Mrs.McLaren, interested in all the reforms of the day, is radical in her ideas, a brilliant talker, and, for one so young, remarkably well informed on all political questions.
It was at Barn Elms I met, for the first time, Mrs.Fannie Hertz, to whom I was indebted for many pleasant acquaintances afterward.

She is said to know more distinguished literary people than any other woman in London.

I saw her, too, several times in her home; meeting, at her Sunday-afternoon receptions, many persons I was desirous to know.

On one occasion I found George Jacob Holyoake there, surrounded by several young ladies, all stoutly defending the Nihilists in Russia, and their right to plot their way to freedom.

They counted a dynasty of Czars as nothing in the balance with the liberties of a whole people.