that Addison's Walk is so deserted on Sundays. He stays over
Sunday at Cambridge. {11}


From David Rivers, Esq., to Mrs. Forth, Oxford.


Dear Mrs. Forth,--Saturday is a half-holiday at the Works, and I
propose to come up and see whether our boat cannot bump Balliol.
How extraordinary it is that people should neglect, on Sundays, the
favourite promenade of the Short-faced Humourist. I shall be
there: the old place.--Believe me, yours ever,

D. RIVERS.


From Mrs. Casaubon to William Ladislaw, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon.


Dear Friend,--Your kind letter from Stratford is indeed
interesting. Ah, when shall I have an opportunity of seeing these,
and so many other interesting places! But in a world where duty is
SO MUCH, and so ALWAYS with us, why should we regret the voids in
our experience which, after all, life is filling in the experience
of others? The work is advancing, and Mr. Casaubon hopes that the
first chapter of the "Key to All Mythologies" will be fairly copied
and completed by the end of autumn. Mr. Casaubon is going to
Cambridge on Saturday to hear Professor Tosch lecture on the
Pittites and some other party, I really forget which; {12} but it
is not often that he takes so much interest in mere MODERN history.