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have been 41 senior classics present year. Wherever two been bracketed together, I s ono that stood best in oth tions, and then extracted th names from the list of them, of hereditary influence : 1827. Kennedy : father was a cl ssic of eminence.; two brothers, see bel w ; another brother, almost equally dist nguished in classics. 1828. Selwyn : brother M. P. f Cambridge, an eminent lawyer. 1830. Wordsworth : nephew t the poet, brother of an almost equally. istinguished classic, son of- the Master of T inity. 1831. Kennedy (see above.) 1832. Lushington : brother (see b low); nephew to the Right IIon. Sir Steppe ii Lushington. The family has numerous other members of eminent talent. 1834. Kennedy (see above). 1835. Goulbourn : father, Cha cellor of the Exchequer, nephew of Sei eant Goulboura, cousin to Dr, Goulbourn, Ilewl Master of, ltugby, the well-known preacher. 1835. Vaughan : man y'relationships like those of Goulbourn, including the Judge, the Professor at Oxford, and Mr. Hawk S. (See below.) 1842. Den man : father was the eminent Chief Justice Lord Penman. ) 1846. Lushington : brother (see above). 1854. Hawkins : see Vaunhan. 1855. Butler : son of Senior Wrangler of 1794; three brothers, of whom two held University Scholarships in Oxfunl, and the other was a double first-class man at Cam bridge. 12 of the 41, or about 1 in 3X, show these influences in a more or less lnarked degree .; 7 of them, or 1 in 6, viz. 3 Kennedy, 1 Wordsworth,,2 Lushington, and 1 Butler, very much so. The data we have been considering are summed up in the following table : here ttary Talent and Character. -1 163 up to the names had lected the exam ma following s instances r Number of cases. occurrence of near male relationship. 605 All the men of "original inds" (Sir T. Phillips)- and of every profession between 1453 and 1853 . . . Living notabilities (Walfo d's " Men of the Tines," letter A) } Painters of all dates (Bryan' Dicty. A) Musicians (FEtis Dicty. A) Lord Chancellors (Lord Cat pbell) . Senior Classics of Cambrid Averages Percentages. Distinguished father Distinguished man ham a distinguished has a distin~uished Son. brother. 6 times in 100 cases. 2 times in 100 cases. 7 „ „ „ 5 4 6 3 ,. 16 4 Too recent 10 H „ I in 6 cases. 85 1 in 3} cases. 391 515 54 41 I in 6 cases. 1 in 10 cases. 1 in 3 cases. 1 in 4 cases. 1 in 6 cases. 8 in 100 eases. 5 in 100 cases. Everywhere is the eno of hereditary influence fo attention. If we take a most brilliant standard wr last few years, we shall ' share of the number have d relationships. It would be d off, against the following 1 stances, same number of names ofeminenc°~e, whose immediate r undistinguished. Bront6 (Ja her two sisters); Bulwer (an the ambassador); Disraeli- (fa of "Curiosities of Literature"); Hallam (son, the subject of " In 1- moriam") ; Kingsley(two brothers omine tnovelists, r mous power ced on our list of the ters of the nd a large stinguished fflcult to set the en of equal lativeswero e Eyre and his brother her, author two others no less talented) ; Lord Macaulay (son of Zachary Macaulay) ; Miss Martineau (and lior brother) ; Rlerivale, Herman and Charles (brothers) ; Dean Stanley (father the bishop, and popular writer on birds) ; Thackeray (daughter, authoress of 11 Elizabeth ") ; Tennyson (brother also a poet) ; Mrs. Trollope (son, Anthony). As we cannot doubt that the transmission of talent is as much through the side of the mother as through that of the father, how vastly would the off spring 'be improved, supposing distinguished women to be commonly married to distinguished men, generation after u.2