it very hard to shake off desultory habits. I suppose all persons
have to make reflections of this kind, more or less sad; but,
somehow, I feel it very keenly now: for certainly I did waste time
sadly; and it so happens that I have just had "Tom Brown's
Schooldays" lent me, and that I spent some time in reading it on this
particular day, and, of course, my Eton life rose up before me. What
a useful book that is! A real gain for a young person to have such a
book. That is very much the kind of thing that would really help a
boy--manly, true, and plain.

'I hear from Sydney by last mail that the Bishop is really desirous
to revive the long dormant Board of Missions. He means to propose to
send a priest and a deacon to every island ready for them, and to
provide for them--if they are forthcoming, and funds. Of this latter
I have not much doubt....

'April 24--I have to get ready for three English full services to-
morrow, besides Melanesian ditto.--So goodbye, my dearest Father,

'Your loving and dutiful Son,

'J. C. PATTESON.'


Sir John Patteson might well say, in a letter of this summer, to
Bishop Selwyn:--

'As to my dear boy Coley, I am more and more thankful every day that
I agreed to his wishes; and in whatever situation he may be placed,
feel confident that his heart will be in his work, and that he will