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velli represents certain living forces in our actual world ; 

 that science, with its survival of the fittest, unconsciously 

 lends him illegitimate aid ; that "he is not a vanishing 

 type, but a constant and contemporary influence." This 

 is because energy, force, will, violence, still keep alive in 

 the world their resistance to the control of justice and 

 conscience, humanity and right. In so far as he repre- 

 sents one side in that eternal struggle, and suggests one 

 set of considerations about it, he retains a place in the 

 literature of modern political systems and European 

 morals.' 



I wind up by taking from my list of books that were 

 recommended to me a few I have not yet had time to 

 read : ' Christ's Folk in the Apennine,' by Miss Alexander ; 

 ' Eoadside Songs of Tuscany,' by the same. ' A Nook in 

 the Apennines,' by Leader Scott. ' Italian Sketches,' by 

 Mrs. Boss. ' Histoire des Medicis,' by Dumas. ' Une Annee 

 a Florence : Impressions de Voyage,' by Dumas. ' Italian 

 Commonwealth, or Commonwealth of Florence,' by 

 Trollope. 



Last year on May 26th I left my Surrey garden 

 for three months. The account of this time I had 

 abroad and the return in August will bring my year to 

 its conclusion. 



My spring gardening was spoilt by the feeling that 

 the buds I had watched so carefully would be seen in 

 flower by others and not by myself ; and there is no deny- 

 ing I left home with a considerable wrench. The garden 

 looked very full, but green and flowerless ; only one or two 

 large Oriental Poppies were out. I do not know why, but 

 I travelled by night to Paris, resting some hours in an 

 hotel in order to go through by the Cenis train, arriving 

 at Florence early in the evening instead of in the middle 

 of the night. I might just as well have slept in Paris ; 

 it would have cost no more than the six hours' rest. I 



