We have had no less than eight invitations into the country, and we are forced to keep to London, in spite of all 'babbling about' and from 'green fields.' Once we went to Farnham, and spent two days with Mr.and Mrs.Paine there in that lovely heathy country, and met Mr.Kingsley, the 'Christian Socialist,' author of 'Alton Locke,' 'Yeast,' &c.

It is only two hours from town (or less) by railroad, and we took our child with us and Flush, and had a breath of fresh air which ought to have done us good, but didn't.

Few men have impressed me more agreeably than Mr.Kingsley.He is original and earnest, and full of a genial and almost tender kindliness which is delightful to me.

Wild and theoretical in many ways he is of course, but I believe he could not be otherwise than good and noble, let him say or dream what he will.

You are not to confound this visit of ours to Farnham with the 'sanitary reform' picnic (!) to the same place, at which the newspapers say we were present.