Anthony Waterman writes: "The young JSM grew up in Bentham's circle, and would have imbibed from early childhood the utilitarian doctrine that poetry and pushpin are pretty much on a level. It is unlikely that Bentham and James Mill would have had any more time for music: hence the young JSM probably didn't know very much about it at the time of his reported 'then state'." Mill's Autobio relates, pp. 124-27, that he found restorative tonic in Wordsworth, disliked Byron, and debated about it in his circle. Mason Gaffney