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To vary this, I have this term given one day a week in my senior class to lecture _on_ books, viz. 1st, on Horace's _Odes_, which nine out of ten have already read, and which I myself read with the junior class last session (having engaged to do this before I guessed that the University would select the same year for B.A.), and many of the junior class being this year in my senior class. 2nd, on the _Epistles_ of Cicero, which are enormously too long and too difficult for pupils to read, and in which, nevertheless, candidates for honours at B.A. are liable to be examined. I conjecture that somebody has seen this announcement of mine in our prospectus, and imputes it to a _relaxation of discipline_ in my pupils (indeed there is little enough, and always was, in the majority of mine; they only want to scrape through their degree, and the University kindly keeps its real demands at a minimum). On the contrary, it is an effort of mine to make the lectures less unworthy of my more advanced pupils. I may add that I have _always_ lectured more or less in this way on Cicero's _Letters_.... At the same time I avow my entire dissatisfaction with things as I have them. In June I have to print and publish the books in which I will lecture from October to June next, _while I have not the slightest idea who will be in the classes_. In August, out comes the statement of University books for the following year, which often increases my confusion. It is easier to complain of this than to remedy it.