_Life and Habit_, a new edition with a preface by R. A. Streatfeild and author’s addenda, being three pages containing passages which Butler had cut out of the original book or had intended to insert in a future edition. 1911. May 25. The jubilee number of the _Press_, New Zealand, contained an account of Butler’s connection with the newspaper and reprinted “Darwin among the Machines” and “Lucubratio Ebria.” July 15. The fourth Erewhon dinner at Pagani’s Restaurant; 75 present: the day was fixed by Sir William Phipson Beale, Bart., K.C., M.P. Nov. _Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler_: _A Step towards Reconciliation_, by Henry Festing Jones. A pamphlet giving the substance of a correspondence between Mr. Francis Darwin and the author and reproducing letters by Charles Darwin about the quarrel between himself and Butler referred to in Chapter IV of _Unconscious Memory_. _Evolution Old and New_, a reprint of the second edition (1882) with prefatory note by R. A. Streatfeild. 1912. June 1. Letter from Henry Festing Jones in the _Press_, Christchurch, New Zealand, about Butler’s Dialogue, which had appeared originally in the _Press_ December 20, 1862, and could not be found. June 8. “Darwin on the Origin of Species. A Dialogue “discovered in consequence of the foregoing letter and reprinted in the _Press_. June 15. The _Press_ reprinted some of the correspondence, etc. which followed on the original appearance of the Dialogue. Some of Butler’s water-colour drawings having been given to the British Museum, two were included in an exhibition held there during the summer. July 12. The Fifth Erewhon Dinner at Pagani’s Restaurant; 90 present; the day was fixed by Mr. Edmund Gosse, C.B., LL.D. I Lord, What is Man? Man i WE are like billiard balls in a game played by unskilful players, continually being nearly sent into a pocket, but hardly ever getting right into one, except by a fluke. ii We are like thistle-down blown about by the wind—up and down, here and there—but not one in a thousand ever getting beyond seed-hood. iii A man is a passing mood coming and going in the mind of his country; he is the twitching of a nerve, a smile, a frown, a thought of shame or honour, as it may happen. iv