Had a great argument with Charlie O’Connor and some other fellows about Bavaria. Told them about the great kings, King Ludwig II, and the wonderful ceremonies of church and state. Ventured to make a comparison with Ireland and got my head chopped off. They certainly licked me in the debate. – Had a not too successful harmony lesson, and was moody all day. But I knew a reaction was bound to come, and so it did. Got through comp ‘All the world is a stage’, in which I tried the experiment of four rhetorical paragraphs, each beginning and augmenting a sentence about life. I wonder what Fr. Dalton will say. Enjoyed ‘The Blindness of Dr. Gray’ and stamps to the full. – Began Schumann’s Novelette to-day. It is wonderful.
