Wednesday 6th.--I went to see Collinson and Hunt. Collinson, ... after this year, ... has made up his mind to cut the Wilkie style of art for the Early Christian; and what he has in his head for the subject of his next picture is his old design (in the days of the venerable Cyclographic)[220] _The Novitiate_, into which he would probably introduce another figure--that of the Lady Abbess.... Hunt has just finished the wolf-skin on the foremost savage at the door.... The models who sit to him &c. take the boy on the ground for an unnecessarily ugly girl, and the hindermost savage (his friend Collins) for an old negress (!). “Sloshy”[221] comes now to see him frequently, and is beginning to look on himself as quite a P.R.B.--talking of “we,” and saying that Collinson seems quite one of “us.” It seems, however, that he is really labouring to free himself somewhat from the slough of slosh Hunt found him in at first, and has in consequence quite offended some amateur Lord’s son (or some person of the kind) to whom he showed one of his recent attempts.... I finished reading for the first time Bailey’s _Angel World_, which must be reviewed for _The Germ_ as soon as possible. It is nothing very wonderful--very far less great and powerful than _Festus_. Thursday 7th.--... I got a letter from R. H. Horne, to whom we had sent the two Nos. of _The Germ_. He expresses himself pleased with it, and hopes it may succeed, but does not at all expect it will do so as regards sale. Saturday 9th.--Gabriel went to see Woolner, who has been sticking hard to his statue of late. Here Gabriel met Cross, who knows some one who will do for the head of his angel. Sunday 10th.--Cross’s man called on Gabriel, who found him to have a most splendid head. Not being very well, he did not paint much to-day. He has begun altering the position of the embroidery-stand, and doing the bed, and has nearly finished the blue curtain behind the Virgin’s head.... Tuesday 12th.--A copy of Howitt’s paper, _The Standard of Freedom_, was left us by Bateman, in which there is a very favourable review of _The Germ_.