I catch sight of stray advertisements and fragmentary notices of 'Atherton,' which seems to have been received everywhere with deserved claps of hands.

This will not be comfort to you, perhaps; but you will feel the satisfaction which every workman feels in successful work.

I think the edition of plays and poems has not yet appeared, and I suppose there will be nothing in _that_ which can be new to us.

'Atherton' I thirst for, but the cup will be dry, I dare say, till I get to England, for new books even at Florence take waiting for far beyond all necessary bounds.

We shall not stay long in Tuscany.