have a month's solitary enjoyment at Manawatu to moderate your temper before I introduce you to my mother at Taranaki. Then you will have an opportunity of finishing the watch guard which bears a much greater resemblance to "Penelope's Web" than my delay at Rangitikei. As you have alluded to "Penelope's Web" I will not be much surprised to find when I get to Wellington that you have read Homer's "Odyssey". You must be getting very industrious in your historical researches and only that I promised not to trouble you much on the subject I would now send you an outline of the book I wish you to read after you have finished Rollin. My great anxiety is that you should lay in a good store of religious and historical knowledge as it will be of infinite advantage and great pleasure to both of us through life. I regard external accomplishments as altogether subordinate to the careful improvement of the mind which should be nourished