"The glorification of our Indian Policy only made me melancholy. I hope you now get full and real rest. Though I _feel_ as in perfect health, I have to say to myself, _Non sum qualis eram_, and take warnings. Pray, do you the same. "Affectionately, to you and yours, "F. W. Newman." "In London vegetarianism seems going ahead. I have, still struggling through the press, _Reminiscences of Two Exiles and Two Wars_. The Quakers will be at once pleased and angry if that is possible." _Dr. Martineau from Newman._ "_19th Aug._, 1892. "My dear Martineau, "I seem to have allowed you to get quite out of my sight. This is a result of my practical renunciation of London, the place which seems too exciting for me. I do not wonder that you so early take refuge in far Scotland. I so mortified my dear friend Anna Swanwick last year by my sudden retreat from the overstrain of her house, that I did not dare to repeat the trial this year; indeed, I should deeply alarm my wife by attempting it, and, alas! dear Anna herself proved unable to sustain herself--due, I suppose, to the self-imposed task of her new book. Though I am myself (foolishly perhaps) reprinting a tract on Etruscan, I see how many things are better left to younger minds. I am here (near Bewdley, Worcestershire) to make personal acquaintance with a remarkable man who has made marked advances to me for more (I think) than three years. He _was_ a protégé of Ruskin's and member of St. George's Guild. As such he was (apparently) reared under Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Carlyle more than under Ruskin, and heard all the side of English Agnosticism. But with the growth of his own mind he became dissatisfied, and now for fourteen years he has given himself to a fruit farm of four and a half acres, with a cow and kitchen-garden and pigs! and abundant poultry, and looks the type of the future English peasant. His wife and one trusty woman manage dairy and cookery with eminent success, and various sales, while he is cow-milker and gardener, student also of fruit and of the soil. _It is to me an interest as a foresight of the future_. He is a _student_ of our hardest literature, and employs no labourer under him. Ignorant of foreign tongues, he reads German translations and Jowett's _Plato_.... A school friend of Mr. Braithwaite lately sought my acquaintance.... He tells me that Mr. Gladstone lately gave to the world the utterance that among the possibilities of the immediate future he now sees, rather than any general Agnosticism, a simple recurrence to the simple Judaic Godhead. I _wish_ well to Gladstone's new Cabinet, but fear that the trickiness by which he led Parnell's folk to aid Salisbury's overthrow will arouse a fatal resentment. If he espouse the Indian claims, that may save him. My best regards to all yours, and earnest wishes. "Your affectionate friend, "F. W. Newman."