Your son has talent, has energy: yet he wants something for success in life; he wants the faculty of amalgamation.

He is of a melancholic and therefore unsocial temperament.

He will not act in concert with others.

He is lovable enough: the other boys like him, especially the smaller ones, with whom he is a sort of hero; but he has not one intimate friend.

So far as school learning is concerned, he might go to college at once, and with the certainty of distinction provided he chose to exert himself.