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  February 10. -- Finished Starkie on "Evidence" yesterday.
Shall tomorrow begin Greenleaf, reading it in connection with
the Ohio Reports. During the last week have read pretty dili-
gently with friend Herron Story's "Promissory Notes," in con-
nection with Ohio Reports. Shall continue it next week. Shall
also add logic and to speak German to my list of studies. I
have called on Dr. Schmidt, and from my conversation with him
think a little brushing up of my German may be well "worth my
while."
  This forenoon heard Dr. Humphrey, of Louisville, son of old
President Humphrey of Amherst, preach in the First Presby-
terian Church. He is a graceful, animated, and entertaining
speaker, without much depth or strength. This afternoon have
been reading Byron's truly imcomparable and matchless letters.
What a racy (I hate the word) way he has of hitting off a
thing. Witness the following: "Like other largish parties, it
was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious,
then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then
drunk." --October, 1815.