1'irst I 'is if to England. \ 3 [ 



room." Then, turning to me with a smile, "Mr. Herbert 

 is a great favourite in the house-." " Mr. Herbert" curtly 

 remarked that he " wasn't aware of it." As soon as we were 

 out of doors he burst out: "The shallow hypocrite! I 

 have done nothing to make myself popular in the house, 

 least of all with her." I may dismiss the woman with an 

 incident Silsbee mentioned. Sitting on the sofa, sewing, 

 one day, she suddenly exclaimed : " Mr. Spencer, you are 

 fond of books; here is Scott's Marmion ! " pulling the vol- 

 ume out of her basket and tendering it to him. The dinner 

 hour was half past six. I went home, and was back ten 

 minutes before the time. Was taken upstairs to the sitting- 

 room, where Spencer received me and introduced me to 

 Dr. Morell. Oh, my ! my! my! A youngish, jolly, jaunty, 

 sandy-haired, thin-bearded, gold-spectacled, small-headed, 

 little-nosed, undersized individual, the total reverse of all 

 I had supposed.* We got acquainted the first moment. 

 He had never heard of me before; did not understand 

 and could not remember my name; but I knew him, and 

 that was enough for both. He is a laughing, joking, smart 

 conversationalist, who makes indifferent puns. We went to 

 the dinner table. Morell talks German, and Spencer un- 

 fortunately seated him beside the most diabolical bore of 

 a German that ever happened in the wrong place. He 

 monopolized the conversation, to my great torment. I 

 tried to turn it in some other direction, but the Dutchman 

 would argue. 



I learned that Morell wrote his History of Philosophy 

 at the age of twenty-six ; that he is ashamed of it every 

 time he looks at it; and that it continues to sell. Moreil 

 got Boase's work on The Duality of Forces, read five pages, 

 could get no further, and shelved it. Can't read Bain "he 

 is all very well, but I have no patience to read him ; he is so 



* Voumans was still apparently in that period of inexperience when 

 one takes it for granted that distinguished authors must look distinguished. 



