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them to Selborne, stood by the grave of Gilbert White, 

 and sat in his charming old house in that beautiful place 

 of pilgrimage. 



Most soothing in its effect upon me was a visit to Stoke 

 Pogis churchyard and the grave of Thomas Gray. The 

 &quot; Elegy &quot; has never since my boyhood lost its hold upon 

 me, and my feelings of love for its author were deepened 

 as I read the inscription placed by him upon his mother s 

 monument : 



&quot;The tender mother of many children, only one of 

 whom had the misfortune to survive her.&quot; 



A Sunday afternoon in Kensal Green cemetery, with 

 a visit to the graves of Thackeray, Thomas Hood, and 

 Leigh Hunt, roused thoughts on many things. 



Somewhat later, revisiting Mr. Halliwell-Phillips s 

 Bungalow &quot; at Brighton, I met at his table the most 

 bitter and yet one of the most just of all critics of Car- 

 lyle whom I have ever known. He spoke especially of 

 Carlyle s treatment of his main historical authorities, 

 many of them admirable and excellent men, and dwelt 

 on the fact that Carlyle, having used the results of the 

 life-work of these scholars, then enjoyed pouring con 

 tempt and ridicule over them; he also referred to Car 

 lyle s address to the Scotch students, in which he told 

 them to study the patents of nobility for the deeds which 

 made the nobility of England great, but did not reveal 

 to them the fact that the expressions in these patents 

 were stereotyped, and the same, during many years, for 

 men of the most different qualities and services. 



Eunning up to Cambridge for a day or two, and din 

 ing with Oscar Browning at King s College, I after 

 ward saw at his rooms a collection of intensely interest 

 ing papers, and, among others, reports of British spies 

 during the Revolutionary War in America. Very curi 

 ous, among these, was a letter from the British minister 

 at Berlin in those days, who detailed a burglary which 

 he had caused in that capital in order to obtain the papers 

 of the American envoy and copies of American de- 



