Je vous remercie de votre bienveillance pour l'Histoire des Animaux; je ne crois pas que nulle part le genie d'Aristote se soit montre plus grand, plus scientifique et, l'on peut ajouter, plus moderne. Entre lui et Linne, Buffon et Cuvier, il n'y a rien. L'histoire de la science a beaucoup a profiter de cet exemple frappant. Je suis absolument de votre avis sur le role de l'Angleterre en Egypte; vous n'avez qu'a faire ce que nous avons fait a Tunis, ou les choses marchent a souhait. C'est l'interet de votre grand pays, en meme temps que l'interet de la civilisation et de l'humanite. Les affaires egyptiennes ne peuvent rester dans l'etat ou elles sont; et il faut les regler au plus vite, pour l'honneur de tout le monde. Je presente mes hommages bien respectueux a Madame Reeve, en attendant le petit voyage a Foxholes vers l'automne. Votre bien devoue, B. St.-HILAIRE. And here the Journal notes:-- April 16th.--Edward Cheney died, aetat. 82. From Dr. Vaughan [Footnote: Then Master of the Temple; he died November 15, 1897, aged 81.] The Deanery, Llandaff: April 19th. Dear Mr. Reeve,--I am grateful to you for your kind letter. I will try to remember to make the reference with which you furnish me when I am again at the Athenaeum. The year 1185 is always in my recollection as the date of the consecration of the Round Church by the Patriarch Heraclius. I am already in communication with Dr. Hopkins about the musical part of its celebration, on or about the day (I think February 10) next year. And there must be a sermon about it on the nearest Sunday. So you see how exactly your thoughts and mine agree on the subject. Ever truly yours, C. J. VAUGHAN. The other part of the church was consecrated on Ascension Day 1240. Who will be Master when _that_ seventh centenary comes round? _From the Duke of Argyll_ Argyll Lodge, Kensington: April 19th. My Dear Mr. Reeve,[Footnote: Written in pencil.]--I am laid up with a very sudden and sharp attack of the enemy; but I must write a line from bed to say how _more_ than satisfied I am by the article in the Review, which goes straight to the main points of my Essay, and which distinguishes exactly those which best deserve notice. I am the more grateful as all the others I have seen--whether laudatory or not--have all been the production of ignorant men who did not see, or of learned men who did not wish to see, any of the specialties of the book. I am better, but unfit for any work. Yours very truly, ARGYLL. _To Mr. T. Norton Longman_ _Foxholes, April 20th_.--Much obliged to you for the Beaconsfield book, [Footnote: The _Beaconsfield Birthday-Book_.] which is very pretty. I hope you will sell as many as there are bunches of primroses in Covent Garden Market. The extent of Lord Beaconsfield's popularity is really curious. Yet this is the man whom Gladstone hunted to death and called a fiend!! And the Journal for the summer runs:-- At Foxholes all May.