LEWES." * * * * * She writes:-- * * * * * "DEAR FRIENDS,--Writing letters or asking for them is not always the way to make one's memory agreeable, but you are not among those people who shudder at letters, since you _did_ say you would like to hear from us, and let us hear from you occasionally.

I have no good news to tell about myself; but to have my husband back again and enjoying his work is quite enough happiness to fall to one woman's share in this world, where the stock of happiness is so moderate and the claimants so many.

He is deep in Aristotle's _Natural Science_ as the first step in a history of science, which he has for a long while been hoping that he should be able to write.

So you will understand his demand for brown folios.

Indeed, he is beginning to have a slight contempt for authors sufficiently known to the vulgar to be inserted in biographical dictionaries.