TO PROFESSOR LEWIS CAMPBELL.

                                                                           11 Scroope Terrace,
                                                                   Cambridge, 4th, March 1876.

     Aias arrived here about a week ago. I read him with pleasure. He recalled the year 1851, when I got him up. The    outline of the play seems very bare and unpromising compared with some others, but this is relieved by other    features which are not in the "argument," as e.g. the loyalty of the chorus and of Tecmessa to Aias under all   circumstanoes (for the chorus in general veers about, and backs occasionally, according as the wind blows or the cat jumps). This contrasts favourably with the character of Athena, who is but so so, only not so comic as the
Atreidæ.

     But why do Ulysses and Aias not name each other in the same language? I suppose the last syllable of Odysseus,   pronounced Anglicé, is somewhat unpleasant in verse, and Ajax, though familiarized by Pope, has lost the    interjectiona1 sound of your hero's name. 

     Two Aberdonians, Chrysta1 and Mollison, are working at the Cavendish Laboratory. I think Chrystal's work is of    a kind not comparable with that done in "a third-class German university," which was the charitable hope of    Nature as to what we might aspire to in ten years' time. He has worked steadily at the testing of Ohm's Law since   October, and Ohm has come out triumphant, though in some experiments the wire was kept bright red-hot by the  current.—Your afft. friend.