But I was so tired!' We almost wept with the pity of the unnecessary suffering, which was yet so real and intense.

In a short time he was more himself, and naively admitted that he had played three movements well, but had been a 'd---- fool in one.' I grew to be very used to this as the years went on, for he could not help emphasising to himself what he did badly, and ignoring the good." He left few uncompleted works.

There are among his manuscripts three movements of a symphony, two movements of a suite for string orchestra, a suite for violin and piano, some songs and piano pieces, and a large number of sketches.

He had schemes for a music-drama on an Arthurian subject, and sketched a single act of it.

He had planned this work upon novel lines: there was to be comparatively little singing, and much emphasis was to be laid upon the orchestral commentary; the action was to be carried on by a combination of pantomime and tableaux, and the scenic element was to be conspicuous--a suggestion which he got in part from E.A.