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BONN; HERSTMONCEUX.
After a residence of perhaps fifteen months Sterling quitted St.
Vincent, and never returned.

He reappeared at his Father's house, to the joy of English friends, in August, 1832; well improved in health, and eager for English news; but, beyond vague schemes and possibilities, considerably uncertain what was next to be done.
After no long stay in this scene,--finding Downing Street dead as stone to the Slave-Education and to all other schemes,--he went across, with his wife and child, to Germany; purposing to make not so much a tour as some loose ramble, or desultory residence in that country, in the Rhineland first of all.

Here was to be hoped the picturesque in scenery, which he much affected; here the new and true in speculation, which he inwardly longed for and wanted greatly more; at all events, here as readily as elsewhere might a temporary household be struck up, under interesting circumstances .-- I conclude he went across in the Spring of 1833; perhaps directly after _Arthur Coningsby_ had got through the press.

This Novel, which, as we have said, was begun two or three years ago, probably on his cessation from the _Athenaeum_, and was mainly finished, I think, before the removal to St.Vincent, had by this time fallen as good as obsolete to his own mind; and its destination now, whether to the press or to the fire, was in some sort a matter at once of difficulty and of insignificance to him.