We read of geological excursions to Shotover with Lord Carew and Lord Kildare--one carrying the hammer and another the umbrella--and actual discoveries of saurian remains; and many a merry meeting at Dr.Buckland's, in which, at intervals of scientific talk, John romped with the youngsters of the family.

After a while the Dean took the opportunity of a walk through Oxford to the Clarendon to warn him not to spend too much time on science.

It did not pay in the Schools nor in the Church, and he had too many irons in the fire.
Drawing, and science, and the prose essays mentioned in the last chapter, and poetry, all these were his by-play.

Of the poetry, the Newdigate was but a little part.

In "Friendship's Offering" this autumn he published "Remembrance," one of many poems to Adele, "Christ Church," and the "Scythian Grave." In this last he gave free rein to the morbid imaginations to which his unhappy _affaire de coeur_ and the mental excitement of the period predisposed him.