
gave way to Arabic and Hebrew. Before we left Dresden, Patteson had
read large portions of the Koran; and, with the aid of Hurwitz's
Grammar and Bernhard's Guide to Hebrew Students, books familiar to
Cambridge men, he was soon able to read the Psalms in the original.
I remember the admiration and despair I felt in witnessing Patteson's
progress, and the wonder expressed by his teacher in his pupil's gift
of rapid acquirement. We had some excellent introductions; amongst
others, to Dr. ----, a famous theologian, with whom Patteson was fond
of discussing the system and organisation of the Church in Saxony.
Up to the time of his leaving England he was constantly using
Olshausen's Commentary on the New Testament, a book he was as
thoroughly versed in as Archbishop Trench himself. I think that he
consulted no other books in his study of the Gospels, but Olshausen
and Bengel's Gnomon.

'In our pleasures at Dresden there was a mixture of the utile with
the dulce. Our constant visits to the theatre were strong incentives
to a preparatory study of the plays of Goethe, Schiller, and Lessing.
What noble acting we saw in that Dresden theatre!

'With regard to the opera, I have never seen Weber or Meyerbeer's
works given so perfectly and conscientiously as at Dresden.
Patteson's chief delight was the Midsummer Night's Dream, with